Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 385 369
Rank change year-on-year +36 -16 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 307 298 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.68% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.75% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 244 203 451
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £133,125
90th Percentile £140,000 £112,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.88% +6.25%

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 55,493 39,841 63,273
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 91.29% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 35,858 21,335 50,538
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +22 200 £90,000 +5.88% 50
North of England -6 34 £72,500 +4.61% 17
Midlands +17 31 £65,000 +18.18% 2
South East 0 29 £70,000 +11.11% 9
Yorkshire -8 25 £75,000 -9.09% 14
East Midlands -23 17 £65,000 +18.18% 1
West Midlands +18 14 £75,000 +28.42% 1
North West -1 9 £40,000 -42.29% 3
South West -10 8 £55,000 - 7
East of England +2 1 £50,000 -41.18% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 February 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.

1 307 (100.00%) Python
2 105 (34.20%) Software Engineering
3 98 (31.92%) React
4 87 (28.34%) AWS
5 81 (26.38%) Agile
6 70 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (21.17%) CI/CD
8 63 (20.52%) AI
9 61 (19.87%) Django
9 61 (19.87%) JavaScript
10 57 (18.57%) Flask
11 53 (17.26%) SQL
12 52 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (15.96%) TypeScript
14 48 (15.64%) Mentoring
15 47 (15.31%) Test Automation
16 46 (14.98%) Docker
16 46 (14.98%) Serverless
17 43 (14.01%) GitHub
18 41 (13.36%) OOP
19 40 (13.03%) Azure
19 40 (13.03%) FastAPI
20 39 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
20 39 (12.70%) Fintech
21 33 (10.75%) Containerisation
21 33 (10.75%) Node.js
22 32 (10.42%) OO
23 31 (10.10%) REST
24 29 (9.45%) HTML
24 29 (9.45%) Order Management

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 18 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.98%) Jupyter
3 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.34%) AWS
2 46 (14.98%) Serverless
3 43 (14.01%) GitHub
4 40 (13.03%) Azure
5 27 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 21 (6.84%) GCP
8 19 (6.19%) SaaS
9 14 (4.56%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.58%) dbt
12 9 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.61%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.98%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (0.98%) n8n
14 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
15 1 (0.33%) Amazon ECS
15 1 (0.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.33%) Cloud Run
15 1 (0.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.98%) HTTP
1 3 (0.98%) RTP
1 3 (0.98%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.98%) VoIP
1 3 (0.98%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.54%) Big Data
3 11 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (3.58%) Apache Arrow
3 11 (3.58%) Apache Iceberg
3 11 (3.58%) Dremio
4 9 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.61%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.28%) MySQL
7 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.98%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.65%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.89%) Git
2 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.65%) GitLab
3 2 (0.65%) JIRA
3 2 (0.65%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.33%) Selenium
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 78 (25.41%) Finance
2 66 (21.50%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.68%) Front Office
4 18 (5.86%) Tech for Good
5 17 (5.54%) Health Technology
6 16 (5.21%) Publishing
7 14 (4.56%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.56%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.58%) Banking
8 11 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.26%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.98%) Aviation
11 3 (0.98%) Legal
11 3 (0.98%) Retail
11 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.65%) Electronics
12 2 (0.65%) Games
12 2 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (31.92%) React
2 61 (19.87%) Django
3 57 (18.57%) Flask
4 40 (13.03%) FastAPI
5 33 (10.75%) Node.js
6 31 (10.10%) REST
7 29 (9.45%) HTML
8 28 (9.12%) Vue
9 26 (8.47%) RESTful
10 20 (6.51%) AngularJS
10 20 (6.51%) CSS
11 19 (6.19%) Kafka
12 18 (5.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 14 (4.56%) NumPy
13 14 (4.56%) Pandas
14 11 (3.58%) SciPy
15 7 (2.28%) OAuth
15 7 (2.28%) OAuth2
16 5 (1.63%) .NET
16 5 (1.63%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.05%) Data Structures
1 37 (12.05%) Equities
2 26 (8.47%) Hedge funds
3 21 (6.84%) Algorithms
4 19 (6.19%) Fixed Income
5 18 (5.86%) Management Information System
6 16 (5.21%) Cloud Native
7 15 (4.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (3.91%) Educational Technology
9 10 (3.26%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.63%) PropTech
11 4 (1.30%) Derivative
11 4 (1.30%) PKI
12 3 (0.98%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.98%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.65%) Grid Computing
14 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.14%) Linux
2 3 (0.98%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (34.20%) Software Engineering
2 81 (26.38%) Agile
3 70 (22.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (21.17%) CI/CD
5 63 (20.52%) AI
6 52 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.64%) Mentoring
8 47 (15.31%) Test Automation
9 41 (13.36%) OOP
10 39 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (12.70%) Fintech
11 33 (10.75%) Containerisation
12 32 (10.42%) OO
13 29 (9.45%) Order Management
14 28 (9.12%) Clean Code
15 26 (8.47%) Microservices
15 26 (8.47%) SDLC
16 25 (8.14%) Code Quality
17 24 (7.82%) Computer Science
18 23 (7.49%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 307 (100.00%) Python
2 61 (19.87%) JavaScript
3 53 (17.26%) SQL
4 49 (15.96%) TypeScript
5 26 (8.47%) C++
6 13 (4.23%) Java
7 7 (2.28%) PHP
8 5 (1.63%) VBA
9 4 (1.30%) C
9 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.65%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) Bicep
11 1 (0.33%) C#
11 1 (0.33%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (4.89%) Degree
2 5 (1.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.30%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.54%) QA
2 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) GDPR
4 2 (0.65%) PSD2
System Software
1 46 (14.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.98%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (7.49%) Kubernetes
1 23 (7.49%) Terraform
2 3 (0.98%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (4.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.98%) BT
2 3 (0.98%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.98%) Google
2 3 (0.98%) iManage
2 3 (0.98%) Mitel
2 3 (0.98%) OpenAI
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle
3 2 (0.65%) SAP
3 2 (0.65%) Solace
4 1 (0.33%) Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.33%) UiPath