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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 256 350
Rank change year-on-year -74 +94 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 304 645 406
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.05% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.11% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 202 574 377
10th Percentile £60,125 £55,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £135,000 £120,938 £130,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +18.75%

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 41,870 58,044 44,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 94.37% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27,008 32,905 34,377
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,955 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,828 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -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 23 November 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 November 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 -65 235 £125,000 +19.05% 28
South West +35 20 £78,750 +31.25% 6
North of England +44 18 £88,750 +10.94% 5
North West +65 16 £90,000 +157.14% 4
Midlands +49 15 £62,500 -3.85% 4
East Midlands +31 10 £67,500 +3.85% 2
South East +21 10 £55,000 -12.00% 14
West Midlands +47 8 £60,000 +29.73% 2
East of England +24 4 £55,000 -24.14% 3
North East +6 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 November 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.

1 304 (100.00%) Python
2 237 (77.96%) Software Engineering
3 197 (64.80%) Agile
4 183 (60.20%) AWS
5 123 (40.46%) TypeScript
6 115 (37.83%) JavaScript
7 114 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
8 110 (36.18%) Apache Iceberg
8 110 (36.18%) Investment Management
9 107 (35.20%) Amazon Athena
9 107 (35.20%) dbt
10 105 (34.54%) NumPy
10 105 (34.54%) Pandas
11 104 (34.21%) Apache Arrow
11 104 (34.21%) Asset Management
11 104 (34.21%) Dremio
11 104 (34.21%) SciPy
12 97 (31.91%) Java
13 78 (25.66%) CI/CD
14 74 (24.34%) Fintech
15 71 (23.36%) GCP
16 67 (22.04%) PostgreSQL
16 67 (22.04%) React
17 64 (21.05%) Apache
17 64 (21.05%) Snowflake
18 61 (20.07%) SQL
19 60 (19.74%) AI
20 59 (19.41%) gRPC
21 58 (19.08%) Data Lake
22 57 (18.75%) Apache Ignite

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
1 114 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 64 (21.05%) Apache
3 10 (3.29%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Appian
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 183 (60.20%) AWS
2 107 (35.20%) dbt
3 71 (23.36%) GCP
4 64 (21.05%) Snowflake
5 37 (12.17%) Azure
6 22 (7.24%) GitHub
7 18 (5.92%) Serverless
8 14 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (3.95%) SaaS
10 9 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (2.30%) Amazon SageMaker
11 7 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.97%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
14 4 (1.32%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.96%) Multicast
2 8 (2.63%) TCP/IP
3 7 (2.30%) Firewall
4 6 (1.97%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (1.97%) LAN
4 6 (1.97%) WAN
5 5 (1.64%) DNS
6 3 (0.99%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.66%) HTTP
7 2 (0.66%) SMTP
8 1 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (36.18%) Apache Iceberg
2 107 (35.20%) Amazon Athena
3 104 (34.21%) Apache Arrow
3 104 (34.21%) Dremio
4 67 (22.04%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (19.08%) Data Lake
6 57 (18.75%) Apache Ignite
7 26 (8.55%) NoSQL
8 17 (5.59%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.61%) Big Data
10 11 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.97%) KDB
11 6 (1.97%) Power BI
12 5 (1.64%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.64%) Flink
13 4 (1.32%) Spark SQL
14 3 (0.99%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.99%) Kdb+
14 3 (0.99%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 27 (8.88%) Git
2 14 (4.61%) JIRA
3 10 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.63%) Selenium
5 6 (1.97%) Locust
6 3 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.99%) GitLab
6 3 (0.99%) Spinnaker
6 3 (0.99%) YouTrack
7 2 (0.66%) MLflow
7 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 213 (70.07%) Finance
2 128 (42.11%) Front Office
3 114 (37.50%) Banking
4 66 (21.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 66 (21.71%) Investment Banking
4 66 (21.71%) Law
5 31 (10.20%) Social Skills
6 26 (8.55%) Marketing
7 24 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.29%) Legal
9 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Electronics
10 5 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.64%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.32%) Retail
12 3 (0.99%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.99%) Automotive
13 2 (0.66%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (34.54%) NumPy
1 105 (34.54%) Pandas
2 104 (34.21%) SciPy
3 67 (22.04%) React
4 59 (19.41%) gRPC
5 57 (18.75%) Protocol Buffers
6 55 (18.09%) Vue
7 53 (17.43%) AngularJS
7 53 (17.43%) Node.js
8 26 (8.55%) FastAPI
9 20 (6.58%) Kafka
10 19 (6.25%) Django
11 16 (5.26%) REST
12 15 (4.93%) pytest
13 13 (4.28%) Flask
14 11 (3.62%) RESTful
15 9 (2.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 9 (2.96%) FIX Protocol
16 8 (2.63%) HTML
16 8 (2.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 118 (38.82%) Fixed Income
2 117 (38.49%) Equities
3 104 (34.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 72 (23.68%) Derivative
5 64 (21.05%) Hedge funds
6 57 (18.75%) Pricing Data
7 33 (10.86%) Cloud Native
8 25 (8.22%) Algorithms
9 15 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (3.95%) Management Information System
11 11 (3.62%) Client/Server
11 11 (3.62%) Public Cloud
12 9 (2.96%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.97%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
15 3 (0.99%) Legacy Code
16 2 (0.66%) GNSS
16 2 (0.66%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.24%) Linux
2 6 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (1.97%) Windows
3 5 (1.64%) Unix
4 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (77.96%) Software Engineering
2 197 (64.80%) Agile
3 110 (36.18%) Investment Management
4 104 (34.21%) Asset Management
5 78 (25.66%) CI/CD
6 74 (24.34%) Fintech
7 60 (19.74%) AI
8 52 (17.11%) Computer Science
9 50 (16.45%) Risk Management
10 48 (15.79%) SDLC
11 47 (15.46%) Order Management
11 47 (15.46%) Performance Attribution
12 46 (15.13%) Machine Learning
12 46 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (14.14%) DevOps
14 39 (12.83%) Containerisation
15 38 (12.50%) Operational Stability
16 37 (12.17%) Community of Practice
17 30 (9.87%) Test Automation
18 28 (9.21%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 304 (100.00%) Python
2 123 (40.46%) TypeScript
3 115 (37.83%) JavaScript
4 97 (31.91%) Java
5 61 (20.07%) SQL
6 17 (5.59%) C++
7 13 (4.28%) Go
8 9 (2.96%) C#
9 6 (1.97%) Bash
10 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.32%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.99%) C
11 3 (0.99%) Julia
11 3 (0.99%) PHP
11 3 (0.99%) VBA
12 2 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (12.50%) Degree
2 28 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.62%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.29%) AWS Certification
5 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.97%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.64%) CISSP
6 5 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.32%) PhD
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.99%) CISA
8 3 (0.99%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (0.66%) CCSK
10 1 (0.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.93%) QA
2 3 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.99%) NIST
3 2 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 37 (12.17%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) NFS
2 6 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.97%) vSphere
3 4 (1.32%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (17.76%) Kubernetes
2 34 (11.18%) Terraform
3 14 (4.61%) Ansible
4 8 (2.63%) Grafana
4 8 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.64%) Argo
6 4 (1.32%) Mesos
7 3 (0.99%) Puppet
7 3 (0.99%) Salt
8 2 (0.66%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (5.59%) Databricks
2 12 (3.95%) Google
3 7 (2.30%) Oracle
4 6 (1.97%) Cisco
4 6 (1.97%) Commvault
4 6 (1.97%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.97%) Pure Storage
4 6 (1.97%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.97%) SAP
4 6 (1.97%) VMware
5 3 (0.99%) Palantir
5 3 (0.99%) Splunk
5 3 (0.99%) Vertica
6 2 (0.66%) Foundry
7 1 (0.33%) AppDynamics