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 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 424 379
Rank change year-on-year -25 -45 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 542 749 1,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.74% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.81% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 486 648 1,094
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £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 £123,125 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £146,500 £127,050
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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the UK

Python Developer
Top 14 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 7 May 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 0 501 £95,000 +11.76% 91
London +69 402 £105,000 +5.00% 67
Work from Home -40 268 £100,000 +21.21% 56
UK excluding London -91 130 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Scotland -50 31 £65,000 +36.84% 7
South East -17 29 £65,000 -7.14% 6
North of England +18 26 £57,500 -11.54% 1
East of England +25 19 £60,000 +9.09% 6
South West -35 17 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Yorkshire +84 12 £72,500 +3.57% 1
North West -17 9 £55,000 -15.38%
West Midlands +5 8 £48,750 -7.14% 3
Midlands -25 8 £48,750 -11.36% 5
North East -1 5 £37,500 -46.43%

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 542 (100.00%) Python
2 301 (55.54%) AWS
3 293 (54.06%) Finance
4 270 (49.82%) Software Engineering
5 255 (47.05%) Agile
6 218 (40.22%) Front Office
7 207 (38.19%) Azure
8 202 (37.27%) GCP
9 199 (36.72%) Fixed Income
10 197 (36.35%) TypeScript
11 193 (35.61%) Asset Management
12 183 (33.76%) Hedge funds
13 176 (32.47%) React
14 173 (31.92%) Full Stack Development
14 173 (31.92%) Investment Management
15 148 (27.31%) Apache Airflow
15 148 (27.31%) Protocol Buffers
16 146 (26.94%) gRPC
17 143 (26.38%) Machine Learning
18 136 (25.09%) PostgreSQL
19 134 (24.72%) Banking
19 134 (24.72%) Apache
20 133 (24.54%) Apache Ignite
21 128 (23.62%) Equities
22 125 (23.06%) Artificial Intelligence
23 114 (21.03%) JavaScript
24 111 (20.48%) SQL
25 109 (20.11%) Google
26 106 (19.56%) Redux
27 103 (19.00%) Material-UI

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
1 148 (27.31%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (24.72%) Apache
3 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.37%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.29%) GNU Octave
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) InDesign
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 301 (55.54%) AWS
2 207 (38.19%) Azure
3 202 (37.27%) GCP
4 42 (7.75%) dbt
5 20 (3.69%) GitHub
5 20 (3.69%) Serverless
5 20 (3.69%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.29%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (1.29%) AWS IoT
9 6 (1.11%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.74%) Firebolt
11 3 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.55%) SaaS
12 2 (0.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (0.37%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) HTTP
1 3 (0.55%) MQTT
2 2 (0.37%) FTP
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (25.09%) PostgreSQL
2 133 (24.54%) Apache Ignite
3 43 (7.93%) Dremio
4 42 (7.75%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (7.75%) Apache Arrow
5 20 (3.69%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.69%) MySQL
6 15 (2.77%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.03%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.66%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.66%) Redis
10 8 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.11%) DB2
13 5 (0.92%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.92%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.92%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 55 (10.15%) Cypress.io
2 52 (9.59%) Git
3 18 (3.32%) JIRA
4 11 (2.03%) GitLab
5 6 (1.11%) GDB
5 6 (1.11%) Trac
6 5 (0.92%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.74%) Maven
8 2 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.37%) Gradle
8 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.37%) JUnit
8 2 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.37%) webpack
9 1 (0.18%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.18%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.18%) GCC
9 1 (0.18%) Mockito
9 1 (0.18%) Redmine
9 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 293 (54.06%) Finance
2 218 (40.22%) Front Office
3 134 (24.72%) Banking
4 69 (12.73%) Social Skills
5 40 (7.38%) Investment Banking
6 20 (3.69%) Marketing
7 17 (3.14%) Law
8 15 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.58%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.85%) Back Office
11 8 (1.48%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.29%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.29%) Aviation
12 7 (1.29%) Games
12 7 (1.29%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.11%) Electronics
13 6 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (32.47%) React
2 148 (27.31%) Protocol Buffers
3 146 (26.94%) gRPC
4 106 (19.56%) Redux
5 103 (19.00%) Material-UI
6 86 (15.87%) Django
6 86 (15.87%) Pandas
7 69 (12.73%) NumPy
8 53 (9.78%) AngularJS
9 51 (9.41%) Flask
10 43 (7.93%) Vue
11 42 (7.75%) SciPy
12 31 (5.72%) Node.js
13 25 (4.61%) HTML
13 25 (4.61%) RESTful
14 23 (4.24%) FastAPI
15 20 (3.69%) CSS
16 16 (2.95%) Kafka
17 15 (2.77%) .NET
18 14 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 199 (36.72%) Fixed Income
2 183 (33.76%) Hedge funds
3 128 (23.62%) Equities
4 81 (14.94%) Derivative
5 42 (7.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (5.35%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.51%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.58%) Client/Server
9 13 (2.40%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.85%) IoT
11 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.92%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.74%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.74%) Credit Derivative
14 4 (0.74%) Pricing Data
14 4 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
14 4 (0.74%) Robotics
14 4 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.12%) Linux
2 5 (0.92%) Unix
3 3 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (49.82%) Software Engineering
2 255 (47.05%) Agile
3 193 (35.61%) Asset Management
4 173 (31.92%) Full Stack Development
4 173 (31.92%) Investment Management
5 143 (26.38%) Machine Learning
6 125 (23.06%) Artificial Intelligence
7 96 (17.71%) Automated Trading
8 66 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (10.89%) CI/CD
10 54 (9.96%) Analytics
10 54 (9.96%) Computer Science
11 52 (9.59%) DevOps
12 47 (8.67%) Quantitative Research
13 45 (8.30%) Fintech
14 36 (6.64%) Containerisation
15 33 (6.09%) Microservices
16 31 (5.72%) TDD
17 30 (5.54%) Mathematics
17 30 (5.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 542 (100.00%) Python
2 197 (36.35%) TypeScript
3 114 (21.03%) JavaScript
4 111 (20.48%) SQL
5 54 (9.96%) Java
6 43 (7.93%) R
7 26 (4.80%) C++
8 16 (2.95%) C#
9 9 (1.66%) MATLAB
10 6 (1.11%) Scala
11 4 (0.74%) Ruby
12 3 (0.55%) Cython
12 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
13 2 (0.37%) Clojure
13 2 (0.37%) Groovy
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 68 (12.55%) Degree
2 30 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.58%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.40%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.11%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.11%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.74%) PhD
7 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.58%) QA
2 2 (0.37%) MiFID
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 73 (13.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 36 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.85%) Terraform
3 6 (1.11%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (20.11%) Google
2 40 (7.38%) Bloomberg
3 14 (2.58%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.55%) NVIDIA
4 3 (0.55%) SAP
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe
5 2 (0.37%) Reuters
6 1 (0.18%) Vertica