Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 252 335
Rank change year-on-year -109 +83 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 264 635 386
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.12% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.19% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 202 568 358
10th Percentile £58,875 £57,125 £52,125
25th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £147,500 £146,500
UK median annual salary £105,000 £92,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +13.51% - +15.63%

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 43,785 53,252 42,527
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.38% 93.91% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 28,019 29,611 33,199
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,703 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,836 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.90% -3.61% -

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -92 198 £110,000 +4.76% 39
Midlands +38 18 £67,500 +3.85% 11
South West +24 17 £78,750 +18.87% 5
North of England +43 13 £87,500 +9.38% 7
East Midlands +12 13 £70,000 +7.69% 3
North West +54 11 £87,500 +150.00% 3
South East +12 11 £58,750 -6.00% 19
West Midlands +24 8 £60,000 +41.18% 8
East of England +22 5 £55,000 -24.14% 3
North East -1 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 December 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.

1 264 (100.00%) Python
2 190 (71.97%) Software Engineering
3 150 (56.82%) AWS
4 148 (56.06%) Agile
5 102 (38.64%) TypeScript
6 101 (38.26%) Apache Airflow
7 97 (36.74%) Investment Management
8 95 (35.98%) JavaScript
9 92 (34.85%) Apache Iceberg
10 91 (34.47%) Amazon Athena
10 91 (34.47%) dbt
10 91 (34.47%) NumPy
10 91 (34.47%) Pandas
11 90 (34.09%) Apache Arrow
11 90 (34.09%) Asset Management
11 90 (34.09%) Dremio
11 90 (34.09%) SciPy
12 66 (25.00%) Java
13 65 (24.62%) Fintech
14 64 (24.24%) GCP
15 56 (21.21%) React
15 56 (21.21%) Snowflake
16 54 (20.45%) Apache
16 54 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
17 53 (20.08%) CI/CD
18 52 (19.70%) SQL
19 51 (19.32%) Data Lake
19 51 (19.32%) gRPC
20 49 (18.56%) Apache Ignite
20 49 (18.56%) 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
1 101 (38.26%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (20.45%) Apache
3 6 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Appian
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 150 (56.82%) AWS
2 91 (34.47%) dbt
3 64 (24.24%) GCP
4 56 (21.21%) Snowflake
5 41 (15.53%) Azure
6 22 (8.33%) GitHub
7 16 (6.06%) SaaS
8 9 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.03%) Serverless
10 6 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.89%) Power Platform
11 5 (1.89%) Prefect
12 4 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.52%) Dagster
12 4 (1.52%) IaaS
12 4 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.79%) Multicast
1 10 (3.79%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.65%) Firewall
3 6 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (2.27%) LAN
3 6 (2.27%) WAN
4 5 (1.89%) DNS
5 4 (1.52%) HTTP
5 4 (1.52%) SMTP
6 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (34.85%) Apache Iceberg
2 91 (34.47%) Amazon Athena
3 90 (34.09%) Apache Arrow
3 90 (34.09%) Dremio
4 54 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
5 51 (19.32%) Data Lake
6 49 (18.56%) Apache Ignite
7 17 (6.44%) NoSQL
8 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.03%) Big Data
11 6 (2.27%) Flink
12 5 (1.89%) Power BI
12 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.52%) Tableau
14 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.14%) DynamoDB
14 3 (1.14%) Parquet
14 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (11.74%) Git
2 13 (4.92%) JIRA
3 4 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.52%) Selenium
4 3 (1.14%) GitLab
5 2 (0.76%) Locust
5 2 (0.76%) MLflow
6 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.38%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.38%) YouTrack
General
1 156 (59.09%) Finance
2 105 (39.77%) Front Office
3 80 (30.30%) Banking
4 52 (19.70%) Investment Banking
5 25 (9.47%) Social Skills
6 23 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (8.71%) Law
7 15 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.03%) Legal
9 7 (2.65%) Marketing
10 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.52%) Retail
11 3 (1.14%) Automotive
11 3 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.76%) Back Office
12 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.38%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.38%) Games
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (34.47%) NumPy
1 91 (34.47%) Pandas
2 90 (34.09%) SciPy
3 56 (21.21%) React
4 51 (19.32%) gRPC
5 49 (18.56%) Protocol Buffers
6 47 (17.80%) Vue
7 46 (17.42%) AngularJS
8 44 (16.67%) Node.js
9 23 (8.71%) FastAPI
10 18 (6.82%) Django
11 15 (5.68%) Kafka
12 13 (4.92%) REST
13 12 (4.55%) PySpark
13 12 (4.55%) pytest
14 11 (4.17%) Flask
15 10 (3.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 10 (3.79%) FIX Protocol
16 7 (2.65%) RESTful
17 6 (2.27%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (40.15%) Fixed Income
2 102 (38.64%) Equities
3 90 (34.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 61 (23.11%) Derivative
5 58 (21.97%) Hedge funds
6 49 (18.56%) Pricing Data
7 18 (6.82%) Algorithms
8 14 (5.30%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.30%) Management Information System
9 10 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (1.52%) GNSS
12 4 (1.52%) Satnav
12 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.14%) Legacy Code
13 3 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.23%) Linux
2 9 (3.41%) Windows
3 6 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (71.97%) Software Engineering
2 148 (56.06%) Agile
3 97 (36.74%) Investment Management
4 90 (34.09%) Asset Management
5 65 (24.62%) Fintech
6 53 (20.08%) CI/CD
7 45 (17.05%) Risk Management
8 42 (15.91%) AI
8 42 (15.91%) Computer Science
9 41 (15.53%) Order Management
9 41 (15.53%) Performance Attribution
10 37 (14.02%) DevOps
11 29 (10.98%) Containerisation
12 26 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (9.47%) Machine Learning
14 24 (9.09%) Data Engineering
15 23 (8.71%) ETL
16 22 (8.33%) SDLC
17 20 (7.58%) Data Science
17 20 (7.58%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 264 (100.00%) Python
2 102 (38.64%) TypeScript
3 95 (35.98%) JavaScript
4 66 (25.00%) Java
5 52 (19.70%) SQL
6 21 (7.95%) C++
7 9 (3.41%) C#
8 7 (2.65%) Bash
9 6 (2.27%) Go
10 5 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.14%) C
11 3 (1.14%) Julia
11 3 (1.14%) PHP
11 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.14%) VBA
12 2 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 35 (13.26%) Degree
2 26 (9.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.65%) CISSP
4 5 (1.89%) Master's Degree
4 5 (1.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.89%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.52%) CISA
5 4 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (1.52%) PhD
6 3 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.14%) CCSK
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.68%) QA
2 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.52%) NIST
3 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 30 (11.36%) Docker
2 6 (2.27%) NFS
2 6 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.27%) vSphere
3 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (14.39%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.23%) Terraform
3 11 (4.17%) Ansible
4 6 (2.27%) Argo
5 5 (1.89%) Grafana
5 5 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.76%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.38%) Control-M
7 1 (0.38%) Mesos
7 1 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (4.55%) Databricks
1 12 (4.55%) Google
2 7 (2.65%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.27%) Cisco
3 6 (2.27%) Commvault
3 6 (2.27%) Pure Storage
3 6 (2.27%) Red Hat
3 6 (2.27%) VMware
4 2 (0.76%) Foundry
4 2 (0.76%) Palantir
5 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle
5 1 (0.38%) SAP
5 1 (0.38%) Splunk
5 1 (0.38%) Vertica