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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,840 4,872 7,053
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.54% 13.04% 8.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.49% 38.29% 26.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,366 3,191 5,514
10th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,250 £50,000
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 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £125,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -6.90%

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 13,746 12,725 27,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.74% 34.06% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,679 9,352 22,545
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,683 £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 £87,500 £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 20 April 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 20 April 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 2,293 £85,000 -5.56% 1,255
North of England -15 1,156 £52,500 -19.23% 472
South East -4 848 £60,000 -7.69% 554
Midlands +8 632 £55,000 - 265
South West +5 519 £57,500 -4.17% 227
Yorkshire +15 518 £49,500 -23.26% 175
North West -22 475 £57,500 -11.54% 235
West Midlands +21 376 £55,200 +0.36% 132
East of England -14 328 £55,000 -16.94% 241
East Midlands 0 256 £55,000 - 132
North East +17 163 £45,000 -30.77% 64
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
1 211 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 188 (3.22%) Apache Spark
3 134 (2.29%) Apache
4 71 (1.22%) WordPress
5 62 (1.06%) Jupyter
6 38 (0.65%) Confluence
7 31 (0.53%) SAS
8 29 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 25 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 23 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 16 (0.27%) Appian
12 14 (0.24%) IIS
13 9 (0.15%) nginx
13 9 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.086%) CMS
15 5 (0.086%) GeoServer
16 3 (0.051%) Anypoint
16 3 (0.051%) Apache Pulsar
16 3 (0.051%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1,195 (20.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 48 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 37 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.086%) CATIA
9 4 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.068%) Windchill
10 3 (0.051%) Siemens NX
11 2 (0.034%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.034%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.034%) Weka
12 1 (0.017%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.017%) Houdini
12 1 (0.017%) Notion
12 1 (0.017%) NUKE
12 1 (0.017%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.21%) NetSuite
2 5 (0.086%) Fidessa
2 5 (0.086%) SAP ERP
2 5 (0.086%) Shopify
3 4 (0.068%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.051%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.051%) Line 50
4 3 (0.051%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.051%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.034%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.034%) Infor M3
5 2 (0.034%) Magento
6 1 (0.017%) Actimize
6 1 (0.017%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.017%) Endur
6 1 (0.017%) Findur
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.017%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.017%) Primavera
6 1 (0.017%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,781 (47.62%) Azure
2 1,815 (31.08%) AWS
3 1,388 (23.77%) Power Platform
4 1,220 (20.89%) Azure AI
5 616 (10.55%) GCP
6 577 (9.88%) GitHub
7 302 (5.17%) Serverless
8 224 (3.84%) SaaS
9 204 (3.49%) Amazon S3
10 194 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
11 188 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
13 171 (2.93%) dbt
14 164 (2.81%) Snowflake
15 160 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 128 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
17 125 (2.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 122 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
19 96 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
20 94 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 251 (4.30%) Internet
2 198 (3.39%) Firewall
3 138 (2.36%) Broadband
4 112 (1.92%) VPN
5 111 (1.90%) DNS
6 100 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 85 (1.46%) Network Security
8 81 (1.39%) WAN
9 74 (1.27%) LAN
10 68 (1.16%) BGP
11 67 (1.15%) Wireless
12 60 (1.03%) VLAN
13 52 (0.89%) HTTP
14 47 (0.80%) OSPF
15 40 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
15 40 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
16 38 (0.65%) SD-WAN
17 35 (0.60%) DHCP
18 32 (0.55%) MPLS
19 30 (0.51%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,345 (23.03%) Power BI
2 1,284 (21.99%) Tableau
3 271 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
4 211 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
5 191 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 170 (2.91%) NoSQL
7 151 (2.59%) Data Mining
8 142 (2.43%) Data Lake
8 142 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 118 (2.02%) BigQuery
10 115 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 111 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 101 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
13 97 (1.66%) Big Data
14 87 (1.49%) Metadata
15 75 (1.28%) MySQL
16 67 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
17 52 (0.89%) Spark SQL
18 49 (0.84%) Looker
19 48 (0.82%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 686 (11.75%) Git
2 228 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 196 (3.36%) GitLab
4 110 (1.88%) JIRA
5 70 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 64 (1.10%) MLflow
7 54 (0.92%) Selenium
8 46 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 41 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 37 (0.63%) Postman
11 25 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
11 25 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.39%) Cypress.io
13 21 (0.36%) JUnit
14 20 (0.34%) CircleCI
14 20 (0.34%) Claude Code
14 20 (0.34%) JMeter
15 19 (0.33%) Jaeger
16 17 (0.29%) Metasploit
16 17 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 2,237 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 1,165 (19.95%) Finance
3 815 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (4.35%) Banking
5 236 (4.04%) Multimedia
6 228 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 208 (3.56%) Public Sector
8 179 (3.07%) Retail
9 166 (2.84%) Law
10 146 (2.50%) Manufacturing
11 132 (2.26%) Front Office
12 105 (1.80%) Marketing
13 101 (1.73%) Telecoms
14 89 (1.52%) Legal
15 75 (1.28%) Electronics
16 73 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
17 62 (1.06%) Financial Institution
18 56 (0.96%) Investment Banking
19 50 (0.86%) Aerospace
20 44 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,401 (23.99%) Analyst
2 1,217 (20.84%) Data Analyst
3 985 (16.87%) Junior
4 947 (16.22%) Junior Analyst
4 947 (16.22%) Junior Data Analyst
5 903 (15.46%) Developer
6 824 (14.11%) Senior
7 524 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 507 (8.68%) Data Engineer
9 452 (7.74%) Lead
10 417 (7.14%) Trainee
11 406 (6.95%) Python Engineer
12 375 (6.42%) Python Developer
13 338 (5.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 221 (3.78%) Software Developer
15 180 (3.08%) Python Software Engineer
16 163 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
16 163 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
17 158 (2.71%) Senior Developer
18 152 (2.60%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (6.66%) HTML
2 380 (6.51%) React
3 339 (5.80%) CSS
4 243 (4.16%) Kafka
5 204 (3.49%) REST
6 203 (3.48%) Node.js
7 200 (3.42%) Django
8 195 (3.34%) PySpark
9 177 (3.03%) RESTful
10 165 (2.83%) Pandas
11 160 (2.74%) PyTorch
12 152 (2.60%) .NET
13 140 (2.40%) FastAPI
14 136 (2.33%) TensorFlow
15 130 (2.23%) Flask
15 130 (2.23%) scikit-learn
16 107 (1.83%) JSON
17 105 (1.80%) NumPy
18 94 (1.61%) LangChain
19 91 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 305 (5.22%) Cloud Native
2 271 (4.64%) Algorithms
3 229 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
4 171 (2.93%) Data Structures
5 129 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 119 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 94 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 91 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
9 89 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.47%) Fixed Income
11 85 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 84 (1.44%) Low-Code
13 82 (1.40%) AI Agents
13 82 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 81 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
15 80 (1.37%) Hedge funds
16 79 (1.35%) Equities
16 79 (1.35%) Security Posture
17 71 (1.22%) Video\Live Streaming
18 63 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 556 (9.52%) Linux
2 231 (3.96%) Windows
3 146 (2.50%) Unix
4 71 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 57 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.70%) CentOS
7 29 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.21%) Debian
9 12 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 9 (0.15%) Android
11 9 (0.15%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.12%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.12%) Solaris
12 7 (0.12%) VMS
13 6 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
14 5 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.051%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,354 (40.31%) AI
2 1,448 (24.79%) Business Intelligence
3 1,175 (20.12%) CI/CD
4 1,010 (17.29%) Software Engineering
5 992 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
6 944 (16.16%) Analytics
7 921 (15.77%) Agile
8 879 (15.05%) DevOps
9 738 (12.64%) Mentoring
10 687 (11.76%) Machine Learning
11 631 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 573 (9.81%) Data Modelling
13 551 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
14 548 (9.38%) Data Science
15 544 (9.32%) ETL
16 543 (9.30%) Data Engineering
17 522 (8.94%) Computer Science
18 518 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 492 (8.42%) Containerisation
20 428 (7.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2,423 (41.49%) SQL
2 788 (13.49%) JavaScript
3 651 (11.15%) Java
4 433 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 419 (7.17%) Bash
6 348 (5.96%) TypeScript
7 316 (5.41%) C#
8 313 (5.36%) C++
9 282 (4.83%) Go
10 242 (4.14%) R
11 145 (2.48%) C
12 114 (1.95%) Scala
13 72 (1.23%) Rust
14 68 (1.16%) VBA
15 65 (1.11%) PHP
16 54 (0.92%) Bicep
17 42 (0.72%) Perl
18 41 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 34 (0.58%) T-SQL
20 30 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,500 (25.68%) Azure Certification
2 791 (13.54%) Degree
3 478 (8.18%) Security Cleared
4 388 (6.64%) AWS Certification
5 292 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 289 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 285 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 270 (4.62%) SC Cleared
9 171 (2.93%) DV Cleared
10 146 (2.50%) Master's Degree
11 87 (1.49%) PhD
12 76 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
13 63 (1.08%) CCNP
14 51 (0.87%) OSCP
15 49 (0.84%) CISSP
16 41 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 37 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 33 (0.57%) CREST Certified
19 28 (0.48%) GIAC
20 25 (0.43%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (6.42%) Data Quality
2 224 (3.84%) QA
3 127 (2.17%) GDPR
4 111 (1.90%) NIST
5 108 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 66 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 49 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 40 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 36 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 23 (0.39%) GRC
10 23 (0.39%) PMO
11 22 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.34%) SLA
13 14 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.14%) WCAG
16 7 (0.12%) ISO 26262
16 7 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.10%) IFRS
System Software
1 589 (10.09%) Docker
2 108 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 74 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (0.79%) Firmware
5 35 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.34%) KVM
8 16 (0.27%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.22%) vSphere
10 10 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 9 (0.15%) Embedded Firmware
12 7 (0.12%) Lustre
12 7 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 6 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 5 (0.086%) iptables
14 5 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.086%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.051%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.051%) Squid
Systems Management
1 701 (12.00%) Terraform
2 618 (10.58%) Kubernetes
3 341 (5.84%) Ansible
4 194 (3.32%) Grafana
5 149 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.10%) Argo
7 28 (0.48%) Nagios
7 28 (0.48%) Puppet
8 27 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (0.36%) Istio
9 21 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 20 (0.34%) Kibana
11 15 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 15 (0.26%) logstash
12 13 (0.22%) Rancher
13 12 (0.21%) Nessus
13 12 (0.21%) Packer
13 12 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.21%) SCCM
13 12 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1,887 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 309 (5.29%) Databricks
3 206 (3.53%) Google
4 133 (2.28%) Oracle
5 123 (2.11%) Cisco
6 115 (1.97%) VMware
7 105 (1.80%) Red Hat
8 81 (1.39%) Splunk
9 79 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 63 (1.08%) SAP
11 62 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 52 (0.89%) ServiceNow
13 49 (0.84%) Fortinet
13 49 (0.84%) Foundry
14 47 (0.80%) Informatica
14 47 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 45 (0.77%) Typelevel
16 42 (0.72%) Talend
17 39 (0.67%) Palantir
18 38 (0.65%) SolarWinds