Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 420 316
Rank change year-on-year +78 -104 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 287 340 437
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.64% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 215 236 405
10th Percentile £60,000 £50,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -17.11% +18.75%
75th Percentile £121,250 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £139,000 £142,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -13.89% +16.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,054 53,467 42,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.03% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27,832 29,735 33,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,175 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +39 220 £90,000 +5.88% 55
North of England +35 28 £80,000 +23.08% 16
Yorkshire +18 22 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Midlands +53 21 £70,000 +27.27% 2
West Midlands +50 13 £90,000 +89.47% 2
East Midlands +10 8 £70,000 +27.27%
South East +37 7 £70,000 +12.00% 22
North West +35 6 £70,000 -6.23% 8
South West +9 5 £60,000 +9.09% 4
East of England +27 2 £52,500 -38.24%
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, 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.

1 287 (100.00%) Python
2 125 (43.55%) AWS
3 122 (42.51%) Agile
4 106 (36.93%) React
5 100 (34.84%) Software Engineering
6 80 (27.87%) CI/CD
7 73 (25.44%) JavaScript
8 71 (24.74%) TypeScript
9 68 (23.69%) PostgreSQL
9 68 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (22.65%) Azure
11 64 (22.30%) GCP
12 61 (21.25%) Test Automation
13 60 (20.91%) Docker
14 59 (20.56%) Order Management
15 58 (20.21%) AI
16 57 (19.86%) Vue
17 55 (19.16%) Fintech
17 55 (19.16%) Mentoring
18 53 (18.47%) AngularJS
18 53 (18.47%) SQL
19 52 (18.12%) Node.js
20 50 (17.42%) Containerisation
21 49 (17.07%) Django
21 49 (17.07%) Flask
22 48 (16.72%) Serverless
23 45 (15.68%) NumPy
23 45 (15.68%) Pandas
24 44 (15.33%) RESTful
25 43 (14.98%) Amazon Athena

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 41 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.39%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 125 (43.55%) AWS
2 65 (22.65%) Azure
3 64 (22.30%) GCP
4 48 (16.72%) Serverless
5 43 (14.98%) dbt
6 32 (11.15%) GitHub
7 30 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.27%) SaaS
9 17 (5.92%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.23%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (5.23%) Azure AI
11 9 (3.14%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.79%) n8n
13 6 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.70%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.70%) Copilot Studio
15 2 (0.70%) GitHub Copilot
15 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) FTP
1 2 (0.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.35%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (23.69%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (14.98%) Amazon Athena
2 43 (14.98%) Apache Iceberg
3 41 (14.29%) Apache Arrow
3 41 (14.29%) Dremio
4 25 (8.71%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.57%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.53%) Big Data
7 13 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (4.18%) MySQL
8 12 (4.18%) Tick Data
9 10 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.48%) MongoDB
10 9 (3.14%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.79%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.35%) Power BI
13 1 (0.35%) Redis
13 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.92%) Git
2 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) JIRA
3 2 (0.70%) Maven
3 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 118 (41.11%) Finance
2 67 (23.34%) Front Office
3 47 (16.38%) Social Skills
4 28 (9.76%) Marketing
5 27 (9.41%) Health Technology
5 27 (9.41%) Publishing
6 26 (9.06%) Tech for Good
7 16 (5.57%) Banking
7 16 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (4.53%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.18%) Retail
10 10 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (3.14%) Electronics
11 9 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.14%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.44%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.44%) Legal
13 3 (1.05%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (36.93%) React
2 57 (19.86%) Vue
3 53 (18.47%) AngularJS
4 52 (18.12%) Node.js
5 49 (17.07%) Django
5 49 (17.07%) Flask
6 45 (15.68%) NumPy
6 45 (15.68%) Pandas
7 44 (15.33%) RESTful
8 41 (14.29%) SciPy
9 38 (13.24%) REST
10 37 (12.89%) FastAPI
11 21 (7.32%) HTML
12 19 (6.62%) CSS
13 18 (6.27%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 14 (4.88%) Kafka
15 12 (4.18%) Swagger
16 10 (3.48%) LangChain
17 7 (2.44%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.74%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.30%) Equities
2 42 (14.63%) Fixed Income
3 41 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (11.15%) Data Structures
5 26 (9.06%) Hedge funds
5 26 (9.06%) Management Information System
6 22 (7.67%) Algorithms
7 12 (4.18%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.14%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.14%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.79%) Low-Code
10 6 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.74%) Grid Computing
11 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.39%) PKI
13 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
15 1 (0.35%) Derivative
15 1 (0.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (42.51%) Agile
2 100 (34.84%) Software Engineering
3 80 (27.87%) CI/CD
4 68 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (21.25%) Test Automation
6 59 (20.56%) Order Management
7 58 (20.21%) AI
8 55 (19.16%) Fintech
8 55 (19.16%) Mentoring
9 50 (17.42%) Containerisation
10 43 (14.98%) Asset Management
10 43 (14.98%) Risk Management
11 41 (14.29%) Investment Management
11 41 (14.29%) Performance Attribution
12 38 (13.24%) OOP
13 37 (12.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (11.15%) Clean Code
16 31 (10.80%) Microservices
16 31 (10.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 287 (100.00%) Python
2 73 (25.44%) JavaScript
3 71 (24.74%) TypeScript
4 53 (18.47%) SQL
5 30 (10.45%) C++
6 13 (4.53%) Java
7 9 (3.14%) C#
8 3 (1.05%) Bash
8 3 (1.05%) Bicep
9 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.70%) PHP
9 2 (0.70%) Ruby
9 2 (0.70%) Scala
9 2 (0.70%) VBA
10 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (6.62%) Degree
2 10 (3.48%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.09%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.74%) PhD
6 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.54%) QA
2 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.70%) GDPR
3 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 60 (20.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (10.10%) Kubernetes
1 29 (10.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (5.92%) Databricks
2 16 (5.57%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.48%) Google
3 10 (3.48%) SAP
4 8 (2.79%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.09%) iManage
6 3 (1.05%) Oracle
7 2 (0.70%) Foundry
7 2 (0.70%) Solace
7 2 (0.70%) Splunk
7 2 (0.70%) UiPath