Python Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Python Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 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 496 354 556
Rank change year-on-year -142 +202 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 51 500 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.71% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.75% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 37 142 96
10th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £51,500 £43,050 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,250 £85,000 £92,500
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 33,203 66,688 54,976
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.26% 94.80% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18,542 47,236 31,200
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the UK excluding London

Python Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
South East +88 29 £62,500 +38.89% 35
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
Northern Ireland +35 1 £85,000 +12.58% 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 the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (31.37%) Law
4 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
5 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
5 14 (27.45%) TypeScript
5 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
6 13 (25.49%) Django
7 12 (23.53%) SQL
7 12 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 11 (21.57%) Data Science
8 11 (21.57%) Data Engineering
8 11 (21.57%) Kafka
9 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
9 10 (19.61%) ETL
9 10 (19.61%) DevOps
10 9 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (17.65%) Data Governance
10 9 (17.65%) Open Source
11 8 (15.69%) jQuery
11 8 (15.69%) Data Quality
11 8 (15.69%) OOP
11 8 (15.69%) OO
11 8 (15.69%) HTML
11 8 (15.69%) CSS
11 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
11 8 (15.69%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (15.69%) Accessibility

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (13.73%) Apache
1 7 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (13.73%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (13.73%) Azure
2 7 (13.73%) OpenShift
3 5 (9.80%) Serverless
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (3.92%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (3.92%) GCP
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Internet
2 1 (1.96%) Broadband
2 1 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) DWDM
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) LAN
2 1 (1.96%) Network Security
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
2 9 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (13.73%) Apache Hudi
3 7 (13.73%) Apache Iceberg
3 7 (13.73%) Delta Lake
3 7 (13.73%) Hadoop
4 6 (11.76%) MySQL
5 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.96%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Bitbucket
2 6 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 5 (9.80%) GitLab
4 3 (5.88%) Git
5 1 (1.96%) Appium
5 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.96%) Postman
5 1 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (1.96%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (31.37%) Law
2 7 (13.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.84%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Health Technology
4 3 (5.88%) Military
5 2 (3.92%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.96%) Aeronautics
6 1 (1.96%) Automotive
6 1 (1.96%) Aviation
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Front Office
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) Django
2 11 (21.57%) Kafka
3 8 (15.69%) CSS
3 8 (15.69%) HTML
3 8 (15.69%) jQuery
4 7 (13.73%) PyArrow
4 7 (13.73%) PySpark
5 4 (7.84%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.84%) Node.js
5 4 (7.84%) React
6 3 (5.88%) NumPy
6 3 (5.88%) Pandas
7 2 (3.92%) Flask
7 2 (3.92%) REST
8 1 (1.96%) .NET
8 1 (1.96%) pytest
8 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.96%) RESTful
8 1 (1.96%) SOAP
8 1 (1.96%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.92%) IoT
2 2 (3.92%) NHS
2 2 (3.92%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (3.92%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.96%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.96%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
1 7 (13.73%) Unix
2 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 14 (27.45%) Software Engineering
3 12 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 11 (21.57%) Data Engineering
4 11 (21.57%) Data Science
5 10 (19.61%) DevOps
5 10 (19.61%) ETL
6 9 (17.65%) Data Governance
6 9 (17.65%) Open Source
7 8 (15.69%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
7 8 (15.69%) OO
7 8 (15.69%) OOP
7 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.73%) Data Architecture
8 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (11.76%) Microservices
10 5 (9.80%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 14 (27.45%) TypeScript
4 12 (23.53%) SQL
5 5 (9.80%) Java
6 4 (7.84%) C++
6 4 (7.84%) Rust
7 3 (5.88%) C
8 2 (3.92%) Bash
8 2 (3.92%) Go
8 2 (3.92%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) C#
9 1 (1.96%) Julia
9 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) CCNA
4 1 (1.96%) CCNP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) JNCIA
4 1 (1.96%) JNCIS
4 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Accessibility
1 8 (15.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) HDFS
2 4 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.69%) Terraform
3 6 (11.76%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.96%) Arista
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks