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 £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 296 262
Rank change year-on-year +38 -34 +137
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 18 13 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.11% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.11% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14 13 20
10th Percentile £57,500 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £63,438 £57,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £103,375 £112,000 -
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 8,562 11,690 7,513
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.20% 94.89% 96.87%
Number of salaries quoted 5,021 6,137 5,688
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,289
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,760 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 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
North West +36 15 £88,750 +144.83% 39
Yorkshire - 2 £62,500 - 9
North East -2 1 £30,000 -62.50%
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, 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 18 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (83.33%) AWS
3 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 8 (44.44%) MongoDB
4 8 (44.44%) SQL
5 7 (38.89%) FastAPI
5 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (33.33%) Docker
6 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (27.78%) Django
7 5 (27.78%) GCP
7 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
7 5 (27.78%) TDD
8 4 (22.22%) AI
8 4 (22.22%) Asynchronous Programming
8 4 (22.22%) Azure
8 4 (22.22%) B2B
8 4 (22.22%) B2C
8 4 (22.22%) Celery
8 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
8 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (22.22%) Data Science
8 4 (22.22%) Degree
8 4 (22.22%) Flask
8 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (22.22%) React

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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) Serverless
5 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.56%) Dagster
6 1 (5.56%) Datadog
6 1 (5.56%) Prefect
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
General
1 6 (33.33%) Legal
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) FastAPI
2 5 (27.78%) Django
3 4 (22.22%) Celery
3 4 (22.22%) Flask
3 4 (22.22%) React
3 4 (22.22%) RESTful
3 4 (22.22%) Vue
4 3 (16.67%) AWS CDK
5 2 (11.11%) Node.js
5 2 (11.11%) Spring
5 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Code
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (27.78%) TDD
4 4 (22.22%) AI
4 4 (22.22%) Asynchronous Programming
4 4 (22.22%) B2B
4 4 (22.22%) B2C
4 4 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Data Science
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (11.11%) Fintech
6 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) Databricks