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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,147 4,952 7,336
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.39% 12.99% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.20% 40.83% 26.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,590 2,800 5,633
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £40,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,250 £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 £101,250 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £69,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +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 14,920 12,127 27,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.94% 31.80% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,634 8,243 22,503
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 28 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 28 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 2,423 £85,000 -5.56% 1,225
North of England -11 1,255 £60,000 -7.69% 398
South East +3 905 £61,500 -2.38% 513
Midlands +16 660 £55,000 - 177
North West -28 557 £65,000 - 219
South West +7 529 £57,500 +0.10% 192
Yorkshire +17 505 £50,000 -23.08% 106
West Midlands +13 361 £60,000 +9.09% 83
East of England +1 314 £62,500 -5.60% 167
East Midlands +29 299 £55,000 +22.22% 93
North East +21 193 £52,000 -20.00% 76
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
1 212 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 196 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 147 (2.39%) Apache
4 72 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 55 (0.89%) WordPress
6 46 (0.75%) Confluence
7 34 (0.55%) SAS
8 28 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
9 25 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 23 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 14 (0.23%) IIS
12 10 (0.16%) Appian
13 6 (0.098%) nginx
13 6 (0.098%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.081%) CMS
14 5 (0.081%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.049%) Apache Superset
15 3 (0.049%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1,090 (17.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.18%) Simulink
8 4 (0.065%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.049%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) Blender
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Maya
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.016%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.016%) Lightworks
11 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.081%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.065%) Line 50
4 3 (0.049%) Fidessa
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%) FastStats
6 1 (0.016%) Findur
6 1 (0.016%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.016%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,818 (45.84%) Azure
2 1,887 (30.70%) AWS
3 1,344 (21.86%) Power Platform
4 1,222 (19.88%) Azure AI
5 658 (10.70%) GCP
6 473 (7.69%) GitHub
7 325 (5.29%) Serverless
8 237 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 230 (3.74%) SaaS
10 225 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
11 203 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
12 178 (2.90%) Snowflake
13 167 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
14 165 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (2.65%) dbt
16 149 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 140 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
18 125 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 102 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
20 97 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.74%) Firewall
2 177 (2.88%) Broadband
3 160 (2.60%) Internet
4 127 (2.07%) VPN
5 123 (2.00%) DNS
6 104 (1.69%) Network Security
7 99 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 95 (1.55%) WAN
9 82 (1.33%) LAN
10 75 (1.22%) Wireless
11 66 (1.07%) BGP
12 56 (0.91%) HTTP
13 53 (0.86%) VLAN
14 48 (0.78%) OSPF
15 46 (0.75%) SD-WAN
16 40 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
17 38 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
18 31 (0.50%) DHCP
19 30 (0.49%) Wireshark
20 29 (0.47%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,285 (20.90%) Power BI
2 1,168 (19.00%) Tableau
3 294 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
5 201 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 166 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 165 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 140 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.26%) BigQuery
10 118 (1.92%) MongoDB
11 116 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
12 113 (1.84%) Big Data
13 112 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 104 (1.69%) Data Mining
15 91 (1.48%) Metadata
16 80 (1.30%) MySQL
17 73 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
18 64 (1.04%) DynamoDB
19 61 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 54 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 668 (10.87%) Git
2 253 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 226 (3.68%) GitLab
4 132 (2.15%) JIRA
5 79 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
6 62 (1.01%) MLflow
7 47 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 39 (0.63%) Selenium
9 34 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.50%) Postman
11 31 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
13 22 (0.36%) Subversion
14 21 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.33%) CircleCI
16 19 (0.31%) JMeter
16 19 (0.31%) JUnit
17 18 (0.29%) Jaeger
General
1 2,267 (36.88%) Social Skills
2 1,197 (19.47%) Finance
3 837 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (4.20%) Banking
5 257 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 212 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 183 (2.98%) Retail
8 162 (2.64%) Law
9 144 (2.34%) Multimedia
10 130 (2.11%) Front Office
10 130 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 104 (1.69%) Legal
12 101 (1.64%) Marketing
13 90 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.30%) Electronics
15 68 (1.11%) Aerospace
16 61 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
17 59 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 54 (0.88%) Investment Banking
19 50 (0.81%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,298 (21.12%) Analyst
2 1,120 (18.22%) Data Analyst
3 982 (15.98%) Senior
4 942 (15.32%) Junior
5 932 (15.16%) Developer
6 900 (14.64%) Junior Analyst
6 900 (14.64%) Junior Data Analyst
7 624 (10.15%) Software Engineer
8 550 (8.95%) Data Engineer
9 498 (8.10%) Lead
10 493 (8.02%) Python Engineer
11 427 (6.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 393 (6.39%) Python Developer
13 280 (4.56%) Trainee
14 222 (3.61%) Python Software Engineer
15 199 (3.24%) Software Developer
16 182 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
17 177 (2.88%) Architect
17 177 (2.88%) Full-Stack Developer
18 174 (2.83%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (6.08%) React
2 276 (4.49%) HTML
3 259 (4.21%) Kafka
4 256 (4.16%) CSS
5 225 (3.66%) PySpark
6 213 (3.47%) Node.js
7 211 (3.43%) REST
8 197 (3.20%) .NET
9 181 (2.94%) RESTful
10 172 (2.80%) Django
11 166 (2.70%) PyTorch
12 159 (2.59%) Pandas
13 154 (2.51%) FastAPI
14 145 (2.36%) TensorFlow
15 122 (1.98%) scikit-learn
16 121 (1.97%) Flask
17 118 (1.92%) LangChain
18 106 (1.72%) NumPy
19 98 (1.59%) JSON
20 86 (1.40%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 395 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 321 (5.22%) Algorithms
3 272 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 176 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 130 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 123 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 114 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 101 (1.64%) Data Centre
9 94 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 94 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
10 92 (1.50%) Low-Code
11 88 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
13 83 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 80 (1.30%) Hedge funds
14 80 (1.30%) Security Posture
15 78 (1.27%) Equities
16 73 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
17 70 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
18 64 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 627 (10.20%) Linux
2 268 (4.36%) Windows
3 100 (1.63%) Unix
4 79 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.62%) CentOS
7 34 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 14 (0.23%) Debian
9 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 12 (0.20%) VMS
11 10 (0.16%) Android
11 10 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
12 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
14 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.098%) Robot Operating System
16 5 (0.081%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,557 (41.60%) AI
2 1,386 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
3 1,316 (21.41%) CI/CD
4 1,213 (19.73%) Software Engineering
5 1,004 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 991 (16.12%) Agile
7 987 (16.06%) Analytics
8 959 (15.60%) DevOps
9 825 (13.42%) Machine Learning
10 747 (12.15%) Mentoring
11 737 (11.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 617 (10.04%) Data Modelling
13 597 (9.71%) Data Pipeline
14 588 (9.57%) Data Engineering
15 586 (9.53%) Data Science
16 548 (8.91%) ETL
17 541 (8.80%) Computer Science
18 516 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
19 505 (8.22%) Containerisation
20 492 (8.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,450 (39.86%) SQL
2 702 (11.42%) JavaScript
3 666 (10.83%) Java
4 482 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 455 (7.40%) Bash
6 417 (6.78%) C++
7 383 (6.23%) C#
8 368 (5.99%) TypeScript
9 277 (4.51%) Go
10 214 (3.48%) R
11 163 (2.65%) C
12 125 (2.03%) Scala
13 84 (1.37%) Rust
14 74 (1.20%) PHP
15 61 (0.99%) VBA
16 60 (0.98%) Bicep
17 52 (0.85%) MATLAB
18 46 (0.75%) Perl
19 42 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 36 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,425 (23.18%) Azure Certification
2 779 (12.67%) Degree
3 581 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 344 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 288 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 284 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 201 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 200 (3.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 188 (3.06%) DV Cleared
10 154 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.45%) PhD
12 81 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
13 67 (1.09%) CCNP
14 51 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 50 (0.81%) OSCP
16 40 (0.65%) CISSP
17 35 (0.57%) CREST Certified
18 31 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
19 29 (0.47%) CCIE
20 28 (0.46%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 419 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 233 (3.79%) QA
3 123 (2.00%) GDPR
4 95 (1.55%) NIST
5 81 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (0.89%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 35 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 26 (0.42%) PMO
10 22 (0.36%) GRC
10 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 19 (0.31%) SLA
13 11 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 608 (9.89%) Docker
2 109 (1.77%) Active Directory
3 95 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.94%) Firmware
5 36 (0.59%) Hyper-V
6 33 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.47%) 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 (0.11%) Squid
14 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.065%) iptables
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.049%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 785 (12.77%) Terraform
2 633 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 349 (5.68%) Ansible
4 206 (3.35%) Grafana
5 167 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 65 (1.06%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Nagios
8 31 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (0.50%) Puppet
9 26 (0.42%) Kibana
10 23 (0.37%) Istio
11 22 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 20 (0.33%) Packer
12 20 (0.33%) ZABBIX
13 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
14 17 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 16 (0.26%) FortiGate
16 14 (0.23%) logstash
16 14 (0.23%) Podman
16 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,788 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 337 (5.48%) Databricks
3 208 (3.38%) Google
4 129 (2.10%) Oracle
5 128 (2.08%) VMware
6 125 (2.03%) Cisco
7 110 (1.79%) Splunk
8 100 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 98 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 57 (0.93%) ServiceNow
11 56 (0.91%) Foundry
12 53 (0.86%) Palo Alto
12 53 (0.86%) SolarWinds
13 52 (0.85%) Salesforce
14 50 (0.81%) SAP
15 45 (0.73%) Fortinet
15 45 (0.73%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.68%) F5
17 37 (0.60%) Informatica
17 37 (0.60%) Palantir