Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 430 480
Rank change year-on-year +113 +50 -145
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 879 739 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 0.71% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.77% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 494 572 845
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +11.36%

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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +19 529 £87,500 -2.78% 85
UK excluding London +209 498 £55,000 -8.33% 28
London +50 358 £100,000 - 56
Scotland +130 331 £45,000 -29.41%
Work from Home +6 293 £85,000 -5.56% 51
South East +23 52 £45,000 -35.71% 9
South West +3 37 £67,500 -2.80% 3
North of England +14 36 £50,000 +17.65% 5
North West +29 21 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East of England +22 21 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Midlands +10 16 £72,500 +34.88% 4
Yorkshire +35 11 £47,500 +11.76% 3
West Midlands +25 10 £72,500 +38.10% 1
East Midlands -11 6 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +13 3 £45,000 -29.41%
Northern Ireland +31 2 £75,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 879 (100.00%) Python
2 652 (74.18%) Software Engineering
3 563 (64.05%) AWS
4 555 (63.14%) Agile
5 550 (62.57%) Finance
6 378 (43.00%) CI/CD
7 348 (39.59%) SDLC
8 347 (39.48%) Law
9 338 (38.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 326 (37.09%) Operational Stability
11 323 (36.75%) Artificial Intelligence
12 321 (36.52%) Machine Learning
13 279 (31.74%) Apache Airflow
14 250 (28.44%) Community of Practice
15 208 (23.66%) JavaScript
16 199 (22.64%) Marketing
17 193 (21.96%) Asset Management
18 188 (21.39%) SQL
19 182 (20.71%) Azure
20 178 (20.25%) Banking
21 169 (19.23%) Front Office
21 169 (19.23%) Algorithms
22 166 (18.89%) React
23 163 (18.54%) TypeScript
24 157 (17.86%) GCP
24 157 (17.86%) Cloud Native
24 157 (17.86%) Apache
25 152 (17.29%) Fixed Income
26 147 (16.72%) gRPC
26 147 (16.72%) Protocol Buffers

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
1 279 (31.74%) Apache Airflow
2 157 (17.86%) Apache
3 138 (15.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 563 (64.05%) AWS
2 182 (20.71%) Azure
3 157 (17.86%) GCP
4 78 (8.87%) dbt
5 51 (5.80%) Serverless
5 51 (5.80%) Snowflake
6 41 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
7 38 (4.32%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.53%) SaaS
9 25 (2.84%) GitHub
10 23 (2.62%) Power Platform
11 18 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.25%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (1.02%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.37%) Network Security
2 5 (0.57%) Wireless
3 4 (0.46%) 5G
3 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.46%) WAN
4 3 (0.34%) Modbus
4 3 (0.34%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (15.13%) Apache Ignite
2 119 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
3 111 (12.63%) Big Data
4 69 (7.85%) Amazon Athena
5 67 (7.62%) Apache Arrow
6 64 (7.28%) Dremio
7 61 (6.94%) Data Lake
8 44 (5.01%) Hadoop
9 37 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (3.41%) Apache Hive
10 30 (3.41%) NoSQL
11 24 (2.73%) DynamoDB
12 23 (2.62%) Power BI
13 20 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
13 20 (2.28%) Relational Database
14 18 (2.05%) SQL Server
14 18 (2.05%) Tableau
15 17 (1.93%) Impala
15 17 (1.93%) MongoDB
16 14 (1.59%) HBase
Development Applications
1 47 (5.35%) Git
2 44 (5.01%) Cypress.io
3 31 (3.53%) GitLab
4 18 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.82%) JIRA
6 8 (0.91%) LabVIEW
7 5 (0.57%) MLflow
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.46%) Postman
8 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.23%) Appium
9 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.11%) Android Studio
10 1 (0.11%) Mocha
10 1 (0.11%) NUnit
10 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 550 (62.57%) Finance
2 347 (39.48%) Law
3 338 (38.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 199 (22.64%) Marketing
5 178 (20.25%) Banking
6 169 (19.23%) Front Office
7 123 (13.99%) Legal
8 104 (11.83%) Investment Banking
9 83 (9.44%) Social Skills
10 38 (4.32%) Financial Institution
11 29 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.19%) Games
13 23 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (2.05%) Military
15 9 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.91%) Retail
17 7 (0.80%) Public Sector
17 7 (0.80%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.68%) Advertising
18 6 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (18.89%) React
2 147 (16.72%) gRPC
2 147 (16.72%) Protocol Buffers
3 110 (12.51%) PySpark
4 89 (10.13%) Pandas
5 83 (9.44%) Material-UI
6 80 (9.10%) Redux
7 72 (8.19%) Kafka
7 72 (8.19%) NumPy
8 64 (7.28%) Django
8 64 (7.28%) SciPy
9 53 (6.03%) REST
10 43 (4.89%) Flask
11 36 (4.10%) FastAPI
12 31 (3.53%) AngularJS
13 27 (3.07%) RESTful
13 27 (3.07%) Vue
14 17 (1.93%) Node.js
15 16 (1.82%) .NET
15 16 (1.82%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 169 (19.23%) Algorithms
2 157 (17.86%) Cloud Native
3 152 (17.29%) Fixed Income
4 121 (13.77%) Hedge funds
5 90 (10.24%) Equities
6 64 (7.28%) Derivative
7 60 (6.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (2.62%) Client/Server
10 16 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.37%) Pricing Data
12 11 (1.25%) IoT
13 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.02%) Robotics
15 8 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 8 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.91%) Product Ownership
16 7 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 61 (6.94%) Linux
2 53 (6.03%) Unix
3 28 (3.19%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 652 (74.18%) Software Engineering
2 555 (63.14%) Agile
3 378 (43.00%) CI/CD
4 348 (39.59%) SDLC
5 326 (37.09%) Operational Stability
6 323 (36.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 321 (36.52%) Machine Learning
8 250 (28.44%) Community of Practice
9 193 (21.96%) Asset Management
10 137 (15.59%) Visualisation
11 129 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 129 (14.68%) Investment Management
12 127 (14.45%) Full Stack Development
13 121 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (13.65%) Risk Management
15 96 (10.92%) Analytics
16 95 (10.81%) Coaching
17 83 (9.44%) Microservices
18 78 (8.87%) Computer Science
19 76 (8.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 879 (100.00%) Python
2 208 (23.66%) JavaScript
3 188 (21.39%) SQL
4 163 (18.54%) TypeScript
5 141 (16.04%) Java
6 75 (8.53%) C#
7 42 (4.78%) C++
8 35 (3.98%) C
9 22 (2.50%) Scala
10 15 (1.71%) Haskell
11 14 (1.59%) Rust
12 10 (1.14%) Bash
12 10 (1.14%) MATLAB
13 9 (1.02%) Go
14 8 (0.91%) Ruby
15 7 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.80%) Embedded C
15 7 (0.80%) U-SQL
16 5 (0.57%) VBA
17 4 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (5.92%) Degree
2 21 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.59%) DBS Check
4 13 (1.48%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 8 (0.91%) HND
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.91%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.57%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.23%) PhD
9 2 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 24 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.50%) QA
4 16 (1.82%) SLA
5 4 (0.46%) PMO
5 4 (0.46%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 65 (7.39%) Docker
2 14 (1.59%) HDFS
3 4 (0.46%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 111 (12.63%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.98%) Terraform
3 19 (2.16%) Grafana
4 11 (1.25%) Ansible
5 8 (0.91%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.57%) Puppet
7 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 105 (11.95%) Google
2 86 (9.78%) Databricks
3 33 (3.75%) Microsoft
4 31 (3.53%) Oracle
5 14 (1.59%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.25%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.25%) Splunk
7 7 (0.80%) Informatica
8 4 (0.46%) YouTube
9 3 (0.34%) Teradata
10 2 (0.23%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.23%) Calypso
10 2 (0.23%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.23%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.23%) Zoho
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.11%) Xamarin