Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 316 269
Rank change year-on-year +52 -47 +63
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 693 371 713
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.86% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.95% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 577 265 626
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

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 94,838 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66,862 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.53% - -8.33%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -25 356 £100,000 -9.09% 318
South East +53 104 £65,000 -7.14% 42
North of England +5 83 £80,000 +20.75% 30
South West -48 55 £75,000 +7.14% 24
Midlands -4 54 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North West +28 50 £75,000 +7.14% 15
East of England +13 49 £75,000 +15.38% 30
West Midlands -11 40 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North East -42 27 £85,000 +183.33% 1
East Midlands -37 14 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -43 6 £100,000 +66.67% 15
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 693 (100.00%) Python
2 423 (61.04%) Software Engineering
3 231 (33.33%) AI
4 224 (32.32%) AWS
5 107 (15.44%) Azure
6 90 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
7 88 (12.70%) C++
8 87 (12.55%) CI/CD
9 77 (11.11%) Django
9 77 (11.11%) SQL
10 76 (10.97%) Agile
11 73 (10.53%) GCP
12 71 (10.25%) Degree
13 68 (9.81%) DevOps
14 67 (9.67%) FastAPI
14 67 (9.67%) Fintech
15 62 (8.95%) TypeScript
16 58 (8.37%) Machine Learning
16 58 (8.37%) React
17 57 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
17 57 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
17 57 (8.23%) Terraform
18 56 (8.08%) Docker
19 54 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
20 52 (7.50%) LLM
21 49 (7.07%) Flask
22 46 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
22 46 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
22 46 (6.64%) SaaS
23 45 (6.49%) C#

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 16 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.44%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 224 (32.32%) AWS
2 107 (15.44%) Azure
3 73 (10.53%) GCP
4 46 (6.64%) SaaS
5 14 (2.02%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.88%) Serverless
6 13 (1.88%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.59%) Amazon S3
7 11 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (1.59%) Datadog
8 10 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
9 8 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.15%) GitHub
10 7 (1.01%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (1.01%) Azure Stack
10 7 (1.01%) dbt
11 6 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (0.87%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.88%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.59%) Multicast
3 6 (0.87%) DNS
4 4 (0.58%) BGP
4 4 (0.58%) SMS
5 3 (0.43%) Broadband
5 3 (0.43%) OSPF
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) MQTT
6 2 (0.29%) VLAN
6 2 (0.29%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Firewall
7 1 (0.14%) IPv4
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.32%) MySQL
4 19 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.88%) Power BI
7 12 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.44%) Redis
9 7 (1.01%) Big Data
10 4 (0.58%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.43%) GIS
12 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.14%) Flink
13 1 (0.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (4.62%) Git
2 17 (2.45%) JIRA
3 15 (2.16%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.30%) GitLab
5 4 (0.58%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 91 (13.13%) Finance
2 74 (10.68%) Social Skills
3 27 (3.90%) Banking
4 20 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (2.31%) Front Office
6 15 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.01%) Automotive
8 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.87%) Health Technology
9 6 (0.87%) Marketing
10 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.58%) Legal
11 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.43%) Games
13 2 (0.29%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.14%) Advertising
14 1 (0.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (11.11%) Django
2 67 (9.67%) FastAPI
3 58 (8.37%) React
4 57 (8.23%) Terraform
5 49 (7.07%) Flask
6 30 (4.33%) Kafka
7 22 (3.17%) Node.js
7 22 (3.17%) RESTful
8 21 (3.03%) SQLAlchemy
9 20 (2.89%) REST
10 14 (2.02%) pytest
11 13 (1.88%) Celery
11 13 (1.88%) Vue
12 11 (1.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 11 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
12 11 (1.59%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.59%) LangChain
13 10 (1.44%) Next.js
14 8 (1.15%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (1.01%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (4.62%) Distributed Computing
4 25 (3.61%) Algorithms
5 23 (3.32%) Cyber Threat
6 19 (2.74%) AI Agents
7 18 (2.60%) Hedge funds
8 17 (2.45%) Equities
9 12 (1.73%) Derivative
9 12 (1.73%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.01%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.01%) PKI
15 6 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.87%) PropTech
16 5 (0.72%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.63%) Linux
2 11 (1.59%) Windows
3 9 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (61.04%) Software Engineering
2 231 (33.33%) AI
3 90 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (12.55%) CI/CD
5 76 (10.97%) Agile
6 68 (9.81%) DevOps
7 67 (9.67%) Fintech
8 58 (8.37%) Machine Learning
9 54 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (7.50%) LLM
11 46 (6.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (6.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 45 (6.49%) Computer Science
12 45 (6.49%) Observability
13 43 (6.20%) Clean Code
14 41 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (5.77%) Cybersecurity
15 40 (5.77%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (5.48%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 693 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (12.70%) C++
3 77 (11.11%) SQL
4 62 (8.95%) TypeScript
5 45 (6.49%) C#
6 38 (5.48%) Java
7 29 (4.18%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.17%) Go
9 16 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.02%) Rust
11 13 (1.88%) Ruby
12 5 (0.72%) R
13 4 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.43%) C
14 3 (0.43%) Julia
15 1 (0.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (10.25%) Degree
2 57 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.05%) Security Cleared
4 34 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 27 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.03%) PhD
7 20 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.58%) CEH
9 4 (0.58%) CISSP
9 4 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.58%) GCIA
9 4 (0.58%) GCIH
9 4 (0.58%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.75%) QA
2 8 (1.15%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.58%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (8.08%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.29%) KVM
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.74%) Ansible
3 10 (1.44%) Grafana
4 4 (0.58%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (2.74%) Databricks
2 12 (1.73%) Google
3 10 (1.44%) Dynatrace
3 10 (1.44%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.30%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.15%) Intel
6 6 (0.87%) Splunk
7 4 (0.58%) Palantir
8 3 (0.43%) Revolut
9 2 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.29%) VMware
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Arista
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco
10 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv