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 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 397 430
Rank change year-on-year -35 +33 -109
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 410 287 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.64% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 329 211 269
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £93,750 £137,500 £120,000
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 109,636 44,590 69,789
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 89.77% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74,743 25,694 40,249
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.80% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -6.50% -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 7 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 7 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 -71 356 £72,500 -14.71% 197
UK excluding London +40 195 £65,000 -7.14% 70
London -106 187 £90,000 -5.26% 146
Work from Home -85 117 £86,250 -17.86% 60
North of England -13 63 £60,000 -14.29% 19
East of England +15 54 £70,000 +1.82% 10
North West -4 26 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Midlands -21 26 £57,500 -25.81% 6
Scotland +26 22 £45,000 - 12
North East - 20 £70,000 - 1
East Midlands -15 17 £65,000 +10.64% 4
Yorkshire -24 17 £50,000 -28.57% 13
South West -64 12 £55,000 -8.33% 5
South East -34 11 £60,000 +63.27% 15
West Midlands -45 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 7 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.

1 410 (100.00%) Python
2 133 (32.44%) AI
3 126 (30.73%) Software Engineering
4 115 (28.05%) AWS
5 74 (18.05%) CI/CD
6 73 (17.80%) Azure
7 64 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 58 (14.15%) SQL
9 57 (13.90%) Docker
10 54 (13.17%) FastAPI
11 51 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
12 48 (11.71%) Agile
13 46 (11.22%) Kubernetes
14 44 (10.73%) RESTful
15 42 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
16 37 (9.02%) Django
16 37 (9.02%) Generative AI
16 37 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (9.02%) Validation
17 36 (8.78%) JavaScript
18 35 (8.54%) Observability
19 34 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
19 34 (8.29%) Test Automation
20 29 (7.07%) Containerisation
20 29 (7.07%) Git
20 29 (7.07%) TypeScript
21 28 (6.83%) React
22 27 (6.59%) API Design
22 27 (6.59%) DevOps
22 27 (6.59%) GCP

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 (0.73%) Apache Spark
1 3 (0.73%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (28.05%) AWS
2 73 (17.80%) Azure
3 27 (6.59%) GCP
4 20 (4.88%) SaaS
5 16 (3.90%) Amazon Bedrock
5 16 (3.90%) GitHub
6 15 (3.66%) Serverless
7 13 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (2.93%) Amazon S3
8 12 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.22%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (1.22%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.17%) MQTT
2 12 (2.93%) Broadband
3 3 (0.73%) 4G
3 3 (0.73%) 5G
3 3 (0.73%) DNS
3 3 (0.73%) HTTP
3 3 (0.73%) SSH
3 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.49%) 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 51 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.85%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.68%) DynamoDB
4 10 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.95%) MySQL
6 7 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.46%) Pinecone
7 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.22%) Chroma
8 5 (1.22%) Power BI
9 4 (0.98%) GIS
9 4 (0.98%) Redis
10 3 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.49%) Big Data
11 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.49%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (7.07%) Git
2 17 (4.15%) GitLab
3 10 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.98%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) MLflow
5 1 (0.24%) Poetry
5 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (14.39%) Finance
2 34 (8.29%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.05%) Front Office
4 27 (6.59%) Banking
5 15 (3.66%) Tech for Good
6 13 (3.17%) Marketing
7 12 (2.93%) Games
8 10 (2.44%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.20%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.46%) Law
11 6 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.98%) Publishing
13 3 (0.73%) Legal
13 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.49%) Automotive
14 2 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (13.17%) FastAPI
2 44 (10.73%) RESTful
3 37 (9.02%) Django
4 28 (6.83%) React
5 25 (6.10%) Flask
6 23 (5.61%) Terraform
7 21 (5.12%) Kafka
8 20 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
8 20 (4.88%) Swagger
9 19 (4.63%) LangChain
10 18 (4.39%) LangGraph
10 18 (4.39%) REST
11 17 (4.15%) CrewAI
12 15 (3.66%) HTML
13 14 (3.41%) Pandas
14 13 (3.17%) CSS
14 13 (3.17%) OpenAPI
14 13 (3.17%) pydantic
15 12 (2.93%) NumPy
16 11 (2.68%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 44 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
2 38 (9.27%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.59%) Cyber Threat
3 27 (6.59%) Hedge funds
4 23 (5.61%) Algorithms
5 21 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (4.88%) AI Agents
7 16 (3.90%) Low-Code
8 14 (3.41%) Equities
9 12 (2.93%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.93%) Video\Live Streaming
10 10 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.71%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.46%) Derivative
12 6 (1.46%) Market Risk
13 4 (0.98%) Fixed Income
13 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.98%) Robotics
14 3 (0.73%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (32.44%) AI
2 126 (30.73%) Software Engineering
3 74 (18.05%) CI/CD
4 64 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 48 (11.71%) Agile
6 42 (10.24%) Cybersecurity
7 37 (9.02%) Generative AI
7 37 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (9.02%) Validation
8 35 (8.54%) Observability
9 34 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (8.29%) Test Automation
10 29 (7.07%) Containerisation
11 27 (6.59%) API Design
11 27 (6.59%) DevOps
12 24 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (5.85%) LLM
13 23 (5.61%) Mentoring
13 23 (5.61%) Roadmaps
14 22 (5.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 410 (100.00%) Python
2 58 (14.15%) SQL
3 36 (8.78%) JavaScript
4 29 (7.07%) TypeScript
5 17 (4.15%) C++
6 14 (3.41%) R
7 12 (2.93%) Go
8 11 (2.68%) C#
9 7 (1.71%) Bash
10 4 (0.98%) Java
10 4 (0.98%) Rust
10 4 (0.98%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.73%) Perl
12 2 (0.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) ABAP
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Haskell
13 1 (0.24%) OCaml
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (2.93%) Degree
2 11 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.22%) AWS Certification
3 5 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.66%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 57 (13.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.24%) GPFS
2 1 (0.24%) NFS
Systems Management
1 46 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.44%) Grafana
3 6 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.22%) Ansible
5 3 (0.73%) Kibana
6 2 (0.49%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (3.17%) Google
2 9 (2.20%) Databricks
3 5 (1.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.22%) Mistral
3 5 (1.22%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.98%) SAP
5 3 (0.73%) Oracle
6 2 (0.49%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.24%) Autodesk
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