Senior Python Developer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Python Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 479 680
Rank change year-on-year -60 +201 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 31 11 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.042% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.048% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 29 7 25
10th Percentile £56,250 - £48,900
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,250 £89,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -8.82% +9.68%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 54,998 23,129 60,937
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 89.20% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 35,235 14,526 45,225
10th Percentile £28,750 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,114 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.09% -9.17%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Python Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK excluding London

Senior Python Developer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 April 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
North of England - 13 £70,000 -
Yorkshire - 12 £70,000 -
Midlands -30 10 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands -44 6 £70,000 +7.69%
West Midlands - 4 £75,000 -
Scotland - 4 £90,000 - 1
South East -42 3 £85,000 +21.43%
East of England -26 1 - - 2
North West - 1 £90,000 -
Senior Python Developer
UK

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 7 April 2026, Senior 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Python
2 22 (70.97%) AWS
3 13 (41.94%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (38.71%) React
5 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
5 11 (35.48%) Flask
6 10 (32.26%) Azure
7 9 (29.03%) Agile
7 9 (29.03%) AI
7 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
8 8 (25.81%) Django
8 8 (25.81%) Serverless
9 6 (19.35%) Intelligent Automation
9 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
9 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
9 6 (19.35%) REST
9 6 (19.35%) SQL
10 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
10 5 (16.13%) FastAPI
10 5 (16.13%) HTML
10 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
10 5 (16.13%) Vue
11 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
11 4 (12.90%) Azure AI
11 4 (12.90%) Change Management
11 4 (12.90%) Docker
11 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Azure
3 8 (25.81%) Serverless
4 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.90%) Azure AI
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.23%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Games
3 2 (6.45%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (38.71%) React
2 11 (35.48%) Flask
3 8 (25.81%) Django
4 6 (19.35%) REST
5 5 (16.13%) FastAPI
5 5 (16.13%) HTML
5 5 (16.13%) Vue
6 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (9.68%) CSS
8 2 (6.45%) Node.js
8 2 (6.45%) SQLAlchemy
9 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
9 1 (3.23%) JWT
9 1 (3.23%) NumPy
9 1 (3.23%) OAuth
9 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
9 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
9 1 (3.23%) Pandas
9 1 (3.23%) RESTful
9 1 (3.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 7 (22.58%) Educational Technology
3 3 (9.68%) NHS
4 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
4 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) AI
4 6 (19.35%) Intelligent Automation
4 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.90%) Change Management
6 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven
6 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (12.90%) Web Development
7 3 (9.68%) DevOps
7 3 (9.68%) Front End Development
7 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
7 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.68%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (9.68%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft