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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,037 5,130 7,681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.39% 13.06% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.41% 40.53% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,546 2,844 5,813
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,125 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £125,000 £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 14,938 12,658 28,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.29% 32.24% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 10,693 8,465 22,961
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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% 1,089
North of England -11 1,236 £62,500 -3.85% 411
South East +1 868 £61,000 -2.40% 550
Midlands +29 643 £60,000 +9.09% 163
North West -15 570 £65,000 - 221
South West +6 526 £58,497 +1.78% 184
Yorkshire +11 471 £60,500 -6.92% 124
West Midlands +19 339 £60,000 +6.67% 86
East Midlands +31 304 £55,000 +20.88% 76
East of England -5 294 £70,000 +5.73% 178
North East +25 195 £55,000 -12.00% 67
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
1 219 (3.63%) Apache Airflow
2 198 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 152 (2.52%) Apache
4 75 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 50 (0.83%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 26 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.22%) IIS
12 8 (0.13%) Appian
13 7 (0.12%) nginx
14 6 (0.099%) CMS
14 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.050%) Headless CMS
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
17 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 974 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 45 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,670 (44.23%) Azure
2 1,876 (31.08%) AWS
3 1,240 (20.54%) Power Platform
4 1,127 (18.67%) Azure AI
5 671 (11.11%) GCP
6 425 (7.04%) GitHub
7 328 (5.43%) Serverless
8 241 (3.99%) Amazon S3
9 230 (3.81%) SaaS
10 214 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 207 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
12 179 (2.97%) Snowflake
13 164 (2.72%) dbt
14 161 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 155 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
16 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 143 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
18 118 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 105 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
20 98 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.84%) Firewall
2 191 (3.16%) Broadband
3 128 (2.12%) VPN
4 122 (2.02%) DNS
5 119 (1.97%) Internet
6 107 (1.77%) Network Security
7 98 (1.62%) WAN
8 91 (1.51%) TCP/IP
9 83 (1.37%) LAN
10 76 (1.26%) Wireless
11 63 (1.04%) BGP
12 54 (0.89%) HTTP
13 53 (0.88%) VLAN
14 50 (0.83%) SD-WAN
15 45 (0.75%) OSPF
16 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
17 39 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
18 30 (0.50%) DHCP
18 30 (0.50%) Wireshark
19 29 (0.48%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,182 (19.58%) Power BI
2 1,055 (17.48%) Tableau
3 285 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
4 237 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
5 189 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 164 (2.72%) NoSQL
7 163 (2.70%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.35%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.32%) BigQuery
10 135 (2.24%) MongoDB
11 114 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 113 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 106 (1.76%) Big Data
14 92 (1.52%) Metadata
15 83 (1.37%) Data Mining
16 79 (1.31%) MySQL
17 66 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
17 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
18 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 53 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 630 (10.44%) Git
2 256 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 229 (3.79%) GitLab
4 139 (2.30%) JIRA
5 80 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 59 (0.98%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.65%) Selenium
9 35 (0.58%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 28 (0.46%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
14 24 (0.40%) Subversion
15 23 (0.38%) Cypress.io
16 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
17 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.30%) JMeter
17 18 (0.30%) TeamCity
18 17 (0.28%) JUnit
General
1 2,155 (35.70%) Social Skills
2 1,186 (19.65%) Finance
3 819 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 261 (4.32%) Banking
6 214 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 182 (3.01%) Retail
8 155 (2.57%) Law
9 129 (2.14%) Front Office
10 125 (2.07%) Manufacturing
11 105 (1.74%) Legal
12 104 (1.72%) Multimedia
13 93 (1.54%) Marketing
14 87 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 73 (1.21%) Electronics
16 68 (1.13%) Aerospace
17 63 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 61 (1.01%) Games
19 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,194 (19.78%) Analyst
2 1,022 (16.93%) Data Analyst
3 1,015 (16.81%) Senior
4 911 (15.09%) Developer
5 850 (14.08%) Junior
6 806 (13.35%) Junior Analyst
6 806 (13.35%) Junior Data Analyst
7 645 (10.68%) Software Engineer
8 560 (9.28%) Data Engineer
9 516 (8.55%) Python Engineer
10 504 (8.35%) Lead
11 443 (7.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 384 (6.36%) Python Developer
13 230 (3.81%) Python Software Engineer
14 221 (3.66%) Trainee
15 188 (3.11%) Data Scientist
16 185 (3.06%) Architect
17 182 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
18 181 (3.00%) Software Developer
19 175 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (6.24%) React
2 260 (4.31%) Kafka
3 234 (3.88%) HTML
4 226 (3.74%) Node.js
5 223 (3.69%) PySpark
6 218 (3.61%) CSS
7 210 (3.48%) REST
8 197 (3.26%) .NET
9 184 (3.05%) RESTful
10 173 (2.87%) PyTorch
11 167 (2.77%) Django
12 162 (2.68%) FastAPI
13 156 (2.58%) Pandas
14 146 (2.42%) TensorFlow
15 129 (2.14%) LangChain
16 122 (2.02%) Flask
17 121 (2.00%) scikit-learn
18 107 (1.77%) NumPy
19 97 (1.61%) JSON
20 91 (1.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 438 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 318 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 289 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 181 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 137 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 127 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 112 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 104 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 102 (1.69%) Data Centre
10 98 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 85 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 83 (1.37%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.37%) Security Posture
14 79 (1.31%) Equities
14 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
16 72 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
17 65 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
17 65 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 617 (10.22%) Linux
2 262 (4.34%) Windows
3 97 (1.61%) Unix
4 82 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.63%) CentOS
7 35 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 16 (0.27%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
15 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,529 (41.89%) AI
2 1,329 (22.01%) CI/CD
3 1,285 (21.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1,270 (21.04%) Software Engineering
5 1,012 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
6 996 (16.50%) Agile
7 973 (16.12%) Analytics
8 949 (15.72%) DevOps
9 848 (14.05%) Machine Learning
10 761 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 739 (12.24%) Mentoring
12 609 (10.09%) Data Modelling
13 597 (9.89%) Data Engineering
14 593 (9.82%) Data Pipeline
15 589 (9.76%) Data Science
16 530 (8.78%) Computer Science
17 519 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
18 516 (8.55%) ETL
19 513 (8.50%) Containerisation
20 512 (8.48%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,363 (39.14%) SQL
2 666 (11.03%) Java
2 666 (11.03%) JavaScript
3 476 (7.88%) PowerShell
4 453 (7.50%) Bash
5 422 (6.99%) C++
6 382 (6.33%) C#
7 372 (6.16%) TypeScript
8 291 (4.82%) Go
9 196 (3.25%) R
10 158 (2.62%) C
11 125 (2.07%) Scala
12 84 (1.39%) Rust
13 77 (1.28%) PHP
14 64 (1.06%) Bicep
15 54 (0.89%) MATLAB
15 54 (0.89%) VBA
16 46 (0.76%) Perl
17 44 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,292 (21.40%) Azure Certification
2 764 (12.66%) Degree
3 600 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 356 (5.90%) SC Cleared
5 277 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 249 (4.12%) AWS Certification
7 196 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 163 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 161 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 150 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.42%) PhD
12 80 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 64 (1.06%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 39 (0.65%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 31 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
18 27 (0.45%) CCIE
19 25 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 227 (3.76%) QA
3 124 (2.05%) GDPR
4 90 (1.49%) NIST
5 75 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 10 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
16 7 (0.12%) IFRS
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 614 (10.17%) Docker
2 103 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 57 (0.94%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 14 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 14 (0.23%) ProxySG
10 11 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.13%) Squid
11 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.066%) iptables
14 3 (0.050%) IAG
14 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 805 (13.33%) Terraform
2 639 (10.58%) Kubernetes
3 350 (5.80%) Ansible
4 208 (3.45%) Grafana
5 171 (2.83%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.08%) Argo
7 41 (0.68%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 27 (0.45%) Kibana
11 24 (0.40%) Istio
11 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
12 23 (0.38%) Packer
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.25%) Podman
16 15 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,634 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 345 (5.71%) Databricks
3 206 (3.41%) Google
4 129 (2.14%) VMware
5 124 (2.05%) Cisco
6 123 (2.04%) Oracle
7 120 (1.99%) Splunk
8 97 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 96 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 59 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 57 (0.94%) Foundry
11 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 53 (0.88%) SolarWinds
13 51 (0.84%) Salesforce
14 45 (0.75%) Fortinet
14 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
15 44 (0.73%) SAP
16 40 (0.66%) F5
17 36 (0.60%) Palantir
18 31 (0.51%) Arista