Python Developer Job Trends in England

Python Developer
UK > England

The median Python Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 404 301
Rank change year-on-year +55 -103 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 286 319 431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.61% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.65% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 218 225 397
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £56,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +18.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £128,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -20.00% +22.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 45,987 49,051 41,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 93.74% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 28,714 26,856 32,612
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £31,872
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £43,226
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% -0.95% -

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +60 213 £90,000 +5.88% 55
North of England +38 31 £75,000 +20.00% 13
Yorkshire +18 24 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Midlands +31 21 £70,000 +27.27% 1
West Midlands +41 14 £90,000 +54.10% 1
South East +30 11 £70,000 +12.00% 16
North West +31 7 £66,250 -1.35% 7
East Midlands -9 7 £70,000 +27.27%
South West -1 4 £60,000 +9.09%
East of England +13 2 £52,500 -38.24%
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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.

1 286 (100.00%) Python
2 117 (40.91%) AWS
3 116 (40.56%) Agile
4 103 (36.01%) React
5 97 (33.92%) Software Engineering
6 74 (25.87%) CI/CD
7 69 (24.13%) TypeScript
8 67 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
9 65 (22.73%) JavaScript
10 59 (20.63%) Azure
11 58 (20.28%) PostgreSQL
12 57 (19.93%) AI
13 56 (19.58%) Docker
14 55 (19.23%) GCP
14 55 (19.23%) Test Automation
15 54 (18.88%) Mentoring
16 53 (18.53%) Order Management
17 52 (18.18%) Fintech
18 50 (17.48%) Django
18 50 (17.48%) Serverless
18 50 (17.48%) SQL
18 50 (17.48%) Vue
19 48 (16.78%) Flask
20 47 (16.43%) RESTful
21 46 (16.08%) Node.js
22 44 (15.38%) AngularJS
22 44 (15.38%) Containerisation
23 40 (13.99%) FastAPI
24 39 (13.64%) NumPy
24 39 (13.64%) Pandas

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 35 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.35%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 117 (40.91%) AWS
2 59 (20.63%) Azure
3 55 (19.23%) GCP
4 50 (17.48%) Serverless
5 35 (12.24%) dbt
6 34 (11.89%) GitHub
7 30 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (6.29%) SaaS
9 17 (5.94%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.24%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (5.24%) Azure AI
11 9 (3.15%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.80%) n8n
13 6 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
15 2 (0.70%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.35%) FTP
2 1 (0.35%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (20.28%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (12.24%) Amazon Athena
2 35 (12.24%) Apache Arrow
2 35 (12.24%) Apache Iceberg
2 35 (12.24%) Dremio
3 21 (7.34%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.20%) Big Data
5 12 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.20%) MySQL
5 12 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.50%) Tick Data
7 7 (2.45%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.45%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.35%) Power BI
9 1 (0.35%) Redis
9 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (4.55%) Git
2 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) JIRA
3 2 (0.70%) Maven
3 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 108 (37.76%) Finance
2 59 (20.63%) Front Office
3 48 (16.78%) Social Skills
4 29 (10.14%) Health Technology
4 29 (10.14%) Publishing
5 28 (9.79%) Tech for Good
6 22 (7.69%) Marketing
7 15 (5.24%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (5.24%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.55%) Banking
10 12 (4.20%) Retail
11 8 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (2.45%) Electronics
12 7 (2.45%) Legal
12 7 (2.45%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.45%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.10%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.40%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (36.01%) React
2 50 (17.48%) Django
2 50 (17.48%) Vue
3 48 (16.78%) Flask
4 47 (16.43%) RESTful
5 46 (16.08%) Node.js
6 44 (15.38%) AngularJS
7 40 (13.99%) FastAPI
8 39 (13.64%) NumPy
8 39 (13.64%) Pandas
9 35 (12.24%) SciPy
10 33 (11.54%) REST
11 21 (7.34%) HTML
12 19 (6.64%) CSS
13 18 (6.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 14 (4.90%) Kafka
15 12 (4.20%) Swagger
16 10 (3.50%) LangChain
17 7 (2.45%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.75%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 58 (20.28%) Equities
2 36 (12.59%) Fixed Income
3 35 (12.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (11.89%) Data Structures
5 26 (9.09%) Hedge funds
6 24 (8.39%) Management Information System
7 22 (7.69%) Algorithms
8 13 (4.55%) Cloud Native
9 9 (3.15%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.15%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.80%) Low-Code
11 6 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.75%) Grid Computing
13 4 (1.40%) PKI
14 3 (1.05%) Educational Technology
15 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
15 1 (0.35%) Renewable Energy
15 1 (0.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (40.56%) Agile
2 97 (33.92%) Software Engineering
3 74 (25.87%) CI/CD
4 67 (23.43%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (19.93%) AI
6 55 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 54 (18.88%) Mentoring
8 53 (18.53%) Order Management
9 52 (18.18%) Fintech
10 44 (15.38%) Containerisation
11 38 (13.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
12 37 (12.94%) Asset Management
12 37 (12.94%) OOP
13 36 (12.59%) Risk Management
14 35 (12.24%) Investment Management
14 35 (12.24%) Performance Attribution
15 32 (11.19%) Clean Code
15 32 (11.19%) Scrum
16 31 (10.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 286 (100.00%) Python
2 69 (24.13%) TypeScript
3 65 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.48%) SQL
5 30 (10.49%) C++
6 13 (4.55%) Java
7 9 (3.15%) C#
8 3 (1.05%) Bicep
8 3 (1.05%) PHP
8 3 (1.05%) VBA
9 2 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.70%) Scala
10 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.35%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) R
10 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (5.94%) Degree
2 8 (2.80%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.10%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.10%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.75%) PhD
5 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.59%) QA
2 2 (0.70%) GDPR
2 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.70%) PSD2
3 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 56 (19.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (9.44%) Terraform
2 26 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (5.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.50%) Databricks
3 8 (2.80%) Google
3 8 (2.80%) OpenAI
3 8 (2.80%) SAP
4 6 (2.10%) iManage
5 3 (1.05%) Oracle
6 2 (0.70%) Foundry
6 2 (0.70%) Solace
6 2 (0.70%) UiPath