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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 434 324
Rank change year-on-year +81 -110 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 316 310 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.58% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.62% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 247 212 443
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,500
25th Percentile £64,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £76,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,125 £125,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £110,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 53,964 49,873 52,801
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 92.94% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 33,374 25,957 40,710
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.18%

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 January 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 January 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 +79 311 £76,000 - 95
London +46 218 £85,000 - 37
Work from Home +68 137 £76,000 -7.88% 66
UK excluding London +52 92 £70,000 +12.00% 69
North of England +36 36 £75,000 +11.68% 12
Midlands +40 31 £70,000 +27.27% 9
Yorkshire +7 25 £80,000 -3.03% 7
West Midlands +40 18 £80,000 +36.98% 4
South East +27 17 £70,000 +12.00% 30
East Midlands +1 13 £70,000 +27.27% 5
North West +27 11 £45,000 -32.99% 4
South West -6 4 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Scotland +3 3 £90,000 +20.00% 3
East of England +1 1 £50,000 -41.18% 6

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 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.

1 316 (100.00%) Python
2 116 (36.71%) AWS
3 115 (36.39%) Agile
4 109 (34.49%) React
5 106 (33.54%) Software Engineering
6 74 (23.42%) CI/CD
7 69 (21.84%) AI
8 67 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (20.89%) TypeScript
10 64 (20.25%) JavaScript
11 61 (19.30%) Azure
12 58 (18.35%) Docker
12 58 (18.35%) Mentoring
12 58 (18.35%) SQL
13 57 (18.04%) Test Automation
14 56 (17.72%) Serverless
15 54 (17.09%) Flask
16 53 (16.77%) Django
16 53 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
17 47 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
18 45 (14.24%) Fintech
18 45 (14.24%) RESTful
19 44 (13.92%) Node.js
19 44 (13.92%) Order Management
20 43 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
20 43 (13.61%) GCP
21 42 (13.29%) GitHub
22 41 (12.97%) FastAPI
22 41 (12.97%) Vue
23 40 (12.66%) Containerisation

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 26 (8.23%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.43%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.90%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.32%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 116 (36.71%) AWS
2 61 (19.30%) Azure
3 56 (17.72%) Serverless
4 43 (13.61%) GCP
5 42 (13.29%) GitHub
6 35 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (8.23%) dbt
8 23 (7.28%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.33%) SaaS
10 18 (5.70%) Azure AI
11 15 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.85%) Power Platform
13 8 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.53%) n8n
14 6 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (0.95%) Azure AKS
15 3 (0.95%) GitHub Copilot
16 2 (0.63%) Copilot Studio
16 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.95%) Internet
2 1 (0.32%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.32%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.23%) Amazon Athena
2 26 (8.23%) Apache Arrow
2 26 (8.23%) Apache Iceberg
2 26 (8.23%) Dremio
3 18 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.11%) Big Data
5 12 (3.80%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.48%) MySQL
7 10 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.85%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.53%) SQL Server
10 6 (1.90%) Tick Data
11 5 (1.58%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.32%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.32%) Power BI
13 1 (0.32%) Redis
13 1 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (4.43%) Git
2 3 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.63%) JIRA
3 2 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 94 (29.75%) Finance
2 53 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 50 (15.82%) Front Office
4 29 (9.18%) Health Technology
4 29 (9.18%) Publishing
5 28 (8.86%) Tech for Good
6 17 (5.38%) Marketing
7 15 (4.75%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.11%) Banking
8 13 (4.11%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.48%) Retail
11 8 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (2.22%) Legal
13 6 (1.90%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.58%) Electronics
14 5 (1.58%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.58%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.63%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (34.49%) React
2 54 (17.09%) Flask
3 53 (16.77%) Django
4 45 (14.24%) RESTful
5 44 (13.92%) Node.js
6 41 (12.97%) FastAPI
6 41 (12.97%) Vue
7 34 (10.76%) AngularJS
8 32 (10.13%) REST
9 30 (9.49%) NumPy
9 30 (9.49%) Pandas
10 28 (8.86%) HTML
11 26 (8.23%) SciPy
12 20 (6.33%) CSS
13 18 (5.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 15 (4.75%) Kafka
15 12 (3.80%) Swagger
16 10 (3.16%) LangChain
17 7 (2.22%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.58%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.82%) Equities
2 35 (11.08%) Data Structures
3 27 (8.54%) Fixed Income
3 27 (8.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 25 (7.91%) Hedge funds
5 22 (6.96%) Management Information System
6 21 (6.65%) Algorithms
7 19 (6.01%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.16%) Educational Technology
8 10 (3.16%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.85%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.53%) Low-Code
10 8 (2.53%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.58%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.27%) PKI
13 2 (0.63%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.32%) Blockchain
14 1 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (36.39%) Agile
2 106 (33.54%) Software Engineering
3 74 (23.42%) CI/CD
4 69 (21.84%) AI
5 67 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (18.35%) Mentoring
7 57 (18.04%) Test Automation
8 53 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (14.24%) Fintech
10 44 (13.92%) Order Management
11 43 (13.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (12.66%) Containerisation
13 39 (12.34%) OOP
14 37 (11.71%) Clean Code
15 32 (10.13%) Scrum
15 32 (10.13%) TDD
16 30 (9.49%) Pair Programming
17 29 (9.18%) Microservices
18 28 (8.86%) Investment Management
18 28 (8.86%) OO
Programming Languages
1 316 (100.00%) Python
2 66 (20.89%) TypeScript
3 64 (20.25%) JavaScript
4 58 (18.35%) SQL
5 30 (9.49%) C++
6 14 (4.43%) Java
7 8 (2.53%) C#
8 6 (1.90%) PHP
9 5 (1.58%) VBA
10 3 (0.95%) Bicep
11 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (5.70%) Degree
2 7 (2.22%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.90%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.58%) PhD
4 5 (1.58%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.32%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.76%) QA
2 2 (0.63%) GDPR
2 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.63%) PSD2
3 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (18.35%) Docker
2 1 (0.32%) zsh
Systems Management
1 25 (7.91%) Terraform
2 23 (7.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (6.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.53%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.90%) Google
3 6 (1.90%) iManage
3 6 (1.90%) SAP
4 5 (1.58%) Databricks
5 3 (0.95%) Foundry
5 3 (0.95%) Oracle
6 2 (0.63%) Solace
6 2 (0.63%) UiPath
7 1 (0.32%) Salesforce