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 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 264 392
Rank change year-on-year -82 +128 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 379 411 506
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 1.12% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 1.25% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 297 370 455
10th Percentile £56,150 £63,625 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £140,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £105,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +23.53% -5.56%

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 68,613 32,796 75,948
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 89.55% 94.39%
Number of salaries quoted 45,221 21,209 58,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -68 223 £100,000 -9.09% 40
South East -16 60 £65,000 +4.00% 28
North of England -27 43 £90,000 +28.57% 10
North West +6 38 £90,000 +9.09% 7
South West - 21 £68,750 - 11
Midlands -33 20 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands -5 14 £60,000 +71.43% 1
East of England -27 11 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East Midlands -47 7 £85,000 +30.77%
North East -24 4 £82,500 -
Yorkshire -58 1 £100,000 +56.86% 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 April 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.

1 379 (100.00%) Python
2 197 (51.98%) Software Engineering
3 125 (32.98%) AWS
4 113 (29.82%) AI
5 78 (20.58%) Agile
6 77 (20.32%) SQL
7 70 (18.47%) Degree
8 69 (18.21%) CI/CD
9 68 (17.94%) Azure
10 61 (16.09%) Computer Science
11 57 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 57 (15.04%) Fintech
12 54 (14.25%) C++
13 52 (13.72%) GCP
14 50 (13.19%) DevOps
15 49 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 43 (11.35%) Git
16 43 (11.35%) Kubernetes
16 43 (11.35%) SaaS
17 41 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
17 41 (10.82%) Terraform
18 39 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
19 37 (9.76%) TypeScript
20 36 (9.50%) Linux
20 36 (9.50%) QA
21 35 (9.23%) Django
22 34 (8.97%) FastAPI
22 34 (8.97%) Test Automation
23 32 (8.44%) Analytics
24 31 (8.18%) Docker

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 19 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.37%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 125 (32.98%) AWS
2 68 (17.94%) Azure
3 52 (13.72%) GCP
4 43 (11.35%) SaaS
5 27 (7.12%) GitHub
6 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
7 16 (4.22%) Serverless
8 12 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.90%) IaaS
9 11 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.90%) PaaS
9 11 (2.90%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.11%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.58%) Dagster
14 5 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.69%) Multicast
2 6 (1.58%) HTTP
3 5 (1.32%) DNS
3 5 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.06%) SMTP
5 2 (0.53%) Broadband
6 1 (0.26%) BGP
6 1 (0.26%) Firewall
6 1 (0.26%) IPv4
6 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.01%) Relational Database
3 18 (4.75%) NoSQL
4 14 (3.69%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.64%) Tableau
6 8 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.85%) Power BI
7 7 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.58%) Flink
8 6 (1.58%) MySQL
9 4 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.06%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.79%) Big Data
10 3 (0.79%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.79%) Metadata
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 43 (11.35%) Git
2 15 (3.96%) JIRA
3 6 (1.58%) GitLab
3 6 (1.58%) Selenium
4 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.26%) Zephyr
General
1 93 (24.54%) Finance
2 43 (11.35%) Social Skills
3 31 (8.18%) Banking
4 29 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.49%) Legal
6 16 (4.22%) Front Office
7 12 (3.17%) Games
8 8 (2.11%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.06%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.79%) Law
11 3 (0.79%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.53%) Advertising
12 2 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.26%) Automotive
13 1 (0.26%) Back Office
13 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.23%) Django
2 34 (8.97%) FastAPI
3 29 (7.65%) React
4 19 (5.01%) Kafka
4 19 (5.01%) Node.js
5 17 (4.49%) Flask
6 14 (3.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 14 (3.69%) FIX Protocol
6 14 (3.69%) pytest
7 12 (3.17%) REST
7 12 (3.17%) RESTful
8 11 (2.90%) Celery
8 11 (2.90%) PySpark
9 9 (2.37%) AngularJS
9 9 (2.37%) Redux
10 8 (2.11%) HTML
10 8 (2.11%) Playwright
10 8 (2.11%) Vue
11 7 (1.85%) SQLAlchemy
12 6 (1.58%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.39%) Fixed Income
3 24 (6.33%) Hedge funds
4 23 (6.07%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.80%) Derivative
5 22 (5.80%) Equities
6 19 (5.01%) Algorithms
7 13 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.90%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.37%) Robotics
10 8 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.85%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.58%) CUDA
13 5 (1.32%) Data Structures
14 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.06%) GNSS
14 4 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.06%) Satnav
14 4 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (9.50%) Linux
2 15 (3.96%) Windows
3 11 (2.90%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (51.98%) Software Engineering
2 113 (29.82%) AI
3 78 (20.58%) Agile
4 69 (18.21%) CI/CD
5 61 (16.09%) Computer Science
6 57 (15.04%) Fintech
7 50 (13.19%) DevOps
8 49 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (8.97%) Test Automation
11 32 (8.44%) Analytics
12 30 (7.92%) TDD
13 28 (7.39%) Data Science
13 28 (7.39%) Machine Learning
14 27 (7.12%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (6.60%) Process Improvement
16 24 (6.33%) SDLC
17 22 (5.80%) ETL
17 22 (5.80%) Information Security
17 22 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 379 (100.00%) Python
2 77 (20.32%) SQL
3 54 (14.25%) C++
4 37 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 20 (5.28%) JavaScript
6 19 (5.01%) C#
7 17 (4.49%) Java
8 13 (3.43%) Bash
9 12 (3.17%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.32%) Rust
11 4 (1.06%) C
11 4 (1.06%) Go
11 4 (1.06%) Scala
12 3 (0.79%) PHP
13 2 (0.53%) Julia
13 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.53%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) VBA
Qualifications
1 70 (18.47%) Degree
2 57 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.80%) CISSP
4 15 (3.96%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.90%) CCSK
5 11 (2.90%) CISA
5 11 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
6 10 (2.64%) PhD
7 3 (0.79%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.79%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.50%) QA
2 14 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.17%) NIST
4 10 (2.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (8.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.06%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.06%) KVM
2 4 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 41 (10.82%) Terraform
3 6 (1.58%) Argo
3 6 (1.58%) Grafana
4 5 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (6.07%) Google
2 11 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.58%) Databricks
4 5 (1.32%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.06%) VMware
6 1 (0.26%) Splunk