Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 361 417
Rank change year-on-year -61 +56 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 368 303 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.70% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.77% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 292 232 286
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £85,000 £97,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% -12.60% +8.06%
75th Percentile £91,563 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £155,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%

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 93,676 39,281 65,854
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.38% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,297 23,621 40,888
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 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 11 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 -108 181 £85,000 -5.56% 58
North of England +18 76 £70,000 - 2
East of England +17 50 £71,250 +3.64% 3
Yorkshire -21 34 £80,000 +14.29%
South West -57 22 £50,000 -16.67% 6
North West -9 21 £45,000 -26.53% 2
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -36 20 £65,000 -7.14% 3
South East -31 16 £60,000 +55.84% 9
East Midlands -23 12 £70,000 +19.15% 1
West Midlands -30 8 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 368 (100.00%) Python
2 107 (29.08%) Software Engineering
3 106 (28.80%) AWS
4 100 (27.17%) AI
5 85 (23.10%) Full-Stack Development
6 65 (17.66%) CI/CD
7 63 (17.12%) SQL
8 51 (13.86%) Docker
9 48 (13.04%) FastAPI
9 48 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
10 46 (12.50%) RESTful
11 45 (12.23%) Agile
11 45 (12.23%) Azure
12 43 (11.68%) JavaScript
13 40 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (10.05%) Flask
15 35 (9.51%) Kubernetes
15 35 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (9.24%) Test Automation
16 34 (9.24%) Validation
17 30 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 28 (7.61%) Django
18 28 (7.61%) Git
19 27 (7.34%) Containerisation
19 27 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
19 27 (7.34%) TypeScript
20 26 (7.07%) API Design
20 26 (7.07%) Linux
20 26 (7.07%) Pandas
21 25 (6.79%) Kafka

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 9 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (28.80%) AWS
2 45 (12.23%) Azure
3 17 (4.62%) SaaS
3 17 (4.62%) Serverless
4 14 (3.80%) Amazon S3
5 13 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.17%) GitHub
10 7 (1.90%) GCP
11 5 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.36%) Prefect
12 4 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.09%) Kong
12 4 (1.09%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.80%) Broadband
2 12 (3.26%) MQTT
3 3 (0.82%) 4G
3 3 (0.82%) 5G
3 3 (0.82%) DNS
3 3 (0.82%) HTTP
3 3 (0.82%) SSH
3 3 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.16%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.17%) Big Data
6 7 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.90%) MySQL
6 7 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.09%) GIS
8 4 (1.09%) Power BI
8 4 (1.09%) Redis
8 4 (1.09%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (7.61%) Git
2 7 (1.90%) GitLab
3 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.82%) Selenium
5 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.27%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) Poetry
6 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (13.04%) Finance
2 23 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 22 (5.98%) Front Office
4 15 (4.08%) Tech for Good
5 14 (3.80%) Games
6 11 (2.99%) Banking
7 10 (2.72%) Health Technology
8 5 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.09%) Publishing
10 3 (0.82%) Law
10 3 (0.82%) Legal
10 3 (0.82%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.54%) Automotive
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.04%) FastAPI
2 46 (12.50%) RESTful
3 37 (10.05%) Flask
4 28 (7.61%) Django
5 26 (7.07%) Pandas
6 25 (6.79%) Kafka
7 24 (6.52%) NumPy
8 23 (6.25%) REST
9 22 (5.98%) CSS
9 22 (5.98%) React
10 21 (5.71%) HTML
11 19 (5.16%) Swagger
11 19 (5.16%) Vue
12 18 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (4.89%) Terraform
13 14 (3.80%) Node.js
14 12 (3.26%) OpenAPI
15 10 (2.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 8 (2.17%) Jinja
17 7 (1.90%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.14%) Cloud Native
2 40 (10.87%) Algorithms
3 39 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.79%) Cyber Threat
6 21 (5.71%) Hedge funds
7 18 (4.89%) Low-Code
8 15 (4.08%) Data Structures
8 15 (4.08%) Equities
9 14 (3.80%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
11 10 (2.72%) Management Information System
12 8 (2.17%) Fixed Income
13 5 (1.36%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.09%) Derivative
14 4 (1.09%) Educational Technology
14 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
15 3 (0.82%) Client/Server
15 3 (0.82%) Legacy Code
15 3 (0.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.07%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (29.08%) Software Engineering
2 100 (27.17%) AI
3 85 (23.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 65 (17.66%) CI/CD
5 45 (12.23%) Agile
6 40 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (9.51%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (9.24%) Test Automation
8 34 (9.24%) Validation
9 30 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (7.34%) Containerisation
10 27 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (7.07%) API Design
12 24 (6.52%) OOP
13 23 (6.25%) DevOps
13 23 (6.25%) Event-Driven
13 23 (6.25%) Microservices
13 23 (6.25%) Observability
14 22 (5.98%) Fintech
14 22 (5.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 368 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (17.12%) SQL
3 43 (11.68%) JavaScript
4 27 (7.34%) TypeScript
5 20 (5.43%) C++
6 14 (3.80%) Go
7 8 (2.17%) C#
8 7 (1.90%) Bash
9 5 (1.36%) Java
9 5 (1.36%) PHP
9 5 (1.36%) Rust
10 4 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.54%) Perl
12 1 (0.27%) Bicep
12 1 (0.27%) Haskell
12 1 (0.27%) OCaml
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (4.89%) Degree
2 11 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.36%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.35%) QA
2 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (13.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (9.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.36%) Grafana
3 4 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 2 (0.54%) Kibana
5 2 (0.54%) logstash
6 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (3.80%) Databricks
2 5 (1.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle
4 2 (0.54%) SAP
5 1 (0.27%) HubSpot