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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 4,332 5,249 6,397
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.44% 11.73% 9.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.60% 34.19% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,870 3,240 5,112
10th Percentile £31,750 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £51,250
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 £91,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.80%

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 10,939 15,354 24,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.78% 34.31% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8,162 9,208 20,614
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,500
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 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £112,500 £102,500
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 11 February 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 11 February 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 2,028 £82,500 -5.71% 1,040
North of England -12 740 £47,500 -26.92% 428
South East -23 522 £60,000 -11.11% 599
Midlands -14 395 £55,000 - 214
South West -2 356 £60,000 -7.69% 238
Yorkshire +6 324 £45,000 -30.77% 144
North West -13 312 £55,000 -12.00% 233
West Midlands +5 258 £55,000 - 112
East of England -23 223 £50,000 -24.51% 183
East Midlands -20 140 £55,000 - 103
North East +5 104 £40,000 -42.29% 52
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 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
2 149 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 119 (2.75%) Apache
4 38 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 33 (0.76%) Confluence
6 31 (0.72%) Jupyter
6 31 (0.72%) SAS
7 27 (0.62%) WordPress
8 25 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 19 (0.44%) Appian
10 18 (0.42%) IIS
10 18 (0.42%) Tomcat
11 17 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
12 14 (0.32%) WebSphere
13 12 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
14 10 (0.23%) OpenStack
15 9 (0.21%) nginx
16 7 (0.16%) Apache Solr
16 7 (0.16%) CMS
17 5 (0.12%) Anypoint
Applications
1 652 (15.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (0.67%) Chatbot
4 16 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.23%) Simulink
8 6 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.14%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.092%) Windchill
10 3 (0.069%) CATIA
10 3 (0.069%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.046%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.046%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.046%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.046%) Weka
12 1 (0.023%) Notion
12 1 (0.023%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 14 (0.32%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.21%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.12%) Shopify
5 4 (0.092%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.046%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.046%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.023%) Actimize
7 1 (0.023%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.023%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.023%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.023%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.023%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 1,785 (41.20%) Azure
2 1,503 (34.70%) AWS
3 814 (18.79%) Power Platform
4 547 (12.63%) GitHub
5 460 (10.62%) GCP
6 421 (9.72%) Azure AI
7 263 (6.07%) Serverless
8 187 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
9 169 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
10 167 (3.86%) SaaS
11 157 (3.62%) Amazon S3
11 157 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 153 (3.53%) Snowflake
13 140 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
14 135 (3.12%) dbt
15 115 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 107 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
17 82 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
18 79 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 76 (1.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 257 (5.93%) Internet
2 160 (3.69%) Firewall
3 97 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 89 (2.05%) VPN
5 74 (1.71%) DNS
6 70 (1.62%) WAN
7 61 (1.41%) Broadband
8 60 (1.39%) LAN
9 57 (1.32%) BGP
10 55 (1.27%) Wireless
11 51 (1.18%) Network Security
12 50 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
13 48 (1.11%) VLAN
14 40 (0.92%) HTTP
14 40 (0.92%) OSPF
15 34 (0.78%) MPLS
15 34 (0.78%) SD-WAN
16 32 (0.74%) Wireshark
17 26 (0.60%) DHCP
17 26 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 772 (17.82%) Power BI
2 695 (16.04%) Tableau
3 247 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
4 218 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 211 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
6 179 (4.13%) NoSQL
7 156 (3.60%) Data Mining
8 154 (3.55%) Relational Database
9 120 (2.77%) Data Lake
10 113 (2.61%) Big Data
11 111 (2.56%) MongoDB
12 89 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 87 (2.01%) BigQuery
13 87 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
14 86 (1.99%) MySQL
15 73 (1.69%) Metadata
16 70 (1.62%) Hadoop
17 66 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
18 50 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 576 (13.30%) Git
2 216 (4.99%) Jenkins
3 154 (3.55%) GitLab
4 110 (2.54%) JIRA
5 60 (1.39%) Selenium
6 44 (1.02%) MLflow
7 42 (0.97%) Postman
8 33 (0.76%) JUnit
9 27 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.62%) Cucumber
10 23 (0.53%) Jaeger
11 20 (0.46%) JMeter
11 20 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
12 19 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 18 (0.42%) LabVIEW
14 17 (0.39%) CircleCI
14 17 (0.39%) Subversion
15 15 (0.35%) Burp Suite
15 15 (0.35%) Metasploit
16 14 (0.32%) SonarQube
General
1 1,365 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 1,059 (24.45%) Finance
3 704 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (5.56%) Multimedia
5 239 (5.52%) Banking
6 180 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 179 (4.13%) Public Sector
8 170 (3.92%) Law
9 136 (3.14%) Front Office
10 129 (2.98%) Marketing
11 115 (2.65%) Retail
12 114 (2.63%) Manufacturing
13 111 (2.56%) Telecoms
14 84 (1.94%) Financial Institution
15 76 (1.75%) Electronics
16 75 (1.73%) Legal
17 60 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
18 52 (1.20%) Games
19 51 (1.18%) Investment Banking
20 50 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 828 (19.11%) Analyst
2 797 (18.40%) Developer
3 668 (15.42%) Data Analyst
4 662 (15.28%) Senior
5 431 (9.95%) Data Engineer
6 398 (9.19%) Junior
7 392 (9.05%) Trainee
8 377 (8.70%) Junior Analyst
8 377 (8.70%) Junior Data Analyst
9 349 (8.06%) Software Engineer
10 330 (7.62%) Lead
11 317 (7.32%) Python Developer
12 247 (5.70%) Python Engineer
13 200 (4.62%) Software Developer
14 150 (3.46%) Architect
15 145 (3.35%) Senior Developer
16 132 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
17 129 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
18 127 (2.93%) Trainee Analyst
18 127 (2.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (8.98%) HTML
2 354 (8.17%) React
3 343 (7.92%) CSS
4 187 (4.32%) Node.js
4 187 (4.32%) REST
5 170 (3.92%) Django
6 166 (3.83%) Kafka
7 150 (3.46%) RESTful
8 134 (3.09%) .NET
8 134 (3.09%) FastAPI
8 134 (3.09%) PySpark
9 124 (2.86%) PyTorch
10 114 (2.63%) Pandas
11 112 (2.59%) Flask
12 103 (2.38%) TensorFlow
13 99 (2.29%) AngularJS
14 91 (2.10%) JSON
15 81 (1.87%) Vue
16 80 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
16 80 (1.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 234 (5.40%) Cloud Native
2 210 (4.85%) Algorithms
3 168 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 148 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 117 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 101 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 100 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 99 (2.29%) Equities
9 85 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 79 (1.82%) Low-Code
11 74 (1.71%) Hedge funds
12 72 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
13 71 (1.64%) Fixed Income
14 68 (1.57%) Derivative
15 65 (1.50%) AI Agents
15 65 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
16 64 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
17 60 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
18 56 (1.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 494 (11.40%) Linux
2 198 (4.57%) Windows
3 176 (4.06%) Unix
4 64 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 57 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 32 (0.74%) CentOS
7 30 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 18 (0.42%) Debian
10 16 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 14 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (0.25%) Android
13 10 (0.23%) Solaris
13 10 (0.23%) VMS
14 8 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.092%) CoreOS
17 3 (0.069%) Robot Operating System
17 3 (0.069%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,343 (31.00%) AI
2 1,001 (23.11%) CI/CD
3 935 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
4 878 (20.27%) Business Intelligence
5 835 (19.28%) Analytics
6 800 (18.47%) Agile
7 777 (17.94%) DevOps
8 720 (16.62%) Software Engineering
9 675 (15.58%) Mentoring
10 570 (13.16%) Machine Learning
11 489 (11.29%) Data Science
12 484 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
13 483 (11.15%) Data Modelling
13 483 (11.15%) ETL
14 467 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
15 465 (10.73%) Computer Science
16 463 (10.69%) Data Engineering
17 421 (9.72%) Data Analysis
18 403 (9.30%) Containerisation
19 397 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1,745 (40.28%) SQL
2 757 (17.47%) JavaScript
3 601 (13.87%) Java
4 393 (9.07%) Bash
5 352 (8.13%) PowerShell
6 328 (7.57%) TypeScript
7 280 (6.46%) C#
8 235 (5.42%) R
9 223 (5.15%) C++
10 189 (4.36%) Go
11 131 (3.02%) C
12 82 (1.89%) Scala
13 64 (1.48%) PHP
14 62 (1.43%) VBA
15 53 (1.22%) Rust
16 49 (1.13%) Bicep
17 43 (0.99%) MATLAB
18 41 (0.95%) Perl
18 41 (0.95%) T-SQL
19 37 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 789 (18.21%) Degree
2 687 (15.86%) Azure Certification
3 450 (10.39%) Security Cleared
4 370 (8.54%) AWS Certification
5 290 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 266 (6.14%) SC Cleared
7 255 (5.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 223 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 175 (4.04%) Master's Degree
10 156 (3.60%) DV Cleared
11 110 (2.54%) PhD
12 73 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
13 61 (1.41%) CCNP
14 49 (1.13%) CISSP
15 48 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
16 41 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
18 31 (0.72%) OSCP
19 27 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
20 26 (0.60%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.95%) QA
3 114 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 104 (2.40%) GDPR
5 97 (2.24%) NIST
6 65 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 38 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 27 (0.62%) SLA
9 23 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 16 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.32%) PMO
13 13 (0.30%) ISO 22301
14 11 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.21%) GRC
17 7 (0.16%) HIPAA
18 5 (0.12%) NCSC
19 4 (0.092%) ECSS
19 4 (0.092%) NIST 800
System Software
1 523 (12.07%) Docker
2 86 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 55 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (0.69%) Firmware
5 19 (0.44%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.30%) vSphere
8 12 (0.28%) KVM
9 10 (0.23%) HDFS
9 10 (0.23%) ProxySG
9 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 7 (0.16%) Lustre
12 5 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 4 (0.092%) NFS
13 4 (0.092%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.069%) iptables
14 3 (0.069%) Kamailio
14 3 (0.069%) QEMU
14 3 (0.069%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 561 (12.95%) Terraform
2 557 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 320 (7.39%) Ansible
4 134 (3.09%) Grafana
5 131 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 64 (1.48%) Argo
7 23 (0.53%) Puppet
8 22 (0.51%) Kibana
9 20 (0.46%) Kustomize
10 17 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.37%) Nagios
12 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.30%) Rancher
14 12 (0.28%) Nessus
14 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
15 11 (0.25%) Control-M
15 11 (0.25%) logstash
15 11 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
17 9 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1,231 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 250 (5.77%) Databricks
3 201 (4.64%) Google
4 127 (2.93%) Oracle
5 102 (2.35%) Cisco
6 99 (2.29%) VMware
7 76 (1.75%) OpenAI
8 74 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 70 (1.62%) SAP
10 63 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 60 (1.39%) Splunk
12 52 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 51 (1.18%) Informatica
14 44 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 42 (0.97%) Bloomberg
15 42 (0.97%) Talend
16 40 (0.92%) IBM
17 39 (0.90%) Alteryx
18 32 (0.74%) Palantir
19 31 (0.72%) Atlassian