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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 425 372
Rank change year-on-year -13 -53 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 545 742 1,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.74% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.80% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 488 642 1,075
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £61,375
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 £149,500 £126,900
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 93,899 92,293 151,422
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.47% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,283 58,235 84,441
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,627 £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 11 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 11 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 +1 503 £95,000 +11.76% 100
London +72 403 £105,000 +5.00% 77
Work from Home -27 269 £95,000 +15.15% 61
UK excluding London -74 132 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Scotland -45 32 £61,970 +30.46% 10
South East -33 30 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North of England +13 26 £57,500 -11.54% 1
East of England +30 19 £60,000 - 4
South West -33 17 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Yorkshire +85 12 £72,500 +3.57% 1
North West -26 9 £55,000 -15.38%
West Midlands -2 8 £48,750 -7.14% 3
Midlands -33 8 £48,750 -11.36% 4
North East -2 5 £37,500 -46.43%

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 545 (100.00%) Python
2 302 (55.41%) AWS
3 294 (53.94%) Finance
4 270 (49.54%) Software Engineering
5 256 (46.97%) Agile
6 218 (40.00%) Front Office
7 208 (38.17%) Azure
8 202 (37.06%) GCP
9 197 (36.15%) TypeScript
9 197 (36.15%) Fixed Income
10 193 (35.41%) Asset Management
11 182 (33.39%) Hedge funds
12 179 (32.84%) React
13 174 (31.93%) Full Stack Development
13 174 (31.93%) Investment Management
14 148 (27.16%) Apache Airflow
14 148 (27.16%) Protocol Buffers
15 146 (26.79%) gRPC
16 143 (26.24%) Machine Learning
17 139 (25.50%) PostgreSQL
18 134 (24.59%) Banking
18 134 (24.59%) Apache
19 133 (24.40%) Apache Ignite
20 128 (23.49%) Equities
21 125 (22.94%) Artificial Intelligence
22 117 (21.47%) JavaScript
23 112 (20.55%) SQL
24 109 (20.00%) Google
25 106 (19.45%) Redux
26 103 (18.90%) 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
1 148 (27.16%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (24.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.37%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) GNU Octave
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) InDesign
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 302 (55.41%) AWS
2 208 (38.17%) Azure
3 202 (37.06%) GCP
4 42 (7.71%) dbt
5 20 (3.67%) Serverless
5 20 (3.67%) Snowflake
6 19 (3.49%) GitHub
7 17 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (1.28%) AWS IoT
10 6 (1.10%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.73%) Firebolt
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.55%) SaaS
13 3 (0.55%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (0.37%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) FTP
1 3 (0.55%) HTTP
1 3 (0.55%) MQTT
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (25.50%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (24.40%) Apache Ignite
3 43 (7.89%) Dremio
4 42 (7.71%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (7.71%) Apache Arrow
5 20 (3.67%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.67%) MySQL
6 15 (2.75%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.83%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.65%) Redis
10 8 (1.47%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.47%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.10%) DB2
13 5 (0.92%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.92%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (10.09%) Cypress.io
2 51 (9.36%) Git
3 18 (3.30%) JIRA
4 11 (2.02%) GitLab
5 6 (1.10%) GDB
5 6 (1.10%) Trac
6 5 (0.92%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.73%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.37%) Gradle
8 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.37%) JUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) 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
1 294 (53.94%) Finance
2 218 (40.00%) Front Office
3 134 (24.59%) Banking
4 69 (12.66%) Social Skills
5 40 (7.34%) Investment Banking
6 20 (3.67%) Marketing
7 17 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.12%) Law
8 14 (2.57%) Public Sector
9 10 (1.83%) Back Office
10 8 (1.47%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 7 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
11 7 (1.28%) Aviation
11 7 (1.28%) Games
11 7 (1.28%) Tech for Good
11 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.10%) Electronics
12 6 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (32.84%) React
2 148 (27.16%) Protocol Buffers
3 146 (26.79%) gRPC
4 106 (19.45%) Redux
5 103 (18.90%) Material-UI
6 88 (16.15%) Django
7 87 (15.96%) Pandas
8 70 (12.84%) NumPy
9 54 (9.91%) AngularJS
10 51 (9.36%) Flask
11 43 (7.89%) Vue
12 42 (7.71%) SciPy
13 31 (5.69%) Node.js
14 28 (5.14%) HTML
15 25 (4.59%) RESTful
16 24 (4.40%) FastAPI
17 23 (4.22%) CSS
18 17 (3.12%) Kafka
19 15 (2.75%) .NET
20 14 (2.57%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 197 (36.15%) Fixed Income
2 182 (33.39%) Hedge funds
3 128 (23.49%) Equities
4 81 (14.86%) Derivative
5 42 (7.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (5.32%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.49%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.57%) Client/Server
9 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.83%) IoT
11 9 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.28%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.73%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.73%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.73%) Pricing Data
14 4 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.73%) Robotics
14 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.44%) Linux
2 5 (0.92%) Unix
3 3 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (49.54%) Software Engineering
2 256 (46.97%) Agile
3 193 (35.41%) Asset Management
4 174 (31.93%) Full Stack Development
4 174 (31.93%) Investment Management
5 143 (26.24%) Machine Learning
6 125 (22.94%) Artificial Intelligence
7 96 (17.61%) Automated Trading
8 67 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (10.83%) CI/CD
10 54 (9.91%) Analytics
10 54 (9.91%) Computer Science
11 53 (9.72%) DevOps
12 47 (8.62%) Quantitative Research
13 45 (8.26%) Fintech
14 36 (6.61%) Containerisation
15 31 (5.69%) Microservices
15 31 (5.69%) TDD
16 30 (5.50%) Mathematics
16 30 (5.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 545 (100.00%) Python
2 197 (36.15%) TypeScript
3 117 (21.47%) JavaScript
4 112 (20.55%) SQL
5 55 (10.09%) Java
6 45 (8.26%) R
7 26 (4.77%) C++
8 17 (3.12%) C#
9 9 (1.65%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.28%) Scala
11 4 (0.73%) Ruby
12 3 (0.55%) Clojure
12 3 (0.55%) Cython
12 3 (0.55%) Groovy
12 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 68 (12.48%) Degree
2 30 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.57%) Security Cleared
4 13 (2.39%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.28%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.73%) PhD
8 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.57%) QA
2 3 (0.55%) MiFID
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 75 (13.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (6.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.02%) Terraform
3 7 (1.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (20.00%) Google
2 41 (7.52%) Bloomberg
3 14 (2.57%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.55%) NVIDIA
4 3 (0.55%) Reuters
4 3 (0.55%) SAP
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe
6 1 (0.18%) Vertica