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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 841 943 1157
Rank change year-on-year +102 +214 -285
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Python Developer 43 32 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.032% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.035% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 42 28 54
10th Percentile £92,750 £63,375 £63,750
25th Percentile £100,313 £81,250 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - +33.33%
75th Percentile £172,500 £113,125 £113,438
90th Percentile - £119,250 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £117,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +104.35% -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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +98 40 £135,000 +45.95% 3
London +126 37 £135,000 +33.33% 3
Work from Home +109 33 £135,000 +35.00% 3
UK excluding London -13 3 £117,500 +104.35%
South East - 2 £117,500 -
North of England +33 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 20 May 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 43 (100.00%) Python
2 30 (69.77%) Agile
2 30 (69.77%) AWS
3 29 (67.44%) TypeScript
4 28 (65.12%) Pandas
4 28 (65.12%) JavaScript
4 28 (65.12%) NumPy
5 27 (62.79%) Front Office
5 27 (62.79%) Software Engineering
5 27 (62.79%) GCP
6 26 (60.47%) Protocol Buffers
6 26 (60.47%) Apache Ignite
6 26 (60.47%) gRPC
6 26 (60.47%) Apache Airflow
6 26 (60.47%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (60.47%) Apache Arrow
6 26 (60.47%) Dremio
6 26 (60.47%) dbt
6 26 (60.47%) Investment Banking
6 26 (60.47%) Fixed Income
6 26 (60.47%) Equities
6 26 (60.47%) Banking
6 26 (60.47%) Asset Management
6 26 (60.47%) Finance
6 26 (60.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 26 (60.47%) Java
6 26 (60.47%) Apache
6 26 (60.47%) Hedge funds
6 26 (60.47%) SciPy
6 26 (60.47%) Derivative

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 26 (60.47%) Apache
1 26 (60.47%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 27 (62.79%) GCP
3 26 (60.47%) dbt
4 24 (55.81%) Snowflake
5 4 (9.30%) Azure
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.33%) IaaS
7 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (60.47%) Amazon Athena
1 26 (60.47%) Apache Arrow
1 26 (60.47%) Apache Ignite
1 26 (60.47%) Dremio
2 24 (55.81%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 27 (62.79%) Front Office
2 26 (60.47%) Banking
2 26 (60.47%) Finance
2 26 (60.47%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (65.12%) NumPy
1 28 (65.12%) Pandas
2 26 (60.47%) gRPC
2 26 (60.47%) Protocol Buffers
2 26 (60.47%) SciPy
3 4 (9.30%) Django
4 3 (6.98%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.98%) Flask
4 3 (6.98%) React
5 2 (4.65%) Hugging Face
5 2 (4.65%) LangChain
5 2 (4.65%) PyTorch
5 2 (4.65%) SpaCy
6 1 (2.33%) Redux
6 1 (2.33%) REST
6 1 (2.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (60.47%) Derivative
1 26 (60.47%) Equities
1 26 (60.47%) Fixed Income
1 26 (60.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 26 (60.47%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) Agile
2 27 (62.79%) Software Engineering
3 26 (60.47%) Asset Management
4 25 (58.14%) Line Management
5 16 (37.21%) Investment Management
6 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.63%) Analytics
7 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (9.30%) Full Stack Development
9 3 (6.98%) CI/CD
9 3 (6.98%) Data Science
9 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.98%) Scrum
9 3 (6.98%) TDD
10 2 (4.65%) Computer Science
10 2 (4.65%) Data Architecture
10 2 (4.65%) Front End Development
10 2 (4.65%) Machine Learning
10 2 (4.65%) Mathematics
10 2 (4.65%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Python
2 29 (67.44%) TypeScript
3 28 (65.12%) JavaScript
4 26 (60.47%) Java
5 3 (6.98%) C#
6 2 (4.65%) Ruby
6 2 (4.65%) Scala
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft