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 3 October 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 336 262
Rank change year-on-year +71 -74 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 711 356 695
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.82% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.91% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 595 250 611
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £75,000
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 £116,500 £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 96,605 39,114 63,371
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 90.49% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67,796 23,044 36,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -16 369 £100,000 -9.09% 398
South East +36 93 £80,000 +6.67% 48
North of England +13 85 £80,000 +14.29% 49
South West -31 61 £75,000 +7.14% 52
Midlands -5 57 £70,000 +7.69% 29
East of England +9 56 £77,500 +19.23% 41
North West +11 52 £75,000 +7.14% 22
West Midlands -7 40 £77,500 +29.17% 14
North East -37 26 £85,000 +183.33% 10
East Midlands -30 17 £45,000 -33.33% 15
Yorkshire -35 7 £100,000 +60.00% 18
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 October 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.

1 711 (100.00%) Python
2 448 (63.01%) Software Engineering
3 244 (34.32%) AI
4 239 (33.61%) AWS
5 126 (17.72%) Azure
6 89 (12.52%) C++
7 84 (11.81%) CI/CD
7 84 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 80 (11.25%) GCP
9 75 (10.55%) SQL
10 74 (10.41%) Agile
11 71 (9.99%) FastAPI
12 70 (9.85%) Django
13 67 (9.42%) Degree
14 65 (9.14%) LLM
15 63 (8.86%) DevOps
15 63 (8.86%) Fintech
16 61 (8.58%) Docker
17 60 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
17 60 (8.44%) TypeScript
18 57 (8.02%) React
19 56 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
20 53 (7.45%) Machine Learning
20 53 (7.45%) Terraform
21 50 (7.03%) Clean Code
22 49 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
22 49 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
23 47 (6.61%) SaaS
24 46 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
25 44 (6.19%) 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 17 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.11%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.69%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 239 (33.61%) AWS
2 126 (17.72%) Azure
3 80 (11.25%) GCP
4 47 (6.61%) SaaS
5 14 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (1.97%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.83%) GitHub
6 13 (1.83%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
8 11 (1.55%) Datadog
8 11 (1.55%) Serverless
9 10 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (0.98%) Azure AI
11 7 (0.98%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.83%) Multicast
2 12 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.70%) DNS
3 5 (0.70%) MQTT
4 4 (0.56%) SMS
5 3 (0.42%) BGP
5 3 (0.42%) Broadband
5 3 (0.42%) 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 60 (8.44%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.50%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.23%) MySQL
4 21 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.83%) Power BI
7 10 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.27%) Redis
9 6 (0.84%) Big Data
10 4 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.56%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.42%) GIS
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.28%) Metadata
13 1 (0.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 32 (4.50%) Git
2 18 (2.53%) JIRA
3 15 (2.11%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 105 (14.77%) Finance
2 85 (11.95%) Social Skills
3 37 (5.20%) Banking
4 28 (3.94%) Front Office
5 22 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.11%) Marketing
6 15 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 7 (0.98%) Automotive
8 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.70%) Legal
10 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.42%) Games
12 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.14%) Advertising
13 1 (0.14%) Law
13 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.99%) FastAPI
2 70 (9.85%) Django
3 57 (8.02%) React
4 53 (7.45%) Terraform
5 44 (6.19%) Flask
6 33 (4.64%) Kafka
7 22 (3.09%) RESTful
8 21 (2.95%) LangChain
9 20 (2.81%) SQLAlchemy
10 19 (2.67%) Node.js
10 19 (2.67%) REST
11 16 (2.25%) LangGraph
11 16 (2.25%) pytest
12 14 (1.97%) Vue
13 13 (1.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 13 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
13 13 (1.83%) Keycloak
14 12 (1.69%) CrewAI
14 12 (1.69%) pydantic
15 11 (1.55%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.78%) Distributed Computing
4 29 (4.08%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.94%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.80%) Algorithms
6 27 (3.80%) Hedge funds
7 20 (2.81%) Equities
8 15 (2.11%) Derivative
8 15 (2.11%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.41%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.98%) PKI
13 6 (0.84%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.84%) PropTech
14 5 (0.70%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.77%) Linux
2 11 (1.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (63.01%) Software Engineering
2 244 (34.32%) AI
3 84 (11.81%) CI/CD
3 84 (11.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 74 (10.41%) Agile
5 65 (9.14%) LLM
6 63 (8.86%) DevOps
6 63 (8.86%) Fintech
7 56 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (7.45%) Machine Learning
9 50 (7.03%) Clean Code
10 49 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (6.19%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (6.05%) Observability
14 41 (5.77%) Computer Science
14 41 (5.77%) Data Engineering
14 41 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
14 41 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 41 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 711 (100.00%) Python
2 89 (12.52%) C++
3 75 (10.55%) SQL
4 60 (8.44%) TypeScript
5 43 (6.05%) C#
6 40 (5.63%) Java
7 25 (3.52%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.38%) Go
9 16 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.11%) R
10 15 (2.11%) Rust
11 11 (1.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) Julia
14 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 67 (9.42%) Degree
2 49 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.63%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.22%) SC Cleared
5 28 (3.94%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.38%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.39%) PhD
8 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) CEH
9 4 (0.56%) CISSP
9 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.56%) GCIA
9 4 (0.56%) GCIH
9 4 (0.56%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.38%) QA
2 10 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.56%) SLA
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (8.58%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.67%) Ansible
3 10 (1.41%) Grafana
4 5 (0.70%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (3.52%) Databricks
2 23 (3.23%) Google
3 12 (1.69%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.13%) Intel
5 8 (1.13%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.84%) Splunk
7 4 (0.56%) Palantir
8 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.42%) Revolut
9 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.14%) Arista
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco
9 1 (0.14%) Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle
9 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.14%) VMware