Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 January 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 405 309
Rank change year-on-year +74 -96 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 304 300 448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.62% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.67% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 236 205 415
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,000 £56,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £111,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £76,000 £88,750
% change year-on-year - -14.37% +14.52%

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 48,554 44,488 47,201
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.57% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 30,755 23,272 36,968
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +56 212 £85,000 - 45
North of England +38 34 £75,000 +11.68% 10
Midlands +44 31 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Yorkshire +15 24 £80,000 -3.03% 5
West Midlands +43 18 £80,000 +36.98% 4
South East +28 18 £70,000 +12.00% 31
East Midlands -10 13 £70,000 +27.27% 4
North West +27 10 £40,000 -40.44% 4
South West +2 4 £60,000 +2.13% 6
East of England +13 1 £50,000 -41.18% 6
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 January 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.

1 304 (100.00%) Python
2 106 (34.87%) Agile
2 106 (34.87%) AWS
3 103 (33.88%) React
4 100 (32.89%) Software Engineering
5 71 (23.36%) CI/CD
6 63 (20.72%) AI
6 63 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (20.72%) TypeScript
7 60 (19.74%) JavaScript
8 55 (18.09%) SQL
8 55 (18.09%) Test Automation
9 54 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
10 53 (17.43%) Docker
10 53 (17.43%) Serverless
11 52 (17.11%) Flask
11 52 (17.11%) Mentoring
12 51 (16.78%) Azure
12 51 (16.78%) Django
13 42 (13.82%) Fintech
13 42 (13.82%) RESTful
14 41 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 41 (13.49%) Node.js
14 41 (13.49%) Order Management
14 41 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
15 40 (13.16%) FastAPI
15 40 (13.16%) GitHub
16 37 (12.17%) GCP
16 37 (12.17%) Vue
17 36 (11.84%) Containerisation

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 23 (7.57%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.61%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 106 (34.87%) AWS
2 53 (17.43%) Serverless
3 51 (16.78%) Azure
4 40 (13.16%) GitHub
5 37 (12.17%) GCP
6 34 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (7.57%) dbt
8 22 (7.24%) Amazon S3
9 19 (6.25%) SaaS
10 14 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.61%) Azure AI
11 9 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.96%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.63%) n8n
13 6 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
14 2 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
14 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
14 2 (0.66%) Power Automate
15 1 (0.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.33%) Internet
1 1 (0.33%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (7.57%) Amazon Athena
2 23 (7.57%) Apache Arrow
2 23 (7.57%) Apache Iceberg
2 23 (7.57%) Dremio
3 17 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.28%) Big Data
5 12 (3.95%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.96%) MySQL
8 7 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.64%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.64%) Tick Data
10 3 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.33%) Power BI
11 1 (0.33%) Redis
11 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (3.62%) Git
2 3 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.66%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 91 (29.93%) Finance
2 52 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 48 (15.79%) Front Office
4 28 (9.21%) Health Technology
4 28 (9.21%) Publishing
5 27 (8.88%) Tech for Good
6 14 (4.61%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.61%) Marketing
6 14 (4.61%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.28%) Banking
7 13 (4.28%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.96%) Retail
10 7 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.30%) Legal
11 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.64%) Electronics
12 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (33.88%) React
2 52 (17.11%) Flask
3 51 (16.78%) Django
4 42 (13.82%) RESTful
5 41 (13.49%) Node.js
6 40 (13.16%) FastAPI
7 37 (12.17%) Vue
8 32 (10.53%) REST
9 30 (9.87%) AngularJS
10 28 (9.21%) HTML
10 28 (9.21%) NumPy
10 28 (9.21%) Pandas
11 23 (7.57%) SciPy
12 20 (6.58%) CSS
13 18 (5.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 15 (4.93%) Kafka
15 12 (3.95%) Swagger
16 10 (3.29%) LangChain
17 7 (2.30%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.64%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.46%) Equities
2 36 (11.84%) Data Structures
3 26 (8.55%) Hedge funds
4 24 (7.89%) Fixed Income
4 24 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 21 (6.91%) Algorithms
5 21 (6.91%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.59%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.29%) Educational Technology
7 10 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.96%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.63%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.97%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.64%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.32%) PKI
13 2 (0.66%) PropTech
14 1 (0.33%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.24%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (34.87%) Agile
2 100 (32.89%) Software Engineering
3 71 (23.36%) CI/CD
4 63 (20.72%) AI
4 63 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.09%) Test Automation
6 54 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 52 (17.11%) Mentoring
8 42 (13.82%) Fintech
9 41 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (13.49%) Order Management
10 36 (11.84%) Containerisation
10 36 (11.84%) OOP
11 31 (10.20%) Clean Code
11 31 (10.20%) TDD
12 30 (9.87%) Scrum
13 28 (9.21%) Pair Programming
14 27 (8.88%) Microservices
14 27 (8.88%) OO
15 26 (8.55%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 304 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (20.72%) TypeScript
3 60 (19.74%) JavaScript
4 55 (18.09%) SQL
5 30 (9.87%) C++
6 13 (4.28%) Java
7 6 (1.97%) C#
7 6 (1.97%) PHP
8 5 (1.64%) VBA
9 3 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.66%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (4.93%) Degree
2 7 (2.30%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.32%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.32%) PhD
5 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.20%) QA
2 2 (0.66%) GDPR
2 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.66%) PSD2
System Software
1 53 (17.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (8.22%) Terraform
2 20 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.63%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.97%) iManage
4 5 (1.64%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) SAP
5 3 (0.99%) Databricks
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle
6 2 (0.66%) Solace
6 2 (0.66%) UiPath
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce