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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 299 384
Rank change year-on-year -14 +85 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 434 392 536
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.03% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 1.16% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 347 360 483
10th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +25.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £100,000 £123,125 £116,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £138,875 £142,500
UK median annual salary £85,000 £108,750 £85,000
% change year-on-year -21.84% +27.94% -5.56%

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 74,130 33,699 78,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 88.87% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,671 21,290 60,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -45 257 £100,000 -9.09% 40
South East +15 73 £65,000 +4.00% 18
North of England -23 50 £95,000 +35.71% 8
North West +8 41 £90,000 +9.09% 4
Midlands -16 24 £66,250 +70.97% 2
West Midlands -7 18 £63,750 +82.14% 2
South West - 18 £68,750 - 6
East of England -20 11 £55,000 - 3
North East -27 6 £100,000 - 1
East Midlands -44 6 £85,000 +30.77%
Yorkshire -64 3 £100,000 +56.86% 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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.

1 434 (100.00%) Python
2 230 (53.00%) Software Engineering
3 136 (31.34%) AWS
4 135 (31.11%) AI
5 81 (18.66%) SQL
6 78 (17.97%) Agile
7 72 (16.59%) Azure
7 72 (16.59%) Degree
8 68 (15.67%) C++
9 65 (14.98%) CI/CD
10 62 (14.29%) Fintech
11 59 (13.59%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (13.13%) Computer Science
13 53 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 49 (11.29%) DevOps
14 49 (11.29%) GCP
14 49 (11.29%) SaaS
15 44 (10.14%) Git
16 43 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 43 (9.91%) Terraform
17 40 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
18 39 (8.99%) Django
18 39 (8.99%) FastAPI
18 39 (8.99%) TypeScript
19 38 (8.76%) Kubernetes
19 38 (8.76%) Machine Learning
20 37 (8.53%) Linux
21 36 (8.29%) QA
22 33 (7.60%) Test Automation
23 32 (7.37%) 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 21 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 136 (31.34%) AWS
2 72 (16.59%) Azure
3 49 (11.29%) GCP
3 49 (11.29%) SaaS
4 25 (5.76%) GitHub
5 17 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 15 (3.46%) Serverless
6 15 (3.46%) Snowflake
7 12 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (2.53%) IaaS
8 11 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.53%) PaaS
9 10 (2.30%) Power Platform
10 9 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.15%) Dagster
13 5 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.15%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.46%) Multicast
2 6 (1.38%) HTTP
3 5 (1.15%) DNS
3 5 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.92%) SMTP
5 3 (0.69%) Broadband
6 1 (0.23%) BGP
6 1 (0.23%) Firewall
6 1 (0.23%) IPv4
6 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.53%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.61%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.30%) MySQL
5 10 (2.30%) Tableau
6 9 (2.07%) Power BI
6 9 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (1.84%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.92%) Flink
9 4 (0.92%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.69%) Big Data
10 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.69%) Metadata
10 3 (0.69%) Redis
11 2 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 44 (10.14%) Git
2 16 (3.69%) JIRA
3 6 (1.38%) GitLab
3 6 (1.38%) Selenium
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (22.35%) Finance
2 43 (9.91%) Social Skills
3 32 (7.37%) Banking
4 30 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.69%) Legal
6 15 (3.46%) Front Office
7 13 (3.00%) Games
8 9 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.84%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.69%) Law
11 3 (0.69%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Automotive
12 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.46%) Retail
13 1 (0.23%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.23%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.99%) Django
1 39 (8.99%) FastAPI
2 27 (6.22%) React
3 23 (5.30%) Kafka
4 21 (4.84%) Node.js
5 18 (4.15%) Flask
6 15 (3.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 15 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (3.46%) pytest
7 13 (3.00%) PySpark
8 12 (2.76%) RESTful
9 11 (2.53%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.53%) REST
10 9 (2.07%) Redux
11 8 (1.84%) Celery
11 8 (1.84%) Playwright
11 8 (1.84%) SQLAlchemy
12 7 (1.61%) HTML
13 6 (1.38%) Puppeteer
14 5 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.22%) Fixed Income
3 25 (5.76%) Hedge funds
4 23 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 23 (5.30%) Derivative
4 23 (5.30%) Equities
4 23 (5.30%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.07%) Robotics
8 7 (1.61%) Client/Server
8 7 (1.61%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.38%) CUDA
9 6 (1.38%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.92%) Satnav
10 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.53%) Linux
2 15 (3.46%) Windows
3 11 (2.53%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (53.00%) Software Engineering
2 135 (31.11%) AI
3 78 (17.97%) Agile
4 65 (14.98%) CI/CD
5 62 (14.29%) Fintech
6 57 (13.13%) Computer Science
7 53 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (11.29%) DevOps
9 43 (9.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (8.76%) Machine Learning
11 33 (7.60%) Test Automation
12 32 (7.37%) Analytics
12 32 (7.37%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (6.68%) TDD
14 26 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
14 26 (5.99%) Process Improvement
14 26 (5.99%) SDLC
15 25 (5.76%) Data Science
16 24 (5.53%) Observability
17 23 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 434 (100.00%) Python
2 81 (18.66%) SQL
3 68 (15.67%) C++
4 39 (8.99%) TypeScript
5 24 (5.53%) C#
6 20 (4.61%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.38%) Java
8 13 (3.00%) Bash
9 12 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.38%) Go
10 6 (1.38%) Rust
11 4 (0.92%) C
11 4 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.46%) Julia
12 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (16.59%) Degree
2 59 (13.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.07%) CISSP
4 18 (4.15%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.00%) PhD
6 11 (2.53%) CCSK
6 11 (2.53%) CISA
6 11 (2.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 5 (1.15%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.92%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.23%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.29%) QA
2 17 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.76%) NIST
4 10 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (6.45%) Docker
2 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.92%) KVM
2 4 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (9.91%) Terraform
2 38 (8.76%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.38%) Grafana
4 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.92%) Argo
6 2 (0.46%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (5.30%) Google
2 11 (2.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.61%) Databricks
4 6 (1.38%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.92%) VMware
6 1 (0.23%) Splunk