Python Software Engineer Jobs

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £110,000 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 388 681 732
Rank change year-on-year +293 +51 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 688 278 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 331 188 376
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -2.70% +54.17%
75th Percentile £136,250 £116,250 £125,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -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 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 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 28 May 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 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
UK excluding London +228 402 £50,000 -16.67% 18
England +150 352 £110,000 +22.22% 55
Scotland +135 331 £45,000 -21.74%
London +234 280 £110,000 +4.76% 36
Work from Home +86 199 £115,000 +27.78% 31
South East +15 31 £50,000 -28.57% 2
North of England +20 16 £50,000 +17.65% 2
North West +16 11 £50,000 - 1
East of England -1 11 £57,500 -20.69% 5
South West -41 8 £58,000 - 7
Yorkshire +41 5 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Midlands -5 3 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Northern Ireland +20 2 £75,500 -
East Midlands -14 2 £57,500 -4.17% 1
West Midlands +9 1 £72,500 +23.40% 1

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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.

1 688 (100.00%) Python
1 688 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 590 (85.76%) Agile
3 578 (84.01%) Finance
4 514 (74.71%) AWS
5 346 (50.29%) CI/CD
6 344 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
7 334 (48.55%) Law
8 331 (48.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 330 (47.97%) SDLC
10 328 (47.67%) Operational Stability
11 310 (45.06%) Artificial Intelligence
12 304 (44.19%) Machine Learning
13 269 (39.10%) Asset Management
14 250 (36.34%) Community of Practice
15 249 (36.19%) Front Office
16 248 (36.05%) Banking
17 241 (35.03%) JavaScript
18 238 (34.59%) TypeScript
19 233 (33.87%) Fixed Income
20 229 (33.28%) Protocol Buffers
20 229 (33.28%) gRPC
21 222 (32.27%) Apache
22 217 (31.54%) Apache Ignite
23 200 (29.07%) Investment Management
24 195 (28.34%) Hedge funds
25 192 (27.91%) Marketing
26 179 (26.02%) React
27 169 (24.56%) GCP
28 168 (24.42%) Java

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
1 344 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 222 (32.27%) Apache
3 114 (16.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 514 (74.71%) AWS
2 169 (24.56%) GCP
3 146 (21.22%) Azure
4 119 (17.30%) dbt
5 91 (13.23%) Snowflake
6 30 (4.36%) Serverless
7 24 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.74%) SaaS
10 11 (1.60%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.02%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (0.87%) CloudFront
15 5 (0.73%) Amazon Cognito
15 5 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.73%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (0.73%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.73%) Network Security
2 2 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) Internet
3 1 (0.15%) RTP
3 1 (0.15%) VoIP
3 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (31.54%) Apache Ignite
2 118 (17.15%) Amazon Athena
2 118 (17.15%) Apache Arrow
2 118 (17.15%) Dremio
3 111 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
4 94 (13.66%) Big Data
5 91 (13.23%) Data Lake
6 28 (4.07%) Apache Hive
6 28 (4.07%) Hadoop
7 20 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.33%) Impala
10 14 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.74%) HBase
12 7 (1.02%) Tableau
13 6 (0.87%) Flink
14 4 (0.58%) MySQL
14 4 (0.58%) Power BI
15 3 (0.44%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (9.30%) Cypress.io
2 30 (4.36%) Git
3 18 (2.62%) GitLab
4 8 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.73%) Postman
6 2 (0.29%) Appium
6 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.15%) Mocha
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 578 (84.01%) Finance
2 334 (48.55%) Law
3 331 (48.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 249 (36.19%) Front Office
5 248 (36.05%) Banking
6 192 (27.91%) Marketing
7 149 (21.66%) Investment Banking
8 120 (17.44%) Legal
9 44 (6.40%) Social Skills
10 38 (5.52%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.62%) Military
12 16 (2.33%) Games
13 15 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.02%) Advertising
15 6 (0.87%) Public Sector
16 5 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
17 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
18 2 (0.29%) Automotive
18 2 (0.29%) Back Office
19 1 (0.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (33.28%) gRPC
1 229 (33.28%) Protocol Buffers
2 179 (26.02%) React
3 135 (19.62%) Pandas
4 121 (17.59%) NumPy
5 119 (17.30%) Redux
6 118 (17.15%) SciPy
7 112 (16.28%) Material-UI
8 99 (14.39%) PySpark
9 51 (7.41%) Kafka
10 36 (5.23%) AngularJS
11 34 (4.94%) REST
12 33 (4.80%) Vue
13 30 (4.36%) Django
14 24 (3.49%) Node.js
15 23 (3.34%) RESTful
16 16 (2.33%) GraphQL
17 13 (1.89%) Flask
18 12 (1.74%) JPA
18 12 (1.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 233 (33.87%) Fixed Income
2 195 (28.34%) Hedge funds
3 160 (23.26%) Equities
4 153 (22.24%) Algorithms
5 147 (21.37%) Cloud Native
6 110 (15.99%) Derivative
7 106 (15.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 36 (5.23%) Pricing Data
9 16 (2.33%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.16%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.73%) Robotics
14 4 (0.58%) Product Ownership
15 1 (0.15%) Distributed Systems
15 1 (0.15%) Educational Technology
15 1 (0.15%) Genomics
15 1 (0.15%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.94%) Linux
2 33 (4.80%) Unix
3 19 (2.76%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 590 (85.76%) Agile
3 346 (50.29%) CI/CD
4 330 (47.97%) SDLC
5 328 (47.67%) Operational Stability
6 310 (45.06%) Artificial Intelligence
7 304 (44.19%) Machine Learning
8 269 (39.10%) Asset Management
9 250 (36.34%) Community of Practice
10 200 (29.07%) Investment Management
11 141 (20.49%) Full Stack Development
12 126 (18.31%) Visualisation
13 120 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 118 (17.15%) Risk Management
15 99 (14.39%) Automated Trading
16 89 (12.94%) Coaching
17 73 (10.61%) Decision-Making
18 67 (9.74%) Microservices
19 63 (9.16%) Mentoring
20 60 (8.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 688 (100.00%) Python
2 241 (35.03%) JavaScript
3 238 (34.59%) TypeScript
4 168 (24.42%) Java
5 99 (14.39%) SQL
6 55 (7.99%) C#
7 24 (3.49%) C
8 21 (3.05%) C++
9 20 (2.91%) Scala
10 16 (2.33%) Haskell
11 8 (1.16%) Rust
12 7 (1.02%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.73%) VBA
14 4 (0.58%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) Go
16 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.15%) R
16 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (2.18%) DBS Check
1 15 (2.18%) Degree
2 11 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (1.45%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.87%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.58%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.44%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 23 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.33%) SLA
4 7 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 21 (3.05%) Docker
2 12 (1.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.60%) Grafana
3 10 (1.45%) Terraform
4 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 104 (15.12%) Google
2 57 (8.28%) Databricks
3 20 (2.91%) Oracle
4 12 (1.74%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.60%) Dynatrace
5 11 (1.60%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.60%) Splunk
6 2 (0.29%) Calypso
6 2 (0.29%) Zoho
7 1 (0.15%) Xamarin