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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 317 266
Rank change year-on-year +50 -51 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 673 375 740
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.86% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.95% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 556 270 660
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,375 £52,500
25th Percentile £67,908 £84,063 £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 £125,625
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 90,911 39,566 69,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.94% 90.44% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 64,152 23,916 45,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £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 £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 28 August 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 28 August 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 -18 356 £100,000 -9.09% 228
South East +47 102 £65,000 +4.00% 20
North of England +25 85 £80,000 +20.75% 15
North West +22 52 £71,991 +2.84% 7
South West -38 51 £75,000 +20.00% 13
Midlands +1 46 £70,000 +12.00% 11
West Midlands +3 39 £71,991 +19.99% 1
East of England +5 38 £80,000 +33.33% 11
North East -26 28 £82,500 +175.00%
East Midlands -30 7 £45,000 -33.33% 10
Yorkshire -39 5 £100,000 +66.67% 8
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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.

1 673 (100.00%) Python
2 399 (59.29%) Software Engineering
3 217 (32.24%) AWS
4 210 (31.20%) AI
5 91 (13.52%) Azure
5 91 (13.52%) CI/CD
5 91 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 85 (12.63%) Agile
7 82 (12.18%) C++
8 80 (11.89%) SQL
9 78 (11.59%) Django
10 73 (10.85%) Degree
11 72 (10.70%) FastAPI
11 72 (10.70%) GCP
12 71 (10.55%) Fintech
13 68 (10.10%) DevOps
14 63 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
15 62 (9.21%) TypeScript
16 61 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
16 61 (9.06%) Machine Learning
16 61 (9.06%) React
17 60 (8.92%) Terraform
18 56 (8.32%) Docker
19 53 (7.88%) SaaS
20 52 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
21 50 (7.43%) Computer Science
21 50 (7.43%) Flask
21 50 (7.43%) LLM
22 48 (7.13%) Kubernetes
23 47 (6.98%) 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 21 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 217 (32.24%) AWS
2 91 (13.52%) Azure
3 72 (10.70%) GCP
4 53 (7.88%) SaaS
5 18 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 16 (2.38%) Serverless
7 14 (2.08%) Snowflake
8 12 (1.78%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.49%) Datadog
11 9 (1.34%) GitHub
12 8 (1.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.04%) Azure Stack
13 7 (1.04%) dbt
14 6 (0.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (0.89%) Microsoft 365
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 (0.45%) 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 63 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.35%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.71%) MySQL
4 19 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (1.63%) Power BI
8 10 (1.49%) Redis
9 7 (1.04%) Big Data
10 6 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.74%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.59%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.45%) GIS
14 2 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (5.35%) Git
2 18 (2.67%) JIRA
3 15 (2.23%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.34%) 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 94 (13.97%) Finance
2 72 (10.70%) Social Skills
3 28 (4.16%) Banking
4 18 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (1.93%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.78%) Front Office
8 7 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.89%) Automotive
9 6 (0.89%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.74%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.59%) Games
11 4 (0.59%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.59%) Retail Banking
11 4 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
13 2 (0.30%) Law
13 2 (0.30%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (11.59%) Django
2 72 (10.70%) FastAPI
3 61 (9.06%) React
4 60 (8.92%) Terraform
5 50 (7.43%) Flask
6 30 (4.46%) Kafka
7 26 (3.86%) Node.js
8 24 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
9 22 (3.27%) REST
10 21 (3.12%) RESTful
11 15 (2.23%) pytest
12 14 (2.08%) Celery
13 12 (1.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 12 (1.78%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (1.78%) Vue
14 9 (1.34%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.34%) Next.js
15 8 (1.19%) HTML
15 8 (1.19%) Keycloak
15 8 (1.19%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.73%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.46%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.86%) Algorithms
5 16 (2.38%) Equities
6 15 (2.23%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.23%) Cyber Threat
7 14 (2.08%) Derivative
7 14 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 13 (1.93%) Hedge funds
9 12 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.19%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) PKI
11 7 (1.04%) PropTech
12 6 (0.89%) CUDA
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (0.74%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.79%) Linux
2 11 (1.63%) Windows
3 8 (1.19%) Unix
4 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (59.29%) Software Engineering
2 210 (31.20%) AI
3 91 (13.52%) CI/CD
3 91 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 85 (12.63%) Agile
5 71 (10.55%) Fintech
6 68 (10.10%) DevOps
7 61 (9.06%) Machine Learning
8 52 (7.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (7.43%) Computer Science
9 50 (7.43%) LLM
10 47 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (6.98%) Observability
10 47 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (6.54%) Clean Code
12 41 (6.09%) Data Pipeline
12 41 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 40 (5.94%) Data Engineering
14 39 (5.79%) Mentoring
14 39 (5.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 673 (100.00%) Python
2 82 (12.18%) C++
3 80 (11.89%) SQL
4 62 (9.21%) TypeScript
5 40 (5.94%) C#
6 35 (5.20%) Java
7 28 (4.16%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.97%) Go
9 16 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.78%) Ruby
11 9 (1.34%) Rust
12 4 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (0.45%) C
13 3 (0.45%) Julia
13 3 (0.45%) Scala
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (10.85%) Degree
2 61 (9.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (5.20%) Master's Degree
4 32 (4.75%) Security Cleared
5 24 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.12%) PhD
7 17 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.34%) 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 (4.31%) QA
2 11 (1.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.59%) SLA
4 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (8.32%) 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 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.67%) Ansible
3 10 (1.49%) Grafana
4 4 (0.59%) Kibana
5 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (2.82%) Databricks
2 10 (1.49%) Dynatrace
3 9 (1.34%) Google
3 9 (1.34%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.19%) Intel
5 6 (0.89%) Microsoft
5 6 (0.89%) Splunk
6 4 (0.59%) Palantir
7 3 (0.45%) 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