Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 388 422
Rank change year-on-year -2 +34 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 375 288 496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.66% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.74% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 304 219 434
10th Percentile £47,875 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £150,000
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 82,582 39,134 83,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 90.30% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 58,054 23,578 61,195
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -62 209 £90,000 -5.26% 27
North of England +27 76 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Yorkshire -2 39 £70,000 +7.69% 6
South East -2 28 £60,000 +43.71% 21
South West -40 25 £50,000 -41.18% 7
North West +6 21 £45,000 -28.00% 10
East of England -3 21 £72,500 +5.45% 8
North East - 16 £70,000 - 4
Midlands -20 14 £65,000 +18.18% 11
East Midlands -12 13 £67,500 +68.75% 6
West Midlands -30 1 £50,000 -28.57% 5
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 375 (100.00%) Python
2 110 (29.33%) AWS
3 104 (27.73%) Software Engineering
4 96 (25.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 91 (24.27%) AI
6 56 (14.93%) CI/CD
7 54 (14.40%) Agile
7 54 (14.40%) SQL
8 51 (13.60%) JavaScript
9 45 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
10 44 (11.73%) FastAPI
10 44 (11.73%) React
11 43 (11.47%) Docker
12 42 (11.20%) Flask
12 42 (11.20%) TypeScript
13 41 (10.93%) Azure
14 40 (10.67%) Test Automation
15 37 (9.87%) RESTful
16 33 (8.80%) Kubernetes
16 33 (8.80%) Linux
17 32 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (8.53%) Django
17 32 (8.53%) OOP
18 30 (8.00%) C++
19 29 (7.73%) OO
20 28 (7.47%) REST
21 27 (7.20%) Containerisation
21 27 (7.20%) Fintech
21 27 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
22 26 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code

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 13 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.53%) Apache
3 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 110 (29.33%) AWS
2 41 (10.93%) Azure
3 26 (6.93%) SaaS
4 22 (5.87%) Serverless
5 18 (4.80%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.47%) GCP
7 13 (3.47%) GitHub
8 9 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.33%) Prefect
12 4 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (0.80%) Amazon Bedrock
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.80%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.00%) Broadband
2 6 (1.60%) MQTT
3 3 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.80%) RTP
3 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.80%) VoIP
3 3 (0.80%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.20%) Big Data
4 10 (2.67%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.60%) MySQL
7 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.80%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.53%) GIS
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.27%) Power BI
10 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (6.13%) Git
2 6 (1.60%) GitLab
3 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) MLflow
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.27%) Poetry
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (14.93%) Finance
2 38 (10.13%) Front Office
3 35 (9.33%) Social Skills
4 18 (4.80%) Tech for Good
5 15 (4.00%) Games
6 12 (3.20%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.67%) Banking
8 5 (1.33%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.07%) Aviation
9 4 (1.07%) Publishing
10 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Legal
10 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.27%) Automotive
11 1 (0.27%) Back Office
11 1 (0.27%) Electronics
11 1 (0.27%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.73%) FastAPI
1 44 (11.73%) React
2 42 (11.20%) Flask
3 37 (9.87%) RESTful
4 32 (8.53%) Django
5 28 (7.47%) REST
6 26 (6.93%) Node.js
7 25 (6.67%) NumPy
8 24 (6.40%) Pandas
9 23 (6.13%) Vue
10 20 (5.33%) Kafka
11 17 (4.53%) CSS
11 17 (4.53%) HTML
12 16 (4.27%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 12 (3.20%) Swagger
14 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.40%) .NET
16 8 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (2.13%) Redux
17 6 (1.60%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.80%) Algorithms
2 37 (9.87%) Cloud Native
3 36 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (6.93%) Hedge funds
5 25 (6.67%) Equities
6 23 (6.13%) Fixed Income
7 22 (5.87%) Data Structures
8 18 (4.80%) Low-Code
9 17 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (4.27%) Management Information System
11 15 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (3.20%) Derivative
13 10 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (2.13%) PropTech
14 8 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.87%) Educational Technology
16 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
17 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
17 4 (1.07%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.80%) Linux
2 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (27.73%) Software Engineering
2 96 (25.60%) Full-Stack Development
3 91 (24.27%) AI
4 56 (14.93%) CI/CD
5 54 (14.40%) Agile
6 40 (10.67%) Test Automation
7 32 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (8.53%) OOP
8 29 (7.73%) OO
9 27 (7.20%) Containerisation
9 27 (7.20%) Fintech
9 27 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (6.93%) Microservices
11 24 (6.40%) Machine Learning
11 24 (6.40%) Mentoring
11 24 (6.40%) Validation
12 23 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (6.13%) SDLC
13 22 (5.87%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 375 (100.00%) Python
2 54 (14.40%) SQL
3 51 (13.60%) JavaScript
4 42 (11.20%) TypeScript
5 30 (8.00%) C++
6 15 (4.00%) Go
7 8 (2.13%) Java
8 7 (1.87%) C#
9 6 (1.60%) PHP
10 5 (1.33%) Rust
11 4 (1.07%) Bash
11 4 (1.07%) C
12 3 (0.80%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.27%) Bicep
14 1 (0.27%) Haskell
14 1 (0.27%) OCaml
14 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (3.73%) Degree
2 10 (2.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.47%) QA
2 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (11.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 33 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.27%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
3 3 (0.80%) Argo
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Kibana
4 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (3.73%) Databricks
2 5 (1.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.80%) BT
3 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.80%) Mitel
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle
4 1 (0.27%) Google
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce