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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,156 4,970 6,686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.34% 11.36% 9.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.94% 40.47% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,808 2,777 4,536
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £132,500 £136,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,664 12,282 21,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.16% 28.06% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 8,191 14,866
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -2 2,566 £85,000 -5.56% 5,126
North of England -14 1,199 £66,778 +6.84% 768
South East +9 877 £60,000 +4.35% 887
South West +14 602 £60,000 +9.09% 520
North West -19 584 £67,153 +11.92% 433
Midlands +6 542 £62,000 -4.62% 372
Yorkshire +10 367 £67,750 +4.23% 222
East of England +10 313 £65,000 +18.18% 512
West Midlands -5 287 £65,000 - 222
East Midlands +21 253 £52,500 -19.23% 148
North East +22 248 £66,000 +10.00% 119
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
1 224 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 198 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.68%) Apache
4 70 (1.14%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 21 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.34%) SAS
10 13 (0.21%) nginx
11 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.13%) CMS
14 7 (0.11%) Camunda
14 7 (0.11%) IIS
15 6 (0.097%) JBoss
16 4 (0.065%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 545 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 24 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.29%) Simulink
6 12 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.097%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
9 5 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.097%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.081%) Shopify
7 4 (0.065%) Line 50
7 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.049%) Magento
8 3 (0.049%) Summit
9 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.032%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.032%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.016%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.016%) FastStats
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,410 (39.15%) Azure
2 1,960 (31.84%) AWS
3 912 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 767 (12.46%) Azure AI
5 741 (12.04%) GCP
6 405 (6.58%) GitHub
7 368 (5.98%) Serverless
8 240 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 239 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 236 (3.83%) Amazon S3
11 229 (3.72%) Snowflake
12 228 (3.70%) SaaS
13 208 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 188 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 188 (3.05%) dbt
15 169 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
16 162 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
17 145 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 133 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
19 126 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 223 (3.62%) Firewall
2 139 (2.26%) DNS
3 130 (2.11%) VPN
4 126 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 114 (1.85%) Broadband
6 107 (1.74%) Network Security
7 95 (1.54%) WAN
8 79 (1.28%) Wireless
9 72 (1.17%) LAN
10 71 (1.15%) Internet
11 59 (0.96%) BGP
12 51 (0.83%) DHCP
13 49 (0.80%) VLAN
14 46 (0.75%) SD-WAN
15 42 (0.68%) OSPF
16 41 (0.67%) MQTT
17 40 (0.65%) HTTP
18 35 (0.57%) SSL
19 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
19 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 842 (13.68%) Power BI
2 599 (9.73%) Tableau
3 345 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
4 280 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 215 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 172 (2.79%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.53%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 143 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 129 (2.10%) BigQuery
11 125 (2.03%) Big Data
12 115 (1.87%) MySQL
13 107 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 105 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
15 98 (1.59%) Metadata
16 90 (1.46%) DynamoDB
17 88 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
18 73 (1.19%) Delta Lake
19 72 (1.17%) Looker
20 67 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 695 (11.29%) Git
2 302 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 243 (3.95%) GitLab
4 171 (2.78%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 61 (0.99%) MLflow
7 56 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 52 (0.84%) Selenium
9 47 (0.76%) Subversion
10 42 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.60%) JUnit
13 36 (0.58%) Cypress.io
14 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 26 (0.42%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.36%) Maven
18 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 20 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 2,052 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1,286 (20.89%) Finance
3 814 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 326 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (5.05%) Banking
6 240 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 216 (3.51%) Law
8 186 (3.02%) Marketing
9 150 (2.44%) Retail
10 126 (2.05%) Legal
11 103 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 99 (1.61%) Front Office
13 94 (1.53%) Electronics
14 93 (1.51%) Aerospace
15 83 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 83 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 71 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.07%) Games
18 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
19 47 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,254 (20.37%) Senior
2 836 (13.58%) Software Engineer
3 835 (13.56%) Developer
4 745 (12.10%) Analyst
5 676 (10.98%) Python Engineer
6 617 (10.02%) Data Engineer
7 605 (9.83%) Lead
8 579 (9.41%) Data Analyst
9 512 (8.32%) Junior
10 500 (8.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 432 (7.02%) Junior Analyst
12 428 (6.95%) Junior Data Analyst
13 361 (5.86%) Python Developer
14 310 (5.04%) Python Software Engineer
15 248 (4.03%) Senior Software Engineer
16 223 (3.62%) Architect
17 214 (3.48%) Data Scientist
18 196 (3.18%) Senior Developer
19 193 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
20 186 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 957 (15.55%) Terraform
2 389 (6.32%) React
3 256 (4.16%) Kafka
4 237 (3.85%) .NET
5 224 (3.64%) REST
6 220 (3.57%) Node.js
7 218 (3.54%) PySpark
8 210 (3.41%) RESTful
9 203 (3.30%) FastAPI
10 189 (3.07%) HTML
11 185 (3.01%) Django
12 184 (2.99%) PyTorch
13 180 (2.92%) LangChain
14 173 (2.81%) CSS
15 157 (2.55%) TensorFlow
16 130 (2.11%) Flask
17 115 (1.87%) Spring
17 115 (1.87%) Spring Boot
18 106 (1.72%) Pandas
18 106 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 600 (9.75%) Cloud Native
2 327 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 294 (4.78%) Algorithms
4 229 (3.72%) AI Agents
5 201 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 154 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 145 (2.36%) Data Structures
8 94 (1.53%) Data Centre
9 92 (1.49%) Public Cloud
10 82 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 82 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 80 (1.30%) Robotics
12 78 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
12 78 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 77 (1.25%) Hedge funds
14 76 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
14 76 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
15 68 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
16 64 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
16 64 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 717 (11.65%) Linux
2 323 (5.25%) Windows
3 89 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.28%) Unix
5 52 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.73%) CentOS
7 36 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.36%) Debian
10 17 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.097%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,563 (41.63%) AI
2 1,636 (26.58%) Software Engineering
3 1,557 (25.29%) CI/CD
4 1,184 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 1,096 (17.80%) Analytics
6 1,088 (17.67%) DevOps
7 1,073 (17.43%) Agile
8 1,006 (16.34%) Machine Learning
9 1,004 (16.31%) Business Intelligence
10 945 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 812 (13.19%) Mentoring
12 730 (11.86%) Data Engineering
13 715 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
14 663 (10.77%) Data Modelling
15 657 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
16 634 (10.30%) Data Science
17 596 (9.68%) Containerisation
18 590 (9.58%) Decision-Making
19 588 (9.55%) Computer Science
20 573 (9.31%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,141 (34.78%) SQL
2 810 (13.16%) Java
3 639 (10.38%) JavaScript
4 551 (8.95%) C++
5 503 (8.17%) Bash
6 499 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 474 (7.70%) C#
8 383 (6.22%) TypeScript
9 258 (4.19%) Go
10 190 (3.09%) C
11 170 (2.76%) R
12 118 (1.92%) Scala
13 100 (1.62%) PHP
14 95 (1.54%) Rust
15 94 (1.53%) Bicep
16 88 (1.43%) Perl
17 76 (1.23%) Ruby
18 64 (1.04%) MATLAB
19 63 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 44 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 905 (14.70%) Degree
2 892 (14.49%) Azure Certification
3 799 (12.98%) Security Cleared
4 437 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 323 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 263 (4.27%) DV Cleared
7 212 (3.44%) Master's Degree
8 166 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 126 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 112 (1.82%) PhD
11 80 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 74 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 60 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
14 51 (0.83%) CCNP
15 44 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.67%) CISSP
16 41 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 31 (0.50%) OSCP
19 29 (0.47%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (8.15%) Data Quality
2 268 (4.35%) QA
3 138 (2.24%) GDPR
4 107 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 62 (1.01%) NIST
6 58 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 28 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 27 (0.44%) SLA
10 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 20 (0.32%) PMO
13 19 (0.31%) WCAG
14 16 (0.26%) GRC
14 16 (0.26%) NCSC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
17 8 (0.13%) JTAG
18 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 762 (12.38%) Docker
2 116 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 104 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (1.14%) Firmware
5 46 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 26 (0.42%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.34%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.097%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) iptables
17 2 (0.032%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 764 (12.41%) Kubernetes
2 412 (6.69%) Ansible
3 240 (3.90%) Grafana
4 145 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.01%) Puppet
6 52 (0.84%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Kibana
9 36 (0.58%) Nagios
10 33 (0.54%) Istio
10 33 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.47%) Packer
12 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Podman
14 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 17 (0.28%) logstash
15 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
15 17 (0.28%) Rancher
15 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.24%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,204 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 458 (7.44%) Databricks
3 201 (3.27%) Google
4 150 (2.44%) Splunk
5 130 (2.11%) VMware
6 121 (1.97%) Cisco
6 121 (1.97%) OpenAI
7 115 (1.87%) Oracle
8 99 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 71 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 59 (0.96%) Foundry
11 52 (0.84%) Palo Alto
12 48 (0.78%) Dynatrace
13 41 (0.67%) SolarWinds
14 40 (0.65%) Fortinet
14 40 (0.65%) Salesforce
15 36 (0.58%) F5
16 35 (0.57%) Palantir
16 35 (0.57%) SAP
17 31 (0.50%) IBM