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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,380 5,188 6,619
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.03% 11.94% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.81% 40.04% 29.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,854 2,915 4,843
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,441 12,958 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.11% 29.83% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 8,708 17,187
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -3 2,566 £85,000 -5.56% 1,729
North of England -11 1,296 £65,000 - 431
South East +4 947 £60,000 - 477
North West -15 611 £65,250 +8.75% 228
Midlands +12 601 £62,500 - 185
South West +9 598 £60,000 +9.09% 233
Yorkshire +12 443 £65,000 - 118
West Midlands +4 317 £62,500 -3.85% 106
East of England +7 312 £65,000 - 175
East Midlands +21 283 £55,000 - 79
North East +30 242 £60,000 -7.69% 91
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
1 238 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 231 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
3 176 (2.76%) Apache
4 73 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 60 (0.94%) Confluence
6 46 (0.72%) WordPress
7 40 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) SAS
9 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.19%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
14 6 (0.094%) Camunda
14 6 (0.094%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.078%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 865 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.05%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.094%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.078%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.031%) CATIA
11 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.031%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Zemax
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.094%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.094%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.078%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
5 4 (0.063%) Shopify
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.031%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.031%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.031%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.031%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,665 (41.77%) Azure
2 2,025 (31.74%) AWS
3 1,171 (18.35%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.27%) Azure AI
5 765 (11.99%) GCP
6 385 (6.03%) GitHub
7 370 (5.80%) Serverless
8 248 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 233 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 233 (3.65%) SaaS
10 225 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 224 (3.51%) Snowflake
12 199 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 195 (3.06%) dbt
14 167 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
15 163 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
16 158 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
17 130 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 123 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
19 117 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (3.59%) Firewall
2 149 (2.34%) Broadband
3 133 (2.08%) DNS
4 130 (2.04%) VPN
5 117 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 113 (1.77%) Network Security
7 93 (1.46%) WAN
8 78 (1.22%) Wireless
9 74 (1.16%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 54 (0.85%) BGP
12 52 (0.82%) VLAN
13 49 (0.77%) HTTP
14 46 (0.72%) SD-WAN
15 40 (0.63%) DHCP
15 40 (0.63%) MQTT
16 38 (0.60%) OSPF
17 35 (0.55%) SSL
18 30 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
19 26 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,101 (17.26%) Power BI
2 938 (14.70%) Tableau
3 324 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 289 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
5 191 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 180 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 161 (2.52%) NoSQL
8 144 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 139 (2.18%) MongoDB
11 118 (1.85%) Big Data
12 111 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
12 111 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 108 (1.69%) MySQL
14 96 (1.50%) Metadata
15 81 (1.27%) DynamoDB
16 74 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
17 64 (1.00%) Delta Lake
17 64 (1.00%) Looker
18 61 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 669 (10.49%) Git
2 284 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 251 (3.93%) GitLab
4 162 (2.54%) JIRA
5 80 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 61 (0.96%) MLflow
7 59 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 47 (0.74%) Selenium
9 38 (0.60%) Subversion
10 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 30 (0.47%) JUnit
13 27 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
16 24 (0.38%) Eclipse
16 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.34%) JMeter
18 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,238 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 1,305 (20.45%) Finance
3 837 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 301 (4.72%) Banking
5 282 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 225 (3.53%) Public Sector
7 196 (3.07%) Law
8 186 (2.92%) Retail
9 135 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 135 (2.12%) Marketing
10 130 (2.04%) Front Office
11 125 (1.96%) Legal
12 89 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 83 (1.30%) Electronics
14 80 (1.25%) Aerospace
15 76 (1.19%) Financial Institution
15 76 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 67 (1.05%) Games
17 66 (1.03%) Investment Banking
18 53 (0.83%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,215 (19.04%) Senior
2 1,064 (16.68%) Analyst
3 901 (14.12%) Developer
4 897 (14.06%) Data Analyst
5 813 (12.74%) Software Engineer
6 789 (12.37%) Junior
7 715 (11.21%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.16%) Junior Data Analyst
9 644 (10.09%) Python Engineer
10 621 (9.73%) Data Engineer
11 581 (9.11%) Lead
12 464 (7.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 377 (5.91%) Python Developer
14 304 (4.76%) Python Software Engineer
15 236 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
16 215 (3.37%) Architect
17 209 (3.28%) Data Scientist
18 195 (3.06%) Senior Developer
19 190 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
20 183 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 412 (6.46%) React
2 293 (4.59%) Kafka
3 251 (3.93%) Node.js
4 232 (3.64%) PySpark
5 228 (3.57%) REST
6 224 (3.51%) .NET
7 203 (3.18%) FastAPI
7 203 (3.18%) RESTful
8 195 (3.06%) Django
9 191 (2.99%) HTML
10 174 (2.73%) CSS
11 167 (2.62%) PyTorch
12 161 (2.52%) LangChain
13 159 (2.49%) Pandas
14 142 (2.23%) TensorFlow
15 137 (2.15%) Flask
16 133 (2.08%) scikit-learn
17 112 (1.76%) Spring
18 110 (1.72%) Spring Boot
19 109 (1.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 546 (8.56%) Cloud Native
2 338 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 327 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 193 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 185 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 169 (2.65%) Data Structures
7 135 (2.12%) Product Ownership
8 99 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 92 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
11 85 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 84 (1.32%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.30%) Management Information System
14 77 (1.21%) Equities
14 77 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
15 76 (1.19%) Hedge funds
16 73 (1.14%) Robotics
17 72 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
18 71 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
19 67 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 710 (11.13%) Linux
2 321 (5.03%) Windows
3 96 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 84 (1.32%) Unix
5 52 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 43 (0.67%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Debian
8 23 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
9 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 10 (0.16%) VMS
12 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.13%) Android
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 8 (0.13%) Rocky
14 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,769 (43.40%) AI
2 1,565 (24.53%) Software Engineering
3 1,539 (24.12%) CI/CD
4 1,231 (19.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1,134 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 1,122 (17.59%) Agile
7 1,069 (16.76%) DevOps
8 1,059 (16.60%) Analytics
9 958 (15.02%) Machine Learning
10 889 (13.93%) Infrastructure as Code
11 772 (12.10%) Mentoring
12 701 (10.99%) Data Engineering
13 697 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
14 667 (10.45%) Data Modelling
15 617 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 617 (9.67%) Data Science
16 591 (9.26%) Containerisation
17 575 (9.01%) Full-Stack Development
18 565 (8.86%) Computer Science
19 558 (8.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,404 (37.68%) SQL
2 786 (12.32%) Java
3 664 (10.41%) JavaScript
4 531 (8.32%) C++
5 500 (7.84%) PowerShell
6 480 (7.52%) Bash
7 455 (7.13%) C#
8 402 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 275 (4.31%) Go
10 180 (2.82%) C
11 170 (2.66%) R
12 124 (1.94%) Scala
13 99 (1.55%) PHP
14 97 (1.52%) Rust
15 88 (1.38%) Bicep
16 70 (1.10%) Perl
17 67 (1.05%) Ruby
18 62 (0.97%) MATLAB
19 59 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 51 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,166 (18.28%) Azure Certification
2 846 (13.26%) Degree
3 731 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 419 (6.57%) SC Cleared
5 311 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 245 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 200 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 188 (2.95%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 114 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 95 (1.49%) PhD
12 79 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.85%) CCNP
14 46 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 39 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 38 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.53%) CISSP
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 24 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (7.54%) Data Quality
2 263 (4.12%) QA
3 149 (2.34%) GDPR
4 92 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 74 (1.16%) NIST
6 62 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
10 21 (0.33%) SLA
11 20 (0.31%) GRC
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 16 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.14%) NCSC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 737 (11.55%) Docker
2 111 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 110 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.91%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.44%) KVM
7 28 (0.44%) vSphere
8 20 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
9 15 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 13 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.047%) Xen
Systems Management
1 906 (14.20%) Terraform
2 719 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 386 (6.05%) Ansible
4 243 (3.81%) Grafana
5 162 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.83%) Argo
7 46 (0.72%) Nagios
8 43 (0.67%) Puppet
9 36 (0.56%) Kibana
10 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.45%) Packer
12 28 (0.44%) Istio
13 23 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.28%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,509 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 423 (6.63%) Databricks
3 189 (2.96%) Google
4 149 (2.34%) Splunk
5 140 (2.19%) Oracle
6 139 (2.18%) VMware
7 121 (1.90%) Cisco
8 113 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 112 (1.76%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.08%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 58 (0.91%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.75%) Salesforce
14 46 (0.72%) SolarWinds
15 41 (0.64%) F5
16 40 (0.63%) SAP
17 38 (0.60%) Fortinet
18 36 (0.56%) Typelevel
19 34 (0.53%) Dynatrace
19 34 (0.53%) Palantir