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 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 417 367
Rank change year-on-year -29 -50 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 535 761 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.74% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.80% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 478 660 1,123
10th Percentile £50,700 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £60,625
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 £142,500 £127,200
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 93,221 94,676 150,515
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 66,838 59,581 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 15 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 5 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 +2 492 £92,500 +8.82% 109
London +70 392 £105,000 +5.00% 83
Work from Home -32 269 £95,000 +15.15% 68
UK excluding London -93 133 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Scotland -51 32 £60,000 +17.07% 8
South East -14 29 £65,000 -7.14% 7
North of England +19 26 £57,500 -11.54% 1
East of England +27 20 £60,000 +9.09% 5
South West -33 17 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Yorkshire +88 12 £72,500 +3.57% 1
North West -18 9 £55,000 -15.38%
West Midlands +7 8 £48,750 -7.14% 3
Midlands -12 8 £48,750 -15.22% 5
North East -5 5 £37,500 -46.43%
Northern Ireland +23 1 £65,000 -7.14%

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 535 (100.00%) Python
2 290 (54.21%) AWS
3 279 (52.15%) Finance
4 258 (48.22%) Software Engineering
5 244 (45.61%) Agile
6 205 (38.32%) Front Office
7 197 (36.82%) Azure
8 187 (34.95%) GCP
9 184 (34.39%) Fixed Income
10 183 (34.21%) TypeScript
11 178 (33.27%) Asset Management
12 170 (31.78%) Hedge funds
13 164 (30.65%) React
14 163 (30.47%) Full Stack Development
15 160 (29.91%) Investment Management
16 134 (25.05%) Machine Learning
17 133 (24.86%) Apache Airflow
17 133 (24.86%) Protocol Buffers
18 131 (24.49%) gRPC
19 127 (23.74%) PostgreSQL
20 122 (22.80%) Banking
21 119 (22.24%) Apache
22 118 (22.06%) Equities
22 118 (22.06%) Apache Ignite
23 116 (21.68%) Artificial Intelligence
24 113 (21.12%) JavaScript
25 110 (20.56%) SQL
26 99 (18.50%) Google
27 93 (17.38%) Redux
28 92 (17.20%) 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
1 133 (24.86%) Apache Airflow
2 119 (22.24%) Apache
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.37%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.31%) GNU Octave
2 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) InDesign
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 290 (54.21%) AWS
2 197 (36.82%) Azure
3 187 (34.95%) GCP
4 38 (7.10%) dbt
5 21 (3.93%) GitHub
5 21 (3.93%) Serverless
6 19 (3.55%) Snowflake
7 18 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.31%) AWS IoT
11 6 (1.12%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.12%) SaaS
12 5 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.75%) Firebolt
14 3 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (0.56%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.37%) Amazon EMR
15 2 (0.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 2 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.75%) HTTP
1 4 (0.75%) MQTT
2 2 (0.37%) FTP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (23.74%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (22.06%) Apache Ignite
3 39 (7.29%) Dremio
4 38 (7.10%) Amazon Athena
4 38 (7.10%) Apache Arrow
5 21 (3.93%) MySQL
6 18 (3.36%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.80%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.43%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.68%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.68%) Redis
10 8 (1.50%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.12%) DB2
13 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.93%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.93%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.93%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 53 (9.91%) Git
2 48 (8.97%) Cypress.io
3 18 (3.36%) JIRA
4 11 (2.06%) GitLab
5 6 (1.12%) GDB
5 6 (1.12%) Trac
6 5 (0.93%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.75%) Maven
8 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.37%) Gradle
9 2 (0.37%) JUnit
9 2 (0.37%) Selenium
9 2 (0.37%) webpack
10 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.19%) GCC
10 1 (0.19%) Mockito
10 1 (0.19%) Redmine
10 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 279 (52.15%) Finance
2 205 (38.32%) Front Office
3 122 (22.80%) Banking
4 70 (13.08%) Social Skills
5 39 (7.29%) Investment Banking
6 21 (3.93%) Marketing
7 17 (3.18%) Law
8 16 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.87%) Back Office
11 8 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.50%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.50%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.31%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.31%) Aviation
12 7 (1.31%) Electronics
12 7 (1.31%) Games
12 7 (1.31%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (30.65%) React
2 133 (24.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 131 (24.49%) gRPC
4 93 (17.38%) Redux
5 92 (17.20%) Material-UI
6 90 (16.82%) Django
7 83 (15.51%) Pandas
8 65 (12.15%) NumPy
9 54 (10.09%) Flask
10 51 (9.53%) AngularJS
11 41 (7.66%) Vue
12 38 (7.10%) SciPy
13 29 (5.42%) Node.js
14 26 (4.86%) HTML
14 26 (4.86%) RESTful
15 25 (4.67%) FastAPI
16 21 (3.93%) CSS
17 17 (3.18%) Kafka
18 15 (2.80%) .NET
18 15 (2.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 184 (34.39%) Fixed Income
2 170 (31.78%) Hedge funds
3 118 (22.06%) Equities
4 79 (14.77%) Derivative
5 40 (7.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (5.61%) Algorithms
7 21 (3.93%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.80%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.62%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.87%) IoT
11 9 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.93%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.93%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.75%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.75%) Pricing Data
14 4 (0.75%) Raspberry Pi
14 4 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.41%) Linux
2 6 (1.12%) Unix
3 3 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (48.22%) Software Engineering
2 244 (45.61%) Agile
3 178 (33.27%) Asset Management
4 163 (30.47%) Full Stack Development
5 160 (29.91%) Investment Management
6 134 (25.05%) Machine Learning
7 116 (21.68%) Artificial Intelligence
8 85 (15.89%) Automated Trading
9 70 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (11.40%) CI/CD
11 57 (10.65%) Analytics
12 55 (10.28%) Computer Science
13 54 (10.09%) DevOps
14 47 (8.79%) Quantitative Research
15 43 (8.04%) Fintech
16 38 (7.10%) Containerisation
17 34 (6.36%) Microservices
18 31 (5.79%) Scrum
18 31 (5.79%) TDD
19 30 (5.61%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 535 (100.00%) Python
2 183 (34.21%) TypeScript
3 113 (21.12%) JavaScript
4 110 (20.56%) SQL
5 52 (9.72%) Java
6 42 (7.85%) R
7 27 (5.05%) C++
8 16 (2.99%) C#
9 9 (1.68%) MATLAB
10 6 (1.12%) Scala
11 4 (0.75%) Ruby
11 4 (0.75%) Rust
12 3 (0.56%) Cython
12 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.56%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) Clojure
13 2 (0.37%) Groovy
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (13.08%) Degree
2 31 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.62%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.43%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.12%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.12%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.75%) PhD
7 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.80%) QA
2 2 (0.37%) MiFID
3 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 73 (13.64%) Docker
2 4 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.06%) Terraform
3 6 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 99 (18.50%) Google
2 40 (7.48%) Bloomberg
3 15 (2.80%) Microsoft
4 4 (0.75%) NVIDIA
4 4 (0.75%) SAP
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe
5 2 (0.37%) Reuters
6 1 (0.19%) Vertica