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 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 435 483
Rank change year-on-year +116 +48 -150
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 909 730 1,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.79% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 521 568 837
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 £117,500 £140,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +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 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 7 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 7 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 +10 556 £90,000 - 108
UK excluding London +196 496 £55,000 -4.35% 32
London +56 390 £100,000 - 74
Scotland +127 335 £45,000 -21.74%
Work from Home -8 299 £90,000 - 64
South East +14 52 £45,000 -35.71% 12
South West -25 35 £67,500 -2.80% 2
North of England +11 34 £52,500 +23.53% 4
North West +29 19 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East of England +22 19 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Midlands +5 16 £72,500 +38.10% 7
Yorkshire +29 11 £47,500 +11.76% 2
West Midlands +17 10 £72,500 +38.10% 4
East Midlands -12 6 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +12 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 7 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.

1 909 (100.00%) Python
2 683 (75.14%) Software Engineering
3 596 (65.57%) Agile
4 593 (65.24%) AWS
5 592 (65.13%) Finance
6 379 (41.69%) CI/CD
7 352 (38.72%) Law
8 350 (38.50%) SDLC
9 347 (38.17%) Machine Learning
9 347 (38.17%) Artificial Intelligence
10 343 (37.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 331 (36.41%) Operational Stability
12 314 (34.54%) Apache Airflow
13 253 (27.83%) Community of Practice
14 229 (25.19%) Asset Management
15 222 (24.42%) JavaScript
16 213 (23.43%) Banking
17 205 (22.55%) Front Office
18 200 (22.00%) Marketing
19 199 (21.89%) Azure
19 199 (21.89%) TypeScript
20 194 (21.34%) SQL
20 194 (21.34%) Apache
21 189 (20.79%) Fixed Income
22 184 (20.24%) React
23 182 (20.02%) Protocol Buffers
23 182 (20.02%) gRPC
24 181 (19.91%) GCP
25 171 (18.81%) Algorithms
26 170 (18.70%) Apache Ignite

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
1 314 (34.54%) Apache Airflow
2 194 (21.34%) Apache
3 138 (15.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 593 (65.24%) AWS
2 199 (21.89%) Azure
3 181 (19.91%) GCP
4 92 (10.12%) dbt
5 65 (7.15%) Snowflake
6 51 (5.61%) Serverless
7 41 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (4.18%) Amazon S3
9 31 (3.41%) SaaS
10 25 (2.75%) GitHub
11 24 (2.64%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.21%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (1.21%) Amazon EMR
16 11 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (1.10%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.32%) Network Security
2 4 (0.44%) Wireless
3 3 (0.33%) 5G
3 3 (0.33%) Modbus
3 3 (0.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (0.33%) WAN
3 3 (0.33%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (18.70%) Apache Ignite
2 141 (15.51%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (11.99%) Big Data
4 85 (9.35%) Amazon Athena
5 82 (9.02%) Apache Arrow
6 79 (8.69%) Dremio
7 76 (8.36%) Data Lake
8 44 (4.84%) Hadoop
9 34 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (3.30%) Apache Hive
11 28 (3.08%) NoSQL
12 24 (2.64%) DynamoDB
12 24 (2.64%) Power BI
13 21 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (2.31%) Relational Database
13 21 (2.31%) Tableau
14 17 (1.87%) Impala
14 17 (1.87%) MongoDB
14 17 (1.87%) SQL Server
15 14 (1.54%) HBase
Development Applications
1 58 (6.38%) Cypress.io
2 47 (5.17%) Git
3 30 (3.30%) GitLab
4 17 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.65%) JIRA
6 8 (0.88%) LabVIEW
7 6 (0.66%) Selenium
8 5 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.55%) MLflow
9 4 (0.44%) Postman
10 3 (0.33%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.33%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Appium
11 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.11%) Mocha
12 1 (0.11%) NUnit
12 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
12 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 592 (65.13%) Finance
2 352 (38.72%) Law
3 343 (37.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 213 (23.43%) Banking
5 205 (22.55%) Front Office
6 200 (22.00%) Marketing
7 124 (13.64%) Legal
8 117 (12.87%) Investment Banking
9 84 (9.24%) Social Skills
10 39 (4.29%) Financial Institution
11 30 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.08%) Games
13 23 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.98%) Military
15 9 (0.99%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.88%) Retail
17 7 (0.77%) Public Sector
17 7 (0.77%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.66%) Advertising
19 5 (0.55%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (20.24%) React
2 182 (20.02%) gRPC
2 182 (20.02%) Protocol Buffers
3 110 (12.10%) PySpark
4 104 (11.44%) Redux
5 103 (11.33%) Material-UI
6 101 (11.11%) Pandas
7 86 (9.46%) NumPy
8 79 (8.69%) SciPy
9 71 (7.81%) Kafka
10 60 (6.60%) Django
11 53 (5.83%) REST
12 43 (4.73%) Flask
13 35 (3.85%) FastAPI
14 31 (3.41%) AngularJS
15 28 (3.08%) RESTful
16 27 (2.97%) Vue
17 19 (2.09%) Node.js
18 16 (1.76%) GraphQL
19 15 (1.65%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 189 (20.79%) Fixed Income
2 171 (18.81%) Algorithms
3 158 (17.38%) Cloud Native
3 158 (17.38%) Hedge funds
4 119 (13.09%) Equities
5 78 (8.58%) Derivative
6 73 (8.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 29 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (2.53%) Client/Server
9 18 (1.98%) Pricing Data
10 16 (1.76%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.21%) IoT
12 10 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.99%) Robotics
14 8 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
15 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.77%) Product Ownership
15 7 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.05%) Linux
2 53 (5.83%) Unix
3 27 (2.97%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (75.14%) Software Engineering
2 596 (65.57%) Agile
3 379 (41.69%) CI/CD
4 350 (38.50%) SDLC
5 347 (38.17%) Artificial Intelligence
5 347 (38.17%) Machine Learning
6 331 (36.41%) Operational Stability
7 253 (27.83%) Community of Practice
8 229 (25.19%) Asset Management
9 165 (18.15%) Investment Management
10 148 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
11 140 (15.40%) Visualisation
12 132 (14.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (13.31%) Risk Management
14 119 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
15 95 (10.45%) Coaching
16 94 (10.34%) Analytics
17 92 (10.12%) Automated Trading
18 81 (8.91%) Microservices
19 78 (8.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 909 (100.00%) Python
2 222 (24.42%) JavaScript
3 199 (21.89%) TypeScript
4 194 (21.34%) SQL
5 154 (16.94%) Java
6 73 (8.03%) C#
7 40 (4.40%) C++
8 35 (3.85%) C
9 22 (2.42%) Scala
10 15 (1.65%) Haskell
11 13 (1.43%) Rust
12 10 (1.10%) MATLAB
13 8 (0.88%) Go
14 7 (0.77%) Bash
14 7 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.77%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.77%) Ruby
14 7 (0.77%) U-SQL
15 5 (0.55%) VBA
16 3 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (5.39%) Degree
2 20 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.54%) DBS Check
3 14 (1.54%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.10%) Master's Degree
5 8 (0.88%) HND
5 8 (0.88%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.22%) PhD
9 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.53%) QA
4 16 (1.76%) SLA
5 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.33%) NIST
6 3 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (6.82%) Docker
2 14 (1.54%) HDFS
3 4 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.52%) Terraform
3 18 (1.98%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Ansible
5 7 (0.77%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.44%) Puppet
7 3 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 125 (13.75%) Google
2 84 (9.24%) Databricks
3 32 (3.52%) Oracle
4 29 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.54%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.21%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.21%) Splunk
7 7 (0.77%) Informatica
8 4 (0.44%) YouTube
9 3 (0.33%) 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