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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,068 5,459 5,512
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.58% 11.38% 10.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.21% 33.69% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,743 3,281 4,362
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -1.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £125,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,376 16,205 19,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.33% 33.79% 37.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7,780 9,527 16,834
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,063 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -3.85%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 1,980 £83,875 -1.32% 1,031
North of England -9 669 £50,000 -23.08% 667
South East -31 442 £60,000 -7.69% 1,275
Midlands -15 381 £55,200 +0.36% 404
South West -2 336 £60,000 -7.69% 490
Yorkshire +13 307 £49,000 -24.62% 268
North West -15 275 £55,000 -12.00% 289
West Midlands -1 260 £55,200 -4.00% 142
East of England -15 207 £50,000 -28.57% 535
East Midlands -24 124 £57,600 +4.73% 251
North East 0 89 £40,000 -42.29% 114
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
1 168 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
2 142 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 128 (3.15%) Apache
4 43 (1.06%) Confluence
5 35 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 29 (0.71%) SAS
7 27 (0.66%) WordPress
8 22 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 18 (0.44%) IIS
10 18 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (0.42%) Appian
12 16 (0.39%) nginx
12 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
13 13 (0.32%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.17%) CMS
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.098%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 558 (13.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 10 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 7 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.098%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 4 (0.098%) Windchill
10 3 (0.074%) CATIA
10 3 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
10 3 (0.074%) Stata
11 2 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.049%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.049%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.049%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.049%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (0.27%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.074%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.049%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.049%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.049%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.025%) Actimize
8 1 (0.025%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.025%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.025%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.025%) Endur
8 1 (0.025%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.025%) Odoo
8 1 (0.025%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.025%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.025%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,613 (39.65%) Azure
2 1,419 (34.88%) AWS
3 732 (17.99%) Power Platform
4 528 (12.98%) GitHub
5 430 (10.57%) GCP
6 324 (7.96%) Azure AI
7 257 (6.32%) Serverless
8 181 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
9 174 (4.28%) Snowflake
10 166 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (3.88%) Amazon S3
12 153 (3.76%) SaaS
13 143 (3.52%) dbt
13 143 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 104 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 90 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
17 85 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 82 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
19 80 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.32%) Internet
2 153 (3.76%) Firewall
3 87 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 78 (1.92%) VPN
5 67 (1.65%) DNS
5 67 (1.65%) WAN
6 58 (1.43%) LAN
7 50 (1.23%) BGP
8 47 (1.16%) Wireless
9 42 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (0.98%) Network Security
11 39 (0.96%) HTTP
12 37 (0.91%) Broadband
12 37 (0.91%) OSPF
13 36 (0.88%) VLAN
14 31 (0.76%) MPLS
15 29 (0.71%) SD-WAN
15 29 (0.71%) SSL
16 27 (0.66%) SAN
17 23 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 692 (17.01%) Power BI
2 595 (14.63%) Tableau
3 260 (6.39%) Data Warehouse
4 222 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 170 (4.18%) NoSQL
7 161 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 142 (3.49%) Data Mining
9 126 (3.10%) Data Lake
10 114 (2.80%) MongoDB
11 107 (2.63%) Big Data
12 93 (2.29%) BigQuery
13 89 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 85 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
14 85 (2.09%) MySQL
15 80 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
16 70 (1.72%) Hadoop
17 67 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
17 67 (1.65%) Apache Iceberg
18 66 (1.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 572 (14.06%) Git
2 227 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 139 (3.42%) GitLab
4 119 (2.93%) JIRA
5 59 (1.45%) Selenium
6 43 (1.06%) MLflow
7 38 (0.93%) JUnit
8 36 (0.88%) Postman
9 28 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 26 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 24 (0.59%) JMeter
12 20 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.42%) Jaeger
13 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.37%) Mockito
15 14 (0.34%) Burp Suite
15 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.34%) Metasploit
16 12 (0.29%) REST Assured
16 12 (0.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1,222 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 1,016 (24.98%) Finance
3 627 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (5.95%) Banking
5 241 (5.92%) Multimedia
6 175 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 171 (4.20%) Law
8 158 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 147 (3.61%) Marketing
10 143 (3.52%) Front Office
11 109 (2.68%) Telecoms
12 104 (2.56%) Retail
13 101 (2.48%) Manufacturing
14 86 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 76 (1.87%) Electronics
16 73 (1.79%) Legal
17 68 (1.67%) Investment Banking
18 57 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
19 56 (1.38%) Games
20 48 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 756 (18.58%) Developer
2 732 (17.99%) Analyst
3 652 (16.03%) Senior
4 546 (13.42%) Data Analyst
5 417 (10.25%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.85%) Trainee
7 322 (7.92%) Software Engineer
8 307 (7.55%) Junior
9 298 (7.33%) Python Developer
10 294 (7.23%) Lead
11 282 (6.93%) Junior Analyst
11 282 (6.93%) Junior Data Analyst
12 239 (5.88%) Python Engineer
13 184 (4.52%) Software Developer
14 143 (3.52%) Senior Developer
15 142 (3.49%) Architect
16 139 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
17 137 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
18 133 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
19 124 (3.05%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (9.32%) HTML
2 334 (8.21%) CSS
3 324 (7.96%) React
4 173 (4.25%) REST
5 172 (4.23%) Node.js
6 157 (3.86%) Django
7 142 (3.49%) Kafka
8 138 (3.39%) RESTful
9 135 (3.32%) FastAPI
10 131 (3.22%) Pandas
11 128 (3.15%) PySpark
12 119 (2.93%) PyTorch
13 113 (2.78%) .NET
14 106 (2.61%) Flask
15 103 (2.53%) AngularJS
16 100 (2.46%) TensorFlow
17 90 (2.21%) NumPy
18 87 (2.14%) Vue
19 81 (1.99%) JSON
20 75 (1.84%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 222 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 199 (4.89%) Algorithms
3 151 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
4 143 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.95%) Equities
6 111 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 107 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 95 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 83 (2.04%) Hedge funds
9 83 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 81 (1.99%) Fixed Income
11 76 (1.87%) Derivative
12 74 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
13 69 (1.70%) Low-Code
14 65 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 62 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
16 57 (1.40%) AI Agents
17 56 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
18 55 (1.35%) Data Centre
18 55 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 504 (12.39%) Linux
2 210 (5.16%) Windows
3 186 (4.57%) Unix
4 72 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 54 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 28 (0.69%) CentOS
8 22 (0.54%) Debian
8 22 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.42%) VMS
10 16 (0.39%) Solaris
11 12 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.20%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 5 (0.12%) zOS
16 3 (0.074%) FreeRTOS
16 3 (0.074%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (28.56%) AI
2 945 (23.23%) CI/CD
3 892 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
4 819 (20.13%) Analytics
5 799 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
6 783 (19.25%) Agile
7 768 (18.88%) DevOps
8 640 (15.73%) Software Engineering
9 639 (15.71%) Mentoring
10 528 (12.98%) Machine Learning
11 484 (11.90%) ETL
12 477 (11.73%) Data Science
13 458 (11.26%) Data Pipeline
14 457 (11.23%) Data Modelling
15 447 (10.99%) Data Engineering
16 435 (10.69%) Computer Science
17 434 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
18 408 (10.03%) Data Analysis
19 376 (9.24%) Containerisation
20 369 (9.07%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,650 (40.56%) SQL
2 715 (17.58%) JavaScript
3 578 (14.21%) Java
4 379 (9.32%) Bash
5 334 (8.21%) PowerShell
6 329 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 273 (6.71%) C#
8 239 (5.88%) R
9 203 (4.99%) C++
10 152 (3.74%) Go
11 108 (2.65%) C
12 79 (1.94%) Scala
13 61 (1.50%) PHP
14 56 (1.38%) VBA
15 50 (1.23%) Bicep
16 47 (1.16%) Perl
17 45 (1.11%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 39 (0.96%) Rust
19 38 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 784 (19.27%) Degree
2 590 (14.50%) Azure Certification
3 427 (10.50%) Security Cleared
4 359 (8.82%) AWS Certification
5 289 (7.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 253 (6.22%) SC Cleared
7 240 (5.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 204 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 191 (4.70%) Master's Degree
10 159 (3.91%) DV Cleared
11 119 (2.93%) PhD
12 73 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.43%) CCNP
14 50 (1.23%) CISSP
15 48 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.61%) HND
19 25 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (7.20%) Data Quality
2 158 (3.88%) QA
3 99 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (2.38%) GDPR
5 78 (1.92%) NIST
6 63 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.84%) SLA
8 23 (0.57%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.34%) PMO
11 14 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 12 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.098%) GRC
16 4 (0.098%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.098%) WCAG
System Software
1 503 (12.36%) Docker
2 75 (1.84%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (0.61%) Firmware
5 18 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.39%) vSphere
7 10 (0.25%) HDFS
7 10 (0.25%) KVM
7 10 (0.25%) ProxySG
8 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 7 (0.17%) Lustre
9 7 (0.17%) NFS
10 5 (0.12%) Postfix
10 5 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
10 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.098%) DFS Replication
11 4 (0.098%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.098%) Squid
Systems Management
1 536 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 503 (12.36%) Terraform
3 308 (7.57%) Ansible
4 125 (3.07%) Grafana
5 117 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 52 (1.28%) Argo
7 28 (0.69%) Kibana
8 24 (0.59%) Puppet
9 17 (0.42%) Nessus
10 16 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.34%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.34%) Nagios
12 13 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.32%) Rancher
13 12 (0.29%) Control-M
13 12 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.27%) logstash
14 11 (0.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 10 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,077 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.47%) Databricks
3 187 (4.60%) Google
4 131 (3.22%) Oracle
5 100 (2.46%) Cisco
5 100 (2.46%) VMware
6 85 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 74 (1.82%) OpenAI
8 66 (1.62%) SAP
9 63 (1.55%) Splunk
10 58 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 55 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 44 (1.08%) Alteryx
12 44 (1.08%) Fortinet
13 43 (1.06%) IBM
13 43 (1.06%) Informatica
14 41 (1.01%) Bloomberg
14 41 (1.01%) Talend
15 30 (0.74%) Palantir
16 27 (0.66%) Atlassian