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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 258 324
Rank change year-on-year -65 +66 +116
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 331 638 431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 1.05% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.11% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 216 565 402
10th Percentile £61,250 £55,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £81,875 £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 £147,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £94,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -1.05% +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 40,271 57,548 45,584
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 94.92% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,710 32,582 35,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 8 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 8 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 -33 261 £118,750 +13.10% 232
South West +32 20 £70,000 +16.67% 7
North of England +24 18 £87,500 +9.38% 48
Midlands +48 15 £62,500 -3.85% 4
North West +31 15 £88,750 +144.83% 39
South East +14 10 £55,000 -8.33% 174
West Midlands +31 9 £60,000 +20.00% 1
East Midlands +20 9 £66,250 +1.92% 3
East of England +18 5 £55,000 -15.38% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £62,500 - 9
North East +4 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 8 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.

1 331 (100.00%) Python
2 263 (79.46%) Software Engineering
3 232 (70.09%) Agile
4 204 (61.63%) AWS
5 138 (41.69%) TypeScript
6 129 (38.97%) JavaScript
7 128 (38.67%) Apache Airflow
8 126 (38.07%) Apache Iceberg
9 122 (36.86%) Amazon Athena
9 122 (36.86%) dbt
9 122 (36.86%) Investment Management
10 120 (36.25%) NumPy
10 120 (36.25%) Pandas
11 118 (35.65%) Apache Arrow
11 118 (35.65%) Asset Management
11 118 (35.65%) Dremio
11 118 (35.65%) SciPy
12 113 (34.14%) Java
13 93 (28.10%) CI/CD
14 85 (25.68%) Fintech
15 76 (22.96%) GCP
16 75 (22.66%) Snowflake
17 74 (22.36%) Apache
17 74 (22.36%) React
18 73 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
19 69 (20.85%) SQL
20 67 (20.24%) Data Lake
20 67 (20.24%) gRPC
21 65 (19.64%) AI
21 65 (19.64%) 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
1 128 (38.67%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (22.36%) Apache
3 14 (4.23%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Appian
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 204 (61.63%) AWS
2 122 (36.86%) dbt
3 76 (22.96%) GCP
4 75 (22.66%) Snowflake
5 38 (11.48%) Azure
6 21 (6.34%) GitHub
7 19 (5.74%) Serverless
8 16 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.63%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.32%) SaaS
12 9 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (2.42%) Power Platform
14 7 (2.11%) Amazon Bedrock
14 7 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (1.51%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.42%) Multicast
2 7 (2.11%) Firewall
3 6 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (1.81%) LAN
3 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.81%) WAN
4 4 (1.21%) DNS
4 4 (1.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (38.07%) Apache Iceberg
2 122 (36.86%) Amazon Athena
3 118 (35.65%) Apache Arrow
3 118 (35.65%) Dremio
4 73 (22.05%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (20.24%) Data Lake
6 65 (19.64%) Apache Ignite
7 31 (9.37%) NoSQL
8 18 (5.44%) Big Data
8 18 (5.44%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.23%) Relational Database
10 13 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.42%) KDB
11 8 (2.42%) Power BI
12 6 (1.81%) DynamoDB
13 5 (1.51%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.21%) Kdb+
14 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
14 4 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (7.55%) Git
2 14 (4.23%) JIRA
3 11 (3.32%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.72%) Selenium
5 7 (2.11%) Locust
6 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.21%) GitLab
6 4 (1.21%) Spinnaker
6 4 (1.21%) YouTrack
7 3 (0.91%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.60%) MLflow
General
1 240 (72.51%) Finance
2 145 (43.81%) Front Office
3 135 (40.79%) Banking
4 90 (27.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (27.19%) Law
5 77 (23.26%) Investment Banking
6 32 (9.67%) Marketing
6 32 (9.67%) Social Skills
7 27 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.11%) Legal
8 7 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.81%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.51%) Electronics
10 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.21%) Agriculture
11 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.21%) Retail
12 3 (0.91%) Automotive
13 2 (0.60%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (36.25%) NumPy
1 120 (36.25%) Pandas
2 118 (35.65%) SciPy
3 74 (22.36%) React
4 67 (20.24%) gRPC
5 65 (19.64%) Protocol Buffers
6 62 (18.73%) Vue
7 60 (18.13%) AngularJS
8 57 (17.22%) Node.js
9 25 (7.55%) FastAPI
9 25 (7.55%) Kafka
10 19 (5.74%) Django
10 19 (5.74%) REST
11 17 (5.14%) pytest
12 14 (4.23%) Flask
12 14 (4.23%) RESTful
13 11 (3.32%) PySpark
14 8 (2.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 8 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (2.42%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 131 (39.58%) Equities
2 129 (38.97%) Fixed Income
3 118 (35.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 81 (24.47%) Derivative
5 69 (20.85%) Hedge funds
6 65 (19.64%) Pricing Data
7 44 (13.29%) Cloud Native
8 28 (8.46%) Algorithms
9 18 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (4.53%) Client/Server
11 14 (4.23%) Mobile App
11 14 (4.23%) Public Cloud
12 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
13 7 (2.11%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (1.21%) Legacy Code
16 3 (0.91%) Product Ownership
17 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.14%) Linux
2 6 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.21%) Unix
4 2 (0.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (79.46%) Software Engineering
2 232 (70.09%) Agile
3 122 (36.86%) Investment Management
4 118 (35.65%) Asset Management
5 93 (28.10%) CI/CD
6 85 (25.68%) Fintech
7 65 (19.64%) AI
8 62 (18.73%) SDLC
9 55 (16.62%) Computer Science
9 55 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (16.31%) Machine Learning
10 54 (16.31%) Risk Management
11 53 (16.01%) Operational Stability
11 53 (16.01%) Order Management
11 53 (16.01%) Performance Attribution
12 51 (15.41%) Community of Practice
13 48 (14.50%) DevOps
14 42 (12.69%) Containerisation
15 35 (10.57%) Test Automation
16 34 (10.27%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 331 (100.00%) Python
2 138 (41.69%) TypeScript
3 129 (38.97%) JavaScript
4 113 (34.14%) Java
5 69 (20.85%) SQL
6 18 (5.44%) Go
7 14 (4.23%) C++
8 10 (3.02%) C#
9 6 (1.81%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.21%) Bash
11 3 (0.91%) C
11 3 (0.91%) Julia
11 3 (0.91%) PHP
11 3 (0.91%) VBA
12 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (11.18%) Degree
2 28 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 12 (3.63%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.21%) PhD
9 1 (0.30%) CISA
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.53%) QA
2 3 (0.91%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (11.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.81%) NFS
2 6 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.81%) vSphere
3 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 61 (18.43%) Kubernetes
2 39 (11.78%) Terraform
3 16 (4.83%) Ansible
4 9 (2.72%) Grafana
4 9 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.81%) Mesos
6 4 (1.21%) Puppet
6 4 (1.21%) Salt
7 3 (0.91%) Argo
8 2 (0.60%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (6.95%) Databricks
2 11 (3.32%) Google
3 8 (2.42%) Oracle
4 6 (1.81%) Cisco
4 6 (1.81%) Commvault
4 6 (1.81%) Pure Storage
4 6 (1.81%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.81%) SAP
4 6 (1.81%) VMware
5 5 (1.51%) Microsoft
6 4 (1.21%) Splunk
6 4 (1.21%) Vertica
7 3 (0.91%) Palantir
8 2 (0.60%) Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics