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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 295 380
Rank change year-on-year -19 +85 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 433 394 529
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.04% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.17% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 347 361 476
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +25.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% -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 74,036 33,691 78,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 88.93% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,620 21,281 59,900
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 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 29 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 -55 255 £100,000 -9.09% 41
South East +11 72 £65,000 +4.00% 14
North of England -7 51 £95,000 +35.71% 9
North West +9 42 £90,000 +9.09% 4
Midlands -15 24 £66,250 +70.97% 2
South West - 19 £68,750 - 4
West Midlands -15 18 £63,750 +82.14% 2
East of England -14 11 £55,000 - 2
North East -33 6 £100,000 - 1
East Midlands -46 6 £85,000 +30.77%
Yorkshire -62 3 £100,000 +56.86% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 433 (100.00%) Python
2 228 (52.66%) Software Engineering
3 137 (31.64%) AWS
4 134 (30.95%) AI
5 83 (19.17%) SQL
6 79 (18.24%) Agile
7 73 (16.86%) Azure
7 73 (16.86%) Degree
8 67 (15.47%) C++
9 66 (15.24%) CI/CD
10 62 (14.32%) Fintech
11 60 (13.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 58 (13.39%) Computer Science
13 52 (12.01%) Full-Stack Development
14 51 (11.78%) DevOps
15 50 (11.55%) GCP
16 48 (11.09%) SaaS
17 44 (10.16%) Git
18 43 (9.93%) Terraform
19 42 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
20 40 (9.24%) Django
20 40 (9.24%) FastAPI
20 40 (9.24%) Kubernetes
21 39 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
21 39 (9.01%) TypeScript
22 37 (8.55%) Linux
23 36 (8.31%) Machine Learning
23 36 (8.31%) QA
24 32 (7.39%) Analytics
24 32 (7.39%) Test Automation

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 20 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 137 (31.64%) AWS
2 73 (16.86%) Azure
3 50 (11.55%) GCP
4 48 (11.09%) SaaS
5 26 (6.00%) GitHub
6 17 (3.93%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.46%) Serverless
7 15 (3.46%) Snowflake
8 12 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.54%) IaaS
9 11 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.54%) PaaS
10 10 (2.31%) Power Platform
11 9 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
13 6 (1.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.15%) Dagster
14 5 (1.15%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.46%) Multicast
2 6 (1.39%) HTTP
3 5 (1.15%) DNS
3 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.92%) SMTP
5 2 (0.46%) Broadband
6 1 (0.23%) BGP
6 1 (0.23%) Firewall
6 1 (0.23%) IPv4
6 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.31%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.77%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.31%) Tableau
6 9 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.08%) MySQL
6 9 (2.08%) Power BI
6 9 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.85%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.15%) Flink
10 4 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.69%) Big Data
11 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.69%) Metadata
11 3 (0.69%) Redis
12 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 44 (10.16%) Git
2 16 (3.70%) JIRA
3 6 (1.39%) GitLab
3 6 (1.39%) Selenium
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (22.63%) Finance
2 44 (10.16%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.62%) Banking
4 30 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (3.93%) Legal
6 16 (3.70%) Front Office
7 12 (2.77%) Games
8 8 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.85%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.92%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.69%) Law
10 3 (0.69%) Tech for Good
10 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.46%) Advertising
11 2 (0.46%) Automotive
11 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.46%) Retail
12 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.23%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.24%) Django
1 40 (9.24%) FastAPI
2 28 (6.47%) React
3 23 (5.31%) Kafka
4 21 (4.85%) Node.js
5 19 (4.39%) Flask
6 15 (3.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 15 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (3.46%) pytest
7 13 (3.00%) PySpark
8 12 (2.77%) RESTful
9 11 (2.54%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.54%) REST
10 9 (2.08%) Celery
10 9 (2.08%) Redux
11 8 (1.85%) Playwright
11 8 (1.85%) SQLAlchemy
12 7 (1.62%) HTML
13 6 (1.39%) Puppeteer
13 6 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.47%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.77%) Hedge funds
4 23 (5.31%) Derivative
4 23 (5.31%) Equities
4 23 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.08%) Algorithms
6 18 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.08%) Robotics
9 7 (1.62%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.39%) CUDA
10 6 (1.39%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.92%) GNSS
11 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.92%) Satnav
11 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.55%) Linux
2 15 (3.46%) Windows
3 11 (2.54%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (52.66%) Software Engineering
2 134 (30.95%) AI
3 79 (18.24%) Agile
4 66 (15.24%) CI/CD
5 62 (14.32%) Fintech
6 58 (13.39%) Computer Science
7 52 (12.01%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (11.78%) DevOps
9 42 (9.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (8.31%) Machine Learning
11 32 (7.39%) Analytics
11 32 (7.39%) Test Automation
12 31 (7.16%) Data Pipeline
13 30 (6.93%) TDD
14 26 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (6.00%) Data Science
14 26 (6.00%) Process Improvement
14 26 (6.00%) SDLC
15 23 (5.31%) Microservices
15 23 (5.31%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 433 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (19.17%) SQL
3 67 (15.47%) C++
4 39 (9.01%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.54%) C#
6 20 (4.62%) Java
6 20 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.00%) Bash
8 12 (2.77%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.39%) Rust
10 5 (1.15%) Go
11 4 (0.92%) C
11 4 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Julia
12 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (16.86%) Degree
2 60 (13.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.08%) CISSP
4 18 (4.16%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.00%) PhD
6 11 (2.54%) CCSK
6 11 (2.54%) CISA
6 11 (2.54%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (1.15%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.92%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.31%) QA
2 16 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.77%) NIST
4 10 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (6.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.92%) KVM
2 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (9.93%) Terraform
2 40 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.39%) Grafana
4 5 (1.15%) Argo
4 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (5.31%) Google
2 11 (2.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.62%) Databricks
4 6 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.92%) VMware
6 1 (0.23%) Splunk