Python Developer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 632 533
Rank change year-on-year +110 -99 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 35 134 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.095% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.20% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 26 112 171
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £69,375 £73,750 £73,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.46% +4.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 33,156 66,640 54,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.03% 94.78% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,505 47,222 31,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Python Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python Developer 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Midlands +85 11 £55,000 +12.82% 24
South East +87 8 £45,000 -30.77% 61
North of England +67 8 £65,000 +13.04% 35
East Midlands - 8 £55,000 - 10
North West +28 5 £60,000 +9.09% 17
Scotland +104 4 £75,000 +25.00% 9
East of England +41 4 £85,000 +41.67% 19
Yorkshire +67 3 £65,000 -10.34% 15
West Midlands +45 3 - - 13
Python Developer
UK

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 35 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) Django
3 10 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (28.57%) MySQL
4 9 (25.71%) GitHub
5 8 (22.86%) Docker
5 8 (22.86%) Logistics
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 7 (20.00%) React
6 7 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Web Development
6 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 7 (20.00%) Linux
6 7 (20.00%) C#
6 7 (20.00%) XML
6 7 (20.00%) AWS
7 6 (17.14%) Git
7 6 (17.14%) Robotics
7 6 (17.14%) Flask
7 6 (17.14%) Functional Testing
7 6 (17.14%) Ethernet
7 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
7 6 (17.14%) Agile
7 6 (17.14%) Finance
7 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
7 6 (17.14%) Code Quality
8 5 (14.29%) C++

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) nginx
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) GitHub
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Azure
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Serverless
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) SaaS
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.86%) OCI
7 1 (2.86%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Ethernet
1 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) MySQL
1 10 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Redis
4 2 (5.71%) KDB
4 2 (5.71%) Kdb+
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Power BI
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.86%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) Spinnaker
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Automotive
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) Django
2 7 (20.00%) React
2 7 (20.00%) XML
3 6 (17.14%) Flask
4 5 (14.29%) HTML
5 4 (11.43%) REST
6 3 (8.57%) CherryPy
6 3 (8.57%) JSON
6 3 (8.57%) Middleware
6 3 (8.57%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
7 2 (5.71%) Kafka
7 2 (5.71%) Laravel
7 2 (5.71%) OpenMP
7 2 (5.71%) PySpark
7 2 (5.71%) RESTful
7 2 (5.71%) Vue
8 1 (2.86%) Next.js
8 1 (2.86%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Robotics
2 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) CUDA
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) SIMD
4 1 (2.86%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.86%) EPoS
4 1 (2.86%) LIMS
4 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Full-Stack Development
1 8 (22.86%) Logistics
1 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (20.00%) Web Development
3 6 (17.14%) Agile
3 6 (17.14%) Code Quality
3 6 (17.14%) Functional Testing
4 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 4 (11.43%) Information Management
5 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
5 4 (11.43%) Microservices
6 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.57%) DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Mathematics
6 3 (8.57%) SDLC
6 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (8.57%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (20.00%) C#
3 5 (14.29%) C++
3 5 (14.29%) SQL
4 3 (8.57%) C
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
5 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.86%) R
6 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) PhD
4 1 (2.86%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) HAProxy
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Oracle
2 2 (5.71%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft