Python Engineer Jobs 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 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 393 404
Rank change year-on-year +62 +11 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 390 546 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.64% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.68% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 358 492 552
10th Percentile £64,625 £45,075 £48,775
25th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £125,000 £117,500 £140,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £160,000
UK median annual salary £108,750 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +24.29% -2.78% +5.88%

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 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 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 2 May 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 +59 338 £110,000 +10.00% 98
South East +88 29 £62,500 +38.89% 37
East of England +44 9 £55,000 -26.67% 13
North of England +63 6 £70,000 +40.00% 30
Midlands +54 6 £38,750 -46.55% 4
Yorkshire +67 4 £63,750 +34.21% 7
East Midlands +50 3 £65,000 -25.71% 3
West Midlands +43 3 £35,000 -51.72% 1
North East +45 1 - - 1
North West +1 1 £82,500 +65.00% 22
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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.

1 390 (100.00%) Python
2 288 (73.85%) AWS
3 280 (71.79%) Software Engineering
4 276 (70.77%) Agile
5 257 (65.90%) Finance
6 241 (61.79%) Front Office
7 230 (58.97%) Asset Management
8 219 (56.15%) Apache Airflow
9 212 (54.36%) Apache Iceberg
10 210 (53.85%) dbt
11 209 (53.59%) Dremio
12 205 (52.56%) Amazon Athena
13 182 (46.67%) Apache Arrow
14 168 (43.08%) Java
15 161 (41.28%) Apache
16 158 (40.51%) Kubernetes
17 149 (38.21%) Docker
17 149 (38.21%) Terraform
17 149 (38.21%) CI/CD
18 146 (37.44%) DevOps
19 138 (35.38%) Apache Ignite
20 135 (34.62%) JavaScript
20 135 (34.62%) Fixed Income
21 131 (33.59%) PySpark
22 129 (33.08%) Banking
23 123 (31.54%) Pandas
24 121 (31.03%) NumPy
25 118 (30.26%) SciPy
26 113 (28.97%) Data Engineering
27 112 (28.72%) Serverless

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
1 219 (56.15%) Apache Airflow
2 161 (41.28%) Apache
3 82 (21.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 288 (73.85%) AWS
2 210 (53.85%) dbt
3 112 (28.72%) Serverless
4 110 (28.21%) AWS Lambda
5 106 (27.18%) Amazon ECS
6 104 (26.67%) GCP
7 78 (20.00%) OpenShift
8 65 (16.67%) Snowflake
9 58 (14.87%) Azure
10 38 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (8.72%) Dagster
12 33 (8.46%) Amazon S3
13 28 (7.18%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (4.10%) SaaS
15 11 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (2.05%) Power Platform
17 4 (1.03%) AWS Step Functions
17 4 (1.03%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.54%) Multicast
2 4 (1.03%) HTTP
3 2 (0.51%) Firewall
3 2 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) Broadband
4 1 (0.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.26%) DNS
4 1 (0.26%) DWDM
4 1 (0.26%) LAN
4 1 (0.26%) Network Security
4 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (54.36%) Apache Iceberg
2 209 (53.59%) Dremio
3 205 (52.56%) Amazon Athena
4 182 (46.67%) Apache Arrow
5 138 (35.38%) Apache Ignite
6 60 (15.38%) Data Lake
7 32 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (4.10%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.31%) Hadoop
10 9 (2.31%) MySQL
11 7 (1.79%) Apache Hudi
11 7 (1.79%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.54%) Power BI
13 5 (1.28%) Big Data
13 5 (1.28%) Relational Database
13 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
14 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 71 (18.21%) Artifactory
2 23 (5.90%) GitLab
3 16 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 13 (3.33%) Git
5 13 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.54%) JIRA
7 6 (1.54%) Postman
7 6 (1.54%) Selenium
8 5 (1.28%) Appium
9 4 (1.03%) JUnit
9 4 (1.03%) TestNG
10 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.51%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 257 (65.90%) Finance
2 241 (61.79%) Front Office
3 129 (33.08%) Banking
4 65 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 33 (8.46%) Social Skills
6 16 (4.10%) Law
7 8 (2.05%) Health Technology
8 7 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (1.28%) Tech for Good
10 4 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.03%) Publishing
11 3 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.77%) Military
12 2 (0.51%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.51%) Back Office
12 2 (0.51%) Legal
12 2 (0.51%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (33.59%) PySpark
2 123 (31.54%) Pandas
3 121 (31.03%) NumPy
4 118 (30.26%) SciPy
5 98 (25.13%) Kafka
6 71 (18.21%) J2EE
7 67 (17.18%) gRPC
7 67 (17.18%) Protocol Buffers
8 58 (14.87%) React
9 55 (14.10%) AngularJS
10 53 (13.59%) Node.js
11 50 (12.82%) Vue
12 32 (8.21%) REST
13 20 (5.13%) Redux
14 18 (4.62%) Flask
14 18 (4.62%) pytest
15 17 (4.36%) FastAPI
16 15 (3.85%) CSS
16 15 (3.85%) HTML
17 14 (3.59%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 135 (34.62%) Fixed Income
2 109 (27.95%) Equities
3 85 (21.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (17.69%) Derivative
5 66 (16.92%) Hedge funds
6 36 (9.23%) Pricing Data
7 19 (4.87%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.82%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.28%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.28%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.77%) NHS
12 3 (0.77%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.51%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.51%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.85%) Linux
2 8 (2.05%) Unix
3 4 (1.03%) Android
4 2 (0.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (71.79%) Software Engineering
2 276 (70.77%) Agile
3 230 (58.97%) Asset Management
4 149 (38.21%) CI/CD
5 146 (37.44%) DevOps
6 113 (28.97%) Data Engineering
7 110 (28.21%) Investment Management
8 96 (24.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 83 (21.28%) Fintech
10 80 (20.51%) Open Source
11 48 (12.31%) Performance Attribution
12 41 (10.51%) Analytics
12 41 (10.51%) Containerisation
13 34 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
14 31 (7.95%) Risk Management
15 30 (7.69%) Machine Learning
16 29 (7.44%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (7.18%) Order Management
18 25 (6.41%) Platform Engineering
19 24 (6.15%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 390 (100.00%) Python
2 168 (43.08%) Java
3 135 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 112 (28.72%) TypeScript
5 75 (19.23%) Go
6 61 (15.64%) SQL
7 10 (2.56%) C++
8 7 (1.79%) C#
9 4 (1.03%) Bash
9 4 (1.03%) Rust
10 3 (0.77%) C
10 3 (0.77%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.51%) PHP
11 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.51%) Scala
11 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.26%) Julia
Qualifications
1 33 (8.46%) Degree
2 6 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.51%) PhD
4 2 (0.51%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.26%) CCNA
5 1 (0.26%) CCNP
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.26%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.26%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.64%) QA
2 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.26%) FINRA
4 1 (0.26%) GDPR
4 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 149 (38.21%) Docker
2 7 (1.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 158 (40.51%) Kubernetes
2 149 (38.21%) Terraform
3 24 (6.15%) Ansible
4 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (4.10%) Google
2 14 (3.59%) Databricks
3 7 (1.79%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.26%) Arista
6 1 (0.26%) Cisco