Python Engineer Jobs

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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 417 480
Rank change year-on-year +114 +63 -146
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 982 697 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.94% 0.74% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.81% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 595 556 810
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £47,500
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% +18.06%
75th Percentile £122,500 £142,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +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 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
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 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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 1 June 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 1 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 +25 642 £90,000 - 99
UK excluding London +183 496 £55,000 -12.00% 32
London +82 466 £110,000 +4.76% 65
Work from Home +11 359 £90,000 - 53
Scotland +115 324 £45,000 -21.74% 2
South East -12 55 £45,000 -35.71% 5
South West -17 39 £60,000 -13.60% 6
North of England +8 31 £52,500 +23.53% 4
East of England +11 21 £75,000 +3.45% 7
Midlands -7 21 £72,500 +31.82% 8
North West +11 19 £50,000 +11.11% 2
West Midlands -12 14 £72,500 +38.10% 4
Yorkshire +19 8 £56,250 +32.35% 1
East Midlands -14 7 £87,500 +59.09% 4
North East - 4 £64,000 - 1
Wales +9 3 £45,000 -29.41%
Northern Ireland +21 2 £75,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 982 (100.00%) Python
2 751 (76.48%) Software Engineering
3 657 (66.90%) Agile
3 657 (66.90%) AWS
4 643 (65.48%) Finance
5 380 (38.70%) CI/CD
6 372 (37.88%) Apache Airflow
7 353 (35.95%) Artificial Intelligence
8 349 (35.54%) Machine Learning
9 342 (34.83%) Law
10 337 (34.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 336 (34.22%) SDLC
12 322 (32.79%) Operational Stability
13 289 (29.43%) Asset Management
14 268 (27.29%) JavaScript
15 266 (27.09%) Banking
16 265 (26.99%) Front Office
17 258 (26.27%) TypeScript
18 249 (25.36%) Apache
19 246 (25.05%) Community of Practice
20 243 (24.75%) Fixed Income
21 236 (24.03%) gRPC
21 236 (24.03%) Protocol Buffers
22 229 (23.32%) Azure
23 224 (22.81%) Apache Ignite
24 221 (22.51%) Investment Management
25 206 (20.98%) Hedge funds
25 206 (20.98%) SQL
26 205 (20.88%) GCP
27 199 (20.26%) Java

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
1 372 (37.88%) Apache Airflow
2 249 (25.36%) Apache
3 132 (13.44%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.10%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 657 (66.90%) AWS
2 229 (23.32%) Azure
3 205 (20.88%) GCP
4 145 (14.77%) dbt
5 106 (10.79%) Snowflake
6 65 (6.62%) Serverless
7 52 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (4.18%) Amazon S3
9 33 (3.36%) SaaS
10 30 (3.05%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.34%) GitHub
12 21 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (1.22%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 11 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
18 10 (1.02%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.41%) Wireless
3 3 (0.31%) Modbus
3 3 (0.31%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.10%) Broadband
5 1 (0.10%) Internet
5 1 (0.10%) RTP
5 1 (0.10%) VoIP
5 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (22.81%) Apache Ignite
2 153 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
3 138 (14.05%) Amazon Athena
4 131 (13.34%) Dremio
5 128 (13.03%) Apache Arrow
6 124 (12.63%) Data Lake
7 104 (10.59%) Big Data
8 37 (3.77%) Hadoop
9 33 (3.36%) NoSQL
10 31 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
11 30 (3.05%) DynamoDB
11 30 (3.05%) Power BI
12 29 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (2.65%) Apache Hive
14 23 (2.34%) Relational Database
14 23 (2.34%) Tableau
15 20 (2.04%) MongoDB
16 17 (1.73%) SQL Server
17 15 (1.53%) Impala
18 13 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 67 (6.82%) Cypress.io
2 53 (5.40%) Git
3 34 (3.46%) GitLab
4 15 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.43%) JIRA
6 8 (0.81%) LabVIEW
6 8 (0.81%) Selenium
7 5 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.51%) MLflow
7 5 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.20%) Appium
8 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.10%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.10%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.10%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.10%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.10%) webpack
General
1 643 (65.48%) Finance
2 342 (34.83%) Law
3 337 (34.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 266 (27.09%) Banking
5 265 (26.99%) Front Office
6 193 (19.65%) Marketing
7 155 (15.78%) Investment Banking
8 119 (12.12%) Legal
9 91 (9.27%) Social Skills
10 37 (3.77%) Financial Institution
11 35 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (2.75%) Games
13 23 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.83%) Military
15 12 (1.22%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.92%) Advertising
17 7 (0.71%) Automotive
17 7 (0.71%) Tech for Good
18 6 (0.61%) Public Sector
18 6 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (24.03%) gRPC
1 236 (24.03%) Protocol Buffers
2 197 (20.06%) React
3 159 (16.19%) Pandas
4 143 (14.56%) NumPy
5 131 (13.34%) SciPy
6 121 (12.32%) PySpark
7 119 (12.12%) Redux
8 112 (11.41%) Material-UI
9 69 (7.03%) Django
9 69 (7.03%) Kafka
10 50 (5.09%) REST
11 45 (4.58%) Flask
12 38 (3.87%) FastAPI
13 37 (3.77%) AngularJS
14 34 (3.46%) Vue
15 33 (3.36%) RESTful
16 26 (2.65%) Node.js
17 20 (2.04%) GraphQL
18 15 (1.53%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 243 (24.75%) Fixed Income
2 206 (20.98%) Hedge funds
3 168 (17.11%) Algorithms
4 167 (17.01%) Equities
5 154 (15.68%) Cloud Native
6 118 (12.02%) Derivative
7 113 (11.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 42 (4.28%) Pricing Data
9 30 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.34%) Client/Server
11 14 (1.43%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.02%) IoT
14 9 (0.92%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.92%) Robotics
15 8 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.30%) Unix
2 48 (4.89%) Linux
3 27 (2.75%) Windows
4 1 (0.10%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (76.48%) Software Engineering
2 657 (66.90%) Agile
3 380 (38.70%) CI/CD
4 353 (35.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 349 (35.54%) Machine Learning
6 336 (34.22%) SDLC
7 322 (32.79%) Operational Stability
8 289 (29.43%) Asset Management
9 246 (25.05%) Community of Practice
10 221 (22.51%) Investment Management
11 163 (16.60%) Full Stack Development
12 139 (14.15%) Visualisation
13 127 (12.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (11.71%) Risk Management
16 103 (10.49%) Analytics
17 100 (10.18%) Automated Trading
18 94 (9.57%) Coaching
19 81 (8.25%) Microservices
20 76 (7.74%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 982 (100.00%) Python
2 268 (27.29%) JavaScript
3 258 (26.27%) TypeScript
4 206 (20.98%) SQL
5 199 (20.26%) Java
6 72 (7.33%) C#
7 34 (3.46%) C
8 32 (3.26%) C++
9 20 (2.04%) Scala
10 16 (1.63%) Haskell
11 13 (1.32%) Rust
12 10 (1.02%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.92%) U-SQL
14 8 (0.81%) Go
15 7 (0.71%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.61%) Ruby
17 5 (0.51%) VBA
18 2 (0.20%) R
18 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (4.89%) Degree
2 23 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (1.83%) DBS Check
4 13 (1.32%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.81%) HND
8 7 (0.71%) AWS Certification
8 7 (0.71%) SC Cleared
9 6 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.20%) PhD
10 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.89%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.24%) QA
4 14 (1.43%) SLA
5 6 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.61%) NIST
6 4 (0.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (6.42%) Docker
2 12 (1.22%) HDFS
3 4 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 106 (10.79%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.95%) Terraform
3 17 (1.73%) Grafana
4 9 (0.92%) Ansible
5 6 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.41%) Puppet
7 3 (0.31%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 128 (13.03%) Google
2 89 (9.06%) Databricks
3 32 (3.26%) Oracle
4 31 (3.16%) Microsoft
5 12 (1.22%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.12%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.12%) Splunk
7 4 (0.41%) Informatica
8 3 (0.31%) Teradata
8 3 (0.31%) YouTube
9 2 (0.20%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.20%) Calypso
9 2 (0.20%) Carbon Black
9 2 (0.20%) Zoho
10 1 (0.10%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.10%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.10%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.10%) Xamarin