Python Software Engineer Jobs

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 717 732
Rank change year-on-year +309 +15 -130
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 591 265 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.27% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 245 166 398
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +44.00%
75th Percentile £136,250 £112,500 £125,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £142,500 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +33.33%

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 92,477 96,786 147,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 66,588 60,676 85,408
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,075
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer.

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in the UK

Python Software Engineer
Top 15 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 23 April 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
UK excluding London +231 392 £50,000 -16.67% 18
Scotland +131 322 £45,000 -33.33% 2
England +116 259 £100,000 +21.21% 43
London +175 187 £110,000 +10.00% 26
Work from Home +60 144 £112,500 +40.11% 29
South East +30 28 £50,000 -28.57% 2
North of England 0 17 £50,000 +17.65% 2
North West +14 11 £50,000 -
East of England +37 10 £72,500 - 7
South West -24 10 £58,000 -10.77% 3
Yorkshire +36 6 £45,000 +5.88% 2
Midlands +22 4 £50,000 -23.08% 2
West Midlands +31 2 £61,250 -5.77%
Northern Ireland +22 2 £75,500 -
East Midlands -10 2 £50,000 -16.67% 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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.

1 591 (100.00%) Python
1 591 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 484 (81.90%) Agile
3 482 (81.56%) Finance
4 422 (71.40%) AWS
5 333 (56.35%) CI/CD
6 324 (54.82%) SDLC
6 324 (54.82%) Law
7 319 (53.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 317 (53.64%) Operational Stability
9 271 (45.85%) Artificial Intelligence
10 265 (44.84%) Machine Learning
11 256 (43.32%) Apache Airflow
12 244 (41.29%) Community of Practice
13 187 (31.64%) Marketing
14 185 (31.30%) JavaScript
15 182 (30.80%) Asset Management
16 167 (28.26%) Banking
17 163 (27.58%) Front Office
18 150 (25.38%) TypeScript
18 150 (25.38%) Algorithms
19 147 (24.87%) React
20 144 (24.37%) Protocol Buffers
20 144 (24.37%) Fixed Income
20 144 (24.37%) gRPC
21 142 (24.03%) Cloud Native
22 133 (22.50%) Apache
23 129 (21.83%) GCP
24 128 (21.66%) Apache Ignite
25 120 (20.30%) Legal

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
1 256 (43.32%) Apache Airflow
2 133 (22.50%) Apache
3 112 (18.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 422 (71.40%) AWS
2 129 (21.83%) GCP
3 118 (19.97%) Azure
4 59 (9.98%) dbt
5 35 (5.92%) Snowflake
6 25 (4.23%) Serverless
7 20 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (2.03%) SaaS
10 10 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (1.02%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (0.85%) CloudFront
15 4 (0.68%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.68%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (0.68%) Azure Pipelines
15 4 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.85%) 5G
1 5 (0.85%) Network Security
1 5 (0.85%) SD-WAN
1 5 (0.85%) WAN
2 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (21.66%) Apache Ignite
2 92 (15.57%) Big Data
3 80 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
4 59 (9.98%) Amazon Athena
4 59 (9.98%) Apache Arrow
4 59 (9.98%) Dremio
5 36 (6.09%) Data Lake
6 29 (4.91%) Apache Hive
6 29 (4.91%) Hadoop
7 16 (2.71%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.71%) Impala
8 14 (2.37%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.20%) HBase
10 6 (1.02%) Flink
11 4 (0.68%) MySQL
11 4 (0.68%) Power BI
11 4 (0.68%) Tableau
12 3 (0.51%) Redis
13 2 (0.34%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (6.94%) Cypress.io
2 25 (4.23%) Git
3 14 (2.37%) GitLab
4 9 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.85%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.68%) Postman
7 2 (0.34%) Appium
7 2 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.17%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.17%) Mocha
8 1 (0.17%) NUnit
8 1 (0.17%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 482 (81.56%) Finance
2 324 (54.82%) Law
3 319 (53.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 187 (31.64%) Marketing
5 167 (28.26%) Banking
6 163 (27.58%) Front Office
7 120 (20.30%) Legal
8 98 (16.58%) Investment Banking
9 41 (6.94%) Social Skills
10 37 (6.26%) Financial Institution
11 18 (3.05%) Military
12 15 (2.54%) Games
13 13 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.02%) Advertising
14 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.02%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.85%) Retail
16 4 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
17 3 (0.51%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (24.87%) React
2 144 (24.37%) gRPC
2 144 (24.37%) Protocol Buffers
3 97 (16.41%) PySpark
4 85 (14.38%) Material-UI
5 80 (13.54%) Redux
6 78 (13.20%) Pandas
7 61 (10.32%) NumPy
8 59 (9.98%) SciPy
9 50 (8.46%) Kafka
10 35 (5.92%) REST
11 32 (5.41%) AngularJS
12 28 (4.74%) Django
12 28 (4.74%) Vue
13 19 (3.21%) RESTful
14 15 (2.54%) Node.js
15 13 (2.20%) Flask
15 13 (2.20%) GraphQL
15 13 (2.20%) JPA
15 13 (2.20%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 150 (25.38%) Algorithms
2 144 (24.37%) Fixed Income
3 142 (24.03%) Cloud Native
4 110 (18.61%) Hedge funds
5 85 (14.38%) Equities
6 59 (9.98%) Derivative
7 55 (9.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 16 (2.71%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.35%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
12 6 (1.02%) Pricing Data
13 5 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.85%) GNSS
13 5 (0.85%) Robotics
14 4 (0.68%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.34%) Hackathon
16 1 (0.17%) Educational Technology
16 1 (0.17%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.11%) Linux
2 35 (5.92%) Unix
3 19 (3.21%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 484 (81.90%) Agile
3 333 (56.35%) CI/CD
4 324 (54.82%) SDLC
5 317 (53.64%) Operational Stability
6 271 (45.85%) Artificial Intelligence
7 265 (44.84%) Machine Learning
8 244 (41.29%) Community of Practice
9 182 (30.80%) Asset Management
10 119 (20.14%) Visualisation
11 118 (19.97%) Risk Management
12 116 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (19.63%) Investment Management
13 109 (18.44%) Full Stack Development
14 87 (14.72%) Coaching
15 69 (11.68%) Automated Trading
15 69 (11.68%) Decision-Making
16 68 (11.51%) Microservices
17 62 (10.49%) Analytics
18 61 (10.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 591 (100.00%) Python
2 185 (31.30%) JavaScript
3 150 (25.38%) TypeScript
4 118 (19.97%) Java
5 89 (15.06%) SQL
6 56 (9.48%) C#
7 30 (5.08%) C++
8 25 (4.23%) C
9 20 (3.38%) Scala
10 15 (2.54%) Haskell
11 7 (1.18%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.18%) Rust
12 6 (1.02%) Bash
13 5 (0.85%) Perl
13 5 (0.85%) VBA
14 4 (0.68%) Ruby
15 1 (0.17%) Go
15 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.17%) R
15 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (3.21%) Degree
2 12 (2.03%) DBS Check
3 11 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 5 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.06%) Accessibility
2 16 (2.71%) SLA
3 13 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.02%) QA
5 5 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (3.21%) Docker
2 13 (2.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (9.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.86%) Grafana
3 10 (1.69%) Terraform
4 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 74 (12.52%) Google
2 56 (9.48%) Databricks
3 20 (3.38%) Oracle
4 13 (2.20%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.86%) Dynatrace
5 11 (1.86%) Splunk
6 10 (1.69%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.34%) Calypso
7 2 (0.34%) Zoho
8 1 (0.17%) Xamarin