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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,368 5,101 6,549
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.77% 11.65% 9.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.20% 40.28% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3,846 2,831 4,676
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £130,000 £132,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.36% +1.38%

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 16,672 12,663 21,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.71% 28.92% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 12,111 8,444 15,903
10th Percentile £38,500 £34,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,875 £105,000
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 13 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 13 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 -3 2,657 £85,000 -5.56% 5,082
North of England -10 1,248 £65,500 +0.77% 747
South East +7 914 £60,000 - 848
South West +11 614 £60,000 +9.09% 400
North West -17 598 £65,500 +9.17% 408
Midlands +6 564 £62,500 -3.85% 296
Yorkshire +13 403 £66,720 +2.65% 204
East of England +11 312 £65,000 +18.18% 443
West Midlands -3 301 £62,500 -3.85% 165
East Midlands +22 262 £55,000 -4.35% 131
North East +27 247 £65,000 - 140
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
1 249 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 240 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 187 (2.94%) Apache
4 65 (1.02%) Confluence
5 54 (0.85%) Jupyter
6 48 (0.75%) WordPress
7 39 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
9 23 (0.36%) SAS
10 20 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.20%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) JBoss
15 5 (0.079%) OpenStack
16 4 (0.063%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 707 (11.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.57%) MS Visio
5 16 (0.25%) Simulink
6 15 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) Revit
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 9 (0.14%) Fidessa
1 9 (0.14%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
3 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.079%) Shopify
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
5 4 (0.063%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,549 (40.03%) Azure
2 2,052 (32.22%) AWS
3 1,037 (16.28%) Power Platform
4 903 (14.18%) Azure AI
5 780 (12.25%) GCP
6 397 (6.23%) GitHub
7 374 (5.87%) Serverless
8 260 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 242 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 240 (3.77%) Snowflake
11 236 (3.71%) SaaS
12 231 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
13 211 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 208 (3.27%) dbt
15 175 (2.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 160 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
17 157 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
18 135 (2.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 128 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
20 121 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.61%) Firewall
2 139 (2.18%) Broadband
3 137 (2.15%) DNS
4 127 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 127 (1.99%) VPN
5 108 (1.70%) Network Security
6 95 (1.49%) WAN
7 80 (1.26%) Wireless
8 74 (1.16%) LAN
9 70 (1.10%) Internet
10 55 (0.86%) BGP
11 50 (0.79%) VLAN
12 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
13 44 (0.69%) HTTP
14 43 (0.68%) DHCP
15 41 (0.64%) MQTT
16 39 (0.61%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 28 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
19 26 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 968 (15.20%) Power BI
2 783 (12.30%) Tableau
3 336 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
4 296 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 197 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 177 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 163 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 145 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 144 (2.26%) MongoDB
10 139 (2.18%) BigQuery
11 122 (1.92%) Big Data
12 112 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 110 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
14 109 (1.71%) MySQL
15 103 (1.62%) Metadata
16 86 (1.35%) DynamoDB
17 79 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
18 72 (1.13%) Looker
19 70 (1.10%) Delta Lake
20 59 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 701 (11.01%) Git
2 289 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 239 (3.75%) GitLab
4 168 (2.64%) JIRA
5 62 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 62 (0.97%) MLflow
6 61 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 48 (0.75%) Selenium
9 40 (0.63%) Subversion
10 36 (0.57%) JUnit
11 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 35 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 31 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 28 (0.44%) Eclipse
14 27 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 20 (0.31%) Maven
General
1 2,169 (34.06%) Social Skills
2 1,354 (21.26%) Finance
3 866 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 334 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 330 (5.18%) Banking
6 241 (3.78%) Public Sector
7 227 (3.56%) Law
8 186 (2.92%) Marketing
9 172 (2.70%) Retail
10 137 (2.15%) Legal
11 127 (1.99%) Front Office
12 121 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 89 (1.40%) Electronics
14 88 (1.38%) Aerospace
15 86 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 82 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 78 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
18 71 (1.11%) Investment Banking
19 66 (1.04%) Games
20 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,258 (19.76%) Senior
2 921 (14.46%) Analyst
3 876 (13.76%) Developer
4 837 (13.14%) Software Engineer
5 737 (11.57%) Data Analyst
6 662 (10.40%) Python Engineer
7 655 (10.29%) Junior
8 631 (9.91%) Data Engineer
9 619 (9.72%) Lead
10 573 (9.00%) Junior Analyst
11 570 (8.95%) Junior Data Analyst
12 480 (7.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 364 (5.72%) Python Developer
14 300 (4.71%) Python Software Engineer
15 242 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 220 (3.45%) Architect
17 216 (3.39%) Data Scientist
18 198 (3.11%) Senior Developer
19 184 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
20 183 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (6.52%) React
2 288 (4.52%) Kafka
3 247 (3.88%) Node.js
4 233 (3.66%) .NET
4 233 (3.66%) PySpark
5 226 (3.55%) REST
6 208 (3.27%) FastAPI
6 208 (3.27%) RESTful
7 195 (3.06%) Django
8 193 (3.03%) HTML
9 184 (2.89%) PyTorch
10 177 (2.78%) CSS
11 175 (2.75%) LangChain
12 156 (2.45%) TensorFlow
13 138 (2.17%) Pandas
14 134 (2.10%) Flask
15 123 (1.93%) scikit-learn
16 112 (1.76%) Spring
16 112 (1.76%) Spring Boot
17 103 (1.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 590 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 336 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 315 (4.95%) Algorithms
4 212 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 199 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 157 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 142 (2.23%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.51%) Public Cloud
9 91 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 82 (1.29%) Low-Code
11 81 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
12 80 (1.26%) Management Information System
13 79 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 78 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 76 (1.19%) Hedge funds
16 75 (1.18%) Equities
16 75 (1.18%) Fixed Income
17 74 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
17 74 (1.16%) Robotics
18 70 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 726 (11.40%) Linux
2 329 (5.17%) Windows
3 95 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 87 (1.37%) Unix
5 55 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 46 (0.72%) CentOS
7 38 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 26 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.35%) Debian
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.22%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 11 (0.17%) Android
13 11 (0.17%) Rocky
14 10 (0.16%) Solaris
14 10 (0.16%) VMS
15 9 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,713 (42.60%) AI
2 1,623 (25.49%) Software Engineering
3 1,574 (24.72%) CI/CD
4 1,177 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
5 1,138 (17.87%) Agile
6 1,137 (17.85%) Analytics
7 1,118 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
8 1,084 (17.02%) DevOps
9 1,017 (15.97%) Machine Learning
10 930 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
11 820 (12.88%) Mentoring
12 745 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
13 737 (11.57%) Data Engineering
14 674 (10.58%) Data Modelling
15 651 (10.22%) Data Science
16 647 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 605 (9.50%) Containerisation
18 586 (9.20%) Computer Science
19 580 (9.11%) Decision-Making
20 574 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,321 (36.45%) SQL
2 818 (12.85%) Java
3 677 (10.63%) JavaScript
4 550 (8.64%) C++
5 502 (7.88%) PowerShell
6 480 (7.54%) Bash
7 467 (7.33%) C#
8 408 (6.41%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.32%) Go
10 187 (2.94%) C
11 175 (2.75%) R
12 127 (1.99%) Scala
13 102 (1.60%) PHP
14 98 (1.54%) Rust
15 89 (1.40%) Bicep
16 78 (1.22%) Perl
17 74 (1.16%) Ruby
18 64 (1.01%) MATLAB
19 60 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 48 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,026 (16.11%) Azure Certification
2 894 (14.04%) Degree
3 791 (12.42%) Security Cleared
4 445 (6.99%) SC Cleared
5 320 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 264 (4.15%) DV Cleared
7 204 (3.20%) Master's Degree
8 182 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 116 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 102 (1.60%) PhD
11 94 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 79 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 52 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 52 (0.82%) CCNP
14 43 (0.68%) DBS Check
15 40 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 36 (0.57%) CISSP
17 35 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 33 (0.52%) OSCP
19 27 (0.42%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 510 (8.01%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.19%) QA
3 151 (2.37%) GDPR
4 108 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.10%) NIST
6 58 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 34 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 26 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.39%) SLA
11 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 21 (0.33%) WCAG
12 20 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 17 (0.27%) GRC
14 14 (0.22%) NCSC
15 13 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 759 (11.92%) Docker
2 112 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 111 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.01%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.41%) KVM
7 26 (0.41%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 17 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.13%) ProxySG
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
11 8 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
12 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.047%) IAG
14 3 (0.047%) iptables
15 2 (0.031%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 928 (14.57%) Terraform
2 750 (11.78%) Kubernetes
3 396 (6.22%) Ansible
4 238 (3.74%) Grafana
5 148 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Puppet
7 49 (0.77%) Argo
8 41 (0.64%) Nagios
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
9 36 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 28 (0.44%) Istio
13 24 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.30%) Podman
15 18 (0.28%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.24%) Proxmox
18 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,345 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 452 (7.10%) Databricks
3 206 (3.23%) Google
4 151 (2.37%) Splunk
5 145 (2.28%) Oracle
6 138 (2.17%) VMware
7 121 (1.90%) Cisco
8 119 (1.87%) OpenAI
9 118 (1.85%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.13%) ServiceNow
11 62 (0.97%) Foundry
12 55 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 46 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 43 (0.68%) Dynatrace
15 42 (0.66%) SolarWinds
16 40 (0.63%) Fortinet
17 39 (0.61%) F5
18 37 (0.58%) SAP
19 35 (0.55%) Palantir
20 34 (0.53%) IBM