Python Software Engineer Jobs

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 703 748
Rank change year-on-year +315 +45 -118
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 673 277 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 313 183 379
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,750 £49,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% +54.17%
75th Percentile £136,250 £116,250 £125,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £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 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 20 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 20 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 +232 404 £50,000 -13.04% 27
Scotland +123 335 £45,000 -21.74%
England +158 332 £110,000 +22.22% 57
London +194 261 £110,000 +4.76% 41
Work from Home +86 182 £115,000 +27.78% 37
South East +25 29 £50,000 -28.57% 14
North of England +5 16 £50,000 +17.65% 2
East of England +9 11 £60,000 -17.24% 7
North West +9 11 £50,000 - 1
South West -37 8 £58,000 - 1
Yorkshire +41 5 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Midlands -5 3 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Northern Ireland +30 2 £75,500 -
East Midlands -17 2 £57,500 -4.17% 3
West Midlands - 1 £72,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 673 (100.00%) Python
1 673 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 575 (85.44%) Agile
3 564 (83.80%) Finance
4 500 (74.29%) AWS
5 349 (51.86%) CI/CD
6 337 (50.07%) Law
7 334 (49.63%) SDLC
7 334 (49.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 331 (49.18%) Operational Stability
9 328 (48.74%) Apache Airflow
10 312 (46.36%) Artificial Intelligence
11 306 (45.47%) Machine Learning
12 253 (37.59%) Community of Practice
13 252 (37.44%) Asset Management
14 236 (35.07%) Banking
15 232 (34.47%) Front Office
16 225 (33.43%) JavaScript
17 220 (32.69%) TypeScript
18 216 (32.10%) Fixed Income
19 212 (31.50%) Protocol Buffers
19 212 (31.50%) gRPC
20 205 (30.46%) Apache
21 200 (29.72%) Apache Ignite
22 194 (28.83%) Marketing
23 185 (27.49%) Investment Management
24 182 (27.04%) Hedge funds
25 176 (26.15%) React
26 162 (24.07%) GCP
27 156 (23.18%) Java

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
1 328 (48.74%) Apache Airflow
2 205 (30.46%) Apache
3 116 (17.24%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 500 (74.29%) AWS
2 162 (24.07%) GCP
3 144 (21.40%) Azure
4 101 (15.01%) dbt
5 77 (11.44%) Snowflake
6 30 (4.46%) Serverless
7 24 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.78%) SaaS
10 11 (1.63%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (0.89%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (0.89%) CloudFront
15 5 (0.74%) Amazon Cognito
15 5 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.74%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (0.74%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.15%) 5G
2 1 (0.15%) Firewall
2 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.15%) VSAN
2 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (29.72%) Apache Ignite
2 111 (16.49%) PostgreSQL
3 101 (15.01%) Amazon Athena
3 101 (15.01%) Apache Arrow
3 101 (15.01%) Dremio
4 95 (14.12%) Big Data
5 78 (11.59%) Data Lake
6 29 (4.31%) Apache Hive
6 29 (4.31%) Hadoop
7 20 (2.97%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.38%) Impala
10 14 (2.08%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.93%) HBase
12 6 (0.89%) Flink
12 6 (0.89%) Tableau
13 4 (0.59%) MySQL
13 4 (0.59%) Power BI
14 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (9.51%) Cypress.io
2 30 (4.46%) Git
3 17 (2.53%) GitLab
4 9 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.74%) Postman
6 2 (0.30%) Appium
6 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.15%) Mocha
7 1 (0.15%) NUnit
7 1 (0.15%) Selenium
7 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 564 (83.80%) Finance
2 337 (50.07%) Law
3 334 (49.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 236 (35.07%) Banking
5 232 (34.47%) Front Office
6 194 (28.83%) Marketing
7 137 (20.36%) Investment Banking
8 123 (18.28%) Legal
9 45 (6.69%) Social Skills
10 39 (5.79%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.67%) Military
12 16 (2.38%) Games
13 15 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.04%) Advertising
14 7 (1.04%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
16 3 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
17 2 (0.30%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.30%) Back Office
17 2 (0.30%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (31.50%) gRPC
1 212 (31.50%) Protocol Buffers
2 176 (26.15%) React
3 118 (17.53%) Pandas
4 115 (17.09%) Redux
5 112 (16.64%) Material-UI
6 104 (15.45%) NumPy
7 101 (15.01%) PySpark
7 101 (15.01%) SciPy
8 52 (7.73%) Kafka
9 34 (5.05%) REST
10 32 (4.75%) AngularJS
11 29 (4.31%) Django
12 28 (4.16%) Vue
13 23 (3.42%) RESTful
14 20 (2.97%) Node.js
15 16 (2.38%) GraphQL
16 13 (1.93%) JPA
16 13 (1.93%) Spring
17 12 (1.78%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 216 (32.10%) Fixed Income
2 182 (27.04%) Hedge funds
3 154 (22.88%) Algorithms
4 147 (21.84%) Cloud Native
4 147 (21.84%) Equities
5 97 (14.41%) Derivative
6 93 (13.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 30 (4.46%) Pricing Data
8 16 (2.38%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.19%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.74%) Robotics
13 4 (0.59%) Product Ownership
14 1 (0.15%) Genomics
14 1 (0.15%) IoT
14 1 (0.15%) Mixed Reality
14 1 (0.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.20%) Linux
2 34 (5.05%) Unix
3 19 (2.82%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 673 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 575 (85.44%) Agile
3 349 (51.86%) CI/CD
4 334 (49.63%) SDLC
5 331 (49.18%) Operational Stability
6 312 (46.36%) Artificial Intelligence
7 306 (45.47%) Machine Learning
8 253 (37.59%) Community of Practice
9 252 (37.44%) Asset Management
10 185 (27.49%) Investment Management
11 140 (20.80%) Full Stack Development
12 125 (18.57%) Visualisation
13 122 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (17.98%) Risk Management
15 99 (14.71%) Automated Trading
16 90 (13.37%) Coaching
17 73 (10.85%) Decision-Making
18 68 (10.10%) Microservices
19 61 (9.06%) Mentoring
19 61 (9.06%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 673 (100.00%) Python
2 225 (33.43%) JavaScript
3 220 (32.69%) TypeScript
4 156 (23.18%) Java
5 99 (14.71%) SQL
6 56 (8.32%) C#
7 25 (3.71%) C
8 23 (3.42%) C++
9 20 (2.97%) Scala
10 16 (2.38%) Haskell
11 8 (1.19%) Rust
12 7 (1.04%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.74%) VBA
14 4 (0.59%) Ruby
15 2 (0.30%) Bash
15 2 (0.30%) Go
16 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.15%) Perl
16 1 (0.15%) R
16 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (2.23%) DBS Check
1 15 (2.23%) Degree
2 11 (1.63%) Security Cleared
3 10 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.89%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.74%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.38%) SLA
4 6 (0.89%) QA
5 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (3.12%) Docker
2 13 (1.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.63%) Grafana
2 11 (1.63%) Terraform
3 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 103 (15.30%) Google
2 58 (8.62%) Databricks
3 20 (2.97%) Oracle
4 13 (1.93%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.63%) Dynatrace
5 11 (1.63%) Splunk
6 10 (1.49%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.30%) Calypso
7 2 (0.30%) Zoho
8 1 (0.15%) Xamarin