Python Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Python Engineer
England > East of England

The median Python Engineer salary in the East of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 167 162
Rank change year-on-year +16 -5 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 57 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.69% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 47 7 12
10th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +6.12% -20.97%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £94,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East 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 East of England with a recognized job title 7,674 3,091 4,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 92.43% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5,443 1,720 2,264
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

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

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the East of England

Python Engineer
Job Locations in the East 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cambridgeshire +9 40 £80,000 +39.13% 22
Hertfordshire -13 15 £72,500 +3.57% 3
Suffolk +12 2 £60,000 -11.11% 2
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 East of England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Python
2 44 (77.19%) Software Engineering
3 30 (52.63%) AI
4 25 (43.86%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (24.56%) AWS
6 13 (22.81%) Azure
7 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (19.30%) Rust
9 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 8 (14.04%) C++
10 8 (14.04%) Customer Experience
10 8 (14.04%) GCP
10 8 (14.04%) Mentoring
11 7 (12.28%) Docker
11 7 (12.28%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.28%) FastAPI
12 6 (10.53%) CI/CD
12 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
12 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
12 6 (10.53%) RESTful
13 5 (8.77%) Acceptance Criteria
13 5 (8.77%) API Design
13 5 (8.77%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (8.77%) Clean Code
13 5 (8.77%) Continuous Delivery
13 5 (8.77%) Critical Thinking
13 5 (8.77%) Degree
13 5 (8.77%) Kafka
13 5 (8.77%) MQTT

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) Azure
3 8 (14.04%) GCP
4 5 (8.77%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) MQTT
2 2 (3.51%) BGP
2 2 (3.51%) DHCP
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) OSPF
2 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.51%) VLAN
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) GitLab
1 2 (3.51%) Robot Framework
1 2 (3.51%) Selenium
2 1 (1.75%) MLflow
General
1 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (5.26%) Tech for Good
2 2 (3.51%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Automotive
3 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) FastAPI
2 6 (10.53%) RESTful
3 5 (8.77%) Kafka
3 5 (8.77%) OpenAPI
3 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (8.77%) Swagger
4 3 (5.26%) Django
4 3 (5.26%) Flask
5 2 (3.51%) REST
6 1 (1.75%) pytest
6 1 (1.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 4 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.51%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.75%) IoT
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
1 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) Software Engineering
2 30 (52.63%) AI
3 25 (43.86%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 8 (14.04%) Customer Experience
6 8 (14.04%) Mentoring
7 7 (12.28%) Event-Driven
8 6 (10.53%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
8 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (8.77%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (8.77%) Clean Code
9 5 (8.77%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (8.77%) Critical Thinking
9 5 (8.77%) Prototyping
9 5 (8.77%) Rapid Prototyping
9 5 (8.77%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
9 5 (8.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) Rust
3 8 (14.04%) C++
4 5 (8.77%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) QA
1 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (1.75%) Databricks
1 1 (1.75%) Google