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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 423 556
Rank change year-on-year +3 +133 +158
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 217 350 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.57% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 150 315 136
10th Percentile £69,750 £61,550 £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% - +23.53%
75th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £138,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £145,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +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 48,825 61,698 48,588
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.27% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30,770 34,403 37,837
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -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 £52,416 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% -0.16% -

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -14 197 £110,000 +4.76% 17
London -30 158 £130,000 +20.93% 6
Work from Home -19 111 £130,000 +20.93% 10
UK excluding London +83 58 £70,000 +7.69% 15
Scotland - 19 £100,000 -
South West +35 16 £80,000 +33.33% 4
Midlands +41 9 £70,000 +7.69% 3
East Midlands +27 9 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North of England +49 6 £76,250 -4.69% 3
South East +38 6 £71,250 +5.56% 4
North West - 6 £76,250 - 2
West Midlands +43 3 - -
East of England +29 2 £55,000 -35.29% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 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.

1 217 (100.00%) Python
1 217 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 166 (76.50%) Agile
3 141 (64.98%) AWS
4 110 (50.69%) TypeScript
5 103 (47.47%) Apache Iceberg
6 102 (47.00%) Amazon Athena
7 99 (45.62%) Pandas
8 98 (45.16%) JavaScript
9 97 (44.70%) Apache Airflow
9 97 (44.70%) Apache Arrow
9 97 (44.70%) Asset Management
9 97 (44.70%) dbt
9 97 (44.70%) Dremio
9 97 (44.70%) Investment Management
9 97 (44.70%) NumPy
9 97 (44.70%) SciPy
10 77 (35.48%) Java
11 63 (29.03%) Fintech
12 61 (28.11%) React
13 59 (27.19%) Apache
14 58 (26.73%) GCP
15 55 (25.35%) Snowflake
16 54 (24.88%) PostgreSQL
17 53 (24.42%) Apache Ignite
17 53 (24.42%) Data Lake
17 53 (24.42%) gRPC
17 53 (24.42%) Protocol Buffers
18 50 (23.04%) CI/CD
19 49 (22.58%) 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 97 (44.70%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (27.19%) Apache
3 10 (4.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.92%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 141 (64.98%) AWS
2 97 (44.70%) dbt
3 58 (26.73%) GCP
4 55 (25.35%) Snowflake
5 15 (6.91%) Azure
6 8 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.76%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.76%) SaaS
8 4 (1.84%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.84%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.84%) GitHub
8 4 (1.84%) Serverless
9 2 (0.92%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.46%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.61%) Multicast
2 5 (2.30%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) SMTP
3 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.92%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (47.47%) Apache Iceberg
2 102 (47.00%) Amazon Athena
3 97 (44.70%) Apache Arrow
3 97 (44.70%) Dremio
4 54 (24.88%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (24.42%) Apache Ignite
5 53 (24.42%) Data Lake
6 14 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 13 (5.99%) Big Data
8 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.23%) KDB
9 7 (3.23%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.30%) Kdb+
11 4 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.92%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.92%) Impala
13 2 (0.92%) Parquet
13 2 (0.92%) Redshift Spectrum
13 2 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Git
2 12 (5.53%) JIRA
3 6 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.84%) Locust
4 4 (1.84%) Selenium
5 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.92%) JUnit
5 2 (0.92%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.92%) YouTrack
6 1 (0.46%) GitLab
General
1 173 (79.72%) Finance
2 112 (51.61%) Front Office
3 101 (46.54%) Banking
4 63 (29.03%) Investment Banking
5 55 (25.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (25.35%) Law
6 20 (9.22%) Marketing
7 18 (8.29%) Social Skills
8 15 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.92%) Publishing
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (45.62%) Pandas
2 97 (44.70%) NumPy
2 97 (44.70%) SciPy
3 61 (28.11%) React
4 53 (24.42%) gRPC
4 53 (24.42%) Protocol Buffers
5 49 (22.58%) AngularJS
6 48 (22.12%) Vue
7 47 (21.66%) Node.js
8 14 (6.45%) pytest
9 13 (5.99%) Django
9 13 (5.99%) FastAPI
10 11 (5.07%) Kafka
11 10 (4.61%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 10 (4.61%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (4.15%) Flask
13 7 (3.23%) RESTful
14 6 (2.76%) PySpark
15 4 (1.84%) Celery
15 4 (1.84%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 109 (50.23%) Equities
1 109 (50.23%) Fixed Income
2 97 (44.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 72 (33.18%) Derivative
4 53 (24.42%) Hedge funds
4 53 (24.42%) Pricing Data
5 24 (11.06%) Algorithms
6 22 (10.14%) Cloud Native
7 11 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (3.23%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.84%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.38%) GNSS
10 3 (1.38%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.38%) Satnav
10 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.45%) Linux
2 3 (1.38%) Windows
3 2 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 166 (76.50%) Agile
3 97 (44.70%) Asset Management
3 97 (44.70%) Investment Management
4 63 (29.03%) Fintech
5 50 (23.04%) CI/CD
6 46 (21.20%) SDLC
7 44 (20.28%) Order Management
7 44 (20.28%) Performance Attribution
7 44 (20.28%) Risk Management
8 42 (19.35%) Computer Science
9 41 (18.89%) Operational Stability
10 39 (17.97%) AI
11 35 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (15.67%) Machine Learning
13 29 (13.36%) Community of Practice
14 24 (11.06%) Mathematics
15 20 (9.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (8.76%) Test Automation
17 18 (8.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 217 (100.00%) Python
2 110 (50.69%) TypeScript
3 98 (45.16%) JavaScript
4 77 (35.48%) Java
5 29 (13.36%) SQL
6 19 (8.76%) C++
7 9 (4.15%) C#
8 6 (2.76%) Go
9 3 (1.38%) C
9 3 (1.38%) Julia
9 3 (1.38%) PHP
9 3 (1.38%) VBA
10 2 (0.92%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (13.36%) Degree
2 21 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.30%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.84%) AWS Certification
4 4 (1.84%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.84%) PhD
5 2 (0.92%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.61%) QA
2 4 (1.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (7.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (12.44%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.45%) Terraform
3 4 (1.84%) Ansible
4 2 (0.92%) Grafana
4 2 (0.92%) Mesos
4 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.92%) Puppet
4 2 (0.92%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (3.69%) Databricks
2 7 (3.23%) Oracle
3 4 (1.84%) Google
4 2 (0.92%) Foundry
4 2 (0.92%) Palantir
4 2 (0.92%) Vertica