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 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 404 724 738
Rank change year-on-year +320 +14 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 625 272 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.26% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.29% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 266 175 390
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £63,875 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,294 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -13.20% +48.00%
75th Percentile £136,250 £116,250 £125,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £150,750 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +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 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 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 3 May 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 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
UK excluding London +247 402 £50,000 -13.04% 17
Scotland +127 335 £45,000 -21.74%
England +118 280 £100,000 +11.11% 48
London +171 211 £110,000 +8.64% 30
Work from Home +72 152 £115,000 +41.28% 34
South East +23 28 £50,000 -28.57% 7
North of England +15 17 £50,000 +17.65% 1
North West +17 11 £50,000 -
East of England +18 10 £72,500 - 5
South West -36 8 £58,000 - 2
Yorkshire +33 6 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Northern Ireland +29 2 £75,500 -
Midlands +15 2 £61,250 +2.08% 2
East Midlands -5 1 £50,000 -16.67% 2
West Midlands - 1 £72,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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.

1 625 (100.00%) Python
1 625 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 523 (83.68%) Agile
3 517 (82.72%) Finance
4 449 (71.84%) AWS
5 345 (55.20%) CI/CD
6 337 (53.92%) SDLC
6 337 (53.92%) Law
7 333 (53.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 331 (52.96%) Operational Stability
9 292 (46.72%) Artificial Intelligence
10 287 (45.92%) Machine Learning
11 281 (44.96%) Apache Airflow
12 253 (40.48%) Community of Practice
13 204 (32.64%) Asset Management
14 196 (31.36%) Marketing
14 196 (31.36%) JavaScript
15 193 (30.88%) Banking
16 185 (29.60%) Front Office
17 172 (27.52%) TypeScript
18 169 (27.04%) Fixed Income
19 165 (26.40%) Protocol Buffers
19 165 (26.40%) gRPC
20 158 (25.28%) Apache
21 154 (24.64%) React
21 154 (24.64%) Algorithms
22 153 (24.48%) Apache Ignite
23 147 (23.52%) Cloud Native
24 143 (22.88%) Investment Management
25 139 (22.24%) Hedge funds

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
1 281 (44.96%) Apache Airflow
2 158 (25.28%) Apache
3 116 (18.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 449 (71.84%) AWS
2 134 (21.44%) GCP
3 125 (20.00%) Azure
4 73 (11.68%) dbt
5 53 (8.48%) Snowflake
6 25 (4.00%) Serverless
7 20 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.92%) SaaS
10 10 (1.60%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.12%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.80%) CloudFront
15 4 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.64%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (0.64%) Power Platform
15 4 (0.64%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.80%) Network Security
2 4 (0.64%) 5G
2 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.64%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.16%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (24.48%) Apache Ignite
2 95 (15.20%) Big Data
3 91 (14.56%) PostgreSQL
4 73 (11.68%) Amazon Athena
4 73 (11.68%) Apache Arrow
4 73 (11.68%) Dremio
5 54 (8.64%) Data Lake
6 29 (4.64%) Apache Hive
6 29 (4.64%) Hadoop
7 16 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.56%) Impala
8 14 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.08%) HBase
10 6 (0.96%) Flink
10 6 (0.96%) Tableau
11 4 (0.64%) MySQL
11 4 (0.64%) Power BI
12 3 (0.48%) Redis
13 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (7.68%) Cypress.io
2 25 (4.00%) Git
3 14 (2.24%) GitLab
4 9 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.64%) Postman
5 4 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.32%) Appium
6 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.16%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.16%) Mocha
7 1 (0.16%) NUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 517 (82.72%) Finance
2 337 (53.92%) Law
3 333 (53.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 196 (31.36%) Marketing
5 193 (30.88%) Banking
6 185 (29.60%) Front Office
7 123 (19.68%) Legal
8 113 (18.08%) Investment Banking
9 41 (6.56%) Social Skills
10 39 (6.24%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.88%) Military
12 16 (2.56%) Games
13 15 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.12%) Public Sector
15 6 (0.96%) Advertising
16 5 (0.80%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
17 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.64%) Retail
18 3 (0.48%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (26.40%) gRPC
1 165 (26.40%) Protocol Buffers
2 154 (24.64%) React
3 101 (16.16%) PySpark
4 92 (14.72%) Material-UI
5 91 (14.56%) Redux
6 88 (14.08%) Pandas
7 75 (12.00%) NumPy
8 73 (11.68%) SciPy
9 52 (8.32%) Kafka
10 35 (5.60%) REST
11 28 (4.48%) AngularJS
12 27 (4.32%) Django
13 24 (3.84%) Vue
14 19 (3.04%) RESTful
15 15 (2.40%) Node.js
16 13 (2.08%) GraphQL
16 13 (2.08%) JPA
16 13 (2.08%) Spring
17 12 (1.92%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 169 (27.04%) Fixed Income
2 154 (24.64%) Algorithms
3 147 (23.52%) Cloud Native
4 139 (22.24%) Hedge funds
5 107 (17.12%) Equities
6 73 (11.68%) Derivative
7 69 (11.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 18 (2.88%) Pricing Data
9 16 (2.56%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.28%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.80%) Robotics
14 4 (0.64%) GNSS
14 4 (0.64%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.32%) Hackathon
16 1 (0.16%) Device Driver
16 1 (0.16%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.24%) Linux
2 34 (5.44%) Unix
3 19 (3.04%) Windows
4 1 (0.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 523 (83.68%) Agile
3 345 (55.20%) CI/CD
4 337 (53.92%) SDLC
5 331 (52.96%) Operational Stability
6 292 (46.72%) Artificial Intelligence
7 287 (45.92%) Machine Learning
8 253 (40.48%) Community of Practice
9 204 (32.64%) Asset Management
10 143 (22.88%) Investment Management
11 125 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 122 (19.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 121 (19.36%) Risk Management
14 120 (19.20%) Full Stack Development
15 90 (14.40%) Coaching
16 80 (12.80%) Automated Trading
17 73 (11.68%) Decision-Making
18 69 (11.04%) Microservices
19 61 (9.76%) Mentoring
19 61 (9.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 625 (100.00%) Python
2 196 (31.36%) JavaScript
3 172 (27.52%) TypeScript
4 132 (21.12%) Java
5 93 (14.88%) SQL
6 56 (8.96%) C#
7 28 (4.48%) C++
8 25 (4.00%) C
9 20 (3.20%) Scala
10 15 (2.40%) Haskell
11 7 (1.12%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.12%) Rust
12 5 (0.80%) Bash
12 5 (0.80%) VBA
13 4 (0.64%) Perl
13 4 (0.64%) Ruby
14 1 (0.16%) Go
14 1 (0.16%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) R
14 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (2.88%) Degree
2 12 (1.92%) DBS Check
3 11 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (1.76%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.80%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.84%) Accessibility
2 17 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.56%) SLA
4 6 (0.96%) QA
5 4 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (3.20%) Docker
2 13 (2.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.76%) Grafana
3 10 (1.60%) Terraform
4 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 85 (13.60%) Google
2 58 (9.28%) Databricks
3 20 (3.20%) Oracle
4 13 (2.08%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.76%) Dynatrace
5 11 (1.76%) Splunk
6 10 (1.60%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.32%) Calypso
7 2 (0.32%) Zoho
8 1 (0.16%) Xamarin