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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 434 473
Rank change year-on-year +121 +39 -133
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 924 726 1,167
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 535 564 836
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
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% +21.43%
75th Percentile £119,375 £140,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £160,000 £128,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
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 £81,000 £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 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 10 May 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 10 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
England +19 571 £90,000 - 82
UK excluding London +187 500 £55,000 -8.33% 26
London +65 401 £100,000 - 56
Scotland +131 335 £45,000 -21.74% 1
Work from Home -4 312 £90,000 - 58
South East +2 53 £45,000 -35.71% 9
South West -15 35 £67,500 -2.80% 2
North of England +17 34 £52,500 +23.53% 3
East of England +25 20 £75,000 +3.45% 5
North West +18 19 £50,000 +11.11% 1
Midlands -10 18 £72,500 +38.10% 6
West Midlands +2 12 £72,500 +38.10% 3
Yorkshire +38 11 £47,500 +11.76% 2
East Midlands -12 6 £87,500 +59.09% 3
North East - 4 £64,000 -
Wales +7 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 10 May 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.

1 924 (100.00%) Python
2 692 (74.89%) Software Engineering
3 607 (65.69%) AWS
4 605 (65.48%) Agile
5 601 (65.04%) Finance
6 381 (41.23%) CI/CD
7 355 (38.42%) Law
8 349 (37.77%) SDLC
9 348 (37.66%) Artificial Intelligence
10 346 (37.45%) Machine Learning
11 345 (37.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 331 (35.82%) Operational Stability
13 322 (34.85%) Apache Airflow
14 253 (27.38%) Community of Practice
15 238 (25.76%) Asset Management
16 230 (24.89%) JavaScript
17 220 (23.81%) Banking
18 212 (22.94%) Front Office
19 207 (22.40%) TypeScript
20 202 (21.86%) Apache
20 202 (21.86%) Azure
21 199 (21.54%) Marketing
22 197 (21.32%) SQL
23 196 (21.21%) Fixed Income
24 189 (20.45%) gRPC
24 189 (20.45%) Protocol Buffers
25 185 (20.02%) React
26 180 (19.48%) GCP
27 177 (19.16%) Apache Ignite
28 174 (18.83%) Investment Management

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
1 322 (34.85%) Apache Airflow
2 202 (21.86%) Apache
3 138 (14.94%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.32%) Confluence
5 1 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 607 (65.69%) AWS
2 202 (21.86%) Azure
3 180 (19.48%) GCP
4 100 (10.82%) dbt
5 72 (7.79%) Snowflake
6 54 (5.84%) Serverless
7 43 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 40 (4.33%) Amazon S3
9 33 (3.57%) SaaS
10 26 (2.81%) Power Platform
11 25 (2.71%) GitHub
12 18 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 10 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
17 10 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.41%) Network Security
2 4 (0.43%) Wireless
3 3 (0.32%) Modbus
3 3 (0.32%) ZigBee
4 2 (0.22%) 5G
4 2 (0.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.22%) WAN
5 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (19.16%) Apache Ignite
2 143 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
3 109 (11.80%) Big Data
4 93 (10.06%) Amazon Athena
5 89 (9.63%) Apache Arrow
6 86 (9.31%) Dremio
7 84 (9.09%) Data Lake
8 43 (4.65%) Hadoop
9 34 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (3.25%) Apache Hive
10 30 (3.25%) NoSQL
11 26 (2.81%) Power BI
12 25 (2.71%) DynamoDB
13 23 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
14 22 (2.38%) Relational Database
14 22 (2.38%) Tableau
15 18 (1.95%) MongoDB
16 17 (1.84%) Impala
16 17 (1.84%) SQL Server
17 14 (1.52%) HBase
Development Applications
1 59 (6.39%) Cypress.io
2 48 (5.19%) Git
3 30 (3.25%) GitLab
4 17 (1.84%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.62%) JIRA
6 8 (0.87%) LabVIEW
7 7 (0.76%) Selenium
8 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.54%) MLflow
8 5 (0.54%) Postman
9 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Appium
10 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Mocha
11 1 (0.11%) NUnit
11 1 (0.11%) TestComplete
11 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 601 (65.04%) Finance
2 355 (38.42%) Law
3 345 (37.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 220 (23.81%) Banking
5 212 (22.94%) Front Office
6 199 (21.54%) Marketing
7 124 (13.42%) Investment Banking
7 124 (13.42%) Legal
8 86 (9.31%) Social Skills
9 39 (4.22%) Financial Institution
10 32 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.03%) Games
12 23 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.95%) Military
14 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.76%) Advertising
15 7 (0.76%) Public Sector
15 7 (0.76%) Retail
15 7 (0.76%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.54%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (20.45%) gRPC
1 189 (20.45%) Protocol Buffers
2 185 (20.02%) React
3 111 (12.01%) PySpark
4 110 (11.90%) Pandas
5 105 (11.36%) Redux
6 104 (11.26%) Material-UI
7 95 (10.28%) NumPy
8 86 (9.31%) SciPy
9 71 (7.68%) Kafka
10 60 (6.49%) Django
11 53 (5.74%) REST
12 43 (4.65%) Flask
13 35 (3.79%) FastAPI
14 31 (3.35%) AngularJS
15 29 (3.14%) RESTful
16 27 (2.92%) Vue
17 20 (2.16%) Node.js
18 16 (1.73%) GraphQL
19 15 (1.62%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 196 (21.21%) Fixed Income
2 171 (18.51%) Algorithms
3 165 (17.86%) Hedge funds
4 158 (17.10%) Cloud Native
5 126 (13.64%) Equities
6 85 (9.20%) Derivative
7 80 (8.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 29 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (2.60%) Pricing Data
10 23 (2.49%) Client/Server
11 16 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.19%) IoT
12 11 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.97%) Robotics
14 8 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
15 7 (0.76%) Product Ownership
15 7 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.84%) Linux
1 54 (5.84%) Unix
2 27 (2.92%) Windows
3 1 (0.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (74.89%) Software Engineering
2 605 (65.48%) Agile
3 381 (41.23%) CI/CD
4 349 (37.77%) SDLC
5 348 (37.66%) Artificial Intelligence
6 346 (37.45%) Machine Learning
7 331 (35.82%) Operational Stability
8 253 (27.38%) Community of Practice
9 238 (25.76%) Asset Management
10 174 (18.83%) Investment Management
11 148 (16.02%) Full Stack Development
12 141 (15.26%) Visualisation
13 132 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (13.10%) Risk Management
15 118 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
16 96 (10.39%) Analytics
17 95 (10.28%) Coaching
18 92 (9.96%) Automated Trading
19 81 (8.77%) Microservices
20 77 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 924 (100.00%) Python
2 230 (24.89%) JavaScript
3 207 (22.40%) TypeScript
4 197 (21.32%) SQL
5 162 (17.53%) Java
6 73 (7.90%) C#
7 39 (4.22%) C++
8 35 (3.79%) C
9 22 (2.38%) Scala
10 16 (1.73%) Haskell
11 14 (1.52%) Rust
12 10 (1.08%) MATLAB
13 9 (0.97%) Go
14 8 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.87%) U-SQL
15 7 (0.76%) Embedded C
15 7 (0.76%) Ruby
16 5 (0.54%) Bash
16 5 (0.54%) VBA
17 2 (0.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (5.30%) Degree
2 20 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (1.52%) DBS Check
3 14 (1.52%) Security Cleared
4 10 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 8 (0.87%) HND
5 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (0.87%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.65%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.22%) PhD
8 2 (0.22%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 25 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.38%) QA
4 16 (1.73%) SLA
5 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.43%) NIST
5 4 (0.43%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.22%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (6.82%) Docker
2 14 (1.52%) HDFS
3 4 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (11.80%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.35%) Terraform
3 18 (1.95%) Grafana
4 9 (0.97%) Ansible
5 7 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.43%) Puppet
7 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 124 (13.42%) Google
2 86 (9.31%) Databricks
3 33 (3.57%) Oracle
4 30 (3.25%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.52%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 11 (1.19%) Splunk
7 7 (0.76%) Informatica
8 4 (0.43%) YouTube
9 3 (0.32%) Teradata
10 2 (0.22%) ArcSight
10 2 (0.22%) Calypso
10 2 (0.22%) Carbon Black
10 2 (0.22%) Zoho
11 1 (0.11%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.11%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.11%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.11%) Xamarin