Python Engineer Job Trends 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 23 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 258 340
Rank change year-on-year -70 +82 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 338 663 429
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.79% 1.07% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.12% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 229 595 401
10th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £132,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% +15.15%

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 38,791 58,964 47,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.56% 95.22% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 23,461 33,679 36,554
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,869
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,252 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in England

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 October 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 23 October 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 -41 272 £110,000 +4.76% 69
South West +39 18 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Midlands +31 16 £65,000 - 3
North of England +27 14 £70,000 -12.50% 21
North West +6 11 £78,750 +117.24% 20
East Midlands +10 10 £67,500 +3.85% 1
South East +7 10 £70,000 +16.67% 47
West Midlands +30 9 £60,000 +4.35% 2
East of England -7 6 £62,500 -3.85% 10
Yorkshire - 2 £62,500 - 1
North East +2 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Python Engineer
UK

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 October 2025, Python Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 338 (100.00%) Python
2 273 (80.77%) Software Engineering
3 248 (73.37%) Agile
4 215 (63.61%) AWS
5 153 (45.27%) TypeScript
6 143 (42.31%) JavaScript
7 141 (41.72%) Apache Airflow
8 140 (41.42%) Apache Iceberg
9 137 (40.53%) dbt
10 136 (40.24%) Amazon Athena
11 134 (39.64%) Investment Management
12 133 (39.35%) NumPy
12 133 (39.35%) Pandas
13 132 (39.05%) Apache Arrow
13 132 (39.05%) Asset Management
13 132 (39.05%) Dremio
13 132 (39.05%) SciPy
14 119 (35.21%) Java
15 90 (26.63%) CI/CD
16 87 (25.74%) Fintech
17 84 (24.85%) Snowflake
18 83 (24.56%) GCP
19 82 (24.26%) Apache
20 79 (23.37%) React
21 77 (22.78%) PostgreSQL
22 75 (22.19%) Data Lake
22 75 (22.19%) gRPC
23 73 (21.60%) Apache Ignite
23 73 (21.60%) Protocol Buffers
24 67 (19.82%) AngularJS

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 141 (41.72%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (24.26%) Apache
3 14 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Appian
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 215 (63.61%) AWS
2 137 (40.53%) dbt
3 84 (24.85%) Snowflake
4 83 (24.56%) GCP
5 40 (11.83%) Azure
6 19 (5.62%) Serverless
7 18 (5.33%) GitHub
8 16 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.14%) SaaS
10 12 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.96%) Power Platform
12 8 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.37%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.07%) Amazon Bedrock
14 5 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.07%) Firewall
1 7 (2.07%) Multicast
2 6 (1.78%) Fibre Channel
2 6 (1.78%) LAN
2 6 (1.78%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.78%) WAN
3 4 (1.18%) DNS
3 4 (1.18%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (41.42%) Apache Iceberg
2 136 (40.24%) Amazon Athena
3 132 (39.05%) Apache Arrow
3 132 (39.05%) Dremio
4 77 (22.78%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (22.19%) Data Lake
6 73 (21.60%) Apache Ignite
7 29 (8.58%) NoSQL
8 19 (5.62%) MongoDB
9 17 (5.03%) Big Data
10 14 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (3.85%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.66%) Power BI
13 8 (2.37%) KDB
14 6 (1.78%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.48%) Spark SQL
16 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.18%) RDBMS
16 4 (1.18%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (7.40%) Git
2 13 (3.85%) JIRA
3 11 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.66%) Selenium
5 7 (2.07%) Locust
6 5 (1.48%) GitLab
7 4 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.18%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.18%) YouTrack
8 2 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 249 (73.67%) Finance
2 157 (46.45%) Front Office
3 140 (41.42%) Banking
4 92 (27.22%) Law
5 91 (26.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (25.15%) Investment Banking
7 32 (9.47%) Marketing
8 31 (9.17%) Social Skills
9 27 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.78%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.48%) Electronics
12 5 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.48%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.18%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.18%) Retail
14 3 (0.89%) Automotive
14 3 (0.89%) Legal
15 2 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (39.35%) NumPy
1 133 (39.35%) Pandas
2 132 (39.05%) SciPy
3 79 (23.37%) React
4 75 (22.19%) gRPC
5 73 (21.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 67 (19.82%) AngularJS
6 67 (19.82%) Vue
7 63 (18.64%) Node.js
8 26 (7.69%) FastAPI
9 25 (7.40%) Kafka
10 21 (6.21%) REST
11 18 (5.33%) Django
12 17 (5.03%) pytest
13 16 (4.73%) Flask
14 14 (4.14%) RESTful
15 12 (3.55%) PySpark
16 8 (2.37%) HTML
16 8 (2.37%) Playwright
17 7 (2.07%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 144 (42.60%) Equities
2 140 (41.42%) Fixed Income
3 132 (39.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 88 (26.04%) Derivative
5 76 (22.49%) Hedge funds
6 73 (21.60%) Pricing Data
7 45 (13.31%) Cloud Native
8 26 (7.69%) Algorithms
9 18 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (4.14%) Client/Server
10 14 (4.14%) Mobile App
10 14 (4.14%) Public Cloud
11 8 (2.37%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (2.07%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.48%) Legacy Code
14 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.18%) Product Ownership
15 3 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
16 1 (0.30%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.18%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (80.77%) Software Engineering
2 248 (73.37%) Agile
3 134 (39.64%) Investment Management
4 132 (39.05%) Asset Management
5 90 (26.63%) CI/CD
6 87 (25.74%) Fintech
7 64 (18.93%) AI
8 61 (18.05%) SDLC
9 59 (17.46%) Order Management
9 59 (17.46%) Performance Attribution
9 59 (17.46%) Risk Management
10 57 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (16.57%) Machine Learning
12 53 (15.68%) Computer Science
12 53 (15.68%) Operational Stability
13 51 (15.09%) Community of Practice
14 48 (14.20%) DevOps
15 44 (13.02%) Containerisation
16 35 (10.36%) Data Engineering
17 34 (10.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 338 (100.00%) Python
2 153 (45.27%) TypeScript
3 143 (42.31%) JavaScript
4 119 (35.21%) Java
5 66 (19.53%) SQL
6 18 (5.33%) Go
7 12 (3.55%) C++
8 10 (2.96%) C#
9 7 (2.07%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.18%) Bash
11 3 (0.89%) C
11 3 (0.89%) Julia
11 3 (0.89%) PHP
11 3 (0.89%) VBA
12 2 (0.59%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (10.65%) Degree
2 26 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.14%) AWS Certification
4 13 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.07%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.14%) QA
2 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.89%) GDPR
3 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (11.54%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) NFS
2 6 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.78%) vSphere
3 5 (1.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (18.34%) Kubernetes
2 43 (12.72%) Terraform
3 17 (5.03%) Ansible
4 9 (2.66%) Grafana
4 9 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.78%) Mesos
6 4 (1.18%) Puppet
6 4 (1.18%) Salt
7 2 (0.59%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.30%) Argo
8 1 (0.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (7.40%) Databricks
2 13 (3.85%) Google
3 8 (2.37%) Oracle
4 6 (1.78%) Cisco
4 6 (1.78%) Commvault
4 6 (1.78%) Pure Storage
4 6 (1.78%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.78%) SAP
4 6 (1.78%) VMware
5 5 (1.48%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.18%) Splunk
6 4 (1.18%) Vertica
7 3 (0.89%) Palantir
8 2 (0.59%) Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.30%) OpenAI