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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 397 313
Rank change year-on-year +52 -84 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 292 353 461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.59% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.62% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 213 247 427
10th Percentile £56,750 £51,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £130,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +16.13%

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 41,626 56,727 44,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.37% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 26,646 31,734 34,381
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -4.17% -

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 19 November 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 November 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 +33 224 £90,000 - 139
North of England +60 32 £75,000 +8.21% 14
Yorkshire +27 25 £77,500 +29.17% 7
Midlands +54 21 £70,000 +27.27% 5
West Midlands +50 14 £90,000 +75.61% 4
North West +22 7 £66,250 -17.19% 6
East Midlands +19 7 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East of England +8 5 £62,500 +47.06% 1
South West +17 4 £60,000 +9.09% 10
South East +17 2 £38,500 -50.32% 11
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 November 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.

1 292 (100.00%) Python
2 143 (48.97%) AWS
3 133 (45.55%) Agile
4 111 (38.01%) React
5 108 (36.99%) Software Engineering
6 91 (31.16%) CI/CD
7 83 (28.42%) JavaScript
8 79 (27.05%) PostgreSQL
9 75 (25.68%) TypeScript
10 74 (25.34%) GCP
11 70 (23.97%) Azure
12 68 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
13 67 (22.95%) Test Automation
14 66 (22.60%) Order Management
15 65 (22.26%) Vue
16 64 (21.92%) Docker
17 61 (20.89%) AngularJS
18 57 (19.52%) Fintech
18 57 (19.52%) Node.js
18 57 (19.52%) SQL
19 55 (18.84%) Containerisation
20 54 (18.49%) Flask
20 54 (18.49%) Pandas
21 53 (18.15%) NumPy
22 52 (17.81%) AI
22 52 (17.81%) Mentoring
23 51 (17.47%) Amazon Athena
23 51 (17.47%) Apache Iceberg
23 51 (17.47%) dbt
23 51 (17.47%) Risk 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 47 (16.10%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.37%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 143 (48.97%) AWS
2 74 (25.34%) GCP
3 70 (23.97%) Azure
4 51 (17.47%) dbt
5 50 (17.12%) Serverless
6 35 (11.99%) GitHub
7 32 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (4.45%) Azure AI
9 13 (4.45%) SaaS
10 9 (3.08%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.74%) n8n
12 6 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.68%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) FTP
2 2 (0.68%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.34%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (27.05%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (17.47%) Amazon Athena
2 51 (17.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 47 (16.10%) Apache Arrow
3 47 (16.10%) Dremio
4 29 (9.93%) NoSQL
5 23 (7.88%) DynamoDB
6 15 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (5.14%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.45%) Big Data
7 13 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (4.45%) Tick Data
8 12 (4.11%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.11%) MySQL
8 12 (4.11%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.77%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.34%) Power BI
11 1 (0.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (7.53%) Git
2 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.68%) Maven
3 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Selenium
4 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 130 (44.52%) Finance
2 76 (26.03%) Front Office
3 45 (15.41%) Social Skills
4 34 (11.64%) Marketing
5 24 (8.22%) Health Technology
6 23 (7.88%) Publishing
6 23 (7.88%) Tech for Good
7 21 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (7.19%) Public Sector
8 20 (6.85%) Banking
9 13 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
10 12 (4.11%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.77%) Electronics
11 11 (3.77%) Telecoms
12 10 (3.42%) Retail
13 9 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (2.74%) Legal
15 7 (2.40%) Investment Banking
16 6 (2.05%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (38.01%) React
2 65 (22.26%) Vue
3 61 (20.89%) AngularJS
4 57 (19.52%) Node.js
5 54 (18.49%) Flask
5 54 (18.49%) Pandas
6 53 (18.15%) NumPy
7 47 (16.10%) Django
7 47 (16.10%) SciPy
8 43 (14.73%) RESTful
9 42 (14.38%) FastAPI
10 40 (13.70%) REST
11 26 (8.90%) HTML
12 23 (7.88%) CSS
13 19 (6.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 14 (4.79%) Swagger
15 13 (4.45%) Kafka
16 10 (3.42%) LangChain
17 7 (2.40%) PySpark
17 7 (2.40%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.32%) Equities
2 48 (16.44%) Fixed Income
3 47 (16.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (11.30%) Data Structures
5 30 (10.27%) Hedge funds
6 28 (9.59%) Management Information System
7 23 (7.88%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.45%) Cloud Native
9 9 (3.08%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.08%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.74%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.71%) Grid Computing
11 5 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.37%) PKI
13 3 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.68%) Reinsurance
15 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.30%) Linux
2 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (45.55%) Agile
2 108 (36.99%) Software Engineering
3 91 (31.16%) CI/CD
4 68 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (22.95%) Test Automation
6 66 (22.60%) Order Management
7 57 (19.52%) Fintech
8 55 (18.84%) Containerisation
9 52 (17.81%) AI
9 52 (17.81%) Mentoring
10 51 (17.47%) Risk Management
11 50 (17.12%) Asset Management
12 47 (16.10%) Investment Management
12 47 (16.10%) Performance Attribution
13 42 (14.38%) OOP
14 35 (11.99%) OO
15 34 (11.64%) Clean Code
15 34 (11.64%) TDD
16 31 (10.62%) Data Analysis
16 31 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 292 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (28.42%) JavaScript
3 75 (25.68%) TypeScript
4 57 (19.52%) SQL
5 31 (10.62%) C++
6 13 (4.45%) Java
7 9 (3.08%) C#
8 6 (2.05%) Bash
9 3 (1.03%) Bicep
9 3 (1.03%) Scala
10 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) Clojure
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (8.56%) Degree
2 11 (3.77%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.74%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.40%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.71%) PhD
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.33%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.68%) GDPR
3 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.68%) PSD2
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 64 (21.92%) Docker
2 5 (1.71%) zsh
Systems Management
1 35 (11.99%) Terraform
2 32 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (7.88%) Databricks
2 14 (4.79%) Google
2 14 (4.79%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.11%) SAP
4 8 (2.74%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.05%) iManage
6 4 (1.37%) Splunk
7 2 (0.68%) Foundry
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle
7 2 (0.68%) Solace
7 2 (0.68%) UiPath
8 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.34%) Reuters