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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,968 4,720 6,644
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.53% 12.20% 8.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.39% 35.18% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,116 3,274 5,331
10th Percentile £32,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £56,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £121,250 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -5.12%

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 12,004 13,418 25,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.18% 34.68% 34.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,735 9,446 21,809
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 March 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 16 March 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 2,170 £82,500 -7.75% 1,099
North of England -4 902 £45,000 -30.77% 483
South East -14 652 £60,000 -11.11% 642
Midlands -2 487 £55,000 - 244
South West +3 426 £57,500 -11.54% 263
Yorkshire +9 391 £40,000 -38.46% 185
North West -7 377 £50,000 -23.08% 216
West Midlands +10 311 £57,500 +4.55% 109
East of England -21 256 £50,000 -24.51% 219
East Midlands -11 178 £55,000 - 135
North East +17 134 £40,000 -38.46% 86
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
1 195 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
2 176 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 136 (2.74%) Apache
4 68 (1.37%) WordPress
5 63 (1.27%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.66%) SAS
6 33 (0.66%) SharePoint
7 29 (0.58%) Confluence
8 25 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.36%) Appian
11 15 (0.30%) IIS
11 15 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.18%) nginx
12 9 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.16%) WebSphere Application Server
14 5 (0.10%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.081%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.060%) GeoServer
Applications
1 961 (19.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 54 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.12%) Siemens NX
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 4 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.081%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.081%) Windchill
9 3 (0.060%) CATIA
10 2 (0.040%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.040%) Weka
11 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.020%) Houdini
11 1 (0.020%) Notion
11 1 (0.020%) NUKE
11 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (0.22%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.14%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.10%) Shopify
5 4 (0.081%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.060%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.040%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.040%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.020%) Actimize
8 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
8 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.020%) Primavera
8 1 (0.020%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,182 (43.92%) Azure
2 1,716 (34.54%) AWS
3 1,089 (21.92%) Power Platform
4 698 (14.05%) Azure AI
5 608 (12.24%) GitHub
6 535 (10.77%) GCP
7 276 (5.56%) Serverless
8 203 (4.09%) Amazon S3
9 198 (3.99%) SaaS
10 180 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 178 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
12 172 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 155 (3.12%) Snowflake
14 151 (3.04%) dbt
15 148 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 124 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
17 105 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
18 98 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 86 (1.73%) OpenShift
20 85 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 285 (5.74%) Internet
2 181 (3.64%) Firewall
3 127 (2.56%) Broadband
4 110 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 104 (2.09%) VPN
6 92 (1.85%) DNS
7 68 (1.37%) WAN
8 64 (1.29%) Network Security
9 63 (1.27%) LAN
10 59 (1.19%) BGP
11 57 (1.15%) Wireless
12 55 (1.11%) VLAN
13 50 (1.01%) HTTP
14 49 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (0.85%) OSPF
16 34 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.68%) MPLS
17 33 (0.66%) SD-WAN
18 32 (0.64%) Wireshark
19 27 (0.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,053 (21.20%) Power BI
2 1,029 (20.71%) Tableau
3 248 (4.99%) Data Warehouse
4 221 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
5 198 (3.99%) SQL Server
6 177 (3.56%) Data Mining
7 165 (3.32%) NoSQL
8 142 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 122 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 107 (2.15%) MongoDB
11 98 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
12 97 (1.95%) BigQuery
13 92 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 91 (1.83%) Big Data
15 86 (1.73%) Metadata
16 81 (1.63%) MySQL
17 69 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
18 46 (0.93%) Delta Lake
18 46 (0.93%) Hadoop
19 43 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 676 (13.61%) Git
2 220 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 178 (3.58%) GitLab
4 100 (2.01%) JIRA
5 56 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 53 (1.07%) Selenium
7 51 (1.03%) MLflow
8 40 (0.81%) Postman
9 38 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 32 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 26 (0.52%) JUnit
12 25 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
13 22 (0.44%) Jaeger
14 21 (0.42%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.40%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.40%) JMeter
15 20 (0.40%) LabVIEW
16 18 (0.36%) TeamCity
17 17 (0.34%) Metasploit
18 15 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 1,690 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 1,143 (23.01%) Finance
3 812 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (5.52%) Multimedia
5 268 (5.39%) Banking
6 208 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 200 (4.03%) Public Sector
8 167 (3.36%) Law
9 162 (3.26%) Retail
10 145 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 136 (2.74%) Front Office
12 121 (2.44%) Marketing
13 107 (2.15%) Telecoms
14 86 (1.73%) Legal
15 73 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 70 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 69 (1.39%) Electronics
18 47 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
19 45 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 1,163 (23.41%) Analyst
2 980 (19.73%) Data Analyst
3 830 (16.71%) Developer
4 720 (14.49%) Senior
5 696 (14.01%) Junior
6 663 (13.35%) Junior Analyst
6 663 (13.35%) Junior Data Analyst
7 478 (9.62%) Trainee
8 457 (9.20%) Data Engineer
9 417 (8.39%) Software Engineer
10 385 (7.75%) Lead
11 325 (6.54%) Python Developer
12 301 (6.06%) Python Engineer
13 207 (4.17%) Software Developer
14 153 (3.08%) Architect
14 153 (3.08%) Trainee Analyst
14 153 (3.08%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 150 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 140 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
17 135 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (8.41%) HTML
2 372 (7.49%) React
3 365 (7.35%) CSS
4 207 (4.17%) Kafka
5 205 (4.13%) Node.js
6 188 (3.78%) REST
7 186 (3.74%) Django
8 165 (3.32%) PySpark
9 153 (3.08%) RESTful
10 139 (2.80%) Pandas
11 137 (2.76%) .NET
12 136 (2.74%) PyTorch
13 135 (2.72%) FastAPI
14 119 (2.40%) TensorFlow
15 116 (2.33%) Flask
16 108 (2.17%) scikit-learn
17 101 (2.03%) JSON
18 91 (1.83%) NumPy
19 87 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
20 85 (1.71%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 257 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 240 (4.83%) Algorithms
3 197 (3.97%) Distributed Systems
4 170 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 94 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 92 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 89 (1.79%) Equities
10 87 (1.75%) Fixed Income
11 83 (1.67%) Low-Code
12 78 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 76 (1.53%) Hedge funds
14 72 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
15 69 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
15 69 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.29%) AI Agents
17 63 (1.27%) Security Posture
18 61 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
18 61 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 526 (10.59%) Linux
2 214 (4.31%) Windows
3 181 (3.64%) Unix
4 63 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.79%) CentOS
7 29 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 13 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.22%) Debian
10 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (0.18%) Android
12 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.12%) VMS
14 5 (0.10%) Kali Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Solaris
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.081%) Windows 10
16 3 (0.060%) CoreOS
16 3 (0.060%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,731 (34.84%) AI
2 1,162 (23.39%) Business Intelligence
3 1,092 (21.98%) CI/CD
4 958 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
5 922 (18.56%) Analytics
6 864 (17.39%) Agile
7 840 (16.91%) Software Engineering
8 814 (16.38%) DevOps
9 721 (14.51%) Mentoring
10 643 (12.94%) Machine Learning
11 553 (11.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 525 (10.57%) Data Modelling
13 521 (10.49%) Data Science
14 519 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
15 517 (10.41%) ETL
16 480 (9.66%) Data Engineering
17 474 (9.54%) Containerisation
17 474 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
18 463 (9.32%) Computer Science
19 439 (8.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,095 (42.17%) SQL
2 810 (16.30%) JavaScript
3 603 (12.14%) Java
4 395 (7.95%) Bash
5 382 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 330 (6.64%) TypeScript
7 272 (5.48%) C#
8 269 (5.41%) R
9 249 (5.01%) Go
10 241 (4.85%) C++
11 119 (2.40%) C
12 97 (1.95%) Scala
13 72 (1.45%) Rust
14 71 (1.43%) VBA
15 60 (1.21%) PHP
16 44 (0.89%) Bicep
17 39 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 38 (0.76%) T-SQL
19 33 (0.66%) Perl
20 30 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,007 (20.27%) Azure Certification
2 762 (15.34%) Degree
3 440 (8.86%) Security Cleared
4 428 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 327 (6.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 322 (6.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 246 (4.95%) SC Cleared
8 237 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 173 (3.48%) DV Cleared
10 131 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 89 (1.79%) PhD
12 64 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
13 55 (1.11%) CCNP
14 50 (1.01%) CISSP
15 46 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.85%) OSCP
17 41 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.58%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.54%) ACCA
19 27 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 373 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 190 (3.82%) QA
3 112 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 109 (2.19%) GDPR
5 107 (2.15%) NIST
6 69 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 31 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 23 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 23 (0.46%) SLA
10 20 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 20 (0.40%) PMO
11 18 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.34%) ISO 22301
13 16 (0.32%) GRC
14 13 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 7 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.14%) WCAG
16 5 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 576 (11.59%) Docker
2 92 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.64%) Firmware
5 25 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 25 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.36%) KVM
7 14 (0.28%) ProxySG
7 14 (0.28%) vSphere
8 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.14%) Lustre
9 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.10%) iptables
12 4 (0.081%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.060%) HDFS
13 3 (0.060%) Kamailio
13 3 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 613 (12.34%) Terraform
2 583 (11.74%) Kubernetes
3 322 (6.48%) Ansible
4 170 (3.42%) Grafana
5 146 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 63 (1.27%) Argo
7 25 (0.50%) Nagios
8 24 (0.48%) Puppet
9 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.40%) Kibana
10 20 (0.40%) Kustomize
11 13 (0.26%) Control-M
12 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.24%) logstash
12 12 (0.24%) Nessus
13 11 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.20%) Istio
14 10 (0.20%) Rancher
14 10 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,616 (32.53%) Microsoft
2 264 (5.31%) Databricks
3 205 (4.13%) Google
4 144 (2.90%) Oracle
5 114 (2.29%) VMware
6 112 (2.25%) Cisco
7 98 (1.97%) Red Hat
8 72 (1.45%) SAP
9 68 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 66 (1.33%) Salesforce
10 66 (1.33%) Splunk
11 55 (1.11%) ServiceNow
12 50 (1.01%) Informatica
13 44 (0.89%) Foundry
14 43 (0.87%) Palantir
15 42 (0.85%) Fortinet
16 41 (0.83%) Bloomberg
17 39 (0.79%) Alteryx
17 39 (0.79%) Talend
18 37 (0.74%) MuleSoft