Python Developer Jobs

Python Developer
UK

The median Python Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 340 397
Rank change year-on-year -103 +57 -114
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 388 534 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.91% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.95% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 278 489 910
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,500 £65,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +3.23%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £111,875
90th Percentile £142,500 £150,000 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.47% +12.61% -4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 72,160 56,195 134,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.93% 95.71% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37,655 40,750 78,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,900 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.66% - +5.00%

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 October 2024.

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 26 October 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 -107 377 £85,000 -10.53% 83
London -45 275 £100,000 - 63
Work from Home -54 196 £85,000 -10.53% 58
UK excluding London -55 111 £62,500 -3.47% 27
North of England +4 27 £69,308 -7.59% 3
South East -40 24 £73,750 +1.72% 4
South West +8 18 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Midlands -27 18 £55,000 -5.98% 6
North West -15 16 £80,000 +23.08% 1
East of England -41 14 £42,500 -26.09% 4
East Midlands -17 9 £55,000 -4.35% 4
West Midlands -27 9 £51,250 -20.54% 2
Yorkshire +24 8 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Wales +33 4 £69,308 +6.63% 1
Scotland -22 4 £69,308 +38.62% 4
North East -29 3 £60,000 -7.69%
Northern Ireland +21 2 £82,154 +17.36% 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 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.

1 388 (100.00%) Python
2 221 (56.96%) AWS
3 173 (44.59%) Agile
4 169 (43.56%) Finance
5 162 (41.75%) Software Engineering
6 136 (35.05%) Front Office
7 135 (34.79%) JavaScript
7 135 (34.79%) TypeScript
8 129 (33.25%) GCP
9 128 (32.99%) React
10 120 (30.93%) Fixed Income
11 118 (30.41%) Asset Management
12 99 (25.52%) SQL
13 97 (25.00%) NumPy
14 92 (23.71%) Apache
14 92 (23.71%) Banking
14 92 (23.71%) Apache Airflow
15 90 (23.20%) gRPC
15 90 (23.20%) Hedge funds
16 89 (22.94%) Protocol Buffers
16 89 (22.94%) Apache Ignite
16 89 (22.94%) Full-Stack Development
17 88 (22.68%) Django
18 87 (22.42%) Azure
18 87 (22.42%) Pandas
19 83 (21.39%) Java
20 80 (20.62%) PostgreSQL
21 78 (20.10%) Equities
22 75 (19.33%) Investment Management
23 74 (19.07%) Docker

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 92 (23.71%) Apache
1 92 (23.71%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.29%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.52%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.26%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 221 (56.96%) AWS
2 129 (33.25%) GCP
3 87 (22.42%) Azure
4 69 (17.78%) dbt
5 44 (11.34%) Serverless
6 40 (10.31%) Snowflake
7 34 (8.76%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.35%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (3.35%) GitHub
13 10 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 7 (1.80%) AWS CodeBuild
15 7 (1.80%) PaaS
15 7 (1.80%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.80%) Internet
3 6 (1.55%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.55%) HTTP
4 3 (0.77%) FTP
5 2 (0.52%) Firewall
6 1 (0.26%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (22.94%) Apache Ignite
2 80 (20.62%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (15.21%) Amazon Athena
3 59 (15.21%) Apache Arrow
3 59 (15.21%) Dremio
4 36 (9.28%) Data Lake
5 29 (7.47%) MySQL
6 25 (6.44%) NoSQL
7 23 (5.93%) DynamoDB
7 23 (5.93%) Relational Database
8 22 (5.67%) MongoDB
9 16 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (4.12%) SQL Server
10 10 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (2.32%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.32%) Redis
12 6 (1.55%) Big Data
12 6 (1.55%) SQLite
13 4 (1.03%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 55 (14.18%) Git
2 25 (6.44%) GitLab
3 22 (5.67%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.55%) JIRA
6 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.52%) Trac
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
General
1 169 (43.56%) Finance
2 136 (35.05%) Front Office
3 92 (23.71%) Banking
4 57 (14.69%) Social Skills
5 46 (11.86%) Investment Banking
6 25 (6.44%) Games
7 17 (4.38%) Tech for Good
8 13 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.84%) Law
10 10 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.58%) Health Technology
10 10 (2.58%) Publishing
11 7 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.80%) Marketing
12 6 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.29%) Advertising
13 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.77%) Back Office
14 3 (0.77%) Electronics
15 2 (0.52%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (32.99%) React
2 97 (25.00%) NumPy
3 90 (23.20%) gRPC
4 89 (22.94%) Protocol Buffers
5 88 (22.68%) Django
6 87 (22.42%) Pandas
7 71 (18.30%) SciPy
8 60 (15.46%) AngularJS
9 56 (14.43%) Redux
10 42 (10.82%) Vue
11 40 (10.31%) Node.js
11 40 (10.31%) RESTful
12 33 (8.51%) Flask
13 30 (7.73%) Material-UI
14 29 (7.47%) FastAPI
15 22 (5.67%) GraphQL
16 16 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
17 15 (3.87%) HTML
17 15 (3.87%) PySpark
17 15 (3.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 120 (30.93%) Fixed Income
2 90 (23.20%) Hedge funds
3 78 (20.10%) Equities
4 55 (14.18%) Derivative
5 46 (11.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 42 (10.82%) Algorithms
7 23 (5.93%) Data Structures
8 12 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.32%) Cloud Native
9 9 (2.32%) NHS
10 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.80%) Robotics
12 6 (1.55%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.29%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 3 (0.77%) IoT
16 2 (0.52%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.24%) Linux
2 11 (2.84%) Unix
3 7 (1.80%) Android
4 3 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (44.59%) Agile
2 162 (41.75%) Software Engineering
3 118 (30.41%) Asset Management
4 89 (22.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 75 (19.33%) Investment Management
6 68 (17.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 66 (17.01%) Machine Learning
8 63 (16.24%) CI/CD
9 57 (14.69%) Fintech
10 43 (11.08%) DevOps
11 41 (10.57%) Computer Science
12 36 (9.28%) Credit Risk Analysis
12 36 (9.28%) Performance Attribution
13 35 (9.02%) Line Management
14 33 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (8.25%) Automated Trading
16 30 (7.73%) TDD
17 29 (7.47%) Microservices
18 28 (7.22%) Containerisation
18 28 (7.22%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 388 (100.00%) Python
2 135 (34.79%) JavaScript
2 135 (34.79%) TypeScript
3 99 (25.52%) SQL
4 83 (21.39%) Java
5 30 (7.73%) C++
6 28 (7.22%) C#
7 15 (3.87%) Kotlin
7 15 (3.87%) Scala
8 11 (2.84%) Go
9 10 (2.58%) R
10 6 (1.55%) C
10 6 (1.55%) Rust
11 5 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.77%) Clojure
12 3 (0.77%) Groovy
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.52%) Bash
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (11.60%) Degree
2 34 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.64%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.12%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.32%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.03%) PhD
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.61%) QA
2 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.77%) MiFID
4 2 (0.52%) Accessibility
System Software
1 74 (19.07%) Docker
2 4 (1.03%) Firmware
3 2 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.67%) Terraform
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Argo
Vendors
1 47 (12.11%) Google
2 21 (5.41%) Bloomberg
3 18 (4.64%) Reuters
4 9 (2.32%) Microsoft
4 9 (2.32%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.26%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.26%) Databricks
5 1 (0.26%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle
5 1 (0.26%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.26%) Sybase