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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 306 309
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 620 406 706
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.03% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 522 296 635
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,438 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -

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 83,969 39,266 76,465
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 90.73% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59,049 23,709 54,780
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -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 23 July 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 July 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 -16 346 £100,000 -9.09% 105
South East +72 107 £65,000 +18.18% 14
North of England +31 75 £82,500 +17.86% 13
North West +40 48 £65,000 -35.00% 7
South West -33 41 £75,000 +20.00% 13
West Midlands 0 34 £66,250 +89.29% 7
Midlands -8 34 £66,250 +1.92% 7
North East -32 22 £85,000 +183.33% 2
East of England +4 19 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Yorkshire -30 5 £100,000 +60.00% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 July 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.

1 620 (100.00%) Python
2 367 (59.19%) Software Engineering
3 211 (34.03%) AI
4 206 (33.23%) AWS
5 102 (16.45%) Agile
6 92 (14.84%) C++
7 87 (14.03%) SQL
8 86 (13.87%) CI/CD
9 85 (13.71%) Azure
10 83 (13.39%) Degree
11 81 (13.06%) Fintech
12 78 (12.58%) Full-Stack Development
13 71 (11.45%) Django
14 69 (11.13%) Computer Science Degree
15 68 (10.97%) FastAPI
16 65 (10.48%) GCP
17 64 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
18 63 (10.16%) DevOps
18 63 (10.16%) TypeScript
19 61 (9.84%) Machine Learning
20 60 (9.68%) Computer Science
21 58 (9.35%) Docker
22 54 (8.71%) React
23 52 (8.39%) SaaS
23 52 (8.39%) Terraform
24 50 (8.06%) Kubernetes
25 49 (7.90%) Infrastructure as Code
25 49 (7.90%) LLM
26 47 (7.58%) Flask
27 45 (7.26%) Data Pipeline

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 28 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.71%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.42%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 206 (33.23%) AWS
2 85 (13.71%) Azure
3 65 (10.48%) GCP
4 52 (8.39%) SaaS
5 23 (3.71%) Amazon S3
6 20 (3.23%) Serverless
6 20 (3.23%) Snowflake
7 16 (2.58%) GitHub
8 14 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.77%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.29%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.13%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (1.13%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.42%) Multicast
2 5 (0.81%) Broadband
3 4 (0.65%) SMS
4 2 (0.32%) BGP
4 2 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) IPv4
5 1 (0.16%) LAN
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.16%) OSPF
5 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.29%) Relational Database
3 25 (4.03%) MySQL
4 21 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.42%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.61%) Power BI
7 10 (1.61%) Redis
8 8 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.13%) Big Data
10 5 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.65%) Metadata
12 3 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.48%) GIS
12 3 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (7.10%) Git
2 21 (3.39%) JIRA
3 15 (2.42%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.61%) GitLab
5 6 (0.97%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (17.42%) Finance
2 61 (9.84%) Social Skills
3 32 (5.16%) Banking
4 26 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.42%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.26%) Front Office
7 13 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.29%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.13%) Games
10 6 (0.97%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.97%) Legal
10 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.81%) Automotive
12 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.65%) Law
12 4 (0.65%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.45%) Django
2 68 (10.97%) FastAPI
3 54 (8.71%) React
4 47 (7.58%) Flask
5 29 (4.68%) Kafka
5 29 (4.68%) Node.js
6 25 (4.03%) SQLAlchemy
7 20 (3.23%) RESTful
8 17 (2.74%) pytest
8 17 (2.74%) REST
9 15 (2.42%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 15 (2.42%) Celery
9 15 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
10 11 (1.77%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.77%) Vue
11 10 (1.61%) HTML
12 8 (1.29%) Playwright
12 8 (1.29%) Redux
13 7 (1.13%) Next.js
13 7 (1.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 34 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.52%) Algorithms
3 28 (4.52%) Distributed Computing
4 25 (4.03%) Equities
5 23 (3.71%) Derivative
5 23 (3.71%) Fixed Income
6 17 (2.74%) Hedge funds
7 15 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.77%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.45%) Robotics
12 8 (1.29%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.13%) PropTech
13 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.97%) CUDA
14 6 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (5.65%) Linux
2 10 (1.61%) Windows
3 4 (0.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (59.19%) Software Engineering
2 211 (34.03%) AI
3 102 (16.45%) Agile
4 86 (13.87%) CI/CD
5 81 (13.06%) Fintech
6 78 (12.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (10.16%) DevOps
8 61 (9.84%) Machine Learning
9 60 (9.68%) Computer Science
10 49 (7.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (7.90%) LLM
11 45 (7.26%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (7.10%) Data Engineering
12 44 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (6.13%) Microservices
13 38 (6.13%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (5.97%) Analytics
14 37 (5.97%) Clean Code
14 37 (5.97%) Observability
15 35 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 620 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (14.84%) C++
3 87 (14.03%) SQL
4 63 (10.16%) TypeScript
5 40 (6.45%) C#
6 34 (5.48%) Java
7 30 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.90%) Go
9 12 (1.94%) Rust
10 10 (1.61%) Ruby
11 6 (0.97%) Bash
11 6 (0.97%) C
11 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.65%) Julia
12 4 (0.65%) Scala
13 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (13.39%) Degree
2 69 (11.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (5.16%) Master's Degree
4 21 (3.39%) PhD
5 19 (3.06%) Security Cleared
6 16 (2.58%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.13%) CISSP
9 6 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.65%) CCSK
11 3 (0.48%) CISA
11 3 (0.48%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.16%) CCIE
12 1 (0.16%) CCNP
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.81%) QA
2 18 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.65%) NIST
4 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (9.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.81%) KVM
2 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (8.39%) Terraform
2 50 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.45%) Ansible
4 5 (0.81%) Grafana
5 4 (0.65%) Kibana
5 4 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (3.06%) Databricks
2 10 (1.61%) Google
2 10 (1.61%) OpenAI
3 7 (1.13%) Splunk
4 5 (0.81%) Intel
4 5 (0.81%) VMware
5 4 (0.65%) Palantir
6 3 (0.48%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.16%) Arista
7 1 (0.16%) Cisco
7 1 (0.16%) Revolut