Senior Python Developer Jobs

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 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 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 784 804 950
Rank change year-on-year +20 +146 -200
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 58 83 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 47 75 201
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,625 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £107,500 £83,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £94,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% +8.33%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Python Developer.

Salary trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +23 56 £87,500 +25.00% 10
Work from Home +51 38 £85,000 +13.33% 10
London +85 34 £100,000 +33.33% 8
UK excluding London -49 22 £72,500 +3.57% 4
South East -3 11 £70,000 - 1
North of England +17 9 £80,000 -
North West 0 9 £80,000 -
East of England -6 1 £54,000 -20.00%
South West -7 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Senior 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 Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Python
2 31 (53.45%) AWS
3 24 (41.38%) Finance
4 19 (32.76%) Software Engineering
4 19 (32.76%) Azure
5 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
5 18 (31.03%) SQL
6 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
6 15 (25.86%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (24.14%) Agile
7 14 (24.14%) Asset Management
8 13 (22.41%) Django
8 13 (22.41%) Front Office
8 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
8 13 (22.41%) GCP
8 13 (22.41%) React
8 13 (22.41%) Git
9 12 (20.69%) Pandas
9 12 (20.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (20.69%) Derivative
9 12 (20.69%) Fixed Income
9 12 (20.69%) Equities
10 10 (17.24%) Analytics
10 10 (17.24%) Protocol Buffers
10 10 (17.24%) Fintech
10 10 (17.24%) gRPC
10 10 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
11 9 (15.52%) RESTful
11 9 (15.52%) Games
12 8 (13.79%) Banking

Senior 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 10 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (53.45%) AWS
2 19 (32.76%) Azure
3 13 (22.41%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Serverless
5 4 (6.90%) Firebolt
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.45%) dbt
6 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.72%) AWS IoT
7 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) MySQL
2 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.90%) Redis
5 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.45%) Apache Arrow
6 2 (3.45%) Apache Ignite
6 2 (3.45%) Dremio
7 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.72%) KDB
7 1 (1.72%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.72%) Power BI
7 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) GitLab
General
1 24 (41.38%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Front Office
3 9 (15.52%) Games
4 8 (13.79%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.72%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) AngularJS
2 13 (22.41%) Django
2 13 (22.41%) React
3 12 (20.69%) Pandas
4 10 (17.24%) gRPC
4 10 (17.24%) Protocol Buffers
5 9 (15.52%) RESTful
6 8 (13.79%) Material-UI
6 8 (13.79%) Vue
7 7 (12.07%) SQLAlchemy
8 6 (10.34%) FastAPI
8 6 (10.34%) Kafka
9 4 (6.90%) NumPy
10 3 (5.17%) CSS
10 3 (5.17%) HTML
11 2 (3.45%) .NET
11 2 (3.45%) Hibernate
11 2 (3.45%) JMS
11 2 (3.45%) Middleware
11 2 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) Derivative
1 12 (20.69%) Equities
1 12 (20.69%) Fixed Income
1 12 (20.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.90%) Hedge funds
2 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.07%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.76%) Software Engineering
2 15 (25.86%) Full Stack Development
3 14 (24.14%) Agile
3 14 (24.14%) Asset Management
4 10 (17.24%) Analytics
4 10 (17.24%) Fintech
5 8 (13.79%) Microservices
5 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (12.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.07%) TDD
7 6 (10.34%) Asynchronous Programming
7 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.34%) Code Quality
7 6 (10.34%) DevOps
8 5 (8.62%) Clean Code
8 5 (8.62%) Data Science
8 5 (8.62%) Machine Learning
8 5 (8.62%) OOP
8 5 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
2 18 (31.03%) SQL
3 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
4 7 (12.07%) Java
5 3 (5.17%) Go
6 2 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (3.45%) Ruby
6 2 (3.45%) Scala
6 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.72%) C
7 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (6.90%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Google
2 1 (1.72%) NVIDIA