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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,006 5,482 5,235
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.58% 11.39% 10.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.98% 33.62% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,759 3,302 4,124
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 10,278 16,307 18,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.45% 33.88% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,772 9,582 15,892
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,500 £38,130
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 £83,250 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,125 £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 14 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 14 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 -2 1,978 £83,500 -1.76% 1,031
North of England -8 652 £52,500 -16.00% 534
South East -35 426 £60,000 -7.69% 1,053
Midlands -14 374 £60,000 +9.09% 288
South West -4 319 £60,000 -7.69% 364
Yorkshire +12 301 £52,750 -18.85% 208
North West -14 268 £55,000 -8.69% 240
West Midlands +5 261 £60,000 +4.35% 113
East of England -13 206 £50,000 -28.57% 414
East Midlands -27 116 £61,250 +11.36% 170
North East +4 85 £40,000 -42.29% 89
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
1 170 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (3.49%) Apache Spark
3 127 (3.17%) Apache
4 43 (1.07%) Confluence
5 34 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 27 (0.67%) SAS
7 26 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.52%) WebSphere
10 19 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 18 (0.45%) IIS
12 17 (0.42%) Appian
13 16 (0.40%) nginx
13 16 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
14 12 (0.30%) Jupyter
15 8 (0.20%) OpenStack
16 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.17%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
18 4 (0.100%) JBoss
Applications
1 509 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.20%) Simulink
7 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.100%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.100%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.100%) Windchill
9 3 (0.075%) CATIA
9 3 (0.075%) SOLIDWORKS
9 3 (0.075%) Stata
10 2 (0.050%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.050%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.050%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.050%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.075%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.050%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.050%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.050%) 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%) FIS Private Capital Suite
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 1,564 (39.04%) Azure
2 1,399 (34.92%) AWS
3 687 (17.15%) Power Platform
4 524 (13.08%) GitHub
5 421 (10.51%) GCP
6 277 (6.91%) Azure AI
7 261 (6.52%) Serverless
8 179 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
9 178 (4.44%) Snowflake
10 167 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 157 (3.92%) SaaS
12 156 (3.89%) Amazon S3
13 145 (3.62%) dbt
14 140 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
15 137 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 96 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
17 90 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
18 89 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 82 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
20 74 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 258 (6.44%) Internet
2 148 (3.69%) Firewall
3 85 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 75 (1.87%) VPN
5 72 (1.80%) WAN
6 65 (1.62%) DNS
7 62 (1.55%) LAN
8 52 (1.30%) BGP
9 48 (1.20%) Wireless
10 42 (1.05%) Network Security
11 39 (0.97%) OSPF
11 39 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
12 37 (0.92%) Broadband
12 37 (0.92%) HTTP
12 37 (0.92%) VLAN
13 31 (0.77%) MPLS
14 30 (0.75%) SD-WAN
15 29 (0.72%) SSL
16 27 (0.67%) SAN
17 21 (0.52%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 647 (16.15%) Power BI
2 545 (13.60%) Tableau
3 271 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
4 231 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
5 218 (5.44%) SQL Server
6 167 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 162 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 140 (3.49%) Data Mining
9 129 (3.22%) Data Lake
10 117 (2.92%) MongoDB
11 103 (2.57%) Big Data
12 93 (2.32%) BigQuery
13 88 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 87 (2.17%) MySQL
15 82 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
16 81 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
17 72 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
18 71 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
19 68 (1.70%) Hadoop
20 64 (1.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 562 (14.03%) Git
2 221 (5.52%) Jenkins
3 137 (3.42%) GitLab
4 123 (3.07%) JIRA
5 59 (1.47%) Selenium
6 43 (1.07%) MLflow
7 38 (0.95%) JUnit
8 35 (0.87%) Postman
9 24 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 24 (0.60%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.60%) JMeter
10 19 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 17 (0.42%) Jaeger
11 17 (0.42%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.37%) Mockito
13 13 (0.32%) CircleCI
14 12 (0.30%) Maven
14 12 (0.30%) REST Assured
15 11 (0.27%) Artifactory
15 11 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 1,167 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 1,003 (25.04%) Finance
3 619 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 247 (6.17%) Banking
5 241 (6.02%) Multimedia
6 170 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 167 (4.17%) Law
8 156 (3.89%) Marketing
9 155 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 148 (3.69%) Front Office
11 118 (2.95%) Retail
12 109 (2.72%) Telecoms
13 102 (2.55%) Manufacturing
14 87 (2.17%) Financial Institution
15 79 (1.97%) Electronics
16 72 (1.80%) Investment Banking
16 72 (1.80%) Legal
17 60 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.40%) Games
19 51 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 763 (19.05%) Developer
2 680 (16.97%) Analyst
3 667 (16.65%) Senior
4 497 (12.41%) Data Analyst
5 420 (10.48%) Data Engineer
6 360 (8.99%) Trainee
7 319 (7.96%) Software Engineer
8 306 (7.64%) Python Developer
9 296 (7.39%) Lead
10 262 (6.54%) Junior
11 246 (6.14%) Python Engineer
12 235 (5.87%) Junior Analyst
12 235 (5.87%) Junior Data Analyst
13 191 (4.77%) Software Developer
14 145 (3.62%) Architect
14 145 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
15 144 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 141 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
17 134 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
18 129 (3.22%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (9.39%) HTML
2 331 (8.26%) CSS
3 321 (8.01%) React
4 169 (4.22%) Node.js
5 167 (4.17%) REST
6 157 (3.92%) Django
7 145 (3.62%) RESTful
8 142 (3.54%) Kafka
9 136 (3.39%) Pandas
10 134 (3.34%) FastAPI
11 125 (3.12%) PySpark
12 115 (2.87%) PyTorch
13 111 (2.77%) .NET
14 105 (2.62%) Flask
15 102 (2.55%) AngularJS
16 98 (2.45%) TensorFlow
17 95 (2.37%) NumPy
18 87 (2.17%) Vue
19 83 (2.07%) JSON
20 77 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 201 (5.02%) Algorithms
3 151 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 139 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 127 (3.17%) Equities
6 112 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 110 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 92 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 89 (2.22%) Fixed Income
10 88 (2.20%) Hedge funds
11 81 (2.02%) Derivative
12 79 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 74 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
14 69 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 66 (1.65%) Low-Code
16 61 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
17 56 (1.40%) AI Agents
18 55 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
19 53 (1.32%) Data Centre
20 50 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 491 (12.26%) Linux
2 212 (5.29%) Windows
3 184 (4.59%) Unix
4 72 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 30 (0.75%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.62%) CentOS
8 21 (0.52%) Debian
8 21 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.42%) VMS
10 16 (0.40%) Solaris
11 12 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
13 7 (0.17%) Android
14 6 (0.15%) zOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.100%) Apple iOS
17 3 (0.075%) FreeRTOS
17 3 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,111 (27.73%) AI
2 926 (23.12%) CI/CD
3 878 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
4 819 (20.44%) Analytics
5 783 (19.55%) Agile
6 755 (18.85%) Business Intelligence
7 753 (18.80%) DevOps
8 641 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 636 (15.88%) Software Engineering
10 530 (13.23%) Machine Learning
11 480 (11.98%) Data Science
12 475 (11.86%) ETL
13 457 (11.41%) Data Modelling
14 449 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
15 440 (10.98%) Data Engineering
16 434 (10.83%) Computer Science
17 413 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
18 407 (10.16%) Data Analysis
19 369 (9.21%) Containerisation
20 367 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,614 (40.29%) SQL
2 709 (17.70%) JavaScript
3 577 (14.40%) Java
4 359 (8.96%) Bash
5 330 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 328 (8.19%) PowerShell
7 267 (6.67%) C#
8 245 (6.12%) R
9 202 (5.04%) C++
10 144 (3.59%) Go
11 109 (2.72%) C
12 79 (1.97%) Scala
13 60 (1.50%) PHP
14 52 (1.30%) VBA
15 50 (1.25%) Perl
16 49 (1.22%) Bicep
17 45 (1.12%) MATLAB
18 39 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 38 (0.95%) T-SQL
20 37 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 783 (19.55%) Degree
2 541 (13.50%) Azure Certification
3 406 (10.13%) Security Cleared
4 354 (8.84%) AWS Certification
5 290 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 250 (6.24%) SC Cleared
7 239 (5.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 205 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 190 (4.74%) Master's Degree
10 156 (3.89%) DV Cleared
11 118 (2.95%) PhD
12 77 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.50%) CCNP
14 50 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
15 49 (1.22%) CISSP
16 41 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 38 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
19 25 (0.62%) CCIE
19 25 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 158 (3.94%) QA
3 99 (2.47%) GDPR
4 96 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (1.90%) NIST
6 62 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.85%) SLA
8 22 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 16 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.40%) PMO
10 15 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 12 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.12%) NCSC
16 4 (0.100%) GRC
16 4 (0.100%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 497 (12.41%) Docker
2 77 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 60 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.67%) Firmware
5 20 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.42%) vSphere
7 12 (0.30%) ProxySG
8 10 (0.25%) HDFS
9 8 (0.20%) KVM
9 8 (0.20%) NFS
9 8 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
11 6 (0.15%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.12%) Postfix
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
13 4 (0.100%) DFS Replication
13 4 (0.100%) Dovecot
13 4 (0.100%) Squid
Systems Management
1 514 (12.83%) Kubernetes
2 476 (11.88%) Terraform
3 293 (7.31%) Ansible
4 116 (2.90%) Grafana
5 114 (2.85%) Prometheus
6 47 (1.17%) Argo
7 25 (0.62%) Kibana
8 19 (0.47%) Puppet
9 16 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.37%) Nessus
11 14 (0.35%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 14 (0.35%) Nagios
12 13 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (0.30%) Control-M
13 12 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.22%) Rancher
16 8 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 1,028 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 265 (6.62%) Databricks
3 185 (4.62%) Google
4 132 (3.30%) Oracle
5 105 (2.62%) Cisco
6 100 (2.50%) VMware
7 84 (2.10%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 67 (1.67%) SAP
10 62 (1.55%) Splunk
11 58 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 56 (1.40%) ServiceNow
13 45 (1.12%) Fortinet
14 44 (1.10%) Alteryx
14 44 (1.10%) IBM
15 41 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 41 (1.02%) Informatica
16 40 (1.00%) Talend
17 29 (0.72%) Palantir
18 28 (0.70%) Palo Alto