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 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 405 310
Rank change year-on-year +64 -95 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 290 332 437
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.60% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.64% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 220 231 404
10th Percentile £56,125 £50,000 £55,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £56,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -18.42% +18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,750 £142,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £76,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.84% -20.00% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,402 52,240 42,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 93.83% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 28,028 29,074 33,507
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 7 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 7 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 +54 220 £90,000 +5.88% 53
North of England +38 28 £80,000 +28.00% 17
Midlands +36 22 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Yorkshire +10 22 £80,000 +33.33% 8
West Midlands +43 14 £90,000 +89.47% 2
South East +35 9 £70,000 +12.00% 24
East Midlands +6 8 £70,000 +27.27%
North West +38 6 £70,000 +1.00% 8
South West +14 5 £60,000 +9.09% 4
East of England +12 2 £52,500 -38.24% 1
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 290 (100.00%) Python
2 125 (43.10%) AWS
3 123 (42.41%) Agile
4 107 (36.90%) React
5 102 (35.17%) Software Engineering
6 79 (27.24%) CI/CD
7 73 (25.17%) TypeScript
8 72 (24.83%) JavaScript
9 67 (23.10%) PostgreSQL
10 65 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (22.07%) Azure
12 63 (21.72%) GCP
13 59 (20.34%) Order Management
13 59 (20.34%) Test Automation
14 58 (20.00%) Docker
15 57 (19.66%) AI
16 56 (19.31%) Fintech
16 56 (19.31%) Mentoring
16 56 (19.31%) Vue
17 52 (17.93%) AngularJS
17 52 (17.93%) Node.js
17 52 (17.93%) SQL
18 49 (16.90%) Serverless
19 48 (16.55%) Django
20 47 (16.21%) Containerisation
21 46 (15.86%) Flask
21 46 (15.86%) RESTful
22 45 (15.52%) NumPy
22 45 (15.52%) Pandas
23 43 (14.83%) Asset Management

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 41 (14.14%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 125 (43.10%) AWS
2 64 (22.07%) Azure
3 63 (21.72%) GCP
4 49 (16.90%) Serverless
5 42 (14.48%) dbt
6 31 (10.69%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (10.69%) GitHub
7 18 (6.21%) Amazon S3
7 18 (6.21%) SaaS
8 16 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (5.17%) Azure AI
10 9 (3.10%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.76%) n8n
12 6 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.69%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.69%) Copilot Studio
14 2 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) FTP
1 2 (0.69%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.34%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (23.10%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (14.48%) Amazon Athena
2 42 (14.48%) Apache Iceberg
3 41 (14.14%) Apache Arrow
3 41 (14.14%) Dremio
4 24 (8.28%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.48%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.14%) Big Data
7 12 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (4.14%) MySQL
8 11 (3.79%) Tick Data
9 10 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.76%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.76%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.34%) Power BI
11 1 (0.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (5.52%) Git
2 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.69%) JIRA
3 2 (0.69%) Maven
3 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
General
1 117 (40.34%) Finance
2 67 (23.10%) Front Office
3 47 (16.21%) Social Skills
4 29 (10.00%) Health Technology
4 29 (10.00%) Publishing
5 28 (9.66%) Tech for Good
6 25 (8.62%) Marketing
7 15 (5.17%) Banking
7 15 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (5.17%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.14%) Retail
9 9 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (2.76%) Electronics
10 8 (2.76%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.41%) Legal
12 3 (1.03%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (36.90%) React
2 56 (19.31%) Vue
3 52 (17.93%) AngularJS
3 52 (17.93%) Node.js
4 48 (16.55%) Django
5 46 (15.86%) Flask
5 46 (15.86%) RESTful
6 45 (15.52%) NumPy
6 45 (15.52%) Pandas
7 41 (14.14%) SciPy
8 36 (12.41%) FastAPI
8 36 (12.41%) REST
9 20 (6.90%) HTML
10 18 (6.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 18 (6.21%) CSS
11 14 (4.83%) Kafka
12 12 (4.14%) Swagger
13 10 (3.45%) LangChain
14 7 (2.41%) PyTorch
15 5 (1.72%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 64 (22.07%) Equities
2 42 (14.48%) Fixed Income
3 41 (14.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (11.03%) Data Structures
5 26 (8.97%) Hedge funds
6 25 (8.62%) Management Information System
7 22 (7.59%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.48%) Cloud Native
9 9 (3.10%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.10%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.76%) Low-Code
11 6 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.72%) Grid Computing
12 5 (1.72%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.38%) PKI
14 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
15 2 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
16 1 (0.34%) Derivative
16 1 (0.34%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (42.41%) Agile
2 102 (35.17%) Software Engineering
3 79 (27.24%) CI/CD
4 65 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (20.34%) Order Management
5 59 (20.34%) Test Automation
6 57 (19.66%) AI
7 56 (19.31%) Fintech
7 56 (19.31%) Mentoring
8 47 (16.21%) Containerisation
9 43 (14.83%) Asset Management
9 43 (14.83%) Risk Management
10 41 (14.14%) Investment Management
10 41 (14.14%) Performance Attribution
11 38 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (12.76%) OOP
13 36 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (11.38%) Clean Code
14 33 (11.38%) Scrum
15 32 (11.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 290 (100.00%) Python
2 73 (25.17%) TypeScript
3 72 (24.83%) JavaScript
4 52 (17.93%) SQL
5 30 (10.34%) C++
6 13 (4.48%) Java
7 9 (3.10%) C#
8 3 (1.03%) Bash
8 3 (1.03%) Bicep
8 3 (1.03%) PHP
8 3 (1.03%) VBA
9 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (6.21%) Degree
2 10 (3.45%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.72%) PhD
6 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.76%) QA
2 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.69%) PSD2
System Software
1 58 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.03%) zsh
Systems Management
1 28 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.31%) Terraform
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (5.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.17%) Databricks
3 9 (3.10%) Google
3 9 (3.10%) SAP
4 8 (2.76%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.07%) iManage
6 3 (1.03%) Oracle
7 2 (0.69%) Foundry
7 2 (0.69%) Solace
7 2 (0.69%) UiPath
8 1 (0.34%) Splunk