Remote lead and principal Python jobs in the UK
Live remote lead and principal Python jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role is fully remote or work-from-home.
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We are currently tracking 65 live vacancies matching remote lead and principal Python jobs in the UK, advertised by 30 different employers. 11 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Monzo, Remotefriendly, Timesm and Iorys. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Of the 65 roles, 10 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £124,750. The middle half of the market sits between £110,000 and £150,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for remote lead and principal Python jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.
On working pattern, 100% are fully remote and 2% are contract rather than permanent. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for Python in this slice most often ask for it alongside Java, TypeScript, C#, Machine Learning, React and Kubernetes. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Solution Architect (Remote)
Principal QA Engineer
Full Stack Architect
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Customer Operations
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Business Banking
Credit Model Validation Manager (Machine Learning & NPV Models)
Software Engineering Manager - Data
Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote
Staff Backend Engineer - Alerting | UK | Remote
Principal Engineer – AI and Full Stack | Remote
Automation Solutions Architect
Technical Project Manager
Technical Project Manager (Contract)
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Financial Reporting)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager (Developer Productivity)310k - 387k PLN
AffirmPolandEngineering Manager, Backend (Collections)310k - 387k PLNSQL, Jupyter
AffirmPolandSenior Engineering Manager, Merchant Servicing362k - 453k PLN
Technical Project Manager
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many remote lead and principal Python jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 65 live vacancies across 30 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do remote lead and principal Python jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £124,750, based on the 10 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £110,000 to £150,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
2% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Monzo, Remotefriendly, Timesm, Iorys and Mimesis Studios. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often Java, TypeScript, C#, Machine Learning and React. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
How much does a Python developer earn in the UK?
£124,750 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 127% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 55 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Are there entry-level or graduate Python developer jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Technical Project Manager, Full Stack Architect, SAP Project Manager Jobs, QA Lead and Staff Security Engineer. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
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