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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 382 414
Rank change year-on-year -20 +32 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 380 290 472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.67% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.74% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 308 221 414
10th Percentile £48,375 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £98,125 £122,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 83,046 39,108 80,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.47% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 58,488 23,588 58,616
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,477
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,806
% change year-on-year - +4.15% -11.99%

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 18 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 18 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 -43 211 £90,000 -5.26% 19
North of England +10 78 £70,000 +3.70% 6
Yorkshire -5 39 £70,000 - 2
South East -3 27 £60,000 +43.71% 5
South West -34 25 £50,000 -41.18% 1
East of England +7 22 £72,500 +5.45% 3
North West +14 21 £45,000 -30.77% 2
North East - 18 £70,000 - 2
Midlands -22 15 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -3 13 £67,500 +68.75% 3
West Midlands -23 2 £52,500 -25.00%
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 380 (100.00%) Python
2 113 (29.74%) AWS
3 106 (27.89%) Software Engineering
4 96 (25.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 92 (24.21%) AI
6 58 (15.26%) CI/CD
7 56 (14.74%) SQL
8 55 (14.47%) Agile
9 51 (13.42%) JavaScript
10 47 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
11 46 (12.11%) FastAPI
12 45 (11.84%) React
13 44 (11.58%) Azure
13 44 (11.58%) Docker
14 43 (11.32%) TypeScript
15 42 (11.05%) Flask
16 40 (10.53%) RESTful
16 40 (10.53%) Test Automation
17 33 (8.68%) Kubernetes
17 33 (8.68%) Linux
18 32 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 32 (8.42%) Django
18 32 (8.42%) OOP
19 29 (7.63%) C++
19 29 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
20 28 (7.37%) Containerisation
20 28 (7.37%) OO
20 28 (7.37%) REST
21 27 (7.11%) Fintech
21 27 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.53%) Apache
3 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 113 (29.74%) AWS
2 44 (11.58%) Azure
3 26 (6.84%) SaaS
4 23 (6.05%) Serverless
5 19 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (4.21%) Amazon S3
7 13 (3.42%) GCP
8 12 (3.16%) GitHub
9 10 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
14 5 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.32%) Prefect
15 4 (1.05%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (1.05%) Kong
16 3 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
16 3 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.95%) Broadband
2 6 (1.58%) MQTT
3 2 (0.53%) Firewall
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) RTP
3 2 (0.53%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.53%) VoIP
3 2 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.37%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (4.74%) MongoDB
3 12 (3.16%) Big Data
3 12 (3.16%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.58%) MySQL
6 5 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.53%) GIS
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.26%) Power BI
9 1 (0.26%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.26%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (6.32%) Git
2 7 (1.84%) GitLab
3 3 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.26%) MLflow
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.26%) Poetry
5 1 (0.26%) Selenium
5 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (14.74%) Finance
2 38 (10.00%) Front Office
3 34 (8.95%) Social Skills
4 18 (4.74%) Tech for Good
5 15 (3.95%) Games
6 12 (3.16%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.63%) Banking
8 5 (1.32%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.05%) Aviation
9 4 (1.05%) Publishing
10 2 (0.53%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.53%) Legal
10 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.26%) Automotive
11 1 (0.26%) Back Office
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.11%) FastAPI
2 45 (11.84%) React
3 42 (11.05%) Flask
4 40 (10.53%) RESTful
5 32 (8.42%) Django
6 28 (7.37%) REST
7 26 (6.84%) Node.js
8 25 (6.58%) NumPy
9 24 (6.32%) Pandas
10 23 (6.05%) Vue
11 21 (5.53%) Kafka
12 17 (4.47%) CSS
12 17 (4.47%) HTML
13 16 (4.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 13 (3.42%) Swagger
15 10 (2.63%) AngularJS
15 10 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
16 9 (2.37%) .NET
17 8 (2.11%) Redux
18 6 (1.58%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.63%) Algorithms
2 38 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (9.74%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.84%) Hedge funds
5 25 (6.58%) Equities
6 23 (6.05%) Fixed Income
7 22 (5.79%) Data Structures
8 19 (5.00%) Low-Code
9 18 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (4.21%) Management Information System
11 15 (3.95%) Video\Live Streaming
12 13 (3.42%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (3.16%) Derivative
14 10 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (2.11%) PropTech
15 8 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (1.84%) Educational Technology
17 5 (1.32%) Onboarding
17 5 (1.32%) Product Ownership
18 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.68%) Linux
2 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.89%) Software Engineering
2 96 (25.26%) Full-Stack Development
3 92 (24.21%) AI
4 58 (15.26%) CI/CD
5 55 (14.47%) Agile
6 40 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 32 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (8.42%) OOP
8 29 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (7.37%) Containerisation
9 28 (7.37%) OO
10 27 (7.11%) Fintech
10 27 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (7.11%) Microservices
11 25 (6.58%) Validation
12 24 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (6.32%) Machine Learning
12 24 (6.32%) Mentoring
13 23 (6.05%) SDLC
14 22 (5.79%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 380 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (14.74%) SQL
3 51 (13.42%) JavaScript
4 43 (11.32%) TypeScript
5 29 (7.63%) C++
6 15 (3.95%) Go
7 8 (2.11%) Java
8 7 (1.84%) C#
9 6 (1.58%) PHP
10 5 (1.32%) Rust
11 4 (1.05%) Bash
12 3 (0.79%) C
12 3 (0.79%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.26%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.26%) Bicep
14 1 (0.26%) Haskell
14 1 (0.26%) OCaml
14 1 (0.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (3.68%) Degree
2 10 (2.63%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.42%) QA
2 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (11.58%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 33 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.47%) Terraform
3 3 (0.79%) Ansible
4 2 (0.53%) Argo
4 2 (0.53%) Grafana
4 2 (0.53%) Kibana
4 2 (0.53%) logstash
5 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (3.68%) Databricks
2 4 (1.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (1.05%) Oracle
3 2 (0.53%) BT
3 2 (0.53%) Fortinet
3 2 (0.53%) Mitel
4 1 (0.26%) Google
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce