Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 415 400
Rank change year-on-year -21 -15 -120
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 561 738 1,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.76% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.83% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 493 639 1,014
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £146,000 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Developer.

Salary trend for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Developer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024. 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 -8 519 £95,000 +8.57% 145
London +72 416 £105,000 +5.00% 108
Work from Home -37 275 £95,000 +8.57% 79
UK excluding London -93 134 £60,000 -7.69% 44
Scotland -44 31 £58,941 +24.09% 10
South East -37 30 £65,000 -7.14% 10
North of England +26 27 £57,500 -11.54% 5
East of England +7 20 £54,000 -10.00% 4
South West -34 16 £60,000 -5.88% 5
Yorkshire +82 13 £72,500 +3.57% 2
West Midlands -1 10 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Midlands -31 10 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North West -21 9 £55,000 -15.38% 3
North East -4 5 £37,500 -46.43%

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 561 (100.00%) Python
2 321 (57.22%) AWS
3 307 (54.72%) Finance
4 285 (50.80%) Software Engineering
5 270 (48.13%) Agile
6 228 (40.64%) Front Office
7 216 (38.50%) GCP
8 214 (38.15%) Azure
9 212 (37.79%) TypeScript
10 208 (37.08%) Fixed Income
11 206 (36.72%) Asset Management
12 192 (34.22%) React
13 186 (33.16%) Hedge funds
14 184 (32.80%) Full Stack Development
15 180 (32.09%) Investment Management
16 168 (29.95%) Protocol Buffers
16 168 (29.95%) Apache Airflow
17 166 (29.59%) gRPC
18 154 (27.45%) Apache
19 153 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
20 152 (27.09%) Machine Learning
21 148 (26.38%) Banking
22 147 (26.20%) PostgreSQL
23 137 (24.42%) Equities
24 133 (23.71%) Artificial Intelligence
25 131 (23.35%) JavaScript
26 120 (21.39%) Redux
27 118 (21.03%) SQL
28 116 (20.68%) Google
29 111 (19.79%) Material-UI

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 168 (29.95%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (27.45%) Apache
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.36%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.25%) GNU Octave
2 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) InDesign
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 321 (57.22%) AWS
2 216 (38.50%) GCP
3 214 (38.15%) Azure
4 54 (9.63%) dbt
5 29 (5.17%) Snowflake
6 24 (4.28%) Serverless
7 20 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.03%) GitHub
9 11 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.25%) AWS IoT
10 7 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.71%) Firebolt
13 3 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.53%) SaaS
13 3 (0.53%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) FTP
1 3 (0.53%) HTTP
1 3 (0.53%) MQTT
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
2 147 (26.20%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (9.80%) Dremio
4 54 (9.63%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (9.63%) Apache Arrow
5 27 (4.81%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.39%) MySQL
6 19 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.14%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.14%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.78%) Redis
11 7 (1.25%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.07%) DB2
13 5 (0.89%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.89%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.89%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 63 (11.23%) Cypress.io
2 53 (9.45%) Git
3 18 (3.21%) JIRA
4 15 (2.67%) GitLab
5 6 (1.07%) GDB
5 6 (1.07%) Trac
6 5 (0.89%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.71%) Maven
8 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.36%) Gradle
8 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.36%) JUnit
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.18%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) Mockito
9 1 (0.18%) Redmine
9 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 307 (54.72%) Finance
2 228 (40.64%) Front Office
3 148 (26.38%) Banking
4 72 (12.83%) Social Skills
5 45 (8.02%) Investment Banking
6 19 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.39%) Marketing
7 17 (3.03%) Law
8 14 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 11 (1.96%) Back Office
10 10 (1.78%) Games
11 9 (1.60%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.43%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.25%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.25%) Aviation
13 7 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.07%) Electronics
14 6 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (34.22%) React
2 168 (29.95%) Protocol Buffers
3 166 (29.59%) gRPC
4 120 (21.39%) Redux
5 111 (19.79%) Material-UI
6 99 (17.65%) Pandas
7 85 (15.15%) Django
8 80 (14.26%) NumPy
9 59 (10.52%) AngularJS
10 54 (9.63%) SciPy
11 48 (8.56%) Flask
11 48 (8.56%) Vue
12 37 (6.60%) Node.js
13 31 (5.53%) HTML
14 29 (5.17%) RESTful
15 27 (4.81%) FastAPI
16 26 (4.63%) CSS
17 18 (3.21%) Kafka
18 15 (2.67%) .NET
19 13 (2.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 208 (37.08%) Fixed Income
2 186 (33.16%) Hedge funds
3 137 (24.42%) Equities
4 78 (13.90%) Derivative
5 48 (8.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 31 (5.53%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.85%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.67%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.78%) IoT
11 7 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.89%) NHS
12 5 (0.89%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.71%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.71%) Pricing Data
13 4 (0.71%) Robotics
13 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.20%) Linux
2 5 (0.89%) Unix
3 3 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (50.80%) Software Engineering
2 270 (48.13%) Agile
3 206 (36.72%) Asset Management
4 184 (32.80%) Full Stack Development
5 180 (32.09%) Investment Management
6 152 (27.09%) Machine Learning
7 133 (23.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 104 (18.54%) Automated Trading
9 70 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (11.41%) CI/CD
11 59 (10.52%) Computer Science
12 57 (10.16%) Analytics
13 50 (8.91%) Fintech
14 47 (8.38%) DevOps
15 39 (6.95%) Quantitative Research
16 37 (6.60%) TDD
17 36 (6.42%) Containerisation
18 32 (5.70%) Line Management
18 32 (5.70%) Microservices
19 30 (5.35%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 561 (100.00%) Python
2 212 (37.79%) TypeScript
3 131 (23.35%) JavaScript
4 118 (21.03%) SQL
5 64 (11.41%) Java
6 39 (6.95%) R
7 27 (4.81%) C++
8 24 (4.28%) C#
9 9 (1.60%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.25%) Scala
11 4 (0.71%) Ruby
12 3 (0.53%) Clojure
12 3 (0.53%) Cython
12 3 (0.53%) Groovy
12 3 (0.53%) Rust
12 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.53%) VBA
13 2 (0.36%) Go
13 2 (0.36%) PHP
13 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (13.37%) Degree
2 34 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.67%) Master's Degree
3 15 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.60%) DBS Check
5 8 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.25%) PhD
7 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.14%) QA
2 3 (0.53%) MiFID
3 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 76 (13.55%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.78%) Terraform
3 6 (1.07%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 116 (20.68%) Google
2 37 (6.60%) Bloomberg
3 12 (2.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.53%) NVIDIA
4 3 (0.53%) Reuters
4 3 (0.53%) SAP
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe
6 1 (0.18%) Databricks
6 1 (0.18%) Vertica