Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 March 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 364 382
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 313 287 472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.70% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.77% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 250 211 440
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £120,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £80,000 £88,750
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.86% +10.94%

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 58,452 37,046 68,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.71% 90.90% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 37,962 21,148 54,559
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,110 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,281 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +4 204 £90,000 +5.88% 55
North of England -1 35 £70,000 +4.24% 16
South East +4 31 £70,000 +12.00% 12
Midlands +7 30 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Yorkshire -9 27 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East Midlands -20 16 £65,000 +18.18% 2
West Midlands +19 14 £75,000 +28.42% 1
North West +3 8 £40,000 -40.44% 4
South West -17 7 £55,000 - 10
East of England -3 2 £50,000 -41.18% 3
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 March 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.

1 313 (100.00%) Python
2 106 (33.87%) Software Engineering
3 93 (29.71%) React
4 83 (26.52%) AWS
5 74 (23.64%) Agile
6 70 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (20.45%) AI
8 61 (19.49%) CI/CD
9 60 (19.17%) Django
10 59 (18.85%) JavaScript
11 56 (17.89%) Flask
12 53 (16.93%) SQL
13 51 (16.29%) Mentoring
14 49 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
15 47 (15.02%) Serverless
15 47 (15.02%) Test Automation
16 44 (14.06%) GitHub
17 42 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (13.42%) Docker
18 41 (13.10%) OOP
18 41 (13.10%) TypeScript
19 40 (12.78%) FastAPI
20 39 (12.46%) Fintech
21 37 (11.82%) Azure
22 34 (10.86%) OO
23 30 (9.58%) Containerisation
23 30 (9.58%) REST
24 29 (9.27%) SDLC
25 28 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
25 28 (8.95%) HTML

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 18 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.64%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 83 (26.52%) AWS
2 47 (15.02%) Serverless
3 44 (14.06%) GitHub
4 37 (11.82%) Azure
5 28 (8.95%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.31%) Amazon S3
7 24 (7.67%) SaaS
8 18 (5.75%) GCP
9 15 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.60%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.60%) dbt
13 2 (0.64%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.64%) AWS Fargate
14 1 (0.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.32%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.32%) Cloud Run
14 1 (0.32%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.96%) HTTP
1 3 (0.96%) RTP
1 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.96%) VoIP
1 3 (0.96%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.32%) Broadband
2 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.43%) Big Data
3 8 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.24%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.24%) MySQL
4 7 (2.24%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
5 5 (1.60%) Apache Iceberg
5 5 (1.60%) Dremio
6 4 (1.28%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.64%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.64%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.79%) Git
2 4 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.96%) GitLab
4 2 (0.64%) JIRA
4 2 (0.64%) Maven
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.32%) Selenium
5 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 73 (23.32%) Finance
2 66 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 41 (13.10%) Front Office
4 19 (6.07%) Tech for Good
5 18 (5.75%) Health Technology
6 16 (5.11%) Publishing
7 14 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.51%) Banking
9 10 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.28%) Aviation
13 3 (0.96%) Retail
14 2 (0.64%) Games
14 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (29.71%) React
2 60 (19.17%) Django
3 56 (17.89%) Flask
4 40 (12.78%) FastAPI
5 30 (9.58%) REST
6 28 (8.95%) HTML
6 28 (8.95%) Node.js
7 27 (8.63%) RESTful
8 23 (7.35%) Vue
9 20 (6.39%) Kafka
10 19 (6.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 19 (6.07%) CSS
11 15 (4.79%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.56%) NumPy
12 8 (2.56%) Pandas
12 8 (2.56%) Redux
13 7 (2.24%) OAuth
13 7 (2.24%) OAuth2
14 5 (1.60%) SciPy
14 5 (1.60%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.14%) Data Structures
2 36 (11.50%) Equities
3 29 (9.27%) Hedge funds
4 23 (7.35%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.07%) Fixed Income
5 19 (6.07%) Management Information System
6 14 (4.47%) Cloud Native
7 13 (4.15%) Educational Technology
8 12 (3.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (3.51%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.56%) Derivative
10 8 (2.56%) PropTech
11 4 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.28%) PKI
12 3 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.64%) Grid Computing
13 2 (0.64%) NHS
13 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.32%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.31%) Linux
2 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.87%) Software Engineering
2 74 (23.64%) Agile
3 70 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (20.45%) AI
5 61 (19.49%) CI/CD
6 51 (16.29%) Mentoring
7 49 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (15.02%) Test Automation
9 42 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (13.10%) OOP
11 39 (12.46%) Fintech
12 34 (10.86%) OO
13 30 (9.58%) Containerisation
14 29 (9.27%) SDLC
15 25 (7.99%) Code Quality
16 24 (7.67%) Computer Science
16 24 (7.67%) Microservices
16 24 (7.67%) Order Management
17 23 (7.35%) Clean Code
18 21 (6.71%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 313 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (18.85%) JavaScript
3 53 (16.93%) SQL
4 41 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 26 (8.31%) C++
6 11 (3.51%) Java
7 7 (2.24%) PHP
8 5 (1.60%) VBA
9 4 (1.28%) C
9 4 (1.28%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.64%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.64%) Scala
11 1 (0.32%) Go
11 1 (0.32%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (4.15%) Degree
2 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
2 2 (0.64%) Master's Degree
2 2 (0.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.32%) PhD
3 1 (0.32%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.43%) QA
2 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.64%) GDPR
4 2 (0.64%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (13.42%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (7.03%) Terraform
2 18 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.96%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (3.19%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.96%) BT
2 3 (0.96%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.96%) Mitel
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle
3 2 (0.64%) Google
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.64%) Solace
4 1 (0.32%) Foundry
4 1 (0.32%) SAP
4 1 (0.32%) UiPath