Lead Python Developer Jobs in London

Lead Python Developer
England > London

The median Lead Python Developer salary in London is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 476 618
Rank change year-on-year +94 +142 +202
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Python Developer 17 34 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.14% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 18
10th Percentile £51,250 £100,000 £75,000
25th Percentile £76,000 £112,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £135,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +42.11% +2.70%
75th Percentile £105,000 £172,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £134,750 - £119,250
England median annual salary £86,250 £135,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -36.11% +54.29% -5.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,488 22,226 33,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,726 24,705
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Lead Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Python Developer in London

Lead Python Developer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Python Developer in London

Lead Python Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Python Developer in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Python Developer in London

Lead Python Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Python Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Central London +33 5 £52,500 -65.00%
Lead Python Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead 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 across the London region featuring Lead Python Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
5 5 (29.41%) Java
5 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (23.53%) Django
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) Docker
6 4 (23.53%) Azure
6 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 4 (23.53%) Finance
6 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Advertising
7 3 (17.65%) Publishing
7 3 (17.65%) Extreme Programming
7 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
7 3 (17.65%) SQL
7 3 (17.65%) Unix
7 3 (17.65%) Linux
7 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) User Stories
7 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (17.65%) Coaching
7 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Advertising
2 3 (17.65%) Health Technology
2 3 (17.65%) Influencing Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Publishing
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Tech for Good
3 2 (11.76%) Front Office
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Django
2 3 (17.65%) RESTful
3 2 (11.76%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (11.76%) Flask
3 2 (11.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Mentoring
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) TDD
4 4 (23.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
4 4 (23.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (17.65%) Coaching
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Extreme Programming
5 3 (17.65%) Operational Stability
5 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Time Management
5 3 (17.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) C++
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Google