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 3 July 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 396 408
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 375 273 532
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.72% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 302 211 470
10th Percentile £47,625 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £109,750 £137,500 £150,000
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 80,906 37,725 87,507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 90.30% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,953 22,407 64,506
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,945 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,201 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% +8.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -40 217 £90,000 -5.26% 53
North of England +25 73 £70,000 +16.67% 13
Yorkshire 0 40 £70,000 +16.67% 4
South East -1 31 £60,000 +43.71% 6
South West -41 25 £50,000 -41.18% 3
North West +6 20 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Midlands -11 16 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North East - 13 £70,000 - 4
East Midlands -3 12 £65,000 +62.50% 3
East of England -4 12 £72,500 +5.45% 8
West Midlands -22 4 £57,500 -17.86%
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 375 (100.00%) Python
2 105 (28.00%) Software Engineering
3 103 (27.47%) AWS
4 96 (25.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 88 (23.47%) AI
6 59 (15.73%) Agile
7 50 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 49 (13.07%) SQL
9 48 (12.80%) React
10 47 (12.53%) JavaScript
11 44 (11.73%) Flask
12 43 (11.47%) Test Automation
13 42 (11.20%) Docker
14 41 (10.93%) FastAPI
14 41 (10.93%) TypeScript
15 40 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
16 39 (10.40%) Azure
17 34 (9.07%) Linux
17 34 (9.07%) RESTful
18 33 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (8.80%) Django
18 33 (8.80%) OOP
19 31 (8.27%) C++
19 31 (8.27%) Kubernetes
20 30 (8.00%) OO
21 28 (7.47%) REST
22 27 (7.20%) Fintech
22 27 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
23 26 (6.93%) Containerisation
23 26 (6.93%) Node.js

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 13 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.53%) Apache
3 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 103 (27.47%) AWS
2 39 (10.40%) Azure
3 26 (6.93%) SaaS
4 23 (6.13%) Serverless
5 19 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (4.00%) GitHub
7 14 (3.73%) Amazon S3
8 13 (3.47%) GCP
9 10 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (1.33%) Prefect
13 4 (1.07%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.80%) AWS Fargate
15 2 (0.53%) AWS CodePipeline
15 2 (0.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.53%) Azure Functions
15 2 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.00%) Broadband
2 5 (1.33%) MQTT
3 3 (0.80%) HTTP
3 3 (0.80%) RTP
3 3 (0.80%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.80%) VoIP
3 3 (0.80%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.20%) Big Data
4 8 (2.13%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.07%) MySQL
8 2 (0.53%) GIS
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Power BI
9 1 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (5.60%) Git
2 6 (1.60%) GitLab
3 3 (0.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.27%) MLflow
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.27%) Poetry
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (14.93%) Finance
2 40 (10.67%) Front Office
3 34 (9.07%) Social Skills
4 16 (4.27%) Tech for Good
5 15 (4.00%) Games
6 13 (3.47%) Banking
7 12 (3.20%) Health Technology
8 5 (1.33%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.07%) Aviation
9 4 (1.07%) Publishing
10 3 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
12 1 (0.27%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.80%) React
2 44 (11.73%) Flask
3 41 (10.93%) FastAPI
4 34 (9.07%) RESTful
5 33 (8.80%) Django
6 28 (7.47%) REST
7 26 (6.93%) Node.js
8 25 (6.67%) NumPy
9 24 (6.40%) Pandas
10 23 (6.13%) Vue
11 19 (5.07%) Kafka
12 17 (4.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 16 (4.27%) HTML
14 14 (3.73%) CSS
15 11 (2.93%) Swagger
16 10 (2.67%) AngularJS
17 9 (2.40%) .NET
18 8 (2.13%) Redux
19 7 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
20 6 (1.60%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.33%) Algorithms
2 40 (10.67%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.73%) Hedge funds
4 27 (7.20%) Equities
5 24 (6.40%) Data Structures
6 23 (6.13%) Fixed Income
7 17 (4.53%) Management Information System
8 16 (4.27%) Low-Code
9 15 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
10 13 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (3.20%) Derivative
11 12 (3.20%) Educational Technology
12 10 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (2.67%) PropTech
13 8 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.87%) Product Ownership
15 6 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
16 4 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.07%) Linux
2 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.00%) Software Engineering
2 96 (25.60%) Full-Stack Development
3 88 (23.47%) AI
4 59 (15.73%) Agile
5 50 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 43 (11.47%) Test Automation
7 33 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (8.80%) OOP
8 30 (8.00%) OO
9 27 (7.20%) Fintech
9 27 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (6.93%) Containerisation
11 25 (6.67%) SDLC
12 24 (6.40%) Machine Learning
12 24 (6.40%) Mentoring
12 24 (6.40%) Microservices
13 23 (6.13%) Computer Vision
13 23 (6.13%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (5.87%) Deep Learning
14 22 (5.87%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 375 (100.00%) Python
2 49 (13.07%) SQL
3 47 (12.53%) JavaScript
4 41 (10.93%) TypeScript
5 31 (8.27%) C++
6 15 (4.00%) Go
7 9 (2.40%) Java
8 8 (2.13%) PHP
9 7 (1.87%) C#
10 4 (1.07%) Bash
10 4 (1.07%) C
11 3 (0.80%) Perl
11 3 (0.80%) Rust
12 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.27%) Haskell
13 1 (0.27%) OCaml
13 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (4.27%) Degree
2 9 (2.40%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.93%) QA
2 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.80%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (11.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.80%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 31 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.47%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) Ansible
3 3 (0.80%) Argo
4 1 (0.27%) Grafana
4 1 (0.27%) Kibana
4 1 (0.27%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (3.47%) Databricks
2 6 (1.60%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.80%) BT
3 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.80%) Mitel
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle
4 1 (0.27%) Google
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce