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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,946 4,837 7,098
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.56% 12.85% 8.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.83% 38.19% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,395 3,165 5,545
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £46,348 £56,250 £50,000
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 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 13,883 12,667 27,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.65% 33.66% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,741 9,313 22,530
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £112,250 £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 25 April 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 25 April 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 0 2,306 £85,000 -5.56% 952
North of England -13 1,186 £50,000 -23.08% 422
South East -3 873 £60,000 -7.69% 560
Midlands +12 667 £55,000 - 192
Yorkshire +15 536 £49,000 -24.62% 121
South West +4 523 £57,500 -4.17% 185
North West -23 486 £57,593 -11.40% 216
West Midlands +26 391 £56,350 +2.45% 100
East of England -17 326 £57,500 -13.16% 191
East Midlands 0 276 £55,000 - 90
North East +15 164 £45,000 -30.77% 87
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 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 184 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.22%) Apache
4 62 (1.04%) Jupyter
5 61 (1.03%) WordPress
6 38 (0.64%) Confluence
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 28 (0.47%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 14 (0.24%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
14 8 (0.13%) Tomcat
15 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.084%) CMS
16 5 (0.084%) GeoServer
17 4 (0.067%) Apache Pulsar
18 3 (0.050%) Apache Superset
19 2 (0.034%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,233 (20.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.13%) Chatbot
3 47 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.084%) CATIA
9 4 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.050%) Siemens NX
10 3 (0.050%) Windchill
11 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.017%) Houdini
12 1 (0.017%) Notion
12 1 (0.017%) NUKE
12 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.084%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.084%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.084%) Shopify
3 3 (0.050%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.050%) Line 50
3 3 (0.050%) Magento
3 3 (0.050%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
3 3 (0.050%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
5 1 (0.017%) Actimize
5 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.017%) Endur
5 1 (0.017%) Findur
5 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.017%) Primavera
5 1 (0.017%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,876 (48.37%) Azure
2 1,796 (30.21%) AWS
3 1,440 (24.22%) Power Platform
4 1,315 (22.12%) Azure AI
5 614 (10.33%) GCP
6 558 (9.38%) GitHub
7 295 (4.96%) Serverless
8 223 (3.75%) SaaS
9 203 (3.41%) Amazon S3
10 200 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
11 187 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (2.81%) Snowflake
14 162 (2.72%) dbt
15 159 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 124 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 123 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 123 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
18 94 (1.58%) OpenShift
19 91 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 236 (3.97%) Internet
2 200 (3.36%) Firewall
3 138 (2.32%) Broadband
4 120 (2.02%) DNS
5 112 (1.88%) VPN
6 92 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 88 (1.48%) Network Security
8 81 (1.36%) WAN
9 74 (1.24%) LAN
10 66 (1.11%) BGP
10 66 (1.11%) Wireless
11 56 (0.94%) VLAN
12 54 (0.91%) HTTP
13 47 (0.79%) OSPF
14 40 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
14 40 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
15 39 (0.66%) SD-WAN
16 34 (0.57%) DHCP
17 31 (0.52%) MPLS
18 30 (0.50%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,395 (23.46%) Power BI
2 1,321 (22.22%) Tableau
3 271 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
4 204 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
5 192 (3.23%) SQL Server
6 169 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 146 (2.46%) Data Mining
8 140 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 140 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 119 (2.00%) BigQuery
10 113 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
11 110 (1.85%) MongoDB
12 106 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 93 (1.56%) Big Data
14 86 (1.45%) Metadata
15 78 (1.31%) MySQL
16 60 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
17 53 (0.89%) Spark SQL
18 51 (0.86%) DynamoDB
19 49 (0.82%) Looker
Development Applications
1 684 (11.50%) Git
2 230 (3.87%) Jenkins
3 205 (3.45%) GitLab
4 109 (1.83%) JIRA
5 77 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.08%) MLflow
7 53 (0.89%) Selenium
8 43 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 43 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 38 (0.64%) Postman
10 26 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 25 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
12 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.35%) Claude Code
14 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.34%) JUnit
15 19 (0.32%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.29%) Burp Suite
16 17 (0.29%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 2,317 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 1,160 (19.51%) Finance
3 806 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (4.20%) Banking
5 231 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 221 (3.72%) Multimedia
7 200 (3.36%) Public Sector
8 174 (2.93%) Retail
9 161 (2.71%) Law
10 145 (2.44%) Manufacturing
11 130 (2.19%) Front Office
12 101 (1.70%) Marketing
13 99 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.46%) Legal
15 74 (1.24%) Electronics
16 69 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 56 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 56 (0.94%) Investment Banking
18 49 (0.82%) Aerospace
19 42 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,442 (24.25%) Analyst
2 1,259 (21.17%) Data Analyst
3 1,034 (17.39%) Junior
4 994 (16.72%) Junior Analyst
4 994 (16.72%) Junior Data Analyst
5 903 (15.19%) Developer
6 837 (14.08%) Senior
7 546 (9.18%) Software Engineer
8 511 (8.59%) Data Engineer
9 457 (7.69%) Lead
10 420 (7.06%) Python Engineer
11 397 (6.68%) Trainee
12 386 (6.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 375 (6.31%) Python Developer
14 220 (3.70%) Software Developer
15 187 (3.14%) Python Software Engineer
16 170 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
17 165 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
18 158 (2.66%) Senior Developer
19 149 (2.51%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (6.47%) React
2 360 (6.05%) HTML
3 316 (5.31%) CSS
4 244 (4.10%) Kafka
5 204 (3.43%) REST
6 203 (3.41%) Node.js
7 198 (3.33%) PySpark
8 192 (3.23%) Django
9 174 (2.93%) RESTful
10 167 (2.81%) Pandas
11 161 (2.71%) PyTorch
12 160 (2.69%) .NET
13 142 (2.39%) FastAPI
14 136 (2.29%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.17%) scikit-learn
16 126 (2.12%) Flask
17 103 (1.73%) NumPy
18 102 (1.72%) JSON
19 95 (1.60%) LangChain
20 89 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 310 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 280 (4.71%) Algorithms
3 226 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
4 164 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 122 (2.05%) Onboarding
6 121 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 93 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 90 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 88 (1.48%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 85 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
13 83 (1.40%) Fixed Income
14 82 (1.38%) Low-Code
15 79 (1.33%) Hedge funds
16 78 (1.31%) Equities
16 78 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
17 76 (1.28%) Security Posture
18 71 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
18 71 (1.19%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 557 (9.37%) Linux
2 232 (3.90%) Windows
3 133 (2.24%) Unix
4 70 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 55 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.69%) CentOS
7 29 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.18%) Debian
9 11 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.17%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.13%) VMS
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
13 7 (0.12%) Solaris
14 5 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.050%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,464 (41.44%) AI
2 1,497 (25.18%) Business Intelligence
3 1,177 (19.79%) CI/CD
4 1,044 (17.56%) Software Engineering
5 977 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 944 (15.88%) Analytics
7 912 (15.34%) Agile
8 889 (14.95%) DevOps
9 728 (12.24%) Mentoring
10 705 (11.86%) Machine Learning
11 627 (10.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 570 (9.59%) Data Modelling
13 556 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
14 555 (9.33%) Data Science
15 545 (9.17%) ETL
16 543 (9.13%) Data Engineering
17 523 (8.80%) Computer Science
18 512 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
19 487 (8.19%) Containerisation
20 438 (7.37%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,477 (41.66%) SQL
2 761 (12.80%) JavaScript
3 644 (10.83%) Java
4 436 (7.33%) PowerShell
5 416 (7.00%) Bash
6 353 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 327 (5.50%) C++
8 325 (5.47%) C#
9 277 (4.66%) Go
10 231 (3.88%) R
11 147 (2.47%) C
12 114 (1.92%) Scala
13 73 (1.23%) Rust
14 67 (1.13%) PHP
15 66 (1.11%) VBA
16 54 (0.91%) Bicep
17 44 (0.74%) Perl
18 43 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 34 (0.57%) T-SQL
20 29 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,582 (26.61%) Azure Certification
2 782 (13.15%) Degree
3 488 (8.21%) Security Cleared
4 366 (6.16%) AWS Certification
5 284 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 281 (4.73%) SC Cleared
7 277 (4.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 271 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 172 (2.89%) DV Cleared
10 150 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.46%) PhD
12 75 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.06%) CCNP
14 49 (0.82%) CISSP
14 49 (0.82%) OSCP
15 44 (0.74%) DBS Check
16 34 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 34 (0.57%) CREST Certified
17 27 (0.45%) GIAC
18 25 (0.42%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 370 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 220 (3.70%) QA
3 126 (2.12%) GDPR
4 107 (1.80%) NIST
5 99 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.39%) PMO
10 22 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 21 (0.35%) GRC
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 14 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
15 7 (0.12%) ISO 9001
15 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.10%) DICOM
System Software
1 577 (9.70%) Docker
2 110 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 76 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 49 (0.82%) Firmware
5 34 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 19 (0.32%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.22%) vSphere
10 11 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.084%) iptables
13 5 (0.084%) Lustre
13 5 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.050%) Squid
14 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 688 (11.57%) Terraform
2 607 (10.21%) Kubernetes
3 341 (5.73%) Ansible
4 191 (3.21%) Grafana
5 149 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.09%) Argo
7 29 (0.49%) Nagios
8 27 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (0.45%) Puppet
9 23 (0.39%) Istio
9 23 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 20 (0.34%) Kibana
11 16 (0.27%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 15 (0.25%) logstash
13 14 (0.24%) Rancher
14 13 (0.22%) Packer
15 12 (0.20%) SCCM
15 12 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
16 11 (0.18%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1,930 (32.46%) Microsoft
2 314 (5.28%) Databricks
3 202 (3.40%) Google
4 131 (2.20%) Oracle
5 124 (2.09%) Cisco
6 116 (1.95%) VMware
7 106 (1.78%) Red Hat
8 85 (1.43%) OpenAI
9 79 (1.33%) Splunk
10 61 (1.03%) SAP
11 59 (0.99%) Salesforce
12 50 (0.84%) Foundry
13 49 (0.82%) Palo Alto
13 49 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 47 (0.79%) Fortinet
14 47 (0.79%) Informatica
15 45 (0.76%) Typelevel
16 41 (0.69%) Palantir
16 41 (0.69%) Talend
17 39 (0.66%) SolarWinds