Python Software Engineer Jobs

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £102,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 707 754
Rank change year-on-year +314 +47 -144
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 666 276 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 306 182 369
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £71,563 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -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 £51,250 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.87% -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 94,593 90,744 154,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.51% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,603 57,335 84,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,521
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 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 18 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 18 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 +214 403 £51,250 -10.87% 25
Scotland +129 335 £45,000 -21.74%
England +149 325 £107,500 +19.44% 57
London +196 255 £110,000 +4.76% 40
Work from Home +76 179 £115,000 +27.78% 36
South East +16 29 £50,000 -28.57% 11
North of England +21 16 £50,000 +17.65% 2
North West +15 11 £50,000 - 1
East of England +6 10 £65,000 -10.34% 8
South West -41 8 £58,000 - 1
Yorkshire +42 5 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Midlands -7 3 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Northern Ireland +20 2 £75,500 -
East Midlands -7 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 18 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.

1 666 (100.00%) Python
1 666 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 568 (85.29%) Agile
3 558 (83.78%) Finance
4 494 (74.17%) AWS
5 349 (52.40%) CI/CD
6 337 (50.60%) Law
7 334 (50.15%) SDLC
7 334 (50.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 331 (49.70%) Operational Stability
9 322 (48.35%) Apache Airflow
10 308 (46.25%) Artificial Intelligence
11 302 (45.35%) Machine Learning
12 253 (37.99%) Community of Practice
13 246 (36.94%) Asset Management
14 230 (34.53%) Banking
15 226 (33.93%) Front Office
16 223 (33.48%) JavaScript
17 214 (32.13%) TypeScript
18 210 (31.53%) Fixed Income
19 206 (30.93%) Protocol Buffers
19 206 (30.93%) gRPC
20 199 (29.88%) Apache
21 194 (29.13%) Marketing
21 194 (29.13%) Apache Ignite
22 181 (27.18%) Investment Management
23 176 (26.43%) Hedge funds
24 172 (25.83%) React
25 156 (23.42%) GCP
26 154 (23.12%) Algorithms

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
1 322 (48.35%) Apache Airflow
2 199 (29.88%) Apache
3 116 (17.42%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 494 (74.17%) AWS
2 156 (23.42%) GCP
3 140 (21.02%) Azure
4 99 (14.86%) dbt
5 75 (11.26%) Snowflake
6 30 (4.50%) Serverless
7 24 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (1.80%) SaaS
10 11 (1.65%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.05%) Amazon SageMaker
14 6 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (0.90%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (0.90%) CloudFront
15 5 (0.75%) Amazon Cognito
15 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.75%) Azure Pipelines
15 5 (0.75%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.15%) 5G
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
1 194 (29.13%) Apache Ignite
2 107 (16.07%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (14.86%) Amazon Athena
3 99 (14.86%) Apache Arrow
3 99 (14.86%) Dremio
4 95 (14.26%) Big Data
5 76 (11.41%) Data Lake
6 29 (4.35%) Apache Hive
6 29 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 20 (3.00%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.40%) Impala
10 14 (2.10%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.95%) HBase
12 6 (0.90%) Flink
12 6 (0.90%) Tableau
13 4 (0.60%) MySQL
13 4 (0.60%) Power BI
14 3 (0.45%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (9.01%) Cypress.io
2 30 (4.50%) Git
3 17 (2.55%) GitLab
4 9 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.75%) 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
1 558 (83.78%) Finance
2 337 (50.60%) Law
3 334 (50.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 230 (34.53%) Banking
5 226 (33.93%) Front Office
6 194 (29.13%) Marketing
7 135 (20.27%) Investment Banking
8 123 (18.47%) Legal
9 45 (6.76%) Social Skills
10 39 (5.86%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.70%) Military
12 16 (2.40%) Games
13 15 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.05%) Advertising
14 7 (1.05%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.75%) 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
1 206 (30.93%) gRPC
1 206 (30.93%) Protocol Buffers
2 172 (25.83%) React
3 116 (17.42%) Pandas
4 111 (16.67%) Redux
5 108 (16.22%) Material-UI
6 102 (15.32%) NumPy
7 101 (15.17%) PySpark
8 99 (14.86%) SciPy
9 52 (7.81%) Kafka
10 34 (5.11%) REST
11 32 (4.80%) AngularJS
12 29 (4.35%) Django
13 28 (4.20%) Vue
14 23 (3.45%) RESTful
15 20 (3.00%) Node.js
16 16 (2.40%) GraphQL
17 13 (1.95%) JPA
17 13 (1.95%) Spring
18 11 (1.65%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 210 (31.53%) Fixed Income
2 176 (26.43%) Hedge funds
3 154 (23.12%) Algorithms
4 147 (22.07%) Cloud Native
5 141 (21.17%) Equities
6 95 (14.26%) Derivative
7 91 (13.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 30 (4.50%) Pricing Data
9 16 (2.40%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.20%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.75%) Robotics
14 4 (0.60%) Product Ownership
15 1 (0.15%) Genomics
15 1 (0.15%) IoT
15 1 (0.15%) Mixed Reality
15 1 (0.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.26%) Linux
2 34 (5.11%) Unix
3 19 (2.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 568 (85.29%) Agile
3 349 (52.40%) CI/CD
4 334 (50.15%) SDLC
5 331 (49.70%) Operational Stability
6 308 (46.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 302 (45.35%) Machine Learning
8 253 (37.99%) Community of Practice
9 246 (36.94%) Asset Management
10 181 (27.18%) Investment Management
11 136 (20.42%) Full Stack Development
12 125 (18.77%) Visualisation
13 122 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (18.17%) Risk Management
15 95 (14.26%) Automated Trading
16 90 (13.51%) Coaching
17 73 (10.96%) Decision-Making
18 68 (10.21%) Microservices
19 61 (9.16%) Mentoring
19 61 (9.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 666 (100.00%) Python
2 223 (33.48%) JavaScript
3 214 (32.13%) TypeScript
4 154 (23.12%) Java
5 99 (14.86%) SQL
6 56 (8.41%) C#
7 25 (3.75%) C
8 23 (3.45%) C++
9 20 (3.00%) Scala
10 16 (2.40%) Haskell
11 8 (1.20%) Rust
12 7 (1.05%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.75%) VBA
14 4 (0.60%) 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 (2.25%) DBS Check
1 15 (2.25%) Degree
2 11 (1.65%) Security Cleared
3 10 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.75%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 23 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.40%) SLA
4 6 (0.90%) QA
5 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (3.15%) Docker
2 13 (1.95%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (8.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.65%) Grafana
2 11 (1.65%) Terraform
3 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 99 (14.86%) Google
2 58 (8.71%) Databricks
3 20 (3.00%) Oracle
4 13 (1.95%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.65%) Dynatrace
5 11 (1.65%) Splunk
6 10 (1.50%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.30%) Calypso
7 2 (0.30%) Zoho
8 1 (0.15%) Xamarin