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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,075 4,987 7,321
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.34% 13.01% 8.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.31% 41.01% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,548 2,834 5,632
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £41,006
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 £101,500 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.11% +4.29% -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 14,707 12,160 27,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.76% 31.73% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,465 8,275 22,444
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 24 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 24 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 2,410 £85,000 -5.56% 1,135
North of England -11 1,233 £60,000 -7.69% 482
South East +3 899 £62,000 -2.36% 546
Midlands +16 643 £55,000 - 218
North West -28 541 £65,000 - 272
South West +4 517 £57,500 +0.10% 214
Yorkshire +19 505 £50,000 -21.88% 137
West Midlands +12 359 £60,000 +9.09% 107
East of England +1 312 £62,500 -5.61% 174
East Midlands +27 284 £55,000 +22.22% 110
North East +20 187 £53,750 -17.31% 77
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
1 213 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 198 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 144 (2.37%) Apache
4 71 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 57 (0.94%) WordPress
6 46 (0.76%) Confluence
7 36 (0.59%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
9 24 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 14 (0.23%) IIS
11 12 (0.20%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
12 7 (0.12%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.082%) CMS
13 5 (0.082%) GeoServer
14 4 (0.066%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.033%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1,093 (17.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 43 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (0.69%) MS Visio
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 (46.04%) Azure
2 1,874 (30.85%) AWS
3 1,341 (22.07%) Power Platform
4 1,222 (20.12%) Azure AI
5 651 (10.72%) GCP
6 475 (7.82%) GitHub
7 322 (5.30%) Serverless
8 233 (3.84%) Amazon S3
9 224 (3.69%) SaaS
10 219 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
11 203 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (2.91%) Snowflake
13 168 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
14 162 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 162 (2.67%) dbt
15 147 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 139 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
17 122 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 101 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
19 97 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 223 (3.67%) Firewall
2 172 (2.83%) Broadband
3 168 (2.77%) Internet
4 124 (2.04%) DNS
5 122 (2.01%) VPN
6 101 (1.66%) Network Security
7 95 (1.56%) TCP/IP
8 91 (1.50%) WAN
9 81 (1.33%) LAN
10 72 (1.19%) Wireless
11 65 (1.07%) BGP
12 55 (0.91%) HTTP
13 52 (0.86%) VLAN
14 47 (0.77%) OSPF
15 44 (0.72%) SD-WAN
16 40 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
17 37 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
18 33 (0.54%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) Wireshark
20 28 (0.46%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,282 (21.10%) Power BI
2 1,175 (19.34%) Tableau
3 280 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 163 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 159 (2.62%) Data Lake
8 138 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 136 (2.24%) BigQuery
10 123 (2.02%) MongoDB
11 115 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 114 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
13 108 (1.78%) Data Mining
14 106 (1.74%) Big Data
15 87 (1.43%) Metadata
16 82 (1.35%) MySQL
17 70 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
19 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 52 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 660 (10.86%) Git
2 255 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 232 (3.82%) GitLab
4 126 (2.07%) JIRA
5 78 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
6 63 (1.04%) MLflow
7 48 (0.79%) 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 21 (0.35%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.35%) LabVIEW
14 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.33%) JMeter
15 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
15 18 (0.30%) JUnit
15 18 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 2,256 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 1,170 (19.26%) Finance
3 813 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 249 (4.10%) Banking
6 214 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 180 (2.96%) Retail
8 164 (2.70%) Law
9 151 (2.49%) Multimedia
10 133 (2.19%) Front Office
10 133 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 101 (1.66%) Legal
11 101 (1.66%) Marketing
12 87 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 76 (1.25%) Electronics
14 66 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 58 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
16 55 (0.91%) Financial Institution
17 53 (0.87%) Games
17 53 (0.87%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,300 (21.40%) Analyst
2 1,120 (18.44%) Data Analyst
3 958 (15.77%) Senior
4 938 (15.44%) Junior
5 913 (15.03%) Developer
6 900 (14.81%) Junior Analyst
6 900 (14.81%) Junior Data Analyst
7 615 (10.12%) Software Engineer
8 536 (8.82%) Data Engineer
9 496 (8.16%) Python Engineer
10 491 (8.08%) Lead
11 422 (6.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 396 (6.52%) Python Developer
13 290 (4.77%) Trainee
14 224 (3.69%) Python Software Engineer
15 197 (3.24%) Software Developer
16 179 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
17 178 (2.93%) Architect
17 178 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
18 161 (2.65%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (6.07%) React
2 283 (4.66%) HTML
3 261 (4.30%) CSS
4 260 (4.28%) Kafka
5 222 (3.65%) PySpark
6 209 (3.44%) Node.js
7 203 (3.34%) REST
8 195 (3.21%) .NET
9 177 (2.91%) RESTful
10 174 (2.86%) Django
11 162 (2.67%) PyTorch
12 161 (2.65%) Pandas
13 150 (2.47%) FastAPI
14 139 (2.29%) TensorFlow
15 125 (2.06%) scikit-learn
16 120 (1.98%) Flask
17 116 (1.91%) LangChain
18 106 (1.74%) NumPy
19 95 (1.56%) JSON
20 82 (1.35%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 383 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 321 (5.28%) Algorithms
3 269 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (2.81%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 120 (1.98%) AI Agents
7 110 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 101 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 93 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 93 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 89 (1.47%) Video\Live Streaming
11 87 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 86 (1.42%) Management Information System
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
14 79 (1.30%) Equities
14 79 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 79 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 74 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
16 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
17 67 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 622 (10.24%) Linux
2 262 (4.31%) Windows
3 98 (1.61%) Unix
4 77 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 51 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.64%) CentOS
7 31 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.20%) Debian
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
11 10 (0.16%) VMS
11 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
12 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.099%) Robot Operating System
15 5 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,511 (41.33%) AI
2 1,380 (22.72%) Business Intelligence
3 1,289 (21.22%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (19.69%) Software Engineering
5 979 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
6 973 (16.02%) Agile
7 962 (15.84%) Analytics
8 944 (15.54%) DevOps
9 794 (13.07%) Machine Learning
10 733 (12.07%) Mentoring
11 719 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 605 (9.96%) Data Modelling
13 582 (9.58%) Data Pipeline
14 573 (9.43%) Data Engineering
15 572 (9.42%) Data Science
16 543 (8.94%) ETL
17 537 (8.84%) Computer Science
18 516 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
19 499 (8.21%) Containerisation
20 487 (8.02%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,408 (39.64%) SQL
2 696 (11.46%) JavaScript
3 662 (10.90%) Java
4 468 (7.70%) PowerShell
5 449 (7.39%) Bash
6 401 (6.60%) C++
7 373 (6.14%) C#
8 363 (5.98%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.56%) Go
10 213 (3.51%) R
11 163 (2.68%) C
12 125 (2.06%) Scala
13 83 (1.37%) Rust
14 70 (1.15%) PHP
15 63 (1.04%) VBA
16 54 (0.89%) Bicep
17 46 (0.76%) Perl
18 43 (0.71%) MATLAB
19 41 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,431 (23.56%) Azure Certification
2 776 (12.77%) Degree
3 564 (9.28%) Security Cleared
4 335 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 297 (4.89%) AWS Certification
6 283 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 209 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 207 (3.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 179 (2.95%) DV Cleared
10 153 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 93 (1.53%) PhD
12 80 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 67 (1.10%) CCNP
14 52 (0.86%) DBS Check
15 50 (0.82%) OSCP
16 38 (0.63%) 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
1 399 (6.57%) Data Quality
2 224 (3.69%) QA
3 123 (2.02%) GDPR
4 92 (1.51%) NIST
5 83 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.58%) SOC 2
9 24 (0.40%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 20 (0.33%) SLA
12 12 (0.20%) 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
1 603 (9.93%) Docker
2 109 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 93 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.95%) Firmware
5 34 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.44%) 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 5 (0.082%) 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
1 766 (12.61%) Terraform
2 626 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 353 (5.81%) Ansible
4 209 (3.44%) Grafana
5 169 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.05%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 32 (0.53%) 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
14 18 (0.30%) Progress Chef
15 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.28%) ZABBIX
16 15 (0.25%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.23%) logstash
17 14 (0.23%) Rancher
17 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,783 (29.35%) Microsoft
2 332 (5.47%) Databricks
3 207 (3.41%) Google
4 134 (2.21%) Oracle
5 127 (2.09%) VMware
6 125 (2.06%) Cisco
7 108 (1.78%) Splunk
8 102 (1.68%) Red Hat
9 99 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 57 (0.94%) Foundry
11 54 (0.89%) ServiceNow
12 52 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 52 (0.86%) Salesforce
13 51 (0.84%) SAP
13 51 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 46 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.69%) F5
17 40 (0.66%) Informatica
17 40 (0.66%) Palantir