Python Engineer Jobs in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 341 400
Rank change year-on-year -5 +59 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 405 721 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.81% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 296 648 514
10th Percentile £65,000 £50,875 £55,000
25th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £150,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £148,750 £175,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 45,763 89,028 72,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.31% 94.65% 91.14%
Number of salaries quoted 24,931 64,620 48,558
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
London +19 340 £110,000 - 363
South West +91 16 £62,500 +4.17% 30
South East +23 14 £62,500 +38.89% 110
Midlands +69 12 £65,000 - 24
North of England +30 12 £70,000 +40.00% 62
East of England +14 9 £57,500 -23.33% 33
East Midlands +40 8 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North West +4 6 £100,000 +100.00% 40
Yorkshire +54 5 £62,500 +38.89% 18
West Midlands +56 4 £35,000 -51.72% 10
North East +46 1 £30,000 -53.13% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 405 (100.00%) Python
2 314 (77.53%) Software Engineering
3 298 (73.58%) Agile
4 292 (72.10%) Finance
5 279 (68.89%) AWS
6 213 (52.59%) Front Office
7 193 (47.65%) Apache Iceberg
8 190 (46.91%) Apache Airflow
9 189 (46.67%) dbt
10 187 (46.17%) Amazon Athena
11 184 (45.43%) Dremio
11 184 (45.43%) Asset Management
12 175 (43.21%) Apache Arrow
13 174 (42.96%) Java
14 153 (37.78%) Banking
15 144 (35.56%) Fixed Income
16 143 (35.31%) CI/CD
17 137 (33.83%) TypeScript
18 136 (33.58%) Equities
19 132 (32.59%) Apache
20 130 (32.10%) JavaScript
21 128 (31.60%) Kubernetes
21 128 (31.60%) Pandas
22 126 (31.11%) NumPy
23 124 (30.62%) Investment Management
24 122 (30.12%) SciPy
25 118 (29.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
26 117 (28.89%) Terraform
27 110 (27.16%) Docker
28 107 (26.42%) DevOps

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 190 (46.91%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (32.59%) Apache
3 60 (14.81%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 279 (68.89%) AWS
2 189 (46.67%) dbt
3 93 (22.96%) GCP
4 78 (19.26%) Snowflake
5 67 (16.54%) Serverless
6 65 (16.05%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (12.84%) Amazon ECS
8 47 (11.60%) Azure
8 47 (11.60%) OpenShift
9 22 (5.43%) SaaS
10 14 (3.46%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.22%) Power Platform
13 8 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.98%) Dagster
13 8 (1.98%) GitHub
14 7 (1.73%) Amazon Bedrock
14 7 (1.73%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.48%) Multicast
2 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 4 (0.99%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.25%) DWDM
4 1 (0.25%) Firewall
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) LAN
4 1 (0.25%) Network Security
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) VLAN
4 1 (0.25%) VPN
4 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (47.65%) Apache Iceberg
2 187 (46.17%) Amazon Athena
3 184 (45.43%) Dremio
4 175 (43.21%) Apache Arrow
5 107 (26.42%) Apache Ignite
6 69 (17.04%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (15.06%) Data Lake
8 28 (6.91%) NoSQL
9 17 (4.20%) Big Data
10 14 (3.46%) MongoDB
10 14 (3.46%) Relational Database
11 13 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.98%) KDB
12 8 (1.98%) MySQL
13 6 (1.48%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.48%) Power BI
14 5 (1.23%) Spark SQL
15 4 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.99%) Kdb+
15 4 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (11.11%) Artifactory
2 21 (5.19%) GitLab
3 20 (4.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 19 (4.69%) SonarQube
5 15 (3.70%) Git
5 15 (3.70%) Jenkins
6 10 (2.47%) JIRA
7 8 (1.98%) Selenium
8 7 (1.73%) Locust
9 4 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.99%) Spinnaker
9 4 (0.99%) YouTrack
10 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 292 (72.10%) Finance
2 213 (52.59%) Front Office
3 153 (37.78%) Banking
4 95 (23.46%) Law
5 91 (22.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (20.99%) Investment Banking
7 32 (7.90%) Marketing
8 31 (7.65%) Social Skills
9 28 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.48%) Agriculture
10 6 (1.48%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.48%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.23%) Electronics
11 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.99%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.74%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (31.60%) Pandas
2 126 (31.11%) NumPy
3 122 (30.12%) SciPy
4 80 (19.75%) React
5 79 (19.51%) PySpark
6 77 (19.01%) Kafka
7 66 (16.30%) AngularJS
8 64 (15.80%) Node.js
9 62 (15.31%) gRPC
9 62 (15.31%) Protocol Buffers
9 62 (15.31%) Vue
10 45 (11.11%) J2EE
11 43 (10.62%) REST
12 28 (6.91%) FastAPI
13 24 (5.93%) Flask
14 17 (4.20%) pytest
15 16 (3.95%) Django
16 14 (3.46%) RESTful
17 11 (2.72%) CSS
17 11 (2.72%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (35.56%) Fixed Income
2 136 (33.58%) Equities
3 118 (29.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 86 (21.23%) Derivative
5 73 (18.02%) Hedge funds
6 56 (13.83%) Pricing Data
7 44 (10.86%) Cloud Native
8 26 (6.42%) Algorithms
9 16 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (3.95%) Mobile App
10 15 (3.70%) Public Cloud
11 14 (3.46%) Client/Server
12 11 (2.72%) Product Ownership
13 9 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.98%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
16 3 (0.74%) Legacy Code
16 3 (0.74%) Management Information System
16 3 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.72%) Linux
2 6 (1.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (77.53%) Software Engineering
2 298 (73.58%) Agile
3 184 (45.43%) Asset Management
4 143 (35.31%) CI/CD
5 124 (30.62%) Investment Management
6 107 (26.42%) DevOps
7 77 (19.01%) Fintech
8 76 (18.77%) Data Engineering
9 68 (16.79%) Machine Learning
10 64 (15.80%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (14.81%) SDLC
12 58 (14.32%) Performance Attribution
13 55 (13.58%) Containerisation
14 54 (13.33%) Risk Management
15 53 (13.09%) Artificial Intelligence
15 53 (13.09%) Operational Stability
16 52 (12.84%) Order Management
17 51 (12.59%) Community of Practice
18 50 (12.35%) Open Source
19 49 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 405 (100.00%) Python
2 174 (42.96%) Java
3 137 (33.83%) TypeScript
4 130 (32.10%) JavaScript
5 75 (18.52%) SQL
6 62 (15.31%) Go
7 10 (2.47%) C#
8 7 (1.73%) C++
9 5 (1.23%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.99%) Bash
11 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.49%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.25%) PHP
12 1 (0.25%) Rust
12 1 (0.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (8.15%) Degree
2 14 (3.46%) AWS Certification
3 12 (2.96%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.48%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.74%) PhD
9 1 (0.25%) CCNA
9 1 (0.25%) CCNP
9 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.25%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.25%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.70%) QA
2 3 (0.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.74%) GDPR
3 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 110 (27.16%) Docker
2 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 128 (31.60%) Kubernetes
2 117 (28.89%) Terraform
3 28 (6.91%) Ansible
4 8 (1.98%) Grafana
4 8 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.48%) Mesos
6 4 (0.99%) Puppet
6 4 (0.99%) Salt
Vendors
1 22 (5.43%) Databricks
2 21 (5.19%) Google
3 8 (1.98%) Oracle
4 5 (1.23%) Microsoft
4 5 (1.23%) SAP
5 4 (0.99%) Splunk
5 4 (0.99%) Vertica
6 3 (0.74%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.49%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.25%) Arista
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco
8 1 (0.25%) Palantir