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 8 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
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 423 494
Rank change year-on-year +131 +71 -158
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 1,002 674 1,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.72% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.79% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 622 541 822
10th Percentile £47,625 £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £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 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.98% +10.42% +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 102,593 85,161 165,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 91.21% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 72,456 55,290 85,908
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,518 £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 £50,500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +5.94% +6.32%

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 8 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 8 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 +37 667 £90,000 - 97
UK excluding London +188 493 £55,000 -16.98% 32
London +70 489 £110,000 +4.76% 62
Work from Home +28 382 £95,000 +5.56% 58
Scotland +120 318 £67,500 +17.39% 1
South East -9 55 £45,000 -35.71% 6
South West -25 38 £60,000 -13.60% 10
North of England -9 30 £52,500 +23.53% 3
East of England +5 24 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Midlands -29 23 £72,500 +31.82% 6
North West +8 19 £50,000 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -1 15 £72,500 +38.10% 2
East Midlands -27 8 £76,250 +38.64% 4
Yorkshire +27 7 £45,000 +5.88% 1
North East - 4 £64,000 - 1
Wales +8 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 8 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 1,002 (100.00%) Python
2 771 (76.95%) Software Engineering
3 670 (66.87%) AWS
4 669 (66.77%) Agile
5 653 (65.17%) Finance
6 387 (38.62%) Apache Airflow
7 373 (37.23%) CI/CD
8 352 (35.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 342 (34.13%) Machine Learning
10 333 (33.23%) Law
11 331 (33.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 327 (32.63%) SDLC
13 313 (31.24%) Operational Stability
14 305 (30.44%) Asset Management
15 284 (28.34%) Front Office
16 281 (28.04%) JavaScript
17 280 (27.94%) Banking
18 278 (27.74%) TypeScript
19 264 (26.35%) Apache
20 259 (25.85%) Fixed Income
21 252 (25.15%) Protocol Buffers
21 252 (25.15%) gRPC
22 240 (23.95%) Community of Practice
22 240 (23.95%) Apache Ignite
23 235 (23.45%) Investment Management
24 233 (23.25%) Azure
25 220 (21.96%) Hedge funds
26 218 (21.76%) GCP
27 210 (20.96%) Java
28 203 (20.26%) SQL

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
1 387 (38.62%) Apache Airflow
2 264 (26.35%) Apache
3 128 (12.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.100%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.100%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.100%) Autodesk Inventor
3 1 (0.100%) Fusion 360
3 1 (0.100%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 670 (66.87%) AWS
2 233 (23.25%) Azure
3 218 (21.76%) GCP
4 163 (16.27%) dbt
5 119 (11.88%) Snowflake
6 65 (6.49%) Serverless
7 52 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (4.19%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.39%) SaaS
10 30 (2.99%) Power Platform
11 22 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (2.20%) GitHub
12 19 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.30%) Dagster
14 12 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.40%) Network Security
2 4 (0.40%) Wireless
3 3 (0.30%) Modbus
3 3 (0.30%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.100%) Broadband
5 1 (0.100%) Internet
5 1 (0.100%) RTP
5 1 (0.100%) Value-Added Service
5 1 (0.100%) VoIP
5 1 (0.100%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (23.95%) Apache Ignite
2 157 (15.67%) Amazon Athena
3 151 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
4 150 (14.97%) Dremio
5 144 (14.37%) Apache Arrow
6 142 (14.17%) Data Lake
7 103 (10.28%) Big Data
8 34 (3.39%) Hadoop
9 32 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 32 (3.19%) NoSQL
10 30 (2.99%) DynamoDB
10 30 (2.99%) Power BI
11 27 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (2.30%) Apache Hive
13 22 (2.20%) Tableau
14 20 (2.00%) Relational Database
15 19 (1.90%) MongoDB
16 16 (1.60%) SQL Server
17 15 (1.50%) Impala
18 13 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 67 (6.69%) Cypress.io
2 53 (5.29%) Git
3 33 (3.29%) GitLab
4 14 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 13 (1.30%) JIRA
6 8 (0.80%) LabVIEW
6 8 (0.80%) Selenium
7 5 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.50%) MLflow
7 5 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.20%) Appium
8 2 (0.20%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.100%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.100%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.100%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.100%) Mocha
9 1 (0.100%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.100%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.100%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.100%) webpack
General
1 653 (65.17%) Finance
2 333 (33.23%) Law
3 331 (33.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 284 (28.34%) Front Office
5 280 (27.94%) Banking
6 188 (18.76%) Marketing
7 166 (16.57%) Investment Banking
8 121 (12.08%) Legal
9 92 (9.18%) Social Skills
10 34 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
10 34 (3.39%) Financial Institution
11 27 (2.69%) Games
12 23 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.80%) Military
14 14 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.90%) Advertising
16 7 (0.70%) Automotive
16 7 (0.70%) Tech for Good
17 6 (0.60%) Retail
18 5 (0.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (25.15%) gRPC
1 252 (25.15%) Protocol Buffers
2 197 (19.66%) React
3 178 (17.76%) Pandas
4 162 (16.17%) NumPy
5 150 (14.97%) SciPy
6 128 (12.77%) PySpark
7 121 (12.08%) Redux
8 112 (11.18%) Material-UI
9 71 (7.09%) Django
10 69 (6.89%) Kafka
11 47 (4.69%) Flask
12 45 (4.49%) REST
13 41 (4.09%) FastAPI
14 39 (3.89%) AngularJS
15 36 (3.59%) Vue
16 33 (3.29%) RESTful
17 28 (2.79%) Node.js
18 20 (2.00%) GraphQL
19 15 (1.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 259 (25.85%) Fixed Income
2 220 (21.96%) Hedge funds
3 181 (18.06%) Equities
4 165 (16.47%) Algorithms
5 150 (14.97%) Cloud Native
6 132 (13.17%) Derivative
7 127 (12.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 48 (4.79%) Pricing Data
9 30 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (2.30%) Client/Server
11 14 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.00%) IoT
14 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (0.90%) Robotics
15 8 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
16 7 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.60%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.79%) Unix
2 47 (4.69%) Linux
3 27 (2.69%) Windows
4 1 (0.100%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 771 (76.95%) Software Engineering
2 669 (66.77%) Agile
3 373 (37.23%) CI/CD
4 352 (35.13%) Artificial Intelligence
5 342 (34.13%) Machine Learning
6 327 (32.63%) SDLC
7 313 (31.24%) Operational Stability
8 305 (30.44%) Asset Management
9 240 (23.95%) Community of Practice
10 235 (23.45%) Investment Management
11 168 (16.77%) Full Stack Development
12 136 (13.57%) Visualisation
13 124 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 122 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
15 112 (11.18%) Risk Management
16 105 (10.48%) Analytics
17 100 (9.98%) Automated Trading
18 92 (9.18%) Coaching
19 76 (7.58%) Computer Science
19 76 (7.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1,002 (100.00%) Python
2 281 (28.04%) JavaScript
3 278 (27.74%) TypeScript
4 210 (20.96%) Java
5 203 (20.26%) SQL
6 69 (6.89%) C#
7 34 (3.39%) C
8 31 (3.09%) C++
9 20 (2.00%) Scala
10 16 (1.60%) Haskell
11 12 (1.20%) Rust
12 10 (1.00%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.90%) U-SQL
14 7 (0.70%) Embedded C
14 7 (0.70%) Go
15 5 (0.50%) Ruby
15 5 (0.50%) VBA
16 2 (0.20%) R
16 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (4.89%) Degree
2 24 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (1.80%) DBS Check
4 12 (1.20%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.80%) HND
8 7 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 6 (0.60%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.60%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.20%) PhD
10 2 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.99%) Data Quality
2 23 (2.30%) QA
3 20 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.50%) SLA
5 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.60%) NIST
6 4 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 64 (6.39%) Docker
2 9 (0.90%) HDFS
3 4 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 105 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.89%) Terraform
3 12 (1.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.90%) Ansible
5 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.40%) Puppet
7 3 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 129 (12.87%) Google
2 87 (8.68%) Databricks
3 31 (3.09%) Oracle
4 29 (2.89%) Microsoft
5 9 (0.90%) Cloudera
6 8 (0.80%) Dynatrace
6 8 (0.80%) Splunk
7 4 (0.40%) Informatica
8 3 (0.30%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.30%) Reuters
8 3 (0.30%) Teradata
8 3 (0.30%) YouTube
9 2 (0.20%) ArcSight
9 2 (0.20%) Calypso
9 2 (0.20%) Carbon Black
9 2 (0.20%) Zoho
10 1 (0.100%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.100%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.100%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.100%) Xamarin