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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 441 423 393
Rank change year-on-year -18 -30 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 549 741 1,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.75% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.82% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 488 644 1,041
10th Percentile £52,050 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,188 £65,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £119,375 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £146,250 £148,500 £126,000
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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 18 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 18 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 +5 508 £95,000 +8.57% 165
London +71 410 £105,000 +5.00% 122
Work from Home -44 269 £100,000 +17.65% 84
UK excluding London -106 129 £60,000 -7.69% 79
Scotland -50 31 £58,941 +24.09% 11
South East -37 29 £65,000 -7.14% 37
North of England +27 26 £57,500 -11.54% 5
East of England +15 19 £60,000 - 7
South West -32 16 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Yorkshire +86 12 £72,500 +3.57% 3
North West -25 9 £55,000 -15.38% 2
West Midlands -2 8 £48,750 -7.14% 9
Midlands -36 8 £48,750 -7.14% 11
North East -4 5 £37,500 -46.43%

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 549 (100.00%) Python
2 312 (56.83%) AWS
3 298 (54.28%) Finance
4 276 (50.27%) Software Engineering
5 263 (47.91%) Agile
6 223 (40.62%) Front Office
7 210 (38.25%) Azure
8 209 (38.07%) GCP
9 203 (36.98%) TypeScript
9 203 (36.98%) Fixed Income
10 199 (36.25%) Asset Management
11 185 (33.70%) Hedge funds
11 185 (33.70%) React
12 179 (32.60%) Full Stack Development
13 178 (32.42%) Investment Management
14 156 (28.42%) Apache Airflow
14 156 (28.42%) Protocol Buffers
15 154 (28.05%) gRPC
16 147 (26.78%) Machine Learning
17 142 (25.87%) Apache
17 142 (25.87%) PostgreSQL
18 141 (25.68%) Apache Ignite
19 140 (25.50%) Banking
20 133 (24.23%) Equities
21 129 (23.50%) Artificial Intelligence
22 118 (21.49%) JavaScript
23 113 (20.58%) Google
24 112 (20.40%) Redux
25 111 (20.22%) SQL
26 107 (19.49%) 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
1 156 (28.42%) Apache Airflow
2 142 (25.87%) Apache
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.36%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (1.28%) GNU Octave
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) InDesign
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 312 (56.83%) AWS
2 210 (38.25%) Azure
3 209 (38.07%) GCP
4 46 (8.38%) dbt
5 23 (4.19%) Serverless
6 22 (4.01%) Snowflake
7 20 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (3.46%) GitHub
9 11 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.28%) AWS IoT
11 6 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.73%) Firebolt
13 3 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.55%) SaaS
13 3 (0.55%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon EMR
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) FTP
1 3 (0.55%) HTTP
1 3 (0.55%) MQTT
2 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (25.87%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (25.68%) Apache Ignite
3 47 (8.56%) Dremio
4 46 (8.38%) Amazon Athena
4 46 (8.38%) Apache Arrow
5 22 (4.01%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.64%) MySQL
7 16 (2.91%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.00%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.00%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.64%) Redis
12 8 (1.46%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.09%) DB2
14 5 (0.91%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.91%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.91%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.91%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 59 (10.75%) Cypress.io
2 52 (9.47%) Git
3 18 (3.28%) JIRA
4 14 (2.55%) GitLab
5 6 (1.09%) GDB
5 6 (1.09%) Trac
6 5 (0.91%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.73%) Maven
8 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.36%) Gradle
8 2 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.36%) JUnit
8 2 (0.36%) Selenium
8 2 (0.36%) 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
1 298 (54.28%) Finance
2 223 (40.62%) Front Office
3 140 (25.50%) Banking
4 72 (13.11%) Social Skills
5 42 (7.65%) Investment Banking
6 20 (3.64%) Marketing
7 18 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.10%) Law
9 14 (2.55%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.82%) Back Office
11 8 (1.46%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.28%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.28%) Aviation
12 7 (1.28%) Games
12 7 (1.28%) Tech for Good
12 7 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.09%) Electronics
13 6 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.70%) React
2 156 (28.42%) Protocol Buffers
3 154 (28.05%) gRPC
4 112 (20.40%) Redux
5 107 (19.49%) Material-UI
6 89 (16.21%) Pandas
7 88 (16.03%) Django
8 72 (13.11%) NumPy
9 54 (9.84%) AngularJS
10 49 (8.93%) Flask
11 46 (8.38%) SciPy
12 43 (7.83%) Vue
13 33 (6.01%) Node.js
14 29 (5.28%) HTML
15 28 (5.10%) RESTful
16 24 (4.37%) CSS
16 24 (4.37%) FastAPI
17 18 (3.28%) Kafka
18 13 (2.37%) JSON
18 13 (2.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 203 (36.98%) Fixed Income
2 185 (33.70%) Hedge funds
3 133 (24.23%) Equities
4 80 (14.57%) Derivative
5 43 (7.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 29 (5.28%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.28%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.55%) Client/Server
9 12 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.82%) IoT
11 7 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.91%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.73%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.73%) NHS
14 4 (0.73%) Pricing Data
14 4 (0.73%) Robotics
14 4 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.55%) Arduino
Operating Systems
1 45 (8.20%) Linux
2 5 (0.91%) Unix
3 3 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (50.27%) Software Engineering
2 263 (47.91%) Agile
3 199 (36.25%) Asset Management
4 179 (32.60%) Full Stack Development
5 178 (32.42%) Investment Management
6 147 (26.78%) Machine Learning
7 129 (23.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 100 (18.21%) Automated Trading
9 68 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (11.29%) CI/CD
11 55 (10.02%) Analytics
12 54 (9.84%) Computer Science
13 50 (9.11%) DevOps
14 48 (8.74%) Fintech
15 45 (8.20%) Quantitative Research
16 36 (6.56%) Containerisation
17 34 (6.19%) TDD
18 31 (5.65%) Microservices
19 28 (5.10%) Line Management
19 28 (5.10%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 549 (100.00%) Python
2 203 (36.98%) TypeScript
3 118 (21.49%) JavaScript
4 111 (20.22%) SQL
5 58 (10.56%) Java
6 44 (8.01%) R
7 26 (4.74%) C++
8 19 (3.46%) C#
9 9 (1.64%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.28%) Scala
11 4 (0.73%) Ruby
12 3 (0.55%) Clojure
12 3 (0.55%) Cython
12 3 (0.55%) Groovy
12 3 (0.55%) Rust
12 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.55%) VBA
13 2 (0.36%) PHP
13 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 69 (12.57%) Degree
2 30 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.55%) Master's Degree
3 14 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 9 (1.64%) DBS Check
5 7 (1.28%) SC Cleared
6 5 (0.91%) PhD
7 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.37%) QA
2 3 (0.55%) MiFID
3 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 75 (13.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.55%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.00%) Terraform
3 6 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 113 (20.58%) Google
2 41 (7.47%) Bloomberg
3 13 (2.37%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.55%) NVIDIA
4 3 (0.55%) Reuters
4 3 (0.55%) SAP
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe
6 1 (0.18%) Vertica