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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 5,099 4,541 6,729
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.50% 12.27% 8.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.74% 35.68% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 3,157 3,218 5,368
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% -6.25%

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 12,217 12,728 25,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.97% 34.39% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8,843 9,297 22,049
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
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 24 March 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 24 March 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 2,222 £83,500 -7.22% 1,157
North of England -4 923 £46,500 -28.46% 467
South East -14 680 £60,000 -8.40% 594
Midlands +4 498 £55,000 - 243
South West +1 434 £57,500 -11.54% 276
Yorkshire +9 401 £40,000 -38.46% 166
North West -8 386 £53,750 -17.31% 227
West Midlands +22 313 £60,000 +9.09% 126
East of England -20 269 £50,000 -24.50% 217
East Midlands -11 186 £55,000 - 117
North East +17 136 £40,000 -38.46% 76
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
1 203 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 186 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 131 (2.57%) Apache
4 68 (1.33%) WordPress
5 62 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 33 (0.65%) SAS
6 33 (0.65%) SharePoint
7 32 (0.63%) Confluence
8 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
10 18 (0.35%) Appian
11 15 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 14 (0.27%) IIS
13 9 (0.18%) nginx
14 8 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.16%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
16 5 (0.098%) Anypoint
17 4 (0.078%) Apache Solr
17 4 (0.078%) GeoServer
Applications
1 992 (19.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (1.29%) Chatbot
3 53 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (0.69%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 13 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.12%) Simulink
8 5 (0.098%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.078%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
9 4 (0.078%) SOLIDWORKS
9 4 (0.078%) Windchill
10 3 (0.059%) CATIA
11 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.039%) Weka
12 1 (0.020%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.020%) Houdini
12 1 (0.020%) Notion
12 1 (0.020%) NUKE
12 1 (0.020%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (0.20%) NetSuite
2 9 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.12%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.098%) Shopify
5 3 (0.059%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.059%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.059%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.039%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.039%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.020%) Actimize
7 1 (0.020%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.020%) Endur
7 1 (0.020%) Findur
7 1 (0.020%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.020%) Primavera
7 1 (0.020%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2,277 (44.66%) Azure
2 1,750 (34.32%) AWS
3 1,150 (22.55%) Power Platform
4 746 (14.63%) Azure AI
5 600 (11.77%) GitHub
6 576 (11.30%) GCP
7 279 (5.47%) Serverless
8 201 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 199 (3.90%) SaaS
10 182 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 177 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
12 170 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
13 162 (3.18%) dbt
14 160 (3.14%) Snowflake
15 156 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 121 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
17 117 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 104 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
19 92 (1.80%) OpenShift
20 91 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 272 (5.33%) Internet
2 187 (3.67%) Firewall
3 131 (2.57%) Broadband
4 110 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 104 (2.04%) VPN
6 96 (1.88%) DNS
7 72 (1.41%) Network Security
8 71 (1.39%) WAN
9 68 (1.33%) LAN
10 63 (1.24%) BGP
11 61 (1.20%) Wireless
12 57 (1.12%) VLAN
13 50 (0.98%) HTTP
14 46 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
15 43 (0.84%) OSPF
16 37 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
17 34 (0.67%) SD-WAN
18 33 (0.65%) MPLS
19 32 (0.63%) Wireshark
20 28 (0.55%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,112 (21.81%) Power BI
2 1,079 (21.16%) Tableau
3 263 (5.16%) Data Warehouse
4 217 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 199 (3.90%) SQL Server
6 169 (3.31%) Data Mining
6 169 (3.31%) NoSQL
7 144 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 132 (2.59%) Data Lake
9 116 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
10 109 (2.14%) BigQuery
11 108 (2.12%) MongoDB
12 97 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 92 (1.80%) Big Data
14 84 (1.65%) Metadata
15 81 (1.59%) MySQL
16 70 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
17 48 (0.94%) Looker
18 47 (0.92%) Delta Lake
19 46 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 666 (13.06%) Git
2 214 (4.20%) Jenkins
3 180 (3.53%) GitLab
4 103 (2.02%) JIRA
5 65 (1.27%) MLflow
6 58 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 54 (1.06%) Selenium
8 37 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 37 (0.73%) Postman
9 32 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 25 (0.49%) IBM UrbanCode
10 25 (0.49%) JUnit
11 22 (0.43%) CircleCI
12 21 (0.41%) Jaeger
13 20 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 19 (0.37%) Cypress.io
14 19 (0.37%) JMeter
15 17 (0.33%) Metasploit
15 17 (0.33%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 1,748 (34.28%) Social Skills
2 1,162 (22.79%) Finance
3 832 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (5.39%) Banking
5 260 (5.10%) Multimedia
6 213 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 205 (4.02%) Public Sector
8 168 (3.29%) Law
9 166 (3.26%) Retail
10 148 (2.90%) Manufacturing
11 137 (2.69%) Front Office
12 119 (2.33%) Marketing
13 108 (2.12%) Telecoms
14 87 (1.71%) Legal
15 72 (1.41%) Financial Institution
16 71 (1.39%) Electronics
16 71 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
17 65 (1.27%) Investment Banking
18 46 (0.90%) Games
19 45 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1,194 (23.42%) Analyst
2 1,014 (19.89%) Data Analyst
3 848 (16.63%) Developer
4 747 (14.65%) Senior
5 743 (14.57%) Junior
6 710 (13.92%) Junior Analyst
6 710 (13.92%) Junior Data Analyst
7 466 (9.14%) Data Engineer
8 455 (8.92%) Trainee
9 428 (8.39%) Software Engineer
10 401 (7.86%) Lead
11 341 (6.69%) Python Developer
12 317 (6.22%) Python Engineer
13 215 (4.22%) Software Developer
14 161 (3.16%) Architect
15 152 (2.98%) Senior Developer
16 144 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
16 144 (2.82%) Trainee Analyst
16 144 (2.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
17 142 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 404 (7.92%) HTML
2 373 (7.32%) React
3 355 (6.96%) CSS
4 231 (4.53%) Kafka
5 210 (4.12%) Node.js
6 198 (3.88%) Django
7 191 (3.75%) REST
8 167 (3.28%) PySpark
9 159 (3.12%) RESTful
10 155 (3.04%) PyTorch
11 146 (2.86%) .NET
12 141 (2.77%) Pandas
13 135 (2.65%) TensorFlow
14 134 (2.63%) FastAPI
15 124 (2.43%) scikit-learn
16 123 (2.41%) Flask
17 100 (1.96%) JSON
18 93 (1.82%) NumPy
19 84 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
20 82 (1.61%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 277 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 249 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 198 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 169 (3.31%) Data Structures
5 116 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 104 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 100 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 93 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 87 (1.71%) Data Centre
10 86 (1.69%) Equities
11 84 (1.65%) Fixed Income
12 82 (1.61%) Low-Code
13 77 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
13 77 (1.51%) Hedge funds
14 72 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
15 70 (1.37%) Public Cloud
16 69 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
17 67 (1.31%) AI Agents
18 64 (1.26%) Security Posture
19 63 (1.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 542 (10.63%) Linux
2 219 (4.29%) Windows
3 181 (3.55%) Unix
4 66 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 58 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (0.80%) CentOS
7 28 (0.55%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.22%) Debian
10 11 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.16%) Android
11 8 (0.16%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.12%) VMS
13 5 (0.098%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.098%) Solaris
13 5 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.078%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.059%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.059%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,821 (35.71%) AI
2 1,220 (23.93%) Business Intelligence
3 1,100 (21.57%) CI/CD
4 976 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
5 938 (18.40%) Analytics
6 883 (17.32%) Agile
7 863 (16.92%) Software Engineering
8 830 (16.28%) DevOps
9 720 (14.12%) Mentoring
10 672 (13.18%) Machine Learning
11 560 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 552 (10.83%) Data Modelling
13 538 (10.55%) Data Science
14 531 (10.41%) ETL
15 522 (10.24%) Data Pipeline
16 492 (9.65%) Data Engineering
17 482 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
18 478 (9.37%) Containerisation
19 477 (9.35%) Computer Science
20 430 (8.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2,163 (42.42%) SQL
2 798 (15.65%) JavaScript
3 603 (11.83%) Java
4 399 (7.83%) Bash
5 389 (7.63%) PowerShell
6 326 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 283 (5.55%) C#
8 265 (5.20%) R
9 260 (5.10%) C++
10 259 (5.08%) Go
11 130 (2.55%) C
12 99 (1.94%) Scala
13 73 (1.43%) Rust
14 69 (1.35%) VBA
15 63 (1.24%) PHP
16 45 (0.88%) Bicep
17 41 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 37 (0.73%) T-SQL
19 36 (0.71%) Perl
20 30 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,042 (20.44%) Azure Certification
2 769 (15.08%) Degree
3 440 (8.63%) Security Cleared
4 414 (8.12%) AWS Certification
5 313 (6.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 306 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 249 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 245 (4.80%) SC Cleared
9 175 (3.43%) DV Cleared
10 128 (2.51%) Master's Degree
11 90 (1.77%) PhD
12 68 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 58 (1.14%) CCNP
14 50 (0.98%) CISSP
15 45 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
16 43 (0.84%) OSCP
17 38 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 29 (0.57%) CREST Certified
19 27 (0.53%) CIMA
19 27 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 374 (7.33%) Data Quality
2 198 (3.88%) QA
3 124 (2.43%) GDPR
4 114 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 108 (2.12%) NIST
6 63 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 46 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 37 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 34 (0.67%) SOC 2
10 23 (0.45%) PMO
10 23 (0.45%) SLA
11 21 (0.41%) HIPAA
12 20 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 18 (0.35%) GRC
14 17 (0.33%) ISO 22301
15 11 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.14%) WCAG
17 6 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 5 (0.098%) DICOM
System Software
1 574 (11.26%) Docker
2 92 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 68 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (0.63%) Firmware
6 26 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 20 (0.39%) KVM
8 16 (0.31%) ProxySG
9 13 (0.25%) vSphere
10 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.14%) Lustre
11 7 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.12%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.098%) iptables
14 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.078%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.059%) HDFS
15 3 (0.059%) Kamailio
15 3 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 632 (12.39%) Terraform
2 590 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 326 (6.39%) Ansible
4 172 (3.37%) Grafana
5 145 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 60 (1.18%) Argo
7 27 (0.53%) Nagios
8 23 (0.45%) Puppet
9 21 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.33%) Istio
11 17 (0.33%) Kibana
12 12 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.24%) Nessus
13 11 (0.22%) Control-M
13 11 (0.22%) Kubeflow
13 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.20%) Proxmox
14 10 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1,653 (32.42%) Microsoft
2 287 (5.63%) Databricks
3 201 (3.94%) Google
4 144 (2.82%) Oracle
5 117 (2.29%) Cisco
6 116 (2.27%) VMware
7 98 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 71 (1.39%) SAP
9 67 (1.31%) OpenAI
9 67 (1.31%) Splunk
10 64 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 58 (1.14%) ServiceNow
12 49 (0.96%) Informatica
13 46 (0.90%) Fortinet
14 44 (0.86%) Dell
14 44 (0.86%) Foundry
15 41 (0.80%) Bloomberg
15 41 (0.80%) Palantir
15 41 (0.80%) Talend
16 39 (0.76%) Alteryx