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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 389 448
Rank change year-on-year -50 +59 -129
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 408 315 410
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.63% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.70% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 325 240 314
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £53,555 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £132,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £157,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -3.85%

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 103,099 44,902 77,500
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.81% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70,871 26,693 49,456
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,250
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 1 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 1 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 -72 361 £70,000 -17.65% 143
UK excluding London +55 205 £60,000 -11.11% 43
London -104 177 £87,500 -2.78% 118
Work from Home -84 102 £70,000 -33.33% 47
North of England +10 77 £70,000 - 11
East of England +21 45 £67,500 -1.82% 6
Yorkshire -15 35 £80,000 +14.29% 5
South West -54 22 £50,000 -31.03% 5
North West -6 21 £45,000 -28.00% 6
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -32 20 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Scotland +13 17 £45,000 - 6
South East -29 17 £60,000 +33.33% 7
East Midlands -9 12 £70,000 +75.00% 1
West Midlands -23 8 £52,500 -25.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 408 (100.00%) Python
2 110 (26.96%) AWS
3 106 (25.98%) AI
4 105 (25.74%) Software Engineering
5 91 (22.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 69 (16.91%) CI/CD
7 60 (14.71%) SQL
8 50 (12.25%) Docker
9 46 (11.27%) Agile
9 46 (11.27%) FastAPI
10 45 (11.03%) Azure
10 45 (11.03%) JavaScript
10 45 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
11 43 (10.54%) RESTful
12 39 (9.56%) Django
13 38 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (9.31%) Test Automation
14 37 (9.07%) Kubernetes
15 36 (8.82%) Flask
16 34 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 32 (7.84%) Validation
18 30 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
19 27 (6.62%) Git
19 27 (6.62%) NumPy
19 27 (6.62%) Pandas
20 26 (6.37%) Machine Learning
20 26 (6.37%) Microservices
20 26 (6.37%) OOP
20 26 (6.37%) TypeScript

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 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (26.96%) AWS
2 45 (11.03%) Azure
3 20 (4.90%) SaaS
4 18 (4.41%) Serverless
5 15 (3.68%) Amazon S3
6 14 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (2.21%) GitHub
10 8 (1.96%) GCP
11 6 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.23%) Prefect
13 4 (0.98%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.98%) Kong
13 4 (0.98%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.74%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.68%) Broadband
2 10 (2.45%) MQTT
3 2 (0.49%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) 4G
4 1 (0.25%) 5G
4 1 (0.25%) ATM
4 1 (0.25%) DNS
4 1 (0.25%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) SMS
4 1 (0.25%) SSH
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (4.90%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.94%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.21%) Big Data
4 9 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.23%) MySQL
6 5 (1.23%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.98%) GIS
7 4 (0.98%) Power BI
7 4 (0.98%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.49%) Redis
10 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.25%) Milvus
10 1 (0.25%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (6.62%) Git
2 8 (1.96%) GitLab
3 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) MLflow
4 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.25%) Poetry
5 1 (0.25%) Selenium
5 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (11.76%) Finance
2 27 (6.62%) Social Skills
3 23 (5.64%) Front Office
4 15 (3.68%) Games
4 15 (3.68%) Tech for Good
5 11 (2.70%) Banking
6 10 (2.45%) Health Technology
6 10 (2.45%) Public Sector
7 7 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.98%) Law
9 4 (0.98%) Publishing
10 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.49%) Automotive
11 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.27%) FastAPI
2 43 (10.54%) RESTful
3 39 (9.56%) Django
4 36 (8.82%) Flask
5 27 (6.62%) NumPy
5 27 (6.62%) Pandas
6 24 (5.88%) Kafka
6 24 (5.88%) REST
7 22 (5.39%) React
7 22 (5.39%) Vue
8 21 (5.15%) Terraform
9 20 (4.90%) CSS
10 19 (4.66%) HTML
11 17 (4.17%) Swagger
12 16 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (3.43%) Node.js
14 11 (2.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 10 (2.45%) AngularJS
15 10 (2.45%) OpenAPI
16 9 (2.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.78%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.54%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 24 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (5.64%) Hedge funds
5 19 (4.66%) Low-Code
6 18 (4.41%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 12 (2.94%) Equities
9 11 (2.70%) Fixed Income
9 11 (2.70%) Management Information System
9 11 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.23%) Educational Technology
10 5 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.23%) Market Risk
11 4 (0.98%) Derivative
11 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.13%) Linux
2 1 (0.25%) Unix
2 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (25.98%) AI
2 105 (25.74%) Software Engineering
3 91 (22.30%) Full-Stack Development
4 69 (16.91%) CI/CD
5 46 (11.27%) Agile
6 38 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
6 38 (9.31%) Test Automation
7 34 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (7.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (7.84%) Validation
9 30 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (6.37%) Machine Learning
10 26 (6.37%) Microservices
10 26 (6.37%) OOP
11 25 (6.13%) API Design
11 25 (6.13%) Containerisation
11 25 (6.13%) Generative AI
11 25 (6.13%) Observability
12 23 (5.64%) Computer Vision
12 23 (5.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 408 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (14.71%) SQL
3 45 (11.03%) JavaScript
4 26 (6.37%) TypeScript
5 21 (5.15%) C++
6 15 (3.68%) Go
7 10 (2.45%) C#
8 6 (1.47%) Java
9 5 (1.23%) Bash
9 5 (1.23%) PHP
9 5 (1.23%) Rust
10 2 (0.49%) Perl
10 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.25%) ABAP
11 1 (0.25%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) Haskell
11 1 (0.25%) OCaml
11 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (4.17%) Degree
2 13 (3.19%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 4 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.68%) QA
2 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 50 (12.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.72%) Grafana
3 5 (1.23%) Ansible
4 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Kibana
5 2 (0.49%) logstash
6 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (3.43%) Databricks
2 4 (0.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.98%) SAP
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle
4 1 (0.25%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.25%) Foundry
4 1 (0.25%) HubSpot