Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 398 308
Rank change year-on-year +69 -90 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 299 302 429
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.66% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 229 207 395
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,375 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £104,375 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £113,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year +5.26% -18.93% +20.97%

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 47,162 46,092 43,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 92.95% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,558 24,542 33,827
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,205 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% 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 1 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 1 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 +26 215 £87,500 +2.94% 53
North of England +44 34 £75,000 +11.68% 16
Midlands +28 26 £70,000 +27.27% 11
Yorkshire +17 25 £80,000 -3.03% 10
West Midlands +30 15 £90,000 +54.10% 5
South East +21 15 £70,000 +12.00% 13
East Midlands -12 11 £70,000 +27.27% 6
North West +27 9 £56,250 -16.24% 6
South West -3 4 £60,000 +9.09% 2
East of England +10 1 £50,000 -41.18%
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 299 (100.00%) Python
2 115 (38.46%) AWS
3 113 (37.79%) Agile
4 105 (35.12%) React
5 102 (34.11%) Software Engineering
6 74 (24.75%) CI/CD
7 68 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (22.41%) TypeScript
9 64 (21.40%) JavaScript
10 61 (20.40%) AI
11 58 (19.40%) Azure
11 58 (19.40%) Docker
11 58 (19.40%) Mentoring
11 58 (19.40%) Test Automation
12 56 (18.73%) SQL
13 54 (18.06%) Serverless
14 51 (17.06%) Django
14 51 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
15 49 (16.39%) Flask
16 48 (16.05%) Fintech
16 48 (16.05%) GCP
16 48 (16.05%) Order Management
17 47 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
18 46 (15.38%) RESTful
19 44 (14.72%) Node.js
19 44 (14.72%) Vue
20 43 (14.38%) Containerisation
21 42 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
22 41 (13.71%) FastAPI
23 39 (13.04%) GitHub

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 29 (9.70%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.68%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.01%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 115 (38.46%) AWS
2 58 (19.40%) Azure
3 54 (18.06%) Serverless
4 48 (16.05%) GCP
5 39 (13.04%) GitHub
6 33 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (9.70%) dbt
8 21 (7.02%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.35%) SaaS
10 15 (5.02%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (5.02%) Azure AI
11 9 (3.01%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.68%) n8n
13 7 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (0.67%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.67%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.33%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.06%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.70%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (9.70%) Apache Arrow
2 29 (9.70%) Apache Iceberg
2 29 (9.70%) Dremio
3 19 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.35%) Big Data
5 12 (4.01%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.01%) MySQL
6 11 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.34%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.68%) Tick Data
9 6 (2.01%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.33%) Power BI
11 1 (0.33%) Redis
11 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (4.68%) Git
2 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) Maven
3 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 101 (33.78%) Finance
2 55 (18.39%) Front Office
3 52 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 29 (9.70%) Health Technology
4 29 (9.70%) Publishing
5 28 (9.36%) Tech for Good
6 20 (6.69%) Marketing
7 15 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.02%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (4.68%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (4.01%) Banking
10 12 (4.01%) Retail
11 8 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (2.34%) Legal
13 6 (2.01%) Electronics
13 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
13 6 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (35.12%) React
2 51 (17.06%) Django
3 49 (16.39%) Flask
4 46 (15.38%) RESTful
5 44 (14.72%) Node.js
5 44 (14.72%) Vue
6 41 (13.71%) FastAPI
7 37 (12.37%) AngularJS
8 34 (11.37%) REST
9 33 (11.04%) NumPy
9 33 (11.04%) Pandas
10 29 (9.70%) SciPy
11 26 (8.70%) HTML
12 20 (6.69%) CSS
13 19 (6.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 16 (5.35%) Kafka
15 12 (4.01%) Swagger
16 10 (3.34%) LangChain
17 7 (2.34%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.67%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.06%) Equities
2 36 (12.04%) Data Structures
3 30 (10.03%) Fixed Income
3 30 (10.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (9.03%) Hedge funds
5 24 (8.03%) Management Information System
6 22 (7.36%) Algorithms
7 13 (4.35%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.01%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.01%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.68%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.67%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.67%) Grid Computing
11 4 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.34%) PKI
12 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.79%) Agile
2 102 (34.11%) Software Engineering
3 74 (24.75%) CI/CD
4 68 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (20.40%) AI
6 58 (19.40%) Mentoring
6 58 (19.40%) Test Automation
7 48 (16.05%) Fintech
7 48 (16.05%) Order Management
8 47 (15.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 43 (14.38%) Containerisation
10 42 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (13.04%) OOP
12 35 (11.71%) Clean Code
13 32 (10.70%) Scrum
13 32 (10.70%) TDD
14 30 (10.03%) Asset Management
14 30 (10.03%) Investment Management
14 30 (10.03%) Pair Programming
14 30 (10.03%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 299 (100.00%) Python
2 67 (22.41%) TypeScript
3 64 (21.40%) JavaScript
4 56 (18.73%) SQL
5 31 (10.37%) C++
6 14 (4.68%) Java
7 8 (2.68%) C#
8 4 (1.34%) PHP
8 4 (1.34%) VBA
9 3 (1.00%) Bicep
10 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (5.69%) Degree
2 7 (2.34%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.01%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.67%) PhD
4 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.71%) QA
2 2 (0.67%) GDPR
2 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.67%) PSD2
3 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (19.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 26 (8.70%) Terraform
2 23 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (5.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.68%) OpenAI
3 7 (2.34%) Google
3 7 (2.34%) SAP
4 6 (2.01%) Databricks
4 6 (2.01%) iManage
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle
6 2 (0.67%) Foundry
6 2 (0.67%) Solace
6 2 (0.67%) UiPath
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce