Python Developer Job Trends

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 385 399
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 323 293 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.74% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 257 221 472
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £132,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £118,750 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -5.88%

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 67,520 39,640 79,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.81% 90.72% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 42,919 22,979 60,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,983 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.06% +9.97% -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 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 14 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 12 March 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 -2 314 £76,000 -7.88% 102
London +23 203 £90,000 +5.88% 59
Work from Home +4 121 £76,000 -10.59% 45
UK excluding London +10 110 £70,000 +7.69% 53
North of England -9 36 £72,500 +4.61% 16
South East -5 32 £70,000 +12.00% 14
Midlands -6 30 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire -22 28 £75,000 +11.11% 11
East Midlands -35 16 £65,000 +18.18% 3
West Midlands +16 14 £75,000 +28.42% 1
North West -7 8 £40,000 -42.29% 3
South West -23 7 £55,000 - 10
Scotland -14 3 £90,000 +20.00% 1
East of England -9 2 £50,000 -41.18% 7

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

For the 6 months to 12 March 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.

1 323 (100.00%) Python
2 108 (33.44%) Software Engineering
3 91 (28.17%) React
4 83 (25.70%) AWS
5 75 (23.22%) Agile
6 72 (22.29%) AI
7 70 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 65 (20.12%) CI/CD
9 61 (18.89%) Django
10 58 (17.96%) JavaScript
11 56 (17.34%) Flask
12 55 (17.03%) SQL
13 52 (16.10%) Mentoring
14 48 (14.86%) Serverless
14 48 (14.86%) Test Automation
15 47 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
16 46 (14.24%) Docker
17 45 (13.93%) GitHub
18 44 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
19 43 (13.31%) OOP
20 42 (13.00%) Azure
21 39 (12.07%) FastAPI
22 38 (11.76%) TypeScript
23 37 (11.46%) Fintech
24 36 (11.15%) OO
25 32 (9.91%) SDLC
26 31 (9.60%) Containerisation
26 31 (9.60%) REST
27 29 (8.98%) HTML
28 28 (8.67%) AWS Lambda

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 19 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 83 (25.70%) AWS
2 48 (14.86%) Serverless
3 45 (13.93%) GitHub
4 42 (13.00%) Azure
5 28 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (8.05%) Amazon S3
6 26 (8.05%) SaaS
7 15 (4.64%) GCP
7 15 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.48%) Azure AI
11 3 (0.93%) dbt
12 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.62%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (0.62%) Azure AKS
12 2 (0.62%) GitHub Copilot
13 1 (0.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Cognitive Search
13 1 (0.31%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) HTTP
1 3 (0.93%) RTP
1 3 (0.93%) Unified Communications
1 3 (0.93%) VoIP
1 3 (0.93%) Wireshark
2 2 (0.62%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.57%) Big Data
3 9 (2.79%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.48%) MySQL
4 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
5 7 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Arrow
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.62%) Dremio
7 2 (0.62%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.62%) Tick Data
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (4.95%) Git
2 4 (1.24%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.93%) GitLab
4 2 (0.62%) JIRA
4 2 (0.62%) Maven
4 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 71 (21.98%) Finance
2 66 (20.43%) Social Skills
3 39 (12.07%) Front Office
4 19 (5.88%) Tech for Good
5 18 (5.57%) Health Technology
6 16 (4.95%) Publishing
7 14 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 14 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.10%) Banking
9 9 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.79%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Aviation
12 3 (0.93%) Retail
13 2 (0.62%) Games
13 2 (0.62%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
14 1 (0.31%) Electronics
14 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (28.17%) React
2 61 (18.89%) Django
3 56 (17.34%) Flask
4 39 (12.07%) FastAPI
5 31 (9.60%) REST
6 29 (8.98%) HTML
7 27 (8.36%) RESTful
8 25 (7.74%) Node.js
9 21 (6.50%) Kafka
9 21 (6.50%) Vue
10 20 (6.19%) CSS
11 19 (5.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 12 (3.72%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.48%) Redux
14 7 (2.17%) OAuth
14 7 (2.17%) OAuth2
15 6 (1.86%) .NET
15 6 (1.86%) NumPy
15 6 (1.86%) Pandas
16 5 (1.55%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.07%) Data Structures
2 33 (10.22%) Equities
3 29 (8.98%) Hedge funds
4 25 (7.74%) Algorithms
5 19 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.26%) Fixed Income
7 16 (4.95%) Cloud Native
8 13 (4.02%) Educational Technology
9 11 (3.41%) Product Ownership
10 10 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (3.10%) PropTech
11 8 (2.48%) Derivative
12 4 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.24%) PKI
13 2 (0.62%) NHS
13 2 (0.62%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.31%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.31%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.67%) Linux
2 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (33.44%) Software Engineering
2 75 (23.22%) Agile
3 72 (22.29%) AI
4 70 (21.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (20.12%) CI/CD
6 52 (16.10%) Mentoring
7 48 (14.86%) Test Automation
8 47 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (13.31%) OOP
11 37 (11.46%) Fintech
12 36 (11.15%) OO
13 32 (9.91%) SDLC
14 31 (9.60%) Containerisation
15 26 (8.05%) Microservices
16 25 (7.74%) Clean Code
16 25 (7.74%) Code Quality
16 25 (7.74%) Computer Science
17 21 (6.50%) Order Management
18 20 (6.19%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 323 (100.00%) Python
2 58 (17.96%) JavaScript
3 55 (17.03%) SQL
4 38 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 25 (7.74%) C++
6 12 (3.72%) Java
7 8 (2.48%) PHP
8 5 (1.55%) VBA
9 4 (1.24%) C
9 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.93%) C#
11 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.62%) Scala
12 1 (0.31%) Go
12 1 (0.31%) Perl
12 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.31%) Ruby
12 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (4.33%) Degree
2 2 (0.62%) Azure Certification
2 2 (0.62%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.31%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.26%) QA
2 5 (1.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.62%) PSD2
System Software
1 46 (14.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.93%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 23 (7.12%) Terraform
2 19 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.93%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (4.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (0.93%) BT
2 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
2 3 (0.93%) Mitel
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle
3 2 (0.62%) Databricks
3 2 (0.62%) Foundry
3 2 (0.62%) Google
3 2 (0.62%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.62%) Solace
4 1 (0.31%) SAP
4 1 (0.31%) UiPath