Lead Python Developer Jobs

Lead Python Developer
UK

The median Lead Python Developer salary in the UK is £135,000 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 861 915 1175
Rank change year-on-year +54 +260 -304
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Python Developer 46 32 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.034% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.037% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 45 28 55
10th Percentile £91,000 £75,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £100,000 £81,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £172,500 £115,000 £111,875
90th Percentile - £128,875 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £102,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +78.26% -17.86% +33.33%

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%

Lead Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Python Developer in the UK

Lead Python Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Python Developer in the UK

Lead Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Python Developer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Python Developer in the UK

Lead Python Developer
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead 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 +52 43 £135,000 +38.46% 9
London +132 39 £135,000 +31.71% 5
Work from Home +71 35 £135,000 +35.00% 7
UK excluding London -35 4 £102,500 +78.26% 2
South East - 3 £117,500 - 1
North of England +30 1 £85,000 -10.53%
Yorkshire - 1 £85,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Lead 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 Lead Python Developer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Python
2 33 (71.74%) Agile
3 32 (69.57%) AWS
3 32 (69.57%) TypeScript
4 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
5 30 (65.22%) Software Engineering
5 30 (65.22%) NumPy
5 30 (65.22%) Pandas
6 29 (63.04%) GCP
6 29 (63.04%) Front Office
7 28 (60.87%) Finance
7 28 (60.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 28 (60.87%) Java
7 28 (60.87%) Apache
7 28 (60.87%) Investment Banking
7 28 (60.87%) Fixed Income
7 28 (60.87%) Equities
7 28 (60.87%) Banking
7 28 (60.87%) Asset Management
7 28 (60.87%) Hedge funds
7 28 (60.87%) SciPy
7 28 (60.87%) Derivative
7 28 (60.87%) Protocol Buffers
7 28 (60.87%) Amazon Athena
7 28 (60.87%) gRPC
7 28 (60.87%) Apache Airflow
7 28 (60.87%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (60.87%) Apache Ignite
7 28 (60.87%) Dremio
7 28 (60.87%) dbt

Lead 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 28 (60.87%) Apache
1 28 (60.87%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) AWS
2 29 (63.04%) GCP
3 28 (60.87%) dbt
4 26 (56.52%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.70%) Azure
6 2 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (60.87%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (60.87%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (60.87%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (60.87%) Dremio
2 26 (56.52%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
General
1 29 (63.04%) Front Office
2 28 (60.87%) Banking
2 28 (60.87%) Finance
2 28 (60.87%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (65.22%) NumPy
1 30 (65.22%) Pandas
2 28 (60.87%) gRPC
2 28 (60.87%) Protocol Buffers
2 28 (60.87%) SciPy
3 4 (8.70%) Django
4 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.52%) Flask
4 3 (6.52%) React
5 2 (4.35%) Hugging Face
5 2 (4.35%) LangChain
5 2 (4.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.35%) SpaCy
6 1 (2.17%) Redux
6 1 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (2.17%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (60.87%) Derivative
1 28 (60.87%) Equities
1 28 (60.87%) Fixed Income
1 28 (60.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 28 (60.87%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (71.74%) Agile
2 30 (65.22%) Software Engineering
3 28 (60.87%) Asset Management
4 27 (58.70%) Line Management
5 16 (34.78%) Investment Management
6 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (10.87%) Analytics
8 5 (10.87%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (8.70%) Data Science
10 3 (6.52%) CI/CD
10 3 (6.52%) Machine Learning
10 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.52%) Scrum
10 3 (6.52%) TDD
10 3 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
11 2 (4.35%) Computer Science
11 2 (4.35%) Data Architecture
11 2 (4.35%) Mathematics
11 2 (4.35%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) Python
2 32 (69.57%) TypeScript
3 31 (67.39%) JavaScript
4 28 (60.87%) Java
5 3 (6.52%) C#
6 2 (4.35%) Ruby
6 2 (4.35%) Scala
7 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft