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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 302 290
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 634 406 701
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.93% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.03% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 536 299 629
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £69,688 £83,125 £72,500
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 £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 85,184 39,343 71,903
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.41% 90.58% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 59,787 23,812 50,509
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
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 £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 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 29 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 -22 348 £100,000 -9.09% 115
South East +62 107 £65,000 +18.18% 14
North of England +29 78 £80,000 +14.29% 12
North West +28 50 £71,991 -15.30% 7
South West -33 42 £75,000 +20.00% 7
West Midlands +2 36 £67,500 +92.86% 4
Midlands -13 36 £67,500 +3.85% 5
East of England -7 25 £77,500 +34.78% 4
North East -29 23 £85,000 +183.33% 2
Yorkshire -29 5 £100,000 +60.00% 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 634 (100.00%) Python
2 382 (60.25%) Software Engineering
3 214 (33.75%) AI
4 211 (33.28%) AWS
5 102 (16.09%) Agile
6 92 (14.51%) C++
7 89 (14.04%) Azure
7 89 (14.04%) CI/CD
8 84 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 83 (13.09%) Fintech
9 83 (13.09%) SQL
10 82 (12.93%) Degree
11 76 (11.99%) Django
12 72 (11.36%) FastAPI
13 70 (11.04%) GCP
14 68 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 68 (10.73%) DevOps
15 65 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
15 65 (10.25%) TypeScript
16 63 (9.94%) Machine Learning
17 60 (9.46%) Docker
18 59 (9.31%) Computer Science
18 59 (9.31%) React
19 54 (8.52%) Terraform
20 53 (8.36%) SaaS
21 51 (8.04%) Kubernetes
22 50 (7.89%) Flask
22 50 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
22 50 (7.89%) LLM
23 45 (7.10%) Data Engineering

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 27 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.37%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 211 (33.28%) AWS
2 89 (14.04%) Azure
3 70 (11.04%) GCP
4 53 (8.36%) SaaS
5 23 (3.63%) Amazon S3
6 19 (3.00%) Snowflake
7 18 (2.84%) Serverless
8 14 (2.21%) GitHub
9 12 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.58%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.42%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (1.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.26%) dbt
13 7 (1.10%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (1.10%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.37%) Multicast
2 5 (0.79%) Broadband
2 5 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.63%) SMS
4 2 (0.32%) BGP
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%) HTTP
5 1 (0.16%) IPv4
5 1 (0.16%) LAN
5 1 (0.16%) MQTT
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%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.94%) MySQL
4 20 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.58%) Redis
8 9 (1.42%) Power BI
9 8 (1.26%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.10%) Big Data
10 7 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.63%) Metadata
13 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.47%) GIS
13 3 (0.47%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (6.78%) Git
2 21 (3.31%) JIRA
3 15 (2.37%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.58%) GitLab
5 5 (0.79%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 102 (16.09%) Finance
2 66 (10.41%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.89%) Banking
4 25 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.21%) Front Office
7 13 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.26%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.10%) Games
10 6 (0.95%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.79%) Automotive
11 5 (0.79%) Legal
12 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.63%) Law
12 4 (0.63%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.47%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (11.99%) Django
2 72 (11.36%) FastAPI
3 59 (9.31%) React
4 50 (7.89%) Flask
5 30 (4.73%) Kafka
6 29 (4.57%) Node.js
7 25 (3.94%) SQLAlchemy
8 22 (3.47%) RESTful
9 19 (3.00%) REST
10 18 (2.84%) pytest
11 15 (2.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 15 (2.37%) Celery
11 15 (2.37%) FIX Protocol
12 11 (1.74%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.74%) Vue
13 9 (1.42%) HTML
14 8 (1.26%) Next.js
14 8 (1.26%) Redux
14 8 (1.26%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (1.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.20%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.42%) Algorithms
3 28 (4.42%) Distributed Computing
4 25 (3.94%) Equities
5 23 (3.63%) Derivative
5 23 (3.63%) Fixed Income
6 15 (2.37%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (2.37%) Hedge funds
7 11 (1.74%) Client/Server
7 11 (1.74%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.26%) Robotics
9 7 (1.10%) PropTech
10 6 (0.95%) CUDA
10 6 (0.95%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.99%) Linux
2 9 (1.42%) Windows
3 7 (1.10%) Unix
4 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (60.25%) Software Engineering
2 214 (33.75%) AI
3 102 (16.09%) Agile
4 89 (14.04%) CI/CD
5 84 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 83 (13.09%) Fintech
7 68 (10.73%) DevOps
8 63 (9.94%) Machine Learning
9 59 (9.31%) Computer Science
10 50 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (7.89%) LLM
11 45 (7.10%) Data Engineering
11 45 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (6.94%) Data Pipeline
13 40 (6.31%) Clean Code
13 40 (6.31%) Observability
14 39 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (6.15%) Microservices
14 39 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (5.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 634 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (14.51%) C++
3 83 (13.09%) SQL
4 65 (10.25%) TypeScript
5 41 (6.47%) C#
6 34 (5.36%) Java
7 31 (4.89%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.84%) Go
9 12 (1.89%) Ruby
9 12 (1.89%) Rust
10 6 (0.95%) C
11 5 (0.79%) Bash
11 5 (0.79%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.63%) Julia
12 4 (0.63%) Scala
13 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (12.93%) Degree
2 68 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (5.05%) Master's Degree
4 23 (3.63%) Security Cleared
5 21 (3.31%) PhD
6 20 (3.15%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.47%) CCSK
11 2 (0.32%) CISA
11 2 (0.32%) 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 (5.68%) QA
2 18 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.47%) NIST
4 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 60 (9.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.79%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.79%) KVM
2 5 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (8.52%) Terraform
2 51 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.42%) Ansible
4 5 (0.79%) Grafana
5 4 (0.63%) Kibana
5 4 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (3.00%) Databricks
2 12 (1.89%) Google
3 10 (1.58%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.10%) Splunk
5 5 (0.79%) Intel
5 5 (0.79%) VMware
6 4 (0.63%) Palantir
7 2 (0.32%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.16%) Arista
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco
8 1 (0.16%) Revolut