Python Software Engineer Job Trends

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 431 553
Rank change year-on-year +2 +122 +171
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 214 333 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.52% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.56% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 149 300 130
10th Percentile £69,500 £62,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £97,500 £76,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +27.27%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £146,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +30.00% -23.08%

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 49,330 59,759 47,838
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.32% 94.19% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 31,185 33,142 37,246
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Python Software Engineer job vacancy trend 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +5 196 £110,000 +4.76% 27
London -34 155 £130,000 +20.93% 11
Work from Home -29 109 £130,000 +20.93% 14
UK excluding London +74 58 £72,500 +11.54% 19
South West +30 17 £80,000 +33.33% 3
Scotland - 17 £100,000 -
Midlands +45 10 £70,000 +7.69% 4
East Midlands +21 10 £70,000 +7.69% 4
South East +40 6 £71,250 +5.56% 6
North of England +30 6 £76,250 -4.69% 5
North West - 6 £76,250 - 2
West Midlands +34 3 - -
East of England +35 2 £55,000 -35.29% 1

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Python Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 214 (100.00%) Python
1 214 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 162 (75.70%) Agile
3 136 (63.55%) AWS
4 107 (50.00%) TypeScript
5 100 (46.73%) Apache Iceberg
6 98 (45.79%) Amazon Athena
7 96 (44.86%) Pandas
8 95 (44.39%) JavaScript
9 94 (43.93%) Apache Airflow
9 94 (43.93%) Apache Arrow
9 94 (43.93%) Asset Management
9 94 (43.93%) dbt
9 94 (43.93%) Dremio
9 94 (43.93%) Investment Management
9 94 (43.93%) NumPy
9 94 (43.93%) SciPy
10 77 (35.98%) Java
11 62 (28.97%) Fintech
12 59 (27.57%) Apache
13 58 (27.10%) React
14 55 (25.70%) GCP
14 55 (25.70%) Snowflake
15 53 (24.77%) Apache Ignite
15 53 (24.77%) Data Lake
15 53 (24.77%) gRPC
15 53 (24.77%) Protocol Buffers
16 50 (23.36%) PostgreSQL
17 48 (22.43%) CI/CD
18 46 (21.50%) AngularJS

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 94 (43.93%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (27.57%) Apache
3 10 (4.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 136 (63.55%) AWS
2 94 (43.93%) dbt
3 55 (25.70%) GCP
3 55 (25.70%) Snowflake
4 17 (7.94%) Azure
5 8 (3.74%) SaaS
6 7 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.87%) GitHub
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.40%) Serverless
10 2 (0.93%) Cloud Run
11 1 (0.47%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.67%) Multicast
2 6 (2.80%) DNS
3 4 (1.87%) HTTP
3 4 (1.87%) SMTP
3 4 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (46.73%) Apache Iceberg
2 98 (45.79%) Amazon Athena
3 94 (43.93%) Apache Arrow
3 94 (43.93%) Dremio
4 53 (24.77%) Apache Ignite
4 53 (24.77%) Data Lake
5 50 (23.36%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (6.54%) NoSQL
7 13 (6.07%) Big Data
8 8 (3.74%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.27%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.80%) KDB
11 4 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.87%) Kdb+
12 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.93%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.93%) Impala
13 2 (0.93%) Parquet
13 2 (0.93%) Redshift Spectrum
13 2 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.01%) Git
2 12 (5.61%) JIRA
3 5 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.40%) Locust
4 3 (1.40%) Selenium
5 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.93%) JUnit
5 2 (0.93%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.93%) YouTrack
6 1 (0.47%) GitLab
General
1 167 (78.04%) Finance
2 108 (50.47%) Front Office
3 100 (46.73%) Banking
4 63 (29.44%) Investment Banking
5 52 (24.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (24.30%) Law
6 18 (8.41%) Marketing
6 18 (8.41%) Social Skills
7 15 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Agriculture
9 2 (0.93%) Publishing
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (44.86%) Pandas
2 94 (43.93%) NumPy
2 94 (43.93%) SciPy
3 58 (27.10%) React
4 53 (24.77%) gRPC
4 53 (24.77%) Protocol Buffers
5 46 (21.50%) AngularJS
6 45 (21.03%) Vue
7 44 (20.56%) Node.js
8 13 (6.07%) Django
8 13 (6.07%) FastAPI
8 13 (6.07%) pytest
9 11 (5.14%) Kafka
10 10 (4.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 10 (4.67%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (4.21%) Flask
12 7 (3.27%) PySpark
12 7 (3.27%) RESTful
13 4 (1.87%) Celery
13 4 (1.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 106 (49.53%) Equities
1 106 (49.53%) Fixed Income
2 94 (43.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 71 (33.18%) Derivative
4 53 (24.77%) Hedge funds
4 53 (24.77%) Pricing Data
5 24 (11.21%) Algorithms
6 21 (9.81%) Cloud Native
7 11 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.27%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.87%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.87%) GNSS
9 4 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.87%) Satnav
9 4 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.40%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.01%) Linux
2 4 (1.87%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 162 (75.70%) Agile
3 94 (43.93%) Asset Management
3 94 (43.93%) Investment Management
4 62 (28.97%) Fintech
5 48 (22.43%) CI/CD
6 45 (21.03%) SDLC
7 41 (19.16%) Computer Science
7 41 (19.16%) Order Management
7 41 (19.16%) Performance Attribution
7 41 (19.16%) Risk Management
8 39 (18.22%) Operational Stability
9 37 (17.29%) AI
10 34 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (14.95%) Machine Learning
12 29 (13.55%) Community of Practice
13 24 (11.21%) Mathematics
14 20 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.88%) Test Automation
16 18 (8.41%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 214 (100.00%) Python
2 107 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 95 (44.39%) JavaScript
4 77 (35.98%) Java
5 28 (13.08%) SQL
6 20 (9.35%) C++
7 9 (4.21%) C#
8 6 (2.80%) Go
9 3 (1.40%) C
9 3 (1.40%) Julia
9 3 (1.40%) PHP
9 3 (1.40%) VBA
10 2 (0.93%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (14.02%) Degree
2 21 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.34%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.34%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.87%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.87%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.87%) PhD
5 2 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.67%) QA
2 4 (1.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (7.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (12.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.54%) Terraform
3 4 (1.87%) Ansible
4 2 (0.93%) Grafana
4 2 (0.93%) Mesos
4 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.93%) Puppet
4 2 (0.93%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (3.27%) Databricks
2 6 (2.80%) Oracle
3 4 (1.87%) Google
4 2 (0.93%) Foundry
4 2 (0.93%) Palantir
4 2 (0.93%) Vertica