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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,224 4,985 6,634
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.43% 11.37% 9.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.21% 40.38% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,837 2,787 4,549
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,563 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £136,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 16,727 12,346 21,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.28% 28.16% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,250 8,239 14,919
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -2 2,589 £85,000 -5.56% 5,216
North of England -12 1,220 £66,750 +6.80% 766
South East +9 886 £60,000 +4.35% 914
South West +10 607 £60,000 +9.09% 520
North West -19 591 £66,750 +11.25% 433
Midlands +6 555 £61,450 -5.46% 345
Yorkshire +9 379 £67,500 +3.85% 218
East of England +11 315 £65,000 +18.18% 505
West Midlands -3 295 £65,000 - 197
East Midlands +19 258 £52,500 -19.23% 146
North East +24 250 £66,000 +10.00% 121
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
1 222 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 200 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
3 164 (2.63%) Apache
4 70 (1.12%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 39 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 37 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.35%) SAS
10 13 (0.21%) nginx
11 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.14%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.13%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.096%) JBoss
15 4 (0.064%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.064%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 594 (9.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 24 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.29%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.096%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.080%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.048%) Blender
10 3 (0.048%) Maya
10 3 (0.048%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.096%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.080%) Shopify
7 4 (0.064%) Line 50
7 4 (0.064%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.048%) Magento
8 3 (0.048%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.048%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,459 (39.51%) Azure
2 1,968 (31.62%) AWS
3 964 (15.49%) Power Platform
4 815 (13.09%) Azure AI
5 746 (11.99%) GCP
6 402 (6.46%) GitHub
7 369 (5.93%) Serverless
8 239 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
8 239 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.81%) Amazon S3
10 232 (3.73%) Snowflake
11 230 (3.70%) SaaS
12 209 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 191 (3.07%) dbt
14 190 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 168 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
16 159 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
17 146 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 132 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
19 122 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (3.55%) Firewall
2 139 (2.23%) DNS
3 129 (2.07%) VPN
4 126 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 114 (1.83%) Broadband
6 107 (1.72%) Network Security
7 95 (1.53%) WAN
8 79 (1.27%) Wireless
9 72 (1.16%) LAN
10 71 (1.14%) Internet
11 58 (0.93%) BGP
12 51 (0.82%) DHCP
13 48 (0.77%) VLAN
14 46 (0.74%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.67%) OSPF
16 41 (0.66%) MQTT
17 40 (0.64%) HTTP
18 35 (0.56%) SSL
19 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
19 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 892 (14.33%) Power BI
2 647 (10.40%) Tableau
3 347 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
4 283 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 213 (3.42%) Data Lake
6 173 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 157 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.31%) Relational Database
10 130 (2.09%) BigQuery
11 123 (1.98%) Big Data
12 116 (1.86%) MySQL
13 107 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
15 99 (1.59%) Metadata
16 90 (1.45%) DynamoDB
17 86 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
18 74 (1.19%) Delta Lake
19 72 (1.16%) Looker
20 66 (1.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 695 (11.17%) Git
2 299 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 240 (3.86%) GitLab
4 171 (2.75%) JIRA
5 64 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.98%) MLflow
7 56 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 51 (0.82%) Selenium
9 46 (0.74%) Subversion
10 43 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
11 38 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.59%) JUnit
13 35 (0.56%) Cypress.io
14 33 (0.53%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.48%) Eclipse
16 26 (0.42%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) Maven
18 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 20 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,098 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 1,297 (20.84%) Finance
3 820 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 324 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (5.00%) Banking
6 241 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 216 (3.47%) Law
8 188 (3.02%) Marketing
9 150 (2.41%) Retail
10 127 (2.04%) Legal
11 108 (1.74%) Front Office
12 104 (1.67%) Manufacturing
13 94 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 94 (1.51%) Electronics
14 83 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.30%) Financial Institution
16 74 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.06%) Games
18 53 (0.85%) Multimedia
19 48 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,258 (20.21%) Senior
2 853 (13.71%) Developer
3 841 (13.51%) Software Engineer
4 790 (12.69%) Analyst
5 675 (10.85%) Python Engineer
6 626 (10.06%) Data Analyst
7 622 (9.99%) Data Engineer
8 614 (9.87%) Lead
9 560 (9.00%) Junior
10 500 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 479 (7.70%) Junior Analyst
12 475 (7.63%) Junior Data Analyst
13 368 (5.91%) Python Developer
14 307 (4.93%) Python Software Engineer
15 247 (3.97%) Senior Software Engineer
16 224 (3.60%) Architect
17 212 (3.41%) Data Scientist
18 199 (3.20%) Senior Developer
19 188 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
20 186 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 946 (15.20%) Terraform
2 400 (6.43%) React
3 262 (4.21%) Kafka
4 235 (3.78%) .NET
5 230 (3.70%) Node.js
6 226 (3.63%) REST
7 220 (3.53%) PySpark
8 210 (3.37%) RESTful
9 205 (3.29%) FastAPI
10 193 (3.10%) HTML
11 187 (3.00%) Django
12 183 (2.94%) PyTorch
13 179 (2.88%) LangChain
14 176 (2.83%) CSS
15 156 (2.51%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.09%) Flask
17 115 (1.85%) Spring
17 115 (1.85%) Spring Boot
18 107 (1.72%) Pandas
18 107 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 600 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 328 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
3 296 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 228 (3.66%) AI Agents
5 203 (3.26%) Onboarding
6 151 (2.43%) Product Ownership
7 146 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.48%) Public Cloud
10 85 (1.37%) Management Information System
11 83 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 80 (1.29%) Robotics
13 79 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 77 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
14 77 (1.24%) Hedge funds
15 76 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 74 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
17 68 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
18 64 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
19 62 (1.00%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 711 (11.42%) Linux
2 324 (5.21%) Windows
3 90 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 78 (1.25%) Unix
5 51 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 44 (0.71%) CentOS
7 37 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 27 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 13 (0.21%) Rocky
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.18%) Android
13 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
17 6 (0.096%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,614 (42.00%) AI
2 1,644 (26.41%) Software Engineering
3 1,550 (24.90%) CI/CD
4 1,181 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
5 1,099 (17.66%) Analytics
6 1,088 (17.48%) DevOps
7 1,081 (17.37%) Agile
8 1,054 (16.93%) Business Intelligence
9 1,009 (16.21%) Machine Learning
10 938 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 814 (13.08%) Mentoring
12 730 (11.73%) Data Engineering
13 719 (11.55%) Data Pipeline
14 666 (10.70%) Data Modelling
15 654 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 637 (10.23%) Data Science
17 596 (9.58%) Containerisation
18 594 (9.54%) Decision-Making
19 588 (9.45%) Computer Science
20 569 (9.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,194 (35.25%) SQL
2 816 (13.11%) Java
3 657 (10.56%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.84%) C++
5 499 (8.02%) PowerShell
6 498 (8.00%) Bash
7 474 (7.62%) C#
8 395 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 261 (4.19%) Go
10 190 (3.05%) C
11 172 (2.76%) R
12 119 (1.91%) Scala
13 100 (1.61%) PHP
14 94 (1.51%) Bicep
14 94 (1.51%) Rust
15 87 (1.40%) Perl
16 76 (1.22%) Ruby
17 64 (1.03%) MATLAB
18 63 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 44 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 940 (15.10%) Azure Certification
2 905 (14.54%) Degree
3 791 (12.71%) Security Cleared
4 434 (6.97%) SC Cleared
5 323 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 262 (4.21%) DV Cleared
7 212 (3.41%) Master's Degree
8 165 (2.65%) AWS Certification
9 125 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 111 (1.78%) PhD
11 80 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 74 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 60 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.82%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.66%) CISSP
16 41 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 32 (0.51%) OSCP
19 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.29%) QA
3 139 (2.23%) GDPR
4 107 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 63 (1.01%) NIST
6 58 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 29 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.43%) SLA
9 22 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 20 (0.32%) PMO
11 19 (0.31%) WCAG
12 16 (0.26%) GRC
12 16 (0.26%) NCSC
13 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.13%) JTAG
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 758 (12.18%) Docker
2 117 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 103 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.11%) Firmware
5 45 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.61%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 21 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 21 (0.34%) KVM
9 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.096%) ProxySG
14 5 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.048%) IAG
15 3 (0.048%) iptables
16 2 (0.032%) Xen
Systems Management
1 755 (12.13%) Kubernetes
2 405 (6.51%) Ansible
3 234 (3.76%) Grafana
4 140 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 58 (0.93%) Puppet
6 50 (0.80%) Argo
7 40 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.59%) Nagios
9 36 (0.58%) Kibana
10 32 (0.51%) Istio
10 32 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.26%) logstash
15 16 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
16 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
17 14 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1,248 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 458 (7.36%) Databricks
3 199 (3.20%) Google
4 150 (2.41%) Splunk
5 127 (2.04%) VMware
6 121 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 120 (1.93%) Cisco
8 117 (1.88%) Oracle
9 97 (1.56%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.11%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.96%) Foundry
12 52 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.74%) Dynatrace
14 41 (0.66%) SolarWinds
15 40 (0.64%) Fortinet
15 40 (0.64%) Salesforce
16 36 (0.58%) F5
16 36 (0.58%) SAP
17 35 (0.56%) Palantir
18 31 (0.50%) IBM