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 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 399 443
Rank change year-on-year -43 +44 -133
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 414 306 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.62% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 331 232 296
10th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £144,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -9.09%

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 105,368 44,470 74,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.69% 89.68% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72,550 26,183 45,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -64 367 £72,500 -14.71% 143
UK excluding London +48 207 £62,500 -10.71% 38
London -108 181 £86,250 -4.17% 125
Work from Home -99 103 £70,000 -33.33% 46
North of England -2 76 £70,000 - 6
East of England +10 49 £70,000 +1.82% 5
Yorkshire -22 34 £80,000 +14.29% 3
South West -52 22 £50,000 -16.67% 4
North West -1 21 £45,000 -26.53% 3
North East - 21 £70,000 -
Midlands -38 20 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Scotland +23 17 £45,000 - 10
South East -19 16 £60,000 +55.84% 7
East Midlands -23 12 £70,000 +19.15% 1
West Midlands -33 8 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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.

1 414 (100.00%) Python
2 113 (27.29%) Software Engineering
3 109 (26.33%) AWS
4 106 (25.60%) AI
5 89 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 72 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 67 (16.18%) SQL
8 54 (13.04%) Docker
9 49 (11.84%) FastAPI
10 48 (11.59%) Agile
11 47 (11.35%) JavaScript
11 47 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (11.11%) Azure
12 46 (11.11%) RESTful
13 43 (10.39%) Django
14 40 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
15 39 (9.42%) Kubernetes
16 38 (9.18%) Test Automation
17 37 (8.94%) Flask
18 36 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (8.21%) Validation
20 33 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
21 29 (7.00%) Git
22 28 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
22 28 (6.76%) Pandas
23 27 (6.52%) Containerisation
23 27 (6.52%) Kafka
23 27 (6.52%) TypeScript
24 26 (6.28%) Linux
24 26 (6.28%) Machine Learning

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 10 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.72%) Apache
3 3 (0.72%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 109 (26.33%) AWS
2 46 (11.11%) Azure
3 19 (4.59%) SaaS
4 18 (4.35%) Serverless
5 15 (3.62%) Amazon S3
6 14 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
8 9 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (2.17%) GitHub
9 8 (1.93%) GCP
10 6 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.21%) Prefect
12 4 (0.97%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.97%) Kong
12 4 (0.97%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.38%) Broadband
2 11 (2.66%) MQTT
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%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.07%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.17%) Big Data
4 9 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.69%) MySQL
6 7 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.21%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.97%) GIS
8 4 (0.97%) Power BI
8 4 (0.97%) Redis
8 4 (0.97%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.48%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (7.00%) Git
2 10 (2.42%) GitLab
3 5 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) Selenium
5 2 (0.48%) MLflow
5 2 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.24%) Poetry
6 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (12.08%) Finance
2 28 (6.76%) Social Skills
3 23 (5.56%) Front Office
4 15 (3.62%) Tech for Good
5 14 (3.38%) Games
6 11 (2.66%) Banking
7 10 (2.42%) Health Technology
7 10 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 7 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.97%) Law
10 4 (0.97%) Publishing
11 3 (0.72%) Legal
11 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.48%) Automotive
12 2 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.84%) FastAPI
2 46 (11.11%) RESTful
3 43 (10.39%) Django
4 37 (8.94%) Flask
5 28 (6.76%) Pandas
6 27 (6.52%) Kafka
7 26 (6.28%) NumPy
7 26 (6.28%) REST
8 23 (5.56%) React
9 22 (5.31%) CSS
9 22 (5.31%) Vue
10 21 (5.07%) HTML
10 21 (5.07%) Terraform
11 19 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
12 18 (4.35%) Swagger
13 14 (3.38%) Node.js
14 11 (2.66%) OpenAPI
15 10 (2.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 9 (2.17%) .NET
16 9 (2.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.39%) Cloud Native
1 43 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (9.90%) Algorithms
3 25 (6.04%) Cyber Threat
3 25 (6.04%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (5.07%) Hedge funds
5 18 (4.35%) Low-Code
6 17 (4.11%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.62%) Equities
8 14 (3.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 11 (2.66%) Renewable Energy
10 10 (2.42%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.17%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.21%) Market Risk
13 4 (0.97%) Derivative
13 4 (0.97%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.72%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Unix
2 1 (0.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (27.29%) Software Engineering
2 106 (25.60%) AI
3 89 (21.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 72 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 48 (11.59%) Agile
6 40 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (9.18%) Test Automation
8 36 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (8.21%) Validation
10 33 (7.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (6.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (6.52%) Containerisation
13 26 (6.28%) Machine Learning
13 26 (6.28%) Microservices
13 26 (6.28%) Observability
14 25 (6.04%) API Design
14 25 (6.04%) DevOps
14 25 (6.04%) OOP
15 24 (5.80%) Event-Driven
15 24 (5.80%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 414 (100.00%) Python
2 67 (16.18%) SQL
3 47 (11.35%) JavaScript
4 27 (6.52%) TypeScript
5 20 (4.83%) C++
6 14 (3.38%) Go
7 10 (2.42%) C#
8 7 (1.69%) Bash
9 6 (1.45%) Java
10 5 (1.21%) PHP
10 5 (1.21%) Rust
11 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Perl
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 18 (4.35%) Degree
2 13 (3.14%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.93%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.86%) QA
2 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 54 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.17%) Grafana
3 6 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.21%) Ansible
5 2 (0.48%) Kibana
5 2 (0.48%) logstash
6 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (3.38%) Databricks
2 4 (0.97%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.97%) SAP
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle
4 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.24%) Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) HubSpot