Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 415 315
Rank change year-on-year +42 -100 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 303 314 470
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.56% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.60% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 231 216 433
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,438 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -20.53% +22.58%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,625 £130,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £113,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 54,223 52,219 48,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.42% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,503 27,758 37,761
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,174 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £78,656
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,918
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.11% -3.01%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Python Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Developer over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 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
England +64 298 £80,000 +5.26% 96
London +46 217 £90,000 +5.88% 65
Work from Home +53 134 £78,000 -5.45% 47
UK excluding London +45 80 £72,500 +16.00% 46
North of England +47 34 £75,000 +11.68% 11
Yorkshire +9 25 £80,000 -3.03% 7
Midlands +30 24 £70,000 +27.27% 6
West Midlands +46 15 £90,000 +54.10% 2
South East +21 13 £70,000 +12.00% 28
North West +32 9 £56,250 -16.24% 4
East Midlands -14 9 £70,000 +27.27% 4
South West 0 4 £60,000 +9.09%
Scotland +3 3 £90,000 +20.00% 1
East of England +11 2 £52,500 -38.24%

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 303 (100.00%) Python
2 117 (38.61%) AWS
3 115 (37.95%) Agile
4 106 (34.98%) React
5 101 (33.33%) Software Engineering
6 78 (25.74%) CI/CD
7 70 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (22.44%) TypeScript
9 65 (21.45%) JavaScript
10 64 (21.12%) AI
10 64 (21.12%) Azure
11 60 (19.80%) Docker
12 59 (19.47%) Test Automation
13 57 (18.81%) Mentoring
14 56 (18.48%) SQL
15 55 (18.15%) PostgreSQL
16 52 (17.16%) Django
16 52 (17.16%) GCP
16 52 (17.16%) Serverless
17 51 (16.83%) Fintech
17 51 (16.83%) Flask
18 50 (16.50%) Order Management
19 48 (15.84%) Vue
20 47 (15.51%) RESTful
21 45 (14.85%) Containerisation
21 45 (14.85%) Node.js
22 43 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
23 42 (13.86%) FastAPI
24 41 (13.53%) AngularJS
24 41 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 32 (10.56%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.98%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.32%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 117 (38.61%) AWS
2 64 (21.12%) Azure
3 52 (17.16%) GCP
3 52 (17.16%) Serverless
4 39 (12.87%) GitHub
5 32 (10.56%) dbt
6 31 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (6.27%) Amazon S3
8 18 (5.94%) Azure AI
8 18 (5.94%) SaaS
9 15 (4.95%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.97%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.64%) n8n
12 7 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (0.99%) Azure AKS
14 3 (0.99%) GitHub Copilot
15 2 (0.66%) Azure Cognitive Search
15 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.33%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.15%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (10.56%) Amazon Athena
2 32 (10.56%) Apache Arrow
2 32 (10.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 32 (10.56%) Dremio
3 21 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.29%) Big Data
5 12 (3.96%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (3.96%) MySQL
5 12 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 9 (2.97%) Tick Data
8 8 (2.64%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.31%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.65%) 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 15 (4.95%) Git
2 3 (0.99%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.66%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 106 (34.98%) Finance
2 57 (18.81%) Front Office
3 51 (16.83%) Social Skills
4 29 (9.57%) Health Technology
4 29 (9.57%) Publishing
5 28 (9.24%) Tech for Good
6 21 (6.93%) Marketing
7 15 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.95%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (4.29%) Banking
10 12 (3.96%) Retail
11 8 (2.64%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (2.31%) Electronics
12 7 (2.31%) Legal
12 7 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.98%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.32%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (34.98%) React
2 52 (17.16%) Django
3 51 (16.83%) Flask
4 48 (15.84%) Vue
5 47 (15.51%) RESTful
6 45 (14.85%) Node.js
7 42 (13.86%) FastAPI
8 41 (13.53%) AngularJS
9 36 (11.88%) NumPy
9 36 (11.88%) Pandas
10 35 (11.55%) REST
11 32 (10.56%) SciPy
12 24 (7.92%) HTML
13 20 (6.60%) CSS
14 18 (5.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 16 (5.28%) Kafka
16 12 (3.96%) Swagger
17 10 (3.30%) LangChain
18 7 (2.31%) PyTorch
19 5 (1.65%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.48%) Equities
2 35 (11.55%) Data Structures
3 33 (10.89%) Fixed Income
3 33 (10.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (8.91%) Hedge funds
5 23 (7.59%) Management Information System
6 21 (6.93%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.62%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.97%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.97%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.64%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.65%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.65%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.32%) PKI
13 2 (0.66%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.33%) Blockchain
14 1 (0.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (37.95%) Agile
2 101 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 78 (25.74%) CI/CD
4 70 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (21.12%) AI
6 59 (19.47%) Test Automation
7 57 (18.81%) Mentoring
8 51 (16.83%) Fintech
9 50 (16.50%) Order Management
10 45 (14.85%) Containerisation
11 43 (14.19%) Full-Stack Development
12 41 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (12.87%) OOP
14 36 (11.88%) Clean Code
15 34 (11.22%) Asset Management
16 33 (10.89%) Risk Management
17 32 (10.56%) Investment Management
17 32 (10.56%) Performance Attribution
17 32 (10.56%) Scrum
18 31 (10.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 303 (100.00%) Python
2 68 (22.44%) TypeScript
3 65 (21.45%) JavaScript
4 56 (18.48%) SQL
5 30 (9.90%) C++
6 14 (4.62%) Java
7 10 (3.30%) C#
8 4 (1.32%) PHP
8 4 (1.32%) VBA
9 3 (0.99%) Bicep
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%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (5.61%) Degree
2 8 (2.64%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.98%) Master's Degree
3 6 (1.98%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.65%) PhD
5 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (11.88%) QA
2 2 (0.66%) GDPR
2 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.66%) PSD2
3 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (19.80%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (8.91%) Terraform
2 26 (8.58%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (6.60%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.64%) Databricks
2 8 (2.64%) Google
2 8 (2.64%) OpenAI
2 8 (2.64%) SAP
3 6 (1.98%) iManage
4 3 (0.99%) Foundry
4 3 (0.99%) Oracle
5 2 (0.66%) Solace
5 2 (0.66%) UiPath
6 1 (0.33%) Salesforce