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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,033 5,120 7,722
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.32% 13.02% 8.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.04% 40.47% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,582 2,845 5,837
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,474 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,655 £55,000 £50,250
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 £125,000 £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 15,068 12,650 28,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 32.17% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 10,846 8,458 22,993
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 12 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 12 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 0 2,430 £85,000 -5.56% 776
North of England -12 1,229 £62,500 -3.85% 346
South East +2 870 £60,000 -4.00% 519
Midlands +25 631 £60,000 +9.09% 151
North West -13 571 £65,000 - 188
South West +6 519 £58,497 +1.73% 151
Yorkshire +12 462 £62,500 -3.85% 105
West Midlands +17 333 £60,000 +4.35% 84
East Midlands +28 298 £55,000 +20.88% 66
East of England -3 291 £70,000 +5.73% 136
North East +25 196 £55,000 -12.00% 54
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 (3.65%) Apache Airflow
2 200 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 153 (2.54%) Apache
4 75 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 52 (0.86%) Confluence
6 47 (0.78%) WordPress
7 31 (0.51%) SAS
8 27 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
8 27 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 26 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.22%) IIS
11 8 (0.13%) Appian
12 7 (0.12%) nginx
13 6 (0.099%) CMS
13 6 (0.099%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.083%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.083%) GeoServer
15 3 (0.050%) Headless CMS
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Pulsar
16 2 (0.033%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 927 (15.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 44 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.20%) 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 6 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.083%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.083%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.066%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.066%) Line 50
5 3 (0.050%) Dynamics NAV
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%) Primavera
7 1 (0.017%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.017%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 2,641 (43.78%) Azure
2 1,902 (31.53%) AWS
3 1,192 (19.76%) Power Platform
4 1,080 (17.90%) Azure AI
5 681 (11.29%) GCP
6 431 (7.14%) GitHub
7 330 (5.47%) Serverless
8 242 (4.01%) Amazon S3
9 234 (3.88%) SaaS
10 213 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
11 210 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
12 180 (2.98%) Snowflake
13 166 (2.75%) dbt
14 161 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
15 156 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
16 154 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 144 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
18 119 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 108 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
20 99 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 232 (3.85%) Firewall
2 192 (3.18%) Broadband
3 130 (2.15%) VPN
4 123 (2.04%) DNS
5 116 (1.92%) Internet
6 107 (1.77%) Network Security
7 101 (1.67%) WAN
8 93 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 85 (1.41%) LAN
10 78 (1.29%) Wireless
11 65 (1.08%) BGP
12 54 (0.90%) HTTP
13 53 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 53 (0.88%) VLAN
14 47 (0.78%) OSPF
15 40 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
16 39 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
17 31 (0.51%) Wireshark
18 30 (0.50%) DHCP
19 29 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,134 (18.80%) Power BI
2 1,006 (16.67%) Tableau
3 284 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
4 243 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 189 (3.13%) SQL Server
6 172 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 161 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 141 (2.34%) MongoDB
8 141 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 139 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 115 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 113 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 106 (1.76%) Big Data
13 92 (1.52%) Metadata
14 82 (1.36%) Data Mining
15 81 (1.34%) MySQL
16 68 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
17 67 (1.11%) DynamoDB
18 60 (0.99%) Spark SQL
19 56 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 639 (10.59%) Git
2 262 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 234 (3.88%) GitLab
4 144 (2.39%) JIRA
5 80 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
6 58 (0.96%) MLflow
7 50 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 40 (0.66%) Selenium
9 36 (0.60%) Claude Code
10 33 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 29 (0.48%) Postman
13 25 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 25 (0.41%) Subversion
14 24 (0.40%) Cypress.io
15 22 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 19 (0.31%) JMeter
16 19 (0.31%) TeamCity
17 18 (0.30%) Jaeger
17 18 (0.30%) JUnit
General
1 2,113 (35.02%) Social Skills
2 1,192 (19.76%) Finance
3 825 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 265 (4.39%) Banking
6 216 (3.58%) Public Sector
7 183 (3.03%) Retail
8 157 (2.60%) Law
9 130 (2.15%) Front Office
9 130 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 105 (1.74%) Legal
11 101 (1.67%) Multimedia
12 95 (1.57%) Marketing
13 88 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 74 (1.23%) Electronics
15 68 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 65 (1.08%) Financial Institution
17 62 (1.03%) Games
18 58 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
19 55 (0.91%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,148 (19.03%) Analyst
2 1,017 (16.86%) Senior
3 974 (16.14%) Data Analyst
4 915 (15.17%) Developer
5 806 (13.36%) Junior
6 759 (12.58%) Junior Analyst
6 759 (12.58%) Junior Data Analyst
7 661 (10.96%) Software Engineer
8 566 (9.38%) Data Engineer
9 524 (8.69%) Python Engineer
10 514 (8.52%) Lead
11 451 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 384 (6.36%) Python Developer
13 235 (3.90%) Python Software Engineer
14 217 (3.60%) Trainee
15 187 (3.10%) Architect
16 186 (3.08%) Data Scientist
17 182 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
18 180 (2.98%) Software Developer
19 176 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (6.35%) React
2 262 (4.34%) Kafka
3 233 (3.86%) HTML
4 229 (3.80%) Node.js
5 224 (3.71%) PySpark
6 215 (3.56%) CSS
7 213 (3.53%) REST
8 198 (3.28%) .NET
9 186 (3.08%) RESTful
10 175 (2.90%) PyTorch
11 170 (2.82%) Django
11 170 (2.82%) FastAPI
12 155 (2.57%) Pandas
13 148 (2.45%) TensorFlow
14 137 (2.27%) LangChain
15 124 (2.06%) Flask
16 123 (2.04%) scikit-learn
17 107 (1.77%) NumPy
18 98 (1.62%) JSON
19 92 (1.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 447 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 323 (5.35%) Algorithms
3 293 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
4 186 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 144 (2.39%) AI Agents
6 129 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 117 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 104 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 104 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
9 98 (1.62%) Low-Code
10 95 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 85 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 84 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 84 (1.39%) Security Posture
13 82 (1.36%) Equities
14 79 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 78 (1.29%) Hedge funds
16 72 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
17 65 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
17 65 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 629 (10.43%) Linux
2 269 (4.46%) Windows
3 97 (1.61%) Unix
4 83 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (0.66%) CentOS
7 36 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 17 (0.28%) Debian
10 14 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 11 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
11 11 (0.18%) VMS
12 10 (0.17%) Android
12 10 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
13 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
13 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.083%) Robot Operating System
14 5 (0.083%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,502 (41.47%) AI
2 1,342 (22.24%) CI/CD
3 1,293 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 1,241 (20.57%) Business Intelligence
5 1,025 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
6 1,007 (16.69%) Agile
7 979 (16.23%) Analytics
8 955 (15.83%) DevOps
9 852 (14.12%) Machine Learning
10 774 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 742 (12.30%) Mentoring
12 614 (10.18%) Data Modelling
13 604 (10.01%) Data Engineering
14 603 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
15 589 (9.76%) Data Science
16 539 (8.93%) Computer Science
17 522 (8.65%) Containerisation
17 522 (8.65%) Full-Stack Development
18 520 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 512 (8.49%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2,325 (38.54%) SQL
2 676 (11.21%) Java
3 671 (11.12%) JavaScript
4 480 (7.96%) PowerShell
5 457 (7.58%) Bash
6 433 (7.18%) C++
7 388 (6.43%) C#
8 379 (6.28%) TypeScript
9 291 (4.82%) Go
10 191 (3.17%) R
11 162 (2.69%) C
12 127 (2.11%) Scala
13 87 (1.44%) Rust
14 78 (1.29%) PHP
15 64 (1.06%) Bicep
16 55 (0.91%) MATLAB
16 55 (0.91%) VBA
17 47 (0.78%) Perl
18 45 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 36 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,243 (20.60%) Azure Certification
2 776 (12.86%) Degree
3 609 (10.09%) Security Cleared
4 364 (6.03%) SC Cleared
5 283 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 247 (4.09%) AWS Certification
7 197 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 160 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 159 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 152 (2.52%) Master's Degree
11 86 (1.43%) PhD
12 81 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
13 64 (1.06%) CCNP
14 50 (0.83%) DBS Check
14 50 (0.83%) OSCP
15 40 (0.66%) CISSP
16 34 (0.56%) CREST Certified
17 32 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
18 26 (0.43%) CCIE
19 25 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 432 (7.16%) Data Quality
2 232 (3.85%) QA
3 125 (2.07%) GDPR
4 91 (1.51%) NIST
5 76 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 61 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 44 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.56%) SOC 2
10 25 (0.41%) PMO
11 22 (0.36%) GRC
11 22 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 18 (0.30%) SLA
13 10 (0.17%) ISO 22301
14 9 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.13%) Basel III
15 8 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 625 (10.36%) Docker
2 105 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 97 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (0.93%) Firmware
5 36 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 35 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.48%) KVM
8 21 (0.35%) vSphere
9 15 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.23%) ProxySG
11 12 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 8 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.066%) iptables
16 3 (0.050%) IAG
16 3 (0.050%) Kamailio
16 3 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 816 (13.53%) Terraform
2 648 (10.74%) Kubernetes
3 357 (5.92%) Ansible
4 212 (3.51%) Grafana
5 173 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 66 (1.09%) Argo
7 42 (0.70%) Nagios
8 33 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (0.51%) Puppet
10 28 (0.46%) Kibana
11 26 (0.43%) Packer
12 24 (0.40%) Istio
12 24 (0.40%) Kustomize
13 21 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.33%) Progress Chef
15 19 (0.31%) Proxmox
16 15 (0.25%) Podman
16 15 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (0.23%) FortiGate
17 14 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 1,588 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 349 (5.78%) Databricks
3 206 (3.41%) Google
4 132 (2.19%) VMware
5 125 (2.07%) Oracle
5 125 (2.07%) Splunk
6 123 (2.04%) Cisco
7 101 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 100 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 60 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 57 (0.94%) Foundry
10 57 (0.94%) Palo Alto
11 53 (0.88%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.86%) SolarWinds
13 45 (0.75%) Typelevel
14 43 (0.71%) Fortinet
14 43 (0.71%) SAP
15 41 (0.68%) F5
16 36 (0.60%) Palantir
17 31 (0.51%) Arista