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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 16
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 6,336 5,188 6,619
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.02% 11.94% 8.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.81% 40.04% 29.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,822 2,915 4,843
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -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 16,326 12,958 22,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.09% 29.83% 29.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,891 8,708 17,187
10th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £46,250
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -3 2,544 £85,000 -5.56% 1,700
North of England -11 1,290 £65,000 - 411
South East +4 940 £60,000 - 511
North West -16 608 £65,500 +9.17% 214
Midlands +13 600 £62,250 -0.40% 179
South West +9 593 £60,000 +9.09% 223
Yorkshire +12 443 £65,000 - 116
West Midlands +2 316 £62,500 -3.85% 101
East of England +8 309 £65,000 - 181
East Midlands +21 283 £55,000 - 78
North East +30 239 £60,000 -7.69% 87
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
1 236 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 229 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 175 (2.76%) Apache
4 73 (1.15%) Jupyter
5 60 (0.95%) Confluence
6 46 (0.73%) WordPress
7 39 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 26 (0.41%) SAS
9 25 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 20 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.19%) nginx
12 9 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 7 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.11%) CMS
13 7 (0.11%) IIS
13 7 (0.11%) JBoss
14 6 (0.095%) Camunda
14 6 (0.095%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.079%) GeoServer
16 4 (0.063%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 864 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 41 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 38 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 16 (0.25%) Simulink
7 10 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.095%) LaTeX
9 5 (0.079%) Lightworks
10 3 (0.047%) Blender
10 3 (0.047%) Maya
10 3 (0.047%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.047%) Trello
11 2 (0.032%) CATIA
11 2 (0.032%) SPSS
12 1 (0.016%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 10 (0.16%) NetSuite
2 8 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.095%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.079%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.079%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.063%) Line 50
5 4 (0.063%) Shopify
6 3 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.047%) Magento
6 3 (0.047%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.047%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.047%) Summit
7 2 (0.032%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.032%) Infor M3
7 2 (0.032%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.032%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.016%) FastStats
8 1 (0.016%) Odoo
8 1 (0.016%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 2,656 (41.92%) Azure
2 2,010 (31.72%) AWS
3 1,164 (18.37%) Power Platform
4 1,038 (16.38%) Azure AI
5 758 (11.96%) GCP
6 385 (6.08%) GitHub
7 366 (5.78%) Serverless
8 244 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 231 (3.65%) SaaS
10 230 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
11 223 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
12 221 (3.49%) Snowflake
13 198 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 195 (3.08%) dbt
15 165 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
16 163 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
17 156 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
18 129 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 121 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
20 116 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 226 (3.57%) Firewall
2 149 (2.35%) Broadband
3 132 (2.08%) DNS
4 130 (2.05%) VPN
5 115 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 113 (1.78%) Network Security
7 92 (1.45%) WAN
8 78 (1.23%) Wireless
9 73 (1.15%) LAN
10 70 (1.10%) Internet
11 54 (0.85%) BGP
12 51 (0.80%) VLAN
13 49 (0.77%) HTTP
14 46 (0.73%) SD-WAN
15 40 (0.63%) MQTT
16 39 (0.62%) DHCP
17 38 (0.60%) OSPF
18 35 (0.55%) SSL
19 29 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
20 26 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1,095 (17.28%) Power BI
2 937 (14.79%) Tableau
3 322 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 287 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
5 190 (3.00%) Data Lake
6 178 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 161 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 143 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 140 (2.21%) BigQuery
10 139 (2.19%) MongoDB
11 118 (1.86%) Big Data
12 111 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 110 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 107 (1.69%) MySQL
15 96 (1.52%) Metadata
16 81 (1.28%) DynamoDB
17 73 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
18 63 (0.99%) Delta Lake
18 63 (0.99%) Looker
19 61 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 666 (10.51%) Git
2 284 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 250 (3.95%) GitLab
4 162 (2.56%) JIRA
5 80 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 61 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 60 (0.95%) MLflow
8 59 (0.93%) Claude Code
9 46 (0.73%) Selenium
10 36 (0.57%) Subversion
11 35 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 32 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 28 (0.44%) JUnit
14 27 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 26 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
16 25 (0.39%) TeamCity
17 24 (0.38%) LabVIEW
18 22 (0.35%) JMeter
19 21 (0.33%) Eclipse
19 21 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 2,225 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 1,290 (20.36%) Finance
3 829 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 296 (4.67%) Banking
5 281 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 223 (3.52%) Public Sector
7 194 (3.06%) Law
8 184 (2.90%) Retail
9 133 (2.10%) Manufacturing
10 132 (2.08%) Marketing
11 129 (2.04%) Front Office
12 123 (1.94%) Legal
13 88 (1.39%) Telecoms
14 82 (1.29%) Electronics
15 80 (1.26%) Aerospace
16 76 (1.20%) Financial Institution
16 76 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.06%) Games
18 66 (1.04%) Investment Banking
19 53 (0.84%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1,204 (19.00%) Senior
2 1,060 (16.73%) Analyst
3 896 (14.14%) Data Analyst
4 894 (14.11%) Developer
5 807 (12.74%) Software Engineer
6 785 (12.39%) Junior
7 714 (11.27%) Junior Analyst
8 712 (11.24%) Junior Data Analyst
9 634 (10.01%) Python Engineer
10 619 (9.77%) Data Engineer
11 576 (9.09%) Lead
12 464 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 374 (5.90%) Python Developer
14 302 (4.77%) Python Software Engineer
15 235 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 215 (3.39%) Architect
17 208 (3.28%) Data Scientist
18 193 (3.05%) Senior Developer
19 189 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
20 179 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (6.41%) React
2 291 (4.59%) Kafka
3 250 (3.95%) Node.js
4 232 (3.66%) PySpark
5 226 (3.57%) REST
6 224 (3.54%) .NET
7 202 (3.19%) FastAPI
8 200 (3.16%) RESTful
9 195 (3.08%) Django
10 191 (3.01%) HTML
11 174 (2.75%) CSS
12 167 (2.64%) PyTorch
13 161 (2.54%) LangChain
14 158 (2.49%) Pandas
15 141 (2.23%) TensorFlow
16 137 (2.16%) Flask
17 133 (2.10%) scikit-learn
18 109 (1.72%) JSON
18 109 (1.72%) Spring
19 108 (1.70%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 543 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 337 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 327 (5.16%) Algorithms
4 193 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 182 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 169 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 133 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 99 (1.56%) Public Cloud
9 92 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 90 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
11 84 (1.33%) Fixed Income
11 84 (1.33%) Low-Code
12 83 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 77 (1.22%) Equities
14 76 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 76 (1.20%) Hedge funds
15 72 (1.14%) Robotics
16 71 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
17 70 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
18 65 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 705 (11.13%) Linux
2 319 (5.03%) Windows
3 94 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 83 (1.31%) Unix
5 52 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (0.66%) CentOS
7 36 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 23 (0.36%) Debian
8 23 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
9 16 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.21%) Windows 10
11 12 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 10 (0.16%) VMS
12 10 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 9 (0.14%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.13%) Android
14 8 (0.13%) Kali Linux
14 8 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
15 7 (0.11%) Rocky
16 5 (0.079%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,756 (43.50%) AI
2 1,553 (24.51%) Software Engineering
3 1,529 (24.13%) CI/CD
4 1,224 (19.32%) Business Intelligence
5 1,122 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 1,116 (17.61%) Agile
7 1,062 (16.76%) DevOps
8 1,054 (16.64%) Analytics
9 953 (15.04%) Machine Learning
10 881 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
11 765 (12.07%) Mentoring
12 696 (10.98%) Data Engineering
13 690 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
14 665 (10.50%) Data Modelling
15 614 (9.69%) Data Science
16 607 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 587 (9.26%) Containerisation
18 570 (9.00%) Full-Stack Development
19 560 (8.84%) Computer Science
20 553 (8.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2,393 (37.77%) SQL
2 777 (12.26%) Java
3 656 (10.35%) JavaScript
4 526 (8.30%) C++
5 495 (7.81%) PowerShell
6 477 (7.53%) Bash
7 454 (7.17%) C#
8 400 (6.31%) TypeScript
9 274 (4.32%) Go
10 179 (2.83%) C
11 168 (2.65%) R
12 124 (1.96%) Scala
13 99 (1.56%) PHP
14 96 (1.52%) Rust
15 88 (1.39%) Bicep
16 67 (1.06%) Perl
17 66 (1.04%) Ruby
18 62 (0.98%) MATLAB
19 59 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 50 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,166 (18.40%) Azure Certification
2 836 (13.19%) Degree
3 729 (11.51%) Security Cleared
4 419 (6.61%) SC Cleared
5 307 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 244 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 199 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 186 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 117 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 114 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 94 (1.48%) PhD
12 79 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
13 54 (0.85%) CCNP
14 46 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 39 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 38 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 35 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 34 (0.54%) CISSP
19 33 (0.52%) OSCP
20 24 (0.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 260 (4.10%) QA
3 148 (2.34%) GDPR
4 91 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 74 (1.17%) NIST
6 62 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 32 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 21 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 21 (0.33%) PMO
11 20 (0.32%) GRC
11 20 (0.32%) SLA
12 19 (0.30%) WCAG
13 15 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.14%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.14%) NCSC
16 8 (0.13%) JTAG
17 7 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 731 (11.54%) Docker
2 110 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 108 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (0.92%) Firmware
5 44 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 43 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.44%) KVM
8 26 (0.41%) vSphere
9 20 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 14 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 13 (0.21%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.16%) ProxySG
13 8 (0.13%) Squid
14 6 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 6 (0.095%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 6 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
15 3 (0.047%) IAG
15 3 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
15 3 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.047%) Xen
Systems Management
1 898 (14.17%) Terraform
2 714 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 381 (6.01%) Ansible
4 238 (3.76%) Grafana
5 161 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 53 (0.84%) Argo
7 46 (0.73%) Nagios
8 43 (0.68%) Puppet
9 36 (0.57%) Kibana
10 30 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 29 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 29 (0.46%) Packer
12 28 (0.44%) Istio
13 23 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.28%) Podman
15 16 (0.25%) logstash
15 16 (0.25%) Proxmox
15 16 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (0.24%) Kubeflow
17 14 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 1,507 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 420 (6.63%) Databricks
3 189 (2.98%) Google
4 148 (2.34%) Splunk
5 138 (2.18%) Oracle
6 137 (2.16%) VMware
7 120 (1.89%) Cisco
8 112 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 111 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 69 (1.09%) ServiceNow
11 61 (0.96%) Foundry
12 57 (0.90%) Palo Alto
13 47 (0.74%) Salesforce
14 46 (0.73%) SolarWinds
15 41 (0.65%) F5
16 40 (0.63%) SAP
17 37 (0.58%) Fortinet
18 36 (0.57%) Typelevel
19 34 (0.54%) Palantir
20 31 (0.49%) Dynatrace