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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,134 5,432 6,171
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.45% 11.50% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.12% 33.94% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,772 3,282 4,900
10th Percentile £30,017 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £51,500
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 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -

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 10,568 16,005 22,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.04% 33.90% 37.53%
Number of salaries quoted 7,904 9,365 19,294
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,869 £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 £83,750 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £105,000
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 28 January 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 28 January 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 2,009 £82,500 -5.71% 1,128
North of England -8 672 £48,445 -25.47% 564
South East -29 465 £60,000 -11.11% 1,120
Midlands -11 376 £55,000 - 333
South West -3 338 £60,000 -7.69% 389
Yorkshire +10 299 £47,972 -26.20% 224
North West -16 282 £55,000 -12.00% 255
West Midlands +3 256 £55,000 -2.22% 134
East of England -23 216 £50,000 -24.52% 418
East Midlands -27 123 £55,100 +0.18% 194
North East 0 91 £40,000 -42.29% 89
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
1 160 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
2 144 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 123 (2.98%) Apache
4 41 (0.99%) Confluence
5 35 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 30 (0.73%) SAS
7 27 (0.65%) WordPress
8 22 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 21 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 20 (0.48%) WebSphere
11 18 (0.44%) Appian
11 18 (0.44%) IIS
12 16 (0.39%) Jupyter
12 16 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
13 13 (0.31%) nginx
14 8 (0.19%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
15 7 (0.17%) CMS
16 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.097%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 559 (13.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.22%) Simulink
6 6 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 6 (0.15%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.097%) Windchill
8 3 (0.073%) CATIA
8 3 (0.073%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 3 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
9 2 (0.048%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.048%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.048%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.048%) OrCAD
9 2 (0.048%) Stata
9 2 (0.048%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.31%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.17%) Teamcenter
4 6 (0.15%) Shopify
5 5 (0.12%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.048%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.024%) Actimize
7 1 (0.024%) Bloomberg AIM
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 1,640 (39.67%) Azure
2 1,451 (35.10%) AWS
3 735 (17.78%) Power Platform
4 539 (13.04%) GitHub
5 426 (10.30%) GCP
6 325 (7.86%) Azure AI
7 263 (6.36%) Serverless
8 185 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
9 171 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
10 169 (4.09%) Snowflake
11 162 (3.92%) Amazon S3
12 159 (3.85%) SaaS
13 152 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
14 138 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
15 132 (3.19%) dbt
16 109 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 100 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
18 85 (2.06%) Amazon EKS
19 83 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 80 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 257 (6.22%) Internet
2 159 (3.85%) Firewall
3 94 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 85 (2.06%) VPN
5 74 (1.79%) DNS
6 72 (1.74%) WAN
7 62 (1.50%) LAN
8 55 (1.33%) BGP
9 51 (1.23%) Wireless
10 49 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
11 47 (1.14%) Broadband
12 44 (1.06%) Network Security
13 41 (0.99%) VLAN
14 40 (0.97%) HTTP
15 39 (0.94%) OSPF
16 34 (0.82%) MPLS
17 33 (0.80%) SD-WAN
18 31 (0.75%) Wireshark
19 27 (0.65%) SSL
20 25 (0.60%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 695 (16.81%) Power BI
2 591 (14.30%) Tableau
3 247 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
4 223 (5.39%) SQL Server
5 218 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
6 178 (4.31%) NoSQL
7 158 (3.82%) Relational Database
8 144 (3.48%) Data Mining
9 121 (2.93%) Data Lake
10 112 (2.71%) MongoDB
11 110 (2.66%) Big Data
12 91 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 88 (2.13%) BigQuery
14 87 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
15 84 (2.03%) MySQL
16 80 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
17 71 (1.72%) Hadoop
18 70 (1.69%) Metadata
19 58 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
20 57 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 578 (13.98%) Git
2 222 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 144 (3.48%) GitLab
4 115 (2.78%) JIRA
5 58 (1.40%) Selenium
6 43 (1.04%) MLflow
7 38 (0.92%) Postman
8 36 (0.87%) JUnit
9 27 (0.65%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 23 (0.56%) Jaeger
11 23 (0.56%) JMeter
12 19 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.36%) Burp Suite
14 15 (0.36%) Metasploit
15 14 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 14 (0.34%) Mockito
16 13 (0.31%) Maven
16 13 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 1,247 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 1,031 (24.94%) Finance
3 652 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (5.88%) Banking
5 241 (5.83%) Multimedia
6 180 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 176 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 168 (4.06%) Law
9 140 (3.39%) Marketing
10 138 (3.34%) Front Office
11 110 (2.66%) Telecoms
12 106 (2.56%) Retail
13 101 (2.44%) Manufacturing
14 89 (2.15%) Financial Institution
15 77 (1.86%) Electronics
16 74 (1.79%) Legal
17 61 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 61 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
18 56 (1.35%) Games
19 48 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 767 (18.55%) Developer
2 735 (17.78%) Analyst
3 644 (15.58%) Senior
4 553 (13.38%) Data Analyst
5 412 (9.97%) Data Engineer
6 365 (8.83%) Trainee
7 326 (7.89%) Software Engineer
8 306 (7.40%) Lead
9 304 (7.35%) Junior
9 304 (7.35%) Python Developer
10 282 (6.82%) Junior Analyst
10 282 (6.82%) Junior Data Analyst
11 241 (5.83%) Python Engineer
12 186 (4.50%) Software Developer
13 144 (3.48%) Architect
14 141 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 135 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
16 131 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
17 120 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
18 118 (2.85%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (9.36%) HTML
2 340 (8.22%) CSS
3 334 (8.08%) React
4 179 (4.33%) REST
5 173 (4.18%) Node.js
6 164 (3.97%) Django
7 147 (3.56%) Kafka
8 145 (3.51%) RESTful
9 134 (3.24%) FastAPI
10 130 (3.14%) PySpark
11 125 (3.02%) PyTorch
12 117 (2.83%) .NET
13 116 (2.81%) Pandas
14 107 (2.59%) Flask
15 101 (2.44%) TensorFlow
16 100 (2.42%) AngularJS
17 86 (2.08%) JSON
18 83 (2.01%) Vue
19 80 (1.94%) NumPy
20 78 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 229 (5.54%) Cloud Native
2 202 (4.89%) Algorithms
3 155 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 155 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 115 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 108 (2.61%) Equities
6 104 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 98 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 85 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 80 (1.94%) Hedge funds
10 74 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 73 (1.77%) Low-Code
12 70 (1.69%) Derivative
13 69 (1.67%) Fixed Income
13 69 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
14 66 (1.60%) Data Centre
15 61 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
16 59 (1.43%) AI Agents
17 57 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 57 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 508 (12.29%) Linux
2 209 (5.06%) Windows
3 185 (4.48%) Unix
4 70 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 56 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.77%) CentOS
6 32 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.58%) Mac OS
8 19 (0.46%) Debian
9 17 (0.41%) VMS
10 15 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.29%) Solaris
13 11 (0.27%) Android
14 8 (0.19%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 5 (0.12%) CoreOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.097%) zOS
17 3 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,202 (29.08%) AI
2 956 (23.13%) CI/CD
3 922 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
4 821 (19.86%) Analytics
5 804 (19.45%) Business Intelligence
6 778 (18.82%) Agile
7 774 (18.72%) DevOps
8 670 (16.21%) Software Engineering
9 655 (15.84%) Mentoring
10 544 (13.16%) Machine Learning
11 484 (11.71%) ETL
12 475 (11.49%) Data Science
13 463 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
14 457 (11.05%) Data Modelling
15 456 (11.03%) Infrastructure as Code
16 453 (10.96%) Computer Science
17 448 (10.84%) Data Engineering
18 412 (9.97%) Data Analysis
19 383 (9.26%) Containerisation
20 381 (9.22%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 1,642 (39.72%) SQL
2 729 (17.63%) JavaScript
3 587 (14.20%) Java
4 387 (9.36%) Bash
5 349 (8.44%) PowerShell
6 321 (7.76%) TypeScript
7 273 (6.60%) C#
8 230 (5.56%) R
9 214 (5.18%) C++
10 160 (3.87%) Go
11 120 (2.90%) C
12 78 (1.89%) Scala
13 64 (1.55%) PHP
14 60 (1.45%) VBA
15 51 (1.23%) Bicep
16 47 (1.14%) Rust
17 46 (1.11%) MATLAB
17 46 (1.11%) Perl
18 40 (0.97%) T-SQL
19 38 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 805 (19.47%) Degree
2 590 (14.27%) Azure Certification
3 448 (10.84%) Security Cleared
4 364 (8.81%) AWS Certification
5 289 (6.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 261 (6.31%) SC Cleared
7 241 (5.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 215 (5.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 192 (4.64%) Master's Degree
10 161 (3.89%) DV Cleared
11 125 (3.02%) PhD
12 73 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
13 59 (1.43%) CCNP
14 50 (1.21%) CISSP
15 47 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
16 40 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (0.65%) OSCP
18 27 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
19 26 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.92%) QA
3 105 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (2.42%) GDPR
5 85 (2.06%) NIST
6 65 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 32 (0.77%) SLA
8 30 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 17 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.34%) PMO
13 12 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 12 (0.29%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.17%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.12%) GRC
16 5 (0.12%) NCSC
17 4 (0.097%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.097%) WCAG
System Software
1 511 (12.36%) Docker
2 82 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 57 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.65%) Firmware
5 19 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 19 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.34%) vSphere
7 10 (0.24%) HDFS
7 10 (0.24%) KVM
7 10 (0.24%) ProxySG
8 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.17%) Lustre
11 6 (0.15%) NFS
12 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.097%) Postfix
13 4 (0.097%) Time Sharing Option
14 3 (0.073%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.073%) Squid
Systems Management
1 542 (13.11%) Kubernetes
2 531 (12.84%) Terraform
3 312 (7.55%) Ansible
4 126 (3.05%) Prometheus
5 125 (3.02%) Grafana
6 60 (1.45%) Argo
7 25 (0.60%) Kibana
8 21 (0.51%) Puppet
9 20 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 14 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 14 (0.34%) Nessus
12 13 (0.31%) Nagios
12 13 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.31%) Rancher
13 12 (0.29%) Control-M
14 11 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.27%) logstash
15 10 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,087 (26.29%) Microsoft
2 254 (6.14%) Databricks
3 197 (4.77%) Google
4 131 (3.17%) Oracle
5 102 (2.47%) Cisco
6 98 (2.37%) VMware
7 83 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 74 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 69 (1.67%) SAP
10 61 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 59 (1.43%) Splunk
12 55 (1.33%) ServiceNow
13 47 (1.14%) Informatica
14 45 (1.09%) IBM
15 44 (1.06%) Fortinet
16 43 (1.04%) Bloomberg
16 43 (1.04%) Talend
17 42 (1.02%) Alteryx
18 33 (0.80%) Palantir
19 31 (0.75%) Atlassian