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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 328 256
Rank change year-on-year +53 -72 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 701 346 681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.80% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.88% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 586 239 604
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,125 £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 £117,500 £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 96,649 39,098 62,464
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 90.50% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,643 23,014 36,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,589 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% -0.91% -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 6 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 6 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 -20 360 £100,000 -9.09% 376
South East +40 91 £80,000 +6.67% 33
North of England +7 83 £80,000 +14.29% 32
South West -32 61 £75,000 +7.14% 36
East of England +23 59 £75,000 +15.38% 30
Midlands -12 57 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North West +12 50 £75,000 +7.14% 14
West Midlands -1 40 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North East -40 26 £85,000 +183.33% 5
East Midlands -22 17 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Yorkshire -28 7 £100,000 +60.00% 14
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 701 (100.00%) Python
2 443 (63.20%) Software Engineering
3 242 (34.52%) AI
4 238 (33.95%) AWS
5 126 (17.97%) Azure
6 88 (12.55%) C++
7 83 (11.84%) CI/CD
8 82 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 80 (11.41%) GCP
10 74 (10.56%) Agile
11 72 (10.27%) SQL
12 70 (9.99%) FastAPI
13 69 (9.84%) Django
14 65 (9.27%) Degree
15 64 (9.13%) LLM
16 63 (8.99%) Docker
16 63 (8.99%) Fintech
17 62 (8.84%) DevOps
18 60 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
18 60 (8.56%) TypeScript
19 57 (8.13%) React
20 56 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
21 54 (7.70%) Machine Learning
22 52 (7.42%) Terraform
23 51 (7.28%) Clean Code
24 48 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
25 46 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
26 45 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
26 45 (6.42%) Kubernetes
27 44 (6.28%) Flask

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 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 238 (33.95%) AWS
2 126 (17.97%) Azure
3 80 (11.41%) GCP
4 44 (6.28%) SaaS
5 14 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (1.85%) GitHub
6 13 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.85%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.71%) Amazon Bedrock
8 11 (1.57%) Datadog
8 11 (1.57%) Serverless
9 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.85%) Multicast
2 12 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.00%) MQTT
4 5 (0.71%) DNS
5 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 3 (0.43%) BGP
6 3 (0.43%) Broadband
6 3 (0.43%) OSPF
7 2 (0.29%) DHCP
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.42%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.28%) MySQL
4 21 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.85%) Power BI
7 10 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.43%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.28%) Redis
9 6 (0.86%) Big Data
10 4 (0.57%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.57%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.43%) GIS
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.29%) Metadata
13 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (4.56%) Git
2 18 (2.57%) JIRA
3 15 (2.14%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.14%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 105 (14.98%) Finance
2 85 (12.13%) Social Skills
3 37 (5.28%) Banking
4 28 (3.99%) Front Office
5 22 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.14%) Marketing
6 15 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.85%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.00%) Automotive
8 7 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.71%) Legal
10 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.43%) Games
12 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.14%) Advertising
13 1 (0.14%) Law
13 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.99%) FastAPI
2 69 (9.84%) Django
3 57 (8.13%) React
4 52 (7.42%) Terraform
5 44 (6.28%) Flask
6 35 (4.99%) Kafka
7 24 (3.42%) RESTful
8 20 (2.85%) LangChain
8 20 (2.85%) SQLAlchemy
9 19 (2.71%) Node.js
9 19 (2.71%) REST
10 16 (2.28%) LangGraph
10 16 (2.28%) pytest
11 14 (2.00%) Vue
12 13 (1.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (1.85%) FIX Protocol
12 13 (1.85%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.71%) CrewAI
13 12 (1.71%) pydantic
14 11 (1.57%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.99%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.85%) Distributed Computing
4 29 (4.14%) AI Agents
5 28 (3.99%) Algorithms
5 28 (3.99%) Cyber Threat
6 27 (3.85%) Hedge funds
7 20 (2.85%) Equities
8 15 (2.14%) Derivative
8 15 (2.14%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.00%) PKI
13 6 (0.86%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.86%) PropTech
14 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.85%) Linux
2 11 (1.57%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (63.20%) Software Engineering
2 242 (34.52%) AI
3 83 (11.84%) CI/CD
4 82 (11.70%) Full-Stack Development
5 74 (10.56%) Agile
6 64 (9.13%) LLM
7 63 (8.99%) Fintech
8 62 (8.84%) DevOps
9 56 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (7.70%) Machine Learning
11 51 (7.28%) Clean Code
12 46 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (6.13%) Data Pipeline
14 43 (6.13%) Observability
15 41 (5.85%) Computer Science
15 41 (5.85%) Infrastructure as Code
15 41 (5.85%) Mentoring
15 41 (5.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 41 (5.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 701 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (12.55%) C++
3 72 (10.27%) SQL
4 60 (8.56%) TypeScript
5 42 (5.99%) C#
6 39 (5.56%) Java
7 25 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.42%) Go
9 16 (2.28%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.14%) R
10 15 (2.14%) Rust
11 11 (1.57%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) Julia
14 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 65 (9.27%) Degree
2 48 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.28%) SC Cleared
5 28 (3.99%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.42%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.43%) 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 (3.42%) QA
2 10 (1.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (8.99%) 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 45 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.71%) Ansible
3 10 (1.43%) Grafana
4 5 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (3.42%) Databricks
2 23 (3.28%) Google
3 12 (1.71%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.14%) Intel
5 8 (1.14%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.86%) 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%) Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle
9 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.14%) VMware