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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 402 408
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 -85
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 419 287 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.58% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.65% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 335 210 273
10th Percentile £45,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,125 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £87,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £90,625 £137,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £142,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 109,855 44,157 67,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.76% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 74,567 25,766 38,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -61 364 £72,500 -17.14% 161
UK excluding London +19 198 £65,000 -7.14% 61
London -88 193 £90,000 -7.69% 109
Work from Home -68 124 £88,750 -15.48% 61
North of England -15 66 £62,500 -10.71% 19
East of England +22 56 £70,000 +1.82% 3
North West -7 30 £57,500 -6.12% 6
Midlands -35 26 £57,500 -25.81% 6
Scotland +31 23 £45,000 - 11
North East - 20 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -23 17 £65,000 +10.64% 4
Yorkshire -31 16 £50,000 -30.56% 13
South East -31 10 £60,000 +55.84% 11
South West -59 10 £60,000 - 8
West Midlands -35 9 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 419 (100.00%) Python
2 147 (35.08%) AI
3 130 (31.03%) Software Engineering
4 121 (28.88%) AWS
5 78 (18.62%) Azure
6 77 (18.38%) CI/CD
7 62 (14.80%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (14.56%) Docker
9 59 (14.08%) SQL
10 55 (13.13%) FastAPI
11 52 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
12 50 (11.93%) Agile
13 47 (11.22%) Kubernetes
14 45 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
14 45 (10.74%) RESTful
15 44 (10.50%) Generative AI
16 39 (9.31%) Django
16 39 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
17 38 (9.07%) Validation
18 37 (8.83%) JavaScript
19 36 (8.59%) Observability
20 35 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
20 35 (8.35%) Test Automation
21 32 (7.64%) Git
22 31 (7.40%) Containerisation
22 31 (7.40%) GCP
23 29 (6.92%) DevOps
23 29 (6.92%) React
23 29 (6.92%) TypeScript
24 28 (6.68%) API Design

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 3 (0.72%) Apache
1 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
1 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 121 (28.88%) AWS
2 78 (18.62%) Azure
3 31 (7.40%) GCP
4 24 (5.73%) SaaS
5 19 (4.53%) Amazon Bedrock
6 17 (4.06%) GitHub
7 16 (3.82%) Serverless
8 13 (3.10%) Amazon S3
8 13 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.43%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.43%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (0.95%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.95%) Kong
14 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.10%) MQTT
2 12 (2.86%) Broadband
3 3 (0.72%) 4G
3 3 (0.72%) 5G
3 3 (0.72%) DNS
3 3 (0.72%) HTTP
3 3 (0.72%) SSH
3 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.48%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) ATM
5 1 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.73%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.91%) MySQL
6 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.43%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.43%) Power BI
8 5 (1.19%) Chroma
8 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.95%) GIS
9 4 (0.95%) Redis
10 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.48%) Big Data
11 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (7.64%) Git
2 19 (4.53%) GitLab
3 11 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.95%) Selenium
5 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) MLflow
6 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (15.27%) Finance
2 39 (9.31%) Social Skills
3 34 (8.11%) Front Office
4 30 (7.16%) Banking
5 16 (3.82%) Marketing
6 15 (3.58%) Tech for Good
7 12 (2.86%) Games
8 10 (2.39%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.15%) Public Sector
10 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.43%) Law
12 6 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.19%) Legal
14 4 (0.95%) Publishing
15 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.48%) Automotive
16 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
17 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.13%) FastAPI
2 45 (10.74%) RESTful
3 39 (9.31%) Django
4 29 (6.92%) React
5 25 (5.97%) Flask
6 23 (5.49%) Terraform
7 22 (5.25%) LangChain
8 21 (5.01%) Kafka
8 21 (5.01%) LangGraph
9 20 (4.77%) CrewAI
9 20 (4.77%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (4.77%) Swagger
10 18 (4.30%) REST
11 16 (3.82%) pydantic
12 15 (3.58%) HTML
13 13 (3.10%) CSS
13 13 (3.10%) OpenAPI
14 11 (2.63%) .NET
14 11 (2.63%) Pandas
14 11 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
2 38 (9.07%) Cloud Native
3 29 (6.92%) Cyber Threat
3 29 (6.92%) Hedge funds
4 23 (5.49%) AI Agents
5 21 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (4.53%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.82%) Low-Code
8 13 (3.10%) Equities
9 12 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (2.63%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.43%) Derivative
13 6 (1.43%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.43%) Market Risk
14 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.95%) Robotics
15 3 (0.72%) Fixed Income
15 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.30%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (35.08%) AI
2 130 (31.03%) Software Engineering
3 77 (18.38%) CI/CD
4 62 (14.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (11.93%) Agile
6 45 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (10.50%) Generative AI
8 39 (9.31%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (9.07%) Validation
10 36 (8.59%) Observability
11 35 (8.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (8.35%) Test Automation
12 31 (7.40%) Containerisation
13 29 (6.92%) DevOps
14 28 (6.68%) API Design
14 28 (6.68%) LLM
15 25 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (5.97%) Roadmaps
16 24 (5.73%) Mentoring
17 23 (5.49%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 419 (100.00%) Python
2 59 (14.08%) SQL
3 37 (8.83%) JavaScript
4 29 (6.92%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.06%) C++
5 17 (4.06%) R
6 12 (2.86%) C#
6 12 (2.86%) Go
7 8 (1.91%) Bash
8 5 (1.19%) Rust
9 4 (0.95%) Java
9 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.72%) Perl
11 2 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.24%) ABAP
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (2.63%) Degree
1 11 (2.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (1.19%) AWS Certification
2 5 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.72%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.58%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 61 (14.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) GPFS
2 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 47 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.86%) Grafana
3 6 (1.43%) Ansible
3 6 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.19%) Kibana
5 3 (0.72%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (3.82%) Google
2 9 (2.15%) Databricks
3 6 (1.43%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.19%) Mistral
4 5 (1.19%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.95%) SAP
6 2 (0.48%) Autodesk
6 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle
7 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.24%) Brocade
7 1 (0.24%) EMC
7 1 (0.24%) Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) NetApp
7 1 (0.24%) Veritas