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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 366 419
Rank change year-on-year -45 +53 -94
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 368 309 382
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.71% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.78% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 294 239 312
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £99,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -14.79% +10.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £132,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £146,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%

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 90,592 39,605 69,389
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.51% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 63,845 23,969 46,045
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,320 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -102 185 £87,500 -2.78% 32
North of England +9 78 £70,000 - 5
East of England +15 43 £65,000 -5.45% 6
Yorkshire -13 36 £80,000 +14.29% 4
South West -51 23 £50,000 -31.03% 5
North West +5 21 £45,000 -30.77% 1
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -25 19 £65,000 -7.14% 6
South East -22 17 £60,000 +33.33% 2
East Midlands -10 11 £70,000 +75.00% 1
West Midlands -29 8 £52,500 -25.00% 4
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 368 (100.00%) Python
2 109 (29.62%) AWS
3 105 (28.53%) Software Engineering
4 102 (27.72%) AI
5 88 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 63 (17.12%) CI/CD
7 57 (15.49%) SQL
8 47 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
9 46 (12.50%) Agile
10 45 (12.23%) Docker
10 45 (12.23%) FastAPI
11 44 (11.96%) JavaScript
12 42 (11.41%) Azure
13 41 (11.14%) RESTful
14 39 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.51%) Flask
15 35 (9.51%) Test Automation
16 31 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 31 (8.42%) Kubernetes
16 31 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (8.15%) Validation
18 29 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
19 28 (7.61%) TypeScript
20 26 (7.07%) Linux
21 25 (6.79%) Git
21 25 (6.79%) NumPy
21 25 (6.79%) OOP
21 25 (6.79%) Pandas
22 24 (6.52%) API Design
22 24 (6.52%) 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 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (29.62%) AWS
2 42 (11.41%) Azure
3 22 (5.98%) SaaS
4 18 (4.89%) Serverless
5 14 (3.80%) Amazon S3
5 14 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (2.45%) GCP
8 9 (2.45%) GitHub
9 8 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.36%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.36%) Prefect
11 4 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
11 4 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.09%) Kong
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.08%) Broadband
2 9 (2.45%) MQTT
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
4 1 (0.27%) 4G
4 1 (0.27%) 5G
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) SSH
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.89%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.45%) Big Data
4 9 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.36%) MySQL
6 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.09%) GIS
7 4 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.82%) Power BI
8 3 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.54%) Redis
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.79%) Git
2 6 (1.63%) GitLab
3 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) MLflow
5 1 (0.27%) Poetry
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (12.77%) Finance
2 25 (6.79%) Front Office
3 24 (6.52%) Social Skills
4 16 (4.35%) Tech for Good
5 15 (4.08%) Games
6 11 (2.99%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.72%) Banking
8 5 (1.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.09%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.09%) Publishing
10 3 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.82%) Law
10 3 (0.82%) Legal
11 2 (0.54%) Automotive
11 2 (0.54%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Back Office
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (12.23%) FastAPI
2 41 (11.14%) RESTful
3 35 (9.51%) Flask
4 25 (6.79%) NumPy
4 25 (6.79%) Pandas
5 24 (6.52%) React
6 23 (6.25%) Django
7 21 (5.71%) Kafka
7 21 (5.71%) REST
8 20 (5.43%) CSS
8 20 (5.43%) Vue
9 19 (5.16%) HTML
10 18 (4.89%) Terraform
11 16 (4.35%) Node.js
11 16 (4.35%) Swagger
12 13 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 9 (2.45%) OpenAPI
15 8 (2.17%) AngularJS
16 6 (1.63%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.96%) Algorithms
2 41 (11.14%) Cloud Native
3 40 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (6.52%) Cyber Threat
4 24 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (6.25%) Hedge funds
6 19 (5.16%) Low-Code
7 17 (4.62%) Data Structures
8 15 (4.08%) Equities
8 15 (4.08%) Video\Live Streaming
9 13 (3.53%) Fixed Income
10 12 (3.26%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.99%) Renewable Energy
12 6 (1.63%) Derivative
13 5 (1.36%) Educational Technology
13 5 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 5 (1.36%) Market Risk
14 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.09%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.09%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.07%) Linux
2 1 (0.27%) Unix
2 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.53%) Software Engineering
2 102 (27.72%) AI
3 88 (23.91%) Full-Stack Development
4 63 (17.12%) CI/CD
5 46 (12.50%) Agile
6 39 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (9.51%) Test Automation
8 31 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (8.42%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (8.15%) Validation
10 29 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (6.79%) OOP
12 24 (6.52%) API Design
12 24 (6.52%) Containerisation
12 24 (6.52%) Microservices
13 23 (6.25%) Machine Learning
14 22 (5.98%) Computer Vision
14 22 (5.98%) DevOps
14 22 (5.98%) Observability
15 21 (5.71%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 368 (100.00%) Python
2 57 (15.49%) SQL
3 44 (11.96%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.61%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.98%) C++
6 15 (4.08%) Go
7 7 (1.90%) C#
8 5 (1.36%) Bash
8 5 (1.36%) Java
8 5 (1.36%) PHP
8 5 (1.36%) Rust
9 2 (0.54%) Perl
9 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) Bicep
10 1 (0.27%) Haskell
10 1 (0.27%) OCaml
10 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (4.62%) Degree
2 11 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 45 (12.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (8.42%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.82%) Ansible
2 3 (0.82%) Grafana
3 2 (0.54%) Kibana
3 2 (0.54%) logstash
3 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (3.80%) Databricks
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.82%) Oracle
4 2 (0.54%) SAP
5 1 (0.27%) HubSpot