Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 337 390 269
Rank change year-on-year +53 -121 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 468 1,002 1,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.82% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.86% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 428 833 1,461
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -3.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £125,313 £108,750 £102,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £135,000 £126,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +30.00%

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 49,872 116,646 121,025
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.41% 95.43% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 36,454 73,520 84,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 17 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 10 December 2023. 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 +63 433 £95,000 +18.75% 144
London +92 362 £100,000 +11.11% 111
Work from Home +84 270 £95,000 +33.33% 72
UK excluding London +100 95 £65,000 +8.33% 53
South East +152 20 £65,000 -3.70% 25
North of England +101 18 £75,000 +15.38% 7
Scotland +13 18 £50,000 -4.76% 4
South West +59 17 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Yorkshire +86 12 £75,000 +25.00% 7
East of England +101 7 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Northern Ireland +38 7 £65,000 -7.14% 1
Midlands +105 5 £64,500 +9.79% 6
West Midlands +121 4 £64,500 +29.00% 4
North West +76 4 £65,000 +4.00%
Wales +12 3 £65,000 +160.00% 1
North East +42 2 £65,000 -
East Midlands +31 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 10 December 2023, 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.

1 468 (100.00%) Python
2 211 (45.09%) Finance
3 189 (40.38%) AWS
4 170 (36.32%) Software Engineering
5 164 (35.04%) Front Office
6 155 (33.12%) Agile
7 145 (30.98%) JavaScript
8 130 (27.78%) GCP
9 115 (24.57%) TypeScript
10 105 (22.44%) React
11 102 (21.79%) Asset Management
12 99 (21.15%) Social Skills
13 95 (20.30%) Fixed Income
14 93 (19.87%) Azure
15 92 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
16 88 (18.80%) Banking
17 83 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
18 79 (16.88%) PostgreSQL
19 78 (16.67%) Django
20 73 (15.60%) SQL
21 71 (15.17%) DevOps
22 68 (14.53%) Google
23 65 (13.89%) Apache
24 62 (13.25%) Degree
24 62 (13.25%) Investment Management
24 62 (13.25%) Kubernetes
25 61 (13.03%) CI/CD
26 60 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
27 58 (12.39%) gRPC
27 58 (12.39%) Node.js

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 83 (17.74%) Apache Airflow
2 65 (13.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.21%) Confluence
3 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.43%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 189 (40.38%) AWS
2 130 (27.78%) GCP
3 93 (19.87%) Azure
4 32 (6.84%) Serverless
5 30 (6.41%) dbt
6 22 (4.70%) GitHub
7 21 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (3.21%) Pulumi
10 14 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (2.14%) Dagster
12 6 (1.28%) PaaS
13 5 (1.07%) SaaS
13 5 (1.07%) WhatsApp
14 4 (0.85%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.64%) Amazon Cognito
15 3 (0.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 3 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.99%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.07%) HTTP
3 3 (0.64%) MQTT
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) IPFS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (16.88%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (11.11%) Apache Ignite
3 28 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
4 22 (4.70%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (4.27%) MySQL
6 18 (3.85%) Redis
7 16 (3.42%) Apache Arrow
7 16 (3.42%) Dremio
7 16 (3.42%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.99%) NoSQL
9 12 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.50%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.07%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.85%) Power BI
13 3 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.64%) Tableau
14 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.43%) Bigtable
14 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.43%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 47 (10.04%) Git
2 46 (9.83%) Cypress.io
3 20 (4.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.28%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) JIRA
6 3 (0.64%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.64%) Serilog
7 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 211 (45.09%) Finance
2 164 (35.04%) Front Office
3 99 (21.15%) Social Skills
4 88 (18.80%) Banking
5 60 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (6.20%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (1.71%) Marketing
9 7 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 7 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.07%) Electronics
10 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.07%) Legal
10 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.85%) Advertising
12 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.21%) Back Office
14 1 (0.21%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (22.44%) React
2 78 (16.67%) Django
3 58 (12.39%) gRPC
3 58 (12.39%) Node.js
4 56 (11.97%) Redux
5 52 (11.11%) Pandas
6 42 (8.97%) Protocol Buffers
7 39 (8.33%) NumPy
8 36 (7.69%) Flask
9 30 (6.41%) Material-UI
10 27 (5.77%) AngularJS
11 21 (4.49%) CSS
11 21 (4.49%) HTML
12 18 (3.85%) SciPy
13 17 (3.63%) .NET
14 16 (3.42%) Vue
15 15 (3.21%) RESTful
16 14 (2.99%) FastAPI
17 13 (2.78%) JSON
18 11 (2.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 95 (20.30%) Fixed Income
2 55 (11.75%) Hedge funds
3 53 (11.32%) Derivative
4 44 (9.40%) Equities
5 32 (6.84%) Data Structures
6 31 (6.62%) Management Information System
7 26 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (4.70%) Algorithms
9 22 (4.70%) Cloud Native
10 21 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (3.63%) Mobile App
12 14 (2.99%) Product Ownership
13 9 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.50%) e-Learning
15 4 (0.85%) Blockchain
15 4 (0.85%) Client/Server
15 4 (0.85%) Credit Derivative
16 3 (0.64%) PKI
16 3 (0.64%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.48%) Linux
2 17 (3.63%) Unix
3 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (36.32%) Software Engineering
2 155 (33.12%) Agile
3 102 (21.79%) Asset Management
4 92 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (15.17%) DevOps
6 62 (13.25%) Investment Management
7 61 (13.03%) CI/CD
8 54 (11.54%) Analytics
9 46 (9.83%) Full Stack Development
10 38 (8.12%) Computer Science
11 37 (7.91%) OO
12 36 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
13 35 (7.48%) Mathematics
13 35 (7.48%) Microservices
14 33 (7.05%) Insurtech
15 31 (6.62%) Data Management
16 30 (6.41%) User Experience
17 28 (5.98%) Clean Code
18 27 (5.77%) Machine Learning
18 27 (5.77%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 468 (100.00%) Python
2 145 (30.98%) JavaScript
3 115 (24.57%) TypeScript
4 73 (15.60%) SQL
5 44 (9.40%) C++
6 32 (6.84%) Java
7 23 (4.91%) C#
8 10 (2.14%) Bash
8 10 (2.14%) R
9 7 (1.50%) Rust
10 5 (1.07%) Go
11 3 (0.64%) C
11 3 (0.64%) PHP
11 3 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.64%) VBA
12 1 (0.21%) Dart
12 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.21%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 62 (13.25%) Degree
2 25 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (5.34%) SC Cleared
2 25 (5.34%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.27%) Master's Degree
4 4 (0.85%) PhD
5 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.21%) CFA
5 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.71%) QA
2 4 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (0.21%) EMIR
3 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 47 (10.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 32 (6.84%) Terraform
3 15 (3.21%) Ansible
4 3 (0.64%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 68 (14.53%) Google
2 8 (1.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.28%) Bloomberg
4 5 (1.07%) Oracle
4 5 (1.07%) SAP
5 3 (0.64%) Alteryx
5 3 (0.64%) NVIDIA
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe