Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 426 479
Rank change year-on-year +123 +53 -141
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 969 712 1,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.73% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.80% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 578 562 819
10th Percentile £45,875 £52,625 £47,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +18.06%
75th Percentile £122,500 £140,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +32 623 £90,000 - 106
UK excluding London +204 500 £55,000 -8.33% 34
London +73 450 £110,000 +10.00% 71
Work from Home +21 348 £90,000 - 61
Scotland +134 331 £45,000 -21.74%
South East -1 55 £45,000 -35.71% 6
South West -20 36 £67,500 -2.80% 11
North of England +19 31 £52,500 +23.53% 6
East of England +5 21 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Midlands +1 21 £72,500 +31.82% 4
North West +21 19 £50,000 +11.11% 3
West Midlands +12 14 £72,500 +38.10% 3
Yorkshire +31 8 £56,250 +32.35% 2
East Midlands -11 7 £87,500 +59.09% 1
North East - 4 £64,000 - 1
Wales +3 3 £45,000 -29.41%
Northern Ireland +20 2 £75,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Python 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 969 (100.00%) Python
2 736 (75.95%) Software Engineering
3 659 (68.01%) Agile
4 652 (67.29%) AWS
5 640 (66.05%) Finance
6 383 (39.53%) CI/CD
7 366 (37.77%) Apache Airflow
8 353 (36.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 351 (36.22%) Machine Learning
10 349 (36.02%) Law
11 344 (35.50%) SDLC
12 343 (35.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 328 (33.85%) Operational Stability
14 283 (29.21%) Asset Management
15 263 (27.14%) JavaScript
16 260 (26.83%) Banking
17 258 (26.63%) Front Office
18 250 (25.80%) Community of Practice
19 248 (25.59%) TypeScript
20 242 (24.97%) Apache
21 236 (24.36%) Fixed Income
22 229 (23.63%) Protocol Buffers
22 229 (23.63%) gRPC
23 224 (23.12%) Azure
24 217 (22.39%) Apache Ignite
25 214 (22.08%) Investment Management
26 204 (21.05%) GCP
26 204 (21.05%) SQL
27 199 (20.54%) Hedge funds
28 197 (20.33%) Marketing

Python 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
1 366 (37.77%) Apache Airflow
2 242 (24.97%) Apache
3 135 (13.93%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.10%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 652 (67.29%) AWS
2 224 (23.12%) Azure
3 204 (21.05%) GCP
4 138 (14.24%) dbt
5 99 (10.22%) Snowflake
6 63 (6.50%) Serverless
7 52 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (4.23%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.51%) SaaS
10 30 (3.10%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.37%) GitHub
12 20 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
17 12 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 11 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
19 10 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.44%) Network Security
2 4 (0.41%) Wireless
3 3 (0.31%) Modbus
3 3 (0.31%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) RTP
5 1 (0.10%) VoIP
5 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (22.39%) Apache Ignite
2 152 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (13.52%) Amazon Athena
4 124 (12.80%) Dremio
5 121 (12.49%) Apache Arrow
6 118 (12.18%) Data Lake
7 107 (11.04%) Big Data
8 40 (4.13%) Hadoop
9 31 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 31 (3.20%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 30 (3.10%) Power BI
11 29 (2.99%) Apache Hive
11 29 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (2.37%) Relational Database
12 23 (2.37%) Tableau
13 19 (1.96%) MongoDB
14 18 (1.86%) SQL Server
15 17 (1.75%) Impala
16 13 (1.34%) HBase
Development Applications
1 67 (6.91%) Cypress.io
2 53 (5.47%) Git
3 34 (3.51%) GitLab
4 15 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.44%) JIRA
6 9 (0.93%) Selenium
7 8 (0.83%) LabVIEW
8 5 (0.52%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.52%) MLflow
8 5 (0.52%) Postman
9 2 (0.21%) Appium
9 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.21%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.10%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 640 (66.05%) Finance
2 349 (36.02%) Law
3 343 (35.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 260 (26.83%) Banking
5 258 (26.63%) Front Office
6 197 (20.33%) Marketing
7 149 (15.38%) Investment Banking
8 120 (12.38%) Legal
9 91 (9.39%) Social Skills
10 38 (3.92%) Financial Institution
11 34 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (2.79%) Games
13 23 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.86%) Military
15 9 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.72%) Advertising
16 7 (0.72%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.62%) Public Sector
17 6 (0.62%) Retail
18 5 (0.52%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (23.63%) gRPC
1 229 (23.63%) Protocol Buffers
2 195 (20.12%) React
3 151 (15.58%) Pandas
4 135 (13.93%) NumPy
5 124 (12.80%) SciPy
6 120 (12.38%) PySpark
7 119 (12.28%) Redux
8 112 (11.56%) Material-UI
9 69 (7.12%) Kafka
10 62 (6.40%) Django
11 53 (5.47%) REST
12 45 (4.64%) Flask
13 37 (3.82%) AngularJS
14 34 (3.51%) FastAPI
14 34 (3.51%) Vue
15 33 (3.41%) RESTful
16 26 (2.68%) Node.js
17 20 (2.06%) GraphQL
18 15 (1.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 236 (24.36%) Fixed Income
2 199 (20.54%) Hedge funds
3 170 (17.54%) Algorithms
4 160 (16.51%) Equities
5 159 (16.41%) Cloud Native
6 111 (11.46%) Derivative
7 106 (10.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 36 (3.72%) Pricing Data
9 30 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.37%) Client/Server
11 16 (1.65%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.03%) IoT
14 9 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.93%) Robotics
15 8 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.72%) Product Ownership
16 7 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.47%) Unix
2 48 (4.95%) Linux
3 27 (2.79%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (75.95%) Software Engineering
2 659 (68.01%) Agile
3 383 (39.53%) CI/CD
4 353 (36.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 351 (36.22%) Machine Learning
6 344 (35.50%) SDLC
7 328 (33.85%) Operational Stability
8 283 (29.21%) Asset Management
9 250 (25.80%) Community of Practice
10 214 (22.08%) Investment Management
11 162 (16.72%) Full Stack Development
12 142 (14.65%) Visualisation
13 130 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 122 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (12.18%) Risk Management
16 103 (10.63%) Analytics
17 100 (10.32%) Automated Trading
18 94 (9.70%) Coaching
19 82 (8.46%) Microservices
20 77 (7.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 969 (100.00%) Python
2 263 (27.14%) JavaScript
3 248 (25.59%) TypeScript
4 204 (21.05%) SQL
5 193 (19.92%) Java
6 71 (7.33%) C#
7 34 (3.51%) C
8 32 (3.30%) C++
9 22 (2.27%) Scala
10 16 (1.65%) Haskell
11 13 (1.34%) Rust
12 10 (1.03%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.93%) U-SQL
14 8 (0.83%) Go
15 7 (0.72%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.62%) Ruby
17 5 (0.52%) VBA
18 2 (0.21%) R
18 2 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (4.95%) Degree
2 22 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (1.86%) DBS Check
4 13 (1.34%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.83%) HND
8 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.72%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.62%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.21%) PhD
10 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.27%) QA
4 16 (1.65%) SLA
5 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.62%) NIST
6 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 62 (6.40%) Docker
2 13 (1.34%) HDFS
3 4 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 106 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.99%) Terraform
3 17 (1.75%) Grafana
4 9 (0.93%) Ansible
5 6 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.41%) Puppet
7 3 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 129 (13.31%) Google
2 89 (9.18%) Databricks
3 33 (3.41%) Oracle
4 31 (3.20%) Microsoft
5 13 (1.34%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.14%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.14%) Splunk
7 4 (0.41%) Informatica
8 3 (0.31%) Teradata
8 3 (0.31%) YouTube
9 2 (0.21%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.21%) Calypso
9 2 (0.21%) Carbon Black
9 2 (0.21%) Zoho
10 1 (0.10%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.10%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.10%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.10%) Xamarin