Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 391 337
Rank change year-on-year +48 -54 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 296 300 483
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.63% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.69% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 231 204 448
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,625 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.59% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £76,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -10.59% +6.25%

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 50,169 43,645 57,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.09% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 31,870 22,677 45,397
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +38 203 £80,000 -5.88% 47
Midlands +32 31 £70,000 +27.27% 8
North of England +29 31 £75,000 +11.68% 9
South East +27 22 £70,000 +12.00% 38
Yorkshire +7 21 £75,000 -9.09% 4
West Midlands +44 16 £80,000 +36.98% 5
East Midlands -13 15 £70,000 +27.27% 3
North West +30 10 £40,000 -40.44% 4
South West -8 4 £60,000 +9.09% 10
East of England +1 1 £50,000 -41.18% 10
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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.

1 296 (100.00%) Python
2 100 (33.78%) React
3 98 (33.11%) Software Engineering
4 95 (32.09%) Agile
5 93 (31.42%) AWS
6 72 (24.32%) CI/CD
7 61 (20.61%) AI
8 59 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 56 (18.92%) JavaScript
9 56 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (18.92%) SQL
9 56 (18.92%) TypeScript
10 55 (18.58%) Django
11 54 (18.24%) Test Automation
12 53 (17.91%) Flask
13 51 (17.23%) Serverless
14 50 (16.89%) Docker
15 47 (15.88%) Mentoring
16 46 (15.54%) Azure
17 43 (14.53%) GitHub
18 40 (13.51%) FastAPI
19 39 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
20 37 (12.50%) Node.js
20 37 (12.50%) OOP
21 36 (12.16%) Fintech
22 34 (11.49%) Order Management
23 33 (11.15%) Containerisation
23 33 (11.15%) RESTful
24 32 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
24 32 (10.81%) REST

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 17 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.73%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 93 (31.42%) AWS
2 51 (17.23%) Serverless
3 46 (15.54%) Azure
4 43 (14.53%) GitHub
5 32 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.78%) GCP
7 24 (8.11%) Amazon S3
8 17 (5.74%) dbt
8 17 (5.74%) SaaS
9 14 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (4.73%) Azure AI
10 11 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.04%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.70%) n8n
13 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
14 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
15 1 (0.34%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) HTTP
1 1 (0.34%) Internet
1 1 (0.34%) RTP
1 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.34%) VoIP
1 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (5.74%) Apache Arrow
2 17 (5.74%) Apache Iceberg
2 17 (5.74%) Dremio
3 16 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.39%) Big Data
5 10 (3.38%) Relational Database
6 8 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.36%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.69%) MySQL
9 4 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.35%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.34%) Power BI
11 1 (0.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Git
2 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.68%) Maven
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 81 (27.36%) Finance
2 55 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 42 (14.19%) Front Office
4 24 (8.11%) Health Technology
4 24 (8.11%) Publishing
5 23 (7.77%) Tech for Good
6 14 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.05%) Banking
7 12 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.72%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Legal
9 7 (2.36%) Marketing
10 5 (1.69%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.35%) Electronics
11 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.35%) Retail
12 2 (0.68%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (33.78%) React
2 55 (18.58%) Django
3 53 (17.91%) Flask
4 40 (13.51%) FastAPI
5 37 (12.50%) Node.js
6 33 (11.15%) RESTful
7 32 (10.81%) REST
8 31 (10.47%) Vue
9 28 (9.46%) HTML
10 24 (8.11%) AngularJS
11 22 (7.43%) NumPy
11 22 (7.43%) Pandas
12 19 (6.42%) CSS
13 17 (5.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 17 (5.74%) SciPy
14 15 (5.07%) Kafka
15 10 (3.38%) LangChain
16 8 (2.70%) Swagger
17 7 (2.36%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.69%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.18%) Equities
2 35 (11.82%) Data Structures
3 25 (8.45%) Hedge funds
4 20 (6.76%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.42%) Management Information System
6 18 (6.08%) Fixed Income
6 18 (6.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (5.74%) Cloud Native
8 11 (3.72%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.38%) Educational Technology
10 9 (3.04%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.70%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.35%) Grid Computing
13 4 (1.35%) PKI
13 4 (1.35%) PropTech
14 1 (0.34%) Blockchain
14 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.43%) Linux
2 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (33.11%) Software Engineering
2 95 (32.09%) Agile
3 72 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 61 (20.61%) AI
5 59 (19.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 56 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (18.24%) Test Automation
8 47 (15.88%) Mentoring
9 39 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (12.50%) OOP
11 36 (12.16%) Fintech
12 34 (11.49%) Order Management
13 33 (11.15%) Containerisation
14 28 (9.46%) OO
14 28 (9.46%) TDD
15 26 (8.78%) Clean Code
15 26 (8.78%) Scrum
16 24 (8.11%) DevOps
16 24 (8.11%) Pair Programming
17 23 (7.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 296 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (18.92%) JavaScript
2 56 (18.92%) SQL
2 56 (18.92%) TypeScript
3 29 (9.80%) C++
4 13 (4.39%) Java
5 6 (2.03%) PHP
6 5 (1.69%) C#
6 5 (1.69%) VBA
7 3 (1.01%) Bicep
8 2 (0.68%) C
8 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.68%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.34%) R
9 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (4.73%) Degree
2 6 (2.03%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.01%) PhD
5 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.78%) QA
2 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.68%) GDPR
3 2 (0.68%) PSD2
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (16.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 25 (8.45%) Terraform
2 21 (7.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.34%) Argo
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (5.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.70%) OpenAI
3 6 (2.03%) iManage
4 5 (1.69%) Google
5 4 (1.35%) SAP
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle
7 2 (0.68%) Databricks
7 2 (0.68%) Solace
7 2 (0.68%) UiPath
8 1 (0.34%) BT
8 1 (0.34%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.34%) Foundry
8 1 (0.34%) Mitel
8 1 (0.34%) Salesforce