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 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 318 270
Rank change year-on-year +48 -48 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 676 371 721
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.86% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.95% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 560 267 639
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £125,000
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% -

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 92,123 38,992 65,936
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 90.33% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 65,167 23,479 42,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 5 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 5 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 -23 354 £100,000 -9.09% 222
South East +52 100 £65,000 +4.00% 20
North of England +11 84 £80,000 +20.75% 16
North West +34 51 £73,496 +4.99% 6
South West -42 51 £75,000 +20.00% 21
Midlands -5 49 £70,000 +7.69% 8
East of England -1 44 £77,500 +24.00% 11
West Midlands -4 39 £71,991 +19.99%
North East -35 28 £82,500 +175.00%
East Midlands -32 10 £45,000 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire -46 5 £100,000 +66.67% 10
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 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.

1 676 (100.00%) Python
2 403 (59.62%) Software Engineering
3 218 (32.25%) AI
3 218 (32.25%) AWS
4 96 (14.20%) Azure
5 91 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 91 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 81 (11.98%) Agile
6 81 (11.98%) C++
7 79 (11.69%) SQL
8 78 (11.54%) Django
9 72 (10.65%) FastAPI
10 71 (10.50%) GCP
11 70 (10.36%) Degree
12 68 (10.06%) DevOps
13 66 (9.76%) Fintech
14 62 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
15 61 (9.02%) TypeScript
16 59 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
16 59 (8.73%) React
16 59 (8.73%) Terraform
17 58 (8.58%) Machine Learning
18 55 (8.14%) Docker
19 52 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
20 51 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
20 51 (7.54%) SaaS
21 50 (7.40%) Flask
21 50 (7.40%) LLM
22 49 (7.25%) Computer Science
23 48 (7.10%) 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 20 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 218 (32.25%) AWS
2 96 (14.20%) Azure
3 71 (10.50%) GCP
4 51 (7.54%) SaaS
5 15 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 15 (2.22%) Serverless
6 14 (2.07%) Snowflake
7 13 (1.92%) Power Platform
8 11 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (1.48%) Datadog
10 9 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (1.33%) GitHub
11 8 (1.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.04%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.04%) dbt
13 5 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.78%) Multicast
1 12 (1.78%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.74%) Broadband
2 5 (0.74%) DNS
3 4 (0.59%) SMS
4 3 (0.44%) BGP
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
5 2 (0.30%) OSPF
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.15%) DHCP
6 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) IPv4
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.15%) VLAN
6 1 (0.15%) VPN
6 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.47%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.70%) MySQL
4 19 (2.81%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.78%) Power BI
8 11 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.48%) Redis
10 7 (1.04%) Big Data
11 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.59%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.44%) GIS
14 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (5.33%) Git
2 18 (2.66%) JIRA
3 15 (2.22%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.18%) GitLab
5 5 (0.74%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (13.17%) Finance
2 74 (10.95%) Social Skills
3 27 (3.99%) Banking
4 18 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.07%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.78%) Front Office
8 7 (1.04%) Automotive
8 7 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.89%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.89%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.74%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.59%) Games
11 4 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.59%) Legal
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.44%) Marketing
12 3 (0.44%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.30%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (11.54%) Django
2 72 (10.65%) FastAPI
3 59 (8.73%) React
3 59 (8.73%) Terraform
4 50 (7.40%) Flask
5 31 (4.59%) Kafka
6 24 (3.55%) Node.js
6 24 (3.55%) REST
6 24 (3.55%) SQLAlchemy
7 22 (3.25%) RESTful
8 15 (2.22%) pytest
9 14 (2.07%) Celery
10 13 (1.92%) Vue
11 12 (1.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 12 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
12 10 (1.48%) Next.js
13 9 (1.33%) Keycloak
14 8 (1.18%) HTML
14 8 (1.18%) LangChain
14 8 (1.18%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.54%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.59%) Distributed Computing
4 27 (3.99%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.81%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (2.22%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.07%) Equities
8 13 (1.92%) Hedge funds
9 12 (1.78%) Derivative
9 12 (1.78%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.18%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.04%) PKI
12 7 (1.04%) PropTech
13 6 (0.89%) CUDA
13 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.92%) Linux
2 11 (1.63%) Windows
3 8 (1.18%) Unix
4 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (59.62%) Software Engineering
2 218 (32.25%) AI
3 91 (13.46%) CI/CD
3 91 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
4 81 (11.98%) Agile
5 68 (10.06%) DevOps
6 66 (9.76%) Fintech
7 58 (8.58%) Machine Learning
8 52 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 50 (7.40%) LLM
11 49 (7.25%) Computer Science
12 48 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (6.95%) Observability
14 45 (6.66%) Clean Code
15 41 (6.07%) Data Engineering
15 41 (6.07%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (6.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 39 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (5.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 676 (100.00%) Python
2 81 (11.98%) C++
3 79 (11.69%) SQL
4 61 (9.02%) TypeScript
5 40 (5.92%) C#
6 36 (5.33%) Java
7 27 (3.99%) JavaScript
8 21 (3.11%) Go
9 16 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.78%) Ruby
10 12 (1.78%) Rust
11 4 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.44%) C
12 3 (0.44%) Julia
13 2 (0.30%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (10.36%) Degree
2 59 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.03%) Master's Degree
4 33 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 25 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.96%) PhD
7 18 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.59%) CEH
9 4 (0.59%) CISSP
9 4 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.59%) GCIA
9 4 (0.59%) GCIH
9 4 (0.59%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) CCIE
10 1 (0.15%) CCNP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.29%) QA
2 11 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.59%) SLA
4 3 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (8.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.66%) Ansible
3 10 (1.48%) Grafana
4 4 (0.59%) Kibana
5 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (2.81%) Databricks
2 10 (1.48%) Dynatrace
3 9 (1.33%) Google
3 9 (1.33%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.18%) Intel
4 8 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 6 (0.89%) Splunk
6 4 (0.59%) Palantir
7 3 (0.44%) Revolut
8 2 (0.30%) VMware
9 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.15%) Arista
9 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco
9 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv