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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,438 4,441 6,850
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.68% 12.15% 8.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.43% 35.60% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 3,281 3,225 5,428
10th Percentile £32,838 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -11.04% +11.11% -6.90%

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 12,816 12,473 26,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.09% 34.12% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 9,188 9,321 22,253
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,534
25th Percentile £46,731 £48,000 £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 £63,310 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.60% +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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2,267 £85,000 -5.56% 1,152
North of England -2 1,024 £47,500 -26.92% 475
South East -8 754 £60,000 -8.40% 576
Midlands +5 560 £55,200 +0.36% 255
South West +6 469 £57,500 -11.54% 280
Yorkshire +17 454 £47,500 -25.78% 164
North West -6 422 £55,000 -15.38% 230
West Midlands +20 346 £60,000 +9.09% 130
East of England -18 298 £50,000 -24.49% 219
East Midlands -4 215 £55,000 - 125
North East +19 148 £45,000 -30.77% 83
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
1 206 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
2 183 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 132 (2.43%) Apache
4 68 (1.25%) WordPress
5 62 (1.14%) Jupyter
6 36 (0.66%) Confluence
7 32 (0.59%) SAS
7 32 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 24 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
10 17 (0.31%) Appian
11 14 (0.26%) IIS
12 12 (0.22%) Tomcat
13 9 (0.17%) nginx
14 8 (0.15%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.092%) Anypoint
15 5 (0.092%) WebSphere
15 5 (0.092%) WebSphere Application Server
16 4 (0.074%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.074%) GeoServer
Applications
1 1,082 (19.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 53 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.11%) Simulink
8 4 (0.074%) CATIA
8 4 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.074%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.074%) SOLIDWORKS
8 4 (0.074%) Windchill
9 2 (0.037%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.037%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.037%) Weka
10 1 (0.018%) 3ds Max
10 1 (0.018%) Houdini
10 1 (0.018%) Notion
10 1 (0.018%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (0.18%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.11%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.092%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.092%) Shopify
3 5 (0.092%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.055%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.055%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.037%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.037%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.018%) Actimize
6 1 (0.018%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.018%) Endur
6 1 (0.018%) Findur
6 1 (0.018%) Line 50
6 1 (0.018%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.018%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.018%) Primavera
6 1 (0.018%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,504 (46.05%) Azure
2 1,807 (33.23%) AWS
3 1,253 (23.04%) Power Platform
4 936 (17.21%) Azure AI
5 609 (11.20%) GCP
6 605 (11.13%) GitHub
7 287 (5.28%) Serverless
8 206 (3.79%) SaaS
9 204 (3.75%) Amazon S3
10 186 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 182 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 174 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
13 167 (3.07%) dbt
14 163 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 161 (2.96%) Snowflake
16 127 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 122 (2.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 107 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
19 96 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
20 90 (1.66%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.00%) Internet
2 185 (3.40%) Firewall
3 140 (2.57%) Broadband
4 108 (1.99%) TCP/IP
5 104 (1.91%) VPN
6 96 (1.77%) DNS
7 75 (1.38%) Network Security
8 73 (1.34%) WAN
9 70 (1.29%) LAN
10 64 (1.18%) Wireless
11 63 (1.16%) BGP
12 58 (1.07%) VLAN
13 50 (0.92%) HTTP
14 43 (0.79%) OSPF
14 43 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
15 39 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
16 34 (0.63%) SD-WAN
17 33 (0.61%) MPLS
18 30 (0.55%) Wireshark
19 29 (0.53%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,213 (22.31%) Power BI
2 1,179 (21.68%) Tableau
3 267 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 195 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 170 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 169 (3.11%) Data Mining
8 145 (2.67%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.57%) Data Lake
10 118 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
11 114 (2.10%) BigQuery
12 109 (2.00%) MongoDB
13 97 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 90 (1.66%) Big Data
15 84 (1.54%) Metadata
16 80 (1.47%) MySQL
17 72 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (0.92%) Looker
19 49 (0.90%) Delta Lake
20 47 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 688 (12.65%) Git
2 223 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 187 (3.44%) GitLab
4 111 (2.04%) JIRA
5 65 (1.20%) MLflow
6 60 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
7 56 (1.03%) Selenium
8 45 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 38 (0.70%) Postman
10 36 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 25 (0.46%) IBM UrbanCode
12 23 (0.42%) JUnit
13 22 (0.40%) CircleCI
13 22 (0.40%) SonarQube
14 21 (0.39%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.39%) Jaeger
15 20 (0.37%) JMeter
16 19 (0.35%) LabVIEW
17 17 (0.31%) Metasploit
17 17 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 1,953 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 1,193 (21.94%) Finance
3 842 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (4.95%) Banking
5 260 (4.78%) Multimedia
6 227 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 210 (3.86%) Public Sector
8 178 (3.27%) Retail
9 171 (3.14%) Law
10 151 (2.78%) Manufacturing
11 135 (2.48%) Front Office
12 117 (2.15%) Marketing
13 107 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 88 (1.62%) Legal
15 75 (1.38%) Electronics
16 72 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 69 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 59 (1.08%) Investment Banking
19 43 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,279 (23.52%) Analyst
2 1,103 (20.28%) Data Analyst
3 882 (16.22%) Developer
4 840 (15.45%) Junior
5 805 (14.80%) Junior Analyst
5 805 (14.80%) Junior Data Analyst
6 784 (14.42%) Senior
7 488 (8.97%) Data Engineer
8 457 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 455 (8.37%) Trainee
10 426 (7.83%) Lead
11 354 (6.51%) Python Developer
12 347 (6.38%) Python Engineer
13 225 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 191 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 158 (2.91%) Architect
16 155 (2.85%) Senior Developer
17 154 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
18 151 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
19 150 (2.76%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 410 (7.54%) HTML
2 384 (7.06%) React
3 363 (6.68%) CSS
4 235 (4.32%) Kafka
5 211 (3.88%) Node.js
6 210 (3.86%) Django
7 204 (3.75%) REST
8 185 (3.40%) PySpark
9 171 (3.14%) RESTful
10 163 (3.00%) PyTorch
11 149 (2.74%) Pandas
12 145 (2.67%) .NET
13 144 (2.65%) FastAPI
14 138 (2.54%) TensorFlow
15 135 (2.48%) Flask
16 130 (2.39%) scikit-learn
17 104 (1.91%) JSON
18 95 (1.75%) NumPy
19 91 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
20 87 (1.60%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 291 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 256 (4.71%) Algorithms
3 220 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 174 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 120 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 110 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 103 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 90 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.60%) Fixed Income
10 86 (1.58%) Data Centre
11 85 (1.56%) Equities
11 85 (1.56%) Low-Code
12 81 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
13 80 (1.47%) Hedge funds
14 76 (1.40%) Public Cloud
15 74 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 74 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
16 72 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
17 68 (1.25%) Security Posture
18 65 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 552 (10.15%) Linux
2 221 (4.06%) Windows
3 174 (3.20%) Unix
4 67 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 56 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.74%) CentOS
7 28 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.22%) Debian
9 12 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.17%) Android
11 9 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.11%) Kali Linux
12 6 (0.11%) Solaris
12 6 (0.11%) VMS
13 5 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.074%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.055%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.055%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,044 (37.59%) AI
2 1,320 (24.27%) Business Intelligence
3 1,143 (21.02%) CI/CD
4 1,002 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
5 961 (17.67%) Analytics
6 914 (16.81%) Agile
7 910 (16.73%) Software Engineering
8 858 (15.78%) DevOps
9 742 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 693 (12.74%) Machine Learning
11 596 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 564 (10.37%) Data Modelling
13 559 (10.28%) Data Science
14 535 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
15 534 (9.82%) ETL
16 514 (9.45%) Data Engineering
17 503 (9.25%) Computer Science
18 497 (9.14%) Containerisation
19 496 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
20 430 (7.91%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,296 (42.22%) SQL
2 814 (14.97%) JavaScript
3 617 (11.35%) Java
4 407 (7.48%) Bash
5 401 (7.37%) PowerShell
6 338 (6.22%) TypeScript
7 293 (5.39%) C#
8 276 (5.08%) C++
9 275 (5.06%) Go
10 265 (4.87%) R
11 137 (2.52%) C
12 112 (2.06%) Scala
13 73 (1.34%) Rust
14 70 (1.29%) VBA
15 67 (1.23%) PHP
16 45 (0.83%) Bicep
17 42 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 42 (0.77%) Perl
18 37 (0.68%) T-SQL
19 31 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,232 (22.66%) Azure Certification
2 788 (14.49%) Degree
3 454 (8.35%) Security Cleared
4 412 (7.58%) AWS Certification
5 314 (5.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 305 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 265 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 255 (4.69%) SC Cleared
9 169 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 133 (2.45%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.66%) PhD
12 67 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 56 (1.03%) CCNP
14 50 (0.92%) CISSP
15 46 (0.85%) OSCP
16 39 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
17 36 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 35 (0.64%) DBS Check
19 31 (0.57%) CREST Certified
20 27 (0.50%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 380 (6.99%) Data Quality
2 211 (3.88%) QA
3 125 (2.30%) GDPR
4 114 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (1.99%) NIST
6 66 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.85%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 37 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 25 (0.46%) PMO
10 22 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.37%) GRC
12 20 (0.37%) SLA
13 17 (0.31%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.15%) WCAG
16 7 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.11%) DICOM
System Software
1 591 (10.87%) Docker
2 92 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 71 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (0.66%) Firmware
5 34 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.37%) KVM
8 16 (0.29%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.24%) vSphere
10 10 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.13%) Lustre
11 7 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.092%) iptables
12 5 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.092%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.092%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.055%) HDFS
14 3 (0.055%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 668 (12.28%) Terraform
2 607 (11.16%) Kubernetes
3 333 (6.12%) Ansible
4 182 (3.35%) Grafana
5 148 (2.72%) Prometheus
6 62 (1.14%) Argo
7 28 (0.51%) Nagios
8 23 (0.42%) Puppet
9 21 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.35%) Istio
10 19 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 18 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.22%) Kubeflow
12 12 (0.22%) logstash
12 12 (0.22%) Nessus
12 12 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.20%) Proxmox
13 11 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,755 (32.27%) Microsoft
2 305 (5.61%) Databricks
3 210 (3.86%) Google
4 136 (2.50%) Oracle
5 121 (2.23%) Cisco
6 119 (2.19%) VMware
7 100 (1.84%) Red Hat
8 75 (1.38%) SAP
9 74 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 70 (1.29%) Splunk
11 63 (1.16%) Salesforce
12 55 (1.01%) ServiceNow
13 49 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 49 (0.90%) Informatica
14 46 (0.85%) Foundry
15 45 (0.83%) Typelevel
16 44 (0.81%) Palo Alto
17 41 (0.75%) Talend
18 40 (0.74%) Dell
19 39 (0.72%) Palantir