Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 March 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 384 412
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 319 293 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.73% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 253 221 470
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 66,799 39,870 79,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 90.79% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 42,341 23,010 60,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,984 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -4.81%

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 10 March 2026.

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 10 March 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
England +23 310 £76,000 -7.88% 120
London +4 201 £90,000 +5.88% 46
Work from Home +32 118 £76,000 -10.59% 68
UK excluding London +9 108 £70,000 +9.38% 70
North of England -8 35 £70,000 +1.00% 15
South East -4 31 £70,000 +12.00% 22
Midlands -4 30 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire -23 27 £75,000 +15.38% 11
East Midlands -27 16 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +12 14 £75,000 +28.42% 1
North West -7 8 £40,000 -42.29% 4
South West -27 7 £55,000 - 12
Scotland -18 3 £90,000 +20.00% 4
East of England -6 2 £50,000 -41.18% 13

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

For the 6 months to 10 March 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 featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 319 (100.00%) Python
2 106 (33.23%) Software Engineering
3 90 (28.21%) React
4 82 (25.71%) AWS
5 73 (22.88%) Agile
6 70 (21.94%) AI
7 69 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 63 (19.75%) CI/CD
9 60 (18.81%) Django
10 57 (17.87%) JavaScript
11 55 (17.24%) Flask
11 55 (17.24%) SQL
12 51 (15.99%) Mentoring
13 48 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
13 48 (15.05%) Test Automation
14 47 (14.73%) Serverless
15 44 (13.79%) Docker
15 44 (13.79%) GitHub
16 43 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
17 42 (13.17%) Azure
17 42 (13.17%) OOP
18 39 (12.23%) FastAPI
19 38 (11.91%) TypeScript
20 37 (11.60%) Fintech
21 34 (10.66%) OO
22 31 (9.72%) Containerisation
22 31 (9.72%) REST
22 31 (9.72%) SDLC
23 28 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
23 28 (8.78%) HTML

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 19 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.63%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 82 (25.71%) AWS
2 47 (14.73%) Serverless
3 44 (13.79%) GitHub
4 42 (13.17%) Azure
5 28 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.15%) Amazon S3
7 25 (7.84%) SaaS
8 15 (4.70%) GCP
8 15 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.51%) Azure AI
12 3 (0.94%) dbt
13 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (0.63%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
14 1 (0.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 1 (0.31%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) HTTP
1 3 (0.94%) RTP
1 3 (0.94%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.94%) VoIP
1 3 (0.94%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.63%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.64%) Big Data
3 9 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.51%) MySQL
5 7 (2.19%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.63%) Dremio
7 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.63%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.70%) Git
2 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.94%) GitLab
4 2 (0.63%) JIRA
4 2 (0.63%) Maven
4 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 72 (22.57%) Finance
2 66 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 38 (11.91%) Front Office
4 19 (5.96%) Tech for Good
5 18 (5.64%) Health Technology
6 16 (5.02%) Publishing
7 14 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.45%) Banking
9 9 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.82%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.25%) Aviation
12 3 (0.94%) Retail
13 2 (0.63%) Games
13 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
14 1 (0.31%) Electronics
14 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (28.21%) React
2 60 (18.81%) Django
3 55 (17.24%) Flask
4 39 (12.23%) FastAPI
5 31 (9.72%) REST
6 28 (8.78%) HTML
7 27 (8.46%) RESTful
8 25 (7.84%) Node.js
9 21 (6.58%) Kafka
10 20 (6.27%) Vue
11 19 (5.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 19 (5.96%) CSS
12 12 (3.76%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.51%) Redux
14 7 (2.19%) OAuth
14 7 (2.19%) OAuth2
15 5 (1.57%) .NET
15 5 (1.57%) NumPy
15 5 (1.57%) Pandas
15 5 (1.57%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.91%) Data Structures
2 33 (10.34%) Equities
3 29 (9.09%) Hedge funds
4 24 (7.52%) Algorithms
5 19 (5.96%) Management Information System
6 16 (5.02%) Cloud Native
6 16 (5.02%) Fixed Income
7 13 (4.08%) Educational Technology
8 11 (3.45%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (2.82%) PropTech
10 8 (2.51%) Derivative
11 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.25%) PKI
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.63%) Grid Computing
13 2 (0.63%) NHS
13 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.15%) Linux
2 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (33.23%) Software Engineering
2 73 (22.88%) Agile
3 70 (21.94%) AI
4 69 (21.63%) Full-Stack Development
5 63 (19.75%) CI/CD
6 51 (15.99%) Mentoring
7 48 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.05%) Test Automation
8 43 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (13.17%) OOP
10 37 (11.60%) Fintech
11 34 (10.66%) OO
12 31 (9.72%) Containerisation
12 31 (9.72%) SDLC
13 26 (8.15%) Microservices
14 25 (7.84%) Clean Code
14 25 (7.84%) Code Quality
14 25 (7.84%) Computer Science
15 21 (6.58%) Order Management
16 20 (6.27%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 319 (100.00%) Python
2 57 (17.87%) JavaScript
3 55 (17.24%) SQL
4 38 (11.91%) TypeScript
5 26 (8.15%) C++
6 11 (3.45%) Java
7 8 (2.51%) PHP
8 5 (1.57%) VBA
9 4 (1.25%) C
9 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.63%) C#
10 2 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) Go
11 1 (0.31%) Perl
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (3.76%) Degree
2 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
2 2 (0.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.33%) QA
2 5 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 2 (0.63%) PSD2
System Software
1 44 (13.79%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (6.90%) Terraform
2 20 (6.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (4.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.94%) BT
2 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.94%) Mitel
2 3 (0.94%) Oracle
3 2 (0.63%) Foundry
3 2 (0.63%) Google
3 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.63%) Solace
4 1 (0.31%) Databricks
4 1 (0.31%) SAP
4 1 (0.31%) UiPath