Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 303 332
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 564 405 721
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.95% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.05% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 474 296 648
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £82,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £86,250 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -21.59% +22.22% -2.70%

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 81,543 38,467 85,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 90.45% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57,406 23,001 62,519
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,501
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +6.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -27 320 £100,000 -9.09% 69
South East +56 99 £65,000 +4.00% 13
North of England +14 68 £85,000 +21.43% 14
North West +30 45 £77,500 -22.50% 9
South West -40 32 £75,000 +20.00% 16
West Midlands +12 31 £65,000 +85.71% 7
Midlands -5 31 £65,000 - 8
North East -28 18 £92,500 +208.33% 3
East of England -19 13 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Yorkshire -28 5 £100,000 +60.00% 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 564 (100.00%) Python
2 328 (58.16%) Software Engineering
3 190 (33.69%) AWS
4 189 (33.51%) AI
5 97 (17.20%) Agile
6 92 (16.31%) C++
7 84 (14.89%) SQL
8 83 (14.72%) Degree
9 82 (14.54%) Azure
10 78 (13.83%) Fintech
11 77 (13.65%) CI/CD
12 70 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
13 69 (12.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 65 (11.52%) Django
15 64 (11.35%) Computer Science
16 63 (11.17%) FastAPI
17 57 (10.11%) DevOps
17 57 (10.11%) GCP
17 57 (10.11%) TypeScript
18 55 (9.75%) Docker
18 55 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
19 53 (9.40%) Machine Learning
20 50 (8.87%) SaaS
21 49 (8.69%) Terraform
22 48 (8.51%) Kubernetes
23 46 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
24 45 (7.98%) React
25 43 (7.62%) Flask
26 42 (7.45%) Git
27 41 (7.27%) 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 27 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.66%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 190 (33.69%) AWS
2 82 (14.54%) Azure
3 57 (10.11%) GCP
4 50 (8.87%) SaaS
5 21 (3.72%) Amazon S3
6 19 (3.37%) Snowflake
7 17 (3.01%) GitHub
7 17 (3.01%) Serverless
8 12 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.95%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (1.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (1.24%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.24%) Azure Stack
13 6 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.01%) Multicast
2 5 (0.89%) Broadband
3 4 (0.71%) SMS
4 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.90%) MySQL
4 20 (3.55%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.01%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.77%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.77%) Power BI
7 10 (1.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.06%) Big Data
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.89%) Redis
10 4 (0.71%) Metadata
10 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.71%) Tableau
11 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.53%) GIS
Development Applications
1 42 (7.45%) Git
2 21 (3.72%) JIRA
3 12 (2.13%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.42%) GitLab
5 6 (1.06%) Selenium
6 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (19.15%) Finance
2 56 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 33 (5.85%) Banking
4 26 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (2.30%) Front Office
5 13 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (1.95%) Games
8 8 (1.42%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.24%) Legal
10 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Automotive
11 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.71%) Law
11 4 (0.71%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.35%) Advertising
13 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (11.52%) Django
2 63 (11.17%) FastAPI
3 45 (7.98%) React
4 43 (7.62%) Flask
5 26 (4.61%) Kafka
5 26 (4.61%) Node.js
6 23 (4.08%) SQLAlchemy
7 20 (3.55%) RESTful
8 19 (3.37%) pytest
9 17 (3.01%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 17 (3.01%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (2.66%) Celery
11 13 (2.30%) REST
12 11 (1.95%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.95%) Vue
13 10 (1.77%) HTML
14 8 (1.42%) Playwright
14 8 (1.42%) Redux
15 7 (1.24%) Next.js
15 7 (1.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.14%) Algorithms
4 27 (4.79%) Equities
5 25 (4.43%) Derivative
5 25 (4.43%) Distributed Computing
5 25 (4.43%) Fixed Income
6 15 (2.66%) Hedge funds
7 12 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.77%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.60%) Robotics
10 8 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.24%) PropTech
11 7 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.06%) CUDA
12 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.03%) Linux
2 8 (1.42%) Windows
3 5 (0.89%) Unix
4 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (58.16%) Software Engineering
2 189 (33.51%) AI
3 97 (17.20%) Agile
4 78 (13.83%) Fintech
5 77 (13.65%) CI/CD
6 70 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (11.35%) Computer Science
8 57 (10.11%) DevOps
9 53 (9.40%) Machine Learning
10 46 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 41 (7.27%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (7.09%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (6.91%) LLM
14 38 (6.74%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (6.21%) Data Science
15 35 (6.21%) Microservices
16 34 (6.03%) Observability
16 34 (6.03%) SDLC
17 33 (5.85%) Analytics
17 33 (5.85%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 564 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (16.31%) C++
3 84 (14.89%) SQL
4 57 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 39 (6.91%) C#
6 28 (4.96%) Java
7 27 (4.79%) JavaScript
8 15 (2.66%) Go
9 11 (1.95%) Rust
10 9 (1.60%) Ruby
11 7 (1.24%) Bash
12 6 (1.06%) C
12 6 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.71%) Julia
13 4 (0.71%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.18%) PHP
15 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (14.72%) Degree
2 69 (12.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.32%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.55%) PhD
5 14 (2.48%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.60%) CISSP
9 5 (0.89%) CCSK
10 4 (0.71%) CISA
10 4 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.91%) QA
2 18 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.89%) NIST
4 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (9.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.89%) KVM
2 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (8.69%) Terraform
2 48 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.42%) Ansible
4 5 (0.89%) Grafana
5 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (2.84%) Databricks
2 12 (2.13%) Google
3 7 (1.24%) Splunk
4 6 (1.06%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.89%) VMware
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.71%) Palantir
7 3 (0.53%) Intel