Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 416 430
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 411 287 534
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.58% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.65% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 328 215 455
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,750 £51,600
25th Percentile £56,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £105,750 £137,500 £148,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

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 92,998 44,238 95,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 89.85% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63,730 26,125 68,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.12%

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 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 16 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 13 July 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 +8 375 £70,000 -17.65% 50
London -52 212 £90,000 -5.26% 27
UK excluding London +74 181 £60,000 - 31
Work from Home -48 107 £70,000 -33.33% 23
North of England +33 75 £70,000 +16.67% 8
Yorkshire -3 39 £70,000 +12.00% 1
South East +1 29 £60,000 +43.71% 8
South West -38 25 £50,000 -41.18% 3
North West -1 20 £45,000 -25.00% 4
East of England -3 18 £72,500 +5.45% 4
North East - 16 £70,000 - 3
Midlands -23 14 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Scotland +19 13 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands -18 13 £67,500 +68.75% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 1
West Midlands -24 1 £50,000 -28.57% 2

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

For the 6 months to 13 July 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.

1 411 (100.00%) Python
2 113 (27.49%) AWS
3 106 (25.79%) Software Engineering
4 100 (24.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 96 (23.36%) AI
6 64 (15.57%) CI/CD
7 59 (14.36%) Agile
8 56 (13.63%) JavaScript
8 56 (13.63%) SQL
9 47 (11.44%) Docker
10 46 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
10 46 (11.19%) Test Automation
11 45 (10.95%) Azure
11 45 (10.95%) FastAPI
11 45 (10.95%) React
12 42 (10.22%) Flask
13 41 (9.98%) TypeScript
14 40 (9.73%) Django
15 37 (9.00%) Kubernetes
15 37 (9.00%) RESTful
16 34 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 34 (8.27%) Linux
16 34 (8.27%) OOP
17 31 (7.54%) C++
17 31 (7.54%) OO
18 30 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (7.30%) REST
19 29 (7.06%) Containerisation
19 29 (7.06%) Microservices
20 28 (6.81%) NumPy

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 13 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 113 (27.49%) AWS
2 45 (10.95%) Azure
3 27 (6.57%) SaaS
4 23 (5.60%) Serverless
5 19 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (3.89%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.65%) GitHub
8 14 (3.41%) GCP
9 11 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.22%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.22%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.22%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.22%) Prefect
14 3 (0.73%) Amazon Bedrock
14 3 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (0.73%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.65%) Broadband
2 5 (1.22%) MQTT
3 3 (0.73%) HTTP
3 3 (0.73%) RTP
3 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
3 3 (0.73%) VoIP
3 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) ATM
5 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.11%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.92%) Big Data
4 10 (2.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.70%) MySQL
6 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.73%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.49%) GIS
9 2 (0.49%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (6.08%) Git
2 9 (2.19%) GitLab
3 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) MLflow
4 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.24%) Poetry
5 1 (0.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (15.09%) Finance
2 40 (9.73%) Front Office
3 39 (9.49%) Social Skills
4 18 (4.38%) Tech for Good
5 15 (3.65%) Games
6 12 (2.92%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.68%) Banking
8 8 (1.95%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.97%) Aviation
10 4 (0.97%) Publishing
11 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Law
11 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.49%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Legal
12 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.95%) FastAPI
1 45 (10.95%) React
2 42 (10.22%) Flask
3 40 (9.73%) Django
4 37 (9.00%) RESTful
5 30 (7.30%) REST
6 28 (6.81%) NumPy
7 27 (6.57%) Pandas
8 26 (6.33%) Vue
9 25 (6.08%) Node.js
10 21 (5.11%) Kafka
11 17 (4.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 17 (4.14%) CSS
11 17 (4.14%) HTML
12 12 (2.92%) AngularJS
13 11 (2.68%) .NET
13 11 (2.68%) Swagger
14 9 (2.19%) PyTorch
14 9 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (1.95%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.65%) Algorithms
2 40 (9.73%) Cloud Native
3 37 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (6.57%) Equities
4 27 (6.57%) Hedge funds
5 26 (6.33%) Data Structures
6 23 (5.60%) Fixed Income
7 18 (4.38%) Low-Code
8 17 (4.14%) Management Information System
9 16 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (3.65%) Video\Live Streaming
11 12 (2.92%) Derivative
12 11 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (2.19%) PropTech
15 8 (1.95%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (1.70%) Educational Technology
17 6 (1.46%) Product Ownership
18 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
18 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.27%) Linux
2 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (25.79%) Software Engineering
2 100 (24.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 96 (23.36%) AI
4 64 (15.57%) CI/CD
5 59 (14.36%) Agile
6 46 (11.19%) Test Automation
7 34 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (8.27%) OOP
8 31 (7.54%) OO
9 30 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (7.06%) Containerisation
10 29 (7.06%) Microservices
11 28 (6.81%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (6.57%) Fintech
12 27 (6.57%) Machine Learning
13 25 (6.08%) Mentoring
13 25 (6.08%) Validation
14 24 (5.84%) Computer Vision
14 24 (5.84%) Generative AI
14 24 (5.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 411 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (13.63%) JavaScript
2 56 (13.63%) SQL
3 41 (9.98%) TypeScript
4 31 (7.54%) C++
5 15 (3.65%) Go
6 11 (2.68%) Java
7 10 (2.43%) C#
8 7 (1.70%) PHP
9 4 (0.97%) Bash
9 4 (0.97%) C
9 4 (0.97%) Rust
10 3 (0.73%) Perl
11 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.24%) ABAP
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) Haskell
12 1 (0.24%) OCaml
12 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (3.41%) Degree
2 12 (2.92%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.95%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.92%) QA
2 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 47 (11.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 37 (9.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.62%) Terraform
3 5 (1.22%) Ansible
3 5 (1.22%) Grafana
4 3 (0.73%) Argo
5 2 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (3.65%) Databricks
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (0.73%) BT
3 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.73%) Mitel
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle
4 2 (0.49%) SAP
5 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.24%) Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) Google
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce