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 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 361 405
Rank change year-on-year -79 +44 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 355 293 379
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.34% 0.68% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.75% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 284 219 269
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
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 £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% -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 96,584 39,137 63,749
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 90.50% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,856 23,062 37,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -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 2 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 2 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 -111 181 £90,000 -5.26% 147
North of England -16 65 £67,500 -3.57% 20
East of England +10 54 £70,000 +1.82% 9
Midlands -34 24 £60,000 -14.29% 7
North West -17 23 £50,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire -19 22 £100,000 +42.86% 12
North East - 20 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -26 15 £70,000 +19.15% 4
South West -58 15 £50,000 -16.67% 6
South East -39 13 £60,000 +63.27% 12
West Midlands -40 9 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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
2 117 (32.96%) AI
2 117 (32.96%) Software Engineering
3 111 (31.27%) AWS
4 69 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 68 (19.15%) CI/CD
6 64 (18.03%) Azure
7 56 (15.77%) SQL
8 53 (14.93%) Docker
9 52 (14.65%) FastAPI
10 50 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
11 47 (13.24%) Agile
12 45 (12.68%) RESTful
13 42 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
14 40 (11.27%) Kubernetes
15 37 (10.42%) JavaScript
16 36 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (9.86%) Validation
18 30 (8.45%) Git
18 30 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (8.45%) Observability
19 29 (8.17%) Containerisation
19 29 (8.17%) Test Automation
20 28 (7.89%) Flask
20 28 (7.89%) TypeScript
21 27 (7.61%) API Design
21 27 (7.61%) React
22 25 (7.04%) DevOps
23 24 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
24 23 (6.48%) Roadmaps

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%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
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 64 (18.03%) Azure
3 21 (5.92%) GCP
4 19 (5.35%) SaaS
5 14 (3.94%) Serverless
6 13 (3.66%) Amazon Bedrock
6 13 (3.66%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.66%) Azure Service Bus
6 13 (3.66%) GitHub
7 12 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.13%) Kong
12 4 (1.13%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.85%) OpenShift
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%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.97%) NoSQL
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
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (8.45%) Git
2 13 (3.66%) GitLab
3 8 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.85%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Poetry
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (14.93%) Finance
2 30 (8.45%) Front Office
3 27 (7.61%) Social Skills
4 23 (6.48%) Banking
5 15 (4.23%) Tech for Good
6 12 (3.38%) Games
7 10 (2.82%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.82%) Marketing
8 6 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.13%) 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 45 (12.68%) RESTful
3 28 (7.89%) Flask
4 27 (7.61%) React
5 22 (6.20%) Django
6 20 (5.63%) Swagger
6 20 (5.63%) Terraform
7 19 (5.35%) Kafka
8 18 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (4.79%) REST
10 16 (4.51%) HTML
10 16 (4.51%) Pandas
11 14 (3.94%) CSS
11 14 (3.94%) LangChain
11 14 (3.94%) LangGraph
11 14 (3.94%) NumPy
12 13 (3.66%) CrewAI
12 13 (3.66%) OpenAPI
13 11 (3.10%) Node.js
14 10 (2.82%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 27 (7.61%) Cyber Threat
4 26 (7.32%) Algorithms
5 25 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (7.04%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.51%) AI Agents
6 16 (4.51%) Low-Code
7 14 (3.94%) Equities
8 12 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 10 (2.82%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.97%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.69%) Derivative
11 6 (1.69%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.41%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.85%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.85%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (32.96%) AI
1 117 (32.96%) Software Engineering
2 69 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 68 (19.15%) CI/CD
4 47 (13.24%) Agile
5 42 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (9.86%) Validation
8 30 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (8.45%) Observability
9 29 (8.17%) Containerisation
9 29 (8.17%) Test Automation
10 27 (7.61%) API Design
11 25 (7.04%) DevOps
12 24 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (6.48%) Roadmaps
14 22 (6.20%) Mentoring
15 21 (5.92%) Event-Driven
16 20 (5.63%) Generative AI
16 20 (5.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 355 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (15.77%) SQL
3 37 (10.42%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.89%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.79%) C++
6 12 (3.38%) Go
7 11 (3.10%) R
8 9 (2.54%) C#
9 7 (1.97%) Bash
10 4 (1.13%) Java
10 4 (1.13%) Rust
10 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.56%) Perl
11 2 (0.56%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) Haskell
12 1 (0.28%) OCaml
12 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (3.66%) Degree
2 11 (3.10%) Security Cleared
3 7 (1.97%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.41%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
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 53 (14.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.97%) 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 10 (2.82%) Databricks
1 10 (2.82%) Google
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.13%) Mistral
2 4 (1.13%) OpenAI
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle
4 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
4 2 (0.56%) SAP
5 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.28%) HubSpot