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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 262 332
Rank change year-on-year -64 +70 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 330 641 430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 1.06% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.12% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 208 572 401
10th Percentile £60,875 £56,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £81,875 £75,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £97,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £135,000 £122,500 £130,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £150,000
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +12.15%

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 41,430 57,448 45,365
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.60% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 26,408 32,349 35,124
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,785 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,719 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -49 260 £122,500 +16.67% 125
South West +37 22 £77,500 +29.17% 4
North of England +49 18 £88,750 +10.94% 34
North West +60 16 £90,000 +148.28% 28
Midlands +45 14 £60,000 -7.69% 4
South East +2 10 £55,000 -13.73% 10
East Midlands +25 9 £66,250 +1.92% 2
West Midlands +46 8 £60,000 +20.00% 2
East of England +13 4 £55,000 -15.38% 3
North East +2 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 6
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 330 (100.00%) Python
2 260 (78.79%) Software Engineering
3 225 (68.18%) Agile
4 198 (60.00%) AWS
5 132 (40.00%) TypeScript
6 123 (37.27%) JavaScript
7 122 (36.97%) Apache Airflow
8 119 (36.06%) Apache Iceberg
9 116 (35.15%) Investment Management
10 115 (34.85%) Amazon Athena
10 115 (34.85%) dbt
11 112 (33.94%) NumPy
11 112 (33.94%) Pandas
12 111 (33.64%) Apache Arrow
12 111 (33.64%) Asset Management
12 111 (33.64%) Dremio
12 111 (33.64%) SciPy
13 110 (33.33%) Java
14 94 (28.48%) CI/CD
15 83 (25.15%) Fintech
16 75 (22.73%) GCP
17 72 (21.82%) React
18 71 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
19 70 (21.21%) Apache
19 70 (21.21%) SQL
20 69 (20.91%) Snowflake
21 68 (20.61%) AI
22 63 (19.09%) gRPC
22 63 (19.09%) Kubernetes
22 63 (19.09%) SDLC

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
1 122 (36.97%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (21.21%) Apache
3 13 (3.94%) 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
1 198 (60.00%) AWS
2 115 (34.85%) dbt
3 75 (22.73%) GCP
4 69 (20.91%) Snowflake
5 39 (11.82%) Azure
6 23 (6.97%) GitHub
7 20 (6.06%) Serverless
8 16 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.64%) SaaS
11 11 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 8 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (2.42%) Amazon SageMaker
12 8 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.12%) Amazon Bedrock
13 7 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.12%) Power Platform
14 6 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
15 5 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.73%) Multicast
2 7 (2.12%) Firewall
2 7 (2.12%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (1.82%) LAN
3 6 (1.82%) WAN
4 5 (1.52%) DNS
5 4 (1.21%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.30%) HTTP
6 1 (0.30%) SMTP
6 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (36.06%) Apache Iceberg
2 115 (34.85%) Amazon Athena
3 111 (33.64%) Apache Arrow
3 111 (33.64%) Dremio
4 71 (21.52%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (18.79%) Data Lake
6 61 (18.48%) Apache Ignite
7 33 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 19 (5.76%) MongoDB
9 17 (5.15%) Big Data
10 14 (4.24%) Relational Database
11 13 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.42%) KDB
13 7 (2.12%) Power BI
14 6 (1.82%) DynamoDB
15 5 (1.52%) Spark SQL
16 4 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
16 4 (1.21%) Kdb+
16 4 (1.21%) RDBMS
16 4 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (8.18%) Git
2 15 (4.55%) JIRA
3 12 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.73%) Selenium
5 7 (2.12%) 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 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 240 (72.73%) Finance
2 139 (42.12%) Front Office
3 133 (40.30%) Banking
4 89 (26.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (26.97%) Law
5 73 (22.12%) Investment Banking
6 35 (10.61%) Social Skills
7 32 (9.70%) Marketing
8 29 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (3.03%) Legal
10 7 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Electronics
11 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.52%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.21%) Agriculture
12 4 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.21%) Retail
13 3 (0.91%) Automotive
14 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (33.94%) NumPy
1 112 (33.94%) Pandas
2 111 (33.64%) SciPy
3 72 (21.82%) React
4 63 (19.09%) gRPC
5 61 (18.48%) Protocol Buffers
6 59 (17.88%) Vue
7 57 (17.27%) AngularJS
8 54 (16.36%) Node.js
9 25 (7.58%) FastAPI
9 25 (7.58%) Kafka
10 20 (6.06%) Django
11 19 (5.76%) REST
12 17 (5.15%) pytest
13 15 (4.55%) Flask
14 14 (4.24%) RESTful
15 9 (2.73%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 9 (2.73%) FIX Protocol
15 9 (2.73%) HTML
15 9 (2.73%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 125 (37.88%) Equities
2 124 (37.58%) Fixed Income
3 111 (33.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 78 (23.64%) Derivative
5 67 (20.30%) Hedge funds
6 61 (18.48%) Pricing Data
7 43 (13.03%) Cloud Native
8 29 (8.79%) Algorithms
9 18 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (4.85%) Client/Server
11 14 (4.24%) Mobile App
11 14 (4.24%) Public Cloud
12 11 (3.33%) Management Information System
13 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (2.12%) Data Structures
15 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
16 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
16 4 (1.21%) Legacy Code
17 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
17 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.36%) Linux
2 6 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.52%) Unix
3 5 (1.52%) Windows
4 3 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (78.79%) Software Engineering
2 225 (68.18%) Agile
3 116 (35.15%) Investment Management
4 111 (33.64%) Asset Management
5 94 (28.48%) CI/CD
6 83 (25.15%) Fintech
7 68 (20.61%) AI
8 63 (19.09%) SDLC
9 58 (17.58%) Computer Science
10 56 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (16.67%) Machine Learning
12 53 (16.06%) Operational Stability
12 53 (16.06%) Risk Management
13 51 (15.45%) Community of Practice
14 50 (15.15%) Order Management
14 50 (15.15%) Performance Attribution
15 48 (14.55%) DevOps
16 43 (13.03%) Containerisation
17 36 (10.91%) Test Automation
18 32 (9.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 330 (100.00%) Python
2 132 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 123 (37.27%) JavaScript
4 110 (33.33%) Java
5 70 (21.21%) SQL
6 18 (5.45%) Go
7 16 (4.85%) C++
8 10 (3.03%) C#
9 5 (1.52%) Bash
9 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.91%) C
11 3 (0.91%) Julia
11 3 (0.91%) PHP
11 3 (0.91%) VBA
12 2 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (12.12%) Degree
2 29 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.24%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.82%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.21%) CISSP
7 4 (1.21%) PhD
8 3 (0.91%) CISA
8 3 (0.91%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.30%) CCSK
9 1 (0.30%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.55%) QA
2 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.91%) NIST
3 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (12.42%) Docker
2 6 (1.82%) NFS
2 6 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.82%) vSphere
3 5 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (19.09%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.42%) Terraform
3 16 (4.85%) Ansible
4 10 (3.03%) Grafana
4 10 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.82%) Mesos
6 4 (1.21%) Argo
6 4 (1.21%) Puppet
6 4 (1.21%) Salt
7 2 (0.61%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (6.06%) Databricks
2 13 (3.94%) Google
3 8 (2.42%) Oracle
4 6 (1.82%) Cisco
4 6 (1.82%) Commvault
4 6 (1.82%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.82%) Pure Storage
4 6 (1.82%) Red Hat
4 6 (1.82%) SAP
4 6 (1.82%) VMware
5 4 (1.21%) Splunk
5 4 (1.21%) Vertica
6 3 (0.91%) Palantir
7 2 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) AppDynamics