Python Engineer Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Python Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Python Engineer salary in Northern Ireland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 41 51
Rank change year-on-year -65 +10 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 14 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.83% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.35% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £78,791 - -
25th Percentile - £80,000 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 1,561 288 491
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 90.28% 97.23%
Number of salaries quoted 374 140 255
10th Percentile £32,597 £30,000 £31,550
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.34% -0.91% -8.33%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Northern Ireland.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in Northern Ireland

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in Northern Ireland

Python Engineer
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
County Antrim - 14 £80,000 - 14
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 2026, 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) AI
6 1 (7.14%) Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) Big Data
6 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Clean Code
6 1 (7.14%) Coaching
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
6 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
6 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (7.14%) dbt
6 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Generative AI
6 1 (7.14%) Google
6 1 (7.14%) Incident Response

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 6 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Agile
3 1 (7.14%) AI
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Coaching
3 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
3 1 (7.14%) Data Transformation
3 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Google
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) OutSystems
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat