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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 425 431
Rank change year-on-year +44 +6 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 401 241 535
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.55% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.62% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 335 190 478
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,700
25th Percentile £60,000 £64,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £132,000 £137,500 £146,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 84,854 38,887 90,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 89.46% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 54,818 23,400 66,698
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £52,777
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +11.79% -12.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 May 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 6 May 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 +71 389 £70,000 -17.65% 79
London +2 231 £90,000 +5.88% 50
UK excluding London +63 162 £60,000 -4.00% 45
Work from Home +24 125 £70,000 -30.00% 37
North of England 0 58 £70,000 +7.69% 21
South East +11 44 £70,000 +55.56% 14
Yorkshire -10 43 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Midlands -18 27 £60,000 +9.09% 2
South West - 25 £50,000 - 1
East Midlands -31 17 £65,000 +18.18% 1
West Midlands -14 10 £57,500 - 1
North West -18 10 £40,000 -33.33% 10
North East - 5 £61,000 - 7
East of England -13 3 £62,500 -26.47%
Scotland -16 3 £90,000 +20.00% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £73,750 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 401 (100.00%) Python
2 121 (30.17%) Software Engineering
3 108 (26.93%) Full-Stack Development
4 94 (23.44%) AI
5 86 (21.45%) AWS
6 76 (18.95%) React
7 75 (18.70%) Agile
8 58 (14.46%) CI/CD
9 57 (14.21%) JavaScript
10 52 (12.97%) Django
11 51 (12.72%) Flask
12 50 (12.47%) SQL
13 43 (10.72%) Test Automation
14 42 (10.47%) TypeScript
15 39 (9.73%) Azure
15 39 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 37 (9.23%) Docker
16 37 (9.23%) OO
16 37 (9.23%) OOP
17 36 (8.98%) Fintech
17 36 (8.98%) Mentoring
18 35 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
18 35 (8.73%) REST
18 35 (8.73%) Serverless
19 33 (8.23%) Linux
20 32 (7.98%) SDLC
21 31 (7.73%) FastAPI
21 31 (7.73%) GitHub
21 31 (7.73%) SaaS
22 28 (6.98%) 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 17 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 86 (21.45%) AWS
2 39 (9.73%) Azure
3 35 (8.73%) Serverless
4 31 (7.73%) GitHub
4 31 (7.73%) SaaS
5 28 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (2.24%) GCP
11 6 (1.50%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.25%) Prefect
13 4 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
15 2 (0.50%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (0.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 1 (0.25%) Cloud Computing
16 1 (0.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.25%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) HTTP
2 3 (0.75%) RTP
2 3 (0.75%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.75%) VoIP
2 3 (0.75%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.24%) Big Data
3 10 (2.49%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.75%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.50%) MySQL
5 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.00%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.25%) GIS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.25%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.25%) Power BI
8 1 (0.25%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.25%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (5.74%) Git
2 5 (1.25%) GitLab
3 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.25%) MLflow
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.25%) Poetry
4 1 (0.25%) Selenium
4 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (15.71%) Finance
2 57 (14.21%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.22%) Front Office
4 20 (4.99%) Tech for Good
5 16 (3.99%) Health Technology
6 14 (3.49%) Publishing
7 11 (2.74%) Banking
8 10 (2.49%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.50%) Games
12 4 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Aviation
13 3 (0.75%) Retail
14 1 (0.25%) Advertising
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (18.95%) React
2 52 (12.97%) Django
3 51 (12.72%) Flask
4 35 (8.73%) REST
5 31 (7.73%) FastAPI
6 28 (6.98%) RESTful
7 27 (6.73%) Node.js
8 26 (6.48%) NumPy
9 25 (6.23%) Pandas
10 22 (5.49%) HTML
11 20 (4.99%) Kafka
11 20 (4.99%) Vue
12 19 (4.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 16 (3.99%) CSS
14 14 (3.49%) AngularJS
15 8 (2.00%) .NET
15 8 (2.00%) PyTorch
15 8 (2.00%) Redux
16 6 (1.50%) Google JAX
16 6 (1.50%) JAX
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.72%) Algorithms
2 34 (8.48%) Hedge funds
3 29 (7.23%) Data Structures
3 29 (7.23%) Equities
4 26 (6.48%) Cloud Native
5 22 (5.49%) Fixed Income
6 19 (4.74%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.24%) Educational Technology
8 16 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.49%) Product Ownership
10 11 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.49%) PropTech
12 8 (2.00%) Derivative
13 5 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
14 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.23%) Linux
2 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (30.17%) Software Engineering
2 108 (26.93%) Full-Stack Development
3 94 (23.44%) AI
4 75 (18.70%) Agile
5 58 (14.46%) CI/CD
6 43 (10.72%) Test Automation
7 39 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (9.23%) OO
8 37 (9.23%) OOP
9 36 (8.98%) Fintech
9 36 (8.98%) Mentoring
10 35 (8.73%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (7.98%) SDLC
12 26 (6.48%) Microservices
13 25 (6.23%) Clean Code
13 25 (6.23%) Computer Science
14 24 (5.99%) Containerisation
15 23 (5.74%) Computer Vision
16 22 (5.49%) Deep Learning
16 22 (5.49%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 401 (100.00%) Python
2 57 (14.21%) JavaScript
3 50 (12.47%) SQL
4 42 (10.47%) TypeScript
5 25 (6.23%) C++
6 11 (2.74%) PHP
7 9 (2.24%) Java
8 5 (1.25%) C#
8 5 (1.25%) Go
9 4 (1.00%) C
9 4 (1.00%) VBA
10 2 (0.50%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.50%) Perl
10 2 (0.50%) Rust
11 1 (0.25%) Bash
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.25%) Ruby
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (4.49%) Degree
2 8 (2.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (2.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.99%) QA
2 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (9.23%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (3.24%) Terraform
3 3 (0.75%) Argo
4 1 (0.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (2.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.50%) Databricks
3 4 (1.00%) Oracle
4 3 (0.75%) BT
4 3 (0.75%) Fortinet
4 3 (0.75%) Mitel
5 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.25%) Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) Google
6 1 (0.25%) SAP