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 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 381 311
Rank change year-on-year +11 -70 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 280 377 490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.62% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.65% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 204 271 452
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £125,313
90th Percentile - £142,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +12.50%

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 39,093 58,302 47,172
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 95.14% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 23,775 33,201 36,501
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,988 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.88% -5.02% -

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +34 234 £93,500 -6.50% 88
North of England +17 24 £71,000 +2.44% 29
Yorkshire +22 17 £75,000 +25.00% 18
Midlands +41 9 £77,500 +40.91% 5
West Midlands +47 7 £90,000 +75.61% 5
North West 0 7 £61,250 -23.44% 9
East of England +1 4 £68,750 +61.76% 1
South West +29 3 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +4 2 £58,750 +6.82%
South East -7 2 £38,500 -47.80% 48
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 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.

1 280 (100.00%) Python
2 142 (50.71%) AWS
3 135 (48.21%) Agile
4 112 (40.00%) React
5 110 (39.29%) Software Engineering
6 88 (31.43%) PostgreSQL
7 85 (30.36%) CI/CD
7 85 (30.36%) TypeScript
8 84 (30.00%) JavaScript
9 83 (29.64%) GCP
10 74 (26.43%) Order Management
11 72 (25.71%) Vue
12 70 (25.00%) Azure
13 67 (23.93%) AngularJS
13 67 (23.93%) Pandas
14 65 (23.21%) Fintech
14 65 (23.21%) Node.js
15 64 (22.86%) NumPy
16 63 (22.50%) Docker
17 61 (21.79%) Test Automation
18 60 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
18 60 (21.43%) Apache Iceberg
18 60 (21.43%) dbt
18 60 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
18 60 (21.43%) Risk Management
19 59 (21.07%) Asset Management
20 58 (20.71%) Containerisation
21 57 (20.36%) Investment Management
22 56 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
22 56 (20.00%) Apache Arrow

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 56 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.14%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.43%) Apache
5 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 142 (50.71%) AWS
2 83 (29.64%) GCP
3 70 (25.00%) Azure
4 60 (21.43%) dbt
5 44 (15.71%) Serverless
6 31 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.64%) GitHub
8 10 (3.57%) Azure AI
8 10 (3.57%) SaaS
9 9 (3.21%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.21%) Power Platform
10 8 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (2.86%) n8n
11 6 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.71%) Copilot Studio
13 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.07%) FTP
2 1 (0.36%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.36%) Internet
2 1 (0.36%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (31.43%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
2 60 (21.43%) Apache Iceberg
3 56 (20.00%) Apache Arrow
3 56 (20.00%) Dremio
4 31 (11.07%) NoSQL
5 27 (9.64%) DynamoDB
6 17 (6.07%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (5.36%) Tick Data
8 14 (5.00%) Relational Database
9 12 (4.29%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.29%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.93%) Big Data
10 11 (3.93%) MySQL
10 11 (3.93%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.36%) Power BI
12 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (9.29%) Git
2 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.71%) JIRA
3 2 (0.71%) Maven
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 142 (50.71%) Finance
2 85 (30.36%) Front Office
3 36 (12.86%) Marketing
4 31 (11.07%) Social Skills
5 26 (9.29%) Banking
6 22 (7.86%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.14%) Health Technology
8 19 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.79%) Publishing
8 19 (6.79%) Tech for Good
9 12 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (4.29%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.93%) Electronics
10 11 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 9 (3.21%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.21%) Retail
12 8 (2.86%) Legal
13 7 (2.50%) Law
14 3 (1.07%) Games
14 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (40.00%) React
2 72 (25.71%) Vue
3 67 (23.93%) AngularJS
3 67 (23.93%) Pandas
4 65 (23.21%) Node.js
5 64 (22.86%) NumPy
6 56 (20.00%) SciPy
7 52 (18.57%) Flask
8 39 (13.93%) Django
8 39 (13.93%) RESTful
9 35 (12.50%) FastAPI
10 33 (11.79%) REST
11 22 (7.86%) HTML
12 20 (7.14%) CSS
13 18 (6.43%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 17 (6.07%) Swagger
15 12 (4.29%) Kafka
16 11 (3.93%) PySpark
17 10 (3.57%) LangChain
18 7 (2.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 79 (28.21%) Equities
2 58 (20.71%) Fixed Income
3 56 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (10.36%) Management Information System
5 28 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 28 (10.00%) Hedge funds
6 22 (7.86%) Algorithms
7 12 (4.29%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.21%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.21%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.86%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.79%) Grid Computing
10 5 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.43%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.07%) PKI
13 2 (0.71%) Derivative
13 2 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (48.21%) Agile
2 110 (39.29%) Software Engineering
3 85 (30.36%) CI/CD
4 74 (26.43%) Order Management
5 65 (23.21%) Fintech
6 61 (21.79%) Test Automation
7 60 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (21.43%) Risk Management
8 59 (21.07%) Asset Management
9 58 (20.71%) Containerisation
10 57 (20.36%) Investment Management
11 56 (20.00%) Performance Attribution
12 42 (15.00%) Mentoring
13 41 (14.64%) AI
14 38 (13.57%) OOP
15 33 (11.79%) OO
16 31 (11.07%) Clean Code
16 31 (11.07%) Data Analysis
16 31 (11.07%) TDD
17 29 (10.36%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 280 (100.00%) Python
2 85 (30.36%) TypeScript
3 84 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 52 (18.57%) SQL
5 30 (10.71%) C++
6 15 (5.36%) Java
7 11 (3.93%) C#
8 6 (2.14%) Bash
9 4 (1.43%) Bicep
10 3 (1.07%) Scala
11 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.71%) Ruby
12 1 (0.36%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.36%) Clojure
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
12 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (7.86%) Degree
2 11 (3.93%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.79%) PhD
7 4 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.36%) MCP
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.79%) QA
2 7 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.71%) GDPR
3 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.71%) PSD2
4 1 (0.36%) MiFID
System Software
1 63 (22.50%) Docker
2 5 (1.79%) zsh
Systems Management
1 33 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.43%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) Grafana
3 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (11.07%) Databricks
2 14 (5.00%) Google
3 12 (4.29%) SAP
4 11 (3.93%) Microsoft
5 8 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.14%) iManage
7 4 (1.43%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) Solace
8 2 (0.71%) UiPath
9 1 (0.36%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.36%) Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle
9 1 (0.36%) Reuters
9 1 (0.36%) SimCorp