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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 365 410
Rank change year-on-year -74 +45 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 361 299 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.69% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.76% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 286 227 271
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £142,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% +5.56%

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 96,260 39,089 64,754
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.05% 90.45% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,768 23,344 38,067
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -105 185 £90,000 -3.23% 150
North of England -8 68 £70,000 - 14
East of England +20 53 £71,250 +3.64% 6
Yorkshire -25 27 £100,000 +42.86% 9
Midlands -35 22 £60,000 -14.29% 10
North West -14 21 £45,000 -26.53% 5
North East - 20 £70,000 -
South West -63 16 £50,000 -16.67% 6
East Midlands -18 14 £70,000 +19.15% 6
South East -25 14 £60,000 +63.27% 15
West Midlands -36 8 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Python Developer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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.

1 361 (100.00%) Python
2 115 (31.86%) Software Engineering
3 114 (31.58%) AI
4 109 (30.19%) AWS
5 74 (20.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 64 (17.73%) CI/CD
7 59 (16.34%) SQL
8 57 (15.79%) Azure
9 48 (13.30%) Docker
9 48 (13.30%) FastAPI
10 46 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
10 46 (12.74%) RESTful
11 44 (12.19%) Agile
12 41 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
13 39 (10.80%) JavaScript
14 36 (9.97%) Kubernetes
14 36 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (9.42%) Validation
16 30 (8.31%) Flask
16 30 (8.31%) Test Automation
17 29 (8.03%) Containerisation
18 27 (7.48%) Infrastructure as Code
19 26 (7.20%) API Design
19 26 (7.20%) Git
20 25 (6.93%) DevOps
20 25 (6.93%) Observability
20 25 (6.93%) TypeScript
21 24 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
21 24 (6.65%) Django
21 24 (6.65%) Roadmaps

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 5 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (30.19%) AWS
2 57 (15.79%) Azure
3 19 (5.26%) GCP
4 18 (4.99%) SaaS
5 14 (3.88%) Serverless
6 13 (3.60%) Amazon Bedrock
6 13 (3.60%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.60%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.22%) GitHub
11 4 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.11%) Kong
11 4 (1.11%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.83%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.60%) MQTT
2 12 (3.32%) Broadband
3 3 (0.83%) 4G
3 3 (0.83%) 5G
3 3 (0.83%) DNS
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) SSH
3 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.71%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.05%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.22%) MySQL
6 7 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.11%) Big Data
8 4 (1.11%) GIS
8 4 (1.11%) Power BI
8 4 (1.11%) Redis
9 3 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.55%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.20%) Git
2 8 (2.22%) GitLab
3 4 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.83%) Selenium
5 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.28%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) Poetry
6 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (15.51%) Finance
2 32 (8.86%) Front Office
3 29 (8.03%) Social Skills
4 22 (6.09%) Banking
5 15 (4.16%) Tech for Good
6 12 (3.32%) Games
7 10 (2.77%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.77%) Marketing
8 5 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.11%) Law
9 4 (1.11%) Publishing
10 3 (0.83%) Legal
10 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.55%) Automotive
11 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.28%) Back Office
12 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.30%) FastAPI
2 46 (12.74%) RESTful
3 30 (8.31%) Flask
4 24 (6.65%) Django
5 23 (6.37%) React
6 21 (5.82%) Kafka
7 20 (5.54%) Swagger
8 19 (5.26%) REST
9 18 (4.99%) HTML
9 18 (4.99%) RabbitMQ
10 17 (4.71%) CSS
10 17 (4.71%) Pandas
10 17 (4.71%) Terraform
11 15 (4.16%) NumPy
12 13 (3.60%) OpenAPI
12 13 (3.60%) Vue
13 12 (3.32%) Node.js
14 10 (2.77%) LangChain
14 10 (2.77%) LangGraph
14 10 (2.77%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.25%) Cloud Native
3 28 (7.76%) Algorithms
4 27 (7.48%) Hedge funds
5 26 (7.20%) Cyber Threat
5 26 (7.20%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (4.43%) Low-Code
7 15 (4.16%) Equities
8 12 (3.32%) AI Agents
8 12 (3.32%) Video\Live Streaming
9 11 (3.05%) Data Structures
9 11 (3.05%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.22%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.94%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.66%) Derivative
12 6 (1.66%) Market Risk
13 4 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.83%) Legacy Code
14 3 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.54%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (31.86%) Software Engineering
2 114 (31.58%) AI
3 74 (20.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (17.73%) CI/CD
5 44 (12.19%) Agile
6 41 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (9.97%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (9.42%) Validation
9 30 (8.31%) Test Automation
10 29 (8.03%) Containerisation
11 27 (7.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (7.20%) API Design
13 25 (6.93%) DevOps
13 25 (6.93%) Observability
14 24 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 24 (6.65%) Roadmaps
15 21 (5.82%) Event-Driven
16 20 (5.54%) Clean Code
16 20 (5.54%) Machine Learning
16 20 (5.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 361 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (16.34%) SQL
3 39 (10.80%) JavaScript
4 25 (6.93%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.99%) C++
6 12 (3.32%) Go
7 11 (3.05%) R
8 9 (2.49%) C#
9 7 (1.94%) Bash
10 4 (1.11%) Java
10 4 (1.11%) Rust
10 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.83%) PHP
12 2 (0.55%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) Bicep
13 1 (0.28%) Haskell
13 1 (0.28%) OCaml
13 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (3.60%) Degree
2 12 (3.32%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.88%) QA
2 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 48 (13.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (9.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.66%) Grafana
3 4 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.83%) Ansible
4 3 (0.83%) Kibana
5 2 (0.55%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (2.77%) Databricks
1 10 (2.77%) Google
2 4 (1.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.83%) Oracle
4 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
4 2 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.28%) HubSpot