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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 396 401
Rank change year-on-year +55 +5 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 382 236 493
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.62% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.70% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 318 185 452
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% -12.00% +10.29%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £132,813
90th Percentile £140,000 £137,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -12.12% -8.33% +5.88%

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 74,130 33,699 78,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 88.87% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,671 21,290 60,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +20 227 £90,000 +5.88% 42
North of England -20 55 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Yorkshire -22 44 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South East +5 42 £70,000 +55.56% 17
Midlands -16 29 £60,000 +9.09%
South West - 25 £50,000 - 3
East Midlands -38 17 £65,000 +18.18%
West Midlands -13 12 £57,500 -
North West -27 10 £40,000 -33.33% 3
East of England -26 3 £52,500 -38.24% 3
North East - 1 - - 4
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 382 (100.00%) Python
2 120 (31.41%) Software Engineering
3 100 (26.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 84 (21.99%) AI
5 78 (20.42%) AWS
6 76 (19.90%) React
7 70 (18.32%) Agile
8 55 (14.40%) JavaScript
9 53 (13.87%) CI/CD
10 52 (13.61%) Django
11 51 (13.35%) Flask
12 50 (13.09%) SQL
13 43 (11.26%) Test Automation
14 42 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (10.47%) TypeScript
16 37 (9.69%) Mentoring
16 37 (9.69%) OOP
16 37 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
17 36 (9.42%) OO
17 36 (9.42%) Serverless
18 35 (9.16%) REST
19 34 (8.90%) Azure
19 34 (8.90%) Docker
19 34 (8.90%) Fintech
20 32 (8.38%) FastAPI
20 32 (8.38%) GitHub
20 32 (8.38%) SDLC
21 31 (8.12%) Linux
22 30 (7.85%) SaaS
23 28 (7.33%) RESTful

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 17 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.52%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 78 (20.42%) AWS
2 36 (9.42%) Serverless
3 34 (8.90%) Azure
4 32 (8.38%) GitHub
5 30 (7.85%) SaaS
6 27 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (6.28%) Amazon S3
8 15 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (2.88%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.36%) GCP
11 5 (1.31%) Prefect
12 4 (1.05%) Azure AI
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
15 1 (0.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.26%) Anthropic Claude
15 1 (0.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 1 (0.26%) Azure Functions
15 1 (0.26%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.31%) Broadband
2 3 (0.79%) HTTP
2 3 (0.79%) RTP
2 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.79%) VoIP
2 3 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.45%) Big Data
3 9 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.31%) MySQL
5 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.79%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (5.24%) Git
2 3 (0.79%) GitLab
3 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.26%) Poetry
4 1 (0.26%) Selenium
4 1 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (16.23%) Finance
2 57 (14.92%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.73%) Front Office
4 18 (4.71%) Tech for Good
5 15 (3.93%) Health Technology
6 14 (3.66%) Publishing
7 10 (2.62%) Banking
7 10 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.83%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.57%) Games
11 4 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.05%) Aviation
12 3 (0.79%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Back Office
13 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (19.90%) React
2 52 (13.61%) Django
3 51 (13.35%) Flask
4 35 (9.16%) REST
5 32 (8.38%) FastAPI
6 28 (7.33%) RESTful
7 26 (6.81%) Node.js
8 24 (6.28%) NumPy
9 23 (6.02%) Pandas
10 22 (5.76%) HTML
11 20 (5.24%) Kafka
11 20 (5.24%) Vue
12 19 (4.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 16 (4.19%) CSS
14 14 (3.66%) AngularJS
15 8 (2.09%) Redux
16 7 (1.83%) PyTorch
17 6 (1.57%) .NET
17 6 (1.57%) Google JAX
17 6 (1.57%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.52%) Algorithms
2 34 (8.90%) Hedge funds
3 30 (7.85%) Data Structures
4 29 (7.59%) Equities
5 22 (5.76%) Cloud Native
5 22 (5.76%) Fixed Income
6 19 (4.97%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.45%) Educational Technology
8 16 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.66%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (2.62%) PropTech
11 8 (2.09%) Derivative
11 8 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.31%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
13 4 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.05%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.12%) Linux
2 3 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (31.41%) Software Engineering
2 100 (26.18%) Full-Stack Development
3 84 (21.99%) AI
4 70 (18.32%) Agile
5 53 (13.87%) CI/CD
6 43 (11.26%) Test Automation
7 42 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (9.69%) Mentoring
8 37 (9.69%) OOP
8 37 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (9.42%) OO
10 34 (8.90%) Fintech
11 32 (8.38%) SDLC
12 25 (6.54%) Clean Code
13 24 (6.28%) Computer Science
14 23 (6.02%) Microservices
15 22 (5.76%) Computer Vision
15 22 (5.76%) Deep Learning
15 22 (5.76%) Signal Processing
16 21 (5.50%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 382 (100.00%) Python
2 55 (14.40%) JavaScript
3 50 (13.09%) SQL
4 40 (10.47%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.28%) C++
6 10 (2.62%) PHP
7 8 (2.09%) Java
8 5 (1.31%) Go
8 5 (1.31%) VBA
9 4 (1.05%) C
10 3 (0.79%) C#
11 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.52%) Rust
12 1 (0.26%) Bicep
12 1 (0.26%) Haskell
12 1 (0.26%) OCaml
12 1 (0.26%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (4.45%) Degree
2 7 (1.83%) SC Cleared
2 7 (1.83%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.19%) QA
2 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (8.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.79%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.40%) Terraform
3 3 (0.79%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (2.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.31%) Databricks
3 4 (1.05%) Oracle
4 3 (0.79%) BT
4 3 (0.79%) Fortinet
4 3 (0.79%) Mitel
5 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.26%) Google