Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 376 429
Rank change year-on-year -36 +53 -98
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 370 307 397
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.78% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 296 237 338
10th Percentile £47,000 £54,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £87,500 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £130,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £153,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £87,500 £100,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -12.50% +14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 87,174 39,531 69,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.70% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 61,224 23,934 47,658
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,019 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Python Developer job vacancy trend in England

Python Developer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in England

Python Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in England

Python Developer
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 Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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 -93 197 £90,000 -10.00% 63
North of England +22 79 £70,000 - 8
Yorkshire -6 38 £70,000 - 5
East of England +2 31 £65,000 -5.45% 6
South West -35 25 £50,000 -41.18% 5
North East - 21 £70,000 - 1
North West +12 20 £45,000 -30.77% 2
South East -16 19 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands -24 17 £67,500 -3.57% 4
East Midlands -13 11 £70,000 +75.00% 1
West Midlands -32 6 £57,500 -17.86% 3
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 370 (100.00%) Python
2 111 (30.00%) AWS
3 102 (27.57%) Software Engineering
4 94 (25.41%) AI
5 92 (24.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (16.49%) CI/CD
7 56 (15.14%) SQL
8 52 (14.05%) Agile
9 51 (13.78%) JavaScript
10 50 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
11 45 (12.16%) Azure
11 45 (12.16%) FastAPI
12 43 (11.62%) Docker
13 40 (10.81%) Flask
14 39 (10.54%) RESTful
15 37 (10.00%) Test Automation
16 34 (9.19%) TypeScript
17 31 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 30 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
18 30 (8.11%) Kubernetes
18 30 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (8.11%) React
19 28 (7.57%) Linux
20 27 (7.30%) Django
20 27 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
20 27 (7.30%) Validation
21 26 (7.03%) Microservices
21 26 (7.03%) OOP
22 25 (6.76%) Git
22 25 (6.76%) NumPy

Python Developer Skill Set
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 11 (2.97%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.54%) Apache
3 2 (0.54%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 111 (30.00%) AWS
2 45 (12.16%) Azure
3 22 (5.95%) SaaS
4 19 (5.14%) Serverless
5 15 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.78%) Amazon S3
7 12 (3.24%) GCP
8 11 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.16%) GitHub
10 7 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.35%) Prefect
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.08%) Kong
13 3 (0.81%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.05%) Broadband
2 7 (1.89%) MQTT
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.32%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.24%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.70%) Big Data
5 9 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.35%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.08%) GIS
8 4 (1.08%) MySQL
8 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.54%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.27%) Redis
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.76%) Git
2 6 (1.62%) GitLab
3 3 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) MLflow
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.27%) Poetry
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (12.70%) Finance
2 30 (8.11%) Front Office
2 30 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 19 (5.14%) Tech for Good
4 15 (4.05%) Games
5 12 (3.24%) Health Technology
6 9 (2.43%) Banking
7 6 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.08%) Publishing
10 3 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.54%) Automotive
11 2 (0.54%) Aviation
11 2 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
12 1 (0.27%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.16%) FastAPI
2 40 (10.81%) Flask
3 39 (10.54%) RESTful
4 30 (8.11%) React
5 27 (7.30%) Django
6 25 (6.76%) NumPy
7 24 (6.49%) Pandas
7 24 (6.49%) REST
8 22 (5.95%) Vue
9 21 (5.68%) Node.js
10 20 (5.41%) CSS
10 20 (5.41%) Kafka
11 18 (4.86%) HTML
12 14 (3.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 14 (3.78%) Swagger
13 11 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (2.70%) AngularJS
15 8 (2.16%) .NET
16 7 (1.89%) OpenAPI
17 6 (1.62%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.43%) Algorithms
2 41 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (10.54%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.76%) Hedge funds
5 22 (5.95%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.68%) Equities
7 20 (5.41%) Data Structures
7 20 (5.41%) Fixed Income
8 19 (5.14%) Low-Code
9 18 (4.86%) Cyber Threat
10 15 (4.05%) Video\Live Streaming
11 14 (3.78%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (2.70%) Derivative
14 9 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.89%) Educational Technology
16 6 (1.62%) PropTech
17 5 (1.35%) Market Risk
17 5 (1.35%) Onboarding
18 4 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.57%) Linux
2 2 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (27.57%) Software Engineering
2 94 (25.41%) AI
3 92 (24.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (16.49%) CI/CD
5 52 (14.05%) Agile
6 37 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 31 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
8 30 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (7.30%) Validation
10 26 (7.03%) Microservices
10 26 (7.03%) OOP
11 24 (6.49%) Containerisation
11 24 (6.49%) Machine Learning
12 23 (6.22%) DevOps
12 23 (6.22%) Mentoring
13 22 (5.95%) API Design
13 22 (5.95%) Computer Vision
13 22 (5.95%) OO
Programming Languages
1 370 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (15.14%) SQL
3 51 (13.78%) JavaScript
4 34 (9.19%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.49%) C++
6 15 (4.05%) Go
7 7 (1.89%) C#
8 6 (1.62%) Java
8 6 (1.62%) PHP
9 5 (1.35%) Rust
10 4 (1.08%) Bash
11 3 (0.81%) Perl
12 2 (0.54%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.27%) Bicep
13 1 (0.27%) Haskell
13 1 (0.27%) OCaml
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (4.05%) Degree
2 10 (2.70%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.16%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.05%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (11.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 30 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.32%) Terraform
3 3 (0.81%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Grafana
4 2 (0.54%) Kibana
4 2 (0.54%) logstash
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (3.78%) Databricks
2 4 (1.08%) Oracle
3 3 (0.81%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.27%) SAP