Python Job Trends in England

Python
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,082 5,037 7,223
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.56% 12.84% 8.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.26% 39.22% 26.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,482 3,135 5,595
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,440
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £126,250 £122,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -6.90%

All Programming Languages
England

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,392 12,844 27,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.88% 32.74% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 10,159 9,198 22,455
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,475
25th Percentile £48,394 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Python job vacancy trend in England

Python
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in England

Python
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -1 2,387 £85,000 -5.56% 1,336
North of England -8 1,221 £57,687 -11.25% 490
South East 0 887 £60,000 -7.69% 665
Midlands +12 663 £55,000 - 229
South West +7 530 £57,500 - 235
Yorkshire +16 527 £50,000 -23.08% 141
North West -26 519 £61,418 -5.51% 259
West Midlands +19 377 £60,000 +9.09% 104
East of England +2 328 £62,500 -5.61% 237
East Midlands +24 286 £55,000 - 125
North East +18 175 £48,445 -25.47% 92
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 215 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 187 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 135 (2.22%) Apache
4 65 (1.07%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 42 (0.69%) Confluence
7 37 (0.61%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.26%) Appian
12 14 (0.23%) IIS
13 8 (0.13%) nginx
14 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.082%) CMS
15 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 5 (0.082%) Tomcat
16 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,209 (19.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.16%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.033%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 1 (0.016%) Notion
9 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.016%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.23%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.049%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.049%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.049%) Shopify
5 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.033%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.016%) Actimize
6 1 (0.016%) Endur
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
6 1 (0.016%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,885 (47.44%) Azure
2 1,838 (30.22%) AWS
3 1,445 (23.76%) Power Platform
4 1,316 (21.64%) Azure AI
5 638 (10.49%) GCP
6 504 (8.29%) GitHub
7 305 (5.01%) Serverless
8 231 (3.80%) SaaS
9 219 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 213 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
11 193 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 175 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
14 162 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 162 (2.66%) dbt
15 134 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 132 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
17 122 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 91 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
19 86 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 216 (3.55%) Firewall
2 188 (3.09%) Internet
3 162 (2.66%) Broadband
4 128 (2.10%) DNS
5 121 (1.99%) VPN
6 100 (1.64%) Network Security
7 94 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 90 (1.48%) WAN
9 81 (1.33%) LAN
10 71 (1.17%) Wireless
11 64 (1.05%) BGP
12 58 (0.95%) HTTP
13 49 (0.81%) VLAN
14 46 (0.76%) OSPF
14 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
16 36 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
17 34 (0.56%) DHCP
18 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
18 28 (0.46%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,394 (22.92%) Power BI
2 1,286 (21.14%) Tableau
3 277 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 220 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 168 (2.76%) NoSQL
7 154 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 136 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 130 (2.14%) BigQuery
10 128 (2.10%) MongoDB
11 122 (2.01%) Data Mining
12 113 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
13 110 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 95 (1.56%) Big Data
15 89 (1.46%) Metadata
16 78 (1.28%) MySQL
17 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 58 (0.95%) DynamoDB
19 56 (0.92%) Spark SQL
20 51 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 654 (10.75%) Git
2 240 (3.95%) Jenkins
3 216 (3.55%) GitLab
4 119 (1.96%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.05%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.74%) Selenium
9 36 (0.59%) Postman
10 35 (0.58%) Cucumber
11 30 (0.49%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.44%) Claude Code
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
15 21 (0.35%) CircleCI
16 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
16 18 (0.30%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.28%) JMeter
17 17 (0.28%) Subversion
18 16 (0.26%) Metasploit
General
1 2,332 (38.34%) Social Skills
2 1,159 (19.06%) Finance
3 807 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (4.09%) Banking
5 247 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 212 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 176 (2.89%) Retail
8 172 (2.83%) Multimedia
9 162 (2.66%) Law
10 141 (2.32%) Manufacturing
11 134 (2.20%) Front Office
12 104 (1.71%) Marketing
13 94 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 92 (1.51%) Legal
15 79 (1.30%) Electronics
16 66 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
17 59 (0.97%) Aerospace
18 54 (0.89%) Financial Institution
19 53 (0.87%) Games
20 52 (0.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,410 (23.18%) Analyst
2 1,230 (20.22%) Data Analyst
3 1,032 (16.97%) Junior
4 994 (16.34%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.34%) Junior Data Analyst
5 918 (15.09%) Developer
6 894 (14.70%) Senior
7 574 (9.44%) Software Engineer
8 534 (8.78%) Data Engineer
9 483 (7.94%) Lead
10 463 (7.61%) Python Engineer
11 403 (6.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 389 (6.40%) Python Developer
13 325 (5.34%) Trainee
14 202 (3.32%) Python Software Engineer
15 201 (3.30%) Software Developer
16 177 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
17 173 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
18 166 (2.73%) Architect
19 159 (2.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (6.31%) React
2 311 (5.11%) HTML
3 276 (4.54%) CSS
4 253 (4.16%) Kafka
5 216 (3.55%) PySpark
6 210 (3.45%) Node.js
7 204 (3.35%) REST
8 184 (3.03%) .NET
9 181 (2.98%) RESTful
10 176 (2.89%) Django
11 165 (2.71%) Pandas
12 163 (2.68%) PyTorch
13 145 (2.38%) FastAPI
14 139 (2.29%) TensorFlow
15 127 (2.09%) scikit-learn
16 117 (1.92%) Flask
17 106 (1.74%) LangChain
18 105 (1.73%) NumPy
19 100 (1.64%) JSON
20 82 (1.35%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 354 (5.82%) Cloud Native
2 302 (4.97%) Algorithms
3 261 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 127 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 121 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 108 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 99 (1.63%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 90 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 88 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 85 (1.40%) Management Information System
12 85 (1.40%) Video\Live Streaming
13 83 (1.36%) Fixed Income
14 81 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 79 (1.30%) Equities
15 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
16 76 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 74 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
18 70 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 601 (9.88%) Linux
2 255 (4.19%) Windows
3 116 (1.91%) Unix
4 71 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 54 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 27 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.16%) Debian
10 10 (0.16%) VMS
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Solaris
15 5 (0.082%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,557 (42.04%) AI
2 1,493 (24.55%) Business Intelligence
3 1,245 (20.47%) CI/CD
4 1,128 (18.55%) Software Engineering
5 958 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 951 (15.64%) Analytics
7 939 (15.44%) Agile
8 920 (15.13%) DevOps
9 750 (12.33%) Machine Learning
10 718 (11.81%) Mentoring
11 691 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
12 596 (9.80%) Data Modelling
13 581 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
14 567 (9.32%) Data Engineering
15 553 (9.09%) ETL
16 549 (9.03%) Data Science
17 529 (8.70%) Computer Science
18 521 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 488 (8.02%) Containerisation
20 483 (7.94%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,492 (40.97%) SQL
2 711 (11.69%) JavaScript
3 660 (10.85%) Java
4 450 (7.40%) PowerShell
5 444 (7.30%) Bash
6 369 (6.07%) TypeScript
7 368 (6.05%) C++
8 351 (5.77%) C#
9 287 (4.72%) Go
10 216 (3.55%) R
11 161 (2.65%) C
12 120 (1.97%) Scala
13 79 (1.30%) Rust
14 68 (1.12%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 55 (0.90%) Bicep
17 45 (0.74%) Perl
18 44 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 38 (0.62%) MATLAB
20 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,537 (25.27%) Azure Certification
2 772 (12.69%) Degree
3 543 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 321 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 314 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 280 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 228 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 228 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 181 (2.98%) DV Cleared
9 148 (2.43%) Master's Degree
10 87 (1.43%) PhD
11 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
12 69 (1.13%) CCNP
13 50 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 49 (0.81%) OSCP
15 45 (0.74%) CISSP
16 33 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 33 (0.54%) CREST Certified
17 28 (0.46%) CCIE
18 27 (0.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 230 (3.78%) QA
3 128 (2.10%) GDPR
4 101 (1.66%) NIST
5 87 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 58 (0.95%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.38%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.35%) GRC
12 17 (0.28%) SLA
13 14 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 7 (0.12%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 577 (9.49%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 88 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.92%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.39%) KVM
8 18 (0.30%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) VMware NSX
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.082%) iptables
14 5 (0.082%) Lustre
14 5 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 5 (0.082%) Squid
15 3 (0.049%) IAG
15 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 730 (12.00%) Terraform
2 613 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 351 (5.77%) Ansible
4 195 (3.21%) Grafana
5 155 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 60 (0.99%) Argo
7 33 (0.54%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 30 (0.49%) Puppet
10 22 (0.36%) Istio
10 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
11 19 (0.31%) Kibana
12 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
13 16 (0.26%) Packer
14 15 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 14 (0.23%) logstash
15 14 (0.23%) Rancher
16 13 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
17 12 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,896 (31.17%) Microsoft
2 328 (5.39%) Databricks
3 205 (3.37%) Google
4 130 (2.14%) Oracle
5 128 (2.10%) Cisco
6 127 (2.09%) VMware
7 108 (1.78%) Red Hat
8 101 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 94 (1.55%) Splunk
10 57 (0.94%) SAP
11 54 (0.89%) Palo Alto
12 53 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 52 (0.85%) Foundry
14 51 (0.84%) ServiceNow
15 49 (0.81%) Fortinet
16 48 (0.79%) SolarWinds
17 47 (0.77%) Informatica
18 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
19 41 (0.67%) F5
19 41 (0.67%) Palantir