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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 428 366
Rank change year-on-year -23 -62 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 531 754 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.72% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.79% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 475 652 1,161
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,250
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 £127,500
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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +20 488 £90,000 +5.88% 81
London +83 387 £105,000 +9.09% 66
Work from Home -28 273 £95,000 +15.15% 53
UK excluding London -80 134 £60,000 -7.69% 24
Scotland -44 32 £60,000 +6.67% 9
South East -11 30 £65,000 -7.14% 4
North of England +18 26 £57,500 -11.54% 2
East of England +36 20 £60,000 +9.09% 5
South West -29 17 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire +99 12 £72,500 +3.57% 1
North West -24 9 £55,000 -15.38% 1
West Midlands +15 8 £48,750 -7.14%
Midlands -23 8 £48,750 -15.22% 1
North East +2 5 £37,500 -46.43%
Northern Ireland +24 1 £65,000 -7.14%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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.

1 531 (100.00%) Python
2 281 (52.92%) AWS
3 269 (50.66%) Finance
4 251 (47.27%) Software Engineering
5 233 (43.88%) Agile
6 199 (37.48%) Front Office
7 188 (35.40%) Azure
8 178 (33.52%) GCP
9 177 (33.33%) Fixed Income
10 174 (32.77%) TypeScript
11 169 (31.83%) Asset Management
12 158 (29.76%) Hedge funds
13 155 (29.19%) React
14 152 (28.63%) Full Stack Development
15 149 (28.06%) Investment Management
16 124 (23.35%) Protocol Buffers
16 124 (23.35%) Apache Airflow
17 122 (22.98%) gRPC
17 122 (22.98%) Machine Learning
18 116 (21.85%) PostgreSQL
19 115 (21.66%) JavaScript
20 112 (21.09%) Banking
21 108 (20.34%) Equities
21 108 (20.34%) Apache
22 107 (20.15%) SQL
22 107 (20.15%) Apache Ignite
23 105 (19.77%) Artificial Intelligence
24 90 (16.95%) Django
25 88 (16.57%) Google
26 84 (15.82%) Pandas

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
1 124 (23.35%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (20.34%) Apache
3 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.38%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.19%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.32%) GNU Octave
2 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) InDesign
3 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 281 (52.92%) AWS
2 188 (35.40%) Azure
3 178 (33.52%) GCP
4 38 (7.16%) dbt
5 23 (4.33%) GitHub
6 21 (3.95%) Serverless
7 18 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.20%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.32%) AWS IoT
12 6 (1.13%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.13%) SaaS
13 5 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.75%) Firebolt
15 3 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.56%) WhatsApp
16 2 (0.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 2 (0.38%) Amazon SageMaker
16 2 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.75%) HTTP
1 4 (0.75%) MQTT
2 2 (0.38%) FTP
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (21.85%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (20.15%) Apache Ignite
3 39 (7.34%) Dremio
4 38 (7.16%) Amazon Athena
4 38 (7.16%) Apache Arrow
5 21 (3.95%) MySQL
6 16 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (2.45%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.88%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.69%) Redis
11 8 (1.51%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.13%) DB2
14 5 (0.94%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.94%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.94%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.94%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (10.36%) Git
2 41 (7.72%) Cypress.io
3 18 (3.39%) JIRA
4 11 (2.07%) GitLab
5 6 (1.13%) GDB
5 6 (1.13%) Trac
6 5 (0.94%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.75%) Maven
8 3 (0.56%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.38%) Gradle
9 2 (0.38%) JUnit
9 2 (0.38%) Selenium
9 2 (0.38%) 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
1 269 (50.66%) Finance
2 199 (37.48%) Front Office
3 112 (21.09%) Banking
4 68 (12.81%) Social Skills
5 39 (7.34%) Investment Banking
6 21 (3.95%) Marketing
7 17 (3.20%) Law
8 16 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.69%) Back Office
11 8 (1.51%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (1.51%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.32%) Aviation
12 7 (1.32%) Electronics
12 7 (1.32%) Games
12 7 (1.32%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (29.19%) React
2 124 (23.35%) Protocol Buffers
3 122 (22.98%) gRPC
4 90 (16.95%) Django
5 84 (15.82%) Pandas
6 83 (15.63%) Material-UI
7 82 (15.44%) Redux
8 64 (12.05%) NumPy
9 54 (10.17%) Flask
10 53 (9.98%) AngularJS
11 43 (8.10%) Vue
12 38 (7.16%) SciPy
13 29 (5.46%) Node.js
14 26 (4.90%) FastAPI
14 26 (4.90%) HTML
14 26 (4.90%) RESTful
15 21 (3.95%) CSS
16 18 (3.39%) Kafka
17 16 (3.01%) .NET
18 15 (2.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 177 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 158 (29.76%) Hedge funds
3 108 (20.34%) Equities
4 79 (14.88%) Derivative
5 40 (7.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (5.65%) Algorithms
7 21 (3.95%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.64%) Client/Server
10 10 (1.88%) IoT
11 9 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.94%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.94%) 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 (8.47%) Linux
2 6 (1.13%) Unix
3 3 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (47.27%) Software Engineering
2 233 (43.88%) Agile
3 169 (31.83%) Asset Management
4 152 (28.63%) Full Stack Development
5 149 (28.06%) Investment Management
6 122 (22.98%) Machine Learning
7 105 (19.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 74 (13.94%) Automated Trading
9 71 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (11.86%) Analytics
11 61 (11.49%) CI/CD
12 56 (10.55%) DevOps
13 52 (9.79%) Computer Science
14 45 (8.47%) Quantitative Research
15 43 (8.10%) Fintech
16 37 (6.97%) Containerisation
16 37 (6.97%) Microservices
17 31 (5.84%) Scrum
17 31 (5.84%) TDD
18 29 (5.46%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 531 (100.00%) Python
2 174 (32.77%) TypeScript
3 115 (21.66%) JavaScript
4 107 (20.15%) SQL
5 52 (9.79%) Java
6 42 (7.91%) R
7 27 (5.08%) C++
8 16 (3.01%) C#
9 9 (1.69%) MATLAB
10 6 (1.13%) 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 (0.38%) Clojure
13 2 (0.38%) Groovy
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
13 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) XPath
Qualifications
1 69 (12.99%) Degree
2 30 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.01%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.45%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.13%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.13%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.75%) PhD
7 2 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.82%) QA
2 2 (0.38%) MiFID
3 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
System Software
1 72 (13.56%) Docker
2 4 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 35 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.07%) Terraform
3 6 (1.13%) Ansible
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 88 (16.57%) Google
2 40 (7.53%) Bloomberg
3 15 (2.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (0.75%) NVIDIA
4 4 (0.75%) SAP
5 2 (0.38%) Adobe
5 2 (0.38%) Reuters
6 1 (0.19%) Vertica