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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 327 259
Rank change year-on-year +50 -68 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 705 341 678
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.80% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.88% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 589 234 607
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,813 £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 £82,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +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 96,394 38,710 60,932
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.53% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,344 23,101 34,738
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.81% -2.73% -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 13 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 13 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 -15 362 £100,000 -9.09% 304
South East +33 85 £80,000 +6.67% 23
North of England +3 78 £80,000 +14.29% 19
East of England +25 68 £80,000 +23.08% 26
South West -28 63 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Midlands -9 58 £70,000 +7.69% 11
North West +4 45 £71,991 +2.84% 8
West Midlands -8 40 £77,500 +29.17% 5
North East -43 27 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -23 18 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -30 6 £100,000 +60.00% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 705 (100.00%) Python
2 449 (63.69%) Software Engineering
3 243 (34.47%) AI
4 242 (34.33%) AWS
5 133 (18.87%) Azure
6 85 (12.06%) C++
7 83 (11.77%) CI/CD
8 81 (11.49%) GCP
9 78 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 76 (10.78%) Agile
11 73 (10.35%) SQL
12 72 (10.21%) FastAPI
13 71 (10.07%) LLM
14 66 (9.36%) Docker
15 64 (9.08%) Django
16 63 (8.94%) Degree
17 61 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
18 60 (8.51%) DevOps
18 60 (8.51%) Fintech
18 60 (8.51%) TypeScript
19 59 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
20 56 (7.94%) React
21 55 (7.80%) Clean Code
22 54 (7.66%) Machine Learning
22 54 (7.66%) Terraform
23 51 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
24 46 (6.52%) Kubernetes
25 45 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
25 45 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
26 43 (6.10%) 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 16 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 242 (34.33%) AWS
2 133 (18.87%) Azure
3 81 (11.49%) GCP
4 41 (5.82%) SaaS
5 16 (2.27%) GitHub
6 15 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
6 15 (2.13%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.13%) Snowflake
7 14 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (1.56%) Datadog
9 10 (1.42%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.42%) Serverless
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.13%) Azure AI
10 8 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (1.13%) dbt
11 7 (0.99%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.84%) Multicast
1 13 (1.84%) TCP/IP
2 8 (1.13%) MQTT
3 6 (0.85%) DNS
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%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) SSL
7 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 21 (2.98%) MySQL
4 19 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.13%) Power BI
6 11 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.42%) Redis
8 8 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.71%) Big Data
9 5 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
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%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.43%) GIS
11 3 (0.43%) Metadata
12 2 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (4.96%) Git
2 18 (2.55%) JIRA
3 15 (2.13%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) MLflow
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
General
1 110 (15.60%) Finance
2 89 (12.62%) Social Skills
3 42 (5.96%) Banking
4 31 (4.40%) Front Office
5 22 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.55%) Marketing
7 15 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 7 (0.99%) Automotive
9 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.57%) Legal
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Law
14 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.21%) FastAPI
2 64 (9.08%) Django
3 56 (7.94%) React
4 54 (7.66%) Terraform
5 42 (5.96%) Flask
6 34 (4.82%) Kafka
7 26 (3.69%) LangChain
8 23 (3.26%) RESTful
9 21 (2.98%) REST
10 20 (2.84%) LangGraph
10 20 (2.84%) Node.js
10 20 (2.84%) SQLAlchemy
11 17 (2.41%) pytest
12 15 (2.13%) CrewAI
12 15 (2.13%) pydantic
13 13 (1.84%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 13 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
13 13 (1.84%) Keycloak
13 13 (1.84%) Vue
14 10 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.81%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.11%) AI Agents
4 33 (4.68%) Distributed Computing
5 30 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 30 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (4.26%) Hedge funds
6 20 (2.84%) Equities
7 15 (2.13%) Derivative
7 15 (2.13%) Fixed Income
8 13 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.99%) PKI
12 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.85%) PropTech
13 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.96%) Linux
2 11 (1.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.28%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) macOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (63.69%) Software Engineering
2 243 (34.47%) AI
3 83 (11.77%) CI/CD
4 78 (11.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 76 (10.78%) Agile
6 71 (10.07%) LLM
7 61 (8.65%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (8.51%) DevOps
8 60 (8.51%) Fintech
9 55 (7.80%) Clean Code
10 54 (7.66%) Machine Learning
11 51 (7.23%) Cybersecurity
12 45 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (6.10%) Data Pipeline
13 43 (6.10%) Observability
14 42 (5.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 42 (5.96%) Mentoring
15 41 (5.82%) Computer Science
15 41 (5.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 41 (5.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 705 (100.00%) Python
2 85 (12.06%) C++
3 73 (10.35%) SQL
4 60 (8.51%) TypeScript
5 41 (5.82%) C#
6 39 (5.53%) Java
7 24 (3.40%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.12%) Go
9 18 (2.55%) R
10 16 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.27%) Rust
11 11 (1.56%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.28%) Bash
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) Julia
Qualifications
1 63 (8.94%) Degree
2 45 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (5.82%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.40%) SC Cleared
5 26 (3.69%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.13%) PhD
8 13 (1.84%) 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 23 (3.26%) QA
2 9 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (9.36%) 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 46 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.84%) Ansible
3 10 (1.42%) Grafana
4 5 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (3.69%) Databricks
1 26 (3.69%) Google
2 14 (1.99%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
3 10 (1.42%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.13%) Intel
5 6 (0.85%) Splunk
6 4 (0.57%) Palantir
7 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.43%) Revolut
8 2 (0.28%) Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.14%) Arista
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco
9 1 (0.14%) F5
9 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle
9 1 (0.14%) Perforce
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.14%) VMware