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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 421 378
Rank change year-on-year +50 -43 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 325 302 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 0.61% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.66% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 257 202 488
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,563 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £110,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.55% +4.58% -

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 60,667 45,736 70,044
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 91.76% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 37,923 23,920 54,830
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,453 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +59 319 £76,000 -1.94% 96
London +34 215 £85,000 - 57
Work from Home +33 132 £76,000 -7.88% 44
UK excluding London +51 103 £70,000 +11.55% 51
North of England +15 33 £75,000 +8.21% 16
Midlands +10 32 £67,500 +22.73% 7
South East +26 28 £70,000 +11.11% 5
Yorkshire -12 24 £75,000 -9.09% 11
East Midlands -14 17 £65,000 +18.18% 4
West Midlands +30 15 £90,000 +54.10% 3
North West +17 9 £40,000 -42.29% 5
South West -16 6 £57,500 +4.55% 8
Scotland -12 3 £90,000 +20.00% 10
East of England -1 1 £50,000 -41.18% 4

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 325 (100.00%) Python
2 108 (33.23%) Software Engineering
3 104 (32.00%) React
4 95 (29.23%) AWS
5 90 (27.69%) Agile
6 76 (23.38%) AI
7 73 (22.46%) CI/CD
8 69 (21.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 62 (19.08%) Django
10 61 (18.77%) JavaScript
11 59 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (18.15%) SQL
12 58 (17.85%) Flask
12 58 (17.85%) TypeScript
13 52 (16.00%) Azure
13 52 (16.00%) Test Automation
14 51 (15.69%) Docker
15 49 (15.08%) Mentoring
15 49 (15.08%) Serverless
16 46 (14.15%) GitHub
17 42 (12.92%) FastAPI
17 42 (12.92%) OOP
18 40 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
19 39 (12.00%) Fintech
19 39 (12.00%) Node.js
20 35 (10.77%) Containerisation
20 35 (10.77%) REST
21 32 (9.85%) OO
21 32 (9.85%) Order Management
21 32 (9.85%) RESTful

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 (5.23%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 95 (29.23%) AWS
2 52 (16.00%) Azure
3 49 (15.08%) Serverless
4 46 (14.15%) GitHub
5 30 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 24 (7.38%) GCP
8 20 (6.15%) SaaS
9 16 (4.92%) Azure AI
10 14 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.31%) dbt
11 13 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (2.46%) n8n
13 8 (2.46%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
15 2 (0.62%) Copilot Studio
15 2 (0.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.92%) HTTP
1 3 (0.92%) RTP
1 3 (0.92%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.92%) VoIP
1 3 (0.92%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.92%) Big Data
3 14 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (4.31%) Apache Arrow
3 14 (4.31%) Apache Iceberg
3 14 (4.31%) Dremio
3 14 (4.31%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.15%) MySQL
6 6 (1.85%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.85%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.23%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.23%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.62%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (4.62%) Git
2 3 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.62%) JIRA
3 2 (0.62%) Maven
3 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.31%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 84 (25.85%) Finance
2 64 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.54%) Front Office
4 21 (6.46%) Tech for Good
5 20 (6.15%) Health Technology
5 20 (6.15%) Publishing
6 14 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (3.69%) Banking
7 12 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.15%) Legal
11 4 (1.23%) Marketing
11 4 (1.23%) Retail
11 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.92%) Electronics
12 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (32.00%) React
2 62 (19.08%) Django
3 58 (17.85%) Flask
4 42 (12.92%) FastAPI
5 39 (12.00%) Node.js
6 35 (10.77%) REST
7 32 (9.85%) RESTful
8 29 (8.92%) HTML
8 29 (8.92%) Vue
9 23 (7.08%) AngularJS
10 19 (5.85%) CSS
11 18 (5.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 18 (5.54%) Kafka
11 18 (5.54%) NumPy
11 18 (5.54%) Pandas
12 14 (4.31%) SciPy
13 9 (2.77%) LangChain
14 7 (2.15%) OAuth
14 7 (2.15%) OAuth2
14 7 (2.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.69%) Equities
2 37 (11.38%) Data Structures
3 26 (8.00%) Hedge funds
4 21 (6.46%) Algorithms
5 19 (5.85%) Fixed Income
6 18 (5.54%) Cloud Native
6 18 (5.54%) Management Information System
7 17 (5.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (3.38%) Educational Technology
9 10 (3.08%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.46%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.46%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.54%) PropTech
12 4 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.23%) PKI
13 3 (0.92%) Grid Computing
14 2 (0.62%) Derivative
14 2 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
15 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.00%) Linux
2 3 (0.92%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.23%) Software Engineering
2 90 (27.69%) Agile
3 76 (23.38%) AI
4 73 (22.46%) CI/CD
5 69 (21.23%) Full-Stack Development
6 59 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 49 (15.08%) Mentoring
9 42 (12.92%) OOP
10 40 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (12.00%) Fintech
12 35 (10.77%) Containerisation
13 32 (9.85%) OO
13 32 (9.85%) Order Management
14 31 (9.54%) Clean Code
15 28 (8.62%) Microservices
16 25 (7.69%) SDLC
17 24 (7.38%) Code Quality
17 24 (7.38%) Investment Management
17 24 (7.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 325 (100.00%) Python
2 61 (18.77%) JavaScript
3 59 (18.15%) SQL
4 58 (17.85%) TypeScript
5 29 (8.92%) C++
6 14 (4.31%) Java
7 6 (1.85%) PHP
8 5 (1.54%) VBA
9 4 (1.23%) C
9 4 (1.23%) C#
9 4 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.62%) Bicep
10 2 (0.62%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.31%) Perl
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (4.62%) Degree
2 6 (1.85%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.62%) PhD
6 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.77%) QA
2 5 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) PSD2
System Software
1 51 (15.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.92%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 28 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.38%) Terraform
3 3 (0.92%) Argo
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (6.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.46%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.85%) iManage
4 4 (1.23%) Google
5 3 (0.92%) BT
5 3 (0.92%) Fortinet
5 3 (0.92%) Mitel
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle
5 3 (0.92%) SAP
6 2 (0.62%) Foundry
6 2 (0.62%) Solace
7 1 (0.31%) Databricks
7 1 (0.31%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.31%) UiPath