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 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 376 421
Rank change year-on-year -38 +45 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 362 299 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.69% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.76% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 287 228 278
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 £97,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -12.60% +8.06%
75th Percentile £93,750 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £151,875
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 93,639 39,093 65,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 90.39% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,191 23,439 40,359
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 14 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 14 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 -101 181 £87,500 -2.78% 147
North of England 0 74 £70,000 - 12
East of England +21 51 £71,250 +3.64% 4
Yorkshire -7 32 £85,000 +21.43% 8
North West -3 21 £45,000 -26.53% 4
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -36 20 £65,000 -7.14% 5
South West -62 18 £50,000 -16.67% 7
South East -26 15 £60,000 +63.27% 13
East Midlands -21 12 £70,000 +19.15% 2
West Midlands -35 8 £55,000 -21.43% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 362 (100.00%) Python
2 108 (29.83%) AWS
3 105 (29.01%) Software Engineering
4 102 (28.18%) AI
5 82 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (17.68%) CI/CD
7 62 (17.13%) SQL
8 49 (13.54%) Azure
9 48 (13.26%) FastAPI
9 48 (13.26%) PostgreSQL
10 46 (12.71%) Docker
10 46 (12.71%) RESTful
11 44 (12.15%) Agile
12 41 (11.33%) JavaScript
13 40 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (9.67%) Flask
15 35 (9.67%) Kubernetes
16 33 (9.12%) Validation
17 32 (8.84%) Test Automation
18 28 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
19 27 (7.46%) Containerisation
19 27 (7.46%) Django
20 26 (7.18%) TypeScript
21 25 (6.91%) API Design
21 25 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
22 24 (6.63%) Git
22 24 (6.63%) Kafka
22 24 (6.63%) Observability
23 23 (6.35%) DevOps

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 8 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (29.83%) AWS
2 49 (13.54%) Azure
3 16 (4.42%) SaaS
3 16 (4.42%) Serverless
4 14 (3.87%) Amazon S3
5 13 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.04%) GCP
8 10 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.93%) Amazon Bedrock
10 7 (1.93%) GitHub
11 5 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.10%) Kong
12 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.59%) Broadband
2 12 (3.31%) MQTT
3 3 (0.83%) 4G
3 3 (0.83%) 5G
3 3 (0.83%) DNS
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) SSH
3 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.26%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.97%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.31%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.21%) MySQL
6 7 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.93%) Big Data
6 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.10%) GIS
8 4 (1.10%) Power BI
8 4 (1.10%) Redis
9 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.83%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.63%) Git
2 7 (1.93%) GitLab
3 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.55%) 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 (13.81%) Finance
2 25 (6.91%) Front Office
2 25 (6.91%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.42%) Tech for Good
4 14 (3.87%) Banking
5 13 (3.59%) Games
6 10 (2.76%) Health Technology
7 5 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.10%) Marketing
8 4 (1.10%) Publishing
9 3 (0.83%) Law
9 3 (0.83%) Legal
9 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.55%) Automotive
10 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.26%) FastAPI
2 46 (12.71%) RESTful
3 35 (9.67%) Flask
4 27 (7.46%) Django
5 24 (6.63%) Kafka
6 22 (6.08%) React
6 22 (6.08%) REST
7 21 (5.80%) Pandas
8 20 (5.52%) CSS
8 20 (5.52%) HTML
9 19 (5.25%) NumPy
9 19 (5.25%) Swagger
10 18 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (4.70%) Terraform
11 17 (4.70%) Vue
12 13 (3.59%) Node.js
13 12 (3.31%) OpenAPI
14 9 (2.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 8 (2.21%) Jinja
16 7 (1.93%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.39%) Algorithms
4 26 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.91%) Cyber Threat
6 24 (6.63%) Hedge funds
7 17 (4.70%) Low-Code
8 15 (4.14%) Equities
9 13 (3.59%) Data Structures
9 13 (3.59%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (3.04%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (2.49%) Fixed Income
11 9 (2.49%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.38%) Derivative
12 5 (1.38%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.10%) Educational Technology
13 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.83%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.80%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (29.01%) Software Engineering
2 102 (28.18%) AI
3 82 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (17.68%) CI/CD
5 44 (12.15%) Agile
6 40 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (9.12%) Validation
9 32 (8.84%) Test Automation
10 28 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (7.46%) Containerisation
12 25 (6.91%) API Design
12 25 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (6.63%) Observability
14 23 (6.35%) DevOps
14 23 (6.35%) OOP
14 23 (6.35%) Roadmaps
15 22 (6.08%) Event-Driven
15 22 (6.08%) Microservices
16 21 (5.80%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 362 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (17.13%) SQL
3 41 (11.33%) JavaScript
4 26 (7.18%) TypeScript
5 19 (5.25%) C++
6 13 (3.59%) Go
7 8 (2.21%) C#
8 7 (1.93%) Bash
9 5 (1.38%) Rust
10 4 (1.10%) Java
10 4 (1.10%) PHP
10 4 (1.10%) R
10 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) Haskell
12 1 (0.28%) OCaml
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (3.59%) Degree
2 11 (3.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.38%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.14%) QA
2 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 46 (12.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.38%) Grafana
3 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
5 2 (0.55%) Kibana
5 2 (0.55%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (2.76%) Databricks
2 4 (1.10%) Google
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle
4 2 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.28%) HubSpot