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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 438 476
Rank change year-on-year +134 +38 -146
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 926 720 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.71% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.78% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 536 558 838
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
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% +21.43%
75th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £119,688
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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +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 13 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 13 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 +31 574 £90,000 - 86
UK excluding London +191 499 £55,000 -8.33% 23
London +53 405 £105,000 +5.00% 64
Scotland +132 335 £45,000 -21.74% 1
Work from Home +17 311 £90,000 - 66
South East +6 54 £45,000 -35.71% 6
South West -11 35 £67,500 -2.80% 2
North of England +16 32 £52,500 +23.53% 3
East of England +24 20 £75,000 +3.45% 5
North West +18 18 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Midlands +4 18 £72,500 +38.10% 6
West Midlands +19 12 £72,500 +38.10% 3
Yorkshire +31 10 £46,250 +8.82% 2
East Midlands -3 6 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +14 3 £45,000 -29.41%
Northern Ireland +25 2 £75,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 926 (100.00%) Python
2 697 (75.27%) Software Engineering
3 611 (65.98%) Agile
3 611 (65.98%) AWS
4 607 (65.55%) Finance
5 381 (41.14%) CI/CD
6 353 (38.12%) Artificial Intelligence
7 352 (38.01%) Law
8 349 (37.69%) Machine Learning
8 349 (37.69%) SDLC
9 345 (37.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 331 (35.75%) Operational Stability
11 328 (35.42%) Apache Airflow
12 253 (27.32%) Community of Practice
13 244 (26.35%) Asset Management
14 232 (25.05%) JavaScript
15 226 (24.41%) Banking
16 218 (23.54%) Front Office
17 213 (23.00%) TypeScript
18 208 (22.46%) Apache
19 206 (22.25%) Azure
20 202 (21.81%) Fixed Income
21 199 (21.49%) Marketing
22 197 (21.27%) SQL
23 195 (21.06%) Protocol Buffers
23 195 (21.06%) gRPC
24 189 (20.41%) React
25 185 (19.98%) GCP
26 183 (19.76%) Apache Ignite
27 178 (19.22%) Investment Management

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
1 328 (35.42%) Apache Airflow
2 208 (22.46%) Apache
3 138 (14.90%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 611 (65.98%) AWS
2 206 (22.25%) Azure
3 185 (19.98%) GCP
4 102 (11.02%) dbt
5 74 (7.99%) Snowflake
6 54 (5.83%) Serverless
7 43 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 32 (3.46%) SaaS
10 26 (2.81%) Power Platform
11 25 (2.70%) GitHub
12 18 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
17 11 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 10 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
18 10 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.40%) Network Security
2 4 (0.43%) Wireless
3 3 (0.32%) Modbus
3 3 (0.32%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.22%) 5G
4 2 (0.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (19.76%) Apache Ignite
2 147 (15.87%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (11.77%) Big Data
4 95 (10.26%) Amazon Athena
5 91 (9.83%) Apache Arrow
6 88 (9.50%) Dremio
7 86 (9.29%) Data Lake
8 42 (4.54%) Hadoop
9 31 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (3.35%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.24%) Apache Hive
11 26 (2.81%) Power BI
12 25 (2.70%) DynamoDB
13 24 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (2.38%) Relational Database
14 22 (2.38%) Tableau
15 18 (1.94%) MongoDB
16 17 (1.84%) Impala
16 17 (1.84%) SQL Server
17 14 (1.51%) HBase
Development Applications
1 63 (6.80%) Cypress.io
2 48 (5.18%) Git
3 30 (3.24%) GitLab
4 17 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.62%) JIRA
6 8 (0.86%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.76%) Selenium
8 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.54%) MLflow
8 5 (0.54%) Postman
9 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Appium
10 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 607 (65.55%) Finance
2 352 (38.01%) Law
3 345 (37.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 226 (24.41%) Banking
5 218 (23.54%) Front Office
6 199 (21.49%) Marketing
7 126 (13.61%) Investment Banking
8 124 (13.39%) Legal
9 87 (9.40%) Social Skills
10 39 (4.21%) Financial Institution
11 32 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.02%) Games
13 23 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.94%) Military
15 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.76%) Advertising
16 7 (0.76%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.76%) Retail
16 7 (0.76%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (21.06%) gRPC
1 195 (21.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 189 (20.41%) React
3 112 (12.10%) Pandas
4 111 (11.99%) PySpark
5 109 (11.77%) Redux
6 108 (11.66%) Material-UI
7 97 (10.48%) NumPy
8 88 (9.50%) SciPy
9 71 (7.67%) Kafka
10 59 (6.37%) Django
11 52 (5.62%) REST
12 42 (4.54%) Flask
13 34 (3.67%) FastAPI
14 31 (3.35%) AngularJS
15 29 (3.13%) RESTful
16 27 (2.92%) Vue
17 20 (2.16%) Node.js
18 16 (1.73%) GraphQL
19 15 (1.62%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 202 (21.81%) Fixed Income
2 171 (18.47%) Algorithms
2 171 (18.47%) Hedge funds
3 159 (17.17%) Cloud Native
4 132 (14.25%) Equities
5 87 (9.40%) Derivative
6 82 (8.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 30 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (2.59%) Pricing Data
9 23 (2.48%) Client/Server
10 16 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.19%) IoT
13 9 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.97%) Robotics
14 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
15 7 (0.76%) Product Ownership
15 7 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.83%) Unix
2 53 (5.72%) Linux
3 27 (2.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (75.27%) Software Engineering
2 611 (65.98%) Agile
3 381 (41.14%) CI/CD
4 353 (38.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 349 (37.69%) Machine Learning
5 349 (37.69%) SDLC
6 331 (35.75%) Operational Stability
7 253 (27.32%) Community of Practice
8 244 (26.35%) Asset Management
9 178 (19.22%) Investment Management
10 153 (16.52%) Full Stack Development
11 141 (15.23%) Visualisation
12 132 (14.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (13.07%) Risk Management
14 117 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (10.37%) Analytics
15 96 (10.37%) Automated Trading
16 95 (10.26%) Coaching
17 81 (8.75%) Microservices
18 77 (8.32%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 926 (100.00%) Python
2 232 (25.05%) JavaScript
3 213 (23.00%) TypeScript
4 197 (21.27%) SQL
5 165 (17.82%) Java
6 73 (7.88%) C#
7 38 (4.10%) C++
8 35 (3.78%) C
9 22 (2.38%) Scala
10 16 (1.73%) Haskell
11 14 (1.51%) Rust
12 10 (1.08%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.97%) Go
14 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.86%) U-SQL
15 7 (0.76%) Embedded C
15 7 (0.76%) Ruby
16 5 (0.54%) Bash
16 5 (0.54%) VBA
17 2 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (5.18%) Degree
2 19 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.51%) DBS Check
3 14 (1.51%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 8 (0.86%) HND
5 8 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (0.86%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) PhD
8 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.27%) QA
4 16 (1.73%) SLA
5 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.43%) NIST
5 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (6.80%) Docker
2 14 (1.51%) HDFS
3 4 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 110 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.35%) Terraform
3 18 (1.94%) Grafana
4 9 (0.97%) Ansible
5 7 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.43%) Puppet
7 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (13.71%) Google
2 86 (9.29%) Databricks
3 33 (3.56%) Oracle
4 30 (3.24%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.51%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.19%) Splunk
7 5 (0.54%) Informatica
8 4 (0.43%) YouTube
9 3 (0.32%) Teradata
10 2 (0.22%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.22%) Calypso
10 2 (0.22%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.22%) Zoho
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.11%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.11%) Xamarin