Regionally, Western Europe has higher Python developer salaries than Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe. Though Glassdoor was less certain about average Python coder salary figures for Norway ($85,538), Denmark ($69,947), Austria ($56,446), Italy ($33,622), Spain ($36,099), Poland ($27,768), and Ukraine ($22,164), these numbers conform to the general pattern (corroborated by Stack Overflow data, to which we turn later). Python developers cost more in the West than in the East.

Below are the averaged Salary Explorer, Economic Research Institute, and Glassdoor data on European Python salaries in 2023.

Stack Overflow’s latest Developer Survey generally corroborates Glassdoor’s “high” (and “low”) confidence data. However, Stack Overflow’s 70,000 global respondents prove to be more senior Python developers with correspondingly higher salaries. And based on the data samples for specific countries, we can assume that higher wages in traditionally “cheaper” regions, in this case, reflect a large proportion of senior devs among the surveyed local audience.

Finally, whether you hire Django developers in-house or outsource your Python Developers also makes a significant cost difference. Based on the latest 2023 data released by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average employer cost for employee compensation in the US (paid leave, life, health, and disability insurance, supplemental pay, retirement, and savings, social security and medicare, unemployment insurance, and workers’ compensation) stands at $41.03 per hour. As a result, the cost of maintaining full-time teams is consistently increasing, making it more expensive.

And these benefits expenses are just the static costs of in-house employees. Add to this the cost of hiring, onboarding, training, office equipment and space, accounting, and HR overhead, and in-housing a developer becomes a very expensive proposition. Considering freelance Django developer rates, cutting costs alone is enough to make hiring freelancers an attractive option.

There are, however, many upsides to in-house developers. They generally permit full control of the development process, faster development, less disappearance, more predictability, fewer security breach issues, real-time fixes, access to in-house developer resources, and full legal protection. Hiring freelance developers confers none of these advantages.

In-house development also appears to be preferred by developers. JetBrains data (2021) indicates that 62% of Python developer respondents reported full-time employment. Only 6% identified as freelancers.

Moreover, according to the 2022 Stack Overflow survey, 80,76% of professional developers are employed full-time.

So, if in-housing your Python developers is too expensive and trusting your development to freelancers is too risky, where do you find reliable, affordable Python Developers who fulfill your Python programming needs?

Market data and logic suggest outstaffing. Hiring Django developers with a software development company provides you the benefits of in-house development while relieving you of its burdens — time and money.

The outsourcing market, already well developed in the US, is expanding globally.

Outstaffing is projected to continue growing, and it stands to expand most where it is less developed but well resourced.

As for a location with affordable salaries, both Glassdoor and Stack Overflow salary data indicate Central and, especially, Eastern Europe as low-cost opportunities for organizations that need Python developers.

Outstaff your Python developer needs to a software development company with the depth of experience in your need area. It will take some additional looking to find a software development company that’s a good match for your Python Development needs.

And, yes — full disclosure — we at Beetroot are in this market too. But we’re set up here for the same reason Python developers and client companies are: it makes good financial and business sense.

Beetroot can offer cost-efficient, highly talented Python developers handpicked from the deep pool of Python developers across Europe, including Sweden, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. We have a lot of completed and in-progress Python-powered projects, including reforestation AI, sustainability, travel tech, online course admin, healthcare, genomics, and more.

We make sure our Python developers enjoy a vast array of in-house resources in a collaborative environment that frees us to leverage our expertise fully, develop efficiently, and enthusiastically tailor a sustainable solution to your Python programming needs. Plus, we like people, and we’re a pleasure to work with. So don’t be a stranger. Get in touch.