Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 369 402
Rank change year-on-year -68 +33 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 355 286 370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.66% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.73% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 285 211 265
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £142,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +5.56%

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 96,039 39,178 62,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 90.48% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 67,339 23,090 36,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,020
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -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 October 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 October 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 -103 187 £90,000 -5.26% 122
North of England -19 63 £60,000 -14.29% 16
East of England +19 54 £70,000 +1.82% 8
North West -2 27 £55,000 -12.00% 4
Midlands -25 26 £57,500 -25.81% 6
North East - 20 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -16 17 £65,000 +10.64% 4
Yorkshire -27 16 £50,000 -28.57% 12
South East -41 11 £60,000 +63.27% 6
South West -62 11 £60,000 - 4
West Midlands -39 9 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 355 (100.00%) Python
2 131 (36.90%) AI
3 119 (33.52%) Software Engineering
4 111 (31.27%) AWS
5 69 (19.44%) Azure
5 69 (19.44%) CI/CD
6 61 (17.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 56 (15.77%) SQL
8 52 (14.65%) Docker
8 52 (14.65%) FastAPI
9 50 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (12.68%) Agile
11 44 (12.39%) RESTful
12 42 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (10.99%) Kubernetes
14 36 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
14 36 (10.14%) Validation
15 33 (9.30%) JavaScript
16 31 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 31 (8.73%) Observability
17 30 (8.45%) Test Automation
18 29 (8.17%) Containerisation
18 29 (8.17%) Generative AI
19 28 (7.89%) API Design
19 28 (7.89%) Git
19 28 (7.89%) TypeScript
20 27 (7.61%) React
21 26 (7.32%) GCP
22 25 (7.04%) DevOps
22 25 (7.04%) Flask

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 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
1 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.56%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 111 (31.27%) AWS
2 69 (19.44%) Azure
3 26 (7.32%) GCP
4 19 (5.35%) SaaS
5 16 (4.51%) Amazon Bedrock
6 15 (4.23%) GitHub
6 15 (4.23%) Serverless
7 13 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (3.38%) Amazon S3
8 12 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.13%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (1.13%) Kong
13 4 (1.13%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.66%) MQTT
2 12 (3.38%) Broadband
3 3 (0.85%) 4G
3 3 (0.85%) 5G
3 3 (0.85%) DNS
3 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.85%) SSH
3 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.92%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.10%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.25%) MySQL
6 7 (1.97%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.13%) Chroma
8 4 (1.13%) GIS
8 4 (1.13%) Pinecone
8 4 (1.13%) Power BI
8 4 (1.13%) Redis
9 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.56%) Big Data
10 2 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (7.89%) Git
2 14 (3.94%) GitLab
3 8 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.28%) Poetry
5 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (15.49%) Finance
2 32 (9.01%) Front Office
2 32 (9.01%) Social Skills
3 26 (7.32%) Banking
4 15 (4.23%) Tech for Good
5 13 (3.66%) Marketing
6 12 (3.38%) Games
7 10 (2.82%) Health Technology
8 6 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.41%) Law
10 4 (1.13%) Publishing
11 3 (0.85%) Legal
11 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.56%) Automotive
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.65%) FastAPI
2 44 (12.39%) RESTful
3 27 (7.61%) React
4 25 (7.04%) Flask
5 21 (5.92%) Django
6 20 (5.63%) Swagger
7 19 (5.35%) Kafka
7 19 (5.35%) Terraform
8 18 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (4.79%) LangChain
9 17 (4.79%) LangGraph
10 16 (4.51%) CrewAI
10 16 (4.51%) REST
11 15 (4.23%) HTML
12 13 (3.66%) CSS
12 13 (3.66%) OpenAPI
12 13 (3.66%) Pandas
12 13 (3.66%) pydantic
13 11 (3.10%) Node.js
13 11 (3.10%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.55%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.61%) Cyber Threat
4 26 (7.32%) Hedge funds
5 22 (6.20%) Algorithms
6 21 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
7 19 (5.35%) AI Agents
8 16 (4.51%) Low-Code
9 13 (3.66%) Equities
10 12 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.54%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.54%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.69%) Derivative
12 6 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.69%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.13%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.85%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (36.90%) AI
2 119 (33.52%) Software Engineering
3 69 (19.44%) CI/CD
4 61 (17.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (12.68%) Agile
6 42 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (10.14%) Validation
8 31 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (8.73%) Observability
9 30 (8.45%) Test Automation
10 29 (8.17%) Containerisation
10 29 (8.17%) Generative AI
11 28 (7.89%) API Design
12 25 (7.04%) DevOps
13 24 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (6.76%) LLM
14 23 (6.48%) Mentoring
14 23 (6.48%) Roadmaps
15 20 (5.63%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 355 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (15.77%) SQL
3 33 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 16 (4.51%) C++
6 14 (3.94%) R
7 12 (3.38%) Go
8 9 (2.54%) C#
9 7 (1.97%) Bash
10 4 (1.13%) Rust
10 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.85%) Java
12 2 (0.56%) Perl
12 2 (0.56%) PHP
13 1 (0.28%) Bicep
13 1 (0.28%) Haskell
13 1 (0.28%) OCaml
13 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (3.38%) Degree
2 8 (2.25%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.94%) QA
2 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (14.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.25%) Grafana
3 4 (1.13%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.85%) Ansible
4 3 (0.85%) Kibana
5 2 (0.56%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (3.66%) Google
2 9 (2.54%) Databricks
3 5 (1.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.13%) Mistral
4 4 (1.13%) OpenAI
5 3 (0.85%) Oracle
6 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.56%) SAP
7 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.28%) HubSpot