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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 260 325
Rank change year-on-year -82 +65 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 284 639 389
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 1.09% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.16% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 206 571 362
10th Percentile £59,375 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +2.70% +12.12%
75th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £128,750
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £149,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £91,250 £90,000
% change year-on-year +15.07% +1.39% +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 42,617 55,189 43,365
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 94.12% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27,464 30,846 33,811
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £43,746
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,855 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.60% -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 30 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 30 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 -77 216 £115,000 +9.52% 26
South West +36 20 £78,750 +31.25% 4
Midlands +42 16 £65,000 - 12
North of England +51 14 £87,500 +9.38% 4
North West +60 12 £88,750 +153.57% 2
East Midlands +27 11 £68,750 +5.77% 3
South East +18 11 £58,750 -6.00% 15
West Midlands +44 8 £60,000 +41.18% 9
East of England +28 5 £55,000 -31.25% 1
North East -1 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 284 (100.00%) Python
2 212 (74.65%) Software Engineering
3 170 (59.86%) Agile
4 165 (58.10%) AWS
5 111 (39.08%) TypeScript
6 107 (37.68%) Apache Airflow
7 104 (36.62%) Investment Management
8 103 (36.27%) JavaScript
9 101 (35.56%) Apache Iceberg
10 99 (34.86%) Amazon Athena
10 99 (34.86%) dbt
11 98 (34.51%) NumPy
11 98 (34.51%) Pandas
12 97 (34.15%) Apache Arrow
12 97 (34.15%) Asset Management
12 97 (34.15%) Dremio
12 97 (34.15%) SciPy
13 79 (27.82%) Java
14 67 (23.59%) GCP
15 66 (23.24%) Fintech
16 65 (22.89%) CI/CD
17 63 (22.18%) React
18 60 (21.13%) Snowflake
19 59 (20.77%) Apache
20 58 (20.42%) PostgreSQL
21 56 (19.72%) SQL
22 55 (19.37%) gRPC
23 54 (19.01%) Data Lake
24 53 (18.66%) Apache Ignite
24 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
1 107 (37.68%) 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
1 165 (58.10%) AWS
2 99 (34.86%) dbt
3 67 (23.59%) GCP
4 60 (21.13%) Snowflake
5 38 (13.38%) Azure
6 22 (7.75%) GitHub
7 12 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (4.23%) SaaS
8 11 (3.87%) Serverless
9 8 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (2.11%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (1.76%) Amazon SageMaker
13 4 (1.41%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (1.41%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.17%) Multicast
1 9 (3.17%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.46%) Firewall
3 6 (2.11%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (2.11%) LAN
3 6 (2.11%) WAN
4 5 (1.76%) DNS
5 3 (1.06%) HTTP
5 3 (1.06%) SMTP
6 2 (0.70%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (35.56%) Apache Iceberg
2 99 (34.86%) Amazon Athena
3 97 (34.15%) Apache Arrow
3 97 (34.15%) Dremio
4 58 (20.42%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (19.01%) Data Lake
6 53 (18.66%) Apache Ignite
7 20 (7.04%) NoSQL
8 12 (4.23%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.87%) Big Data
10 10 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.82%) Relational Database
12 6 (2.11%) Flink
12 6 (2.11%) Power BI
13 4 (1.41%) DynamoDB
13 4 (1.41%) KDB
14 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.06%) SQL Server
14 3 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (10.56%) Git
2 13 (4.58%) JIRA
3 7 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.11%) Selenium
5 4 (1.41%) Locust
6 3 (1.06%) GitLab
7 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.70%) MLflow
7 2 (0.70%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.70%) YouTrack
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 179 (63.03%) Finance
2 117 (41.20%) Front Office
3 95 (33.45%) Banking
4 59 (20.77%) Investment Banking
5 43 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (15.14%) Law
6 28 (9.86%) Social Skills
7 19 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (4.93%) Marketing
9 8 (2.82%) Legal
10 5 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Retail
12 3 (1.06%) Automotive
12 3 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.70%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.70%) Back Office
13 2 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.70%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.35%) Games
14 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (34.51%) NumPy
1 98 (34.51%) Pandas
2 97 (34.15%) SciPy
3 63 (22.18%) React
4 55 (19.37%) gRPC
5 53 (18.66%) Protocol Buffers
6 51 (17.96%) Vue
7 50 (17.61%) AngularJS
8 47 (16.55%) Node.js
9 23 (8.10%) FastAPI
10 19 (6.69%) Django
11 17 (5.99%) Kafka
12 14 (4.93%) REST
13 13 (4.58%) pytest
14 12 (4.23%) Flask
15 9 (3.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 9 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
15 9 (3.17%) PySpark
16 8 (2.82%) RESTful
17 7 (2.46%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (39.44%) Fixed Income
2 109 (38.38%) Equities
3 97 (34.15%) 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%) Mobile App
14 3 (1.06%) GNSS
14 3 (1.06%) Satnav
14 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.45%) Linux
2 7 (2.46%) Windows
3 6 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.41%) Unix
5 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (74.65%) Software Engineering
2 170 (59.86%) Agile
3 104 (36.62%) Investment Management
4 97 (34.15%) Asset Management
5 66 (23.24%) Fintech
6 65 (22.89%) CI/CD
7 51 (17.96%) AI
8 47 (16.55%) Risk Management
9 46 (16.20%) Computer Science
10 44 (15.49%) Order Management
10 44 (15.49%) Performance Attribution
11 41 (14.44%) DevOps
12 36 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (12.32%) Machine Learning
14 33 (11.62%) SDLC
15 31 (10.92%) Containerisation
16 25 (8.80%) Data Engineering
17 24 (8.45%) ETL
18 23 (8.10%) Community of Practice
18 23 (8.10%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 284 (100.00%) Python
2 111 (39.08%) TypeScript
3 103 (36.27%) JavaScript
4 79 (27.82%) Java
5 56 (19.72%) SQL
6 19 (6.69%) 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 36 (12.68%) 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 45 (15.85%) 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 15 (5.28%) 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