Python Software Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 632 738
Rank change year-on-year +222 +106 -176
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 403 114 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 64 47 83
10th Percentile £42,500 - £33,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +33.33%
75th Percentile £59,063 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £102,500 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +20.59% -8.11% +54.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,720 52,840 68,639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,860 30,029 42,498
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Software Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Scotland +118 335 £45,000 -21.74%
South East +16 29 £50,000 -28.57% 2
North of England +12 17 £50,000 +17.65% 1
North West +11 11 £50,000 -
East of England +7 10 £65,000 -10.34% 4
South West -42 8 £58,000 - 1
Yorkshire +38 6 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Northern Ireland +25 2 £75,500 -
Midlands -2 2 £61,250 +2.08% 3
East Midlands -7 1 £50,000 -16.67% 3
West Midlands - 1 £72,500 -
Python Software Engineer
UK

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 403 (100.00%) Python
1 403 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 343 (85.11%) Agile
3 333 (82.63%) Finance
4 332 (82.38%) Law
5 331 (82.13%) SDLC
5 331 (82.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 330 (81.89%) Operational Stability
7 317 (78.66%) CI/CD
8 253 (62.78%) Community of Practice
9 250 (62.03%) AWS
10 210 (52.11%) Artificial Intelligence
11 206 (51.12%) Machine Learning
12 192 (47.64%) Marketing
13 153 (37.97%) Algorithms
14 146 (36.23%) Cloud Native
15 123 (30.52%) Legal
16 122 (30.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 121 (30.02%) Visualisation
18 119 (29.53%) Risk Management
19 116 (28.78%) Apache Spark
20 112 (27.79%) Apache Airflow
21 102 (25.31%) JavaScript
22 99 (24.57%) PySpark
23 95 (23.57%) Big Data
24 90 (22.33%) Coaching
25 74 (18.36%) Java
26 70 (17.37%) Decision-Making
27 66 (16.38%) Microservices
28 58 (14.39%) Databricks

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 116 (28.78%) Apache Spark
2 112 (27.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 250 (62.03%) AWS
2 19 (4.71%) Azure
3 14 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (2.23%) SaaS
5 7 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (0.99%) Serverless
7 3 (0.74%) Amazon S3
7 3 (0.74%) CloudFront
7 3 (0.74%) GCP
7 3 (0.74%) GitHub
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.50%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (0.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.50%) SonarCloud
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.25%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (23.57%) Big Data
2 29 (7.20%) Apache Hive
2 29 (7.20%) Hadoop
3 16 (3.97%) Impala
4 13 (3.23%) HBase
5 12 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.74%) Redis
8 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.50%) MySQL
8 2 (0.50%) Tableau
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.25%) Flink
9 1 (0.25%) GIS
9 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 7 (1.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.49%) Git
3 2 (0.50%) Appium
3 2 (0.50%) Postman
3 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.25%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.25%) GitLab
4 1 (0.25%) Mocha
4 1 (0.25%) Selenium
4 1 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 333 (82.63%) Finance
2 332 (82.38%) Law
3 331 (82.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 192 (47.64%) Marketing
5 123 (30.52%) Legal
6 50 (12.41%) Banking
6 50 (12.41%) Investment Banking
7 39 (9.68%) Financial Institution
8 18 (4.47%) Front Office
8 18 (4.47%) Military
9 16 (3.97%) Games
10 15 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.47%) Social Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Advertising
13 3 (0.74%) Electronics
14 2 (0.50%) Automotive
15 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.25%) Analytical Skills
15 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (24.57%) PySpark
2 47 (11.66%) Kafka
3 41 (10.17%) React
4 29 (7.20%) REST
5 13 (3.23%) JPA
5 13 (3.23%) Spring
6 11 (2.73%) JSP
7 8 (1.99%) Flask
8 7 (1.74%) Django
8 7 (1.74%) Keras
8 7 (1.74%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.74%) SpaCy
8 7 (1.74%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.49%) .NET
10 3 (0.74%) JSON
10 3 (0.74%) XML
11 2 (0.50%) CSS
11 2 (0.50%) HTML
11 2 (0.50%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (0.50%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 153 (37.97%) Algorithms
2 146 (36.23%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.97%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.24%) Robotics
6 3 (0.74%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.50%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.25%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.25%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.25%) Genomics
8 1 (0.25%) IoT
8 1 (0.25%) Mixed Reality
8 1 (0.25%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (8.44%) Unix
2 33 (8.19%) Linux
3 19 (4.71%) Windows
4 1 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 343 (85.11%) Agile
3 331 (82.13%) SDLC
4 330 (81.89%) Operational Stability
5 317 (78.66%) CI/CD
6 253 (62.78%) Community of Practice
7 210 (52.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 206 (51.12%) Machine Learning
9 122 (30.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 121 (30.02%) Visualisation
11 119 (29.53%) Risk Management
12 90 (22.33%) Coaching
13 70 (17.37%) Decision-Making
14 66 (16.38%) Microservices
15 54 (13.40%) Mentoring
16 53 (13.15%) Scrum
17 51 (12.66%) Workflow
18 46 (11.41%) Mathematics
19 38 (9.43%) Asset Management
20 37 (9.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 403 (100.00%) Python
2 102 (25.31%) JavaScript
3 74 (18.36%) Java
4 53 (13.15%) SQL
5 44 (10.92%) C#
6 24 (5.96%) C
7 23 (5.71%) C++
8 16 (3.97%) Haskell
8 16 (3.97%) Scala
9 9 (2.23%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.99%) Rust
11 7 (1.74%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.50%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.25%) R
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (2.48%) Degree
2 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.49%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.74%) DV Cleared
4 3 (0.74%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.96%) Accessibility
2 16 (3.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.25%) QA
System Software
1 13 (3.23%) HDFS
2 11 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (11.91%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.73%) Grafana
3 4 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (14.39%) Databricks
2 20 (4.96%) Oracle
3 13 (3.23%) Cloudera
4 11 (2.73%) Dynatrace
4 11 (2.73%) Splunk
5 3 (0.74%) Microsoft
6 2 (0.50%) Zoho
7 1 (0.25%) Google
7 1 (0.25%) Xamarin