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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,083 4,957 7,337
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.35% 13.04% 8.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.36% 41.02% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,549 2,810 5,642
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,410
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £95,000
90th Percentile £101,300 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 14,709 12,085 27,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 31.79% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 10,469 8,204 22,494
10th Percentile £36,450 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £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 26 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 26 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 2,395 £85,000 -5.56% 1,416
North of England -11 1,245 £60,000 -7.69% 486
South East +3 897 £61,500 -2.38% 548
Midlands +12 657 £55,000 - 231
North West -27 547 £65,000 - 270
South West +6 516 £57,500 +0.10% 234
Yorkshire +17 509 £50,000 -21.88% 138
West Midlands +7 359 £60,000 +9.09% 105
East of England -1 312 £62,500 -5.60% 206
East Midlands +27 298 £55,000 +22.22% 125
North East +24 189 £52,500 -19.23% 81
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
1 211 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
2 195 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 144 (2.37%) Apache
4 71 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 47 (0.77%) Confluence
7 33 (0.54%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 11 (0.18%) Appian
13 6 (0.099%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.082%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.082%) CMS
14 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,093 (17.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.10%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 42 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.18%) Simulink
7 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.049%) Trello
9 2 (0.033%) CATIA
9 2 (0.033%) SPSS
10 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.016%) Blender
10 1 (0.016%) Maya
10 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.082%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.066%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Magento
4 3 (0.049%) Markit EDM
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%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,797 (45.98%) Azure
2 1,874 (30.81%) AWS
3 1,341 (22.05%) Power Platform
4 1,221 (20.07%) Azure AI
5 648 (10.65%) GCP
6 479 (7.87%) GitHub
7 322 (5.29%) Serverless
8 235 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 223 (3.67%) SaaS
10 220 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 201 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 169 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 162 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 162 (2.66%) dbt
15 149 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
16 140 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
17 122 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 102 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
19 96 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 227 (3.73%) Firewall
2 172 (2.83%) Broadband
3 167 (2.75%) Internet
4 126 (2.07%) VPN
5 124 (2.04%) DNS
6 103 (1.69%) Network Security
7 96 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 94 (1.55%) WAN
9 82 (1.35%) LAN
10 74 (1.22%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) HTTP
13 52 (0.85%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 46 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 40 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
17 38 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
18 32 (0.53%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
19 29 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,282 (21.08%) Power BI
2 1,173 (19.28%) Tableau
3 282 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 162 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 160 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 132 (2.17%) BigQuery
10 121 (1.99%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 113 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
13 109 (1.79%) Big Data
14 107 (1.76%) Data Mining
15 89 (1.46%) Metadata
16 81 (1.33%) MySQL
17 71 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
18 65 (1.07%) DynamoDB
19 61 (1.00%) Spark SQL
20 53 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 660 (10.85%) Git
2 255 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 231 (3.80%) GitLab
4 128 (2.10%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (1.00%) MLflow
7 49 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.64%) Selenium
9 33 (0.54%) Claude Code
10 32 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 31 (0.51%) Postman
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
14 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.33%) JMeter
16 19 (0.31%) Subversion
17 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,256 (37.09%) Social Skills
2 1,189 (19.55%) Finance
3 828 (13.61%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (4.19%) Banking
5 252 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 211 (3.47%) Public Sector
7 180 (2.96%) Retail
8 156 (2.56%) Law
9 151 (2.48%) Multimedia
10 133 (2.19%) Front Office
11 131 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 101 (1.66%) Legal
13 100 (1.64%) Marketing
14 88 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 78 (1.28%) Electronics
16 66 (1.08%) Aerospace
17 59 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
18 57 (0.94%) Financial Institution
19 55 (0.90%) Investment Banking
20 49 (0.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,302 (21.40%) Analyst
2 1,125 (18.49%) Data Analyst
3 967 (15.90%) Senior
4 939 (15.44%) Junior
5 924 (15.19%) Developer
6 900 (14.80%) Junior Analyst
6 900 (14.80%) Junior Data Analyst
7 608 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 536 (8.81%) Data Engineer
9 495 (8.14%) Lead
10 490 (8.06%) Python Engineer
11 418 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 393 (6.46%) Python Developer
13 290 (4.77%) Trainee
14 219 (3.60%) Python Software Engineer
15 195 (3.21%) Software Developer
16 179 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
17 178 (2.93%) Architect
18 177 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
19 169 (2.78%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 368 (6.05%) React
2 280 (4.60%) HTML
3 261 (4.29%) CSS
4 260 (4.27%) Kafka
5 223 (3.67%) PySpark
6 209 (3.44%) Node.js
7 205 (3.37%) REST
8 194 (3.19%) .NET
9 176 (2.89%) RESTful
10 170 (2.79%) Django
11 162 (2.66%) PyTorch
12 157 (2.58%) Pandas
13 148 (2.43%) FastAPI
14 141 (2.32%) TensorFlow
15 122 (2.01%) scikit-learn
16 119 (1.96%) Flask
17 113 (1.86%) LangChain
18 104 (1.71%) NumPy
19 94 (1.55%) JSON
20 86 (1.41%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 388 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 317 (5.21%) Algorithms
3 265 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
4 174 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 118 (1.94%) AI Agents
7 114 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 101 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 92 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 89 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
12 85 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 84 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
14 83 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 80 (1.32%) Security Posture
16 79 (1.30%) Equities
16 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
17 72 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
18 68 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
19 65 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 621 (10.21%) Linux
2 265 (4.36%) Windows
3 97 (1.59%) Unix
4 77 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 32 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Debian
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.16%) Android
10 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 10 (0.16%) VMS
10 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,512 (41.30%) AI
2 1,378 (22.65%) Business Intelligence
3 1,291 (21.22%) CI/CD
4 1,189 (19.55%) Software Engineering
5 987 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 972 (15.98%) Agile
7 963 (15.83%) Analytics
8 941 (15.47%) DevOps
9 802 (13.18%) Machine Learning
10 737 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 723 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 605 (9.95%) Data Modelling
13 581 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
14 577 (9.49%) Data Science
15 569 (9.35%) Data Engineering
16 540 (8.88%) ETL
17 533 (8.76%) Computer Science
18 514 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 498 (8.19%) Containerisation
20 486 (7.99%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,422 (39.82%) SQL
2 697 (11.46%) JavaScript
3 662 (10.88%) Java
4 473 (7.78%) PowerShell
5 448 (7.36%) Bash
6 403 (6.63%) C++
7 373 (6.13%) C#
8 358 (5.89%) TypeScript
9 278 (4.57%) Go
10 213 (3.50%) R
11 163 (2.68%) C
12 125 (2.05%) Scala
13 83 (1.36%) Rust
14 69 (1.13%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 58 (0.95%) Bicep
17 46 (0.76%) MATLAB
18 45 (0.74%) Perl
19 40 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,430 (23.51%) Azure Certification
2 769 (12.64%) Degree
3 567 (9.32%) Security Cleared
4 338 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 279 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 208 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 207 (3.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 179 (2.94%) DV Cleared
10 149 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.41%) PhD
12 82 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
13 69 (1.13%) CCNP
14 52 (0.85%) DBS Check
15 50 (0.82%) OSCP
16 38 (0.62%) CISSP
17 35 (0.58%) CREST Certified
18 30 (0.49%) CCIE
18 30 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 405 (6.66%) Data Quality
2 227 (3.73%) QA
3 123 (2.02%) GDPR
4 93 (1.53%) NIST
5 81 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.71%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.41%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.33%) SLA
12 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
13 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.13%) Basel III
14 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 599 (9.85%) Docker
2 108 (1.78%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.95%) Firmware
5 35 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 19 (0.31%) vSphere
9 16 (0.26%) ProxySG
10 13 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.16%) VMware NSX
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (0.12%) Squid
14 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Lustre
16 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 769 (12.64%) Terraform
2 620 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 353 (5.80%) Ansible
4 207 (3.40%) Grafana
5 168 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.05%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 31 (0.51%) Puppet
9 30 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (0.43%) Kibana
11 23 (0.38%) Istio
12 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 19 (0.31%) Packer
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
13 19 (0.31%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.30%) Progress Chef
15 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.23%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Rancher
16 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,786 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 332 (5.46%) Databricks
3 205 (3.37%) Google
4 134 (2.20%) Oracle
5 128 (2.10%) VMware
6 126 (2.07%) Cisco
7 111 (1.82%) Splunk
8 102 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 97 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 56 (0.92%) Foundry
10 56 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 53 (0.87%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.85%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.85%) SolarWinds
13 51 (0.84%) SAP
14 47 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) F5
17 39 (0.64%) Palantir
18 37 (0.61%) Informatica