Python Software Engineer Jobs

Python Software Engineer
UK

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the UK is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 702 739
Rank change year-on-year +304 +37 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 647 275 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.30% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 288 178 380
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £68,125 £63,813 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £83,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -9.73% +48.00%
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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
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 9 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 9 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 +236 402 £50,000 -13.04% 15
Scotland +127 335 £45,000 -21.74%
England +148 303 £105,000 +16.67% 51
London +174 234 £110,000 +4.76% 35
Work from Home +61 163 £115,000 +37.72% 36
South East +13 28 £50,000 -28.57% 6
North of England +21 17 £50,000 +17.65% 1
North West +24 11 £50,000 -
East of England +22 10 £65,000 -10.34% 5
South West -36 8 £58,000 - 1
Yorkshire +47 6 £45,000 +5.88% 1
Northern Ireland +26 2 £75,500 -
Midlands -9 2 £61,250 +2.08% 2
East Midlands -16 1 £50,000 -16.67% 2
West Midlands - 1 £72,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 647 (100.00%) Python
1 647 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 547 (84.54%) Agile
3 541 (83.62%) Finance
4 473 (73.11%) AWS
5 345 (53.32%) CI/CD
6 338 (52.24%) Law
7 336 (51.93%) SDLC
8 334 (51.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 331 (51.16%) Operational Stability
10 305 (47.14%) Apache Airflow
11 303 (46.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 298 (46.06%) Machine Learning
13 253 (39.10%) Community of Practice
14 229 (35.39%) Asset Management
15 215 (33.23%) Banking
16 210 (32.46%) JavaScript
17 209 (32.30%) Front Office
18 197 (30.45%) TypeScript
19 195 (30.14%) Marketing
20 193 (29.83%) Fixed Income
21 189 (29.21%) Protocol Buffers
21 189 (29.21%) gRPC
22 182 (28.13%) Apache
23 177 (27.36%) Apache Ignite
24 167 (25.81%) React
25 166 (25.66%) Investment Management
26 161 (24.88%) Hedge funds
27 154 (23.80%) Algorithms
28 148 (22.87%) 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
1 305 (47.14%) Apache Airflow
2 182 (28.13%) Apache
3 116 (17.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 473 (73.11%) AWS
2 148 (22.87%) GCP
3 135 (20.87%) Azure
4 86 (13.29%) dbt
5 64 (9.89%) Snowflake
6 25 (3.86%) Serverless
7 20 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.70%) SaaS
10 10 (1.55%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.08%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
14 5 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.77%) CloudFront
15 4 (0.62%) Amazon Cognito
15 4 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.62%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (0.62%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Network Security
2 3 (0.46%) 5G
2 3 (0.46%) SD-WAN
2 3 (0.46%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (27.36%) Apache Ignite
2 102 (15.77%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (14.68%) Big Data
4 86 (13.29%) Amazon Athena
4 86 (13.29%) Apache Arrow
4 86 (13.29%) Dremio
5 65 (10.05%) Data Lake
6 29 (4.48%) Apache Hive
6 29 (4.48%) Hadoop
7 16 (2.47%) DynamoDB
7 16 (2.47%) Impala
8 14 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.01%) HBase
10 6 (0.93%) Flink
10 6 (0.93%) Tableau
11 4 (0.62%) MySQL
11 4 (0.62%) Power BI
12 3 (0.46%) Redis
13 2 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (8.66%) Cypress.io
2 25 (3.86%) Git
3 14 (2.16%) GitLab
4 9 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.62%) Postman
6 3 (0.46%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.31%) Appium
7 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.15%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Mocha
8 1 (0.15%) NUnit
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.15%) webpack
General
1 541 (83.62%) Finance
2 338 (52.24%) Law
3 334 (51.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 215 (33.23%) Banking
5 209 (32.30%) Front Office
6 195 (30.14%) Marketing
7 124 (19.17%) Investment Banking
8 123 (19.01%) Legal
9 41 (6.34%) Social Skills
10 39 (6.03%) Financial Institution
11 18 (2.78%) Military
12 16 (2.47%) Games
13 15 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.08%) Public Sector
15 6 (0.93%) Advertising
16 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
17 3 (0.46%) Electronics
17 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
17 3 (0.46%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (29.21%) gRPC
1 189 (29.21%) Protocol Buffers
2 167 (25.81%) React
3 105 (16.23%) Redux
4 104 (16.07%) Material-UI
5 102 (15.77%) Pandas
6 101 (15.61%) PySpark
7 89 (13.76%) NumPy
8 86 (13.29%) SciPy
9 52 (8.04%) Kafka
10 34 (5.26%) REST
11 30 (4.64%) AngularJS
12 27 (4.17%) Django
13 26 (4.02%) Vue
14 20 (3.09%) RESTful
15 18 (2.78%) Node.js
16 13 (2.01%) GraphQL
16 13 (2.01%) JPA
16 13 (2.01%) Spring
17 11 (1.70%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 193 (29.83%) Fixed Income
2 161 (24.88%) Hedge funds
3 154 (23.80%) Algorithms
4 147 (22.72%) Cloud Native
5 126 (19.47%) Equities
6 84 (12.98%) Derivative
7 80 (12.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 24 (3.71%) Pricing Data
9 16 (2.47%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.24%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.77%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.77%) Robotics
14 4 (0.62%) Product Ownership
15 3 (0.46%) GNSS
16 1 (0.15%) Educational Technology
16 1 (0.15%) Genomics
16 1 (0.15%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.87%) Linux
2 34 (5.26%) Unix
3 19 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.15%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 547 (84.54%) Agile
3 345 (53.32%) CI/CD
4 336 (51.93%) SDLC
5 331 (51.16%) Operational Stability
6 303 (46.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 298 (46.06%) Machine Learning
8 253 (39.10%) Community of Practice
9 229 (35.39%) Asset Management
10 166 (25.66%) Investment Management
11 130 (20.09%) Full Stack Development
12 125 (19.32%) Visualisation
13 122 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (18.70%) Risk Management
15 91 (14.06%) Automated Trading
16 90 (13.91%) Coaching
17 73 (11.28%) Decision-Making
18 68 (10.51%) Microservices
19 61 (9.43%) Mentoring
19 61 (9.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 647 (100.00%) Python
2 210 (32.46%) JavaScript
3 197 (30.45%) TypeScript
4 143 (22.10%) Java
5 98 (15.15%) SQL
6 56 (8.66%) C#
7 27 (4.17%) C++
8 25 (3.86%) C
9 20 (3.09%) Scala
10 15 (2.32%) Haskell
11 7 (1.08%) Embedded C
11 7 (1.08%) Rust
12 5 (0.77%) VBA
13 4 (0.62%) Bash
13 4 (0.62%) Ruby
14 3 (0.46%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) Go
15 1 (0.15%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.15%) R
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (2.63%) Degree
2 12 (1.85%) DBS Check
3 11 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (1.70%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 5 (0.77%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.71%) Accessibility
2 20 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.47%) SLA
4 6 (0.93%) QA
5 3 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 20 (3.09%) Docker
2 13 (2.01%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 57 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.70%) Grafana
3 10 (1.55%) Terraform
4 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 95 (14.68%) Google
2 58 (8.96%) Databricks
3 20 (3.09%) Oracle
4 13 (2.01%) Cloudera
5 11 (1.70%) Dynatrace
5 11 (1.70%) Splunk
6 10 (1.55%) Microsoft
7 2 (0.31%) Calypso
7 2 (0.31%) Zoho
8 1 (0.15%) Xamarin