Python Engineer
UK

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 436 488
Rank change year-on-year +133 +52 -156
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 943 711 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.72% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 0.78% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 550 554 822
10th Percentile £46,200 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £119,688
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 17 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 17 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 +33 592 £90,000 - 90
UK excluding London +192 499 £55,000 -8.33% 22
London +72 423 £105,000 +5.00% 68
Scotland +127 335 £45,000 -21.74%
Work from Home +13 326 £90,000 - 62
South East -8 54 £45,000 -35.71% 4
South West -11 35 £67,500 -2.80% 3
North of England +15 31 £52,500 +23.53% 4
East of England +20 20 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Midlands 0 19 £72,500 +38.10% 6
North West +11 18 £50,000 +11.11% 3
West Midlands +17 12 £72,500 +38.10% 3
Yorkshire +23 9 £47,500 +11.76% 1
East Midlands -6 7 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +14 3 £45,000 -29.41%
Northern Ireland +22 2 £75,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 943 (100.00%) Python
2 709 (75.19%) Software Engineering
3 630 (66.81%) Agile
4 626 (66.38%) AWS
5 616 (65.32%) Finance
6 385 (40.83%) CI/CD
7 353 (37.43%) Artificial Intelligence
8 352 (37.33%) Law
9 349 (37.01%) Machine Learning
10 348 (36.90%) SDLC
11 346 (36.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 338 (35.84%) Apache Airflow
13 331 (35.10%) Operational Stability
14 254 (26.94%) Asset Management
15 253 (26.83%) Community of Practice
16 243 (25.77%) JavaScript
17 235 (24.92%) Banking
18 229 (24.28%) Front Office
19 224 (23.75%) TypeScript
20 219 (23.22%) Apache
21 213 (22.59%) Fixed Income
22 211 (22.38%) Azure
23 206 (21.85%) Protocol Buffers
23 206 (21.85%) gRPC
24 203 (21.53%) SQL
25 199 (21.10%) Marketing
26 194 (20.57%) Apache Ignite
27 189 (20.04%) React
27 189 (20.04%) Investment Management
28 187 (19.83%) GCP

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
1 338 (35.84%) Apache Airflow
2 219 (23.22%) Apache
3 138 (14.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 626 (66.38%) AWS
2 211 (22.38%) Azure
3 187 (19.83%) GCP
4 112 (11.88%) dbt
5 82 (8.70%) Snowflake
6 60 (6.36%) Serverless
7 49 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (4.24%) Amazon S3
9 33 (3.50%) SaaS
10 28 (2.97%) Power Platform
11 25 (2.65%) GitHub
12 20 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 12 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
18 11 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
19 10 (1.06%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.48%) Network Security
2 4 (0.42%) Wireless
3 3 (0.32%) Modbus
3 3 (0.32%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.11%) 5G
4 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.11%) VSAN
4 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (20.57%) Apache Ignite
2 148 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (11.56%) Big Data
4 106 (11.24%) Amazon Athena
5 102 (10.82%) Apache Arrow
6 99 (10.50%) Dremio
7 97 (10.29%) Data Lake
8 42 (4.45%) Hadoop
9 32 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (3.39%) NoSQL
10 30 (3.18%) Apache Hive
10 30 (3.18%) DynamoDB
11 29 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (2.97%) Power BI
13 22 (2.33%) Relational Database
14 21 (2.23%) Tableau
15 18 (1.91%) MongoDB
16 17 (1.80%) Impala
16 17 (1.80%) SQL Server
17 14 (1.48%) HBase
Development Applications
1 63 (6.68%) Cypress.io
2 53 (5.62%) Git
3 34 (3.61%) GitLab
4 17 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.59%) JIRA
6 8 (0.85%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.74%) Selenium
8 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.53%) MLflow
8 5 (0.53%) Postman
9 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.21%) Appium
10 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 616 (65.32%) Finance
2 352 (37.33%) Law
3 346 (36.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 235 (24.92%) Banking
5 229 (24.28%) Front Office
6 199 (21.10%) Marketing
7 135 (14.32%) Investment Banking
8 124 (13.15%) Legal
9 91 (9.65%) Social Skills
10 39 (4.14%) Financial Institution
11 33 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (2.97%) Games
13 23 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.91%) Military
15 9 (0.95%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.74%) Advertising
16 7 (0.74%) Public Sector
16 7 (0.74%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.64%) Retail
18 5 (0.53%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (21.85%) gRPC
1 206 (21.85%) Protocol Buffers
2 189 (20.04%) React
3 124 (13.15%) Pandas
4 115 (12.20%) PySpark
5 111 (11.77%) Redux
6 108 (11.45%) Material-UI
6 108 (11.45%) NumPy
7 99 (10.50%) SciPy
8 71 (7.53%) Kafka
9 61 (6.47%) Django
10 54 (5.73%) REST
11 43 (4.56%) Flask
12 35 (3.71%) FastAPI
13 33 (3.50%) AngularJS
13 33 (3.50%) RESTful
14 29 (3.08%) Vue
15 22 (2.33%) Node.js
16 20 (2.12%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.59%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 213 (22.59%) Fixed Income
2 180 (19.09%) Hedge funds
3 171 (18.13%) Algorithms
4 160 (16.97%) Cloud Native
5 141 (14.95%) Equities
6 96 (10.18%) Derivative
7 91 (9.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (3.18%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (3.18%) Pricing Data
9 23 (2.44%) Client/Server
10 16 (1.70%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.17%) IoT
13 9 (0.95%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.95%) Robotics
14 8 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
15 7 (0.74%) Product Ownership
15 7 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.73%) Unix
2 51 (5.41%) Linux
3 27 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (75.19%) Software Engineering
2 630 (66.81%) Agile
3 385 (40.83%) CI/CD
4 353 (37.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 349 (37.01%) Machine Learning
6 348 (36.90%) SDLC
7 331 (35.10%) Operational Stability
8 254 (26.94%) Asset Management
9 253 (26.83%) Community of Practice
10 189 (20.04%) Investment Management
11 157 (16.65%) Full Stack Development
12 141 (14.95%) Visualisation
13 132 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (12.83%) Risk Management
15 97 (10.29%) Analytics
16 96 (10.18%) Automated Trading
17 95 (10.07%) Coaching
18 82 (8.70%) Microservices
19 77 (8.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 943 (100.00%) Python
2 243 (25.77%) JavaScript
3 224 (23.75%) TypeScript
4 203 (21.53%) SQL
5 174 (18.45%) Java
6 73 (7.74%) C#
7 36 (3.82%) C++
8 35 (3.71%) C
9 22 (2.33%) Scala
10 16 (1.70%) Haskell
11 14 (1.48%) Rust
12 10 (1.06%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.95%) Go
13 9 (0.95%) U-SQL
14 7 (0.74%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.74%) Ruby
15 5 (0.53%) VBA
16 3 (0.32%) Bash
17 2 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (4.98%) Degree
2 19 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (1.91%) DBS Check
4 14 (1.48%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.85%) HND
7 8 (0.85%) SC Cleared
8 6 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.21%) PhD
10 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.24%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.23%) QA
4 16 (1.70%) SLA
5 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.42%) NIST
5 4 (0.42%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (6.57%) Docker
2 14 (1.48%) HDFS
3 4 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 108 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.39%) Terraform
3 18 (1.91%) Grafana
4 10 (1.06%) Ansible
5 7 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.42%) Puppet
7 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 127 (13.47%) Google
2 91 (9.65%) Databricks
3 33 (3.50%) Oracle
4 31 (3.29%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.48%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.17%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.17%) Splunk
7 5 (0.53%) Informatica
8 4 (0.42%) YouTube
9 3 (0.32%) Teradata
10 2 (0.21%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.21%) Calypso
10 2 (0.21%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.21%) Zoho
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.11%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.11%) Xamarin