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 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 427 428
Rank change year-on-year +47 +1 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 412 263 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.66% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 329 203 498
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £117,500 £117,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 86,325 39,559 100,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.42% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 58,991 22,376 72,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +31 383 £70,000 -17.65% 45
London -21 224 £90,000 -4.51% 36
UK excluding London +60 174 £60,000 -2.04% 19
Work from Home -17 110 £70,000 -31.71% 26
North of England +20 74 £62,500 +4.17% 6
Yorkshire -8 42 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South East +12 37 £60,000 +33.33% 5
South West - 24 £50,000 - 1
North West +22 22 £43,750 -27.08% 1
Midlands -10 16 £60,000 -14.29%
East Midlands - 11 £60,000 -
North East - 10 £70,000 - 3
Scotland +15 9 £45,000 -40.00% 5
East of England -4 7 £71,250 -5.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 -
West Midlands -20 5 £55,000 -21.43%

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 412 (100.00%) Python
2 116 (28.16%) Software Engineering
3 103 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 96 (23.30%) AWS
5 95 (23.06%) AI
6 64 (15.53%) Agile
7 58 (14.08%) CI/CD
8 57 (13.83%) React
9 54 (13.11%) JavaScript
10 51 (12.38%) SQL
11 50 (12.14%) Test Automation
12 49 (11.89%) Flask
13 47 (11.41%) Docker
14 44 (10.68%) TypeScript
15 41 (9.95%) Django
16 38 (9.22%) Azure
16 38 (9.22%) FastAPI
16 38 (9.22%) OOP
17 37 (8.98%) OO
18 36 (8.74%) Linux
19 34 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 34 (8.25%) Kubernetes
19 34 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
20 31 (7.52%) C++
20 31 (7.52%) REST
21 29 (7.04%) Fintech
21 29 (7.04%) Mentoring
21 29 (7.04%) RESTful
22 28 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
23 27 (6.55%) Containerisation

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 14 (3.40%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.49%) Apache
3 2 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 96 (23.30%) AWS
2 38 (9.22%) Azure
3 27 (6.55%) SaaS
4 25 (6.07%) Serverless
5 23 (5.58%) GitHub
6 19 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (3.40%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.91%) GCP
10 5 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.21%) Prefect
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.73%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (0.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (0.73%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (0.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.49%) AWS CodePipeline
13 2 (0.49%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.16%) Broadband
2 3 (0.73%) HTTP
2 3 (0.73%) MQTT
2 3 (0.73%) RTP
2 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
2 3 (0.73%) VoIP
2 3 (0.73%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.49%) Firewall
4 1 (0.24%) ATM
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.61%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.16%) Big Data
4 6 (1.46%) DynamoDB
4 6 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.46%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.97%) MySQL
7 2 (0.49%) GIS
8 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.24%) Power BI
8 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.24%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (5.83%) Git
2 7 (1.70%) 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 61 (14.81%) Finance
2 43 (10.44%) Front Office
3 42 (10.19%) Social Skills
4 16 (3.88%) Tech for Good
5 14 (3.40%) Games
6 13 (3.16%) Banking
7 12 (2.91%) Health Technology
8 9 (2.18%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.97%) Aviation
10 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.97%) Publishing
11 2 (0.49%) Law
11 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Advertising
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive
12 1 (0.24%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.83%) React
2 49 (11.89%) Flask
3 41 (9.95%) Django
4 38 (9.22%) FastAPI
5 31 (7.52%) REST
6 29 (7.04%) RESTful
7 27 (6.55%) Node.js
7 27 (6.55%) NumPy
8 26 (6.31%) Pandas
8 26 (6.31%) Vue
9 20 (4.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 20 (4.85%) Kafka
10 19 (4.61%) HTML
11 15 (3.64%) CSS
12 11 (2.67%) AngularJS
13 10 (2.43%) .NET
14 8 (1.94%) PyTorch
14 8 (1.94%) Redux
14 8 (1.94%) Swagger
15 7 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.86%) Algorithms
2 39 (9.47%) Cloud Native
3 33 (8.01%) Hedge funds
4 32 (7.77%) Data Structures
5 30 (7.28%) Equities
6 27 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (5.34%) Fixed Income
8 20 (4.85%) Management Information System
9 15 (3.64%) Educational Technology
10 13 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (3.16%) Low-Code
10 13 (3.16%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (2.43%) Derivative
11 10 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (2.43%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.43%) PropTech
12 7 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.74%) Linux
2 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.16%) Software Engineering
2 103 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 95 (23.06%) AI
4 64 (15.53%) Agile
5 58 (14.08%) CI/CD
6 50 (12.14%) Test Automation
7 38 (9.22%) OOP
8 37 (8.98%) OO
9 34 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (7.04%) Fintech
10 29 (7.04%) Mentoring
11 28 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (6.55%) Containerisation
13 26 (6.31%) SDLC
14 24 (5.83%) Computer Vision
14 24 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (5.83%) Microservices
15 22 (5.34%) Deep Learning
15 22 (5.34%) Machine Learning
15 22 (5.34%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 412 (100.00%) Python
2 54 (13.11%) JavaScript
3 51 (12.38%) SQL
4 44 (10.68%) TypeScript
5 31 (7.52%) C++
6 13 (3.16%) Go
7 11 (2.67%) Java
8 10 (2.43%) PHP
9 8 (1.94%) C#
10 4 (0.97%) C
11 3 (0.73%) Bash
11 3 (0.73%) Perl
12 2 (0.49%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.49%) Rust
12 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.49%) VBA
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Haskell
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (3.64%) Degree
2 9 (2.18%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.94%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.43%) QA
2 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.73%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 47 (11.41%) Docker
2 3 (0.73%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 34 (8.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.64%) Terraform
3 3 (0.73%) Ansible
3 3 (0.73%) Argo
3 3 (0.73%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (2.91%) Databricks
2 5 (1.21%) Microsoft
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
4 2 (0.49%) SAP
5 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.24%) Foundry
5 1 (0.24%) Google