Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 406 324
Rank change year-on-year +71 -82 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 297 357 455
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.58% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.62% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 218 246 423
10th Percentile £55,875 £50,625 £53,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £126,875 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -13.51% +19.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,870 58,044 44,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27,008 32,905 34,377
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,955 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,828 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% -

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +41 228 £90,000 +5.88% 28
North of England +41 31 £75,000 +8.21% 4
Yorkshire +30 24 £80,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands +58 21 £70,000 +27.27% 4
West Midlands +62 14 £90,000 +75.61% 3
North West +40 7 £66,250 -17.19% 3
East Midlands +22 7 £70,000 +27.27% 1
East of England +20 5 £62,500 -1.96%
South East +34 4 £70,000 -9.68% 11
South West +18 4 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 2025, 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.

1 297 (100.00%) Python
2 142 (47.81%) AWS
3 133 (44.78%) Agile
4 114 (38.38%) React
5 110 (37.04%) Software Engineering
6 89 (29.97%) CI/CD
7 84 (28.28%) JavaScript
8 77 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
8 77 (25.93%) TypeScript
9 73 (24.58%) GCP
10 70 (23.57%) Azure
11 67 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
12 66 (22.22%) Order Management
13 64 (21.55%) Vue
14 63 (21.21%) Docker
14 63 (21.21%) Test Automation
15 60 (20.20%) AngularJS
16 58 (19.53%) Fintech
17 57 (19.19%) Node.js
18 56 (18.86%) SQL
19 54 (18.18%) AI
19 54 (18.18%) Pandas
20 53 (17.85%) Containerisation
20 53 (17.85%) Flask
20 53 (17.85%) Mentoring
20 53 (17.85%) NumPy
21 51 (17.17%) Risk Management
22 50 (16.84%) Amazon Athena
22 50 (16.84%) Apache Iceberg
22 50 (16.84%) Asset Management

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 47 (15.82%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.01%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 142 (47.81%) AWS
2 73 (24.58%) GCP
3 70 (23.57%) Azure
4 50 (16.84%) dbt
4 50 (16.84%) Serverless
5 35 (11.78%) GitHub
6 32 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (5.05%) Amazon S3
7 15 (5.05%) SaaS
8 14 (4.71%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (4.38%) Azure AI
10 9 (3.03%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.69%) n8n
12 6 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.67%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.01%) FTP
2 2 (0.67%) Internet
3 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.34%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (16.84%) Amazon Athena
2 50 (16.84%) Apache Iceberg
3 47 (15.82%) Apache Arrow
3 47 (15.82%) Dremio
4 28 (9.43%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.07%) DynamoDB
6 15 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (4.71%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.38%) Big Data
8 13 (4.38%) Tick Data
9 12 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (4.04%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.04%) MySQL
10 11 (3.70%) SQL Server
11 10 (3.37%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.34%) Power BI
13 1 (0.34%) Redis
13 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (7.07%) Git
2 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) Maven
3 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Selenium
4 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 131 (44.11%) Finance
2 76 (25.59%) Front Office
3 47 (15.82%) Social Skills
4 32 (10.77%) Marketing
5 26 (8.75%) Health Technology
6 25 (8.42%) Publishing
6 25 (8.42%) Tech for Good
7 20 (6.73%) Banking
7 20 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (6.40%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (3.37%) Electronics
11 10 (3.37%) Retail
11 10 (3.37%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.69%) Legal
13 7 (2.36%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.68%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (38.38%) React
2 64 (21.55%) Vue
3 60 (20.20%) AngularJS
4 57 (19.19%) Node.js
5 54 (18.18%) Pandas
6 53 (17.85%) Flask
6 53 (17.85%) NumPy
7 49 (16.50%) Django
8 47 (15.82%) SciPy
9 44 (14.81%) RESTful
10 41 (13.80%) FastAPI
11 39 (13.13%) REST
12 25 (8.42%) HTML
13 22 (7.41%) CSS
14 19 (6.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 14 (4.71%) Kafka
15 14 (4.71%) Swagger
16 10 (3.37%) LangChain
17 7 (2.36%) PySpark
17 7 (2.36%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 71 (23.91%) Equities
2 48 (16.16%) Fixed Income
3 47 (15.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (11.11%) Data Structures
5 30 (10.10%) Hedge funds
6 28 (9.43%) Management Information System
7 23 (7.74%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.38%) Cloud Native
9 9 (3.03%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.69%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.68%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.35%) PKI
13 3 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.67%) Reinsurance
15 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (44.78%) Agile
2 110 (37.04%) Software Engineering
3 89 (29.97%) CI/CD
4 67 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (22.22%) Order Management
6 63 (21.21%) Test Automation
7 58 (19.53%) Fintech
8 54 (18.18%) AI
9 53 (17.85%) Containerisation
9 53 (17.85%) Mentoring
10 51 (17.17%) Risk Management
11 50 (16.84%) Asset Management
12 47 (15.82%) Investment Management
12 47 (15.82%) Performance Attribution
13 41 (13.80%) OOP
14 34 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (11.45%) OO
14 34 (11.45%) TDD
15 32 (10.77%) Clean Code
16 31 (10.44%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 297 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (28.28%) JavaScript
3 77 (25.93%) TypeScript
4 56 (18.86%) SQL
5 31 (10.44%) C++
6 13 (4.38%) Java
7 9 (3.03%) C#
8 5 (1.68%) Bash
9 3 (1.01%) Bicep
9 3 (1.01%) Scala
10 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) PHP
10 2 (0.67%) Ruby
10 2 (0.67%) VBA
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) Clojure
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (8.42%) Degree
2 11 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.69%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.36%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.68%) PhD
6 3 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.46%) QA
2 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.67%) GDPR
3 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.67%) PSD2
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 63 (21.21%) Docker
2 4 (1.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (10.77%) Terraform
2 31 (10.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (7.41%) Databricks
2 14 (4.71%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.38%) Google
4 11 (3.70%) SAP
5 8 (2.69%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.02%) iManage
7 3 (1.01%) Splunk
8 2 (0.67%) Foundry
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle
8 2 (0.67%) Solace
8 2 (0.67%) UiPath
9 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.34%) Reuters