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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,338 5,252 6,762
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.07% 12.09% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.86% 40.19% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3,823 2,971 4,963
10th Percentile £39,280 £42,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,870 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -0.17% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,250
% change year-on-year -3.45% +0.35% -0.34%

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 16,311 13,067 23,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.20% 30.08% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11,881 8,816 17,886
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £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 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 26 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 26 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 -2 2,556 £85,000 -5.56% 1,534
North of England -11 1,279 £65,000 - 394
South East +4 936 £60,000 - 471
Midlands +14 607 £60,000 -4.00% 181
North West -16 596 £65,000 +8.33% 208
South West +9 592 £60,000 +4.86% 208
Yorkshire +13 446 £65,000 - 107
West Midlands 0 318 £62,500 -3.47% 104
East of England +5 304 £65,000 -1.81% 171
East Midlands +21 288 £55,000 -2.22% 77
North East +27 237 £59,000 -9.23% 84
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
1 239 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 228 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 174 (2.75%) Apache
4 76 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 55 (0.87%) Confluence
6 46 (0.73%) WordPress
7 39 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 28 (0.44%) SAS
9 23 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
10 21 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
11 10 (0.16%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) Camunda
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
14 6 (0.095%) JBoss
14 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.079%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 871 (13.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.24%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (0.17%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.079%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.079%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Shopify
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.016%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,644 (41.72%) Azure
2 2,012 (31.75%) AWS
3 1,160 (18.30%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.38%) Azure AI
5 760 (11.99%) GCP
6 378 (5.96%) GitHub
7 368 (5.81%) Serverless
8 243 (3.83%) Amazon S3
9 231 (3.64%) SaaS
10 230 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 219 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
12 216 (3.41%) Snowflake
13 193 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 187 (2.95%) dbt
15 167 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
16 160 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
17 154 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
18 130 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
20 115 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 230 (3.63%) Firewall
2 163 (2.57%) Broadband
3 134 (2.11%) DNS
3 134 (2.11%) VPN
4 117 (1.85%) Network Security
5 112 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 95 (1.50%) WAN
7 83 (1.31%) Wireless
8 74 (1.17%) LAN
9 70 (1.10%) Internet
10 58 (0.92%) BGP
11 54 (0.85%) VLAN
12 52 (0.82%) HTTP
13 49 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 41 (0.65%) OSPF
15 39 (0.62%) DHCP
15 39 (0.62%) MQTT
16 36 (0.57%) SSL
17 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
17 29 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,098 (17.32%) Power BI
2 947 (14.94%) Tableau
3 318 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
4 284 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 189 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 175 (2.76%) SQL Server
7 162 (2.56%) NoSQL
8 142 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 137 (2.16%) BigQuery
9 137 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 119 (1.88%) Big Data
11 113 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
12 110 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 108 (1.70%) MySQL
14 98 (1.55%) Metadata
15 79 (1.25%) DynamoDB
16 73 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
17 62 (0.98%) Delta Lake
17 62 (0.98%) Looker
18 61 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 656 (10.35%) Git
2 282 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 252 (3.98%) GitLab
4 156 (2.46%) JIRA
5 83 (1.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 60 (0.95%) MLflow
7 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 58 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 47 (0.74%) Selenium
10 37 (0.58%) Subversion
11 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.50%) SonarQube
13 28 (0.44%) JUnit
14 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
16 24 (0.38%) TeamCity
17 23 (0.36%) Eclipse
18 22 (0.35%) JMeter
18 22 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 2,203 (34.76%) Social Skills
2 1,304 (20.57%) Finance
3 833 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 293 (4.62%) Banking
5 271 (4.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 226 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 188 (2.97%) Retail
8 184 (2.90%) Law
9 136 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 132 (2.08%) Front Office
11 123 (1.94%) Marketing
12 122 (1.92%) Legal
13 86 (1.36%) Telecoms
14 80 (1.26%) Electronics
15 78 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 75 (1.18%) Financial Institution
17 73 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
18 66 (1.04%) Games
19 65 (1.03%) Investment Banking
20 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,198 (18.90%) Senior
2 1,072 (16.91%) Analyst
3 908 (14.33%) Data Analyst
4 905 (14.28%) Developer
5 804 (12.69%) Software Engineer
6 785 (12.39%) Junior
7 714 (11.27%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.23%) Junior Data Analyst
9 626 (9.88%) Python Engineer
10 619 (9.77%) Data Engineer
11 572 (9.02%) Lead
12 463 (7.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 379 (5.98%) Python Developer
14 301 (4.75%) Python Software Engineer
15 233 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 209 (3.30%) Architect
17 206 (3.25%) Data Scientist
18 194 (3.06%) Senior Developer
19 183 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
20 181 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (6.28%) React
2 298 (4.70%) Kafka
3 253 (3.99%) Node.js
4 230 (3.63%) PySpark
4 230 (3.63%) REST
5 221 (3.49%) .NET
6 205 (3.23%) RESTful
7 200 (3.16%) FastAPI
8 192 (3.03%) Django
9 190 (3.00%) HTML
10 170 (2.68%) CSS
10 170 (2.68%) PyTorch
11 162 (2.56%) Pandas
12 157 (2.48%) LangChain
13 145 (2.29%) TensorFlow
14 137 (2.16%) Flask
15 134 (2.11%) scikit-learn
16 110 (1.74%) NumPy
17 109 (1.72%) Spring
18 108 (1.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 533 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 341 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 333 (5.25%) Algorithms
4 189 (2.98%) AI Agents
5 182 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 174 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 131 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
9 98 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 95 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 85 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 85 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 82 (1.29%) Low-Code
13 79 (1.25%) Equities
14 77 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 77 (1.21%) Hedge funds
15 73 (1.15%) Robotics
16 71 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (1.10%) Security Posture
18 68 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 703 (11.09%) Linux
2 315 (4.97%) Windows
3 92 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 81 (1.28%) Unix
5 51 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.66%) CentOS
7 37 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Debian
9 22 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
10 17 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 10 (0.16%) VMS
13 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.13%) Android
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
15 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
16 7 (0.11%) Rocky
17 5 (0.079%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,733 (43.12%) AI
2 1,544 (24.36%) Software Engineering
3 1,519 (23.97%) CI/CD
4 1,223 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
5 1,122 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 1,096 (17.29%) Agile
7 1,055 (16.65%) Analytics
8 1,049 (16.55%) DevOps
9 950 (14.99%) Machine Learning
10 879 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 756 (11.93%) Mentoring
12 694 (10.95%) Data Pipeline
13 689 (10.87%) Data Engineering
14 665 (10.49%) Data Modelling
15 627 (9.89%) Data Science
16 598 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 593 (9.36%) Containerisation
18 569 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
19 560 (8.84%) Computer Science
20 550 (8.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,385 (37.63%) SQL
2 779 (12.29%) Java
3 648 (10.22%) JavaScript
4 526 (8.30%) C++
5 496 (7.83%) PowerShell
6 479 (7.56%) Bash
7 439 (6.93%) C#
8 395 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 281 (4.43%) Go
10 181 (2.86%) C
11 165 (2.60%) R
12 131 (2.07%) Scala
13 98 (1.55%) PHP
13 98 (1.55%) Rust
14 88 (1.39%) Bicep
15 66 (1.04%) Perl
16 63 (0.99%) Ruby
17 61 (0.96%) MATLAB
18 58 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 52 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,164 (18.37%) Azure Certification
2 830 (13.10%) Degree
3 722 (11.39%) Security Cleared
4 418 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 307 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 240 (3.79%) DV Cleared
7 202 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 185 (2.92%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 117 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 91 (1.44%) PhD
11 82 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (0.90%) CCNP
13 46 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 41 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 37 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 37 (0.58%) CISSP
16 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
16 35 (0.55%) OSCP
17 26 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 471 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 257 (4.05%) QA
3 150 (2.37%) GDPR
4 89 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 80 (1.26%) NIST
6 66 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 46 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 33 (0.52%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) GRC
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.30%) PMO
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 15 (0.24%) 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 22301
System Software
1 729 (11.50%) Docker
2 111 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 107 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (0.95%) Firmware
5 43 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 42 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.44%) KVM
8 26 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.047%) IAG
16 3 (0.047%) iptables
16 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 889 (14.03%) Terraform
2 708 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 382 (6.03%) Ansible
4 241 (3.80%) Grafana
5 163 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 54 (0.85%) Argo
7 44 (0.69%) Nagios
8 43 (0.68%) Puppet
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 29 (0.46%) Packer
13 27 (0.43%) Istio
14 23 (0.36%) ZABBIX
15 18 (0.28%) Podman
16 16 (0.25%) Kubeflow
16 16 (0.25%) logstash
16 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
17 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
17 14 (0.22%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,514 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 414 (6.53%) Databricks
3 185 (2.92%) Google
4 149 (2.35%) Splunk
5 139 (2.19%) Oracle
6 137 (2.16%) VMware
7 122 (1.92%) Cisco
8 113 (1.78%) OpenAI
9 109 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 60 (0.95%) Foundry
12 59 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.76%) SolarWinds
14 47 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 45 (0.71%) Typelevel
16 43 (0.68%) F5
17 41 (0.65%) SAP
18 39 (0.62%) Fortinet
19 32 (0.50%) IBM
19 32 (0.50%) Palantir