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 23 March 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 269 394
Rank change year-on-year -91 +125 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 314 436 461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.15% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.27% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 237 387 427
10th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £77,500 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £126,250 £139,250 £138,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -

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 62,487 34,309 72,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 90.23% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 40,738 21,159 56,617
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -88 195 £100,000 -6.98% 39
South East -28 39 £65,000 +4.00% 25
North of England -19 33 £90,000 +28.57% 4
North West +12 29 £90,000 +53.19% 1
Midlands -35 19 £63,750 +59.38% 1
South West - 18 £77,500 - 11
West Midlands +6 13 £60,000 +71.43% 1
East of England -5 9 £50,000 -9.09% 10
East Midlands -37 7 £85,000 +30.77%
North East -23 4 £82,500 +13.79%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 March 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.

1 314 (100.00%) Python
2 160 (50.96%) Software Engineering
3 107 (34.08%) AWS
4 88 (28.03%) AI
5 75 (23.89%) Agile
6 71 (22.61%) SQL
7 60 (19.11%) Azure
8 58 (18.47%) CI/CD
9 55 (17.52%) Degree
10 54 (17.20%) Computer Science
11 52 (16.56%) Fintech
12 43 (13.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 43 (13.69%) GCP
13 42 (13.38%) C++
14 39 (12.42%) Git
15 38 (12.10%) DevOps
16 37 (11.78%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (11.15%) TypeScript
18 34 (10.83%) Kubernetes
18 34 (10.83%) Linux
18 34 (10.83%) Terraform
19 33 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 33 (10.51%) SaaS
20 31 (9.87%) Test Automation
21 30 (9.55%) Analytics
22 29 (9.24%) Docker
22 29 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
22 29 (9.24%) QA
23 28 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
24 27 (8.60%) Data Science

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 23 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 107 (34.08%) AWS
2 60 (19.11%) Azure
3 43 (13.69%) GCP
4 33 (10.51%) SaaS
5 27 (8.60%) GitHub
6 16 (5.10%) Amazon S3
6 16 (5.10%) Snowflake
7 13 (4.14%) Serverless
8 12 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (3.50%) IaaS
9 11 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.50%) PaaS
10 9 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.55%) dbt
12 7 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.23%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.23%) Power Platform
13 6 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.91%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.14%) Multicast
2 6 (1.91%) HTTP
3 5 (1.59%) DNS
3 5 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.27%) SMTP
5 2 (0.64%) Broadband
6 1 (0.32%) BGP
6 1 (0.32%) Firewall
6 1 (0.32%) IPv4
6 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (4.46%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.82%) Relational Database
4 10 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 10 (3.18%) Tableau
5 8 (2.55%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.55%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (2.23%) Power BI
6 7 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (1.91%) Flink
8 5 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.27%) Apache Arrow
9 4 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 4 (1.27%) Apache Ignite
9 4 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.27%) Dremio
9 4 (1.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (12.42%) Git
2 13 (4.14%) JIRA
3 7 (2.23%) Selenium
4 6 (1.91%) GitLab
5 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 91 (28.98%) Finance
2 35 (11.15%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.51%) Banking
4 29 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.37%) Front Office
6 15 (4.78%) Legal
7 12 (3.82%) Games
8 7 (2.23%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.96%) Law
10 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.96%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.96%) Retail
10 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.64%) Back Office
11 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) iGaming
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.96%) React
2 22 (7.01%) FastAPI
3 21 (6.69%) Django
4 17 (5.41%) Node.js
5 14 (4.46%) Kafka
6 13 (4.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 13 (4.14%) FIX Protocol
6 13 (4.14%) pytest
7 10 (3.18%) HTML
8 9 (2.87%) Flask
8 9 (2.87%) Redux
9 8 (2.55%) Celery
9 8 (2.55%) PySpark
10 7 (2.23%) NumPy
10 7 (2.23%) Pandas
10 7 (2.23%) Playwright
10 7 (2.23%) Puppeteer
10 7 (2.23%) REST
10 7 (2.23%) RESTful
11 6 (1.91%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.87%) Fixed Income
2 29 (9.24%) Hedge funds
3 25 (7.96%) Cloud Native
3 25 (7.96%) Derivative
3 25 (7.96%) Equities
4 23 (7.32%) Management Information System
5 18 (5.73%) Algorithms
6 11 (3.50%) Security Posture
7 10 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.87%) Robotics
9 7 (2.23%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.27%) GNSS
11 4 (1.27%) Pricing Data
11 4 (1.27%) Satnav
11 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (0.96%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.83%) Linux
2 15 (4.78%) Windows
3 11 (3.50%) Mac OS
3 11 (3.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (50.96%) Software Engineering
2 88 (28.03%) AI
3 75 (23.89%) Agile
4 58 (18.47%) CI/CD
5 54 (17.20%) Computer Science
6 52 (16.56%) Fintech
7 38 (12.10%) DevOps
8 37 (11.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (10.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (9.87%) Test Automation
11 30 (9.55%) Analytics
12 28 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (8.60%) Data Science
14 24 (7.64%) ETL
14 24 (7.64%) Machine Learning
14 24 (7.64%) Process Improvement
14 24 (7.64%) TDD
15 22 (7.01%) Data Engineering
15 22 (7.01%) Information Security
16 21 (6.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 314 (100.00%) Python
2 71 (22.61%) SQL
3 42 (13.38%) C++
4 35 (11.15%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.05%) Java
6 18 (5.73%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.14%) Bash
8 12 (3.82%) C#
8 12 (3.82%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.59%) C
9 5 (1.59%) Rust
10 4 (1.27%) Scala
11 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 2 (0.64%) Go
12 2 (0.64%) Julia
12 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (17.52%) Degree
2 43 (13.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.01%) CISSP
4 11 (3.50%) CCSK
4 11 (3.50%) CISA
4 11 (3.50%) CompTIA CySA+
5 8 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.59%) PhD
7 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.27%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.24%) QA
2 14 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.82%) NIST
4 10 (3.18%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (9.24%) Docker
2 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.27%) KVM
2 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (10.83%) Kubernetes
1 34 (10.83%) Terraform
2 6 (1.91%) Argo
2 6 (1.91%) Grafana
3 5 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (7.64%) Google
2 11 (3.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.91%) Databricks
4 4 (1.27%) VMware
5 3 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.32%) Foundry
6 1 (0.32%) Palantir
6 1 (0.32%) Splunk