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 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 400 328
Rank change year-on-year +67 -72 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 301 301 469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.63% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.68% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 236 206 433
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,938 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.59% +3.03%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,813 £132,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £110,000 £150,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £76,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -10.59% +6.25%

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 49,796 44,069 53,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.93% 92.09% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31,642 23,032 42,681
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £40,262
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,969
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 23 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 23 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 +34 206 £85,000 - 46
Midlands +38 33 £70,000 +27.27% 17
North of England +27 31 £75,000 +11.68% 19
South East +26 22 £70,000 +12.00% 44
Yorkshire +4 22 £77,500 -6.06% 9
West Midlands +39 18 £80,000 +36.98% 9
East Midlands -5 15 £70,000 +27.27% 8
North West +17 9 £40,000 -40.44% 8
South West -3 4 £60,000 +9.09% 15
East of England +8 1 £50,000 -41.18% 13
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 301 (100.00%) Python
2 101 (33.55%) React
2 101 (33.55%) Software Engineering
3 100 (33.22%) Agile
3 100 (33.22%) AWS
4 72 (23.92%) CI/CD
5 61 (20.27%) AI
6 60 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (19.93%) TypeScript
7 57 (18.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 57 (18.94%) JavaScript
8 56 (18.60%) SQL
9 55 (18.27%) Test Automation
10 54 (17.94%) Flask
11 53 (17.61%) Serverless
12 52 (17.28%) Django
12 52 (17.28%) Docker
13 49 (16.28%) Mentoring
14 47 (15.61%) Azure
15 43 (14.29%) GitHub
16 40 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 40 (13.29%) FastAPI
16 40 (13.29%) Node.js
17 39 (12.96%) Fintech
18 37 (12.29%) OOP
18 37 (12.29%) Order Management
18 37 (12.29%) RESTful
19 35 (11.63%) Containerisation
19 35 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
20 34 (11.30%) AWS Lambda

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 20 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.99%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 100 (33.22%) AWS
2 53 (17.61%) Serverless
3 47 (15.61%) Azure
4 43 (14.29%) GitHub
5 34 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (10.30%) GCP
7 24 (7.97%) Amazon S3
8 20 (6.64%) dbt
9 17 (5.65%) SaaS
10 14 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.65%) Azure AI
11 11 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.99%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.66%) n8n
14 6 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (0.66%) Copilot Studio
15 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.66%) Power Automate
16 1 (0.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.33%) HTTP
1 1 (0.33%) Internet
1 1 (0.33%) RTP
1 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.33%) UWB
1 1 (0.33%) VoIP
1 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (6.64%) Amazon Athena
2 20 (6.64%) Apache Arrow
2 20 (6.64%) Apache Iceberg
2 20 (6.64%) Dremio
3 17 (5.65%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.32%) Big Data
5 10 (3.32%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.33%) MySQL
6 7 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.66%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.33%) Tick Data
10 2 (0.66%) 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 12 (3.99%) Git
2 3 (1.00%) 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 84 (27.91%) Finance
2 55 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 45 (14.95%) Front Office
4 26 (8.64%) Health Technology
4 26 (8.64%) Publishing
5 25 (8.31%) Tech for Good
6 14 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.32%) Banking
7 13 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 12 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.32%) Marketing
10 7 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.33%) Legal
11 6 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.99%) Retail
11 6 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.66%) Electronics
12 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.66%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (33.55%) React
2 54 (17.94%) Flask
3 52 (17.28%) Django
4 40 (13.29%) FastAPI
4 40 (13.29%) Node.js
5 37 (12.29%) RESTful
6 34 (11.30%) Vue
7 33 (10.96%) REST
8 28 (9.30%) HTML
9 27 (8.97%) AngularJS
10 25 (8.31%) NumPy
10 25 (8.31%) Pandas
11 20 (6.64%) SciPy
12 19 (6.31%) CSS
13 17 (5.65%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 15 (4.98%) Kafka
15 10 (3.32%) LangChain
15 10 (3.32%) Swagger
16 7 (2.33%) PyTorch
17 5 (1.66%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 42 (13.95%) Equities
2 35 (11.63%) Data Structures
3 25 (8.31%) Hedge funds
4 21 (6.98%) Fixed Income
4 21 (6.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 20 (6.64%) Algorithms
6 19 (6.31%) Management Information System
7 16 (5.32%) Cloud Native
8 11 (3.65%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.32%) Educational Technology
10 9 (2.99%) AI Agents
11 8 (2.66%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.66%) Grid Computing
13 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.33%) PKI
14 3 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
14 3 (1.00%) PropTech
15 1 (0.33%) Blockchain
15 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.64%) Linux
2 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (33.55%) Software Engineering
2 100 (33.22%) Agile
3 72 (23.92%) CI/CD
4 61 (20.27%) AI
5 60 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (18.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 55 (18.27%) Test Automation
8 49 (16.28%) Mentoring
9 40 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (12.96%) Fintech
11 37 (12.29%) OOP
11 37 (12.29%) Order Management
12 35 (11.63%) Containerisation
13 30 (9.97%) TDD
14 28 (9.30%) Clean Code
14 28 (9.30%) OO
14 28 (9.30%) Scrum
15 26 (8.64%) Pair Programming
16 24 (7.97%) Investment Management
16 24 (7.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 301 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (19.93%) TypeScript
3 57 (18.94%) JavaScript
4 56 (18.60%) SQL
5 31 (10.30%) C++
6 13 (4.32%) Java
7 6 (1.99%) PHP
8 5 (1.66%) C#
8 5 (1.66%) VBA
9 3 (1.00%) Bicep
10 2 (0.66%) C
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 14 (4.65%) Degree
2 7 (2.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.66%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.00%) PhD
5 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.63%) QA
2 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.66%) GDPR
3 2 (0.66%) PSD2
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (17.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 25 (8.31%) Terraform
2 22 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Argo
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.66%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.99%) iManage
4 5 (1.66%) Google
4 5 (1.66%) SAP
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle
6 2 (0.66%) Databricks
6 2 (0.66%) Solace
6 2 (0.66%) UiPath
7 1 (0.33%) BT
7 1 (0.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.33%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) Mitel
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce