Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 November 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 408 318
Rank change year-on-year +28 -90 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 291 380 510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.56% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.59% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 209 269 472
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £132,500 £112,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 45,308 64,292 50,905
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 95.05% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,732 36,346 39,519
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,592
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,027 £42,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +36 287 £85,000 - 132
London +27 231 £90,000 -10.00% 81
Work from Home +24 151 £105,000 +23.53% 60
UK excluding London +12 53 £75,000 +20.00% 91
North of England +15 30 £75,000 +8.21% 22
Yorkshire +21 22 £75,000 +25.00% 12
Midlands +42 11 £77,500 +40.91% 10
West Midlands +49 9 £90,000 +75.61% 10
North West +3 8 £62,500 -21.88% 8
East of England +22 5 £62,500 +47.06% 2
South West +21 3 £60,000 +9.09% 7
East Midlands +19 2 £58,750 +6.82%
South East +11 2 £38,500 -47.80% 45
Scotland -6 2 £90,000 +29.86% 3

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

For the 6 months to 4 November 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.

1 291 (100.00%) Python
2 145 (49.83%) AWS
3 138 (47.42%) Agile
4 112 (38.49%) React
5 110 (37.80%) Software Engineering
6 90 (30.93%) CI/CD
7 85 (29.21%) PostgreSQL
8 84 (28.87%) JavaScript
9 81 (27.84%) TypeScript
10 80 (27.49%) GCP
11 74 (25.43%) Azure
12 72 (24.74%) Order Management
12 72 (24.74%) Vue
13 69 (23.71%) Docker
13 69 (23.71%) Test Automation
14 64 (21.99%) AngularJS
14 64 (21.99%) Pandas
14 64 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
15 63 (21.65%) Fintech
16 62 (21.31%) Node.js
17 61 (20.96%) NumPy
18 59 (20.27%) Containerisation
18 59 (20.27%) SQL
19 57 (19.59%) Amazon Athena
19 57 (19.59%) Apache Iceberg
19 57 (19.59%) dbt
19 57 (19.59%) Flask
19 57 (19.59%) Risk Management
20 56 (19.24%) Asset Management
21 54 (18.56%) Investment Management

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 53 (18.21%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.37%) Apache
5 3 (1.03%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 145 (49.83%) AWS
2 80 (27.49%) GCP
3 74 (25.43%) Azure
4 57 (19.59%) dbt
5 49 (16.84%) Serverless
6 32 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (11.00%) GitHub
7 13 (4.47%) Azure AI
8 11 (3.78%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.78%) SaaS
9 10 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (3.09%) Power Platform
11 8 (2.75%) n8n
12 6 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.03%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) FTP
1 3 (1.03%) Internet
2 1 (0.34%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.34%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (29.21%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (19.59%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (19.59%) Apache Iceberg
3 53 (18.21%) Apache Arrow
3 53 (18.21%) Dremio
4 31 (10.65%) NoSQL
5 26 (8.93%) DynamoDB
6 16 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.15%) Tick Data
8 12 (4.12%) Big Data
8 12 (4.12%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.12%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.78%) MySQL
9 11 (3.78%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (8.59%) Git
2 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.69%) JIRA
4 2 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.34%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.34%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (48.11%) Finance
2 82 (28.18%) Front Office
3 37 (12.71%) Social Skills
4 36 (12.37%) Marketing
5 24 (8.25%) Banking
6 22 (7.56%) Public Sector
7 21 (7.22%) Health Technology
8 20 (6.87%) Publishing
8 20 (6.87%) Tech for Good
9 19 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (4.12%) Manufacturing
12 11 (3.78%) Electronics
12 11 (3.78%) Telecoms
13 9 (3.09%) Retail
14 8 (2.75%) Investment Banking
14 8 (2.75%) Legal
15 7 (2.41%) Law
16 5 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (38.49%) React
2 72 (24.74%) Vue
3 64 (21.99%) AngularJS
3 64 (21.99%) Pandas
4 62 (21.31%) Node.js
5 61 (20.96%) NumPy
6 57 (19.59%) Flask
7 53 (18.21%) SciPy
8 43 (14.78%) Django
9 41 (14.09%) RESTful
10 39 (13.40%) FastAPI
11 34 (11.68%) REST
12 24 (8.25%) HTML
13 22 (7.56%) CSS
14 19 (6.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 16 (5.50%) Swagger
16 13 (4.47%) Kafka
17 10 (3.44%) LangChain
17 10 (3.44%) PySpark
18 7 (2.41%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 77 (26.46%) Equities
2 54 (18.56%) Fixed Income
3 53 (18.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 32 (11.00%) Data Structures
5 30 (10.31%) Management Information System
6 29 (9.97%) Hedge funds
7 23 (7.90%) Algorithms
8 15 (5.15%) Cloud Native
9 9 (3.09%) AI Agents
9 9 (3.09%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (2.75%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.72%) Grid Computing
11 5 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.37%) PKI
13 3 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (1.03%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.69%) Product Ownership
14 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (11.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.34%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.42%) Agile
2 110 (37.80%) Software Engineering
3 90 (30.93%) CI/CD
4 72 (24.74%) Order Management
5 69 (23.71%) Test Automation
6 64 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (21.65%) Fintech
8 59 (20.27%) Containerisation
9 57 (19.59%) Risk Management
10 56 (19.24%) Asset Management
11 54 (18.56%) Investment Management
12 53 (18.21%) Performance Attribution
13 48 (16.49%) Mentoring
14 47 (16.15%) AI
15 42 (14.43%) OOP
16 35 (12.03%) Clean Code
17 34 (11.68%) OO
18 33 (11.34%) Data Analysis
19 31 (10.65%) TDD
20 29 (9.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 291 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (28.87%) JavaScript
3 81 (27.84%) TypeScript
4 59 (20.27%) SQL
5 31 (10.65%) C++
6 14 (4.81%) Java
7 11 (3.78%) C#
8 6 (2.06%) Bash
9 4 (1.37%) Bicep
10 3 (1.03%) Scala
11 2 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.69%) Ruby
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) Clojure
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) R
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.22%) Degree
2 11 (3.78%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.75%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.41%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.72%) PhD
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) MCP
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.68%) QA
2 7 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.69%) PSD2
4 1 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 69 (23.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.72%) zsh
Systems Management
1 36 (12.37%) Kubernetes
1 36 (12.37%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) Ansible
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.31%) Databricks
2 16 (5.50%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.81%) Google
4 12 (4.12%) SAP
5 8 (2.75%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.06%) iManage
7 4 (1.37%) Splunk
8 3 (1.03%) Foundry
9 2 (0.69%) Solace
9 2 (0.69%) UiPath
10 1 (0.34%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle
10 1 (0.34%) Reuters
10 1 (0.34%) SimCorp