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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 426 481
Rank change year-on-year +120 +55 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 930 716 1,186
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 540 554 838
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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +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 14 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 14 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 +17 578 £90,000 - 92
UK excluding London +188 499 £55,000 -8.33% 27
London +61 409 £105,000 +5.00% 67
Scotland +129 335 £45,000 -21.74% 2
Work from Home +9 314 £90,000 - 68
South East 0 54 £45,000 -35.71% 7
South West -18 35 £67,500 -2.80% 2
North of England 0 32 £52,500 +23.53% 4
East of England +11 20 £75,000 +3.45% 5
North West +18 18 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Midlands +10 18 £72,500 +38.10% 7
West Midlands +8 12 £72,500 +38.10% 4
Yorkshire +36 10 £46,250 +8.82% 1
East Midlands -14 6 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +13 3 £45,000 -29.41%
Northern Ireland +29 2 £75,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 930 (100.00%) Python
2 701 (75.38%) Software Engineering
3 616 (66.24%) Agile
3 616 (66.24%) AWS
4 612 (65.81%) Finance
5 381 (40.97%) CI/CD
6 353 (37.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 352 (37.85%) Law
8 349 (37.53%) Machine Learning
8 349 (37.53%) SDLC
9 345 (37.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 332 (35.70%) Apache Airflow
11 331 (35.59%) Operational Stability
12 253 (27.20%) Community of Practice
13 248 (26.67%) Asset Management
14 236 (25.38%) JavaScript
15 228 (24.52%) Banking
16 222 (23.87%) Front Office
17 217 (23.33%) TypeScript
18 212 (22.80%) Apache
19 206 (22.15%) Fixed Income
19 206 (22.15%) Azure
20 200 (21.51%) Marketing
21 199 (21.40%) Protocol Buffers
21 199 (21.40%) gRPC
22 198 (21.29%) SQL
23 190 (20.43%) React
24 187 (20.11%) GCP
24 187 (20.11%) Apache Ignite
25 182 (19.57%) 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
1 332 (35.70%) Apache Airflow
2 212 (22.80%) Apache
3 138 (14.84%) 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
1 616 (66.24%) AWS
2 206 (22.15%) Azure
3 187 (20.11%) GCP
4 106 (11.40%) dbt
5 76 (8.17%) Snowflake
6 55 (5.91%) Serverless
7 44 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
8 39 (4.19%) Amazon S3
9 32 (3.44%) SaaS
10 26 (2.80%) Power Platform
11 25 (2.69%) GitHub
12 18 (1.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
18 11 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 10 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
19 10 (1.08%) Azure DevOps
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
1 187 (20.11%) Apache Ignite
2 148 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (11.72%) Big Data
4 99 (10.65%) Amazon Athena
5 95 (10.22%) Apache Arrow
6 92 (9.89%) Dremio
7 88 (9.46%) Data Lake
8 42 (4.52%) Hadoop
9 32 (3.44%) NoSQL
10 31 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (3.23%) Apache Hive
12 26 (2.80%) Power BI
13 25 (2.69%) DynamoDB
14 24 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
15 22 (2.37%) Relational Database
15 22 (2.37%) Tableau
16 18 (1.94%) MongoDB
17 17 (1.83%) Impala
17 17 (1.83%) SQL Server
18 14 (1.51%) HBase
Development Applications
1 63 (6.77%) Cypress.io
2 49 (5.27%) Git
3 30 (3.23%) GitLab
4 17 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.61%) JIRA
6 8 (0.86%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.75%) 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%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 612 (65.81%) Finance
2 352 (37.85%) Law
3 345 (37.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 228 (24.52%) Banking
5 222 (23.87%) Front Office
6 200 (21.51%) Marketing
7 128 (13.76%) Investment Banking
8 124 (13.33%) Legal
9 87 (9.35%) Social Skills
10 39 (4.19%) Financial Institution
11 32 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.01%) Games
13 23 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.94%) Military
15 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.75%) Advertising
16 7 (0.75%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.75%) Retail
16 7 (0.75%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (21.40%) gRPC
1 199 (21.40%) Protocol Buffers
2 190 (20.43%) React
3 117 (12.58%) Pandas
4 111 (11.94%) PySpark
4 111 (11.94%) Redux
5 108 (11.61%) Material-UI
6 101 (10.86%) NumPy
7 92 (9.89%) SciPy
8 71 (7.63%) Kafka
9 59 (6.34%) Django
10 52 (5.59%) REST
11 42 (4.52%) Flask
12 34 (3.66%) FastAPI
13 33 (3.55%) AngularJS
14 29 (3.12%) RESTful
14 29 (3.12%) Vue
15 22 (2.37%) Node.js
16 16 (1.72%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.61%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 206 (22.15%) Fixed Income
2 173 (18.60%) Hedge funds
3 171 (18.39%) Algorithms
4 159 (17.10%) Cloud Native
5 134 (14.41%) Equities
6 89 (9.57%) Derivative
7 84 (9.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (2.58%) Pricing Data
10 23 (2.47%) Client/Server
11 16 (1.72%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.18%) IoT
14 9 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.97%) Robotics
15 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.75%) Product Ownership
16 7 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.81%) Unix
2 53 (5.70%) Linux
3 27 (2.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (75.38%) Software Engineering
2 616 (66.24%) Agile
3 381 (40.97%) CI/CD
4 353 (37.96%) Artificial Intelligence
5 349 (37.53%) Machine Learning
5 349 (37.53%) SDLC
6 331 (35.59%) Operational Stability
7 253 (27.20%) Community of Practice
8 248 (26.67%) Asset Management
9 182 (19.57%) Investment Management
10 152 (16.34%) Full Stack Development
11 141 (15.16%) Visualisation
12 132 (14.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (13.01%) Risk Management
14 117 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (10.32%) Analytics
15 96 (10.32%) Automated Trading
16 95 (10.22%) Coaching
17 81 (8.71%) Microservices
18 77 (8.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 930 (100.00%) Python
2 236 (25.38%) JavaScript
3 217 (23.33%) TypeScript
4 198 (21.29%) SQL
5 167 (17.96%) Java
6 73 (7.85%) C#
7 38 (4.09%) C++
8 35 (3.76%) C
9 22 (2.37%) Scala
10 16 (1.72%) 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 (0.75%) Embedded C
15 7 (0.75%) Ruby
16 5 (0.54%) Bash
16 5 (0.54%) VBA
17 2 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (5.16%) Degree
2 19 (2.04%) 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 40 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.26%) QA
4 16 (1.72%) 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 (6.77%) Docker
2 14 (1.51%) HDFS
3 4 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 110 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.33%) Terraform
3 18 (1.94%) Grafana
4 9 (0.97%) Ansible
5 7 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.43%) Puppet
7 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (13.66%) Google
2 86 (9.25%) Databricks
3 33 (3.55%) Oracle
4 30 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.51%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.18%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.18%) 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