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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 391 407
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 379 269 538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.67% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.75% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 302 210 477
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £133,750
90th Percentile £109,750 £137,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +2.86%

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 79,578 36,065 89,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 89.96% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,025 21,047 66,131
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -22 222 £90,000 -4.51% 28
North of England +25 75 £62,500 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire -10 40 £70,000 +16.67% 3
South East +3 33 £60,000 +43.71% 6
South West -39 25 £50,000 -41.18% 1
North West +13 22 £45,000 -25.00% 2
Midlands -13 14 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North East - 13 £70,000 - 3
East Midlands -18 10 £60,000 +50.00% 1
East of England -14 9 £72,500 -3.33% 3
West Midlands -12 4 £57,500 -17.86%
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 379 (100.00%) Python
2 108 (28.50%) Software Engineering
3 97 (25.59%) AWS
4 96 (25.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 90 (23.75%) AI
6 60 (15.83%) Agile
7 50 (13.19%) CI/CD
7 50 (13.19%) React
8 48 (12.66%) SQL
9 47 (12.40%) JavaScript
10 46 (12.14%) Flask
10 46 (12.14%) Test Automation
11 43 (11.35%) TypeScript
12 41 (10.82%) Docker
13 38 (10.03%) Azure
13 38 (10.03%) FastAPI
14 36 (9.50%) Linux
14 36 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
15 35 (9.23%) OOP
16 34 (8.97%) Django
17 33 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (8.71%) RESTful
18 32 (8.44%) C++
18 32 (8.44%) OO
19 31 (8.18%) Kubernetes
20 28 (7.39%) REST
21 27 (7.12%) Containerisation
21 27 (7.12%) SaaS
22 26 (6.86%) Fintech
22 26 (6.86%) Node.js

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 13 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.53%) Apache
3 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 97 (25.59%) AWS
2 38 (10.03%) Azure
3 27 (7.12%) SaaS
4 23 (6.07%) Serverless
5 19 (5.01%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (4.22%) GitHub
7 13 (3.43%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.17%) GCP
9 11 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.32%) Prefect
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.53%) AWS CodePipeline
14 2 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (0.53%) Azure Functions
14 2 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.96%) Broadband
2 5 (1.32%) MQTT
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
3 3 (0.79%) RTP
3 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.79%) VoIP
3 3 (0.79%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.01%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.17%) Big Data
4 7 (1.85%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.79%) MySQL
7 2 (0.53%) GIS
8 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.80%) Git
2 6 (1.58%) GitLab
3 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.26%) Poetry
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
5 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (15.04%) Finance
2 42 (11.08%) Front Office
3 35 (9.23%) Social Skills
4 16 (4.22%) Games
4 16 (4.22%) Tech for Good
5 13 (3.43%) Banking
6 12 (3.17%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.06%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.06%) Aviation
8 4 (1.06%) Publishing
9 3 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Law
11 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.19%) React
2 46 (12.14%) Flask
3 38 (10.03%) FastAPI
4 34 (8.97%) Django
5 33 (8.71%) RESTful
6 28 (7.39%) REST
7 26 (6.86%) Node.js
8 25 (6.60%) NumPy
9 24 (6.33%) Pandas
10 23 (6.07%) Vue
11 19 (5.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 19 (5.01%) Kafka
12 16 (4.22%) HTML
13 13 (3.43%) CSS
14 11 (2.90%) Swagger
15 10 (2.64%) AngularJS
16 9 (2.37%) .NET
17 8 (2.11%) Redux
18 7 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
19 6 (1.58%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.19%) Algorithms
2 40 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.44%) Hedge funds
4 29 (7.65%) Equities
5 28 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (6.86%) Data Structures
7 23 (6.07%) Fixed Income
8 19 (5.01%) Management Information System
9 15 (3.96%) Low-Code
9 15 (3.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 13 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (3.17%) Educational Technology
12 11 (2.90%) Derivative
13 10 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (2.64%) PropTech
14 8 (2.11%) Product Ownership
15 7 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
16 6 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
17 4 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
17 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.50%) Linux
2 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (28.50%) Software Engineering
2 96 (25.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 90 (23.75%) AI
4 60 (15.83%) Agile
5 50 (13.19%) CI/CD
6 46 (12.14%) Test Automation
7 35 (9.23%) OOP
8 33 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (8.44%) OO
10 27 (7.12%) Containerisation
11 26 (6.86%) Fintech
11 26 (6.86%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (6.60%) Mentoring
12 25 (6.60%) SDLC
13 23 (6.07%) Computer Vision
14 22 (5.80%) Deep Learning
14 22 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (5.80%) Machine Learning
14 22 (5.80%) Microservices
14 22 (5.80%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 379 (100.00%) Python
2 48 (12.66%) SQL
3 47 (12.40%) JavaScript
4 43 (11.35%) TypeScript
5 32 (8.44%) C++
6 15 (3.96%) Go
7 9 (2.37%) Java
8 8 (2.11%) PHP
9 7 (1.85%) C#
10 4 (1.06%) Bash
10 4 (1.06%) C
11 3 (0.79%) Perl
12 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.53%) Rust
12 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.26%) Bicep
13 1 (0.26%) OCaml
13 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (4.22%) Degree
2 9 (2.37%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.90%) QA
2 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (10.82%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.17%) Terraform
3 3 (0.79%) Ansible
3 3 (0.79%) Argo
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) Kibana
4 1 (0.26%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (3.17%) Databricks
2 6 (1.58%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.79%) BT
3 3 (0.79%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.79%) Mitel
3 3 (0.79%) Oracle
4 1 (0.26%) Google
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce