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 10 July 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 378 549
Rank change year-on-year -115 +171 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 104 451 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.59% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.63% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 40 160 87
10th Percentile £39,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,375 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -12.59% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £85,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £110,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% +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 38,423 72,091 46,265
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.94% 94.91% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 20,825 49,972 29,296
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,474 £35,436 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,144 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,125
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 10 July 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 10 July 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
Scotland -51 38 £100,000 +48.15% 2
South West +90 16 £62,500 +2.04% 1
South East +28 16 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Midlands +67 12 £65,000 - 5
North of England +18 12 £70,000 +40.00% 16
East of England +15 9 £57,500 -23.33% 3
East Midlands +41 8 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North West +5 6 £100,000 +100.00% 9
Yorkshire +45 5 £62,500 +38.89% 5
West Midlands +50 4 £35,000 -51.72% 1
Northern Ireland +41 1 £90,000 +19.21% 1
North East +36 1 £30,000 -53.13% 2
Python Engineer
UK

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 July 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.

1 104 (100.00%) Python
2 66 (63.46%) Software Engineering
3 59 (56.73%) Law
4 58 (55.77%) AWS
5 53 (50.96%) Agile
5 53 (50.96%) Finance
6 48 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 43 (41.35%) Operational Stability
8 41 (39.42%) Artificial Intelligence
9 37 (35.58%) Machine Learning
9 37 (35.58%) CI/CD
10 36 (34.62%) SDLC
11 32 (30.77%) Marketing
12 27 (25.96%) SQL
13 24 (23.08%) Kubernetes
13 24 (23.08%) Community of Practice
14 23 (22.12%) Java
15 22 (21.15%) Banking
16 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (19.23%) Kafka
18 19 (18.27%) Data Engineering
19 18 (17.31%) Algorithms
19 18 (17.31%) Apache
20 17 (16.35%) Visualisation
20 17 (16.35%) Big Data
20 17 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
21 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
21 16 (15.38%) Databricks
22 15 (14.42%) Django
22 15 (14.42%) ETL

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 18 (17.31%) Apache
2 15 (14.42%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 4 (3.85%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.96%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.77%) AWS
2 15 (14.42%) Azure
3 11 (10.58%) Amazon S3
3 11 (10.58%) Serverless
4 10 (9.62%) Snowflake
5 9 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (8.65%) GCP
6 8 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.81%) SaaS
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.88%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.92%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (1.92%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (1.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (1.92%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.92%) Datadog
10 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (0.96%) DNS
1 1 (0.96%) DWDM
1 1 (0.96%) Firewall
1 1 (0.96%) Internet
1 1 (0.96%) LAN
1 1 (0.96%) Network Security
1 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.96%) VPN
1 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.35%) Big Data
2 12 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (10.58%) Apache Iceberg
4 9 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (8.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.73%) Apache Hudi
7 6 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (4.81%) DynamoDB
8 5 (4.81%) MySQL
8 5 (4.81%) Parquet
9 4 (3.85%) Apache Hive
9 4 (3.85%) Impala
9 4 (3.85%) KDB
9 4 (3.85%) Kdb+
9 4 (3.85%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 7 (6.73%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.81%) JUnit
3 5 (4.81%) Selenium
4 4 (3.85%) Locust
5 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.96%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.96%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 59 (56.73%) Law
2 53 (50.96%) Finance
3 48 (46.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (30.77%) Marketing
5 22 (21.15%) Banking
6 9 (8.65%) Social Skills
7 8 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.85%) Front Office
9 4 (3.85%) Publishing
10 3 (2.88%) Health Technology
10 3 (2.88%) Legal
10 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.92%) Electronics
11 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.23%) Kafka
2 15 (14.42%) Django
3 11 (10.58%) PySpark
4 9 (8.65%) Pandas
5 7 (6.73%) FastAPI
6 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.77%) React
6 6 (5.77%) Spring
7 5 (4.81%) CSS
7 5 (4.81%) Flask
7 5 (4.81%) HTML
7 5 (4.81%) NumPy
8 4 (3.85%) jQuery
8 4 (3.85%) Node.js
8 4 (3.85%) Playwright
8 4 (3.85%) pytest
9 3 (2.88%) Anaconda
9 3 (2.88%) RESTful
10 2 (1.92%) REST
10 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.31%) Algorithms
2 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.69%) Derivative
4 6 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.88%) Legacy Code
6 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.88%) Replication
7 2 (1.92%) IoT
7 2 (1.92%) NHS
8 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.96%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Unix
2 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (63.46%) Software Engineering
2 53 (50.96%) Agile
3 43 (41.35%) Operational Stability
4 41 (39.42%) Artificial Intelligence
5 37 (35.58%) CI/CD
5 37 (35.58%) Machine Learning
6 36 (34.62%) SDLC
7 24 (23.08%) Community of Practice
8 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (18.27%) Data Engineering
10 17 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (16.35%) Visualisation
11 15 (14.42%) Decision-Making
11 15 (14.42%) ETL
12 12 (11.54%) Analytics
12 12 (11.54%) Test Automation
13 11 (10.58%) DevOps
13 11 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (9.62%) Containerisation
14 10 (9.62%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Python
2 27 (25.96%) SQL
3 23 (22.12%) Java
4 15 (14.42%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.88%) Perl
7 2 (1.92%) Go
8 1 (0.96%) Bash
8 1 (0.96%) C
8 1 (0.96%) C#
8 1 (0.96%) C++
8 1 (0.96%) PHP
8 1 (0.96%) Rust
8 1 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) Degree
4 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.96%) CCNA
6 1 (0.96%) CCNP
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.96%) JNCIA
6 1 (0.96%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.85%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (13.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.50%) Terraform
3 7 (6.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Databricks
2 10 (9.62%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) SAP
4 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.96%) Arista
6 1 (0.96%) Cisco
6 1 (0.96%) Google