Python Engineer Job Trends in Bristol

Python Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Python Engineer salary in Bristol is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 118 125
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 1 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.089% 0.49% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.51% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 5
10th Percentile - £52,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £55,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £64,688 £82,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £84,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +33.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,039 2,373 1,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 96.66% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 771 1,604 1,334
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -5.83% +12.68%
75th Percentile £69,125 £70,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
South West median annual salary £45,150 £52,000 £54,545
% change year-on-year -13.17% -4.67% +9.09%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Bristol

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Bristol.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, 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 across the Bristol region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) D3.js
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) RxJS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) PrimeNG
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) D3.js
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) PrimeNG
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google