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 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 302 386
Rank change year-on-year -6 +84 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 457 391 552
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 1.00% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 1.12% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 370 360 500
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £46,200
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -

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 75,631 34,943 79,067
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 89.34% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 49,894 21,346 60,262
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,531 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +10.38% -11.67%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -41 268 £100,000 -9.09% 49
South East +25 73 £65,000 +4.00% 27
North of England +1 56 £97,500 +39.29% 13
North West +26 42 £90,000 +9.09% 7
Midlands -3 27 £65,000 +67.74% 5
West Midlands -4 21 £65,000 +85.71% 4
South West - 20 £62,500 - 2
East of England -13 11 £55,000 - 8
North East -18 10 £100,000 - 2
East Midlands -29 6 £85,000 +25.93% 1
Yorkshire -54 4 £100,000 +56.86% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 457 (100.00%) Python
2 236 (51.64%) Software Engineering
3 142 (31.07%) AWS
4 141 (30.85%) AI
5 86 (18.82%) SQL
6 77 (16.85%) Agile
7 75 (16.41%) Azure
8 72 (15.75%) Degree
9 70 (15.32%) C++
10 69 (15.10%) Fintech
11 65 (14.22%) CI/CD
12 59 (12.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 58 (12.69%) Computer Science
14 56 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (11.60%) SaaS
16 50 (10.94%) DevOps
17 49 (10.72%) GCP
18 46 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
19 45 (9.85%) Git
20 44 (9.63%) Terraform
21 43 (9.41%) FastAPI
21 43 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
22 42 (9.19%) TypeScript
23 40 (8.75%) Django
23 40 (8.75%) Machine Learning
24 38 (8.32%) Kubernetes
25 37 (8.10%) Linux
26 36 (7.88%) QA
27 34 (7.44%) Data Pipeline
27 34 (7.44%) Test Automation

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 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.16%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 142 (31.07%) AWS
2 75 (16.41%) Azure
3 53 (11.60%) SaaS
4 49 (10.72%) GCP
5 23 (5.03%) GitHub
6 18 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.50%) Serverless
7 16 (3.50%) Snowflake
8 13 (2.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.41%) IaaS
9 11 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.41%) PaaS
9 11 (2.41%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.31%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.88%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.28%) Multicast
2 6 (1.31%) HTTP
3 5 (1.09%) DNS
3 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.88%) Broadband
4 4 (0.88%) SMTP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) IPv4
5 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.25%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.16%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.84%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.19%) MySQL
5 10 (2.19%) Power BI
5 10 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (2.19%) Tableau
6 9 (1.97%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.88%) Big Data
8 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.88%) RDBMS
8 4 (0.88%) Redis
9 3 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.66%) Flink
9 3 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (9.85%) Git
2 16 (3.50%) JIRA
3 6 (1.31%) GitLab
3 6 (1.31%) Selenium
4 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (21.23%) Finance
2 43 (9.41%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (7.22%) Banking
4 14 (3.06%) Front Office
4 14 (3.06%) Games
4 14 (3.06%) Legal
5 9 (1.97%) Manufacturing
6 8 (1.75%) Retail Banking
7 4 (0.88%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.66%) Law
8 3 (0.66%) Tech for Good
8 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.44%) Advertising
9 2 (0.44%) Automotive
9 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.22%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.41%) FastAPI
2 40 (8.75%) Django
3 27 (5.91%) React
4 23 (5.03%) Kafka
5 21 (4.60%) Node.js
6 20 (4.38%) Flask
7 16 (3.50%) pytest
7 16 (3.50%) RESTful
8 15 (3.28%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 15 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
9 13 (2.84%) PySpark
10 12 (2.63%) REST
11 11 (2.41%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.19%) SQLAlchemy
13 9 (1.97%) HTML
13 9 (1.97%) Redux
14 8 (1.75%) Celery
14 8 (1.75%) Playwright
15 6 (1.31%) Puppeteer
16 5 (1.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.13%) Hedge funds
3 26 (5.69%) Fixed Income
4 24 (5.25%) Algorithms
5 23 (5.03%) Derivative
5 23 (5.03%) Equities
5 23 (5.03%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.97%) Robotics
9 7 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.53%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.31%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.31%) CUDA
11 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) GNSS
12 4 (0.88%) PropTech
12 4 (0.88%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.10%) Linux
2 15 (3.28%) Windows
3 11 (2.41%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (51.64%) Software Engineering
2 141 (30.85%) AI
3 77 (16.85%) Agile
4 69 (15.10%) Fintech
5 65 (14.22%) CI/CD
6 58 (12.69%) Computer Science
7 56 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 50 (10.94%) DevOps
9 46 (10.07%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (8.75%) Machine Learning
11 34 (7.44%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (7.44%) Test Automation
12 32 (7.00%) Analytics
13 30 (6.56%) TDD
14 27 (5.91%) Data Engineering
14 27 (5.91%) Data Science
14 27 (5.91%) SDLC
15 26 (5.69%) Cybersecurity
15 26 (5.69%) Observability
15 26 (5.69%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 457 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (18.82%) SQL
3 70 (15.32%) C++
4 42 (9.19%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.47%) C#
6 21 (4.60%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.38%) Java
8 13 (2.84%) Bash
9 12 (2.63%) PowerShell
10 9 (1.97%) Go
11 6 (1.31%) Rust
12 4 (0.88%) C
12 4 (0.88%) Scala
13 2 (0.44%) Julia
13 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.44%) PHP
13 2 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (15.75%) Degree
2 59 (12.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (4.81%) CISSP
4 18 (3.94%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.84%) PhD
6 11 (2.41%) CCSK
6 11 (2.41%) CISA
6 11 (2.41%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (1.09%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.88%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.88%) QA
2 17 (3.72%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.63%) NIST
4 10 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (6.56%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.88%) KVM
2 4 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (9.63%) Terraform
2 38 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.31%) Grafana
4 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.66%) Argo
6 2 (0.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (5.03%) Google
2 11 (2.41%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.97%) Databricks
4 7 (1.53%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.88%) VMware
6 2 (0.44%) Palantir
7 1 (0.22%) Splunk