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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,045 5,113 7,843
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.25% 12.89% 8.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.70% 40.38% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,598 2,852 5,895
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,063 £55,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £127,500 £122,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 15,227 12,662 29,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.27% 31.93% 30.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,990 8,493 23,300
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 June 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 18 June 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 2,422 £85,000 -5.56% 822
North of England -12 1,240 £61,418 -5.51% 379
South East +1 878 £60,000 -4.00% 566
Midlands +20 627 £60,000 +9.09% 178
North West -16 579 £65,000 - 205
South West +6 524 £58,497 +1.83% 185
Yorkshire +13 459 £62,500 -3.85% 118
West Midlands +17 324 £60,000 +4.35% 90
East Midlands +27 303 £55,000 +10.00% 87
East of England -5 289 £70,000 +5.73% 182
North East +25 202 £56,500 -5.83% 59
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
1 220 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 201 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 154 (2.55%) Apache
4 76 (1.26%) Jupyter
5 53 (0.88%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 30 (0.50%) SAS
8 29 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 25 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 9 (0.15%) IIS
12 7 (0.12%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) CMS
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 4 (0.066%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Luigi
Applications
1 925 (15.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.22%) Simulink
8 4 (0.066%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.050%) Blender
9 3 (0.050%) Maya
9 3 (0.050%) Trello
10 2 (0.033%) CATIA
10 2 (0.033%) Lightworks
10 2 (0.033%) SPSS
11 1 (0.017%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.25%) NetSuite
2 7 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.050%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.050%) Magento
5 3 (0.050%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.050%) Shopify
6 2 (0.033%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.033%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.017%) Endur
7 1 (0.017%) FastStats
7 1 (0.017%) Findur
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.017%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2,630 (43.51%) Azure
2 1,905 (31.51%) AWS
3 1,190 (19.69%) Power Platform
4 1,080 (17.87%) Azure AI
5 688 (11.38%) GCP
6 419 (6.93%) GitHub
7 327 (5.41%) Serverless
8 236 (3.90%) Amazon S3
9 235 (3.89%) SaaS
10 212 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
11 209 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.98%) Snowflake
13 168 (2.78%) dbt
14 163 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
15 156 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 154 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
17 146 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
18 120 (1.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 110 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
20 99 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 228 (3.77%) Firewall
2 194 (3.21%) Broadband
3 132 (2.18%) VPN
4 121 (2.00%) DNS
5 107 (1.77%) Network Security
6 103 (1.70%) Internet
7 98 (1.62%) WAN
8 92 (1.52%) TCP/IP
9 82 (1.36%) LAN
10 76 (1.26%) Wireless
11 62 (1.03%) BGP
12 53 (0.88%) HTTP
13 52 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 52 (0.86%) VLAN
14 44 (0.73%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 36 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
17 32 (0.53%) Wireshark
18 29 (0.48%) DHCP
18 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,133 (18.74%) Power BI
2 1,001 (16.56%) Tableau
3 287 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
4 239 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
5 186 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 166 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 160 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 145 (2.40%) Relational Database
9 141 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 138 (2.28%) MongoDB
11 112 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 111 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 102 (1.69%) Big Data
14 87 (1.44%) Metadata
15 82 (1.36%) MySQL
16 76 (1.26%) Data Mining
17 68 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
18 66 (1.09%) DynamoDB
19 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
20 53 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 629 (10.41%) Git
2 269 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 236 (3.90%) GitLab
4 145 (2.40%) JIRA
5 81 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.96%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 41 (0.68%) Selenium
9 40 (0.66%) Claude Code
10 34 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 26 (0.43%) Subversion
14 25 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
15 21 (0.35%) LabVIEW
16 20 (0.33%) JMeter
16 20 (0.33%) JUnit
16 20 (0.33%) TeamCity
17 18 (0.30%) CircleCI
General
1 2,133 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 1,184 (19.59%) Finance
3 815 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 263 (4.35%) Banking
6 214 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 184 (3.04%) Retail
8 156 (2.58%) Law
9 131 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 126 (2.08%) Front Office
11 105 (1.74%) Legal
12 93 (1.54%) Marketing
13 90 (1.49%) Multimedia
14 89 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 72 (1.19%) Electronics
16 68 (1.12%) Aerospace
17 65 (1.08%) Financial Institution
18 63 (1.04%) Games
19 56 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
20 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,146 (18.96%) Analyst
2 1,025 (16.96%) Senior
3 973 (16.10%) Data Analyst
4 920 (15.22%) Developer
5 807 (13.35%) Junior
6 759 (12.56%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.56%) Junior Data Analyst
7 671 (11.10%) Software Engineer
8 567 (9.38%) Data Engineer
9 535 (8.85%) Python Engineer
10 517 (8.55%) Lead
11 452 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 383 (6.34%) Python Developer
13 244 (4.04%) Python Software Engineer
14 203 (3.36%) Trainee
15 190 (3.14%) Data Scientist
16 189 (3.13%) Architect
17 186 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
18 184 (3.04%) Senior Software Engineer
19 178 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 388 (6.42%) React
2 259 (4.28%) Kafka
3 229 (3.79%) Node.js
4 222 (3.67%) HTML
5 217 (3.59%) PySpark
6 210 (3.47%) REST
7 207 (3.42%) CSS
8 197 (3.26%) .NET
9 191 (3.16%) RESTful
10 178 (2.94%) PyTorch
11 171 (2.83%) Django
11 171 (2.83%) FastAPI
12 156 (2.58%) Pandas
13 148 (2.45%) TensorFlow
14 140 (2.32%) LangChain
15 127 (2.10%) Flask
16 124 (2.05%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.77%) NumPy
18 100 (1.65%) Vue
19 94 (1.56%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 465 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 318 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 289 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 151 (2.50%) AI Agents
6 129 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 117 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 105 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
9 101 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 95 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 94 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
13 83 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 82 (1.36%) Security Posture
15 80 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
16 79 (1.31%) Equities
17 75 (1.24%) Hedge funds
18 69 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
19 67 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
20 62 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 633 (10.47%) Linux
2 271 (4.48%) Windows
3 92 (1.52%) Unix
4 83 (1.37%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (0.65%) CentOS
7 36 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.31%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
12 11 (0.18%) VMS
13 10 (0.17%) Android
13 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
15 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
16 7 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
17 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
17 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,536 (41.95%) AI
2 1,353 (22.38%) CI/CD
3 1,317 (21.79%) Software Engineering
4 1,236 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
5 1,039 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
6 1,010 (16.71%) Agile
7 975 (16.13%) Analytics
8 953 (15.77%) DevOps
9 854 (14.13%) Machine Learning
10 783 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 736 (12.18%) Mentoring
12 611 (10.11%) Data Engineering
12 611 (10.11%) Data Modelling
13 600 (9.93%) Data Pipeline
14 594 (9.83%) Data Science
15 539 (8.92%) Computer Science
16 536 (8.87%) Full-Stack Development
17 528 (8.73%) Containerisation
18 525 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
19 510 (8.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,329 (38.53%) SQL
2 676 (11.18%) Java
3 660 (10.92%) JavaScript
4 486 (8.04%) PowerShell
5 463 (7.66%) Bash
6 450 (7.44%) C++
7 393 (6.50%) C#
8 381 (6.30%) TypeScript
9 284 (4.70%) Go
10 183 (3.03%) R
11 158 (2.61%) C
12 120 (1.99%) Scala
13 88 (1.46%) Rust
14 80 (1.32%) PHP
15 70 (1.16%) Bicep
16 56 (0.93%) MATLAB
17 54 (0.89%) VBA
18 47 (0.78%) Perl
19 44 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 37 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,234 (20.41%) Azure Certification
2 775 (12.82%) Degree
3 627 (10.37%) Security Cleared
4 377 (6.24%) SC Cleared
5 288 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 236 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 195 (3.23%) DV Cleared
8 151 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 149 (2.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 149 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 85 (1.41%) PhD
11 78 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
12 61 (1.01%) CCNP
13 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 47 (0.78%) OSCP
15 38 (0.63%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 25 (0.41%) GIAC
18 24 (0.40%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (7.06%) Data Quality
2 231 (3.82%) QA
3 127 (2.10%) GDPR
4 87 (1.44%) NIST
5 74 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 69 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 45 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.38%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
12 21 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 19 (0.31%) SLA
14 14 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.17%) WCAG
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 8 (0.13%) Basel III
18 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 639 (10.57%) Docker
2 103 (1.70%) Active Directory
3 96 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 37 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 30 (0.50%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 12 (0.20%) ProxySG
10 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 11 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
12 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
13 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.066%) iptables
15 3 (0.050%) IAG
15 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 824 (13.63%) Terraform
2 650 (10.75%) Kubernetes
3 357 (5.91%) Ansible
4 220 (3.64%) Grafana
5 177 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.09%) Argo
7 40 (0.66%) Nagios
8 34 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (0.53%) Puppet
10 30 (0.50%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Istio
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 22 (0.36%) Progress Chef
14 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 16 (0.26%) Podman
17 15 (0.25%) Kubeflow
18 14 (0.23%) Graylog
18 14 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,577 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 353 (5.84%) Databricks
3 207 (3.42%) Google
4 130 (2.15%) VMware
5 126 (2.08%) Oracle
6 125 (2.07%) Splunk
7 120 (1.99%) Cisco
8 102 (1.69%) OpenAI
9 95 (1.57%) Red Hat
10 59 (0.98%) Foundry
11 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 57 (0.94%) ServiceNow
12 51 (0.84%) Salesforce
13 49 (0.81%) SolarWinds
14 45 (0.74%) Typelevel
15 43 (0.71%) Fortinet
16 41 (0.68%) SAP
17 39 (0.65%) F5
18 36 (0.60%) Palantir
19 31 (0.51%) Arista