Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 312 362
Rank change year-on-year +10 +50 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 494 369 639
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.95% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.05% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 414 295 573
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -

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 77,705 35,001 83,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 89.71% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 52,976 20,178 62,800
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -35 285 £100,000 -9.09% 17
South East +61 88 £65,000 +4.00% 11
North of England +11 62 £90,000 +28.57% 4
North West +36 45 £90,000 +9.09% 3
Midlands -11 32 £65,000 +20.93% 2
West Midlands -6 29 £65,000 +85.71% 2
South West -48 13 £62,500 - 5
North East - 12 £100,000 -
East of England -16 11 £55,000 -4.35% 1
Yorkshire -41 5 £100,000 +60.00% 1
East Midlands -28 3 £100,000 +45.45%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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.

1 494 (100.00%) Python
2 265 (53.64%) Software Engineering
3 156 (31.58%) AI
4 148 (29.96%) AWS
5 84 (17.00%) C++
6 81 (16.40%) SQL
7 79 (15.99%) Agile
8 77 (15.59%) Degree
9 72 (14.57%) Azure
10 71 (14.37%) Fintech
11 63 (12.75%) CI/CD
11 63 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
12 60 (12.15%) Computer Science
13 57 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 54 (10.93%) SaaS
15 49 (9.92%) Django
15 49 (9.92%) TypeScript
16 48 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
17 47 (9.51%) DevOps
17 47 (9.51%) FastAPI
17 47 (9.51%) GCP
18 46 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
19 45 (9.11%) Machine Learning
20 42 (8.50%) Terraform
21 40 (8.10%) Kubernetes
21 40 (8.10%) QA
22 39 (7.89%) Git
23 36 (7.29%) Data Pipeline
24 35 (7.09%) Docker
24 35 (7.09%) Linux

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 21 (4.25%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.05%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 148 (29.96%) AWS
2 72 (14.57%) Azure
3 54 (10.93%) SaaS
4 47 (9.51%) GCP
5 21 (4.25%) Amazon S3
6 20 (4.05%) GitHub
7 18 (3.64%) Snowflake
8 17 (3.44%) Serverless
9 13 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.82%) IaaS
12 9 (1.82%) PaaS
13 8 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (1.42%) Azure Stack
15 6 (1.21%) Anthropic Claude
16 5 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.44%) Multicast
2 4 (0.81%) Broadband
3 3 (0.61%) HTTP
4 2 (0.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) IPv4
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
5 1 (0.20%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.06%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.43%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.02%) MySQL
6 10 (2.02%) Power BI
6 10 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.82%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.62%) Tableau
9 6 (1.21%) Big Data
10 5 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.01%) Redis
11 4 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.81%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 39 (7.89%) Git
2 18 (3.64%) JIRA
3 6 (1.21%) Selenium
4 5 (1.01%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (20.24%) Finance
2 47 (9.51%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.48%) Banking
4 31 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.83%) Games
6 11 (2.23%) Front Office
6 11 (2.23%) Legal
6 11 (2.23%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.62%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.81%) Automotive
9 4 (0.81%) Law
9 4 (0.81%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.61%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.40%) Advertising
11 2 (0.40%) Retail
12 1 (0.20%) Back Office
12 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (9.92%) Django
2 47 (9.51%) FastAPI
3 29 (5.87%) React
4 24 (4.86%) Flask
5 22 (4.45%) Kafka
6 20 (4.05%) Node.js
7 18 (3.64%) pytest
8 17 (3.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 17 (3.44%) FIX Protocol
8 17 (3.44%) RESTful
9 13 (2.63%) REST
9 13 (2.63%) SQLAlchemy
10 11 (2.23%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.23%) PySpark
11 10 (2.02%) HTML
12 9 (1.82%) Celery
13 8 (1.62%) Playwright
13 8 (1.62%) Redux
14 7 (1.42%) Vue
15 6 (1.21%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.67%) Algorithms
3 25 (5.06%) Derivative
3 25 (5.06%) Equities
3 25 (5.06%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.06%) Hedge funds
4 24 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.24%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (1.82%) Robotics
7 9 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 8 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.42%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.42%) PropTech
10 6 (1.21%) CUDA
10 6 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.01%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.09%) Linux
2 9 (1.82%) Unix
2 9 (1.82%) Windows
3 8 (1.62%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (53.64%) Software Engineering
2 156 (31.58%) AI
3 79 (15.99%) Agile
4 71 (14.37%) Fintech
5 63 (12.75%) CI/CD
6 60 (12.15%) Computer Science
7 57 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
8 47 (9.51%) DevOps
9 46 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (9.11%) Machine Learning
11 36 (7.29%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (6.68%) Analytics
12 33 (6.68%) Technical Leadership
13 32 (6.48%) Data Science
13 32 (6.48%) Microservices
13 32 (6.48%) Test Automation
14 31 (6.28%) SDLC
15 30 (6.07%) Data Engineering
16 29 (5.87%) TDD
17 28 (5.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 494 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (17.00%) C++
3 81 (16.40%) SQL
4 49 (9.92%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.48%) C#
6 24 (4.86%) JavaScript
7 22 (4.45%) Java
8 11 (2.23%) Bash
8 11 (2.23%) Go
9 9 (1.82%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.62%) Rust
11 5 (1.01%) C
12 4 (0.81%) Julia
12 4 (0.81%) Ruby
12 4 (0.81%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (15.59%) Degree
2 63 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (5.06%) Master's Degree
4 19 (3.85%) PhD
5 17 (3.44%) CISSP
6 9 (1.82%) CCSK
7 8 (1.62%) CISA
7 8 (1.62%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.01%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.81%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.10%) QA
2 18 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.82%) NIST
4 8 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (7.09%) Docker
2 5 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.01%) KVM
2 5 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (8.50%) Terraform
2 40 (8.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.01%) Grafana
4 4 (0.81%) Ansible
4 4 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (3.85%) Google
2 8 (1.62%) Databricks
2 8 (1.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.62%) OpenAI
3 5 (1.01%) VMware
4 4 (0.81%) Palantir
5 3 (0.61%) Splunk