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 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 396 347
Rank change year-on-year +53 -49 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 313 293 482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.66% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.73% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 247 194 450
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £52,375
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -1.94% -8.82% +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 54,283 40,332 63,068
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.25% 91.39% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 34,995 21,187 50,351
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,500 £28,805
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 17 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 17 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 +24 209 £90,000 +5.88% 43
North of England +6 33 £75,000 +8.21% 17
Midlands +23 31 £65,000 +18.18% 4
South East +27 28 £70,000 +11.11% 5
Yorkshire -17 24 £75,000 -9.09% 13
East Midlands -7 17 £65,000 +18.18% 1
West Midlands +30 14 £75,000 +28.42% 3
North West +10 9 £40,000 -42.29% 4
South West -9 7 £55,000 - 9
East of England +5 1 £50,000 -41.18% 3
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 313 (100.00%) Python
2 109 (34.82%) Software Engineering
3 104 (33.23%) React
4 93 (29.71%) AWS
5 87 (27.80%) Agile
6 70 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (21.41%) CI/CD
8 65 (20.77%) AI
9 63 (20.13%) JavaScript
10 62 (19.81%) Django
11 58 (18.53%) Flask
12 55 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (17.57%) SQL
13 54 (17.25%) TypeScript
14 50 (15.97%) Mentoring
15 48 (15.34%) Docker
15 48 (15.34%) Test Automation
16 47 (15.02%) Serverless
17 44 (14.06%) GitHub
18 43 (13.74%) Azure
19 41 (13.10%) FastAPI
19 41 (13.10%) Fintech
19 41 (13.10%) OOP
20 39 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
21 37 (11.82%) Node.js
22 33 (10.54%) Containerisation
23 32 (10.22%) OO
23 32 (10.22%) Order Management
23 32 (10.22%) REST
24 30 (9.58%) PostgreSQL

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 17 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.28%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 93 (29.71%) AWS
2 47 (15.02%) Serverless
3 44 (14.06%) GitHub
4 43 (13.74%) Azure
5 28 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.31%) Amazon S3
7 24 (7.67%) GCP
8 19 (6.07%) SaaS
9 14 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.47%) dbt
10 13 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.88%) Azure AI
11 9 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.28%) n8n
12 4 (1.28%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.32%) Cloud Run
13 1 (0.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) HTTP
1 3 (0.96%) RTP
1 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.96%) VoIP
1 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (5.11%) Big Data
3 14 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (4.47%) Apache Arrow
3 14 (4.47%) Apache Iceberg
3 14 (4.47%) Dremio
4 10 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.24%) MySQL
7 6 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.64%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (4.79%) Git
2 3 (0.96%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.64%) JIRA
3 2 (0.64%) Maven
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.32%) Selenium
4 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (26.52%) Finance
2 64 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 45 (14.38%) Front Office
4 20 (6.39%) Tech for Good
5 18 (5.75%) Health Technology
5 18 (5.75%) Publishing
6 14 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.83%) Banking
7 12 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.28%) Legal
11 3 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.96%) Retail
11 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.64%) Electronics
12 2 (0.64%) Games
12 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.64%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (33.23%) React
2 62 (19.81%) Django
3 58 (18.53%) Flask
4 41 (13.10%) FastAPI
5 37 (11.82%) Node.js
6 32 (10.22%) REST
7 29 (9.27%) HTML
7 29 (9.27%) Vue
8 27 (8.63%) RESTful
9 23 (7.35%) AngularJS
10 19 (6.07%) CSS
11 18 (5.75%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 18 (5.75%) Kafka
11 18 (5.75%) NumPy
11 18 (5.75%) Pandas
12 14 (4.47%) SciPy
13 7 (2.24%) OAuth
13 7 (2.24%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.92%) LangChain
15 5 (1.60%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.78%) Equities
2 37 (11.82%) Data Structures
3 26 (8.31%) Hedge funds
4 22 (7.03%) Fixed Income
5 21 (6.71%) Algorithms
6 18 (5.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (5.75%) Management Information System
7 17 (5.43%) Cloud Native
8 12 (3.83%) Educational Technology
9 10 (3.19%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.60%) PropTech
11 4 (1.28%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.28%) Derivative
11 4 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.28%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.28%) PKI
12 3 (0.96%) Grid Computing
13 2 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
14 1 (0.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.99%) Linux
2 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (34.82%) Software Engineering
2 87 (27.80%) Agile
3 70 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 67 (21.41%) CI/CD
5 65 (20.77%) AI
6 55 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (15.97%) Mentoring
8 48 (15.34%) Test Automation
9 41 (13.10%) Fintech
9 41 (13.10%) OOP
10 39 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (10.54%) Containerisation
12 32 (10.22%) OO
12 32 (10.22%) Order Management
13 28 (8.95%) Clean Code
14 26 (8.31%) Investment Management
14 26 (8.31%) Microservices
15 25 (7.99%) SDLC
16 24 (7.67%) Code Quality
17 23 (7.35%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 313 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (20.13%) JavaScript
3 55 (17.57%) SQL
4 54 (17.25%) TypeScript
5 27 (8.63%) C++
6 14 (4.47%) Java
7 6 (1.92%) PHP
8 5 (1.60%) VBA
9 4 (1.28%) C
9 4 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.64%) Bicep
10 2 (0.64%) Scala
11 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.32%) C#
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.32%) Ruby
11 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (4.79%) Degree
2 6 (1.92%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.60%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.64%) PhD
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.07%) QA
2 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
4 2 (0.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 48 (15.34%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (7.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.35%) Terraform
3 3 (0.96%) Argo
4 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (4.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.28%) iManage
2 4 (1.28%) OpenAI
3 3 (0.96%) BT
3 3 (0.96%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.96%) Google
3 3 (0.96%) Mitel
3 3 (0.96%) Oracle
4 2 (0.64%) SAP
4 2 (0.64%) Solace
5 1 (0.32%) Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.32%) UiPath