Python Engineer Jobs

Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 April 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 317 459
Rank change year-on-year -14 +142 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 428 836 733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.90% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.95% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 386 462 564
10th Percentile £61,250 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £62,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £116,250
90th Percentile £139,375 £138,750 £155,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 45,395 87,903 100,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.80% 94.66% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 26,615 64,309 62,934
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,645 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.93% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,433 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 3 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the UK

Python Engineer
Top 14 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 3 April 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
England +92 422 £105,000 +23.53% 179
London +82 360 £110,000 +10.00% 149
Work from Home +172 311 £107,500 +26.47% 80
UK excluding London -133 62 £62,500 +13.64% 51
South East +99 36 £62,500 +38.89% 14
Midlands +62 11 £42,500 -41.38% 2
North of England +58 7 £67,500 +31.71% 12
East of England +48 7 £55,000 -26.67% 9
West Midlands +36 7 £35,000 -51.72% 1
Yorkshire +73 4 £63,750 +24.39% 2
East Midlands +47 4 £65,000 -25.71% 1
North East +41 2 £65,000 +1.56% 1
Northern Ireland +36 1 £85,000 +12.58%
North West +15 1 £82,500 +65.00% 9

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 2025, 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.

1 428 (100.00%) Python
2 311 (72.66%) AWS
3 305 (71.26%) Software Engineering
4 296 (69.16%) Agile
5 276 (64.49%) Finance
6 253 (59.11%) Front Office
7 243 (56.78%) Asset Management
8 224 (52.34%) Apache Airflow
9 214 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 211 (49.30%) dbt
11 208 (48.60%) Dremio
12 203 (47.43%) Amazon Athena
13 179 (41.82%) Java
14 173 (40.42%) Kubernetes
15 171 (39.95%) Apache Arrow
16 170 (39.72%) Apache
17 168 (39.25%) CI/CD
18 161 (37.62%) Docker
19 158 (36.92%) Terraform
20 153 (35.75%) DevOps
21 146 (34.11%) PySpark
22 144 (33.64%) Banking
23 142 (33.18%) Apache Ignite
24 138 (32.24%) JavaScript
25 132 (30.84%) Fixed Income
26 131 (30.61%) Serverless
27 130 (30.37%) Data Engineering
27 130 (30.37%) Pandas
28 129 (30.14%) AWS Lambda
29 128 (29.91%) NumPy

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
1 224 (52.34%) Apache Airflow
2 170 (39.72%) Apache
3 90 (21.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 311 (72.66%) AWS
2 211 (49.30%) dbt
3 131 (30.61%) Serverless
4 129 (30.14%) AWS Lambda
5 115 (26.87%) Amazon ECS
5 115 (26.87%) GCP
6 82 (19.16%) OpenShift
7 69 (16.12%) Azure
8 62 (14.49%) Snowflake
9 50 (11.68%) Amazon S3
10 46 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
11 43 (10.05%) Dagster
12 41 (9.58%) Amazon SQS
13 37 (8.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (4.67%) SaaS
15 11 (2.57%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (1.87%) Power Platform
17 7 (1.64%) GitHub
18 6 (1.40%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.64%) Multicast
2 4 (0.93%) HTTP
3 2 (0.47%) Firewall
3 2 (0.47%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) Broadband
4 1 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.23%) DWDM
4 1 (0.23%) LAN
4 1 (0.23%) Network Security
4 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.23%) VPN
4 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 208 (48.60%) Dremio
3 203 (47.43%) Amazon Athena
4 171 (39.95%) Apache Arrow
5 142 (33.18%) Apache Ignite
6 72 (16.82%) Data Lake
7 35 (8.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (6.07%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.04%) Big Data
12 13 (3.04%) Hadoop
13 11 (2.57%) Apache Hudi
13 11 (2.57%) Delta Lake
14 10 (2.34%) MySQL
15 9 (2.10%) MongoDB
16 7 (1.64%) Power BI
17 6 (1.40%) Relational Database
17 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (16.59%) Artifactory
2 22 (5.14%) Git
3 21 (4.91%) GitLab
4 14 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (3.04%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.57%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.64%) Appium
7 7 (1.64%) JIRA
8 6 (1.40%) JUnit
8 6 (1.40%) Postman
8 6 (1.40%) Selenium
8 6 (1.40%) TestNG
9 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.47%) MLflow
9 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 276 (64.49%) Finance
2 253 (59.11%) Front Office
3 144 (33.64%) Banking
4 61 (14.25%) Investment Banking
5 43 (10.05%) Social Skills
6 25 (5.84%) Law
7 14 (3.27%) Tech for Good
8 11 (2.57%) Health Technology
9 8 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.87%) Publishing
10 7 (1.64%) Advertising
10 7 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.70%) Military
12 2 (0.47%) Back Office
12 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.47%) Legal
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.23%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (34.11%) PySpark
2 130 (30.37%) Pandas
3 128 (29.91%) NumPy
4 122 (28.50%) SciPy
5 101 (23.60%) Kafka
6 71 (16.59%) gRPC
6 71 (16.59%) J2EE
6 71 (16.59%) Protocol Buffers
7 59 (13.79%) React
8 54 (12.62%) AngularJS
8 54 (12.62%) Node.js
9 49 (11.45%) Vue
10 32 (7.48%) REST
11 30 (7.01%) Redux
12 23 (5.37%) Flask
13 21 (4.91%) FastAPI
14 20 (4.67%) pytest
15 19 (4.44%) Django
16 15 (3.50%) CSS
16 15 (3.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (30.84%) Fixed Income
2 92 (21.50%) Equities
3 66 (15.42%) Derivative
3 66 (15.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 63 (14.72%) Hedge funds
5 32 (7.48%) Pricing Data
6 18 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.50%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.93%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.70%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.70%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.47%) IoT
12 2 (0.47%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.44%) Linux
2 15 (3.50%) Unix
3 6 (1.40%) Android
4 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (71.26%) Software Engineering
2 296 (69.16%) Agile
3 243 (56.78%) Asset Management
4 168 (39.25%) CI/CD
5 153 (35.75%) DevOps
6 130 (30.37%) Data Engineering
7 117 (27.34%) Investment Management
8 104 (24.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 100 (23.36%) Fintech
10 80 (18.69%) Open Source
11 50 (11.68%) Analytics
12 48 (11.21%) Performance Attribution
13 43 (10.05%) Containerisation
14 37 (8.64%) Machine Learning
15 34 (7.94%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 34 (7.94%) ETL
16 33 (7.71%) Mentoring
17 32 (7.48%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (7.01%) Process Improvement
19 29 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 428 (100.00%) Python
2 179 (41.82%) Java
3 138 (32.24%) JavaScript
4 106 (24.77%) TypeScript
5 75 (17.52%) Go
6 66 (15.42%) SQL
7 11 (2.57%) C++
8 8 (1.87%) C#
8 8 (1.87%) Scala
9 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.93%) Rust
11 3 (0.70%) Bash
11 3 (0.70%) C
11 3 (0.70%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.47%) PHP
12 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Julia
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (8.18%) Degree
2 7 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.23%) CCNA
5 1 (0.23%) CCNP
5 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.23%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.23%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.23%) PhD
5 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.54%) QA
2 19 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) FINRA
4 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 161 (37.62%) Docker
2 11 (2.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 173 (40.42%) Kubernetes
2 158 (36.92%) Terraform
3 21 (4.91%) Ansible
4 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (4.21%) Databricks
2 16 (3.74%) Google
3 11 (2.57%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.47%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.47%) Sybase
6 1 (0.23%) Arista
6 1 (0.23%) Cisco