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 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 402 397
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 323 287 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.63% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.69% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 257 209 464
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -4.00%

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 66,132 41,732 74,862
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 91.05% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,854 22,904 57,825
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,472 £45,000 £39,000
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 £72,557
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.36%

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 6 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 6 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 +8 315 £76,000 -7.88% 113
London +16 205 £90,000 +5.88% 62
Work from Home +21 122 £76,000 -7.88% 59
UK excluding London +12 109 £70,000 +9.38% 68
North of England -5 35 £70,000 +1.00% 15
Midlands +3 31 £65,000 +18.18% 3
South East -5 30 £70,000 +11.11% 22
Yorkshire -13 27 £75,000 -9.09% 12
East Midlands -28 17 £65,000 +18.18% 1
West Midlands +14 14 £75,000 +28.42% 2
North West -5 8 £40,000 -40.44% 3
South West -15 8 £55,000 - 13
Scotland -10 3 £90,000 +20.00% 6
East of England -8 2 £50,000 -41.18% 9

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 323 (100.00%) Python
2 108 (33.44%) Software Engineering
3 95 (29.41%) React
4 87 (26.93%) AWS
5 78 (24.15%) Agile
6 72 (22.29%) AI
7 71 (21.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 64 (19.81%) CI/CD
9 62 (19.20%) Django
10 60 (18.58%) JavaScript
11 56 (17.34%) Flask
12 55 (17.03%) SQL
13 51 (15.79%) Mentoring
14 50 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
15 48 (14.86%) Test Automation
16 47 (14.55%) Serverless
17 45 (13.93%) Docker
17 45 (13.93%) GitHub
18 43 (13.31%) Azure
18 43 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (13.31%) TypeScript
19 42 (13.00%) OOP
20 40 (12.38%) FastAPI
21 39 (12.07%) Fintech
22 34 (10.53%) OO
23 31 (9.60%) Containerisation
24 30 (9.29%) REST
25 29 (8.98%) Node.js
25 29 (8.98%) SDLC
26 28 (8.67%) AWS Lambda

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 18 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 87 (26.93%) AWS
2 47 (14.55%) Serverless
3 45 (13.93%) GitHub
4 43 (13.31%) Azure
5 28 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 24 (7.43%) SaaS
8 18 (5.57%) GCP
9 15 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.79%) Azure AI
13 6 (1.86%) dbt
14 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.62%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.62%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.31%) n8n
15 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) HTTP
1 3 (0.93%) RTP
1 3 (0.93%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.93%) VoIP
1 3 (0.93%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.26%) Big Data
3 9 (2.79%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.48%) MySQL
5 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.55%) Apache Arrow
6 5 (1.55%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (1.55%) Dremio
6 5 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.62%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.64%) Git
2 4 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.93%) GitLab
4 2 (0.62%) JIRA
4 2 (0.62%) Maven
4 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 75 (23.22%) Finance
2 66 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 41 (12.69%) Front Office
4 19 (5.88%) Tech for Good
5 18 (5.57%) Health Technology
6 16 (4.95%) Publishing
7 14 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.41%) Banking
9 10 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.79%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.24%) Aviation
13 3 (0.93%) Games
13 3 (0.93%) Retail
14 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.31%) Legal
15 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (29.41%) React
2 62 (19.20%) Django
3 56 (17.34%) Flask
4 40 (12.38%) FastAPI
5 30 (9.29%) REST
6 29 (8.98%) Node.js
7 28 (8.67%) HTML
8 27 (8.36%) RESTful
9 23 (7.12%) Vue
10 20 (6.19%) Kafka
11 19 (5.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 19 (5.88%) CSS
12 15 (4.64%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.48%) Redux
14 7 (2.17%) NumPy
14 7 (2.17%) OAuth
14 7 (2.17%) OAuth2
14 7 (2.17%) Pandas
15 5 (1.55%) .NET
15 5 (1.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 36 (11.15%) Equities
3 29 (8.98%) Hedge funds
4 23 (7.12%) Algorithms
5 19 (5.88%) Fixed Income
5 19 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 18 (5.57%) Cloud Native
7 13 (4.02%) Educational Technology
8 12 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (3.41%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.48%) Derivative
10 8 (2.48%) PropTech
11 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.24%) PKI
12 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.62%) Grid Computing
13 2 (0.62%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.62%) NHS
13 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.05%) Linux
2 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.44%) Software Engineering
2 78 (24.15%) Agile
3 72 (22.29%) AI
4 71 (21.98%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (19.81%) CI/CD
6 51 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 50 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.86%) Test Automation
9 43 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (13.00%) OOP
11 39 (12.07%) Fintech
12 34 (10.53%) OO
13 31 (9.60%) Containerisation
14 29 (8.98%) SDLC
15 27 (8.36%) Clean Code
16 26 (8.05%) Code Quality
16 26 (8.05%) Microservices
17 24 (7.43%) Computer Science
17 24 (7.43%) Order Management
18 21 (6.50%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 323 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (18.58%) JavaScript
3 55 (17.03%) SQL
4 43 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 26 (8.05%) C++
6 12 (3.72%) Java
7 8 (2.48%) PHP
8 5 (1.55%) VBA
9 4 (1.24%) C
9 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.62%) C#
10 2 (0.62%) 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 13 (4.02%) Degree
2 3 (0.93%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.62%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.26%) QA
2 5 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (13.93%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (6.81%) Terraform
2 21 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (4.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.93%) BT
2 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.93%) Mitel
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle
3 2 (0.62%) Foundry
3 2 (0.62%) Google
3 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.62%) Solace
4 1 (0.31%) Databricks
4 1 (0.31%) iManage
4 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.31%) SAP
4 1 (0.31%) UiPath