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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 321 262
Rank change year-on-year +48 -59 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 709 354 695
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.83% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.91% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 593 249 611
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%
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 96,354 38,754 63,738
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 90.47% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,687 22,906 37,121
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 29 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 29 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 -18 368 £100,000 -9.09% 301
South East +37 96 £75,000 +7.14% 32
North of England +1 85 £80,000 +20.75% 22
South West -38 60 £75,000 +7.14% 25
Midlands -12 55 £70,000 +7.69% 12
East of England +16 54 £77,500 +19.23% 27
North West +19 52 £75,000 +7.14% 11
West Midlands -13 39 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -43 26 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -35 16 £45,000 -33.33% 7
Yorkshire -29 7 £100,000 +66.67% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 709 (100.00%) Python
2 443 (62.48%) Software Engineering
3 242 (34.13%) AI
4 239 (33.71%) AWS
5 122 (17.21%) Azure
6 89 (12.55%) C++
7 87 (12.27%) Full-Stack Development
8 85 (11.99%) CI/CD
9 79 (11.14%) GCP
9 79 (11.14%) SQL
10 76 (10.72%) Agile
11 75 (10.58%) Django
12 71 (10.01%) FastAPI
13 69 (9.73%) Degree
14 65 (9.17%) DevOps
15 63 (8.89%) Fintech
16 61 (8.60%) LLM
17 60 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
17 60 (8.46%) TypeScript
18 59 (8.32%) Docker
19 57 (8.04%) React
20 56 (7.90%) Problem-Solving
21 54 (7.62%) Terraform
22 53 (7.48%) Machine Learning
23 51 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
24 50 (7.05%) SaaS
25 48 (6.77%) Flask
26 47 (6.63%) Clean Code
26 47 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
27 46 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement

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 17 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 239 (33.71%) AWS
2 122 (17.21%) Azure
3 79 (11.14%) GCP
4 50 (7.05%) SaaS
5 14 (1.97%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (1.83%) Serverless
6 13 (1.83%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.55%) Datadog
7 11 (1.55%) GitHub
8 10 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
10 8 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.99%) dbt
12 6 (0.85%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.69%) Multicast
1 12 (1.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.71%) DNS
3 4 (0.56%) MQTT
3 4 (0.56%) SMS
4 3 (0.42%) BGP
4 3 (0.42%) Broadband
4 3 (0.42%) OSPF
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) VLAN
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.37%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.24%) MySQL
4 20 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.83%) Power BI
7 12 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.27%) Redis
10 7 (0.99%) Big Data
11 5 (0.71%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.42%) GIS
14 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 1 (0.14%) Flink
15 1 (0.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (4.09%) Git
2 17 (2.40%) JIRA
3 15 (2.12%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 100 (14.10%) Finance
2 83 (11.71%) Social Skills
3 33 (4.65%) Banking
4 25 (3.53%) Front Office
5 20 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.69%) Marketing
9 7 (0.99%) Automotive
9 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.71%) Legal
11 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Games
13 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.58%) Django
2 71 (10.01%) FastAPI
3 57 (8.04%) React
4 54 (7.62%) Terraform
5 48 (6.77%) Flask
6 33 (4.65%) Kafka
7 23 (3.24%) RESTful
8 20 (2.82%) Node.js
8 20 (2.82%) REST
9 18 (2.54%) SQLAlchemy
10 17 (2.40%) LangChain
11 15 (2.12%) pytest
12 13 (1.83%) Vue
13 12 (1.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 12 (1.69%) Celery
13 12 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (1.69%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.69%) LangGraph
14 10 (1.41%) Next.js
15 9 (1.27%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.94%) Distributed Computing
4 27 (3.81%) Cyber Threat
5 26 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 25 (3.53%) AI Agents
7 24 (3.39%) Hedge funds
8 19 (2.68%) Equities
9 14 (1.97%) Derivative
9 14 (1.97%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.99%) PKI
14 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.85%) PropTech
15 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.64%) Linux
2 11 (1.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (62.48%) Software Engineering
2 242 (34.13%) AI
3 87 (12.27%) Full-Stack Development
4 85 (11.99%) CI/CD
5 76 (10.72%) Agile
6 65 (9.17%) DevOps
7 63 (8.89%) Fintech
8 61 (8.60%) LLM
9 56 (7.90%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (7.48%) Machine Learning
11 47 (6.63%) Clean Code
11 47 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
12 46 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (6.21%) Computer Science
14 43 (6.06%) Data Pipeline
14 43 (6.06%) Observability
15 42 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 41 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 41 (5.78%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (5.50%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 709 (100.00%) Python
2 89 (12.55%) C++
3 79 (11.14%) SQL
4 60 (8.46%) TypeScript
5 45 (6.35%) C#
6 40 (5.64%) Java
7 27 (3.81%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.24%) Go
9 16 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.12%) Rust
11 12 (1.69%) R
12 11 (1.55%) Ruby
13 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Julia
15 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 69 (9.73%) Degree
2 51 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (5.50%) Security Cleared
4 29 (4.09%) Master's Degree
4 29 (4.09%) SC Cleared
5 23 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.40%) PhD
7 13 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.56%) CEH
8 4 (0.56%) CISSP
8 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.56%) GCIA
8 4 (0.56%) GCIH
8 4 (0.56%) OSCP
9 1 (0.14%) CCIE
9 1 (0.14%) CCNP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.39%) QA
2 10 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.56%) SLA
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (8.32%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.68%) Ansible
3 10 (1.41%) Grafana
4 5 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (3.24%) Databricks
2 18 (2.54%) Google
3 11 (1.55%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.13%) Intel
5 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.85%) Splunk
7 4 (0.56%) Palantir
8 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.42%) Revolut
9 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.14%) Arista
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco
9 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle
9 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.14%) VMware