Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 400 431
Rank change year-on-year -57 +31 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 409 298 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.61% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.68% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 323 226 277
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £93,750 £137,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 108,680 43,895 71,874
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 89.63% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 74,405 25,767 42,756
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -75 360 £72,500 -14.71% 147
UK excluding London +24 200 £65,000 -7.14% 62
London -105 182 £90,000 -3.74% 113
Work from Home -98 107 £80,000 -23.81% 60
North of England -7 70 £70,000 - 10
East of England +11 53 £71,250 +3.64% 5
Yorkshire -19 29 £100,000 +42.86% 8
North West -18 21 £45,000 -26.53% 2
Midlands -44 21 £60,000 -14.29% 9
North East - 20 £70,000 -
Scotland +27 18 £45,000 - 15
South West -63 17 £50,000 -16.67% 3
South East -37 14 £60,000 +63.27% 12
East Midlands -22 13 £70,000 +19.15% 6
West Midlands -38 8 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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.

1 409 (100.00%) Python
2 118 (28.85%) Software Engineering
3 115 (28.12%) AI
4 109 (26.65%) AWS
5 79 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (16.87%) CI/CD
7 63 (15.40%) SQL
8 57 (13.94%) Azure
9 53 (12.96%) Docker
10 50 (12.22%) FastAPI
11 47 (11.49%) Agile
11 47 (11.49%) RESTful
12 46 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
13 44 (10.76%) JavaScript
14 42 (10.27%) Kubernetes
15 41 (10.02%) Cybersecurity
16 40 (9.78%) Django
17 39 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (8.56%) Validation
19 34 (8.31%) Test Automation
20 32 (7.82%) Flask
21 30 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
22 29 (7.09%) Containerisation
23 28 (6.85%) Observability
24 27 (6.60%) DevOps
25 26 (6.36%) Git
25 26 (6.36%) TypeScript
26 25 (6.11%) API Design
26 25 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
26 25 (6.11%) Roadmaps

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 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (26.65%) AWS
2 57 (13.94%) Azure
3 19 (4.65%) SaaS
4 17 (4.16%) GCP
5 15 (3.67%) Serverless
6 13 (3.18%) Amazon S3
6 13 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (2.44%) Amazon Bedrock
9 10 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.20%) GitHub
11 8 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.22%) OpenShift
12 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
13 4 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (0.98%) Kong
14 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.18%) MQTT
2 12 (2.93%) Broadband
3 3 (0.73%) 4G
3 3 (0.73%) 5G
3 3 (0.73%) DNS
3 3 (0.73%) HTTP
3 3 (0.73%) SSH
3 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) ATM
5 1 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (11.25%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.65%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.69%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.96%) MySQL
6 7 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.22%) Big Data
8 5 (1.22%) Power BI
9 4 (0.98%) GIS
9 4 (0.98%) Redis
10 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.36%) Git
2 10 (2.44%) GitLab
3 5 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) Selenium
5 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.24%) MLflow
6 1 (0.24%) Poetry
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (13.94%) Finance
2 29 (7.09%) Front Office
2 29 (7.09%) Social Skills
3 19 (4.65%) Banking
4 15 (3.67%) Tech for Good
5 12 (2.93%) Games
6 10 (2.44%) Health Technology
7 8 (1.96%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (1.71%) Marketing
9 6 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.22%) Law
10 5 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.98%) Publishing
12 3 (0.73%) Legal
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.49%) Automotive
13 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.22%) FastAPI
2 47 (11.49%) RESTful
3 40 (9.78%) Django
4 32 (7.82%) Flask
5 24 (5.87%) Kafka
6 23 (5.62%) React
7 21 (5.13%) REST
8 20 (4.89%) CSS
8 20 (4.89%) HTML
8 20 (4.89%) RabbitMQ
8 20 (4.89%) Swagger
8 20 (4.89%) Terraform
9 19 (4.65%) Pandas
10 18 (4.40%) Vue
11 17 (4.16%) NumPy
12 13 (3.18%) Node.js
12 13 (3.18%) OpenAPI
13 11 (2.69%) .NET
14 8 (1.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 8 (1.96%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (9.54%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.09%) Algorithms
4 27 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (6.36%) Cyber Threat
6 25 (6.11%) Hedge funds
7 16 (3.91%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.67%) Equities
9 14 (3.42%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.93%) Video\Live Streaming
11 11 (2.69%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (2.20%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.96%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.96%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.47%) Derivative
14 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.47%) Market Risk
15 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
15 4 (0.98%) Robotics
16 3 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (28.85%) Software Engineering
2 115 (28.12%) AI
3 79 (19.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (16.87%) CI/CD
5 47 (11.49%) Agile
6 41 (10.02%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (8.56%) Validation
9 34 (8.31%) Test Automation
10 30 (7.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (7.09%) Containerisation
12 28 (6.85%) Observability
13 27 (6.60%) DevOps
14 25 (6.11%) API Design
14 25 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (6.11%) Roadmaps
15 22 (5.38%) Analytics
15 22 (5.38%) Event-Driven
15 22 (5.38%) Generative AI
15 22 (5.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 409 (100.00%) Python
2 63 (15.40%) SQL
3 44 (10.76%) JavaScript
4 26 (6.36%) TypeScript
5 18 (4.40%) C++
6 12 (2.93%) Go
7 11 (2.69%) C#
8 8 (1.96%) R
9 7 (1.71%) Bash
10 5 (1.22%) Java
11 4 (0.98%) PHP
11 4 (0.98%) Rust
11 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.73%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) ABAP
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Haskell
13 1 (0.24%) OCaml
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (3.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (3.18%) Degree
3 8 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.22%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.67%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 53 (12.96%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) GPFS
2 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 42 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.96%) Grafana
3 6 (1.47%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 3 (0.73%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (2.44%) Databricks
2 7 (1.71%) Google
3 4 (0.98%) Microsoft
3 4 (0.98%) SAP
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle
5 2 (0.49%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.24%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.24%) Brocade
6 1 (0.24%) EMC
6 1 (0.24%) Foundry
6 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.24%) IBM
6 1 (0.24%) NetApp
6 1 (0.24%) Veritas