Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 371 406
Rank change year-on-year -75 +35 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 360 295 368
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.69% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.76% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 284 226 269
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% +2.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £143,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% +5.56%

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 95,827 38,694 63,806
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 90.38% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,436 23,178 38,147
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -105 182 £90,000 -3.74% 113
North of England -7 70 £70,000 - 10
East of England +11 53 £71,250 +3.64% 5
Yorkshire -19 29 £100,000 +42.86% 8
North West -18 21 £45,000 -26.53% 2
Midlands -44 21 £60,000 -14.29% 9
North East - 20 £70,000 -
South West -63 17 £50,000 -16.67% 3
South East -37 14 £60,000 +63.27% 12
East Midlands -22 13 £70,000 +19.15% 6
West Midlands -38 8 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 360 (100.00%) Python
2 113 (31.39%) Software Engineering
3 111 (30.83%) AI
4 107 (29.72%) AWS
5 77 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 60 (16.67%) SQL
8 53 (14.72%) Azure
9 49 (13.61%) FastAPI
10 48 (13.33%) Docker
11 47 (13.06%) RESTful
12 46 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
13 45 (12.50%) Agile
14 41 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
14 41 (11.39%) JavaScript
15 38 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
16 36 (10.00%) Kubernetes
17 33 (9.17%) Validation
18 32 (8.89%) Flask
19 30 (8.33%) Test Automation
20 28 (7.78%) Containerisation
20 28 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
21 26 (7.22%) Git
21 26 (7.22%) TypeScript
22 25 (6.94%) API Design
22 25 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
22 25 (6.94%) DevOps
22 25 (6.94%) Django
22 25 (6.94%) Roadmaps
23 24 (6.67%) Observability

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 6 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 107 (29.72%) AWS
2 53 (14.72%) Azure
3 18 (5.00%) SaaS
4 15 (4.17%) GCP
4 15 (4.17%) Serverless
5 13 (3.61%) Amazon S3
5 13 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
6 12 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
9 9 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.22%) GitHub
11 4 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.11%) Kong
11 4 (1.11%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.83%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.61%) MQTT
2 12 (3.33%) Broadband
3 3 (0.83%) 4G
3 3 (0.83%) 5G
3 3 (0.83%) DNS
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) SSH
3 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.72%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.06%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.22%) MySQL
6 7 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.39%) Big Data
9 4 (1.11%) GIS
9 4 (1.11%) Power BI
9 4 (1.11%) Redis
10 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.22%) Git
2 7 (1.94%) GitLab
3 4 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Poetry
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (15.00%) Finance
2 29 (8.06%) Front Office
3 26 (7.22%) Social Skills
4 18 (5.00%) Banking
5 15 (4.17%) Tech for Good
6 12 (3.33%) Games
7 10 (2.78%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.94%) Marketing
9 5 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.11%) Law
10 4 (1.11%) Publishing
11 3 (0.83%) Legal
11 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Automotive
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.28%) Back Office
13 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.61%) FastAPI
2 47 (13.06%) RESTful
3 32 (8.89%) Flask
4 25 (6.94%) Django
5 23 (6.39%) React
6 22 (6.11%) Kafka
7 20 (5.56%) CSS
7 20 (5.56%) HTML
7 20 (5.56%) Swagger
8 19 (5.28%) REST
9 18 (5.00%) Pandas
9 18 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
9 18 (5.00%) Terraform
10 16 (4.44%) NumPy
10 16 (4.44%) Vue
11 13 (3.61%) Node.js
11 13 (3.61%) OpenAPI
12 8 (2.22%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 8 (2.22%) Jinja
13 7 (1.94%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.28%) Cloud Native
3 29 (8.06%) Algorithms
4 27 (7.50%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (7.22%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (6.94%) Hedge funds
7 16 (4.44%) Low-Code
8 15 (4.17%) Equities
9 12 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 12 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (2.50%) AI Agents
12 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
12 8 (2.22%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.67%) Derivative
13 6 (1.67%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.83%) Client/Server
15 3 (0.83%) Legacy Code
15 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (31.39%) Software Engineering
2 111 (30.83%) AI
3 77 (21.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (17.78%) CI/CD
5 45 (12.50%) Agile
6 41 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (9.17%) Validation
9 30 (8.33%) Test Automation
10 28 (7.78%) Containerisation
10 28 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (6.94%) API Design
11 25 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (6.94%) DevOps
11 25 (6.94%) Roadmaps
12 24 (6.67%) Observability
13 22 (6.11%) Event-Driven
14 21 (5.83%) Clean Code
14 21 (5.83%) OOP
15 20 (5.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 360 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (16.67%) SQL
3 41 (11.39%) JavaScript
4 26 (7.22%) TypeScript
5 18 (5.00%) C++
6 12 (3.33%) Go
7 9 (2.50%) C#
8 8 (2.22%) R
9 7 (1.94%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) Java
10 4 (1.11%) PHP
10 4 (1.11%) Rust
10 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.56%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) Haskell
12 1 (0.28%) OCaml
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (3.61%) Degree
2 12 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.89%) QA
2 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.39%) Grafana
3 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) Kibana
5 2 (0.56%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (2.78%) Databricks
2 7 (1.94%) Google
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.83%) Oracle
5 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
5 2 (0.56%) SAP
6 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.28%) HubSpot