Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 436 469
Rank change year-on-year +121 +33 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 903 740 1,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.71% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.78% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 515 577 852
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.04% +11.36%

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 93,314 94,990 150,394
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.53% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,914 59,752 85,367
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 3 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 3 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 +16 549 £90,000 - 88
UK excluding London +210 499 £55,000 -8.33% 28
London +55 381 £100,000 - 58
Scotland +126 335 £45,000 -21.74%
Work from Home +6 298 £90,000 - 55
South East +2 52 £45,000 -35.71% 11
North of England +18 36 £50,000 +17.65% 3
South West -20 35 £67,500 -2.80% 3
North West +24 21 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England +23 20 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Midlands +17 16 £72,500 +38.10% 5
Yorkshire +25 11 £47,500 +11.76% 2
West Midlands +17 10 £72,500 +38.10% 2
East Midlands -2 6 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +7 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 3 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.

1 903 (100.00%) Python
2 675 (74.75%) Software Engineering
3 583 (64.56%) AWS
4 580 (64.23%) Agile
5 574 (63.57%) Finance
6 382 (42.30%) CI/CD
7 352 (38.98%) SDLC
8 351 (38.87%) Law
9 341 (37.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 339 (37.54%) Artificial Intelligence
11 337 (37.32%) Machine Learning
12 331 (36.66%) Operational Stability
13 298 (33.00%) Apache Airflow
14 253 (28.02%) Community of Practice
15 216 (23.92%) JavaScript
16 211 (23.37%) Asset Management
17 201 (22.26%) Marketing
18 198 (21.93%) Banking
19 193 (21.37%) SQL
20 192 (21.26%) Azure
21 188 (20.82%) Front Office
22 182 (20.16%) TypeScript
23 177 (19.60%) Apache
24 175 (19.38%) React
25 172 (19.05%) Fixed Income
26 171 (18.94%) Algorithms
27 167 (18.49%) GCP
28 165 (18.27%) Protocol Buffers
28 165 (18.27%) gRPC
29 159 (17.61%) Cloud Native

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
1 298 (33.00%) Apache Airflow
2 177 (19.60%) Apache
3 138 (15.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.33%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 583 (64.56%) AWS
2 192 (21.26%) Azure
3 167 (18.49%) GCP
4 87 (9.63%) dbt
5 62 (6.87%) Snowflake
6 51 (5.65%) Serverless
7 41 (4.54%) AWS Lambda
8 38 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 32 (3.54%) SaaS
10 26 (2.88%) GitHub
11 24 (2.66%) Power Platform
12 18 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
16 11 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.33%) Network Security
2 4 (0.44%) 5G
2 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.44%) WAN
2 4 (0.44%) Wireless
3 3 (0.33%) Modbus
3 3 (0.33%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (16.94%) Apache Ignite
2 131 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
3 110 (12.18%) Big Data
4 78 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (8.42%) Apache Arrow
6 73 (8.08%) Dremio
7 72 (7.97%) Data Lake
8 44 (4.87%) Hadoop
9 36 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (3.32%) Apache Hive
10 30 (3.32%) NoSQL
11 24 (2.66%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.66%) Power BI
12 21 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
12 21 (2.33%) Tableau
13 20 (2.21%) Relational Database
14 17 (1.88%) Impala
14 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
14 17 (1.88%) SQL Server
15 14 (1.55%) HBase
Development Applications
1 51 (5.65%) Cypress.io
2 47 (5.20%) Git
3 31 (3.43%) GitLab
4 18 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.77%) JIRA
6 8 (0.89%) LabVIEW
7 6 (0.66%) Selenium
8 5 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.55%) MLflow
9 4 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.44%) Postman
9 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.22%) Appium
10 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 574 (63.57%) Finance
2 351 (38.87%) Law
3 341 (37.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 201 (22.26%) Marketing
5 198 (21.93%) Banking
6 188 (20.82%) Front Office
7 124 (13.73%) Legal
8 113 (12.51%) Investment Banking
9 84 (9.30%) Social Skills
10 39 (4.32%) Financial Institution
11 29 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.10%) Games
13 23 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.99%) Military
15 9 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.89%) Retail
17 7 (0.78%) Public Sector
17 7 (0.78%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.66%) Advertising
18 6 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (19.38%) React
2 165 (18.27%) gRPC
2 165 (18.27%) Protocol Buffers
3 110 (12.18%) PySpark
4 96 (10.63%) Pandas
5 92 (10.19%) Material-UI
6 91 (10.08%) Redux
7 81 (8.97%) NumPy
8 73 (8.08%) SciPy
9 72 (7.97%) Kafka
10 63 (6.98%) Django
11 54 (5.98%) REST
12 43 (4.76%) Flask
13 37 (4.10%) FastAPI
14 29 (3.21%) AngularJS
15 27 (2.99%) RESTful
16 25 (2.77%) Vue
17 17 (1.88%) Node.js
18 16 (1.77%) .NET
18 16 (1.77%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 172 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 171 (18.94%) Algorithms
3 159 (17.61%) Cloud Native
4 143 (15.84%) Hedge funds
5 107 (11.85%) Equities
6 74 (8.19%) Derivative
7 69 (7.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
9 23 (2.55%) Client/Server
10 18 (1.99%) Pricing Data
11 16 (1.77%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.22%) IoT
13 10 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.00%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.00%) Robotics
15 8 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
16 7 (0.78%) Product Ownership
16 7 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.42%) Linux
2 53 (5.87%) Unix
3 27 (2.99%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (74.75%) Software Engineering
2 580 (64.23%) Agile
3 382 (42.30%) CI/CD
4 352 (38.98%) SDLC
5 339 (37.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 337 (37.32%) Machine Learning
7 331 (36.66%) Operational Stability
8 253 (28.02%) Community of Practice
9 211 (23.37%) Asset Management
10 149 (16.50%) Investment Management
11 140 (15.50%) Visualisation
12 138 (15.28%) Full Stack Development
13 132 (14.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 124 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (13.40%) Risk Management
16 95 (10.52%) Coaching
17 94 (10.41%) Analytics
18 83 (9.19%) Microservices
19 81 (8.97%) Automated Trading
20 80 (8.86%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 903 (100.00%) Python
2 216 (23.92%) JavaScript
3 193 (21.37%) SQL
4 182 (20.16%) TypeScript
5 150 (16.61%) Java
6 74 (8.19%) C#
7 42 (4.65%) C++
8 35 (3.88%) C
9 22 (2.44%) Scala
10 15 (1.66%) Haskell
11 14 (1.55%) Rust
12 10 (1.11%) MATLAB
13 9 (1.00%) Bash
13 9 (1.00%) Go
14 8 (0.89%) Ruby
15 7 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 7 (0.78%) U-SQL
16 5 (0.55%) VBA
17 4 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 51 (5.65%) Degree
2 20 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.55%) DBS Check
3 14 (1.55%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
5 8 (0.89%) HND
5 8 (0.89%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.78%) 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 36 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.77%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.55%) QA
4 16 (1.77%) SLA
5 4 (0.44%) PMO
5 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 68 (7.53%) Docker
2 14 (1.55%) HDFS
3 4 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 113 (12.51%) Kubernetes
2 35 (3.88%) Terraform
3 19 (2.10%) Grafana
4 11 (1.22%) Ansible
5 8 (0.89%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.55%) Puppet
7 3 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 117 (12.96%) Google
2 85 (9.41%) Databricks
3 32 (3.54%) Oracle
4 31 (3.43%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.55%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.22%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.22%) Splunk
7 7 (0.78%) 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%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.22%) Zoho
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.11%) Xamarin