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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 378 418
Rank change year-on-year -30 +40 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 360 303 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.69% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.76% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 288 236 321
10th Percentile £47,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £130,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%

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 88,622 39,653 68,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.63% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,192 23,887 46,875
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -95 185 £90,000 -3.23% 62
North of England +13 78 £70,000 - 10
Yorkshire -10 37 £75,000 +7.14% 5
East of England +12 35 £67,500 -1.82% 6
South West -40 22 £50,000 -41.18% 3
North East - 21 £70,000 -
North West +5 20 £45,000 -30.77% 5
South East -17 19 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands -16 18 £65,000 -7.14% 3
East Midlands -16 11 £70,000 +75.00%
West Midlands -25 7 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 360 (100.00%) Python
2 109 (30.28%) AWS
3 101 (28.06%) Software Engineering
4 95 (26.39%) AI
5 90 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 62 (17.22%) CI/CD
7 56 (15.56%) SQL
8 48 (13.33%) Agile
8 48 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
9 47 (13.06%) JavaScript
10 44 (12.22%) Azure
10 44 (12.22%) Docker
10 44 (12.22%) FastAPI
11 39 (10.83%) RESTful
12 36 (10.00%) Flask
12 36 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 33 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (8.33%) Kubernetes
15 30 (8.33%) TypeScript
16 29 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (7.78%) Validation
18 26 (7.22%) Linux
18 26 (7.22%) OOP
18 26 (7.22%) React
19 25 (6.94%) Django
19 25 (6.94%) NumPy
20 24 (6.67%) Containerisation
20 24 (6.67%) Git

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 10 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (30.28%) AWS
2 44 (12.22%) Azure
3 20 (5.56%) SaaS
4 19 (5.28%) Serverless
5 15 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.89%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.78%) GCP
8 10 (2.78%) GitHub
9 8 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.39%) Prefect
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.11%) Kong
13 3 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.17%) Broadband
2 8 (2.22%) MQTT
3 2 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.33%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.50%) Big Data
4 9 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.11%) GIS
7 4 (1.11%) MySQL
7 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.83%) Power BI
8 3 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.28%) Redis
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.67%) Git
2 6 (1.67%) GitLab
3 3 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.28%) Poetry
5 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (12.50%) Finance
2 27 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.22%) Front Office
4 16 (4.44%) Tech for Good
5 15 (4.17%) Games
6 12 (3.33%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.50%) Banking
8 5 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.39%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.11%) Publishing
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.56%) Automotive
11 2 (0.56%) Aviation
11 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.56%) Law
11 2 (0.56%) Legal
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (12.22%) FastAPI
2 39 (10.83%) RESTful
3 36 (10.00%) Flask
4 26 (7.22%) React
5 25 (6.94%) Django
5 25 (6.94%) NumPy
6 24 (6.67%) Pandas
7 23 (6.39%) REST
8 22 (6.11%) Vue
9 20 (5.56%) CSS
9 20 (5.56%) Kafka
10 19 (5.28%) Node.js
11 18 (5.00%) HTML
12 15 (4.17%) Swagger
13 13 (3.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 12 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 8 (2.22%) OpenAPI
16 6 (1.67%) .NET
16 6 (1.67%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 41 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 24 (6.67%) Hedge funds
5 23 (6.39%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (5.28%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (5.28%) Low-Code
7 18 (5.00%) Data Structures
7 18 (5.00%) Equities
8 16 (4.44%) Fixed Income
9 15 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
10 13 (3.61%) Management Information System
11 11 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (2.22%) Derivative
13 7 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.39%) Educational Technology
14 5 (1.39%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 5 (1.39%) PropTech
15 4 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.06%) Software Engineering
2 95 (26.39%) AI
3 90 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 62 (17.22%) CI/CD
5 48 (13.33%) Agile
6 36 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 33 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (7.78%) Validation
11 26 (7.22%) OOP
12 24 (6.67%) Containerisation
12 24 (6.67%) Machine Learning
12 24 (6.67%) Microservices
13 23 (6.39%) API Design
13 23 (6.39%) DevOps
14 22 (6.11%) Computer Vision
14 22 (6.11%) Observability
14 22 (6.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 360 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (15.56%) SQL
3 47 (13.06%) JavaScript
4 30 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 23 (6.39%) C++
6 15 (4.17%) Go
7 7 (1.94%) C#
8 6 (1.67%) PHP
9 5 (1.39%) Rust
10 4 (1.11%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) Java
11 2 (0.56%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) Haskell
12 1 (0.28%) OCaml
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (3.89%) Degree
2 11 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.89%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (12.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.72%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 2 (0.56%) Grafana
4 2 (0.56%) Kibana
4 2 (0.56%) logstash
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (3.89%) Databricks
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle
4 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.28%) SAP