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 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 419 302
Rank change year-on-year +57 -117 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 303 372 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.70% 0.54% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.57% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 233 275 514
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £136,250 £115,938
90th Percentile - £144,750 £145,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% +9.38%

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 39,062 65,780 50,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.18% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23,453 39,747 39,411
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +49 267 £91,250 -13.10% 40
North of England +17 17 £70,000 -3.45% 29
Yorkshire +9 9 £70,000 +5.66% 19
Midlands +48 8 £70,000 +40.00% 3
North West 0 8 £61,250 -23.44% 10
West Midlands +44 6 £70,000 +64.71%
East of England -19 4 £68,750 +61.76% 6
South West +62 3 £60,000 +20.00% 3
South East +30 3 £36,750 -47.50% 13
East Midlands +27 2 £58,750 +11.90% 3
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 303 (100.00%) Python
2 172 (56.77%) Finance
3 162 (53.47%) AWS
4 156 (51.49%) Agile
5 133 (43.89%) React
6 120 (39.60%) Software Engineering
7 114 (37.62%) TypeScript
8 109 (35.97%) PostgreSQL
9 108 (35.64%) Front Office
10 98 (32.34%) JavaScript
11 96 (31.68%) GCP
12 95 (31.35%) Equities
13 90 (29.70%) Order Management
14 89 (29.37%) Pandas
15 87 (28.71%) AngularJS
16 86 (28.38%) NumPy
17 84 (27.72%) Node.js
17 84 (27.72%) Vue
18 81 (26.73%) Investment Management
19 79 (26.07%) Risk Management
19 79 (26.07%) Amazon Athena
20 77 (25.41%) Apache Airflow
20 77 (25.41%) Fintech
20 77 (25.41%) dbt
20 77 (25.41%) Apache Iceberg
20 77 (25.41%) Fixed Income
21 76 (25.08%) Asset Management
22 75 (24.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 75 (24.75%) CI/CD
23 73 (24.09%) Apache Arrow

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (25.41%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.65%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.99%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 5 (1.65%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 162 (53.47%) AWS
2 96 (31.68%) GCP
3 77 (25.41%) dbt
4 70 (23.10%) Azure
5 44 (14.52%) Serverless
6 42 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.28%) Amazon S3
7 16 (5.28%) GitHub
8 10 (3.30%) AWS Step Functions
8 10 (3.30%) Azure AI
8 10 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (3.30%) Power Platform
8 10 (3.30%) SaaS
9 8 (2.64%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (2.64%) n8n
10 7 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (35.97%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (26.07%) Amazon Athena
3 77 (25.41%) Apache Iceberg
4 73 (24.09%) Apache Arrow
4 73 (24.09%) Dremio
5 31 (10.23%) DynamoDB
6 27 (8.91%) NoSQL
7 21 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (6.27%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.28%) Tick Data
10 14 (4.62%) Relational Database
11 12 (3.96%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.63%) MySQL
13 10 (3.30%) RDBMS
13 10 (3.30%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.98%) Big Data
15 5 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
16 2 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (10.56%) Git
2 3 (0.99%) GitLab
3 2 (0.66%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Selenium
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (56.77%) Finance
2 108 (35.64%) Front Office
3 38 (12.54%) Marketing
4 33 (10.89%) Banking
5 28 (9.24%) Social Skills
6 22 (7.26%) Health Technology
6 22 (7.26%) Publishing
6 22 (7.26%) Tech for Good
7 18 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.95%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (3.63%) Manufacturing
11 10 (3.30%) Electronics
11 10 (3.30%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.97%) Retail
13 8 (2.64%) Legal
14 7 (2.31%) Law
15 3 (0.99%) Back Office
15 3 (0.99%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (43.89%) React
2 89 (29.37%) Pandas
3 87 (28.71%) AngularJS
4 86 (28.38%) NumPy
5 84 (27.72%) Node.js
5 84 (27.72%) Vue
6 73 (24.09%) SciPy
7 45 (14.85%) Flask
8 41 (13.53%) RESTful
9 39 (12.87%) Django
10 30 (9.90%) REST
11 27 (8.91%) FastAPI
12 22 (7.26%) Swagger
13 18 (5.94%) HTML
14 17 (5.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 13 (4.29%) CSS
16 12 (3.96%) PySpark
17 11 (3.63%) LangChain
18 9 (2.97%) Kafka
19 7 (2.31%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 95 (31.35%) Equities
2 77 (25.41%) Fixed Income
3 75 (24.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (10.56%) Management Information System
5 26 (8.58%) Hedge funds
6 21 (6.93%) Algorithms
7 18 (5.94%) Data Structures
8 17 (5.61%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.97%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.97%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.64%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.65%) Grid Computing
11 5 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.32%) Derivative
12 4 (1.32%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
13 3 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.23%) Linux
2 4 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (51.49%) Agile
2 120 (39.60%) Software Engineering
3 90 (29.70%) Order Management
4 81 (26.73%) Investment Management
5 79 (26.07%) Risk Management
6 77 (25.41%) Fintech
7 76 (25.08%) Asset Management
8 75 (24.75%) CI/CD
9 73 (24.09%) Performance Attribution
10 56 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (16.83%) Containerisation
11 51 (16.83%) Test Automation
12 45 (14.85%) Artificial Intelligence
13 35 (11.55%) TDD
14 34 (11.22%) Data Science
14 34 (11.22%) Mentoring
15 33 (10.89%) Clean Code
16 30 (9.90%) DevOps
17 29 (9.57%) Pair Programming
17 29 (9.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 303 (100.00%) Python
2 114 (37.62%) TypeScript
3 98 (32.34%) JavaScript
4 44 (14.52%) SQL
5 30 (9.90%) C++
6 18 (5.94%) Java
7 12 (3.96%) C#
8 6 (1.98%) Bash
9 4 (1.32%) Bicep
10 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.66%) Ruby
12 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Clojure
12 1 (0.33%) Groovy
12 1 (0.33%) PHP
12 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.33%) R
12 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (6.93%) Degree
2 9 (2.97%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.31%) Master's Degree
3 7 (2.31%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.65%) PhD
6 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) MCP
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (12.87%) QA
2 8 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 57 (18.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.65%) zsh
Systems Management
1 33 (10.89%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.60%) Terraform
3 5 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (11.22%) Databricks
2 13 (4.29%) Google
3 12 (3.96%) Microsoft
4 11 (3.63%) SAP
5 8 (2.64%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.98%) iManage
7 5 (1.65%) Oracle
7 5 (1.65%) SimCorp
8 4 (1.32%) Splunk
9 3 (0.99%) Adobe
10 2 (0.66%) Okta
11 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.33%) Foundry
11 1 (0.33%) Reuters
11 1 (0.33%) UiPath