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 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 266 342
Rank change year-on-year -59 +76 +112
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 370 705 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.86% 1.03% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 1.08% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 266 621 453
10th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £148,750 £160,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.56% +14.71%

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 39,014 65,405 51,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 95.19% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,405 39,738 39,633
10th Percentile £28,300 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -23 309 £110,000 - 36
South West +64 16 £62,500 +4.17% 5
Midlands +38 14 £65,000 - 6
North of England +35 12 £66,250 -17.19% 10
East Midlands +30 9 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North West +21 8 £70,000 +55.56% 8
South East +14 8 £70,000 +27.27% 24
East of England -5 8 £62,500 -3.85% 2
West Midlands +39 7 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire +16 3 £60,000 +33.33%
North East +11 1 £30,000 -67.57% 2
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 370 (100.00%) Python
2 300 (81.08%) Software Engineering
3 274 (74.05%) Finance
4 273 (73.78%) Agile
5 244 (65.95%) AWS
6 190 (51.35%) Front Office
7 179 (48.38%) TypeScript
8 175 (47.30%) Equities
9 173 (46.76%) JavaScript
10 170 (45.95%) Apache Iceberg
10 170 (45.95%) Fixed Income
11 169 (45.68%) Apache Airflow
12 167 (45.14%) dbt
13 166 (44.86%) Amazon Athena
14 163 (44.05%) Asset Management
14 163 (44.05%) Pandas
14 163 (44.05%) NumPy
14 163 (44.05%) Investment Management
15 162 (43.78%) SciPy
15 162 (43.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 162 (43.78%) Dremio
15 162 (43.78%) Apache Arrow
16 159 (42.97%) Banking
17 136 (36.76%) Java
18 105 (28.38%) Derivative
19 102 (27.57%) Investment Banking
20 99 (26.76%) Snowflake
21 98 (26.49%) Apache
22 96 (25.95%) GCP
23 95 (25.68%) Fintech

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
1 169 (45.68%) Apache Airflow
2 98 (26.49%) Apache
3 16 (4.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Appian
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 244 (65.95%) AWS
2 167 (45.14%) dbt
3 99 (26.76%) Snowflake
4 96 (25.95%) GCP
5 40 (10.81%) Azure
6 19 (5.14%) Serverless
7 18 (4.86%) SaaS
8 17 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.32%) GitHub
10 13 (3.51%) Amazon S3
11 11 (2.97%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.70%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.89%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.89%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.16%) Multicast
2 7 (1.89%) Firewall
3 6 (1.62%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (1.62%) LAN
3 6 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.62%) WAN
4 4 (1.08%) DNS
4 4 (1.08%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (45.95%) Apache Iceberg
2 166 (44.86%) Amazon Athena
3 162 (43.78%) Apache Arrow
3 162 (43.78%) Dremio
4 92 (24.86%) Data Lake
5 89 (24.05%) Apache Ignite
6 88 (23.78%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (8.11%) NoSQL
8 17 (4.59%) Big Data
9 16 (4.32%) MongoDB
10 13 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (3.51%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.16%) KDB
11 8 (2.16%) Power BI
12 7 (1.89%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.35%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.08%) Kdb+
14 4 (1.08%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (6.22%) Git
2 14 (3.78%) JIRA
3 11 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.43%) GitLab
5 8 (2.16%) Selenium
5 8 (2.16%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (1.89%) Locust
7 4 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.08%) Spinnaker
7 4 (1.08%) YouTrack
8 2 (0.54%) MLflow
General
1 274 (74.05%) Finance
2 190 (51.35%) Front Office
3 159 (42.97%) Banking
4 102 (27.57%) Investment Banking
5 93 (25.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (25.14%) Law
6 31 (8.38%) Marketing
7 27 (7.30%) Social Skills
8 26 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.62%) Agriculture
9 6 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.62%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.35%) Electronics
10 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.81%) Automotive
12 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.81%) Legal
12 3 (0.81%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (44.05%) NumPy
1 163 (44.05%) Pandas
2 162 (43.78%) SciPy
3 91 (24.59%) gRPC
3 91 (24.59%) React
4 89 (24.05%) Protocol Buffers
5 79 (21.35%) AngularJS
5 79 (21.35%) Vue
6 77 (20.81%) Node.js
7 29 (7.84%) Kafka
8 25 (6.76%) REST
9 23 (6.22%) FastAPI
10 19 (5.14%) pytest
11 18 (4.86%) Flask
12 14 (3.78%) Django
13 13 (3.51%) PySpark
13 13 (3.51%) RESTful
14 9 (2.43%) Playwright
15 8 (2.16%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 8 (2.16%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 175 (47.30%) Equities
2 170 (45.95%) Fixed Income
3 162 (43.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 105 (28.38%) Derivative
5 90 (24.32%) Hedge funds
6 89 (24.05%) Pricing Data
7 46 (12.43%) Cloud Native
8 28 (7.57%) Algorithms
9 20 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (4.32%) Public Cloud
11 14 (3.78%) Client/Server
11 14 (3.78%) Mobile App
12 11 (2.97%) Data Structures
13 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (2.16%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.35%) Legacy Code
16 4 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (1.08%) Product Ownership
17 3 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.59%) Linux
2 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.08%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (81.08%) Software Engineering
2 273 (73.78%) Agile
3 163 (44.05%) Asset Management
3 163 (44.05%) Investment Management
4 95 (25.68%) Fintech
5 85 (22.97%) CI/CD
6 75 (20.27%) Risk Management
7 73 (19.73%) Order Management
7 73 (19.73%) Performance Attribution
8 62 (16.76%) SDLC
9 61 (16.49%) Artificial Intelligence
10 59 (15.95%) Machine Learning
10 59 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (14.32%) Operational Stability
12 51 (13.78%) Community of Practice
12 51 (13.78%) DevOps
13 48 (12.97%) Computer Science
14 46 (12.43%) Containerisation
15 35 (9.46%) Microservices
16 33 (8.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 370 (100.00%) Python
2 179 (48.38%) TypeScript
3 173 (46.76%) JavaScript
4 136 (36.76%) Java
5 66 (17.84%) SQL
6 18 (4.86%) Go
7 11 (2.97%) C++
8 8 (2.16%) C#
9 7 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.35%) Bash
11 2 (0.54%) C
11 2 (0.54%) Julia
11 2 (0.54%) PHP
11 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.54%) Rust
11 2 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (8.11%) Degree
2 17 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.78%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.24%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.62%) Master's Degree
5 6 (1.62%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.35%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.35%) PhD
7 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.59%) QA
2 3 (0.81%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 41 (11.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.62%) NFS
2 6 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.62%) vSphere
3 5 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 48 (12.97%) Terraform
3 22 (5.95%) Ansible
4 9 (2.43%) Grafana
4 9 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.62%) Mesos
6 4 (1.08%) Puppet
6 4 (1.08%) Salt
7 2 (0.54%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (7.30%) Databricks
2 14 (3.78%) Google
3 8 (2.16%) Oracle
4 6 (1.62%) Cisco
4 6 (1.62%) Commvault
4 6 (1.62%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.62%) Pure Storage
4 6 (1.62%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.62%) SAP
4 6 (1.62%) VMware
5 4 (1.08%) Splunk
5 4 (1.08%) Vertica
6 3 (0.81%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.54%) Palantir
8 1 (0.27%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.27%) Foundry