Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 427 325
Rank change year-on-year +54 -102 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 300 316 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.57% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.61% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 230 219 436
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.84% +19.35%
75th Percentile £110,000 £103,125 £127,188
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -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 53,660 51,710 49,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.45% 93.38% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 33,065 27,370 37,929
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,549 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,458 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +56 295 £80,000 +5.26% 268
London +39 214 £85,000 - 106
Work from Home +55 132 £76,000 -7.88% 113
UK excluding London +47 80 £72,500 +16.00% 186
North of England +25 34 £75,000 +11.68% 45
Yorkshire +19 25 £80,000 -3.03% 19
Midlands +27 24 £70,000 +27.27% 40
West Midlands +35 15 £90,000 +54.10% 18
South East +28 13 £70,000 +12.00% 51
North West +25 9 £56,250 -16.24% 24
East Midlands -15 9 £70,000 +27.27% 19
South West +4 4 £60,000 +9.09% 15
Scotland +7 3 £90,000 +20.00% 8
East of England +19 2 £52,500 -38.24% 23

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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.

1 300 (100.00%) Python
2 114 (38.00%) AWS
3 113 (37.67%) Agile
4 102 (34.00%) React
5 99 (33.00%) Software Engineering
6 76 (25.33%) CI/CD
7 69 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (21.67%) AI
8 65 (21.67%) TypeScript
9 62 (20.67%) Azure
9 62 (20.67%) JavaScript
10 59 (19.67%) Docker
11 58 (19.33%) Test Automation
12 57 (19.00%) Mentoring
13 55 (18.33%) SQL
14 52 (17.33%) Django
14 52 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
14 52 (17.33%) Serverless
15 51 (17.00%) Flask
16 49 (16.33%) GCP
17 48 (16.00%) Fintech
18 47 (15.67%) Order Management
19 46 (15.33%) RESTful
20 44 (14.67%) Vue
21 43 (14.33%) Containerisation
21 43 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
22 42 (14.00%) FastAPI
22 42 (14.00%) Node.js
23 41 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
24 39 (13.00%) GitHub

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 29 (9.67%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.67%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 114 (38.00%) AWS
2 62 (20.67%) Azure
3 52 (17.33%) Serverless
4 49 (16.33%) GCP
5 39 (13.00%) GitHub
6 31 (10.33%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (9.67%) dbt
8 19 (6.33%) Amazon S3
8 19 (6.33%) SaaS
9 18 (6.00%) Azure AI
10 15 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
11 9 (3.00%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.67%) n8n
13 7 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (1.00%) Azure AKS
15 3 (1.00%) GitHub Copilot
16 2 (0.67%) Azure Cognitive Search
16 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.00%) Internet
2 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.33%) FTP
2 1 (0.33%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (9.67%) Amazon Athena
2 29 (9.67%) Apache Arrow
2 29 (9.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 29 (9.67%) Dremio
3 20 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.33%) Big Data
5 12 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 12 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.00%) MySQL
5 12 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 8 (2.67%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.67%) Tick Data
8 7 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.33%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.33%) Power BI
10 1 (0.33%) Redis
10 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (4.33%) Git
2 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
General
1 101 (33.67%) Finance
2 54 (18.00%) Front Office
3 51 (17.00%) Social Skills
4 29 (9.67%) Health Technology
4 29 (9.67%) Publishing
5 28 (9.33%) Tech for Good
6 21 (7.00%) Marketing
7 15 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.33%) Banking
8 13 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (4.00%) Retail
10 8 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (2.33%) Electronics
11 7 (2.33%) Legal
11 7 (2.33%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.00%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.00%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (34.00%) React
2 52 (17.33%) Django
3 51 (17.00%) Flask
4 46 (15.33%) RESTful
5 44 (14.67%) Vue
6 42 (14.00%) FastAPI
6 42 (14.00%) Node.js
7 37 (12.33%) AngularJS
8 35 (11.67%) REST
9 33 (11.00%) NumPy
9 33 (11.00%) Pandas
10 29 (9.67%) SciPy
11 24 (8.00%) HTML
12 20 (6.67%) CSS
13 18 (6.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 16 (5.33%) Kafka
15 12 (4.00%) Swagger
16 10 (3.33%) LangChain
17 7 (2.33%) PyTorch
18 5 (1.67%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 53 (17.67%) Equities
2 35 (11.67%) Data Structures
3 30 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 30 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (8.67%) Hedge funds
5 23 (7.67%) Management Information System
6 21 (7.00%) Algorithms
7 14 (4.67%) Cloud Native
8 9 (3.00%) AI Agents
8 9 (3.00%) Marketing Technology
9 8 (2.67%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.67%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.67%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.33%) PKI
13 2 (0.67%) Public Cloud
14 1 (0.33%) Blockchain
14 1 (0.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (37.67%) Agile
2 99 (33.00%) Software Engineering
3 76 (25.33%) CI/CD
4 69 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (21.67%) AI
6 58 (19.33%) Test Automation
7 57 (19.00%) Mentoring
8 48 (16.00%) Fintech
9 47 (15.67%) Order Management
10 43 (14.33%) Containerisation
10 43 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
11 41 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (13.00%) OOP
13 36 (12.00%) Clean Code
14 32 (10.67%) Scrum
14 32 (10.67%) TDD
15 30 (10.00%) Asset Management
15 30 (10.00%) Microservices
15 30 (10.00%) Pair Programming
15 30 (10.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 300 (100.00%) Python
2 65 (21.67%) TypeScript
3 62 (20.67%) JavaScript
4 55 (18.33%) SQL
5 30 (10.00%) C++
6 14 (4.67%) Java
7 9 (3.00%) C#
8 4 (1.33%) PHP
8 4 (1.33%) VBA
9 3 (1.00%) Bicep
10 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.33%) Bash
11 1 (0.33%) R
11 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (5.67%) Degree
2 7 (2.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.67%) PhD
4 5 (1.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (0.67%) GDPR
2 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.67%) PSD2
3 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 59 (19.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 27 (9.00%) Terraform
2 25 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.67%) Google
2 8 (2.67%) OpenAI
2 8 (2.67%) SAP
3 7 (2.33%) Databricks
4 6 (2.00%) iManage
5 3 (1.00%) Foundry
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle
6 2 (0.67%) Solace
6 2 (0.67%) UiPath
7 1 (0.33%) Salesforce