Python Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 513 608
Rank change year-on-year +81 +95 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 180 32 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.10% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.11% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 157 24 121
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,725 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 65,661 28,006 72,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 88.96% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45,558 15,556 51,953
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,253 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,673 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.95% +7.95% -12.50%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
North of England +5 74 £66,250 +10.42% 8
Yorkshire +2 40 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South East +2 33 £60,000 +43.71% 6
South West -37 25 £50,000 -41.18% 2
North West +14 21 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Midlands -24 17 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Scotland +26 13 £45,000 - 3
East Midlands -15 13 £62,500 +56.25% 2
North East - 13 £70,000 - 3
East of England -11 11 £72,500 -3.33% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands -23 4 £57,500 -17.86%
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 180 (100.00%) Python
2 65 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
3 48 (26.67%) AWS
4 42 (23.33%) Software Engineering
5 30 (16.67%) AI
5 30 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 29 (16.11%) Agile
7 27 (15.00%) React
8 26 (14.44%) Flask
9 24 (13.33%) TypeScript
10 23 (12.78%) CI/CD
10 23 (12.78%) Vue
11 22 (12.22%) NumPy
12 21 (11.67%) Computer Vision
12 21 (11.67%) Docker
12 21 (11.67%) Pandas
13 19 (10.56%) Deep Learning
13 19 (10.56%) Signal Processing
14 18 (10.00%) Node.js
14 18 (10.00%) Serverless
15 17 (9.44%) HTML
16 16 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (8.89%) Containerisation
16 16 (8.89%) Kubernetes
17 15 (8.33%) Azure
17 15 (8.33%) Mentoring
17 15 (8.33%) SQL
18 14 (7.78%) CSS
18 14 (7.78%) Django
19 13 (7.22%) C++

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.67%) AWS
2 18 (10.00%) Serverless
3 16 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (8.33%) Azure
5 12 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.44%) GitHub
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.22%) Prefect
9 3 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.11%) GCP
10 2 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) Broadband
1 5 (2.78%) MQTT
2 3 (1.67%) HTTP
2 3 (1.67%) RTP
2 3 (1.67%) Unified Communications
2 3 (1.67%) VoIP
2 3 (1.67%) Wireshark
3 2 (1.11%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) ATM
4 1 (0.56%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.11%) MongoDB
1 11 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.67%) MySQL
3 3 (1.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.11%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.11%) GIS
4 2 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.56%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Git
2 7 (3.89%) GitLab
3 4 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.11%) MLflow
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.56%) Poetry
5 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (5.56%) Social Skills
2 7 (3.89%) Tech for Good
3 6 (3.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.78%) Games
5 4 (2.22%) Aviation
6 3 (1.67%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Advertising
8 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.56%) Automotive
8 1 (0.56%) Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Electronics
8 1 (0.56%) Finance
8 1 (0.56%) Law
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.00%) React
2 26 (14.44%) Flask
3 23 (12.78%) Vue
4 22 (12.22%) NumPy
5 21 (11.67%) Pandas
6 18 (10.00%) Node.js
7 17 (9.44%) HTML
8 14 (7.78%) CSS
8 14 (7.78%) Django
9 12 (6.67%) FastAPI
10 11 (6.11%) RESTful
11 7 (3.89%) REST
11 7 (3.89%) Swagger
12 6 (3.33%) Kafka
12 6 (3.33%) PyTorch
12 6 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
13 5 (2.78%) OAuth
13 5 (2.78%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.78%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 18 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.11%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.89%) Educational Technology
5 6 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.78%) Low-Code
6 5 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (2.22%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.67%) NHS
8 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.11%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.11%) IoT
9 2 (1.11%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
2 42 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 30 (16.67%) AI
4 29 (16.11%) Agile
5 23 (12.78%) CI/CD
6 21 (11.67%) Computer Vision
7 19 (10.56%) Deep Learning
7 19 (10.56%) Signal Processing
8 16 (8.89%) Containerisation
9 15 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 13 (7.22%) OOP
11 11 (6.11%) Event-Driven
11 11 (6.11%) Generative AI
11 11 (6.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (6.11%) Test Automation
11 11 (6.11%) Validation
11 11 (6.11%) Web Development
12 10 (5.56%) API Design
12 10 (5.56%) Open Source
12 10 (5.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 24 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 15 (8.33%) SQL
5 13 (7.22%) C++
6 7 (3.89%) PHP
7 5 (2.78%) Go
8 4 (2.22%) C
9 3 (1.67%) Bash
10 2 (1.11%) Perl
10 2 (1.11%) Rust
11 1 (0.56%) Bicep
11 1 (0.56%) C#
11 1 (0.56%) Haskell
11 1 (0.56%) Java
11 1 (0.56%) OCaml
11 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.89%) Degree
4 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.67%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.67%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.56%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 21 (11.67%) Docker
2 3 (1.67%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 16 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.89%) Terraform
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
3 3 (1.67%) Argo
3 3 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
4 1 (0.56%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (2.78%) Databricks
2 3 (1.67%) BT
2 3 (1.67%) Fortinet
2 3 (1.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.67%) Mitel
3 1 (0.56%) Google
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle