Python Developer Jobs

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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 424 408
Rank change year-on-year -19 -16 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 574 703 1,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.76% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.83% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 498 619 992
10th Percentile £50,700 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £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 £108,750
90th Percentile £146,250 £145,000 £127,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £66,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.26% +15.65%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -11 532 £95,000 +8.57% 115
London +54 417 £105,000 +5.00% 81
Work from Home -35 283 £95,000 +5.56% 69
UK excluding London -114 146 £60,000 -7.69% 38
North of England +19 34 £67,500 -3.57% 8
South East -42 34 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Scotland -51 31 £61,970 +23.94% 7
East of England 0 21 £54,000 +2.86% 1
North West -21 16 £67,500 +3.85% 4
South West -38 15 £60,000 -5.88% 5
Yorkshire +69 13 £72,500 +3.57% 3
West Midlands -18 11 £55,000 +4.76% 7
Midlands -53 11 £55,000 +4.76% 9
North East -13 5 £37,500 -46.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 574 (100.00%) Python
2 330 (57.49%) AWS
3 307 (53.48%) Finance
4 292 (50.87%) Software Engineering
5 277 (48.26%) Agile
6 232 (40.42%) Front Office
7 223 (38.85%) GCP
8 217 (37.80%) TypeScript
9 212 (36.93%) Fixed Income
10 211 (36.76%) Asset Management
11 209 (36.41%) Azure
12 195 (33.97%) React
13 190 (33.10%) Hedge funds
14 188 (32.75%) Full Stack Development
15 180 (31.36%) Investment Management
16 175 (30.49%) Protocol Buffers
16 175 (30.49%) Apache Airflow
17 174 (30.31%) gRPC
18 161 (28.05%) Apache
19 160 (27.87%) Apache Ignite
20 156 (27.18%) Machine Learning
21 153 (26.66%) PostgreSQL
22 152 (26.48%) Banking
23 141 (24.56%) Equities
24 137 (23.87%) JavaScript
25 135 (23.52%) Artificial Intelligence
26 122 (21.25%) Redux
27 121 (21.08%) SQL
28 116 (20.21%) Google
29 111 (19.34%) 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
1 175 (30.49%) Apache Airflow
2 161 (28.05%) Apache
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.35%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.22%) GNU Octave
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) InDesign
3 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Revit
4 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 330 (57.49%) AWS
2 223 (38.85%) GCP
3 209 (36.41%) Azure
4 62 (10.80%) dbt
5 35 (6.10%) Snowflake
6 25 (4.36%) Serverless
7 20 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (2.61%) GitHub
9 10 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.22%) AWS IoT
12 6 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.87%) SaaS
14 4 (0.70%) Firebolt
14 4 (0.70%) WhatsApp
15 3 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
16 2 (0.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 2 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.70%) FTP
2 2 (0.35%) Firewall
2 2 (0.35%) HTTP
2 2 (0.35%) MQTT
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (27.87%) Apache Ignite
2 153 (26.66%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (10.80%) Dremio
4 61 (10.63%) Amazon Athena
4 61 (10.63%) Apache Arrow
5 32 (5.57%) Data Lake
6 22 (3.83%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.31%) MySQL
8 16 (2.79%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.44%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.26%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.26%) NoSQL
11 12 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.74%) Redis
13 8 (1.39%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.05%) DB2
14 6 (1.05%) SQLite
15 5 (0.87%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.87%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 63 (10.98%) Cypress.io
2 52 (9.06%) Git
3 17 (2.96%) JIRA
4 16 (2.79%) GitLab
5 6 (1.05%) GDB
5 6 (1.05%) Trac
6 5 (0.87%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.70%) Maven
8 2 (0.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.35%) Gradle
8 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.35%) JUnit
8 2 (0.35%) Selenium
8 2 (0.35%) webpack
9 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.17%) GCC
9 1 (0.17%) Mockito
9 1 (0.17%) Redmine
9 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 307 (53.48%) Finance
2 232 (40.42%) Front Office
3 152 (26.48%) Banking
4 71 (12.37%) Social Skills
5 49 (8.54%) Investment Banking
6 20 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.14%) Marketing
8 16 (2.79%) Law
9 13 (2.26%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.09%) Games
11 11 (1.92%) Back Office
12 9 (1.57%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.39%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.22%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.22%) Aviation
15 6 (1.05%) Analytical Skills
15 6 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.87%) Electronics
17 4 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (33.97%) React
2 175 (30.49%) Protocol Buffers
3 174 (30.31%) gRPC
4 122 (21.25%) Redux
5 111 (19.34%) Material-UI
6 106 (18.47%) Pandas
7 89 (15.51%) NumPy
8 84 (14.63%) Django
9 61 (10.63%) SciPy
10 60 (10.45%) AngularJS
11 49 (8.54%) Vue
12 46 (8.01%) Flask
13 39 (6.79%) Node.js
14 33 (5.75%) RESTful
15 32 (5.57%) HTML
16 30 (5.23%) FastAPI
17 27 (4.70%) CSS
18 19 (3.31%) Kafka
19 14 (2.44%) Spring
19 14 (2.44%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 212 (36.93%) Fixed Income
2 190 (33.10%) Hedge funds
3 141 (24.56%) Equities
4 80 (13.94%) Derivative
5 53 (9.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 33 (5.75%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.79%) Client/Server
8 15 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.57%) IoT
9 9 (1.57%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.05%) NHS
12 5 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.87%) Robotics
13 4 (0.70%) Cloud Native
13 4 (0.70%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.70%) Pricing Data
13 4 (0.70%) Reinsurance
13 4 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.36%) Linux
2 5 (0.87%) Unix
3 3 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.17%) Android
4 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (50.87%) Software Engineering
2 277 (48.26%) Agile
3 211 (36.76%) Asset Management
4 188 (32.75%) Full Stack Development
5 180 (31.36%) Investment Management
6 156 (27.18%) Machine Learning
7 135 (23.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 104 (18.12%) Automated Trading
9 69 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (11.15%) CI/CD
11 61 (10.63%) Computer Science
12 60 (10.45%) Analytics
13 55 (9.58%) Fintech
14 45 (7.84%) DevOps
15 39 (6.79%) TDD
16 38 (6.62%) Quantitative Research
17 37 (6.45%) Line Management
18 34 (5.92%) Containerisation
19 31 (5.40%) Microservices
20 30 (5.23%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 574 (100.00%) Python
2 217 (37.80%) TypeScript
3 137 (23.87%) JavaScript
4 121 (21.08%) SQL
5 71 (12.37%) Java
6 38 (6.62%) R
7 30 (5.23%) C++
8 23 (4.01%) C#
9 9 (1.57%) MATLAB
10 8 (1.39%) Scala
11 4 (0.70%) Clojure
11 4 (0.70%) Go
11 4 (0.70%) Groovy
11 4 (0.70%) Ruby
12 3 (0.52%) Cython
12 3 (0.52%) Rust
12 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (13.59%) Degree
2 34 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 16 (2.79%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.74%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.57%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.22%) PhD
8 2 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.92%) QA
2 4 (0.70%) MiFID
3 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 75 (13.07%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.57%) Terraform
3 6 (1.05%) Ansible
4 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 116 (20.21%) Google
2 39 (6.79%) Bloomberg
3 11 (1.92%) Microsoft
4 7 (1.22%) Reuters
5 2 (0.35%) Adobe
5 2 (0.35%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.35%) SAP
6 1 (0.17%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.17%) Databricks
6 1 (0.17%) Vertica