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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 420 424
Rank change year-on-year +53 +4 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 409 238 551
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.55% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.61% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 338 189 494
10th Percentile £47,675 £51,000 £51,450
25th Percentile £56,563 £64,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £117,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £146,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -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 84,829 38,939 91,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 89.48% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 55,870 22,758 66,964
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +74 392 £70,000 -16.42% 89
London +8 234 £90,000 +5.88% 61
UK excluding London +76 165 £60,000 -2.04% 48
Work from Home +40 122 £70,000 -30.00% 50
North of England +20 63 £70,000 +16.67% 18
South East +17 45 £70,000 +55.56% 15
Yorkshire -16 41 £75,000 +20.00% 5
South West - 24 £50,000 - 5
Midlands -19 21 £60,000 +9.09% 1
North West +8 15 £40,000 -33.33% 9
East Midlands -10 15 £62,500 +13.64%
North East - 7 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands -26 6 £55,000 - 1
Scotland -3 5 £45,000 -40.00% 5
East of England -11 4 £60,000 -29.41% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £75,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 409 (100.00%) Python
2 124 (30.32%) Software Engineering
3 110 (26.89%) Full-Stack Development
4 100 (24.45%) AI
5 91 (22.25%) AWS
6 74 (18.09%) Agile
7 71 (17.36%) React
8 59 (14.43%) CI/CD
9 57 (13.94%) JavaScript
10 49 (11.98%) Flask
10 49 (11.98%) SQL
11 47 (11.49%) Django
11 47 (11.49%) Test Automation
12 45 (11.00%) TypeScript
13 41 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (10.02%) Docker
14 35 (8.56%) Azure
14 35 (8.56%) Fintech
14 35 (8.56%) OO
14 35 (8.56%) OOP
15 34 (8.31%) REST
16 33 (8.07%) Linux
16 33 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
17 32 (7.82%) Mentoring
17 32 (7.82%) Serverless
18 31 (7.58%) SDLC
19 30 (7.33%) FastAPI
19 30 (7.33%) RESTful
20 29 (7.09%) SaaS
21 27 (6.60%) C++

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 17 (4.16%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.73%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.49%) Apache
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 91 (22.25%) AWS
2 35 (8.56%) Azure
3 32 (7.82%) Serverless
4 29 (7.09%) SaaS
5 27 (6.60%) GitHub
6 26 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 15 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.20%) GCP
11 8 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.22%) Prefect
13 4 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (0.98%) Azure AI
14 3 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.73%) AWS Fargate
15 2 (0.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (0.49%) AWS CodePipeline
15 2 (0.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.44%) Broadband
2 3 (0.73%) HTTP
2 3 (0.73%) RTP
2 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.73%) VoIP
2 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (3.91%) Big Data
3 15 (3.67%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.47%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.22%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.22%) MySQL
6 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.24%) GIS
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.24%) Power BI
7 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (6.11%) Git
2 7 (1.71%) GitLab
3 3 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.24%) MLflow
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.24%) Poetry
5 1 (0.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 63 (15.40%) Finance
2 52 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.02%) Front Office
4 21 (5.13%) Tech for Good
5 17 (4.16%) Health Technology
6 12 (2.93%) Publishing
7 11 (2.69%) Games
8 10 (2.44%) Banking
9 9 (2.20%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Aviation
12 2 (0.49%) Retail
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Back Office
13 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Marketing
13 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (17.36%) React
2 49 (11.98%) Flask
3 47 (11.49%) Django
4 34 (8.31%) REST
5 30 (7.33%) FastAPI
5 30 (7.33%) RESTful
6 27 (6.60%) Node.js
6 27 (6.60%) NumPy
7 26 (6.36%) Pandas
8 23 (5.62%) Vue
9 21 (5.13%) HTML
10 20 (4.89%) Kafka
11 18 (4.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 15 (3.67%) CSS
13 14 (3.42%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.20%) PyTorch
15 8 (1.96%) .NET
15 8 (1.96%) Redux
16 6 (1.47%) Google JAX
16 6 (1.47%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.25%) Algorithms
2 33 (8.07%) Cloud Native
3 32 (7.82%) Hedge funds
4 28 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 28 (6.85%) Equities
5 22 (5.38%) Fixed Income
6 21 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (4.40%) Management Information System
8 17 (4.16%) Educational Technology
9 15 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (3.18%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.44%) Low-Code
11 10 (2.44%) PropTech
11 10 (2.44%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (2.20%) Derivative
13 5 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.07%) Linux
2 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.32%) Software Engineering
2 110 (26.89%) Full-Stack Development
3 100 (24.45%) AI
4 74 (18.09%) Agile
5 59 (14.43%) CI/CD
6 47 (11.49%) Test Automation
7 41 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (8.56%) Fintech
8 35 (8.56%) OO
8 35 (8.56%) OOP
9 33 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (7.82%) Mentoring
11 31 (7.58%) SDLC
12 26 (6.36%) Microservices
13 24 (5.87%) Clean Code
13 24 (5.87%) Containerisation
14 23 (5.62%) Computer Science
14 23 (5.62%) Computer Vision
15 22 (5.38%) Deep Learning
15 22 (5.38%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 409 (100.00%) Python
2 57 (13.94%) JavaScript
3 49 (11.98%) SQL
4 45 (11.00%) TypeScript
5 27 (6.60%) C++
6 11 (2.69%) PHP
7 10 (2.44%) Go
7 10 (2.44%) Java
8 6 (1.47%) C#
9 4 (0.98%) C
10 3 (0.73%) Perl
10 3 (0.73%) VBA
11 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.49%) Bash
11 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.49%) Rust
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.24%) Ruby
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (3.91%) Degree
2 9 (2.20%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.96%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.42%) QA
2 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (10.02%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 27 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.42%) Terraform
3 3 (0.73%) Ansible
3 3 (0.73%) Argo
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (1.96%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.71%) Databricks
3 3 (0.73%) BT
3 3 (0.73%) Fortinet
3 3 (0.73%) Mitel
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle
4 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.24%) Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) Google
5 1 (0.24%) SAP