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 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 268 341
Rank change year-on-year -76 +73 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 284 627 383
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.10% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 1.17% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 205 561 355
10th Percentile £59,250 £57,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £127,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £148,000
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 43,054 53,467 42,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.03% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27,832 29,735 33,295
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,175 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 3 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 3 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 -80 214 £110,000 +4.76% 47
South West +31 21 £78,750 +18.87% 4
Midlands +46 17 £66,250 +1.92% 15
North of England +32 14 £87,500 +9.38% 10
North West +54 12 £88,750 +153.57% 6
East Midlands +21 12 £70,000 +7.69% 5
South East +20 11 £58,750 -6.00% 18
West Midlands +35 8 £60,000 +41.18% 10
East of England +34 5 £55,000 -31.25% 1
North East +3 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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.

1 284 (100.00%) Python
2 211 (74.30%) Software Engineering
3 167 (58.80%) Agile
4 162 (57.04%) AWS
5 108 (38.03%) TypeScript
6 105 (36.97%) Apache Airflow
7 101 (35.56%) Investment Management
8 100 (35.21%) JavaScript
9 98 (34.51%) Apache Iceberg
10 96 (33.80%) Amazon Athena
10 96 (33.80%) dbt
11 95 (33.45%) NumPy
11 95 (33.45%) Pandas
12 94 (33.10%) Apache Arrow
12 94 (33.10%) Asset Management
12 94 (33.10%) Dremio
12 94 (33.10%) SciPy
13 79 (27.82%) Java
14 66 (23.24%) Fintech
15 65 (22.89%) CI/CD
16 64 (22.54%) GCP
17 60 (21.13%) React
17 60 (21.13%) Snowflake
18 59 (20.77%) Apache
19 57 (20.07%) SQL
20 55 (19.37%) Data Lake
20 55 (19.37%) gRPC
20 55 (19.37%) PostgreSQL
21 53 (18.66%) Apache Ignite
21 53 (18.66%) Protocol Buffers

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
1 105 (36.97%) Apache Airflow
2 59 (20.77%) Apache
3 8 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 162 (57.04%) AWS
2 96 (33.80%) dbt
3 64 (22.54%) GCP
4 60 (21.13%) Snowflake
5 40 (14.08%) Azure
6 22 (7.75%) GitHub
7 14 (4.93%) SaaS
8 11 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.52%) Serverless
10 8 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.11%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.76%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.76%) Prefect
14 4 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (1.41%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.52%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.17%) Multicast
3 7 (2.46%) Firewall
4 6 (2.11%) DNS
4 6 (2.11%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (2.11%) LAN
4 6 (2.11%) WAN
5 4 (1.41%) HTTP
5 4 (1.41%) SMTP
6 2 (0.70%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (34.51%) Apache Iceberg
2 96 (33.80%) Amazon Athena
3 94 (33.10%) Apache Arrow
3 94 (33.10%) Dremio
4 55 (19.37%) Data Lake
4 55 (19.37%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (18.66%) Apache Ignite
6 20 (7.04%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.23%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.87%) Big Data
9 10 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (2.82%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.11%) Flink
11 6 (2.11%) Power BI
12 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.41%) KDB
13 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (10.92%) Git
2 13 (4.58%) JIRA
3 6 (2.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.76%) Selenium
5 3 (1.06%) GitLab
5 3 (1.06%) Locust
6 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.70%) MLflow
6 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
6 2 (0.70%) YouTrack
7 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 176 (61.97%) Finance
2 114 (40.14%) Front Office
3 96 (33.80%) Banking
4 59 (20.77%) Investment Banking
5 43 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (14.79%) Law
7 28 (9.86%) Social Skills
8 19 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (4.58%) Marketing
10 8 (2.82%) Legal
11 5 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.41%) Retail
13 3 (1.06%) Automotive
13 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.70%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.70%) Back Office
14 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.35%) Games
15 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (33.45%) NumPy
1 95 (33.45%) Pandas
2 94 (33.10%) SciPy
3 60 (21.13%) React
4 55 (19.37%) gRPC
5 53 (18.66%) Protocol Buffers
6 48 (16.90%) Vue
7 47 (16.55%) AngularJS
8 44 (15.49%) Node.js
9 23 (8.10%) FastAPI
10 19 (6.69%) Django
11 17 (5.99%) Kafka
12 14 (4.93%) REST
13 12 (4.23%) Flask
13 12 (4.23%) pytest
14 11 (3.87%) PySpark
15 9 (3.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 9 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (2.82%) RESTful
17 7 (2.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (38.38%) Fixed Income
2 106 (37.32%) Equities
3 94 (33.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 66 (23.24%) Derivative
5 60 (21.13%) Hedge funds
6 53 (18.66%) Pricing Data
7 21 (7.39%) Algorithms
8 20 (7.04%) Cloud Native
9 13 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (4.23%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.82%) Public Cloud
12 6 (2.11%) Client/Server
12 6 (2.11%) Data Structures
12 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.41%) GNSS
13 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.41%) Satnav
13 4 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (8.80%) Linux
2 8 (2.82%) Windows
3 6 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.41%) Unix
5 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (74.30%) Software Engineering
2 167 (58.80%) Agile
3 101 (35.56%) Investment Management
4 94 (33.10%) Asset Management
5 66 (23.24%) Fintech
6 65 (22.89%) CI/CD
7 50 (17.61%) AI
8 47 (16.55%) Computer Science
9 44 (15.49%) Risk Management
10 41 (14.44%) DevOps
10 41 (14.44%) Order Management
10 41 (14.44%) Performance Attribution
11 36 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (11.97%) Machine Learning
13 33 (11.62%) SDLC
14 31 (10.92%) Containerisation
15 26 (9.15%) Data Engineering
16 25 (8.80%) ETL
17 23 (8.10%) Community of Practice
17 23 (8.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 284 (100.00%) Python
2 108 (38.03%) TypeScript
3 100 (35.21%) JavaScript
4 79 (27.82%) Java
5 57 (20.07%) SQL
6 20 (7.04%) C++
7 10 (3.52%) C#
8 8 (2.82%) Go
9 6 (2.11%) Bash
10 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.06%) C
11 3 (1.06%) Julia
11 3 (1.06%) PHP
11 3 (1.06%) VBA
12 2 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (13.38%) Degree
2 27 (9.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.11%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.76%) CISSP
4 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.76%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.76%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.41%) PhD
6 3 (1.06%) CISA
6 3 (1.06%) CompTIA CySA+
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.70%) CCSK
8 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.93%) QA
2 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.06%) NIST
3 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 32 (11.27%) Docker
2 6 (2.11%) NFS
2 6 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.11%) vSphere
3 3 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.56%) Terraform
3 12 (4.23%) Ansible
4 6 (2.11%) Argo
4 6 (2.11%) Grafana
4 6 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.70%) Mesos
5 2 (0.70%) Puppet
5 2 (0.70%) Salt
6 1 (0.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (4.93%) Databricks
2 11 (3.87%) Google
3 6 (2.11%) Cisco
3 6 (2.11%) Commvault
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.11%) Pure Storage
3 6 (2.11%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.11%) VMware
4 2 (0.70%) Foundry
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle
4 2 (0.70%) Palantir
4 2 (0.70%) Splunk
4 2 (0.70%) Vertica
5 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.35%) SAP