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 4 March 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 410 392
Rank change year-on-year +24 -18 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 318 287 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.63% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.69% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 255 209 463
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £128,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £115,000 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -4.00%

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 65,273 41,513 74,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 91.10% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 41,213 22,694 57,615
10th Percentile £29,520 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,085
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 £73,000
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% -5.21%

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 4 March 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 4 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 +5 310 £76,000 -7.88% 176
London +26 202 £90,000 +5.88% 66
Work from Home +24 122 £76,000 -7.88% 119
UK excluding London +35 107 £70,000 +9.38% 132
North of England +1 34 £72,500 +4.61% 25
Midlands +2 31 £65,000 +18.18% 8
South East -6 30 £70,000 +11.11% 48
Yorkshire -11 26 £75,000 -9.09% 15
East Midlands -29 17 £65,000 +18.18% 4
West Midlands +24 14 £75,000 +28.42% 4
North West +3 8 £40,000 -40.44% 7
South West -15 8 £55,000 - 17
Scotland -6 3 £90,000 +20.00% 7
East of England -6 1 £50,000 -41.18% 22

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 318 (100.00%) Python
2 107 (33.65%) Software Engineering
3 97 (30.50%) React
4 87 (27.36%) AWS
5 80 (25.16%) Agile
6 69 (21.70%) AI
6 69 (21.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (20.13%) CI/CD
8 62 (19.50%) Django
8 62 (19.50%) JavaScript
9 55 (17.30%) Flask
9 55 (17.30%) SQL
10 51 (16.04%) Mentoring
11 50 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (14.78%) Serverless
13 46 (14.47%) Test Automation
14 45 (14.15%) Docker
14 45 (14.15%) GitHub
14 45 (14.15%) TypeScript
15 43 (13.52%) Azure
16 41 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 41 (12.89%) Fintech
16 41 (12.89%) OOP
17 40 (12.58%) FastAPI
18 33 (10.38%) OO
19 31 (9.75%) Containerisation
19 31 (9.75%) Node.js
20 29 (9.12%) REST
21 28 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
21 28 (8.81%) HTML

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 18 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.63%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 87 (27.36%) AWS
2 47 (14.78%) Serverless
3 45 (14.15%) GitHub
4 43 (13.52%) Azure
5 28 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.18%) Amazon S3
7 23 (7.23%) SaaS
8 20 (6.29%) GCP
9 15 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.83%) Azure AI
13 8 (2.52%) dbt
14 2 (0.63%) Amazon ECS
14 2 (0.63%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (0.63%) Azure AKS
14 2 (0.63%) GitHub Copilot
15 1 (0.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.31%) Azure Cognitive Search
15 1 (0.31%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.94%) HTTP
1 3 (0.94%) RTP
1 3 (0.94%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.94%) VoIP
1 3 (0.94%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (5.35%) Big Data
3 9 (2.83%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.52%) MySQL
5 7 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.20%) Apache Arrow
5 7 (2.20%) Apache Iceberg
5 7 (2.20%) Dremio
5 7 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.63%) Tick Data
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (4.72%) Git
2 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.94%) GitLab
4 2 (0.63%) JIRA
4 2 (0.63%) Maven
4 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 75 (23.58%) Finance
2 66 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.21%) Front Office
4 19 (5.97%) Tech for Good
5 18 (5.66%) Health Technology
6 16 (5.03%) Publishing
7 14 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (3.46%) Banking
9 10 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.83%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
12 4 (1.26%) Aviation
13 3 (0.94%) Retail
14 2 (0.63%) Games
14 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.31%) Electronics
15 1 (0.31%) Legal
15 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (30.50%) React
2 62 (19.50%) Django
3 55 (17.30%) Flask
4 40 (12.58%) FastAPI
5 31 (9.75%) Node.js
6 29 (9.12%) REST
7 28 (8.81%) HTML
8 27 (8.49%) RESTful
9 25 (7.86%) Vue
10 20 (6.29%) Kafka
11 19 (5.97%) CSS
12 18 (5.66%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 16 (5.03%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.83%) NumPy
14 9 (2.83%) Pandas
15 8 (2.52%) Redux
16 7 (2.20%) OAuth
16 7 (2.20%) OAuth2
16 7 (2.20%) SciPy
17 5 (1.57%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.64%) Data Structures
1 37 (11.64%) Equities
2 26 (8.18%) Hedge funds
3 21 (6.60%) Algorithms
4 19 (5.97%) Fixed Income
5 18 (5.66%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.35%) Cloud Native
7 13 (4.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (3.77%) Educational Technology
9 10 (3.14%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.52%) Derivative
11 7 (2.20%) PropTech
12 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.26%) PKI
13 3 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.63%) Grid Computing
14 2 (0.63%) NHS
14 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
15 1 (0.31%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.86%) Linux
2 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (33.65%) Software Engineering
2 80 (25.16%) Agile
3 69 (21.70%) AI
3 69 (21.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 64 (20.13%) CI/CD
5 51 (16.04%) Mentoring
6 50 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (14.47%) Test Automation
8 41 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (12.89%) Fintech
8 41 (12.89%) OOP
9 33 (10.38%) OO
10 31 (9.75%) Containerisation
11 28 (8.81%) SDLC
12 27 (8.49%) Clean Code
13 26 (8.18%) Code Quality
13 26 (8.18%) Microservices
14 25 (7.86%) Order Management
15 24 (7.55%) Computer Science
16 23 (7.23%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 318 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (19.50%) JavaScript
3 55 (17.30%) SQL
4 45 (14.15%) TypeScript
5 25 (7.86%) C++
6 12 (3.77%) Java
7 8 (2.52%) PHP
8 5 (1.57%) VBA
9 4 (1.26%) C
9 4 (1.26%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.63%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.63%) C#
10 2 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.31%) Perl
11 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.31%) Ruby
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (4.09%) Degree
2 3 (0.94%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
3 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.03%) QA
2 5 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 2 (0.63%) PSD2
System Software
1 45 (14.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.94%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (6.92%) Terraform
2 21 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (4.72%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.94%) BT
2 3 (0.94%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.94%) Mitel
2 3 (0.94%) Oracle
3 2 (0.63%) Foundry
3 2 (0.63%) Google
3 2 (0.63%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.63%) Solace
4 1 (0.31%) Databricks
4 1 (0.31%) iManage
4 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.31%) SAP
4 1 (0.31%) UiPath