Python Software Engineer Job Trends

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 347 566
Rank change year-on-year -39 +219 +148
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 316 575 198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.74% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.78% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 197 426 178
10th Percentile £96,000 £57,500 £60,875
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £138,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £151,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -14.81%

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 44,259 74,162 57,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.25% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 44,624 44,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Python Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Python Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Python Software Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 -24 283 £130,000 +18.18% 33
London -10 248 £130,000 +13.04% 13
Work from Home -25 169 £130,000 +13.04% 25
UK excluding London -9 68 £62,500 +4.17% 26
Scotland -1 33 £100,000 +66.67% 1
South West +71 15 - - 5
North of England +34 6 £70,000 +5.66% 5
North West +20 6 £70,000 +33.33% 5
Midlands +38 5 £65,000 - 2
South East +30 5 £85,000 +54.55% 12
East Midlands +27 5 £65,000 - 1
East of England -8 4 £55,000 -10.20% 1
West Midlands +42 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 316 (100.00%) Python
1 316 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 289 (91.46%) Finance
3 271 (85.76%) Agile
4 229 (72.47%) AWS
5 191 (60.44%) Front Office
6 181 (57.28%) TypeScript
7 180 (56.96%) Banking
8 175 (55.38%) Apache Iceberg
9 174 (55.06%) Fixed Income
9 174 (55.06%) Equities
10 171 (54.11%) Amazon Athena
11 167 (52.85%) JavaScript
12 166 (52.53%) Pandas
13 163 (51.58%) Asset Management
14 162 (51.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 162 (51.27%) SciPy
14 162 (51.27%) NumPy
14 162 (51.27%) Investment Management
14 162 (51.27%) Dremio
14 162 (51.27%) Apache Airflow
14 162 (51.27%) dbt
14 162 (51.27%) Apache Arrow
15 146 (46.20%) Java
16 113 (35.76%) Derivative
17 112 (35.44%) Law
17 112 (35.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 110 (34.81%) Investment Banking
19 102 (32.28%) Apache
20 93 (29.43%) Fintech

Python Software 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
1 162 (51.27%) Apache Airflow
2 102 (32.28%) Apache
3 21 (6.65%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.27%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (1.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 229 (72.47%) AWS
2 162 (51.27%) dbt
3 93 (29.43%) Snowflake
4 88 (27.85%) GCP
5 15 (4.75%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (4.43%) Azure
7 12 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 12 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (3.80%) Serverless
8 7 (2.22%) Amazon Bedrock
8 7 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.22%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (1.58%) SaaS
10 2 (0.63%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.63%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.63%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.53%) Multicast
2 4 (1.27%) DNS
2 4 (1.27%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (55.38%) Apache Iceberg
2 171 (54.11%) Amazon Athena
3 162 (51.27%) Apache Arrow
3 162 (51.27%) Dremio
4 89 (28.16%) Apache Ignite
4 89 (28.16%) Data Lake
5 87 (27.53%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (8.86%) NoSQL
7 24 (7.59%) Big Data
8 16 (5.06%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.80%) KDB
10 11 (3.48%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (2.53%) Kdb+
13 6 (1.90%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.58%) Apache Hudi
14 5 (1.58%) Parquet
14 5 (1.58%) SQL Server
15 4 (1.27%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.27%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 12 (3.80%) JIRA
2 11 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.22%) Locust
3 7 (2.22%) Selenium
4 5 (1.58%) JUnit
5 4 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.27%) Spinnaker
5 4 (1.27%) YouTrack
6 3 (0.95%) Git
General
1 289 (91.46%) Finance
2 191 (60.44%) Front Office
3 180 (56.96%) Banking
4 112 (35.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (35.44%) Law
5 110 (34.81%) Investment Banking
6 41 (12.97%) Marketing
7 23 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (6.33%) Social Skills
9 6 (1.90%) Agriculture
9 6 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.27%) Electronics
10 4 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.27%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.27%) Publishing
10 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (52.53%) Pandas
2 162 (51.27%) NumPy
2 162 (51.27%) SciPy
3 90 (28.48%) React
4 89 (28.16%) gRPC
4 89 (28.16%) Protocol Buffers
5 78 (24.68%) AngularJS
6 77 (24.37%) Node.js
7 74 (23.42%) Vue
8 29 (9.18%) Kafka
9 15 (4.75%) pytest
10 13 (4.11%) Django
11 10 (3.16%) RESTful
12 9 (2.85%) Flask
13 8 (2.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 8 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (2.53%) PySpark
13 8 (2.53%) Spring
14 7 (2.22%) FastAPI
14 7 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 174 (55.06%) Equities
1 174 (55.06%) Fixed Income
2 162 (51.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 113 (35.76%) Derivative
4 89 (28.16%) Hedge funds
4 89 (28.16%) Pricing Data
5 48 (15.19%) Cloud Native
6 36 (11.39%) Algorithms
7 22 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (4.75%) Public Cloud
9 14 (4.43%) Client/Server
9 14 (4.43%) Mobile App
10 8 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
14 1 (0.32%) IoT
14 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
14 1 (0.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.53%) Linux
2 4 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 271 (85.76%) Agile
3 163 (51.58%) Asset Management
4 162 (51.27%) Investment Management
5 93 (29.43%) Fintech
6 85 (26.90%) Operational Stability
6 85 (26.90%) SDLC
7 73 (23.10%) Order Management
7 73 (23.10%) Performance Attribution
7 73 (23.10%) Risk Management
8 69 (21.84%) CI/CD
9 64 (20.25%) Community of Practice
10 56 (17.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 56 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (17.09%) Machine Learning
12 46 (14.56%) Computer Science
13 35 (11.08%) Visualisation
14 29 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 28 (8.86%) Mathematics
15 28 (8.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 316 (100.00%) Python
2 181 (57.28%) TypeScript
3 167 (52.85%) JavaScript
4 146 (46.20%) Java
5 51 (16.14%) SQL
6 16 (5.06%) Go
7 10 (3.16%) C++
8 6 (1.90%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) C
9 2 (0.63%) Julia
9 2 (0.63%) PHP
9 2 (0.63%) Rust
9 2 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (7.59%) Degree
2 11 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.16%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.85%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.58%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.58%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.58%) PhD
6 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.53%) Data Quality
1 8 (2.53%) QA
System Software
1 21 (6.65%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 22 (6.96%) Terraform
3 8 (2.53%) Ansible
4 6 (1.90%) Grafana
4 6 (1.90%) Mesos
4 6 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.27%) Puppet
5 4 (1.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (5.06%) Databricks
1 16 (5.06%) Oracle
2 6 (1.90%) Google
3 4 (1.27%) SAP
3 4 (1.27%) Vertica
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.32%) Foundry
5 1 (0.32%) Palantir