Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 368 420
Rank change year-on-year -67 +52 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 358 302 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.77% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 281 232 275
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £92,500 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £144,750
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 94,661 39,021 65,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 90.42% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 66,722 23,411 39,739
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,853 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -108 178 £86,250 -4.17% 182
North of England +2 73 £70,000 - 13
East of England +17 52 £72,500 +5.45% 6
Yorkshire -19 31 £92,500 +32.14% 9
North West -11 21 £45,000 -26.53% 4
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -31 20 £65,000 -7.14% 10
South West -60 17 £50,000 -16.67% 5
South East -39 15 £60,000 +63.27% 12
East Midlands -31 12 £70,000 +19.15% 7
West Midlands -34 8 £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 17 September 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.

1 358 (100.00%) Python
2 106 (29.61%) AWS
2 106 (29.61%) Software Engineering
3 102 (28.49%) AI
4 81 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (18.16%) CI/CD
6 61 (17.04%) SQL
7 50 (13.97%) Azure
8 49 (13.69%) FastAPI
9 48 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
10 47 (13.13%) Docker
10 47 (13.13%) RESTful
11 44 (12.29%) Agile
12 41 (11.45%) JavaScript
13 40 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (10.06%) Kubernetes
16 34 (9.50%) Flask
16 34 (9.50%) Validation
17 33 (9.22%) Test Automation
18 28 (7.82%) Containerisation
18 28 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 27 (7.54%) Django
20 26 (7.26%) API Design
20 26 (7.26%) TypeScript
21 25 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
21 25 (6.98%) Git
22 24 (6.70%) DevOps
22 24 (6.70%) Kafka
22 24 (6.70%) Observability

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 7 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (29.61%) AWS
2 50 (13.97%) Azure
3 16 (4.47%) SaaS
3 16 (4.47%) Serverless
4 14 (3.91%) Amazon S3
5 13 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (3.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 11 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (3.07%) GCP
7 10 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.23%) GitHub
9 7 (1.96%) Amazon Bedrock
10 5 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.12%) Kong
11 4 (1.12%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.84%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.63%) Broadband
1 13 (3.63%) MQTT
2 3 (0.84%) 4G
2 3 (0.84%) 5G
2 3 (0.84%) DNS
2 3 (0.84%) HTTP
2 3 (0.84%) SSH
2 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.41%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.03%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.23%) MySQL
6 7 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.68%) Big Data
7 6 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.12%) GIS
8 4 (1.12%) Power BI
8 4 (1.12%) Redis
9 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.84%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.98%) Git
2 7 (1.96%) GitLab
3 4 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.84%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Poetry
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (13.97%) Finance
2 25 (6.98%) Front Office
3 24 (6.70%) Social Skills
4 15 (4.19%) Banking
4 15 (4.19%) Tech for Good
5 13 (3.63%) Games
6 10 (2.79%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.40%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.12%) Law
8 4 (1.12%) Marketing
8 4 (1.12%) Publishing
9 3 (0.84%) Legal
9 3 (0.84%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.56%) Automotive
10 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.69%) FastAPI
2 47 (13.13%) RESTful
3 34 (9.50%) Flask
4 27 (7.54%) Django
5 24 (6.70%) Kafka
6 22 (6.15%) React
7 21 (5.87%) REST
8 20 (5.59%) CSS
8 20 (5.59%) HTML
8 20 (5.59%) Pandas
8 20 (5.59%) Swagger
9 19 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (5.03%) NumPy
11 17 (4.75%) Terraform
11 17 (4.75%) Vue
12 13 (3.63%) Node.js
12 13 (3.63%) OpenAPI
13 9 (2.51%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 8 (2.23%) Jinja
15 7 (1.96%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.45%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (9.22%) Algorithms
4 26 (7.26%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.98%) Cyber Threat
6 22 (6.15%) Hedge funds
7 17 (4.75%) Low-Code
8 15 (4.19%) Equities
9 13 (3.63%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.63%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (3.07%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (2.51%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.96%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.68%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.40%) AI Agents
14 5 (1.40%) Derivative
15 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
16 3 (0.84%) Educational Technology
16 3 (0.84%) Legacy Code
16 3 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.87%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (29.61%) Software Engineering
2 102 (28.49%) AI
3 81 (22.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (18.16%) CI/CD
5 44 (12.29%) Agile
6 40 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (9.50%) Validation
9 33 (9.22%) Test Automation
10 28 (7.82%) Containerisation
10 28 (7.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 26 (7.26%) API Design
12 25 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (6.70%) DevOps
13 24 (6.70%) Observability
13 24 (6.70%) Roadmaps
14 23 (6.42%) Event-Driven
14 23 (6.42%) OOP
15 21 (5.87%) Machine Learning
15 21 (5.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 358 (100.00%) Python
2 61 (17.04%) SQL
3 41 (11.45%) JavaScript
4 26 (7.26%) TypeScript
5 19 (5.31%) C++
6 13 (3.63%) Go
7 8 (2.23%) C#
8 7 (1.96%) Bash
9 5 (1.40%) Rust
10 4 (1.12%) Java
10 4 (1.12%) PHP
10 4 (1.12%) R
10 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.56%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) Haskell
12 1 (0.28%) OCaml
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (3.63%) Degree
2 11 (3.07%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.23%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.19%) QA
2 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 47 (13.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.40%) Grafana
3 4 (1.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.84%) Ansible
5 2 (0.56%) Kibana
5 2 (0.56%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (2.79%) Databricks
2 4 (1.12%) Google
2 4 (1.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.84%) Oracle
4 2 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.28%) HubSpot