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 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 319 270
Rank change year-on-year +51 -49 +71
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 703 358 699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.83% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.92% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 588 253 615
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +3.90%
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 96,200 38,934 64,354
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 90.45% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,618 23,126 37,606
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,598 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.54% - -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 28 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 28 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 -6 366 £100,000 -9.09% 291
South East +32 94 £77,500 +10.71% 34
North of England +11 85 £80,000 +20.75% 22
South West -40 59 £75,000 +7.14% 24
East of England +19 54 £75,000 +15.38% 25
Midlands -9 54 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North West +9 52 £75,000 +7.14% 11
West Midlands -5 39 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -40 26 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -30 15 £45,000 -33.33% 7
Yorkshire -24 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 28 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.

1 703 (100.00%) Python
2 439 (62.45%) Software Engineering
3 240 (34.14%) AI
4 234 (33.29%) AWS
5 122 (17.35%) Azure
6 87 (12.38%) C++
6 87 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 83 (11.81%) CI/CD
8 79 (11.24%) GCP
9 78 (11.10%) SQL
10 74 (10.53%) Agile
10 74 (10.53%) Django
11 70 (9.96%) FastAPI
12 67 (9.53%) Degree
13 65 (9.25%) DevOps
14 64 (9.10%) Fintech
15 61 (8.68%) LLM
16 59 (8.39%) TypeScript
17 58 (8.25%) Docker
18 57 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
18 57 (8.11%) React
19 54 (7.68%) Problem-Solving
20 53 (7.54%) Terraform
21 51 (7.25%) Machine Learning
22 50 (7.11%) SaaS
23 49 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
24 48 (6.83%) Flask
25 46 (6.54%) Clean Code
25 46 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
25 46 (6.54%) Cybersecurity

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 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 234 (33.29%) AWS
2 122 (17.35%) Azure
3 79 (11.24%) GCP
4 50 (7.11%) SaaS
5 14 (1.99%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (1.85%) Serverless
6 13 (1.85%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.56%) Datadog
8 10 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.42%) GitHub
8 10 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.28%) Amazon Bedrock
9 9 (1.28%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.14%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.00%) dbt
12 6 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.71%) Multicast
1 12 (1.71%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.71%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) MQTT
3 4 (0.57%) SMS
4 3 (0.43%) BGP
4 3 (0.43%) Broadband
4 3 (0.43%) 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 57 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.27%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.27%) MySQL
4 19 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.85%) Power BI
7 12 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.28%) Redis
10 7 (1.00%) Big Data
11 5 (0.71%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.43%) GIS
14 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.14%) Flink
14 1 (0.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (4.13%) Git
2 17 (2.42%) JIRA
3 15 (2.13%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.14%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
General
1 98 (13.94%) Finance
2 79 (11.24%) Social Skills
3 33 (4.69%) Banking
4 25 (3.56%) Front Office
5 19 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.71%) Marketing
9 7 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Automotive
10 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.71%) Legal
11 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Advertising
15 1 (0.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.53%) Django
2 70 (9.96%) FastAPI
3 57 (8.11%) React
4 53 (7.54%) Terraform
5 48 (6.83%) Flask
6 33 (4.69%) Kafka
7 23 (3.27%) RESTful
8 20 (2.84%) Node.js
8 20 (2.84%) REST
9 18 (2.56%) SQLAlchemy
10 17 (2.42%) LangChain
11 15 (2.13%) pytest
12 12 (1.71%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 12 (1.71%) Celery
12 12 (1.71%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (1.71%) Keycloak
12 12 (1.71%) LangGraph
12 12 (1.71%) Vue
13 10 (1.42%) Next.js
14 9 (1.28%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.55%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.69%) Distributed Computing
4 27 (3.84%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.56%) AI Agents
5 25 (3.56%) Algorithms
6 24 (3.41%) Hedge funds
7 19 (2.70%) Equities
8 14 (1.99%) Derivative
8 14 (1.99%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.42%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.00%) PKI
13 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.85%) PropTech
14 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.55%) Linux
2 11 (1.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (62.45%) Software Engineering
2 240 (34.14%) AI
3 87 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
4 83 (11.81%) CI/CD
5 74 (10.53%) Agile
6 65 (9.25%) DevOps
7 64 (9.10%) Fintech
8 61 (8.68%) LLM
9 54 (7.68%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (7.25%) Machine Learning
11 46 (6.54%) Clean Code
11 46 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
12 44 (6.26%) Computer Science
13 43 (6.12%) Observability
14 42 (5.97%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (5.83%) Infrastructure as Code
15 41 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 41 (5.83%) Technical Leadership
16 39 (5.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 703 (100.00%) Python
2 87 (12.38%) C++
3 78 (11.10%) SQL
4 59 (8.39%) TypeScript
5 43 (6.12%) C#
6 40 (5.69%) Java
7 26 (3.70%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.27%) Go
9 16 (2.28%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.13%) Rust
11 12 (1.71%) R
12 11 (1.56%) Ruby
13 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Julia
15 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 67 (9.53%) Degree
2 49 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 29 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 28 (3.98%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.28%) PhD
8 13 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CEH
9 4 (0.57%) CISSP
9 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.57%) GCIA
9 4 (0.57%) GCIH
9 4 (0.57%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.41%) QA
2 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (8.25%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.70%) Ansible
3 10 (1.42%) Grafana
4 4 (0.57%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (3.13%) Databricks
2 18 (2.56%) Google
3 11 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.14%) Intel
5 8 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.85%) Splunk
7 4 (0.57%) Palantir
8 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.43%) 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