Lead Python Developer Jobs in the South East

Lead Python Developer
England > South East

The median Lead Python Developer salary in the South East is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 395 -
Rank change year-on-year +109 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Python Developer 2 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.024% 0.012% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.013% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £44,750 - -
25th Percentile £48,125 £101,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £117,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -53.19% - -
75th Percentile £60,625 £133,750 -
90th Percentile £63,250 - -
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
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Lead Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Python Developer in the South East

Lead Python Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Python Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Lead Python Developer in the South East

Lead Python Developer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Python Developer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Python Developer in the South East

Lead Python Developer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Oxfordshire - 1 £45,000 -
Surrey - 1 £65,000 -
Thames Valley - 1 £45,000 -
Lead Python Developer
England

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 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 South East region featuring Lead Python Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Laravel
2 1 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Vue
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) PhD
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP

Lead Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Laravel
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared