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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,223 5,345 6,471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.47% 11.54% 9.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.49% 33.90% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,800 3,206 5,152
10th Percentile £30,165 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,750 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.86%

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 10,693 15,766 24,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.92% 34.03% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,975 9,166 20,699
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,250 £102,500
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 3 February 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 3 February 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 2,007 £80,939 -7.50% 1,281
North of England -12 704 £48,445 -25.47% 439
South East -24 495 £60,000 -11.11% 693
Midlands -11 387 £55,000 - 220
South West -3 347 £60,000 -7.69% 284
Yorkshire +9 316 £47,500 -26.92% 159
North West -15 292 £55,000 -12.00% 227
West Midlands +3 254 £55,000 - 106
East of England -20 220 £52,500 -20.76% 237
East Midlands -19 136 £55,000 - 114
North East +5 96 £40,000 -42.29% 56
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
1 154 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 147 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.82%) Apache
4 37 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 36 (0.85%) Confluence
6 31 (0.73%) SAS
7 27 (0.64%) WordPress
8 23 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 21 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 19 (0.45%) Appian
12 18 (0.43%) IIS
12 18 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
13 17 (0.40%) WebSphere
14 14 (0.33%) WebSphere Application Server
15 10 (0.24%) nginx
16 9 (0.21%) OpenStack
17 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
17 7 (0.17%) CMS
18 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 612 (14.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.24%) Simulink
7 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.095%) Windchill
9 3 (0.071%) CATIA
9 3 (0.071%) SOLIDWORKS
10 2 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.047%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.047%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.047%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.047%) Stata
10 2 (0.047%) Weka
11 1 (0.024%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.14%) Shopify
5 4 (0.095%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.047%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.047%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.024%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.024%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.024%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.024%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.024%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,699 (40.23%) Azure
2 1,461 (34.60%) AWS
3 779 (18.45%) Power Platform
4 537 (12.72%) GitHub
5 434 (10.28%) GCP
6 373 (8.83%) Azure AI
7 268 (6.35%) Serverless
8 183 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
9 175 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (3.88%) Amazon S3
11 161 (3.81%) SaaS
12 156 (3.69%) Snowflake
13 148 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
14 139 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
15 121 (2.87%) dbt
16 112 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
17 105 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
18 83 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
19 80 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 74 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.09%) Internet
2 157 (3.72%) Firewall
3 96 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 87 (2.06%) VPN
5 73 (1.73%) DNS
6 70 (1.66%) WAN
7 59 (1.40%) Broadband
7 59 (1.40%) LAN
8 55 (1.30%) BGP
9 53 (1.26%) Wireless
10 52 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (1.09%) Network Security
12 43 (1.02%) VLAN
13 38 (0.90%) HTTP
13 38 (0.90%) OSPF
14 34 (0.81%) MPLS
15 32 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 31 (0.73%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.62%) VXLAN
18 25 (0.59%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 736 (17.43%) Power BI
2 637 (15.08%) Tableau
3 240 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
4 220 (5.21%) SQL Server
5 209 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
6 180 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 156 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 148 (3.50%) Data Mining
9 117 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 112 (2.65%) Big Data
11 111 (2.63%) MongoDB
12 88 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 86 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
14 85 (2.01%) MySQL
15 83 (1.97%) BigQuery
16 76 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (1.73%) Metadata
18 71 (1.68%) Hadoop
19 52 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
20 51 (1.21%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 575 (13.62%) Git
2 219 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 146 (3.46%) GitLab
4 110 (2.60%) JIRA
5 58 (1.37%) Selenium
6 45 (1.07%) MLflow
7 39 (0.92%) Postman
8 34 (0.81%) JUnit
9 28 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 27 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.54%) Jaeger
12 21 (0.50%) JMeter
13 19 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 18 (0.43%) LabVIEW
15 16 (0.38%) Burp Suite
15 16 (0.38%) Metasploit
16 15 (0.36%) CircleCI
16 15 (0.36%) Subversion
17 13 (0.31%) Maven
17 13 (0.31%) SonarQube
General
1 1,307 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 1,027 (24.32%) Finance
3 676 (16.01%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.71%) Multimedia
5 237 (5.61%) Banking
6 180 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 177 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (3.98%) Law
9 135 (3.20%) Marketing
10 129 (3.05%) Front Office
11 112 (2.65%) Telecoms
12 110 (2.60%) Retail
13 106 (2.51%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.08%) Financial Institution
15 78 (1.85%) Electronics
16 74 (1.75%) Legal
17 59 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
18 55 (1.30%) Games
19 52 (1.23%) Investment Banking
20 48 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 782 (18.52%) Analyst
2 772 (18.28%) Developer
3 651 (15.42%) Senior
4 605 (14.33%) Data Analyst
5 417 (9.87%) Data Engineer
6 374 (8.86%) Trainee
7 349 (8.26%) Junior
8 329 (7.79%) Junior Analyst
8 329 (7.79%) Junior Data Analyst
8 329 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 315 (7.46%) Lead
10 303 (7.17%) Python Developer
11 238 (5.64%) Python Engineer
12 192 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 149 (3.53%) Architect
14 143 (3.39%) Senior Developer
15 133 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
16 127 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
17 119 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
18 118 (2.79%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (9.21%) HTML
2 343 (8.12%) CSS
3 337 (7.98%) React
4 181 (4.29%) REST
5 174 (4.12%) Node.js
6 166 (3.93%) Django
7 151 (3.58%) Kafka
8 145 (3.43%) RESTful
9 132 (3.13%) FastAPI
9 132 (3.13%) PySpark
10 130 (3.08%) PyTorch
11 128 (3.03%) .NET
12 109 (2.58%) Flask
12 109 (2.58%) Pandas
13 107 (2.53%) TensorFlow
14 96 (2.27%) AngularJS
15 85 (2.01%) JSON
16 80 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
17 79 (1.87%) Vue
18 78 (1.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 234 (5.54%) Cloud Native
2 208 (4.93%) Algorithms
3 164 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 156 (3.69%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 103 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 99 (2.34%) Equities
8 98 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 85 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 77 (1.82%) Hedge funds
11 76 (1.80%) Low-Code
12 70 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 70 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
13 69 (1.63%) Data Centre
14 66 (1.56%) Derivative
15 63 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
16 61 (1.44%) AI Agents
16 61 (1.44%) Fixed Income
17 58 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
18 55 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 499 (11.82%) Linux
2 202 (4.78%) Windows
3 180 (4.26%) Unix
4 66 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.76%) CentOS
7 30 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.43%) Debian
10 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.31%) VMS
11 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.26%) Android
12 11 (0.26%) Solaris
13 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
14 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
14 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.095%) zOS
16 3 (0.071%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,267 (30.00%) AI
2 982 (23.25%) CI/CD
3 937 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
4 846 (20.03%) Business Intelligence
5 819 (19.39%) Analytics
6 771 (18.26%) Agile
7 769 (18.21%) DevOps
8 689 (16.32%) Software Engineering
9 668 (15.82%) Mentoring
10 561 (13.28%) Machine Learning
11 486 (11.51%) Data Science
12 482 (11.41%) ETL
13 469 (11.11%) Data Modelling
13 469 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 464 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
15 454 (10.75%) Data Engineering
16 451 (10.68%) Computer Science
17 414 (9.80%) Data Analysis
18 397 (9.40%) Containerisation
19 388 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,695 (40.14%) SQL
2 734 (17.38%) JavaScript
3 586 (13.88%) Java
4 396 (9.38%) Bash
5 350 (8.29%) PowerShell
6 317 (7.51%) TypeScript
7 279 (6.61%) C#
8 232 (5.49%) R
9 217 (5.14%) C++
10 174 (4.12%) Go
11 127 (3.01%) C
12 82 (1.94%) Scala
13 63 (1.49%) PHP
14 62 (1.47%) VBA
15 49 (1.16%) Bicep
16 48 (1.14%) Rust
17 47 (1.11%) MATLAB
18 42 (0.99%) Perl
19 41 (0.97%) T-SQL
20 36 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 805 (19.06%) Degree
2 634 (15.01%) Azure Certification
3 447 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 366 (8.67%) AWS Certification
5 288 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 264 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 246 (5.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 214 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 185 (4.38%) Master's Degree
10 159 (3.77%) DV Cleared
11 119 (2.82%) PhD
12 73 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
13 60 (1.42%) CCNP
14 49 (1.16%) CISSP
15 48 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
16 42 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (0.69%) OSCP
19 27 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.62%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 164 (3.88%) QA
3 108 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 102 (2.42%) GDPR
5 90 (2.13%) NIST
6 65 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 34 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 29 (0.69%) SLA
9 18 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.33%) PMO
12 13 (0.31%) ISO 22301
13 12 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.14%) GRC
15 6 (0.14%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.095%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.095%) WCAG
System Software
1 519 (12.29%) Docker
2 85 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 53 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.71%) Firmware
5 20 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.45%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.31%) vSphere
8 11 (0.26%) KVM
9 10 (0.24%) HDFS
9 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.17%) Lustre
12 5 (0.12%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.071%) iptables
14 3 (0.071%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.071%) QEMU
14 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 545 (12.91%) Kubernetes
2 539 (12.76%) Terraform
3 315 (7.46%) Ansible
4 126 (2.98%) Grafana
5 125 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 61 (1.44%) Argo
7 23 (0.54%) Kibana
8 22 (0.52%) Puppet
9 20 (0.47%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.33%) FortiGate
12 13 (0.31%) Nagios
12 13 (0.31%) Nessus
12 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.28%) Rancher
14 11 (0.26%) Control-M
14 11 (0.26%) logstash
14 11 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,150 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 255 (6.04%) Databricks
3 191 (4.52%) Google
4 128 (3.03%) Oracle
5 101 (2.39%) Cisco
6 95 (2.25%) VMware
7 78 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 73 (1.73%) OpenAI
9 70 (1.66%) SAP
10 60 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.37%) Splunk
12 52 (1.23%) ServiceNow
13 48 (1.14%) Informatica
14 44 (1.04%) Fortinet
15 43 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 43 (1.02%) IBM
16 40 (0.95%) Talend
17 39 (0.92%) Alteryx
18 33 (0.78%) Palantir
19 32 (0.76%) Atlassian