Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 July 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 379 424
Rank change year-on-year -27 +45 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 377 300 407
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.69% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.76% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 302 230 349
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £86,250 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% -13.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £137,500 £162,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £86,250 £100,000
% change year-on-year -18.84% -13.75% +14.29%

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 85,729 39,343 71,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 90.58% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 60,153 23,812 50,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 30 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 30 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 -68 204 £90,000 -10.00% 37
North of England +22 78 £70,000 - 5
Yorkshire -3 38 £70,000 - 4
East of England -2 30 £65,000 -5.45% 4
South West -40 25 £50,000 -41.18% 1
South East -14 23 £60,000 +33.33% 6
North West +9 20 £45,000 -30.77%
North East - 20 £70,000 - 1
Midlands -25 15 £67,500 -3.57% 3
East Midlands -12 10 £70,000 +75.00% 1
West Midlands -25 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 377 (100.00%) Python
2 113 (29.97%) AWS
3 106 (28.12%) Software Engineering
4 95 (25.20%) AI
5 94 (24.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (16.18%) CI/CD
7 56 (14.85%) Agile
7 56 (14.85%) SQL
8 51 (13.53%) JavaScript
8 51 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (12.20%) Azure
10 45 (11.94%) FastAPI
11 43 (11.41%) Docker
12 41 (10.88%) Flask
13 40 (10.61%) RESTful
14 38 (10.08%) Test Automation
14 38 (10.08%) TypeScript
15 35 (9.28%) React
16 31 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (8.22%) Kubernetes
16 31 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (7.96%) Django
17 30 (7.96%) Linux
18 29 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
18 29 (7.69%) OOP
19 27 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
19 27 (7.16%) Validation
20 26 (6.90%) C++
20 26 (6.90%) Containerisation
20 26 (6.90%) Microservices

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 12 (3.18%) 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
1 113 (29.97%) AWS
2 46 (12.20%) Azure
3 23 (6.10%) SaaS
4 19 (5.04%) Serverless
5 15 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.45%) GCP
7 10 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.39%) GitHub
9 7 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (1.86%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.33%) Prefect
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.06%) Kong
13 3 (0.80%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.98%) Broadband
2 7 (1.86%) MQTT
3 2 (0.53%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) RTP
4 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.27%) VoIP
4 1 (0.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.53%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.24%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.18%) DynamoDB
4 11 (2.92%) Big Data
5 9 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.33%) MySQL
7 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.80%) GIS
10 2 (0.53%) Power BI
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.27%) Redis
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.63%) Git
2 7 (1.86%) 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 51 (13.53%) Finance
2 34 (9.02%) Front Office
2 34 (9.02%) Social Skills
3 19 (5.04%) Tech for Good
4 15 (3.98%) Games
5 12 (3.18%) Health Technology
6 9 (2.39%) Banking
7 5 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (1.33%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.06%) Publishing
9 3 (0.80%) Aviation
10 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
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%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.94%) FastAPI
2 41 (10.88%) Flask
3 40 (10.61%) RESTful
4 35 (9.28%) React
5 30 (7.96%) Django
6 26 (6.90%) REST
7 25 (6.63%) NumPy
8 24 (6.37%) Node.js
8 24 (6.37%) Pandas
9 23 (6.10%) Vue
10 21 (5.57%) Kafka
11 19 (5.04%) CSS
12 17 (4.51%) HTML
13 15 (3.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 14 (3.71%) Swagger
15 11 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (2.65%) AngularJS
17 8 (2.12%) .NET
17 8 (2.12%) Redux
18 7 (1.86%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.47%) Algorithms
2 41 (10.88%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (10.08%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.90%) Hedge funds
5 24 (6.37%) Equities
6 22 (5.84%) Fixed Income
7 21 (5.57%) Data Structures
8 20 (5.31%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (5.04%) Low-Code
10 17 (4.51%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (3.98%) Management Information System
11 15 (3.98%) Video\Live Streaming
12 12 (3.18%) Derivative
13 10 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (1.86%) Educational Technology
16 6 (1.59%) PropTech
17 5 (1.33%) Market Risk
17 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
18 4 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.96%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (28.12%) Software Engineering
2 95 (25.20%) AI
3 94 (24.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (16.18%) CI/CD
5 56 (14.85%) Agile
6 38 (10.08%) Test Automation
7 31 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (7.69%) OOP
9 27 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (7.16%) Validation
10 26 (6.90%) Containerisation
10 26 (6.90%) Microservices
11 25 (6.63%) Fintech
11 25 (6.63%) Mentoring
11 25 (6.63%) OO
12 24 (6.37%) Machine Learning
13 22 (5.84%) API Design
13 22 (5.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 377 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (14.85%) SQL
3 51 (13.53%) JavaScript
4 38 (10.08%) TypeScript
5 26 (6.90%) C++
6 15 (3.98%) Go
7 7 (1.86%) C#
8 6 (1.59%) Java
8 6 (1.59%) PHP
9 5 (1.33%) Rust
10 4 (1.06%) Bash
11 3 (0.80%) Perl
12 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.27%) Bicep
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) Haskell
13 1 (0.27%) OCaml
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (3.71%) Degree
2 10 (2.65%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.12%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.98%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (11.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Kamailio
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.24%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
4 2 (0.53%) Grafana
4 2 (0.53%) Kibana
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
5 1 (0.27%) Argo
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (3.71%) Databricks
2 4 (1.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.06%) Oracle
3 1 (0.27%) BT
3 1 (0.27%) Fortinet
3 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
3 1 (0.27%) Mitel
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce