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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,144 4,953 6,684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.32% 11.35% 9.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.86% 40.49% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,803 2,762 4,536
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,250 £132,500 £136,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% +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 16,669 12,234 21,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.14% 28.04% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,212 8,154 14,868
10th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -2 2,555 £85,000 -5.56% 5,440
North of England -14 1,197 £66,805 +6.89% 767
South East +10 880 £60,000 +4.35% 941
South West +11 603 £60,000 +9.09% 540
North West -19 582 £67,500 +12.50% 429
Midlands +7 540 £62,000 -4.62% 369
Yorkshire +10 365 £67,750 +4.23% 227
East of England +9 312 £65,000 +18.18% 536
West Midlands -4 288 £65,000 - 213
North East +22 250 £66,000 +10.00% 117
East Midlands +17 250 £52,500 -19.23% 154
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
1 221 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 193 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
3 165 (2.69%) Apache
4 70 (1.14%) Confluence
5 47 (0.76%) WordPress
6 38 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 36 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 27 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 22 (0.36%) SAS
10 21 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 13 (0.21%) nginx
12 10 (0.16%) OpenStack
13 9 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 9 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 8 (0.13%) CMS
15 7 (0.11%) Camunda
15 7 (0.11%) IIS
16 6 (0.098%) JBoss
17 4 (0.065%) Headless CMS
18 3 (0.049%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 546 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 24 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.31%) Simulink
6 12 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.098%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
9 5 (0.081%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.049%) Blender
10 3 (0.049%) Maya
10 3 (0.049%) Trello
11 2 (0.033%) CATIA
11 2 (0.033%) OrCAD
11 2 (0.033%) SOLIDWORKS
11 2 (0.033%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.016%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.016%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 11 (0.18%) Fidessa
2 9 (0.15%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.11%) SAP ERP
5 6 (0.098%) Raiser’s Edge
6 5 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.081%) Shopify
7 4 (0.065%) Line 50
7 4 (0.065%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.049%) Magento
8 3 (0.049%) Summit
9 2 (0.033%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.033%) Infor M3
9 2 (0.033%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.033%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.033%) SAP SD
10 1 (0.016%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 1 (0.016%) FastStats
10 1 (0.016%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 2,404 (39.13%) Azure
2 1,949 (31.72%) AWS
3 907 (14.76%) Power Platform
4 767 (12.48%) Azure AI
5 741 (12.06%) GCP
6 407 (6.62%) GitHub
7 365 (5.94%) Serverless
8 241 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
9 237 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
10 235 (3.82%) Amazon S3
11 222 (3.61%) SaaS
11 222 (3.61%) Snowflake
12 208 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 190 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
14 184 (2.99%) dbt
15 168 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
16 164 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
17 141 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 130 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
19 126 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 224 (3.65%) Firewall
2 142 (2.31%) DNS
3 132 (2.15%) VPN
4 126 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 114 (1.86%) Broadband
6 106 (1.73%) Network Security
7 96 (1.56%) WAN
8 80 (1.30%) Wireless
9 73 (1.19%) LAN
10 71 (1.16%) Internet
11 60 (0.98%) BGP
12 52 (0.85%) DHCP
13 49 (0.80%) VLAN
14 47 (0.76%) SD-WAN
15 43 (0.70%) OSPF
16 41 (0.67%) MQTT
17 40 (0.65%) HTTP
18 35 (0.57%) SSL
19 26 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
19 26 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 837 (13.62%) Power BI
2 596 (9.70%) Tableau
3 340 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
4 278 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 211 (3.43%) Data Lake
6 172 (2.80%) SQL Server
7 156 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 147 (2.39%) MongoDB
9 144 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 125 (2.03%) Big Data
10 125 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 115 (1.87%) MySQL
12 103 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 102 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
14 97 (1.58%) Metadata
15 89 (1.45%) DynamoDB
16 86 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
17 73 (1.19%) Delta Lake
18 68 (1.11%) Looker
19 67 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 697 (11.34%) Git
2 301 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 246 (4.00%) GitLab
4 172 (2.80%) JIRA
5 64 (1.04%) Claude Code
6 57 (0.93%) MLflow
7 56 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 52 (0.85%) Selenium
9 47 (0.76%) Subversion
10 42 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 38 (0.62%) SonarQube
12 37 (0.60%) JUnit
13 36 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 33 (0.54%) Cucumber
15 30 (0.49%) Eclipse
16 26 (0.42%) LabVIEW
17 22 (0.36%) Maven
18 21 (0.34%) TeamCity
19 20 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 20 (0.33%) JMeter
General
1 2,053 (33.41%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (20.96%) Finance
3 816 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
4 329 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 311 (5.06%) Banking
6 238 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 215 (3.50%) Law
8 186 (3.03%) Marketing
9 150 (2.44%) Retail
10 126 (2.05%) Legal
11 103 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 99 (1.61%) Front Office
13 94 (1.53%) Aerospace
13 94 (1.53%) Electronics
14 84 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 83 (1.35%) Financial Institution
16 72 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (1.07%) Games
18 53 (0.86%) Multimedia
19 46 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,249 (20.33%) Senior
2 831 (13.53%) Developer
3 829 (13.49%) Software Engineer
4 746 (12.14%) Analyst
5 671 (10.92%) Python Engineer
6 611 (9.94%) Data Engineer
7 606 (9.86%) Lead
8 580 (9.44%) Data Analyst
9 512 (8.33%) Junior
10 503 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 432 (7.03%) Junior Analyst
12 428 (6.97%) Junior Data Analyst
13 358 (5.83%) Python Developer
14 307 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
15 248 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
16 224 (3.65%) Architect
17 216 (3.52%) Data Scientist
18 195 (3.17%) Senior Developer
19 193 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
20 184 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 958 (15.59%) Terraform
2 389 (6.33%) React
3 253 (4.12%) Kafka
4 232 (3.78%) .NET
5 224 (3.65%) REST
6 219 (3.56%) PySpark
7 216 (3.52%) Node.js
8 208 (3.39%) RESTful
9 202 (3.29%) FastAPI
10 190 (3.09%) HTML
11 185 (3.01%) Django
12 181 (2.95%) PyTorch
13 177 (2.88%) LangChain
14 174 (2.83%) CSS
15 153 (2.49%) TensorFlow
16 129 (2.10%) Flask
17 115 (1.87%) Spring
17 115 (1.87%) Spring Boot
18 106 (1.73%) Pandas
19 102 (1.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 595 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 326 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
3 297 (4.83%) Algorithms
4 229 (3.73%) AI Agents
5 205 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 154 (2.51%) Product Ownership
7 144 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 96 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 88 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 82 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 81 (1.32%) Management Information System
11 81 (1.32%) Robotics
12 78 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
12 78 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 76 (1.24%) Hedge funds
13 76 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
14 74 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 68 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
16 65 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
17 64 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 718 (11.69%) Linux
2 324 (5.27%) Windows
3 89 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 79 (1.29%) Unix
5 52 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 45 (0.73%) CentOS
7 36 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 28 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
9 22 (0.36%) Debian
10 17 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 15 (0.24%) Mac OS
12 13 (0.21%) Rocky
13 12 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 11 (0.18%) Android
14 11 (0.18%) Apple iOS
15 10 (0.16%) Solaris
15 10 (0.16%) VMS
16 9 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
17 7 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
18 6 (0.098%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,562 (41.70%) AI
2 1,631 (26.55%) Software Engineering
3 1,563 (25.44%) CI/CD
4 1,187 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 1,096 (17.84%) Analytics
6 1,090 (17.74%) DevOps
7 1,073 (17.46%) Agile
8 1,007 (16.39%) Machine Learning
9 999 (16.26%) Business Intelligence
10 950 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 812 (13.22%) Mentoring
12 725 (11.80%) Data Engineering
13 710 (11.56%) Data Pipeline
14 661 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 658 (10.71%) Data Modelling
16 633 (10.30%) Data Science
17 597 (9.72%) Containerisation
18 589 (9.59%) Computer Science
18 589 (9.59%) Decision-Making
19 574 (9.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,134 (34.73%) SQL
2 806 (13.12%) Java
3 637 (10.37%) JavaScript
4 551 (8.97%) C++
5 504 (8.20%) Bash
6 498 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 474 (7.71%) C#
8 383 (6.23%) TypeScript
9 259 (4.22%) Go
10 191 (3.11%) C
11 169 (2.75%) R
12 119 (1.94%) Scala
13 98 (1.60%) PHP
14 95 (1.55%) Bicep
14 95 (1.55%) Rust
15 88 (1.43%) Perl
16 76 (1.24%) Ruby
17 65 (1.06%) MATLAB
18 64 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 44 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 907 (14.76%) Degree
2 894 (14.55%) Azure Certification
3 802 (13.05%) Security Cleared
4 439 (7.15%) SC Cleared
5 322 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 266 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 213 (3.47%) Master's Degree
8 167 (2.72%) AWS Certification
9 127 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 112 (1.82%) PhD
11 82 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 74 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 62 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
14 52 (0.85%) CCNP
15 44 (0.72%) DBS Check
16 41 (0.67%) CISSP
16 41 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
17 35 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 31 (0.50%) OSCP
19 29 (0.47%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 504 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 267 (4.35%) QA
3 134 (2.18%) GDPR
4 107 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 60 (0.98%) NIST
6 56 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 28 (0.46%) SLA
8 25 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 22 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 20 (0.33%) PMO
12 19 (0.31%) WCAG
13 17 (0.28%) NCSC
14 16 (0.26%) GRC
15 15 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.13%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) Basel III
17 7 (0.11%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 762 (12.40%) Docker
2 115 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 105 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (1.12%) Firmware
5 47 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 38 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 27 (0.44%) vSphere
8 22 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 21 (0.34%) KVM
10 15 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 13 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.13%) Squid
13 7 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 7 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
14 6 (0.098%) ProxySG
15 5 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
16 3 (0.049%) IAG
16 3 (0.049%) iptables
17 2 (0.033%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 765 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 413 (6.72%) Ansible
3 240 (3.91%) Grafana
4 145 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 62 (1.01%) Puppet
6 52 (0.85%) Argo
7 41 (0.67%) Progress Chef
8 37 (0.60%) Kibana
9 36 (0.59%) Nagios
10 34 (0.55%) Istio
11 32 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 29 (0.47%) Packer
13 23 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 19 (0.31%) Podman
15 18 (0.29%) Kubeflow
16 17 (0.28%) logstash
16 17 (0.28%) Proxmox
16 17 (0.28%) Rancher
16 17 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
17 15 (0.24%) Graylog
Vendors
1 1,205 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 452 (7.36%) Databricks
3 202 (3.29%) Google
4 150 (2.44%) Splunk
5 130 (2.12%) VMware
6 123 (2.00%) Cisco
7 122 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 115 (1.87%) Oracle
9 99 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 72 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 59 (0.96%) Foundry
12 52 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 48 (0.78%) Dynatrace
14 42 (0.68%) Fortinet
14 42 (0.68%) SolarWinds
15 40 (0.65%) Salesforce
16 37 (0.60%) F5
17 35 (0.57%) Palantir
17 35 (0.57%) SAP
18 31 (0.50%) IBM