Senior Python Developer Jobs

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 861 855
Rank change year-on-year +49 -6 -190
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 76 134 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.13% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.14% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 68 103 286
10th Percentile £54,250 £52,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -11.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile £110,000 £85,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £99,500 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
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%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 10 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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 +39 70 £85,000 +13.33% 17
London +104 45 £97,500 +14.71% 16
Work from Home +55 37 £85,000 +9.68% 9
UK excluding London -28 29 £70,000 - 3
South East +17 17 £70,000 -
Scotland -60 4 £65,000 +18.18% 2
North of England +35 3 - -
North West +1 3 - -
South West -25 3 £70,000 +7.69%
East of England +10 2 £54,000 -20.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Python
2 53 (69.74%) AWS
3 35 (46.05%) Finance
4 31 (40.79%) JavaScript
5 28 (36.84%) Azure
5 28 (36.84%) React
6 24 (31.58%) Software Engineering
7 23 (30.26%) TypeScript
8 19 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (23.68%) Fintech
9 18 (23.68%) Pandas
9 18 (23.68%) Analytics
10 17 (22.37%) Agile
10 17 (22.37%) GCP
11 16 (21.05%) CI/CD
11 16 (21.05%) Asset Management
11 16 (21.05%) AngularJS
12 15 (19.74%) Derivative
12 15 (19.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 14 (18.42%) gRPC
13 14 (18.42%) Apache Airflow
13 14 (18.42%) Front Office
13 14 (18.42%) Fixed Income
13 14 (18.42%) Equities
13 14 (18.42%) Protocol Buffers
14 13 (17.11%) Django
14 13 (17.11%) SQL
15 12 (15.79%) Vue
15 12 (15.79%) Microservices
15 12 (15.79%) Kubernetes

Senior 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 14 (18.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.63%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 53 (69.74%) AWS
2 28 (36.84%) Azure
3 17 (22.37%) GCP
4 4 (5.26%) Firebolt
5 3 (3.95%) Serverless
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.63%) AWS IoT
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.63%) dbt
6 2 (2.63%) GitHub
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.26%) Redis
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
4 2 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
4 2 (2.63%) Dremio
4 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) KDB
5 1 (1.32%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Git
2 4 (5.26%) GitLab
2 4 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (3.95%) Maven
4 2 (2.63%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.63%) JUnit
5 1 (1.32%) Gradle
5 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.32%) Redmine
General
1 35 (46.05%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Front Office
3 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
5 4 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (1.32%) Games
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (36.84%) React
2 18 (23.68%) Pandas
3 16 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 14 (18.42%) gRPC
4 14 (18.42%) Protocol Buffers
5 13 (17.11%) Django
6 12 (15.79%) Material-UI
6 12 (15.79%) Vue
7 11 (14.47%) Flask
8 10 (13.16%) RESTful
9 8 (10.53%) FastAPI
10 5 (6.58%) Kafka
10 5 (6.58%) NumPy
11 4 (5.26%) Middleware
11 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (5.26%) SQLAlchemy
12 3 (3.95%) CSS
12 3 (3.95%) HTML
13 2 (2.63%) .NET
13 2 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Derivative
1 15 (19.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (18.42%) Equities
2 14 (18.42%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.95%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) IoT
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.63%) Molecular Biology
5 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Software Engineering
2 19 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
3 18 (23.68%) Analytics
3 18 (23.68%) Fintech
4 17 (22.37%) Agile
5 16 (21.05%) Asset Management
5 16 (21.05%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.79%) Microservices
7 10 (13.16%) User Experience
8 9 (11.84%) Front End Development
8 9 (11.84%) UX Design
9 8 (10.53%) Investment Management
10 7 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (9.21%) Code Quality
10 7 (9.21%) DevOps
10 7 (9.21%) Mentoring
10 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
12 5 (6.58%) Coaching
12 5 (6.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (100.00%) Python
2 31 (40.79%) JavaScript
3 23 (30.26%) TypeScript
4 13 (17.11%) SQL
5 8 (10.53%) Java
6 3 (3.95%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.63%) Ruby
7 2 (2.63%) Scala
7 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.32%) C
8 1 (1.32%) C++
8 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (13.16%) Degree
2 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
System Software
1 12 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) Google