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 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 680 759
Rank change year-on-year +293 +79 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 714 271 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 372 188 372
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.70% +48.00%
75th Percentile £136,250 £117,188 £125,000
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £133,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -14.29% +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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +144 394 £110,000 +15.79% 48
UK excluding London +185 393 £52,500 -12.50% 17
London +187 314 £110,000 +4.76% 30
Scotland +122 313 £45,000 -21.74%
Work from Home +97 229 £115,000 +27.78% 30
South East +6 31 £50,000 -28.57% 4
North of England +3 16 £50,000 +17.65%
East of England -4 14 £67,500 -6.90% 4
South West -40 12 £58,000 - 4
North West +2 11 £50,000 -
Yorkshire +32 5 £45,000 +5.88%
Midlands -29 5 £65,000 +8.33% 5
East Midlands -31 3 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Northern Ireland +18 2 £75,500 -
West Midlands -10 2 £56,250 -4.26% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 714 (100.00%) Python
1 714 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 596 (83.47%) Agile
3 588 (82.35%) Finance
4 530 (74.23%) AWS
5 361 (50.56%) Apache Airflow
6 333 (46.64%) CI/CD
7 316 (44.26%) Law
8 313 (43.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 312 (43.70%) SDLC
10 311 (43.56%) Operational Stability
11 308 (43.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 296 (41.46%) Machine Learning
13 288 (40.34%) Asset Management
14 272 (38.10%) Front Office
15 266 (37.25%) TypeScript
16 265 (37.11%) Banking
17 258 (36.13%) JavaScript
18 256 (35.85%) Fixed Income
19 252 (35.29%) Protocol Buffers
19 252 (35.29%) gRPC
20 245 (34.31%) Apache
21 240 (33.61%) Apache Ignite
22 239 (33.47%) Community of Practice
23 218 (30.53%) Investment Management
24 216 (30.25%) Hedge funds
25 182 (25.49%) Marketing
26 181 (25.35%) Equities
26 181 (25.35%) Java
27 180 (25.21%) GCP

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
1 361 (50.56%) Apache Airflow
2 245 (34.31%) Apache
3 107 (14.99%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.14%) Fusion 360
2 1 (0.14%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 530 (74.23%) AWS
2 180 (25.21%) GCP
3 152 (21.29%) Azure
4 142 (19.89%) dbt
5 112 (15.69%) Snowflake
6 32 (4.48%) Serverless
7 24 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (1.68%) SaaS
9 11 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.54%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (0.98%) Amazon Bedrock
12 7 (0.98%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (0.84%) CloudFront
14 5 (0.70%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (0.70%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.70%) Network Security
2 2 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) Internet
3 1 (0.14%) RTP
3 1 (0.14%) Value-Added Service
3 1 (0.14%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (33.61%) Apache Ignite
2 141 (19.75%) Amazon Athena
2 141 (19.75%) Apache Arrow
2 141 (19.75%) Dremio
3 111 (15.55%) Data Lake
3 111 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
4 91 (12.75%) Big Data
5 21 (2.94%) Apache Hive
5 21 (2.94%) Hadoop
6 20 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 17 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.96%) Impala
9 11 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.98%) HBase
10 7 (0.98%) Tableau
11 6 (0.84%) Flink
12 5 (0.70%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.56%) MySQL
13 4 (0.56%) Power BI
14 3 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (8.96%) Cypress.io
2 30 (4.20%) Git
3 18 (2.52%) GitLab
4 8 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.70%) Postman
6 2 (0.28%) Appium
6 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.14%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Mocha
7 1 (0.14%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.14%) webpack
General
1 588 (82.35%) Finance
2 316 (44.26%) Law
3 313 (43.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 272 (38.10%) Front Office
5 265 (37.11%) Banking
6 182 (25.49%) Marketing
7 166 (23.25%) Investment Banking
8 116 (16.25%) Legal
9 44 (6.16%) Social Skills
10 34 (4.76%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.52%) Military
12 16 (2.24%) Games
13 15 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.26%) Advertising
15 5 (0.70%) Analytical Skills
15 5 (0.70%) Automotive
15 5 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.70%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 3 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (35.29%) gRPC
1 252 (35.29%) Protocol Buffers
2 179 (25.07%) React
3 158 (22.13%) Pandas
4 144 (20.17%) NumPy
5 141 (19.75%) SciPy
6 121 (16.95%) Redux
7 112 (15.69%) Material-UI
8 100 (14.01%) PySpark
9 51 (7.14%) Kafka
10 38 (5.32%) AngularJS
11 37 (5.18%) Django
12 35 (4.90%) Vue
13 26 (3.64%) Node.js
13 26 (3.64%) REST
14 23 (3.22%) RESTful
15 16 (2.24%) GraphQL
16 13 (1.82%) Flask
17 10 (1.40%) .NET
18 8 (1.12%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 256 (35.85%) Fixed Income
2 216 (30.25%) Hedge funds
3 181 (25.35%) Equities
4 148 (20.73%) Algorithms
5 138 (19.33%) Cloud Native
6 131 (18.35%) Derivative
7 127 (17.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 48 (6.72%) Pricing Data
9 14 (1.96%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 7 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.70%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.70%) Robotics
14 3 (0.42%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.28%) Self-Motivation
16 1 (0.14%) Distributed Systems
16 1 (0.14%) Educational Technology
16 1 (0.14%) Mixed Reality
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.76%) Linux
2 28 (3.92%) Unix
3 19 (2.66%) Windows
4 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 596 (83.47%) Agile
3 333 (46.64%) CI/CD
4 312 (43.70%) SDLC
5 311 (43.56%) Operational Stability
6 308 (43.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 296 (41.46%) Machine Learning
8 288 (40.34%) Asset Management
9 239 (33.47%) Community of Practice
10 218 (30.53%) Investment Management
11 144 (20.17%) Full Stack Development
12 120 (16.81%) Visualisation
13 114 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 111 (15.55%) Risk Management
15 99 (13.87%) Automated Trading
16 84 (11.76%) Coaching
17 66 (9.24%) Decision-Making
17 66 (9.24%) Mentoring
18 59 (8.26%) Microservices
19 56 (7.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 714 (100.00%) Python
2 266 (37.25%) TypeScript
3 258 (36.13%) JavaScript
4 181 (25.35%) Java
5 96 (13.45%) SQL
6 54 (7.56%) C#
7 24 (3.36%) C
8 21 (2.94%) C++
9 18 (2.52%) Scala
10 16 (2.24%) Haskell
11 8 (1.12%) Rust
12 7 (0.98%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.70%) VBA
14 4 (0.56%) Ruby
15 2 (0.28%) Go
16 1 (0.14%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.14%) R
16 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (2.24%) Degree
2 15 (2.10%) DBS Check
3 12 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.26%) Security Cleared
5 6 (0.84%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.42%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.28%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 19 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.96%) SLA
4 9 (1.26%) QA
System Software
1 23 (3.22%) Docker
2 7 (0.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.54%) Terraform
3 8 (1.12%) Grafana
4 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
Vendors
1 106 (14.85%) Google
2 52 (7.28%) Databricks
3 20 (2.80%) Oracle
4 11 (1.54%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.12%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.12%) Splunk
6 7 (0.98%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.42%) Reuters
8 2 (0.28%) Calypso
8 2 (0.28%) Zoho
9 1 (0.14%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.14%) Xamarin