Python Software Engineer Jobs

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 674 748
Rank change year-on-year +290 +74 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 700 280 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.32% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 348 194 372
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% +48.00%
75th Percentile £136,250 £116,250 £125,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.58% -14.29% +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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +201 399 £51,250 -14.58% 17
England +168 370 £110,000 +20.55% 51
Scotland +116 324 £45,000 -21.74%
London +205 294 £110,000 +4.76% 30
Work from Home +73 210 £115,000 +27.78% 28
South East 0 31 £50,000 -28.57% 2
North of England +8 16 £50,000 +17.65%
South West -39 12 £58,000 - 2
North West -2 11 £50,000 -
East of England -2 11 £57,500 -20.69% 6
Yorkshire +26 5 £45,000 +5.88%
Midlands -11 3 £65,000 +8.33% 7
Northern Ireland +20 2 £75,500 -
East Midlands -14 2 £57,500 -4.17% 4
West Midlands -11 1 £72,500 +23.40% 3

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Python Software Engineer 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 700 (100.00%) Python
1 700 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 590 (84.29%) Agile
3 581 (83.00%) Finance
4 520 (74.29%) AWS
5 350 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
6 342 (48.86%) CI/CD
7 327 (46.71%) Law
8 324 (46.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 323 (46.14%) SDLC
10 322 (46.00%) Operational Stability
11 310 (44.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 302 (43.14%) Machine Learning
13 275 (39.29%) Asset Management
14 256 (36.57%) Front Office
15 254 (36.29%) Banking
16 247 (35.29%) TypeScript
17 246 (35.14%) Community of Practice
18 245 (35.00%) JavaScript
19 240 (34.29%) Fixed Income
20 236 (33.71%) Protocol Buffers
20 236 (33.71%) gRPC
21 229 (32.71%) Apache
22 224 (32.00%) Apache Ignite
23 207 (29.57%) Investment Management
24 202 (28.86%) Hedge funds
25 188 (26.86%) Marketing
26 180 (25.71%) React
27 174 (24.86%) Java
28 172 (24.57%) GCP

Python Software Engineer 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
1 350 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 229 (32.71%) Apache
3 111 (15.86%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 520 (74.29%) AWS
2 172 (24.57%) GCP
3 150 (21.43%) Azure
4 126 (18.00%) dbt
5 98 (14.00%) Snowflake
6 32 (4.57%) Serverless
7 24 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (1.71%) SaaS
9 11 (1.57%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.00%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (0.86%) CloudFront
14 5 (0.71%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (0.71%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (0.71%) Azure Pipelines
14 5 (0.71%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.71%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) Internet
3 1 (0.14%) RTP
3 1 (0.14%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (32.00%) Apache Ignite
2 125 (17.86%) Amazon Athena
2 125 (17.86%) Apache Arrow
2 125 (17.86%) Dremio
3 111 (15.86%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (13.86%) Data Lake
5 91 (13.00%) Big Data
6 25 (3.57%) Apache Hive
6 25 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 20 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.00%) Impala
9 14 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.57%) HBase
11 7 (1.00%) Tableau
12 6 (0.86%) Flink
13 5 (0.71%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.57%) MySQL
14 4 (0.57%) Power BI
15 3 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (9.14%) Cypress.io
2 30 (4.29%) Git
3 18 (2.57%) GitLab
4 8 (1.14%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.71%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) Appium
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.14%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Mocha
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 581 (83.00%) Finance
2 327 (46.71%) Law
3 324 (46.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 256 (36.57%) Front Office
5 254 (36.29%) Banking
6 188 (26.86%) Marketing
7 155 (22.14%) Investment Banking
8 117 (16.71%) Legal
9 43 (6.14%) Social Skills
10 37 (5.29%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.57%) Military
12 16 (2.29%) Games
13 15 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.29%) Advertising
15 6 (0.86%) Public Sector
16 5 (0.71%) Analytical Skills
16 5 (0.71%) Automotive
17 4 (0.57%) Aerospace
18 3 (0.43%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (33.71%) gRPC
1 236 (33.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 180 (25.71%) React
3 142 (20.29%) Pandas
4 128 (18.29%) NumPy
5 125 (17.86%) SciPy
6 119 (17.00%) Redux
7 112 (16.00%) Material-UI
8 99 (14.14%) PySpark
9 51 (7.29%) Kafka
10 36 (5.14%) AngularJS
11 35 (5.00%) Django
12 33 (4.71%) REST
12 33 (4.71%) Vue
13 24 (3.43%) Node.js
14 23 (3.29%) RESTful
15 16 (2.29%) GraphQL
16 13 (1.86%) Flask
17 11 (1.57%) JPA
17 11 (1.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 240 (34.29%) Fixed Income
2 202 (28.86%) Hedge funds
3 167 (23.86%) Equities
4 151 (21.57%) Algorithms
5 142 (20.29%) Cloud Native
6 117 (16.71%) Derivative
7 113 (16.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 42 (6.00%) Pricing Data
9 14 (2.00%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.14%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.71%) Robotics
14 3 (0.43%) Product Ownership
15 1 (0.14%) Distributed Systems
15 1 (0.14%) IoT
15 1 (0.14%) Mobile App
15 1 (0.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.86%) Linux
2 32 (4.57%) Unix
3 19 (2.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 590 (84.29%) Agile
3 342 (48.86%) CI/CD
4 323 (46.14%) SDLC
5 322 (46.00%) Operational Stability
6 310 (44.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 302 (43.14%) Machine Learning
8 275 (39.29%) Asset Management
9 246 (35.14%) Community of Practice
10 207 (29.57%) Investment Management
11 141 (20.14%) Full Stack Development
12 123 (17.57%) Visualisation
13 117 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (16.43%) Risk Management
15 99 (14.14%) Automated Trading
16 88 (12.57%) Coaching
17 70 (10.00%) Decision-Making
18 66 (9.43%) Mentoring
18 66 (9.43%) Microservices
19 58 (8.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 700 (100.00%) Python
2 247 (35.29%) TypeScript
3 245 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 174 (24.86%) Java
5 99 (14.14%) SQL
6 56 (8.00%) C#
7 24 (3.43%) C
8 21 (3.00%) C++
9 18 (2.57%) Scala
10 16 (2.29%) Haskell
11 8 (1.14%) Rust
12 7 (1.00%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.71%) VBA
14 4 (0.57%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) Go
16 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.14%) R
16 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (2.14%) DBS Check
1 15 (2.14%) Degree
2 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.43%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.57%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.29%) Data Quality
2 22 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.00%) SLA
4 8 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 22 (3.14%) Docker
2 11 (1.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.57%) Grafana
3 10 (1.43%) Terraform
4 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 105 (15.00%) Google
2 56 (8.00%) Databricks
3 20 (2.86%) Oracle
4 11 (1.57%) Cloudera
4 11 (1.57%) Dynatrace
4 11 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.57%) Splunk
5 2 (0.29%) Calypso
5 2 (0.29%) Zoho
6 1 (0.14%) Xamarin