Python Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Python Engineer
England > North of England

The median Python Engineer salary in the North of England is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 253 298
Rank change year-on-year -5 +45 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 28 9 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.12% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.13% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 28 6 34
10th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £59,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +36.36% +29.41%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,188 £66,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £91,000
England median annual salary £96,250 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% +17.65% +3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 11,733 7,010 12,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 92.80% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,204 3,532 9,879
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,050 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of 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 the North of England.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the North of England

Python Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
North West +24 26 £92,500 +57.45% 5
North East -12 2 £100,000 +25.00% 1
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 February 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 North of England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (60.71%) AWS
3 16 (57.14%) DevOps
4 14 (50.00%) AI
5 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
6 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
7 10 (35.71%) Docker
7 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven
7 10 (35.71%) GCP
7 10 (35.71%) TDD
8 9 (32.14%) B2B
8 9 (32.14%) Django
9 8 (28.57%) FastAPI
9 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
9 8 (28.57%) MongoDB
9 8 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (28.57%) SQL
10 7 (25.00%) Azure
10 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
11 5 (17.86%) Asynchronous Programming
11 5 (17.86%) B2C
11 5 (17.86%) Celery
11 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
11 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
11 5 (17.86%) Data Science
11 5 (17.86%) Degree
11 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 5 (17.86%) Fintech

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) GCP
3 7 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) Dagster
6 2 (7.14%) Prefect
6 2 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) MongoDB
1 8 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) Django
2 8 (28.57%) FastAPI
3 5 (17.86%) Celery
3 5 (17.86%) Flask
3 5 (17.86%) React
3 5 (17.86%) RESTful
3 5 (17.86%) Vue
4 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) DevOps
2 14 (50.00%) AI
3 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
5 10 (35.71%) Event-Driven
5 10 (35.71%) TDD
6 9 (32.14%) B2B
7 5 (17.86%) Asynchronous Programming
7 5 (17.86%) B2C
7 5 (17.86%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
7 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.86%) Data Science
7 5 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (17.86%) Fintech
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) Agile
8 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (10.71%) Observability
8 3 (10.71%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes