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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 331 270
Rank change year-on-year +62 -61 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 704 366 704
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.85% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 588 261 617
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
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 96,166 39,010 65,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 90.46% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,635 23,328 38,436
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 25 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 25 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 -22 365 £100,000 -9.09% 328
South East +36 98 £75,000 +7.14% 33
North of England +6 85 £80,000 +20.75% 25
South West -35 58 £75,000 +7.14% 27
Midlands -3 54 £70,000 +7.69% 11
East of England +25 53 £74,000 +13.85% 30
North West +16 52 £75,000 +7.14% 12
West Midlands -12 40 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -45 26 £85,000 +183.33% 1
East Midlands -27 14 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -31 7 £100,000 +66.67% 13
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 704 (100.00%) Python
2 437 (62.07%) Software Engineering
3 235 (33.38%) AI
4 230 (32.67%) AWS
5 118 (16.76%) Azure
6 90 (12.78%) C++
7 88 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (12.22%) CI/CD
9 78 (11.08%) GCP
9 78 (11.08%) SQL
10 76 (10.80%) Django
11 75 (10.65%) Agile
12 73 (10.37%) FastAPI
13 71 (10.09%) Degree
14 66 (9.38%) DevOps
15 65 (9.23%) Fintech
16 60 (8.52%) TypeScript
17 59 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
18 58 (8.24%) Docker
19 57 (8.10%) LLM
19 57 (8.10%) React
20 55 (7.81%) Terraform
21 54 (7.67%) Problem-Solving
22 53 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
23 51 (7.24%) Machine Learning
24 50 (7.10%) Flask
24 50 (7.10%) SaaS
25 47 (6.68%) Clean Code
25 47 (6.68%) Computer Science
26 46 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement

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 (2.41%) 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
1 230 (32.67%) AWS
2 118 (16.76%) Azure
3 78 (11.08%) GCP
4 50 (7.10%) 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
7 11 (1.56%) GitHub
8 10 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.28%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.99%) dbt
12 6 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (0.85%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.85%) Multicast
2 12 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.71%) DNS
4 4 (0.57%) MQTT
4 4 (0.57%) SMS
5 3 (0.43%) BGP
5 3 (0.43%) Broadband
5 3 (0.43%) OSPF
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 2 (0.28%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.69%) 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 (1.70%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.42%) Redis
9 7 (0.99%) Big Data
10 5 (0.71%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.43%) GIS
13 2 (0.28%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (4.55%) Git
2 18 (2.56%) 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
General
1 98 (13.92%) Finance
2 78 (11.08%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.40%) Banking
4 21 (2.98%) Front Office
5 20 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.28%) Marketing
9 7 (0.99%) 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%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (10.80%) Django
2 73 (10.37%) FastAPI
3 57 (8.10%) React
4 55 (7.81%) Terraform
5 50 (7.10%) Flask
6 33 (4.69%) Kafka
7 24 (3.41%) RESTful
8 22 (3.13%) REST
9 21 (2.98%) SQLAlchemy
10 20 (2.84%) Node.js
11 16 (2.27%) pytest
12 14 (1.99%) LangChain
13 13 (1.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 13 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
14 12 (1.70%) Celery
14 12 (1.70%) Keycloak
14 12 (1.70%) Vue
15 10 (1.42%) Next.js
16 9 (1.28%) LangGraph
17 8 (1.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.69%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.69%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.55%) Algorithms
6 22 (3.13%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.98%) Hedge funds
8 20 (2.84%) Equities
9 15 (2.13%) Derivative
9 15 (2.13%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.99%) PKI
15 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
15 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.85%) PropTech
16 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.54%) Linux
2 11 (1.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (62.07%) Software Engineering
2 235 (33.38%) AI
3 88 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 86 (12.22%) CI/CD
5 75 (10.65%) Agile
6 66 (9.38%) DevOps
7 65 (9.23%) Fintech
8 57 (8.10%) LLM
9 54 (7.67%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (7.24%) Machine Learning
11 47 (6.68%) Clean Code
11 47 (6.68%) Computer Science
12 46 (6.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (6.25%) Observability
15 42 (5.97%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
16 41 (5.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 39 (5.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 704 (100.00%) Python
2 90 (12.78%) C++
3 78 (11.08%) SQL
4 60 (8.52%) TypeScript
5 44 (6.25%) C#
6 40 (5.68%) Java
7 26 (3.69%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.27%) Go
9 16 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.13%) Rust
11 12 (1.70%) Ruby
12 9 (1.28%) R
13 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Julia
Qualifications
1 71 (10.09%) Degree
2 53 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 29 (4.12%) Master's Degree
4 29 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.41%) PhD
7 13 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.57%) CEH
8 4 (0.57%) CISSP
8 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.57%) GCIA
8 4 (0.57%) GCIH
8 4 (0.57%) OSCP
9 1 (0.14%) CCIE
9 1 (0.14%) CCNP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.69%) 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%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (8.24%) 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 44 (6.25%) 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 15 (2.13%) Google
3 11 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.28%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.14%) Intel
7 6 (0.85%) Splunk
8 4 (0.57%) Palantir
9 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.43%) Revolut
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Arista
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco
10 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.14%) VMware