Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 392 301
Rank change year-on-year +56 -91 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 295 305 435
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.66% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 226 211 400
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £54,875
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,125 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.84% +19.35%

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 47,257 46,319 43,360
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 93.21% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29,652 24,705 33,958
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +39 214 £85,000 - 106
North of England +25 34 £75,000 +11.68% 45
Yorkshire +19 25 £80,000 -3.03% 19
Midlands +27 24 £70,000 +27.27% 40
West Midlands +35 15 £90,000 +54.10% 18
South East +28 13 £70,000 +12.00% 53
North West +25 9 £56,250 -16.24% 24
East Midlands -15 9 £70,000 +27.27% 19
South West +4 4 £60,000 +9.09% 15
East of England +19 2 £52,500 -38.24% 23
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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.

1 295 (100.00%) Python
2 113 (38.31%) AWS
3 112 (37.97%) Agile
4 101 (34.24%) React
5 99 (33.56%) Software Engineering
6 75 (25.42%) CI/CD
7 69 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (22.03%) TypeScript
9 62 (21.02%) JavaScript
10 61 (20.68%) AI
11 58 (19.66%) Azure
11 58 (19.66%) Docker
12 57 (19.32%) Mentoring
12 57 (19.32%) Test Automation
13 54 (18.31%) SQL
14 52 (17.63%) Django
14 52 (17.63%) PostgreSQL
14 52 (17.63%) Serverless
15 51 (17.29%) Flask
16 49 (16.61%) GCP
17 48 (16.27%) Fintech
18 47 (15.93%) Order Management
19 46 (15.59%) RESTful
20 44 (14.92%) Vue
21 43 (14.58%) Containerisation
21 43 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
22 42 (14.24%) FastAPI
22 42 (14.24%) Node.js
23 41 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
24 38 (12.88%) GitHub

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 29 (9.83%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.75%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 113 (38.31%) AWS
2 58 (19.66%) Azure
3 52 (17.63%) Serverless
4 49 (16.61%) GCP
5 38 (12.88%) GitHub
6 31 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (9.83%) dbt
8 19 (6.44%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.44%) SaaS
9 15 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.08%) Azure AI
10 9 (3.05%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.71%) n8n
12 6 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.68%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.34%) FTP
2 1 (0.34%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.63%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.83%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (9.83%) Apache Arrow
2 29 (9.83%) Apache Iceberg
2 29 (9.83%) Dremio
3 20 (6.78%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.41%) Big Data
5 12 (4.07%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.07%) MySQL
5 12 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.71%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.71%) Tick Data
8 7 (2.37%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.34%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.34%) Power BI
10 1 (0.34%) Redis
10 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (4.41%) Git
2 3 (1.02%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.68%) Maven
3 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
General
1 101 (34.24%) Finance
2 54 (18.31%) Front Office
3 51 (17.29%) Social Skills
4 29 (9.83%) Health Technology
4 29 (9.83%) Publishing
5 28 (9.49%) Tech for Good
6 21 (7.12%) Marketing
7 15 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.41%) Banking
8 13 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.07%) Retail
10 8 (2.71%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.37%) Electronics
11 7 (2.37%) Legal
11 7 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.37%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.02%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (34.24%) React
2 52 (17.63%) Django
3 51 (17.29%) Flask
4 46 (15.59%) RESTful
5 44 (14.92%) Vue
6 42 (14.24%) FastAPI
6 42 (14.24%) Node.js
7 37 (12.54%) AngularJS
8 35 (11.86%) REST
9 33 (11.19%) NumPy
9 33 (11.19%) Pandas
10 29 (9.83%) SciPy
11 24 (8.14%) HTML
12 20 (6.78%) CSS
13 18 (6.10%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 16 (5.42%) Kafka
15 12 (4.07%) Swagger
16 10 (3.39%) LangChain
17 7 (2.37%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.69%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.97%) Equities
2 35 (11.86%) Data Structures
3 30 (10.17%) Fixed Income
3 30 (10.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (8.81%) Hedge funds
5 23 (7.80%) Management Information System
6 21 (7.12%) Algorithms
7 13 (4.41%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.05%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.05%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.71%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.71%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.69%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.69%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.36%) PKI
13 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.34%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (37.97%) Agile
2 99 (33.56%) Software Engineering
3 75 (25.42%) CI/CD
4 69 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (20.68%) AI
6 57 (19.32%) Mentoring
6 57 (19.32%) Test Automation
7 48 (16.27%) Fintech
8 47 (15.93%) Order Management
9 43 (14.58%) Containerisation
9 43 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (12.88%) OOP
12 35 (11.86%) Clean Code
13 32 (10.85%) Scrum
13 32 (10.85%) TDD
14 30 (10.17%) Asset Management
14 30 (10.17%) Microservices
14 30 (10.17%) Pair Programming
14 30 (10.17%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 295 (100.00%) Python
2 65 (22.03%) TypeScript
3 62 (21.02%) JavaScript
4 54 (18.31%) SQL
5 30 (10.17%) C++
6 14 (4.75%) Java
7 8 (2.71%) C#
8 4 (1.36%) PHP
8 4 (1.36%) VBA
9 3 (1.02%) Bicep
10 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.34%) Bash
11 1 (0.34%) R
11 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (5.76%) Degree
2 7 (2.37%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.03%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.69%) PhD
4 5 (1.69%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.20%) QA
2 2 (0.68%) GDPR
2 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.68%) PSD2
3 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (19.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (9.15%) Terraform
2 24 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.71%) Google
2 8 (2.71%) OpenAI
2 8 (2.71%) SAP
3 7 (2.37%) Databricks
4 6 (2.03%) iManage
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle
6 2 (0.68%) Foundry
6 2 (0.68%) Solace
6 2 (0.68%) UiPath
7 1 (0.34%) Salesforce