Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 324 373
Rank change year-on-year +23 +49 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 474 353 582
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.90% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.01% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 391 325 522
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £46,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 75,853 35,072 79,494
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 89.55% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51,141 20,807 60,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +7.59% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,725
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -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 16 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 16 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 -23 276 £100,000 -9.09% 50
South East +38 80 £65,000 +4.00% 16
North of England +24 58 £97,500 +47.17% 19
North West +45 42 £90,000 +9.09% 8
Midlands -2 28 £65,000 +52.94% 7
West Midlands -19 22 £65,000 +85.71% 5
South West - 18 £62,500 - 4
East of England -9 12 £55,000 -4.35% 2
North East -29 11 £100,000 - 7
East Midlands -25 6 £85,000 +25.93% 2
Yorkshire -53 5 £100,000 +60.00% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 474 (100.00%) Python
2 250 (52.74%) Software Engineering
3 145 (30.59%) AI
4 144 (30.38%) AWS
5 84 (17.72%) SQL
6 79 (16.67%) Agile
7 76 (16.03%) C++
8 73 (15.40%) Degree
9 72 (15.19%) Azure
10 69 (14.56%) Fintech
11 63 (13.29%) CI/CD
12 60 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
13 59 (12.45%) Computer Science
14 57 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
15 55 (11.60%) SaaS
16 49 (10.34%) DevOps
17 46 (9.70%) FastAPI
17 46 (9.70%) GCP
18 45 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
18 45 (9.49%) TypeScript
19 44 (9.28%) Django
19 44 (9.28%) Git
20 42 (8.86%) Machine Learning
20 42 (8.86%) Terraform
21 40 (8.44%) Kubernetes
22 38 (8.02%) QA
23 35 (7.38%) Data Pipeline
23 35 (7.38%) Linux
24 33 (6.96%) Analytics

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 (4.22%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 144 (30.38%) AWS
2 72 (15.19%) Azure
3 55 (11.60%) SaaS
4 46 (9.70%) GCP
5 22 (4.64%) GitHub
6 18 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.38%) Snowflake
8 15 (3.16%) Serverless
9 13 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (2.32%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.11%) IaaS
11 10 (2.11%) PaaS
12 8 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (1.27%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.38%) Multicast
2 5 (1.05%) HTTP
3 4 (0.84%) Broadband
3 4 (0.84%) DNS
3 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.63%) SMTP
5 1 (0.21%) BGP
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) IPv4
5 1 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.06%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.59%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.11%) MySQL
5 10 (2.11%) Power BI
5 10 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.69%) Tableau
8 6 (1.27%) Big Data
9 5 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.05%) Redis
10 4 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.63%) Metadata
12 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 44 (9.28%) Git
2 17 (3.59%) JIRA
3 6 (1.27%) GitLab
3 6 (1.27%) Selenium
4 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (19.83%) Finance
2 42 (8.86%) Social Skills
3 33 (6.96%) Banking
4 30 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.95%) Games
6 13 (2.74%) Front Office
7 12 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.11%) Legal
9 8 (1.69%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.84%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.63%) Automotive
11 3 (0.63%) Law
11 3 (0.63%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.42%) Advertising
12 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.42%) Retail
13 1 (0.21%) Back Office
13 1 (0.21%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.70%) FastAPI
2 44 (9.28%) Django
3 28 (5.91%) React
4 23 (4.85%) Kafka
5 22 (4.64%) Flask
5 22 (4.64%) Node.js
6 17 (3.59%) pytest
6 17 (3.59%) RESTful
7 16 (3.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 16 (3.38%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (2.95%) REST
9 13 (2.74%) PySpark
10 12 (2.53%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.53%) SQLAlchemy
11 9 (1.90%) HTML
12 8 (1.69%) Celery
12 8 (1.69%) Playwright
12 8 (1.69%) Redux
13 6 (1.27%) Puppeteer
13 6 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.49%) Algorithms
2 26 (5.49%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.27%) Hedge funds
4 24 (5.06%) Derivative
4 24 (5.06%) Equities
5 20 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (4.01%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.90%) Robotics
10 8 (1.69%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.48%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.27%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.27%) CUDA
12 6 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.05%) PropTech
14 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.38%) Linux
2 11 (2.32%) Windows
3 10 (2.11%) Unix
4 8 (1.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (52.74%) Software Engineering
2 145 (30.59%) AI
3 79 (16.67%) Agile
4 69 (14.56%) Fintech
5 63 (13.29%) CI/CD
6 59 (12.45%) Computer Science
7 57 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (10.34%) DevOps
9 45 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (8.86%) Machine Learning
11 35 (7.38%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (6.96%) Analytics
12 33 (6.96%) Test Automation
13 31 (6.54%) TDD
14 30 (6.33%) SDLC
15 28 (5.91%) Data Science
15 28 (5.91%) Microservices
16 27 (5.70%) Data Engineering
16 27 (5.70%) Technical Leadership
17 26 (5.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 474 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (17.72%) SQL
3 76 (16.03%) C++
4 45 (9.49%) TypeScript
5 28 (5.91%) C#
6 22 (4.64%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.43%) Java
8 12 (2.53%) Bash
9 10 (2.11%) Go
10 9 (1.90%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.27%) Rust
12 4 (0.84%) C
12 4 (0.84%) Scala
13 3 (0.63%) Julia
14 2 (0.42%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.42%) PHP
14 2 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (15.40%) Degree
2 60 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.22%) Master's Degree
4 18 (3.80%) CISSP
5 15 (3.16%) PhD
6 10 (2.11%) CCSK
7 8 (1.69%) CISA
7 8 (1.69%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.05%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.84%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.02%) QA
2 17 (3.59%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.90%) NIST
4 8 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (6.54%) Docker
2 4 (0.84%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.84%) KVM
2 4 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (8.86%) Terraform
2 40 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.05%) Grafana
4 4 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.42%) Ansible
5 2 (0.42%) Argo
6 1 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (4.22%) Google
2 8 (1.69%) Databricks
2 8 (1.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.69%) OpenAI
3 4 (0.84%) VMware
4 3 (0.63%) Palantir
5 1 (0.21%) Splunk