Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 361 442 373
Rank change year-on-year +81 -69 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 433 894 1,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 0.72% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.75% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 362 726 987
10th Percentile £51,375 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £125,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £149,500 £137,500 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +4.76%

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 50,985 118,425 121,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.37% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 37,346 74,222 83,417
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +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 5 December 2023.

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 5 December 2023. 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 +73 399 £95,000 +15.15% 95
London +91 316 £100,000 +11.11% 68
Work from Home +72 242 £90,000 +20.00% 62
UK excluding London +112 99 £55,000 -12.00% 50
North of England +126 29 £55,000 -8.33% 3
South East +109 19 £55,000 -18.52% 20
Scotland +49 18 £100,000 +66.67% 6
Yorkshire +83 17 £55,000 - 1
South West +58 16 £47,500 -17.39% 6
North West +122 10 £46,000 -18.22% 1
Midlands +116 10 £52,500 -30.00%
East Midlands +34 7 £55,000 -21.43%
East of England +111 6 £73,750 -1.67% 10
West Midlands +120 3 £50,000 -37.50%
Northern Ireland +40 3 - - 5
North East +45 2 £55,000 -35.29% 1
Wales +20 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 2023, 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.

1 433 (100.00%) Python
2 236 (54.50%) AWS
3 234 (54.04%) Software Engineering
4 213 (49.19%) Finance
5 189 (43.65%) Agile
6 167 (38.57%) GCP
7 138 (31.87%) JavaScript
8 128 (29.56%) React
9 110 (25.40%) Front Office
10 103 (23.79%) Asset Management
10 103 (23.79%) Google
10 103 (23.79%) TypeScript
11 101 (23.33%) Azure
12 94 (21.71%) DevOps
13 92 (21.25%) Apache Airflow
14 90 (20.79%) SQL
15 86 (19.86%) Kubernetes
16 85 (19.63%) Java
17 80 (18.48%) Docker
17 80 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
18 79 (18.24%) Linux
19 77 (17.78%) Banking
19 77 (17.78%) CI/CD
20 69 (15.94%) Terraform
21 68 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
21 68 (15.70%) Apache
22 64 (14.78%) Fixed Income
22 64 (14.78%) SDLC
23 63 (14.55%) gRPC
24 60 (13.86%) Node.js

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 92 (21.25%) Apache Airflow
2 68 (15.70%) Apache
3 14 (3.23%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.46%) Tornado
6 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 236 (54.50%) AWS
2 167 (38.57%) GCP
3 101 (23.33%) Azure
4 34 (7.85%) Serverless
5 30 (6.93%) SaaS
6 27 (6.24%) GitHub
7 26 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
8 23 (5.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (5.31%) dbt
9 22 (5.08%) Power Platform
10 21 (4.85%) OpenShift
11 15 (3.46%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.31%) Dagster
14 9 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (1.39%) Pulumi
17 5 (1.15%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.08%) 5G
1 9 (2.08%) SD-WAN
1 9 (2.08%) WAN
2 6 (1.39%) Network Security
3 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.46%) Wireless
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) Internet
5 1 (0.23%) RS-232
5 1 (0.23%) RS-485
5 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (12.01%) Apache Ignite
3 29 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
4 28 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (6.24%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.16%) Power BI
7 16 (3.70%) Apache Arrow
7 16 (3.70%) Big Data
7 16 (3.70%) Dremio
7 16 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.46%) Tableau
9 14 (3.23%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
10 12 (2.77%) Hadoop
10 12 (2.77%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.54%) Data Lake
12 9 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.85%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.62%) MySQL
14 7 (1.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (11.09%) Cypress.io
2 28 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 27 (6.24%) GitLab
4 14 (3.23%) Git
5 9 (2.08%) Selenium
5 9 (2.08%) Visual Studio
6 7 (1.62%) NUnit
7 6 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.92%) JIRA
9 4 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.69%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.46%) Serilog
12 1 (0.23%) Gradle
12 1 (0.23%) Maven
12 1 (0.23%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 213 (49.19%) Finance
2 110 (25.40%) Front Office
3 77 (17.78%) Banking
4 48 (11.09%) Social Skills
5 42 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (8.78%) Aerospace
6 38 (8.78%) Investment Banking
7 28 (6.47%) Marketing
8 20 (4.62%) Retail
9 17 (3.93%) Law
10 15 (3.46%) Automotive
10 15 (3.46%) Legal
11 11 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (2.54%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.85%) Advertising
13 8 (1.85%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.92%) Games
14 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.46%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (29.56%) React
2 63 (14.55%) gRPC
3 60 (13.86%) Node.js
4 56 (12.93%) Redux
5 42 (9.70%) Protocol Buffers
6 39 (9.01%) Django
7 33 (7.62%) Flask
7 33 (7.62%) REST
8 32 (7.39%) Pandas
9 30 (6.93%) FastAPI
9 30 (6.93%) Material-UI
10 29 (6.70%) React Native
11 17 (3.93%) NumPy
12 16 (3.70%) RESTful
12 16 (3.70%) SciPy
13 12 (2.77%) .NET
13 12 (2.77%) .NET Core
14 11 (2.54%) CSS
14 11 (2.54%) HTML
15 8 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.78%) Fixed Income
2 42 (9.70%) Derivative
3 40 (9.24%) Equities
4 30 (6.93%) Cloud Native
5 25 (5.77%) Hedge funds
6 18 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.16%) Mobile App
7 17 (3.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (2.77%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 9 (2.08%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.08%) GNSS
10 9 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.08%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.92%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.92%) Hackathon
12 4 (0.92%) IoT
12 4 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 79 (18.24%) Linux
2 15 (3.46%) Unix
3 7 (1.62%) Windows
4 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.23%) Debian
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (54.04%) Software Engineering
2 189 (43.65%) Agile
3 103 (23.79%) Asset Management
4 94 (21.71%) DevOps
5 80 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 64 (14.78%) SDLC
8 53 (12.24%) OO
9 47 (10.85%) Investment Management
10 46 (10.62%) Machine Learning
11 43 (9.93%) Full Stack Development
12 42 (9.70%) Artificial Intelligence
12 42 (9.70%) Computer Science
13 40 (9.24%) Analytics
14 39 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (9.01%) Test Automation
15 38 (8.78%) ETL
16 36 (8.31%) Data Engineering
16 36 (8.31%) Design Patterns
16 36 (8.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 433 (100.00%) Python
2 138 (31.87%) JavaScript
3 103 (23.79%) TypeScript
4 90 (20.79%) SQL
5 85 (19.63%) Java
6 57 (13.16%) C#
7 41 (9.47%) C++
8 38 (8.78%) Bash
9 25 (5.77%) Go
10 14 (3.23%) Rust
11 9 (2.08%) Perl
12 5 (1.15%) C
12 5 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.15%) Ruby
12 5 (1.15%) U-SQL
13 4 (0.92%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.92%) R
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (8.31%) Degree
2 16 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (1.62%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.62%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.23%) CFA
6 1 (0.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.77%) QA
3 9 (2.08%) PMO
4 2 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.46%) NCSC
4 2 (0.46%) NIST
4 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (18.48%) Docker
2 8 (1.85%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (0.46%) HDFS
3 2 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 86 (19.86%) Kubernetes
2 69 (15.94%) Terraform
3 18 (4.16%) Argo
3 18 (4.16%) Rancher
4 10 (2.31%) Ansible
5 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.92%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Puppet
8 1 (0.23%) Nessus
8 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 103 (23.79%) Google
2 22 (5.08%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.39%) Databricks
4 16 (3.70%) Oracle
5 6 (1.39%) Alteryx
6 4 (0.92%) Murex
6 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.69%) Informatica
8 2 (0.46%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.46%) Intel
8 2 (0.46%) Splunk
8 2 (0.46%) VMware
9 1 (0.23%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.23%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.23%) Talend
9 1 (0.23%) YouTube