Python Developer Jobs

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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 449 408 403
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 561 716 1,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.76% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.83% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 492 629 1,003
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £117,500 £112,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £146,250 £150,000 £127,500
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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -20 518 £95,000 +5.56% 135
London +73 411 £105,000 +5.00% 99
Work from Home -55 279 £95,000 +5.56% 73
UK excluding London -94 139 £60,000 -7.69% 41
South East -42 32 £65,000 -7.14% 9
Scotland -53 32 £58,941 +20.90% 12
North of England +21 30 £57,500 -17.86% 7
East of England +9 20 £54,000 +2.86% 2
South West -35 15 £60,000 -5.88% 5
Yorkshire +69 13 £72,500 +3.57% 1
North West -24 12 £57,500 -11.54% 5
West Midlands -24 10 £55,000 +4.76% 5
Midlands -37 10 £55,000 +4.76% 6
North East -8 5 £37,500 -46.43% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 561 (100.00%) Python
2 322 (57.40%) AWS
3 303 (54.01%) Finance
4 285 (50.80%) Software Engineering
5 269 (47.95%) Agile
6 228 (40.64%) Front Office
7 217 (38.68%) GCP
8 212 (37.79%) TypeScript
8 212 (37.79%) Azure
9 208 (37.08%) Fixed Income
10 206 (36.72%) Asset Management
11 193 (34.40%) React
12 187 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
13 185 (32.98%) Hedge funds
14 180 (32.09%) Investment Management
15 168 (29.95%) Protocol Buffers
15 168 (29.95%) Apache Airflow
16 167 (29.77%) gRPC
17 154 (27.45%) Machine Learning
17 154 (27.45%) Apache
18 153 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
19 150 (26.74%) PostgreSQL
20 148 (26.38%) Banking
21 137 (24.42%) Equities
22 135 (24.06%) Artificial Intelligence
23 130 (23.17%) JavaScript
24 120 (21.39%) Redux
25 117 (20.86%) Google
26 114 (20.32%) SQL
27 111 (19.79%) 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
1 168 (29.95%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (27.45%) 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 (1.25%) GNU Octave
2 4 (0.71%) 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%) Revit
4 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 322 (57.40%) AWS
2 217 (38.68%) GCP
3 212 (37.79%) Azure
4 54 (9.63%) dbt
5 29 (5.17%) Snowflake
6 24 (4.28%) Serverless
7 20 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (2.85%) GitHub
9 9 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.25%) AWS IoT
10 7 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (1.07%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.71%) Firebolt
12 4 (0.71%) SaaS
13 3 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.53%) WhatsApp
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (0.36%) Amazon SageMaker
14 2 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.53%) FTP
1 3 (0.53%) HTTP
1 3 (0.53%) MQTT
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (27.27%) Apache Ignite
2 150 (26.74%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (9.80%) Dremio
4 54 (9.63%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (9.63%) Apache Arrow
5 27 (4.81%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.39%) MySQL
6 19 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.14%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (2.14%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.96%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.78%) Redis
11 7 (1.25%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.07%) DB2
12 6 (1.07%) SQLite
13 5 (0.89%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.89%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 63 (11.23%) Cypress.io
2 51 (9.09%) Git
3 18 (3.21%) JIRA
4 15 (2.67%) GitLab
5 6 (1.07%) GDB
5 6 (1.07%) Trac
6 5 (0.89%) Sourcetree
7 4 (0.71%) 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
1 303 (54.01%) Finance
2 228 (40.64%) Front Office
3 148 (26.38%) Banking
4 71 (12.66%) Social Skills
5 45 (8.02%) Investment Banking
6 20 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.39%) Marketing
8 16 (2.85%) Law
9 14 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.96%) Back Office
11 10 (1.78%) Games
12 9 (1.60%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.43%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.25%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.25%) Aviation
14 7 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
15 6 (1.07%) Electronics
15 6 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (34.40%) React
2 168 (29.95%) Protocol Buffers
3 167 (29.77%) gRPC
4 120 (21.39%) Redux
5 111 (19.79%) Material-UI
6 97 (17.29%) Pandas
7 85 (15.15%) Django
8 79 (14.08%) NumPy
9 56 (9.98%) AngularJS
10 54 (9.63%) SciPy
11 49 (8.73%) Flask
12 46 (8.20%) Vue
13 37 (6.60%) Node.js
14 32 (5.70%) HTML
15 30 (5.35%) RESTful
16 28 (4.99%) FastAPI
17 27 (4.81%) CSS
18 18 (3.21%) Kafka
19 13 (2.32%) .NET
19 13 (2.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 208 (37.08%) Fixed Income
2 185 (32.98%) Hedge funds
3 137 (24.42%) Equities
4 77 (13.73%) Derivative
5 48 (8.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 32 (5.70%) Algorithms
7 16 (2.85%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.67%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.96%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.78%) IoT
11 7 (1.25%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.07%) NHS
13 5 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.89%) Robotics
14 4 (0.71%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (0.71%) Pricing Data
14 4 (0.71%) Reinsurance
14 4 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.53%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (8.20%) Linux
2 5 (0.89%) Unix
3 3 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.18%) Android
4 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (50.80%) Software Engineering
2 269 (47.95%) Agile
3 206 (36.72%) Asset Management
4 187 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
5 180 (32.09%) Investment Management
6 154 (27.45%) Machine Learning
7 135 (24.06%) Artificial Intelligence
8 104 (18.54%) Automated Trading
9 70 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (11.41%) CI/CD
11 59 (10.52%) Computer Science
12 58 (10.34%) Analytics
13 52 (9.27%) Fintech
14 46 (8.20%) DevOps
15 39 (6.95%) Quantitative Research
16 37 (6.60%) TDD
17 35 (6.24%) Containerisation
18 32 (5.70%) Line Management
18 32 (5.70%) Microservices
19 28 (4.99%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 561 (100.00%) Python
2 212 (37.79%) TypeScript
3 130 (23.17%) JavaScript
4 114 (20.32%) SQL
5 64 (11.41%) Java
6 40 (7.13%) R
7 28 (4.99%) C++
8 24 (4.28%) C#
9 9 (1.60%) MATLAB
10 7 (1.25%) Scala
11 4 (0.71%) Ruby
12 3 (0.53%) Clojure
12 3 (0.53%) Cython
12 3 (0.53%) Groovy
12 3 (0.53%) Rust
12 3 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.36%) Go
13 2 (0.36%) PHP
13 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (13.37%) Degree
2 34 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (2.85%) Security Cleared
4 15 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.60%) DBS Check
5 9 (1.60%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.25%) PhD
7 2 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.18%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.14%) QA
2 3 (0.53%) MiFID
3 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 77 (13.73%) Docker
2 3 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 39 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.78%) Terraform
3 6 (1.07%) Ansible
4 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (20.86%) Google
2 37 (6.60%) Bloomberg
3 12 (2.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.53%) NVIDIA
4 3 (0.53%) Reuters
4 3 (0.53%) SAP
5 2 (0.36%) Adobe
6 1 (0.18%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.18%) Databricks
6 1 (0.18%) Vertica