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 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 365 412
Rank change year-on-year -54 +47 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 365 303 374
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.78% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 292 232 290
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £85,000 £97,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -12.60% +8.06%
75th Percentile £92,813 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £148,125
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 92,653 38,868 65,330
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 90.31% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 65,512 23,334 41,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,015 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 8 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 8 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 -103 180 £87,500 -2.78% 127
North of England -3 76 £70,000 - 6
East of England +15 48 £70,000 +1.82% 6
Yorkshire -15 34 £80,000 +14.29% 3
South West -62 22 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North West -8 21 £45,000 -28.00% 3
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -26 20 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East -28 16 £60,000 +55.84% 6
East Midlands -23 12 £70,000 +19.15% 1
West Midlands -33 8 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 365 (100.00%) Python
2 109 (29.86%) Software Engineering
3 106 (29.04%) AWS
4 100 (27.40%) AI
5 85 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (17.81%) CI/CD
7 63 (17.26%) SQL
8 49 (13.42%) Docker
9 47 (12.88%) FastAPI
9 47 (12.88%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (12.33%) Agile
10 45 (12.33%) RESTful
11 43 (11.78%) Azure
11 43 (11.78%) JavaScript
12 40 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (10.14%) Flask
14 34 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (9.32%) Test Automation
15 33 (9.04%) Kubernetes
15 33 (9.04%) Validation
16 30 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (7.67%) Git
18 27 (7.40%) Django
18 27 (7.40%) TypeScript
19 26 (7.12%) Linux
19 26 (7.12%) Pandas
20 25 (6.85%) API Design
20 25 (6.85%) Containerisation
20 25 (6.85%) Kafka

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 10 (2.74%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (29.04%) AWS
2 43 (11.78%) Azure
3 18 (4.93%) SaaS
4 17 (4.66%) Serverless
5 14 (3.84%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (3.01%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.19%) GitHub
10 7 (1.92%) GCP
11 5 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.37%) Prefect
12 4 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.10%) Kong
13 3 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.84%) Broadband
2 11 (3.01%) MQTT
3 3 (0.82%) 4G
3 3 (0.82%) 5G
3 3 (0.82%) DNS
3 3 (0.82%) HTTP
3 3 (0.82%) SSH
3 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.88%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.29%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.47%) Big Data
4 9 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.92%) MySQL
5 7 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.10%) GIS
7 4 (1.10%) Redis
7 4 (1.10%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.82%) Power BI
9 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (7.67%) Git
2 7 (1.92%) GitLab
3 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) Poetry
6 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (12.60%) Finance
2 23 (6.30%) Front Office
2 23 (6.30%) Social Skills
3 15 (4.11%) Tech for Good
4 14 (3.84%) Games
5 10 (2.74%) Banking
5 10 (2.74%) Health Technology
6 5 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.10%) Publishing
8 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.82%) Law
8 3 (0.82%) Legal
8 3 (0.82%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.55%) Automotive
9 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.27%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (12.88%) FastAPI
2 45 (12.33%) RESTful
3 37 (10.14%) Flask
4 27 (7.40%) Django
5 26 (7.12%) Pandas
6 25 (6.85%) Kafka
7 24 (6.58%) NumPy
7 24 (6.58%) REST
8 22 (6.03%) CSS
8 22 (6.03%) React
9 21 (5.75%) HTML
10 19 (5.21%) Vue
11 18 (4.93%) Swagger
11 18 (4.93%) Terraform
12 17 (4.66%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (3.84%) Node.js
14 11 (3.01%) OpenAPI
15 10 (2.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 8 (2.19%) Jinja
17 7 (1.92%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.96%) Algorithms
1 40 (10.96%) Cloud Native
1 40 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (6.85%) Cyber Threat
2 25 (6.85%) Greenfield Project
3 21 (5.75%) Hedge funds
4 18 (4.93%) Low-Code
5 15 (4.11%) Data Structures
6 14 (3.84%) Equities
6 14 (3.84%) Video\Live Streaming
7 11 (3.01%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.47%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.37%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.10%) Derivative
11 4 (1.10%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.82%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.12%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (29.86%) Software Engineering
2 100 (27.40%) AI
3 85 (23.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (17.81%) CI/CD
5 45 (12.33%) Agile
6 40 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
7 34 (9.32%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (9.32%) Test Automation
8 33 (9.04%) Validation
9 30 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (6.85%) API Design
11 25 (6.85%) Containerisation
12 24 (6.58%) Microservices
12 24 (6.58%) OOP
13 23 (6.30%) DevOps
14 22 (6.03%) Event-Driven
14 22 (6.03%) Machine Learning
14 22 (6.03%) Observability
15 21 (5.75%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 365 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (17.26%) SQL
3 43 (11.78%) JavaScript
4 27 (7.40%) TypeScript
5 20 (5.48%) C++
6 14 (3.84%) Go
7 8 (2.19%) C#
8 7 (1.92%) Bash
9 5 (1.37%) Java
9 5 (1.37%) PHP
9 5 (1.37%) Rust
10 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.55%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Haskell
12 1 (0.27%) OCaml
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (4.66%) Degree
2 11 (3.01%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.19%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.38%) QA
2 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (13.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.37%) Grafana
3 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 2 (0.55%) Kibana
5 2 (0.55%) logstash
6 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (3.84%) Databricks
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle
4 2 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.27%) HubSpot