Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 322 352
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 499 360 642
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.93% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.03% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 421 285 576
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 77,813 34,859 84,745
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 89.80% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 53,004 20,024 63,676
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in England

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in England

Python Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
London -29 287 £100,000 -9.09% 66
South East +52 88 £65,000 +4.00% 13
North of England +23 65 £90,000 +28.57% 12
North West +37 46 £86,250 +4.55% 9
Midlands -9 30 £65,000 +20.93% 4
West Midlands -12 29 £65,000 +85.71% 4
South West -54 15 £62,500 - 13
North East - 14 £100,000 - 1
East of England -17 11 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Yorkshire -48 5 £100,000 +60.00% 2
East Midlands -18 1 £100,000 +45.45%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 England region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 499 (100.00%) Python
2 268 (53.71%) Software Engineering
3 159 (31.86%) AI
4 151 (30.26%) AWS
5 83 (16.63%) C++
6 82 (16.43%) SQL
7 80 (16.03%) Agile
8 75 (15.03%) Degree
9 71 (14.23%) Azure
10 68 (13.63%) Fintech
11 63 (12.63%) CI/CD
11 63 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 59 (11.82%) Computer Science
13 57 (11.42%) Full-Stack Development
14 51 (10.22%) SaaS
15 50 (10.02%) Django
15 50 (10.02%) FastAPI
16 49 (9.82%) GCP
16 49 (9.82%) TypeScript
17 48 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
18 47 (9.42%) DevOps
19 46 (9.22%) Infrastructure as Code
20 45 (9.02%) Machine Learning
21 43 (8.62%) Terraform
22 40 (8.02%) Kubernetes
22 40 (8.02%) QA
23 38 (7.62%) Git
24 35 (7.01%) Data Pipeline
24 35 (7.01%) Docker
25 34 (6.81%) Linux

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
1 21 (4.21%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.81%) Apache
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 151 (30.26%) AWS
2 71 (14.23%) Azure
3 51 (10.22%) SaaS
4 49 (9.82%) GCP
5 21 (4.21%) Amazon S3
6 20 (4.01%) GitHub
7 18 (3.61%) Snowflake
8 17 (3.41%) Serverless
9 13 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.20%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.80%) IaaS
12 9 (1.80%) PaaS
13 8 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.40%) Azure Stack
15 6 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
16 5 (1.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.41%) Multicast
2 4 (0.80%) Broadband
3 2 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) BGP
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) IPv4
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.01%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.40%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.00%) MySQL
6 10 (2.00%) Power BI
6 10 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.60%) Tableau
9 6 (1.20%) Big Data
10 5 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.00%) Redis
11 4 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.80%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.60%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.60%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (7.62%) Git
2 18 (3.61%) JIRA
3 6 (1.20%) Selenium
4 5 (1.00%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (20.24%) Finance
2 47 (9.42%) Social Skills
3 31 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (6.21%) Banking
4 14 (2.81%) Games
5 11 (2.20%) Front Office
5 11 (2.20%) Legal
5 11 (2.20%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.60%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
8 4 (0.80%) Automotive
8 4 (0.80%) Law
8 4 (0.80%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.40%) Advertising
10 2 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.40%) Retail
11 1 (0.20%) Back Office
11 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (10.02%) Django
1 50 (10.02%) FastAPI
2 30 (6.01%) React
3 25 (5.01%) Flask
4 22 (4.41%) Kafka
5 20 (4.01%) Node.js
6 18 (3.61%) pytest
7 17 (3.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 17 (3.41%) FIX Protocol
7 17 (3.41%) RESTful
8 13 (2.61%) REST
8 13 (2.61%) SQLAlchemy
9 11 (2.20%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.00%) HTML
11 9 (1.80%) Celery
12 8 (1.60%) Playwright
12 8 (1.60%) PySpark
12 8 (1.60%) Redux
13 7 (1.40%) Vue
14 6 (1.20%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.82%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.61%) Algorithms
3 25 (5.01%) Derivative
3 25 (5.01%) Equities
3 25 (5.01%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.01%) Hedge funds
4 24 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
5 18 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.80%) Robotics
6 9 (1.80%) Security Posture
7 8 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.40%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.40%) PropTech
9 6 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.20%) CUDA
9 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.81%) Linux
2 9 (1.80%) Unix
3 8 (1.60%) Mac OS
3 8 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (53.71%) Software Engineering
2 159 (31.86%) AI
3 80 (16.03%) Agile
4 68 (13.63%) Fintech
5 63 (12.63%) CI/CD
6 59 (11.82%) Computer Science
7 57 (11.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (9.42%) DevOps
9 46 (9.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (9.02%) Machine Learning
11 35 (7.01%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (6.61%) Data Science
14 32 (6.41%) Microservices
15 31 (6.21%) SDLC
15 31 (6.21%) Test Automation
16 29 (5.81%) Analytics
16 29 (5.81%) Data Engineering
16 29 (5.81%) TDD
17 28 (5.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 499 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (16.63%) C++
3 82 (16.43%) SQL
4 49 (9.82%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.41%) C#
6 24 (4.81%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.41%) Java
8 11 (2.20%) Bash
8 11 (2.20%) Go
9 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.60%) Rust
11 5 (1.00%) C
11 5 (1.00%) Ruby
12 4 (0.80%) Julia
12 4 (0.80%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (15.03%) Degree
2 63 (12.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.01%) Master's Degree
4 19 (3.81%) PhD
5 17 (3.41%) CISSP
6 9 (1.80%) CCSK
7 8 (1.60%) CISA
7 8 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.00%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.80%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.02%) QA
2 18 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.80%) NIST
4 8 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (7.01%) Docker
2 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.00%) KVM
2 5 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (8.62%) Terraform
2 40 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.00%) Ansible
3 5 (1.00%) Grafana
4 4 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (3.81%) Google
2 10 (2.00%) Databricks
3 8 (1.60%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.60%) OpenAI
4 5 (1.00%) VMware
5 4 (0.80%) Palantir
5 4 (0.80%) Splunk