Python Software Engineer Jobs in England

Python Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Software Engineer salary in England is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 558 701
Rank change year-on-year +62 +143 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 153 277 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 153 254 158
10th Percentile £72,500 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £85,000 £65,313 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £100,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +14.29% -5.41%
75th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £116,250
90th Percentile £147,500 £148,750 £151,250
UK median annual salary £107,500 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% +25.00% -13.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in England

Python Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +53 140 £110,000 - 39
South East +90 9 £67,500 +35.00% 19
East of England +49 2 £57,500 -20.69% 8
Midlands +80 1 £70,000 +40.00% 1
East Midlands +50 1 £70,000 +40.00% 1
Python Software Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 England region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 153 (100.00%) Python
1 153 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 133 (86.93%) Agile
3 129 (84.31%) AWS
4 125 (81.70%) Finance
5 119 (77.78%) Fixed Income
6 117 (76.47%) Front Office
7 114 (74.51%) Asset Management
8 113 (73.86%) Apache Airflow
8 113 (73.86%) Amazon Athena
8 113 (73.86%) Dremio
8 113 (73.86%) dbt
8 113 (73.86%) Apache Arrow
8 113 (73.86%) Apache Iceberg
9 104 (67.97%) TypeScript
10 102 (66.67%) JavaScript
11 99 (64.71%) Pandas
12 97 (63.40%) SciPy
12 97 (63.40%) NumPy
13 91 (59.48%) Equities
14 88 (57.52%) Apache
14 88 (57.52%) Investment Management
15 85 (55.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 75 (49.02%) Java
16 75 (49.02%) Banking
17 72 (47.06%) Derivative
17 72 (47.06%) Protocol Buffers
17 72 (47.06%) Apache Ignite
17 72 (47.06%) gRPC
18 67 (43.79%) Investment Banking

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 113 (73.86%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (57.52%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 129 (84.31%) AWS
2 113 (73.86%) dbt
3 66 (43.14%) Snowflake
4 61 (39.87%) GCP
5 11 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.19%) Dagster
6 8 (5.23%) Azure
7 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.27%) Serverless
8 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.65%) Google Gemini
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.92%) Multicast
2 1 (0.65%) Broadband
2 1 (0.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (73.86%) Amazon Athena
1 113 (73.86%) Apache Arrow
1 113 (73.86%) Apache Iceberg
1 113 (73.86%) Dremio
2 72 (47.06%) Apache Ignite
3 50 (32.68%) Data Lake
4 27 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.61%) MySQL
5 4 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.31%) Redis
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) GIS
7 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.92%) JIRA
2 4 (2.61%) Git
2 4 (2.61%) GitLab
3 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 125 (81.70%) Finance
2 117 (76.47%) Front Office
3 75 (49.02%) Banking
4 67 (43.79%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.92%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.27%) Health Technology
6 5 (3.27%) Tech for Good
7 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Publishing
8 3 (1.96%) Law
8 3 (1.96%) Military
9 2 (1.31%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.65%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (64.71%) Pandas
2 97 (63.40%) NumPy
2 97 (63.40%) SciPy
3 72 (47.06%) gRPC
3 72 (47.06%) Protocol Buffers
4 55 (35.95%) React
5 53 (34.64%) AngularJS
6 50 (32.68%) Node.js
7 49 (32.03%) Vue
8 27 (17.65%) PySpark
9 22 (14.38%) Redux
10 7 (4.58%) RESTful
11 6 (3.92%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 6 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (3.92%) pytest
12 5 (3.27%) Kafka
13 3 (1.96%) CSS
13 3 (1.96%) FastAPI
13 3 (1.96%) HTML
14 2 (1.31%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (77.78%) Fixed Income
2 91 (59.48%) Equities
3 85 (55.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 72 (47.06%) Derivative
5 66 (43.14%) Hedge funds
6 39 (25.49%) Pricing Data
7 8 (5.23%) Algorithms
8 5 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.96%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.65%) Client/Server
12 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
12 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.65%) NHS
12 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 133 (86.93%) Agile
3 114 (74.51%) Asset Management
4 88 (57.52%) Investment Management
5 48 (31.37%) Fintech
6 47 (30.72%) Performance Attribution
7 25 (16.34%) Order Management
7 25 (16.34%) Risk Management
8 22 (14.38%) Credit Risk Analysis
9 16 (10.46%) Data Management
10 14 (9.15%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.84%) Computer Science
11 12 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (7.19%) Mentoring
12 11 (7.19%) Migration
13 10 (6.54%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (6.54%) Process Improvement
14 9 (5.88%) DevOps
14 9 (5.88%) OOP
14 9 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 153 (100.00%) Python
2 104 (67.97%) TypeScript
3 102 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 75 (49.02%) Java
5 27 (17.65%) SQL
6 9 (5.88%) C++
7 4 (2.61%) C#
8 3 (1.96%) C
8 3 (1.96%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.96%) Rust
9 1 (0.65%) Julia
9 1 (0.65%) PHP
9 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (3.92%) Degree
2 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.23%) Terraform
3 3 (1.96%) Ansible
3 3 (1.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (0.65%) Google
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.65%) OpenAI