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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 382 403
Rank change year-on-year -56 +21 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 360 285 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.66% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.73% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 288 212 267
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £142,500
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 96,503 39,188 63,204
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 90.49% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 67,572 23,085 36,554
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,824 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.71% -0.32% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -107 185 £90,000 -5.26% 137
North of England -2 67 £67,500 -3.57% 19
East of England +16 54 £70,000 +1.82% 9
North West -15 25 £55,000 -12.00% 7
Midlands -36 25 £60,000 -22.58% 6
Yorkshire -29 22 £100,000 +42.86% 12
North East - 20 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -26 16 £67,500 +14.89% 4
South West -62 14 £50,000 -16.67% 4
South East -40 12 £60,000 +63.27% 13
West Midlands -35 9 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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
2 124 (34.44%) AI
3 120 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 113 (31.39%) AWS
5 69 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
6 68 (18.89%) CI/CD
7 67 (18.61%) Azure
8 56 (15.56%) SQL
9 52 (14.44%) FastAPI
10 51 (14.17%) Docker
11 50 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
12 47 (13.06%) Agile
13 44 (12.22%) RESTful
14 42 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (10.83%) Kubernetes
16 36 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (9.72%) JavaScript
17 35 (9.72%) Validation
18 31 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
19 30 (8.33%) Observability
19 30 (8.33%) Test Automation
20 28 (7.78%) Containerisation
20 28 (7.78%) Flask
20 28 (7.78%) Git
20 28 (7.78%) TypeScript
21 27 (7.50%) API Design
21 27 (7.50%) React
22 25 (6.94%) DevOps
23 24 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
23 24 (6.67%) GCP

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 3 (0.83%) Apache Spark
1 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (31.39%) AWS
2 67 (18.61%) Azure
3 24 (6.67%) GCP
4 19 (5.28%) SaaS
5 16 (4.44%) Amazon Bedrock
6 15 (4.17%) Serverless
7 14 (3.89%) GitHub
8 13 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 12 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.11%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (1.11%) Kong
14 4 (1.11%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.83%) OpenShift
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 50 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.83%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.06%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.22%) MySQL
6 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.11%) Chroma
8 4 (1.11%) GIS
8 4 (1.11%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.11%) Power BI
8 4 (1.11%) Redis
9 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.56%) Big Data
10 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (7.78%) Git
2 13 (3.61%) GitLab
3 8 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.28%) Poetry
5 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (15.56%) Finance
2 33 (9.17%) Front Office
3 31 (8.61%) Social Skills
4 26 (7.22%) Banking
5 15 (4.17%) Tech for Good
6 13 (3.61%) Marketing
7 12 (3.33%) Games
8 10 (2.78%) Health Technology
9 6 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.39%) Law
11 4 (1.11%) Publishing
12 3 (0.83%) Legal
12 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.44%) FastAPI
2 44 (12.22%) RESTful
3 28 (7.78%) Flask
4 27 (7.50%) React
5 22 (6.11%) Django
6 20 (5.56%) Swagger
6 20 (5.56%) Terraform
7 19 (5.28%) Kafka
8 18 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (4.72%) LangChain
9 17 (4.72%) LangGraph
10 16 (4.44%) CrewAI
10 16 (4.44%) HTML
10 16 (4.44%) REST
11 14 (3.89%) CSS
11 14 (3.89%) Pandas
12 13 (3.61%) OpenAPI
12 13 (3.61%) pydantic
13 12 (3.33%) NumPy
14 11 (3.06%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.50%) Cyber Threat
3 27 (7.50%) Hedge funds
4 24 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 24 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (5.28%) AI Agents
6 16 (4.44%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.89%) Equities
8 12 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
9 10 (2.78%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.67%) Derivative
11 6 (1.67%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (1.11%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.83%) Legacy Code
13 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (34.44%) AI
2 120 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 69 (19.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 68 (18.89%) CI/CD
5 47 (13.06%) Agile
6 42 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (9.72%) Validation
9 31 (8.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (8.33%) Observability
10 30 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 28 (7.78%) Containerisation
12 27 (7.50%) API Design
13 25 (6.94%) DevOps
14 24 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (6.39%) Generative AI
15 23 (6.39%) LLM
15 23 (6.39%) Roadmaps
16 22 (6.11%) Mentoring
17 20 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 360 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (15.56%) SQL
3 35 (9.72%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.78%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.72%) C++
6 14 (3.89%) R
7 12 (3.33%) Go
8 9 (2.50%) C#
9 7 (1.94%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) Rust
10 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.83%) Java
12 2 (0.56%) Perl
12 2 (0.56%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Bicep
13 1 (0.28%) Haskell
13 1 (0.28%) OCaml
13 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (3.33%) Degree
2 11 (3.06%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.94%) 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 51 (14.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.94%) 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 13 (3.61%) Google
2 9 (2.50%) Databricks
3 5 (1.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.11%) Mistral
4 4 (1.11%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle
6 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.28%) HubSpot