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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 405 436
Rank change year-on-year +4 +31 -76
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 425 297 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.60% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.67% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 340 223 408
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £70,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £137,500 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -14.29%

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 94,323 44,218 88,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 89.88% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 64,728 26,167 62,366
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +12 386 £71,250 -16.18% 53
London -39 214 £90,000 -5.26% 36
UK excluding London +77 192 £60,000 -7.69% 27
Work from Home -60 110 £70,000 -33.33% 29
North of England +34 79 £70,000 +3.70% 8
Yorkshire -9 39 £70,000 - 4
South East -12 26 £60,000 +33.33% 7
South West -34 25 £50,000 -41.18% 1
East of England +9 23 £71,250 +3.64% 4
North West +8 21 £45,000 -30.77% 2
North East - 19 £70,000 - 2
Midlands -21 17 £62,500 +13.64% 3
Scotland +27 15 £45,000 - 2
East Midlands -11 12 £70,000 +75.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £75,000 - 2
West Midlands -19 5 £60,000 -14.29%

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 425 (100.00%) Python
2 118 (27.76%) AWS
3 112 (26.35%) Software Engineering
4 101 (23.76%) AI
4 101 (23.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 67 (15.76%) CI/CD
6 60 (14.12%) SQL
7 59 (13.88%) Agile
8 58 (13.65%) JavaScript
9 49 (11.53%) Docker
9 49 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
10 48 (11.29%) Azure
10 48 (11.29%) FastAPI
11 46 (10.82%) Django
12 45 (10.59%) React
13 44 (10.35%) Test Automation
14 43 (10.12%) TypeScript
15 42 (9.88%) Flask
16 41 (9.65%) RESTful
17 38 (8.94%) Kubernetes
18 33 (7.76%) OOP
19 32 (7.53%) Linux
20 31 (7.29%) Containerisation
20 31 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
20 31 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
20 31 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
21 30 (7.06%) Microservices
21 30 (7.06%) REST
22 29 (6.82%) OO
23 28 (6.59%) 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 13 (3.06%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 118 (27.76%) AWS
2 48 (11.29%) Azure
3 26 (6.12%) SaaS
4 23 (5.41%) Serverless
5 19 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (3.76%) Amazon S3
7 14 (3.29%) GCP
8 13 (3.06%) GitHub
9 11 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.88%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.18%) Prefect
14 4 (0.94%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.94%) Kong
15 3 (0.71%) AWS Fargate
15 3 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.53%) Broadband
2 6 (1.41%) MQTT
3 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) HTTP
3 2 (0.47%) RTP
3 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.47%) VoIP
3 2 (0.47%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.24%) ATM
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (4.47%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.82%) Big Data
3 12 (2.82%) DynamoDB
4 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.65%) MySQL
6 6 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.18%) SQL Server
8 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.47%) GIS
9 2 (0.47%) Power BI
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.24%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.24%) Redis
10 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (6.12%) Git
2 10 (2.35%) GitLab
3 4 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.47%) MLflow
4 2 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.24%) Poetry
5 1 (0.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (14.12%) Finance
2 39 (9.18%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.94%) Front Office
4 19 (4.47%) Tech for Good
5 15 (3.53%) Games
6 12 (2.82%) Health Technology
7 11 (2.59%) Banking
8 8 (1.88%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.94%) Aviation
10 4 (0.94%) Publishing
11 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.47%) Law
11 2 (0.47%) Legal
11 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.47%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Advertising
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (11.29%) FastAPI
2 46 (10.82%) Django
3 45 (10.59%) React
4 42 (9.88%) Flask
5 41 (9.65%) RESTful
6 30 (7.06%) REST
7 27 (6.35%) NumPy
8 26 (6.12%) Node.js
8 26 (6.12%) Pandas
8 26 (6.12%) Vue
9 23 (5.41%) Kafka
10 18 (4.24%) CSS
10 18 (4.24%) HTML
11 16 (3.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (3.06%) Swagger
13 12 (2.82%) AngularJS
13 12 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (2.59%) .NET
15 9 (2.12%) PyTorch
16 8 (1.88%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.12%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (9.65%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.12%) Hedge funds
5 25 (5.88%) Equities
6 24 (5.65%) Data Structures
7 23 (5.41%) Fixed Income
8 19 (4.47%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (4.47%) Low-Code
9 16 (3.76%) Management Information System
10 15 (3.53%) Video\Live Streaming
11 14 (3.29%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (2.82%) Derivative
13 10 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.65%) Educational Technology
15 7 (1.65%) PropTech
16 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
16 5 (1.18%) Product Ownership
17 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.53%) Linux
2 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
2 2 (0.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (26.35%) Software Engineering
2 101 (23.76%) AI
2 101 (23.76%) Full-Stack Development
3 67 (15.76%) CI/CD
4 59 (13.88%) Agile
5 44 (10.35%) Test Automation
6 33 (7.76%) OOP
7 31 (7.29%) Containerisation
7 31 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (7.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (7.06%) Microservices
9 29 (6.82%) OO
10 27 (6.35%) Fintech
10 27 (6.35%) Machine Learning
11 26 (6.12%) Mentoring
11 26 (6.12%) Validation
12 25 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (5.88%) Generative AI
13 24 (5.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 425 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (14.12%) SQL
3 58 (13.65%) JavaScript
4 43 (10.12%) TypeScript
5 28 (6.59%) C++
6 15 (3.53%) Go
7 10 (2.35%) C#
7 10 (2.35%) Java
8 7 (1.65%) PHP
9 5 (1.18%) Rust
10 4 (0.94%) Bash
11 3 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.47%) C
12 2 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) ABAP
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) Haskell
13 1 (0.24%) OCaml
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (3.29%) Degree
2 12 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.24%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.29%) QA
2 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 49 (11.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.71%) Terraform
3 6 (1.41%) Grafana
4 5 (1.18%) Ansible
5 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.47%) Argo
6 2 (0.47%) Kibana
6 2 (0.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (3.53%) Databricks
2 4 (0.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (0.94%) Oracle
3 2 (0.47%) BT
3 2 (0.47%) Fortinet
3 2 (0.47%) Mitel
3 2 (0.47%) SAP
4 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.24%) Foundry
4 1 (0.24%) Google
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce