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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,538 5,216 6,336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 11.85% 9.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.26% 34.27% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,949 3,216 5,078
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £88,750 £98,750 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £68,250
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.89% -4.31%

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 11,273 15,222 23,944
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.71% 34.59% 36.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,351 9,231 20,493
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
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 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,750 £112,500 £102,500
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 19 February 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 19 February 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 2,055 £83,250 -4.86% 1,069
North of England -9 814 £45,000 -30.77% 442
South East -21 567 £60,000 -14.29% 640
Midlands -11 425 £55,000 - 247
South West -3 380 £60,000 -7.69% 259
Yorkshire +6 354 £42,000 -35.38% 150
North West -13 341 £55,000 -12.00% 225
West Midlands +7 273 £55,000 - 111
East of England -25 228 £51,250 -22.63% 214
East Midlands -14 155 £55,000 - 134
North East +10 119 £40,000 -38.46% 68
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
1 169 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
2 152 (3.35%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.62%) Apache
4 48 (1.06%) Jupyter
5 37 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 31 (0.68%) SAS
7 29 (0.64%) Confluence
8 28 (0.62%) WordPress
9 26 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 19 (0.42%) Appian
11 18 (0.40%) IIS
11 18 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 16 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
13 14 (0.31%) WebSphere
14 12 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.22%) OpenStack
16 9 (0.20%) nginx
17 6 (0.13%) CMS
18 5 (0.11%) Anypoint
19 4 (0.088%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 766 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (1.06%) Chatbot
4 19 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.22%) Simulink
8 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.088%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.088%) Windchill
10 3 (0.066%) CATIA
11 2 (0.044%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.044%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.044%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.044%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.044%) Weka
12 1 (0.022%) Notion
12 1 (0.022%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 14 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.15%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.11%) Shopify
5 4 (0.088%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.066%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.044%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.044%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.022%) Actimize
8 1 (0.022%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.022%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.022%) Primavera
8 1 (0.022%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.022%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.022%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,897 (41.80%) Azure
2 1,561 (34.40%) AWS
3 911 (20.07%) Power Platform
4 555 (12.23%) GitHub
5 511 (11.26%) Azure AI
6 493 (10.86%) GCP
7 262 (5.77%) Serverless
8 186 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
9 172 (3.79%) SaaS
10 170 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
12 158 (3.48%) Amazon S3
13 155 (3.42%) Snowflake
14 146 (3.22%) dbt
15 139 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 120 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 109 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
18 87 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 69 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.66%) Internet
2 169 (3.72%) Firewall
3 102 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 96 (2.12%) VPN
5 80 (1.76%) Broadband
6 76 (1.67%) DNS
7 72 (1.59%) WAN
8 63 (1.39%) LAN
9 58 (1.28%) BGP
10 57 (1.26%) Wireless
11 56 (1.23%) Network Security
12 54 (1.19%) VLAN
13 50 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
14 44 (0.97%) HTTP
15 41 (0.90%) OSPF
16 34 (0.75%) MPLS
17 33 (0.73%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.68%) Wireshark
19 26 (0.57%) DHCP
19 26 (0.57%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 871 (19.19%) Power BI
2 811 (17.87%) Tableau
3 246 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
4 219 (4.83%) SQL Server
5 213 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
6 172 (3.79%) Data Mining
6 172 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 150 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 118 (2.60%) Data Lake
9 110 (2.42%) Big Data
10 109 (2.40%) MongoDB
11 94 (2.07%) BigQuery
12 87 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 84 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 81 (1.78%) Metadata
14 81 (1.78%) MySQL
15 67 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
16 64 (1.41%) Hadoop
17 47 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 582 (12.83%) Git
2 210 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 158 (3.48%) GitLab
4 108 (2.38%) JIRA
5 54 (1.19%) Selenium
6 45 (0.99%) MLflow
7 39 (0.86%) Postman
7 39 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 30 (0.66%) JUnit
9 29 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 28 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.51%) Jaeger
12 20 (0.44%) JMeter
12 20 (0.44%) LabVIEW
13 18 (0.40%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.37%) Subversion
15 16 (0.35%) Cypress.io
16 15 (0.33%) Metasploit
16 15 (0.33%) TeamCity
17 14 (0.31%) Burp Suite
General
1 1,487 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 1,111 (24.48%) Finance
3 751 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.31%) Banking
4 241 (5.31%) Multimedia
5 191 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 182 (4.01%) Public Sector
7 179 (3.94%) Law
8 143 (3.15%) Front Office
9 141 (3.11%) Retail
10 128 (2.82%) Manufacturing
11 124 (2.73%) Marketing
12 112 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 80 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 75 (1.65%) Legal
15 72 (1.59%) Electronics
16 66 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
17 52 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
18 47 (1.04%) Investment Banking
18 47 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 947 (20.87%) Analyst
2 801 (17.65%) Developer
3 781 (17.21%) Data Analyst
4 690 (15.20%) Senior
5 493 (10.86%) Junior
6 471 (10.38%) Junior Analyst
6 471 (10.38%) Junior Data Analyst
7 445 (9.81%) Data Engineer
8 425 (9.37%) Trainee
9 365 (8.04%) Software Engineer
10 342 (7.54%) Lead
11 315 (6.94%) Python Developer
12 261 (5.75%) Python Engineer
13 204 (4.50%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.31%) Architect
15 145 (3.20%) Senior Developer
16 142 (3.13%) Trainee Analyst
16 142 (3.13%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 132 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
18 131 (2.89%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (8.55%) HTML
2 358 (7.89%) React
3 341 (7.51%) CSS
4 184 (4.05%) Node.js
5 181 (3.99%) Kafka
6 180 (3.97%) REST
7 176 (3.88%) Django
8 148 (3.26%) RESTful
9 138 (3.04%) .NET
10 136 (3.00%) PySpark
11 130 (2.86%) FastAPI
12 129 (2.84%) Pandas
13 120 (2.64%) PyTorch
14 112 (2.47%) Flask
15 106 (2.34%) TensorFlow
16 99 (2.18%) AngularJS
17 97 (2.14%) JSON
18 91 (2.01%) NumPy
19 83 (1.83%) scikit-learn
20 82 (1.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 237 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 229 (5.05%) Algorithms
3 177 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 159 (3.50%) Data Structures
5 119 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 101 (2.23%) Equities
7 101 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 84 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 79 (1.74%) Fixed Income
9 79 (1.74%) Low-Code
10 76 (1.67%) Hedge funds
11 73 (1.61%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
13 69 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 65 (1.43%) Derivative
14 65 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 61 (1.34%) AI Agents
16 60 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
17 59 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 500 (11.02%) Linux
2 200 (4.41%) Windows
3 179 (3.94%) Unix
4 64 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 59 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 35 (0.77%) CentOS
7 30 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.37%) Debian
10 15 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.24%) Android
13 9 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 9 (0.20%) VMS
14 8 (0.18%) Solaris
15 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.088%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.066%) Robot Operating System
18 2 (0.044%) Oracle Linux
18 2 (0.044%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,459 (32.15%) AI
2 1,013 (22.32%) CI/CD
3 975 (21.49%) Business Intelligence
4 942 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
5 862 (19.00%) Analytics
6 813 (17.92%) Agile
7 793 (17.47%) DevOps
8 746 (16.44%) Software Engineering
9 687 (15.14%) Mentoring
10 584 (12.87%) Machine Learning
11 505 (11.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 504 (11.11%) Data Science
13 499 (11.00%) Data Modelling
14 494 (10.89%) ETL
15 484 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
16 476 (10.49%) Data Engineering
17 474 (10.45%) Computer Science
18 442 (9.74%) Data Analysis
19 423 (9.32%) Containerisation
20 407 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,873 (41.27%) SQL
2 761 (16.77%) JavaScript
3 611 (13.46%) Java
4 397 (8.75%) Bash
5 363 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 325 (7.16%) TypeScript
7 277 (6.10%) C#
8 240 (5.29%) R
9 231 (5.09%) C++
10 206 (4.54%) Go
11 129 (2.84%) C
12 90 (1.98%) Scala
13 64 (1.41%) VBA
14 62 (1.37%) PHP
15 57 (1.26%) Rust
16 44 (0.97%) Bicep
17 42 (0.93%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.86%) Perl
18 39 (0.86%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 803 (17.70%) Degree
2 783 (17.25%) Azure Certification
3 462 (10.18%) Security Cleared
4 391 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 273 (6.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 273 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 232 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 167 (3.68%) Master's Degree
9 162 (3.57%) DV Cleared
10 101 (2.23%) PhD
11 72 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
12 61 (1.34%) CCNP
13 53 (1.17%) CISSP
14 47 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
15 42 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
17 33 (0.73%) OSCP
18 28 (0.62%) CREST Certified
18 28 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 330 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 167 (3.68%) QA
3 115 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 103 (2.27%) GDPR
5 101 (2.23%) NIST
6 66 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 41 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.57%) SLA
10 18 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.35%) PMO
12 14 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.26%) GRC
14 10 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.18%) HIPAA
17 5 (0.11%) DICOM
17 5 (0.11%) NCSC
18 4 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 535 (11.79%) Docker
2 87 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 58 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.64%) Firmware
5 22 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 19 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.33%) KVM
8 14 (0.31%) vSphere
9 12 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 10 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.20%) HDFS
12 7 (0.15%) Lustre
12 7 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.13%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.088%) iptables
14 4 (0.088%) NFS
14 4 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.066%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.066%) QEMU
16 2 (0.044%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 578 (12.74%) Terraform
2 571 (12.58%) Kubernetes
3 318 (7.01%) Ansible
4 141 (3.11%) Grafana
5 135 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.43%) Argo
7 22 (0.48%) Kibana
7 22 (0.48%) Puppet
8 20 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 17 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 17 (0.37%) Nagios
10 13 (0.29%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.29%) Rancher
11 12 (0.26%) Control-M
11 12 (0.26%) Nessus
12 11 (0.24%) logstash
12 11 (0.24%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.20%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1,364 (30.06%) Microsoft
2 255 (5.62%) Databricks
3 211 (4.65%) Google
4 126 (2.78%) Oracle
5 107 (2.36%) Cisco
6 104 (2.29%) VMware
7 76 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.56%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.54%) SAP
10 68 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 63 (1.39%) Splunk
12 55 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 49 (1.08%) Informatica
14 45 (0.99%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.93%) Bloomberg
16 39 (0.86%) Alteryx
16 39 (0.86%) IBM
16 39 (0.86%) Talend
17 33 (0.73%) MuleSoft
17 33 (0.73%) Palantir