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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 542 639
Rank change year-on-year -60 +97 -79
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 57 8 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.023% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.026% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 55 7 15
10th Percentile £52,172 - £58,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £55,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £76,000 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +10.71% -6.67%

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 75,937 30,549 53,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 89.32% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 52,800 17,475 33,507
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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
East of England -3 22 £72,500 -3.33% 3
North of England -46 16 £77,500 +29.17% 5
Midlands -28 10 £70,000 - 2
East Midlands - 10 £70,000 -
North East - 9 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £75,000 -
North West -16 4 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Yorkshire -41 3 £70,000 +16.67% 2
South East -44 1 - - 2
South West - 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £58,565 -
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 4 September 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 57 (100.00%) Python
2 29 (50.88%) AWS
3 21 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
4 20 (35.09%) Azure
5 16 (28.07%) Software Engineering
6 15 (26.32%) RESTful
7 13 (22.81%) Docker
7 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
8 12 (21.05%) AI
8 12 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (21.05%) Event-Driven
8 12 (21.05%) FastAPI
8 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
8 12 (21.05%) Mentoring
8 12 (21.05%) Swagger
8 12 (21.05%) Validation
9 11 (19.30%) API Design
9 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
10 10 (17.54%) Agile
10 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
10 10 (17.54%) Kafka
10 10 (17.54%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
11 9 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (15.79%) Clean Code
11 9 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (15.79%) MQTT
11 9 (15.79%) OpenAPI
11 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (15.79%) Roadmaps

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 (1.75%) Apache
1 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.88%) AWS
2 20 (35.09%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) Azure Service Bus
4 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (14.04%) Serverless
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.26%) SaaS
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.75%) Dagster
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub
8 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) MQTT
2 2 (3.51%) Broadband
2 2 (3.51%) Firewall
3 1 (1.75%) 4G
3 1 (1.75%) 5G
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) HTTP
3 1 (1.75%) SSH
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.51%) GIS
5 1 (1.75%) Milvus
5 1 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) GitLab
2 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) MLflow
3 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 7 (12.28%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.26%) Legal
2 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.51%) Games
4 1 (1.75%) Advertising
4 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
4 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.75%) Tech for Good
4 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (26.32%) RESTful
2 12 (21.05%) FastAPI
2 12 (21.05%) Swagger
3 10 (17.54%) Kafka
3 10 (17.54%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (15.79%) OpenAPI
5 8 (14.04%) React
6 7 (12.28%) HTML
7 6 (10.53%) Node.js
8 5 (8.77%) CSS
8 5 (8.77%) Flask
9 3 (5.26%) Jinja
9 3 (5.26%) Pandas
9 3 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (3.51%) .NET
10 2 (3.51%) boto
10 2 (3.51%) NumPy
10 2 (3.51%) OpenLayers
10 2 (3.51%) pytest
10 2 (3.51%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (3.51%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.51%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.51%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (3.51%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) NHS
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (28.07%) Software Engineering
3 12 (21.05%) AI
3 12 (21.05%) Continuous Delivery
3 12 (21.05%) Event-Driven
3 12 (21.05%) Mentoring
3 12 (21.05%) Validation
4 11 (19.30%) API Design
4 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
5 10 (17.54%) Agile
5 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
6 9 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 9 (15.79%) Clean Code
6 9 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 8 (14.04%) Generative AI
8 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.53%) DevOps
9 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (8.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.53%) SQL
4 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.51%) Go
5 2 (3.51%) Rust
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Bicep
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
1 2 (3.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Prometheus