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 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 373 425
Rank change year-on-year -34 +52 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 367 304 387
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.70% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.77% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 295 235 327
10th Percentile £47,000 £53,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £131,250 £136,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £152,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -15.00% +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 88,511 39,569 69,008
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.62% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62,172 23,929 47,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% - -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -77 191 £90,000 -10.00% 67
North of England +12 79 £70,000 - 12
Yorkshire -6 38 £70,000 - 5
East of England +1 34 £65,000 -5.45% 8
South West -47 24 £50,000 -41.18% 7
North East - 21 £70,000 - 1
North West -4 20 £45,000 -30.77% 6
South East -25 19 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands -38 18 £65,000 -7.14% 4
East Midlands -14 11 £70,000 +75.00%
West Midlands -36 7 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 367 (100.00%) Python
2 112 (30.52%) AWS
3 103 (28.07%) Software Engineering
4 95 (25.89%) AI
5 91 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 61 (16.62%) CI/CD
7 56 (15.26%) SQL
8 50 (13.62%) Agile
8 50 (13.62%) JavaScript
8 50 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (12.53%) Azure
10 43 (11.72%) Docker
10 43 (11.72%) FastAPI
11 38 (10.35%) Flask
11 38 (10.35%) RESTful
12 37 (10.08%) Test Automation
13 33 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
13 33 (8.99%) TypeScript
14 31 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (8.17%) Kubernetes
16 29 (7.90%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (7.90%) React
17 27 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (7.36%) Linux
17 27 (7.36%) OOP
17 27 (7.36%) Validation
18 25 (6.81%) Django
18 25 (6.81%) Microservices
18 25 (6.81%) NumPy
19 24 (6.54%) C++

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 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 112 (30.52%) AWS
2 46 (12.53%) Azure
3 20 (5.45%) SaaS
4 19 (5.18%) Serverless
5 15 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (3.81%) Amazon S3
7 12 (3.27%) GCP
8 11 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.45%) GitHub
10 8 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.36%) Prefect
13 4 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.09%) Kong
14 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.09%) Broadband
2 7 (1.91%) MQTT
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.36%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.27%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.45%) Big Data
4 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.36%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.09%) GIS
7 4 (1.09%) MySQL
7 4 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.82%) Power BI
8 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.27%) Redis
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.54%) Git
2 6 (1.63%) GitLab
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) MLflow
5 1 (0.27%) Poetry
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (13.08%) Finance
2 30 (8.17%) Front Office
3 27 (7.36%) Social Skills
4 18 (4.90%) Tech for Good
5 15 (4.09%) Games
6 12 (3.27%) Health Technology
7 9 (2.45%) Banking
8 5 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.36%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.09%) Publishing
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.54%) Automotive
11 2 (0.54%) Aviation
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Law
11 2 (0.54%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.72%) FastAPI
2 38 (10.35%) Flask
2 38 (10.35%) RESTful
3 29 (7.90%) React
4 25 (6.81%) Django
4 25 (6.81%) NumPy
5 24 (6.54%) Pandas
6 23 (6.27%) REST
7 22 (5.99%) Vue
8 21 (5.72%) Node.js
9 20 (5.45%) CSS
10 19 (5.18%) Kafka
11 18 (4.90%) HTML
12 14 (3.81%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 14 (3.81%) Swagger
13 11 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
14 8 (2.18%) AngularJS
15 7 (1.91%) .NET
15 7 (1.91%) OpenAPI
16 6 (1.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.53%) Algorithms
2 41 (11.17%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (10.90%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.81%) Hedge funds
5 23 (6.27%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.72%) Equities
7 19 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (5.18%) Data Structures
7 19 (5.18%) Fixed Income
7 19 (5.18%) Low-Code
8 15 (4.09%) Video\Live Streaming
9 14 (3.81%) Management Information System
10 11 (3.00%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (2.72%) Derivative
12 8 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.91%) Educational Technology
14 5 (1.36%) Market Risk
14 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
14 5 (1.36%) PropTech
15 4 (1.09%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 27 (7.36%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (28.07%) Software Engineering
2 95 (25.89%) AI
3 91 (24.80%) Full-Stack Development
4 61 (16.62%) CI/CD
5 50 (13.62%) Agile
6 37 (10.08%) Test Automation
7 33 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (7.90%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (7.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (7.36%) OOP
10 27 (7.36%) Validation
11 25 (6.81%) Microservices
12 24 (6.54%) Containerisation
12 24 (6.54%) Machine Learning
13 23 (6.27%) DevOps
13 23 (6.27%) Mentoring
13 23 (6.27%) OO
14 22 (5.99%) API Design
14 22 (5.99%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 367 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (15.26%) SQL
3 50 (13.62%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.99%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.54%) C++
6 15 (4.09%) Go
7 7 (1.91%) C#
8 6 (1.63%) PHP
9 5 (1.36%) Rust
10 4 (1.09%) Bash
10 4 (1.09%) Java
11 2 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Haskell
12 1 (0.27%) OCaml
12 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (3.81%) Degree
2 10 (2.72%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.81%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 43 (11.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.36%) Terraform
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 2 (0.54%) Grafana
4 2 (0.54%) Kibana
4 2 (0.54%) logstash
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (3.81%) Databricks
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle
4 1 (0.27%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.27%) SAP