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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,227 5,396 6,307
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 11.52% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.55% 33.80% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,806 3,255 5,015
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,063 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -1.27%

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 10,687 15,966 23,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.04% 34.10% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,964 9,344 19,827
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,365
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,383 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £103,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 31 January 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 31 January 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 2,021 £82,500 -5.71% 1,087
North of England -12 696 £48,445 -25.47% 408
South East -24 486 £60,000 -11.11% 674
Midlands -13 391 £55,000 - 207
South West -3 351 £60,000 -7.69% 259
Yorkshire +9 311 £47,500 -26.92% 149
North West -16 289 £55,000 -12.00% 207
West Midlands +2 260 £55,000 - 94
East of England -18 220 £50,000 -24.52% 226
East Midlands -19 134 £55,000 - 113
North East +4 96 £40,000 -42.29% 55
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
1 161 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
2 145 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 123 (2.91%) Apache
4 40 (0.95%) Confluence
5 36 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 31 (0.73%) SAS
7 27 (0.64%) WordPress
8 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 20 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 20 (0.47%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.45%) Appian
11 18 (0.43%) IIS
12 17 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
13 16 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
14 12 (0.28%) nginx
15 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 614 (14.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.24%) Simulink
7 9 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.095%) Windchill
10 3 (0.071%) CATIA
10 3 (0.071%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.047%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.047%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.047%) Stata
11 2 (0.047%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.047%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,705 (40.34%) Azure
2 1,470 (34.78%) AWS
3 781 (18.48%) Power Platform
4 538 (12.73%) GitHub
5 439 (10.39%) GCP
6 374 (8.85%) Azure AI
7 268 (6.34%) Serverless
8 186 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
9 173 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
10 165 (3.90%) Amazon S3
11 161 (3.81%) Snowflake
12 157 (3.71%) SaaS
13 149 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 139 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 128 (3.03%) dbt
16 111 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
17 103 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
18 87 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
19 82 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 79 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.08%) Internet
2 160 (3.79%) Firewall
3 97 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 87 (2.06%) VPN
5 75 (1.77%) DNS
6 71 (1.68%) WAN
7 60 (1.42%) LAN
8 59 (1.40%) Broadband
9 55 (1.30%) BGP
10 52 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 51 (1.21%) Wireless
12 46 (1.09%) Network Security
13 43 (1.02%) VLAN
14 40 (0.95%) HTTP
15 38 (0.90%) OSPF
16 34 (0.80%) MPLS
17 32 (0.76%) SD-WAN
18 30 (0.71%) Wireshark
19 28 (0.66%) SSL
20 26 (0.62%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 740 (17.51%) Power BI
2 640 (15.14%) Tableau
3 241 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (5.25%) SQL Server
5 218 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
6 181 (4.28%) NoSQL
7 157 (3.71%) Relational Database
8 148 (3.50%) Data Mining
9 122 (2.89%) Data Lake
10 111 (2.63%) Big Data
10 111 (2.63%) MongoDB
11 87 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 86 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
13 84 (1.99%) BigQuery
13 84 (1.99%) MySQL
14 80 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
15 74 (1.75%) Metadata
16 70 (1.66%) Hadoop
17 59 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 579 (13.70%) Git
2 222 (5.25%) Jenkins
3 146 (3.45%) GitLab
4 114 (2.70%) JIRA
5 58 (1.37%) Selenium
6 44 (1.04%) MLflow
7 39 (0.92%) Postman
8 35 (0.83%) JUnit
9 27 (0.64%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.64%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.54%) Jaeger
11 22 (0.52%) JMeter
12 19 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.35%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.33%) Burp Suite
15 14 (0.33%) Metasploit
15 14 (0.33%) Subversion
16 13 (0.31%) Maven
16 13 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 1,307 (30.92%) Social Skills
2 1,036 (24.51%) Finance
3 673 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 246 (5.82%) Banking
5 241 (5.70%) Multimedia
6 183 (4.33%) Public Sector
7 178 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 171 (4.05%) Law
9 137 (3.24%) Front Office
10 136 (3.22%) Marketing
11 113 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 108 (2.56%) Retail
13 105 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.08%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.85%) Electronics
16 75 (1.77%) Legal
17 59 (1.40%) Investment Banking
17 59 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 57 (1.35%) Games
19 47 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 781 (18.48%) Analyst
2 775 (18.33%) Developer
3 650 (15.38%) Senior
4 603 (14.27%) Data Analyst
5 414 (9.79%) Data Engineer
6 373 (8.82%) Trainee
7 350 (8.28%) Junior
8 337 (7.97%) Software Engineer
9 329 (7.78%) Junior Analyst
9 329 (7.78%) Junior Data Analyst
10 309 (7.31%) Lead
11 305 (7.22%) Python Developer
12 242 (5.73%) Python Engineer
13 190 (4.49%) Software Developer
14 147 (3.48%) Architect
15 143 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 136 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
17 133 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
18 121 (2.86%) Python Software Engineer
19 118 (2.79%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (9.20%) HTML
2 341 (8.07%) CSS
3 334 (7.90%) React
4 181 (4.28%) REST
5 177 (4.19%) Node.js
6 166 (3.93%) Django
7 150 (3.55%) Kafka
8 146 (3.45%) RESTful
9 135 (3.19%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.08%) PySpark
11 129 (3.05%) PyTorch
12 126 (2.98%) .NET
13 117 (2.77%) Pandas
14 109 (2.58%) Flask
15 105 (2.48%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.34%) AngularJS
17 86 (2.03%) JSON
18 83 (1.96%) Vue
19 81 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
19 81 (1.92%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 236 (5.58%) Cloud Native
2 208 (4.92%) Algorithms
3 161 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
4 154 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 105 (2.48%) Equities
7 104 (2.46%) Management Information System
8 99 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 79 (1.87%) Hedge funds
11 76 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 73 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
13 70 (1.66%) Derivative
13 70 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
14 68 (1.61%) Fixed Income
15 67 (1.59%) Data Centre
16 63 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
17 60 (1.42%) AI Agents
18 58 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
19 57 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 509 (12.04%) Linux
2 208 (4.92%) Windows
3 185 (4.38%) Unix
4 70 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.76%) CentOS
7 31 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.45%) Debian
10 15 (0.35%) VMS
10 15 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.28%) Solaris
13 11 (0.26%) Android
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
16 4 (0.095%) zOS
17 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,259 (29.78%) AI
2 985 (23.30%) CI/CD
3 936 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
4 848 (20.06%) Business Intelligence
5 829 (19.61%) Analytics
6 780 (18.45%) DevOps
7 779 (18.43%) Agile
8 692 (16.37%) Software Engineering
9 664 (15.71%) Mentoring
10 558 (13.20%) Machine Learning
11 490 (11.59%) Data Science
12 484 (11.45%) ETL
13 468 (11.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 465 (11.00%) Data Modelling
14 465 (11.00%) Data Pipeline
15 452 (10.69%) Computer Science
16 451 (10.67%) Data Engineering
17 416 (9.84%) Data Analysis
18 403 (9.53%) Containerisation
19 386 (9.13%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,698 (40.17%) SQL
2 740 (17.51%) JavaScript
3 588 (13.91%) Java
4 395 (9.34%) Bash
5 351 (8.30%) PowerShell
6 321 (7.59%) TypeScript
7 278 (6.58%) C#
8 234 (5.54%) R
9 216 (5.11%) C++
10 173 (4.09%) Go
11 125 (2.96%) C
12 83 (1.96%) Scala
13 63 (1.49%) PHP
14 61 (1.44%) VBA
15 51 (1.21%) Bicep
16 47 (1.11%) MATLAB
16 47 (1.11%) Rust
17 44 (1.04%) Perl
18 41 (0.97%) T-SQL
19 35 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 811 (19.19%) Degree
2 636 (15.05%) Azure Certification
3 451 (10.67%) Security Cleared
4 368 (8.71%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 267 (6.32%) SC Cleared
7 245 (5.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 214 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 189 (4.47%) Master's Degree
10 159 (3.76%) DV Cleared
11 122 (2.89%) PhD
12 74 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.42%) CCNP
14 50 (1.18%) CISSP
15 47 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.64%) OSCP
18 27 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (7.31%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.83%) QA
3 107 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.41%) GDPR
5 88 (2.08%) NIST
6 65 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 33 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 32 (0.76%) SLA
9 19 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.33%) PMO
13 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.14%) GRC
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.095%) NIST 800
19 4 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 524 (12.40%) Docker
2 84 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.71%) Firmware
5 19 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) vSphere
8 10 (0.24%) HDFS
8 10 (0.24%) KVM
8 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 9 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.17%) Lustre
12 6 (0.14%) NFS
13 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.095%) Postfix
14 4 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
15 3 (0.071%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.071%) iptables
15 3 (0.071%) Squid
Systems Management
1 550 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 539 (12.75%) Terraform
3 319 (7.55%) Ansible
4 131 (3.10%) Grafana
5 130 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.42%) Argo
7 24 (0.57%) Kibana
8 22 (0.52%) Puppet
9 20 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.31%) Nessus
12 13 (0.31%) Rancher
13 12 (0.28%) Nagios
14 11 (0.26%) Control-M
14 11 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.26%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,147 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.03%) Databricks
3 191 (4.52%) Google
4 130 (3.08%) Oracle
5 102 (2.41%) Cisco
6 98 (2.32%) VMware
7 82 (1.94%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.63%) SAP
10 59 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 59 (1.40%) Splunk
11 55 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 47 (1.11%) Informatica
13 46 (1.09%) IBM
14 43 (1.02%) Bloomberg
14 43 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 40 (0.95%) Talend
16 39 (0.92%) Alteryx
17 32 (0.76%) Palantir
18 31 (0.73%) Atlassian