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 18 August 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 408 439
Rank change year-on-year -18 +31 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 415 307 402
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.61% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.68% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 333 238 330
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £93,750 £130,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £143,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -10.71%

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 100,980 44,926 78,729
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 89.92% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69,058 26,577 52,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,950 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -31 370 £70,000 -17.65% 104
UK excluding London +62 202 £60,000 -14.29% 30
London -83 189 £90,000 -3.74% 83
Work from Home -70 106 £70,000 -33.33% 27
North of England +20 79 £70,000 - 8
East of England +5 38 £65,000 -5.45% 8
Yorkshire -5 37 £75,000 +7.14% 6
South West -43 24 £50,000 -41.18% 3
North West +11 21 £45,000 -30.77% 2
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -23 19 £65,000 -7.14% 4
South East -14 18 £60,000 +33.33% 3
Scotland +14 17 £45,000 - 1
East Midlands -13 11 £70,000 +75.00%
West Midlands -24 8 £52,500 -25.00% 4
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 18 August 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.

1 415 (100.00%) Python
2 115 (27.71%) AWS
3 108 (26.02%) AI
3 108 (26.02%) Software Engineering
4 94 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
5 71 (17.11%) CI/CD
6 60 (14.46%) SQL
7 51 (12.29%) Agile
7 51 (12.29%) JavaScript
8 48 (11.57%) Docker
8 48 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
9 47 (11.33%) Azure
9 47 (11.33%) FastAPI
10 40 (9.64%) Django
10 40 (9.64%) RESTful
10 40 (9.64%) Test Automation
11 36 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (8.67%) Flask
12 35 (8.43%) Kubernetes
13 32 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (7.71%) Infrastructure as Code
13 32 (7.71%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (7.47%) TypeScript
15 29 (6.99%) Validation
16 28 (6.75%) React
17 27 (6.51%) Machine Learning
17 27 (6.51%) NumPy
17 27 (6.51%) OOP
18 26 (6.27%) Linux
18 26 (6.27%) Microservices

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 10 (2.41%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.72%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (27.71%) AWS
2 47 (11.33%) Azure
3 24 (5.78%) SaaS
4 20 (4.82%) Serverless
5 16 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (3.61%) Amazon S3
7 12 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.89%) GCP
8 11 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (2.65%) GitHub
9 9 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.20%) Prefect
13 4 (0.96%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.96%) Kong
13 4 (0.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.61%) Broadband
2 8 (1.93%) MQTT
3 2 (0.48%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) ATM
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.58%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.89%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.17%) Big Data
4 9 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.96%) GIS
7 4 (0.96%) MySQL
7 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.96%) Power BI
8 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (6.02%) Git
2 9 (2.17%) GitLab
3 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.48%) MLflow
4 2 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) Poetry
5 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (11.81%) Finance
2 31 (7.47%) Social Skills
3 27 (6.51%) Front Office
4 16 (3.86%) Tech for Good
5 15 (3.61%) Games
6 12 (2.89%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.41%) Banking
7 10 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.96%) Publishing
11 3 (0.72%) Law
11 3 (0.72%) Legal
12 2 (0.48%) Automotive
12 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Aviation
13 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (11.33%) FastAPI
2 40 (9.64%) Django
2 40 (9.64%) RESTful
3 36 (8.67%) Flask
4 28 (6.75%) React
5 27 (6.51%) NumPy
6 26 (6.27%) Pandas
7 25 (6.02%) REST
7 25 (6.02%) Vue
8 22 (5.30%) Kafka
9 20 (4.82%) CSS
10 19 (4.58%) Node.js
11 18 (4.34%) HTML
12 15 (3.61%) Swagger
13 14 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (3.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 10 (2.41%) AngularJS
16 9 (2.17%) PyTorch
17 8 (1.93%) .NET
17 8 (1.93%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.33%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (10.36%) Cloud Native
4 24 (5.78%) Hedge funds
5 23 (5.54%) Greenfield Project
6 21 (5.06%) Cyber Threat
7 20 (4.82%) Data Structures
8 19 (4.58%) Low-Code
9 18 (4.34%) Equities
10 16 (3.86%) Fixed Income
11 15 (3.61%) Video\Live Streaming
12 13 (3.13%) Management Information System
13 11 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (1.93%) Derivative
15 7 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 5 (1.20%) Educational Technology
16 5 (1.20%) Market Risk
16 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
16 5 (1.20%) PropTech
17 4 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.27%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (26.02%) AI
1 108 (26.02%) Software Engineering
2 94 (22.65%) Full-Stack Development
3 71 (17.11%) CI/CD
4 51 (12.29%) Agile
5 40 (9.64%) Test Automation
6 36 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (7.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (7.71%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (6.99%) Validation
9 27 (6.51%) Machine Learning
9 27 (6.51%) OOP
10 26 (6.27%) Microservices
11 25 (6.02%) Containerisation
11 25 (6.02%) DevOps
11 25 (6.02%) Generative AI
11 25 (6.02%) Observability
12 23 (5.54%) Computer Vision
12 23 (5.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 415 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (14.46%) SQL
3 51 (12.29%) JavaScript
4 31 (7.47%) TypeScript
5 23 (5.54%) C++
6 15 (3.61%) Go
7 9 (2.17%) C#
8 6 (1.45%) PHP
9 5 (1.20%) Java
9 5 (1.20%) Rust
10 4 (0.96%) Bash
11 2 (0.48%) Perl
12 1 (0.24%) ABAP
12 1 (0.24%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) Haskell
12 1 (0.24%) OCaml
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (3.37%) Degree
2 13 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.93%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.37%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 48 (11.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (5.06%) Terraform
3 6 (1.45%) Grafana
4 5 (1.20%) Ansible
5 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.48%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (3.37%) Databricks
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.96%) SAP
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle
4 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.24%) Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce