Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 260 340
Rank change year-on-year -104 +80 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 246 581 382
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 1.13% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 1.21% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 199 518 355
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,875 £51,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £94,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £135,000 £118,750 £122,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £145,000
UK median annual salary £105,000 £92,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +12.50%

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 46,413 48,190 41,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 93.64% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,005 26,207 32,361
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 -107 182 £110,000 +4.76% 40
Midlands +28 20 £67,500 +17.39% 21
East Midlands +12 14 £70,000 +7.69% 8
South West +22 13 £80,000 +28.00% 11
North of England +21 13 £87,500 +9.38% 23
North West +33 12 £88,750 +153.57% 11
South East +2 10 £58,750 -6.00% 23
West Midlands +17 9 £60,000 +29.73% 12
East of England +18 5 £55,000 - 13
North East -8 1 £30,000 -62.50% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 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.

1 246 (100.00%) Python
2 169 (68.70%) Software Engineering
3 132 (53.66%) AWS
4 124 (50.41%) Agile
5 91 (36.99%) Apache Airflow
5 91 (36.99%) TypeScript
6 87 (35.37%) Investment Management
7 84 (34.15%) JavaScript
8 82 (33.33%) NumPy
8 82 (33.33%) Pandas
9 80 (32.52%) Amazon Athena
9 80 (32.52%) Apache Arrow
9 80 (32.52%) Apache Iceberg
9 80 (32.52%) Asset Management
9 80 (32.52%) dbt
9 80 (32.52%) Dremio
9 80 (32.52%) SciPy
10 59 (23.98%) Fintech
10 59 (23.98%) GCP
11 54 (21.95%) Java
12 52 (21.14%) Snowflake
13 51 (20.73%) SQL
14 49 (19.92%) Apache
15 48 (19.51%) Data Lake
16 47 (19.11%) gRPC
16 47 (19.11%) React
17 45 (18.29%) Apache Ignite
17 45 (18.29%) PostgreSQL
17 45 (18.29%) Protocol Buffers
18 43 (17.48%) Azure

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 91 (36.99%) Apache Airflow
2 49 (19.92%) Apache
3 4 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 132 (53.66%) AWS
2 80 (32.52%) dbt
3 59 (23.98%) GCP
4 52 (21.14%) Snowflake
5 43 (17.48%) Azure
6 22 (8.94%) GitHub
7 19 (7.72%) SaaS
8 8 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.44%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.44%) Serverless
10 5 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.03%) IaaS
10 5 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.03%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.03%) Prefect
11 4 (1.63%) Dagster
11 4 (1.63%) PaaS
11 4 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.47%) Multicast
2 10 (4.07%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.85%) Firewall
4 6 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (2.44%) LAN
4 6 (2.44%) WAN
5 4 (1.63%) DNS
5 4 (1.63%) HTTP
5 4 (1.63%) SMTP
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (32.52%) Amazon Athena
1 80 (32.52%) Apache Arrow
1 80 (32.52%) Apache Iceberg
1 80 (32.52%) Dremio
2 48 (19.51%) Data Lake
3 45 (18.29%) Apache Ignite
3 45 (18.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.69%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.07%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.44%) Flink
8 5 (2.03%) Big Data
8 5 (2.03%) Power BI
8 5 (2.03%) Tableau
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.22%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.22%) Parquet
9 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (12.60%) Git
2 13 (5.28%) JIRA
3 2 (0.81%) GitLab
3 2 (0.81%) MLflow
4 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 133 (54.07%) Finance
2 91 (36.99%) Front Office
3 64 (26.02%) Banking
4 45 (18.29%) Investment Banking
5 22 (8.94%) Social Skills
6 10 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.66%) Legal
8 4 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.63%) Law
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Automotive
9 3 (1.22%) Back Office
9 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.81%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) iGaming
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (33.33%) NumPy
1 82 (33.33%) Pandas
2 80 (32.52%) SciPy
3 47 (19.11%) gRPC
3 47 (19.11%) React
4 45 (18.29%) Protocol Buffers
5 40 (16.26%) Vue
6 39 (15.85%) AngularJS
7 38 (15.45%) Node.js
8 22 (8.94%) FastAPI
9 16 (6.50%) Django
10 14 (5.69%) PySpark
11 13 (5.28%) Kafka
12 11 (4.47%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 11 (4.47%) FIX Protocol
12 11 (4.47%) pytest
13 10 (4.07%) Flask
13 10 (4.07%) REST
14 6 (2.44%) RESTful
15 5 (2.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (39.43%) Fixed Income
2 92 (37.40%) Equities
3 80 (32.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 58 (23.58%) Hedge funds
5 56 (22.76%) Derivative
6 45 (18.29%) Pricing Data
7 16 (6.50%) Management Information System
8 15 (6.10%) Algorithms
9 10 (4.07%) Cloud Native
10 8 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.44%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.63%) GNSS
12 4 (1.63%) Satnav
12 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.22%) Legacy Code
13 3 (1.22%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.79%) Linux
2 10 (4.07%) Windows
3 6 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.03%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (68.70%) Software Engineering
2 124 (50.41%) Agile
3 87 (35.37%) Investment Management
4 80 (32.52%) Asset Management
5 59 (23.98%) Fintech
6 41 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 41 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 38 (15.45%) Computer Science
8 37 (15.04%) AI
9 35 (14.23%) Order Management
9 35 (14.23%) Performance Attribution
10 34 (13.82%) DevOps
11 26 (10.57%) Containerisation
12 22 (8.94%) ETL
13 21 (8.54%) Analytics
13 21 (8.54%) Data Engineering
13 21 (8.54%) Low Latency
14 18 (7.32%) Data Science
15 16 (6.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 16 (6.50%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 246 (100.00%) Python
2 91 (36.99%) TypeScript
3 84 (34.15%) JavaScript
4 54 (21.95%) Java
5 51 (20.73%) SQL
6 23 (9.35%) C++
7 8 (3.25%) Bash
7 8 (3.25%) C#
8 6 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.63%) Go
10 3 (1.22%) C
10 3 (1.22%) Julia
10 3 (1.22%) PHP
10 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.22%) VBA
11 2 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (13.82%) Degree
2 26 (10.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.66%) CISSP
4 6 (2.44%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.03%) CISA
5 5 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (2.03%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.03%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.63%) CCSK
6 4 (1.63%) PhD
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.10%) QA
2 5 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.03%) NIST
3 4 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (10.98%) Docker
2 6 (2.44%) NFS
2 6 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (13.41%) Kubernetes
2 23 (9.35%) Terraform
3 9 (3.66%) Ansible
4 6 (2.44%) Argo
5 4 (1.63%) Grafana
5 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.81%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (5.28%) Google
2 11 (4.47%) Databricks
3 8 (3.25%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.44%) Cisco
4 6 (2.44%) Commvault
4 6 (2.44%) Pure Storage
4 6 (2.44%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.44%) VMware
5 2 (0.81%) Foundry
5 2 (0.81%) Palantir
6 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.41%) SAP