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 2 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
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 317 450
Rank change year-on-year +2 +133 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 432 826 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.85% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.94% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 390 454 565
10th Percentile £61,250 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £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 £138,875 £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 87,713 101,679
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.66% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 64,228 63,419
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,501 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,650 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -8.92% -
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 2 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 2 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 +93 426 £105,000 +23.53% 182
London +81 363 £108,750 +8.75% 151
Work from Home +165 315 £107,500 +26.47% 79
UK excluding London -138 63 £62,500 +13.64% 52
South East +93 36 £62,500 +38.89% 14
Midlands +56 11 £42,500 -41.38% 2
East of England +41 8 £55,000 -26.67% 9
North of England +57 7 £67,500 +31.71% 13
West Midlands +31 7 £35,000 -51.72% 1
Yorkshire +63 4 £63,750 +24.39% 2
East Midlands +44 4 £65,000 -25.71% 1
North East +39 2 £65,000 +1.56% 1
Northern Ireland +38 1 £85,000 +12.58%
North West +17 1 £82,500 +65.00% 10

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 432 (100.00%) Python
2 315 (72.92%) AWS
3 309 (71.53%) Software Engineering
4 300 (69.44%) Agile
5 280 (64.81%) Finance
6 257 (59.49%) Front Office
7 247 (57.18%) Asset Management
8 226 (52.31%) Apache Airflow
9 216 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
10 213 (49.31%) dbt
11 210 (48.61%) Dremio
12 205 (47.45%) Amazon Athena
13 179 (41.44%) Java
14 175 (40.51%) Kubernetes
15 173 (40.05%) Apache Arrow
16 172 (39.81%) Apache
17 170 (39.35%) CI/CD
18 163 (37.73%) Docker
19 160 (37.04%) Terraform
20 154 (35.65%) DevOps
21 146 (33.80%) Banking
21 146 (33.80%) PySpark
22 144 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
23 142 (32.87%) JavaScript
24 134 (31.02%) Fixed Income
25 133 (30.79%) Serverless
26 132 (30.56%) Pandas
27 131 (30.32%) AWS Lambda
28 130 (30.09%) Data Engineering
28 130 (30.09%) 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
1 226 (52.31%) Apache Airflow
2 172 (39.81%) Apache
3 90 (20.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 315 (72.92%) AWS
2 213 (49.31%) dbt
3 133 (30.79%) Serverless
4 131 (30.32%) AWS Lambda
5 117 (27.08%) Amazon ECS
5 117 (27.08%) GCP
6 82 (18.98%) OpenShift
7 68 (15.74%) Azure
8 62 (14.35%) Snowflake
9 52 (12.04%) Amazon S3
10 48 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
11 43 (9.95%) Amazon SQS
11 43 (9.95%) Dagster
12 39 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (4.63%) SaaS
14 11 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (1.85%) Power Platform
16 7 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (1.62%) GitHub
17 6 (1.39%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.62%) Multicast
2 4 (0.93%) HTTP
3 2 (0.46%) Firewall
3 2 (0.46%) 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
1 216 (50.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 210 (48.61%) Dremio
3 205 (47.45%) Amazon Athena
4 173 (40.05%) Apache Arrow
5 144 (33.33%) Apache Ignite
6 72 (16.67%) Data Lake
7 37 (8.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (6.02%) NoSQL
11 20 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.01%) Big Data
12 13 (3.01%) Hadoop
13 11 (2.55%) Apache Hudi
13 11 (2.55%) Delta Lake
14 10 (2.31%) MySQL
15 9 (2.08%) MongoDB
16 7 (1.62%) Power BI
17 6 (1.39%) Relational Database
17 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 71 (16.44%) Artifactory
2 21 (4.86%) Git
2 21 (4.86%) GitLab
3 14 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 13 (3.01%) SonarQube
5 11 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.62%) Appium
6 7 (1.62%) JIRA
7 6 (1.39%) JUnit
7 6 (1.39%) Postman
7 6 (1.39%) Selenium
7 6 (1.39%) TestNG
8 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.46%) MLflow
8 2 (0.46%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 280 (64.81%) Finance
2 257 (59.49%) Front Office
3 146 (33.80%) Banking
4 61 (14.12%) Investment Banking
5 44 (10.19%) Social Skills
6 25 (5.79%) Law
7 14 (3.24%) Tech for Good
8 11 (2.55%) Health Technology
9 8 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.85%) Publishing
10 7 (1.62%) Advertising
11 3 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.46%) Back Office
12 2 (0.46%) Legal
12 2 (0.46%) Marketing
13 1 (0.23%) Automotive
13 1 (0.23%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (33.80%) PySpark
2 132 (30.56%) Pandas
3 130 (30.09%) NumPy
4 124 (28.70%) SciPy
5 101 (23.38%) Kafka
6 73 (16.90%) gRPC
6 73 (16.90%) Protocol Buffers
7 71 (16.44%) J2EE
8 61 (14.12%) React
9 56 (12.96%) AngularJS
9 56 (12.96%) Node.js
10 51 (11.81%) Vue
11 32 (7.41%) Redux
11 32 (7.41%) REST
12 23 (5.32%) Flask
13 21 (4.86%) FastAPI
14 20 (4.63%) Django
14 20 (4.63%) pytest
15 15 (3.47%) CSS
15 15 (3.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (31.02%) Fixed Income
2 92 (21.30%) Equities
3 66 (15.28%) Derivative
3 66 (15.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 63 (14.58%) Hedge funds
5 32 (7.41%) Pricing Data
6 18 (4.17%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.47%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.39%) 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
10 4 (0.93%) Raspberry Pi
11 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.69%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.46%) IoT
12 2 (0.46%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.63%) Linux
2 15 (3.47%) Unix
3 6 (1.39%) Android
4 2 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (71.53%) Software Engineering
2 300 (69.44%) Agile
3 247 (57.18%) Asset Management
4 170 (39.35%) CI/CD
5 154 (35.65%) DevOps
6 130 (30.09%) Data Engineering
7 119 (27.55%) Investment Management
8 106 (24.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 104 (24.07%) Fintech
10 80 (18.52%) Open Source
11 50 (11.57%) Analytics
11 50 (11.57%) Performance Attribution
12 43 (9.95%) Containerisation
13 37 (8.56%) Machine Learning
14 36 (8.33%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 34 (7.87%) ETL
16 33 (7.64%) Mentoring
17 32 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
18 30 (6.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 432 (100.00%) Python
2 179 (41.44%) Java
3 142 (32.87%) JavaScript
4 108 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 75 (17.36%) Go
6 66 (15.28%) SQL
7 11 (2.55%) C++
8 8 (1.85%) C#
8 8 (1.85%) Scala
9 6 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.93%) Rust
11 3 (0.69%) Bash
11 3 (0.69%) C
11 3 (0.69%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Julia
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (8.10%) Degree
2 7 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.46%) 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 27 (6.25%) QA
2 19 (4.40%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.23%) FINRA
4 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 163 (37.73%) Docker
2 11 (2.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 175 (40.51%) Kubernetes
2 160 (37.04%) Terraform
3 21 (4.86%) Ansible
4 4 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (4.17%) Databricks
2 16 (3.70%) Google
3 11 (2.55%) Red Hat
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.46%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.46%) Sybase
6 1 (0.23%) Arista
6 1 (0.23%) Cisco