Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 414 403
Rank change year-on-year +60 -11 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 393 230 514
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.61% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.68% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 324 183 467
10th Percentile £47,575 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £133,750
90th Percentile £117,000 £137,500 £146,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +5.88%

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 77,460 34,019 81,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.39% 89.60% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 52,716 19,492 61,957
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +12 235 £90,000 -10.00% 38
North of England +34 70 £62,500 -3.85% 9
Yorkshire -2 43 £70,000 +7.69% 2
South East +21 42 £70,000 +55.56% 9
South West - 23 £50,000 - 1
North West +1 18 £45,000 -28.00% 5
Midlands -19 17 £57,500 +4.55%
East Midlands -25 11 £60,000 +9.09%
North East - 9 £70,000 - 2
West Midlands -33 6 £55,000 -
East of England -22 5 £65,000 - 1
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 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.

1 393 (100.00%) Python
2 118 (30.03%) Software Engineering
3 102 (25.95%) Full-Stack Development
4 92 (23.41%) AI
5 90 (22.90%) AWS
6 70 (17.81%) Agile
7 62 (15.78%) React
8 53 (13.49%) CI/CD
9 52 (13.23%) Flask
10 49 (12.47%) JavaScript
11 46 (11.70%) SQL
12 45 (11.45%) TypeScript
13 44 (11.20%) Test Automation
14 42 (10.69%) Django
15 41 (10.43%) Docker
16 38 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (8.91%) Linux
17 35 (8.91%) OO
17 35 (8.91%) OOP
18 33 (8.40%) Azure
18 33 (8.40%) FastAPI
18 33 (8.40%) Fintech
19 31 (7.89%) REST
20 30 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
20 30 (7.63%) SDLC
21 29 (7.38%) C++
21 29 (7.38%) Mentoring
22 28 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
22 28 (7.12%) RESTful
23 27 (6.87%) Serverless

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 16 (4.07%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.90%) AWS
2 33 (8.40%) Azure
3 27 (6.87%) Serverless
4 25 (6.36%) GitHub
4 25 (6.36%) SaaS
5 21 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (4.33%) Amazon S3
7 16 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.80%) GCP
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.27%) Prefect
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (0.51%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (0.51%) Azure AI
13 2 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.54%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) HTTP
2 3 (0.76%) RTP
2 3 (0.76%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.76%) VoIP
2 3 (0.76%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.82%) Big Data
3 14 (3.56%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.53%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.27%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.76%) MySQL
8 2 (0.51%) GIS
9 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.11%) Git
2 5 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.25%) Poetry
4 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 59 (15.01%) Finance
2 47 (11.96%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.69%) Front Office
4 19 (4.83%) Tech for Good
5 15 (3.82%) Health Technology
6 12 (3.05%) Banking
7 11 (2.80%) Games
8 10 (2.54%) Publishing
9 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.53%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.02%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Aviation
10 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.25%) Automotive
11 1 (0.25%) Back Office
11 1 (0.25%) Electronics
11 1 (0.25%) Law
11 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.78%) React
2 52 (13.23%) Flask
3 42 (10.69%) Django
4 33 (8.40%) FastAPI
5 31 (7.89%) REST
6 28 (7.12%) RESTful
7 26 (6.62%) Node.js
8 25 (6.36%) NumPy
9 24 (6.11%) Pandas
10 23 (5.85%) Vue
11 20 (5.09%) HTML
12 19 (4.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 19 (4.83%) Kafka
13 16 (4.07%) CSS
14 10 (2.54%) AngularJS
15 8 (2.04%) .NET
15 8 (2.04%) Redux
16 6 (1.53%) PyTorch
16 6 (1.53%) SQLAlchemy
17 5 (1.27%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.72%) Algorithms
2 33 (8.40%) Hedge funds
3 30 (7.63%) Cloud Native
4 29 (7.38%) Data Structures
4 29 (7.38%) Equities
5 22 (5.60%) Fixed Income
6 20 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (4.83%) Management Information System
8 17 (4.33%) Educational Technology
9 14 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (3.05%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.54%) Derivative
11 10 (2.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.54%) Low-Code
11 10 (2.54%) PropTech
11 10 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
12 7 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.91%) Linux
2 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (30.03%) Software Engineering
2 102 (25.95%) Full-Stack Development
3 92 (23.41%) AI
4 70 (17.81%) Agile
5 53 (13.49%) CI/CD
6 44 (11.20%) Test Automation
7 38 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (8.91%) OO
8 35 (8.91%) OOP
9 33 (8.40%) Fintech
10 30 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (7.63%) SDLC
11 29 (7.38%) Mentoring
12 24 (6.11%) Containerisation
13 23 (5.85%) Computer Vision
14 22 (5.60%) Clean Code
14 22 (5.60%) Computer Science
14 22 (5.60%) Deep Learning
14 22 (5.60%) Microservices
14 22 (5.60%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 393 (100.00%) Python
2 49 (12.47%) JavaScript
3 46 (11.70%) SQL
4 45 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.38%) C++
6 10 (2.54%) Go
6 10 (2.54%) PHP
7 9 (2.29%) Java
8 4 (1.02%) C
8 4 (1.02%) C#
9 3 (0.76%) Bash
9 3 (0.76%) Perl
9 3 (0.76%) VBA
10 2 (0.51%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.51%) Rust
10 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) OCaml
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (4.07%) Degree
2 8 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 8 (2.04%) Security Cleared
3 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.05%) QA
2 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (10.43%) Docker
2 3 (0.76%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.31%) Terraform
3 3 (0.76%) Argo
4 2 (0.51%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (1.78%) Databricks
1 7 (1.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.76%) BT
2 3 (0.76%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.76%) Mitel
2 3 (0.76%) Oracle
3 2 (0.51%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.25%) Google