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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 382 414
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 345 275 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.65% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.72% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 274 213 476
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £122,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 69,843 38,164 81,143
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 90.31% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 44,555 23,016 61,790
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,408 £38,750
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,263
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -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 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 15 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 21 March 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 +18 334 £76,000 -7.88% 98
London +4 209 £90,000 +5.88% 48
Work from Home +21 129 £75,000 -10.45% 39
UK excluding London +16 125 £70,000 +7.69% 55
North of England -22 40 £70,000 +1.00% 22
South East -3 34 £70,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands -4 32 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Yorkshire -14 31 £75,000 +11.11% 17
East Midlands -43 17 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +10 15 £60,000 -13.43% 3
South West -22 13 £52,750 -23.27% 11
North West -14 8 £40,000 -42.29% 3
Scotland -16 4 £90,000 +20.00% 1
East of England -16 2 £50,000 -41.18% 4
North East -24 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 21 March 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.

1 345 (100.00%) Python
2 112 (32.46%) Software Engineering
3 89 (25.80%) React
4 88 (25.51%) AWS
5 78 (22.61%) Full-Stack Development
6 77 (22.32%) Agile
7 76 (22.03%) AI
8 69 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 61 (17.68%) Django
10 59 (17.10%) JavaScript
11 58 (16.81%) Flask
12 57 (16.52%) SQL
13 54 (15.65%) Mentoring
14 53 (15.36%) Test Automation
15 50 (14.49%) Docker
16 49 (14.20%) Serverless
17 46 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
17 46 (13.33%) OOP
17 46 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (13.04%) GitHub
19 41 (11.88%) Azure
20 40 (11.59%) FastAPI
21 39 (11.30%) OO
22 37 (10.72%) Fintech
23 36 (10.43%) TypeScript
24 35 (10.14%) REST
25 34 (9.86%) SDLC
26 33 (9.57%) Containerisation
27 32 (9.28%) Linux
28 30 (8.70%) 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 20 (5.80%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 88 (25.51%) AWS
2 49 (14.20%) Serverless
3 45 (13.04%) GitHub
4 41 (11.88%) Azure
5 29 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (7.83%) Amazon S3
7 26 (7.54%) SaaS
8 15 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
8 15 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.77%) GCP
10 12 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.32%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.16%) Prefect
13 3 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.58%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.58%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.58%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.29%) Amazon EKS
15 1 (0.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.29%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) Broadband
1 3 (0.87%) HTTP
1 3 (0.87%) RTP
1 3 (0.87%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.87%) VoIP
1 3 (0.87%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (5.80%) Big Data
3 9 (2.61%) MongoDB
3 9 (2.61%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.32%) MySQL
4 8 (2.32%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.16%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.58%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.58%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (5.51%) Git
2 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.87%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) JIRA
4 2 (0.58%) Maven
4 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 70 (20.29%) Finance
1 70 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.30%) Front Office
3 20 (5.80%) Tech for Good
4 18 (5.22%) Health Technology
5 16 (4.64%) Publishing
6 14 (4.06%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.61%) Banking
8 9 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.16%) Aviation
10 4 (1.16%) Games
11 3 (0.87%) Retail
12 2 (0.58%) Marketing
12 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.29%) Back Office
13 1 (0.29%) Electronics
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (25.80%) React
2 61 (17.68%) Django
3 58 (16.81%) Flask
4 40 (11.59%) FastAPI
5 35 (10.14%) REST
6 29 (8.41%) HTML
7 28 (8.12%) RESTful
8 24 (6.96%) Node.js
9 23 (6.67%) Kafka
10 22 (6.38%) Vue
11 21 (6.09%) CSS
12 20 (5.80%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 11 (3.19%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.19%) NumPy
13 11 (3.19%) Pandas
14 8 (2.32%) OAuth
14 8 (2.32%) OAuth2
14 8 (2.32%) Redux
15 6 (1.74%) .NET
15 6 (1.74%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.59%) Data Structures
2 34 (9.86%) Algorithms
3 32 (9.28%) Equities
3 32 (9.28%) Hedge funds
4 22 (6.38%) Cloud Native
5 20 (5.80%) Management Information System
6 17 (4.93%) Fixed Income
7 15 (4.35%) Educational Technology
8 13 (3.77%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.90%) PropTech
10 8 (2.32%) Derivative
10 8 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.16%) NHS
12 4 (1.16%) PKI
13 3 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
14 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.28%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (32.46%) Software Engineering
2 78 (22.61%) Full-Stack Development
3 77 (22.32%) Agile
4 76 (22.03%) AI
5 69 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 54 (15.65%) Mentoring
7 53 (15.36%) Test Automation
8 46 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (13.33%) OOP
8 46 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (11.30%) OO
10 37 (10.72%) Fintech
11 34 (9.86%) SDLC
12 33 (9.57%) Containerisation
13 30 (8.70%) Microservices
14 27 (7.83%) Computer Science
15 25 (7.25%) Clean Code
15 25 (7.25%) Code Quality
16 22 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 20 (5.80%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 345 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (17.10%) JavaScript
3 57 (16.52%) SQL
4 36 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 25 (7.25%) C++
6 12 (3.48%) Java
7 9 (2.61%) PHP
8 5 (1.45%) VBA
9 4 (1.16%) C
9 4 (1.16%) C#
9 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.87%) Go
11 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.58%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Perl
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) Rust
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (4.93%) Degree
2 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
2 2 (0.58%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.51%) QA
2 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.58%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) PSD2
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (14.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.87%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 24 (6.96%) Terraform
2 21 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.87%) Argo
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (1.45%) Databricks
3 3 (0.87%) BT
3 3 (0.87%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.87%) Mitel
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle
4 2 (0.58%) Foundry
4 2 (0.58%) Google
4 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
4 2 (0.58%) Solace
5 1 (0.29%) SAP
5 1 (0.29%) UiPath