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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 324 266
Rank change year-on-year +57 -58 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 699 364 704
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.85% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.94% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 584 259 618
10th Percentile £60,000 £64,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £67,908 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
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% +5.26%

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 95,479 38,667 64,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 90.37% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 67,230 23,165 38,631
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -25 361 £100,000 -9.09% 305
South East +50 102 £75,000 +7.14% 38
North of England +3 83 £80,000 +20.75% 27
South West -38 56 £75,000 +7.14% 28
Midlands -5 54 £70,000 +7.69% 11
East of England +17 51 £74,000 +13.85% 26
North West +4 50 £75,000 +7.14% 13
West Midlands -16 40 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -39 26 £85,000 +183.33% 1
East Midlands -23 14 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -40 7 £100,000 +66.67% 14
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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.

1 699 (100.00%) Python
2 433 (61.95%) Software Engineering
3 236 (33.76%) AI
4 230 (32.90%) AWS
5 115 (16.45%) Azure
6 92 (13.16%) C++
7 90 (12.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (12.45%) CI/CD
9 78 (11.16%) Agile
9 78 (11.16%) GCP
10 77 (11.02%) Django
10 77 (11.02%) SQL
11 76 (10.87%) Degree
12 68 (9.73%) DevOps
12 68 (9.73%) FastAPI
13 66 (9.44%) Fintech
14 64 (9.16%) TypeScript
15 58 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
15 58 (8.30%) React
16 57 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
16 57 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
17 56 (8.01%) LLM
17 56 (8.01%) Terraform
18 55 (7.87%) Docker
18 55 (7.87%) Machine Learning
19 49 (7.01%) Flask
20 47 (6.72%) C#
20 47 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
20 47 (6.72%) SaaS
21 46 (6.58%) Computer Science

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 17 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.57%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 230 (32.90%) AWS
2 115 (16.45%) Azure
3 78 (11.16%) GCP
4 47 (6.72%) SaaS
5 14 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.86%) Serverless
6 13 (1.86%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (1.57%) Datadog
9 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.29%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (1.29%) GitHub
11 8 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (1.00%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.00%) dbt
13 6 (0.86%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (0.86%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.72%) Multicast
1 12 (1.72%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.72%) DNS
3 4 (0.57%) SMS
4 3 (0.43%) BGP
4 3 (0.43%) Broadband
4 3 (0.43%) OSPF
5 2 (0.29%) DHCP
5 2 (0.29%) MQTT
5 2 (0.29%) VLAN
5 2 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.14%) LAN
6 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (8.15%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.72%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.29%) MySQL
4 18 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.15%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.86%) Power BI
7 12 (1.72%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.43%) Redis
9 7 (1.00%) Big Data
10 4 (0.57%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.43%) GIS
12 2 (0.29%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.14%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (4.72%) Git
2 18 (2.58%) JIRA
3 15 (2.15%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.14%) GitLab
5 3 (0.43%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (13.73%) Finance
2 78 (11.16%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.43%) Banking
4 20 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (2.86%) Front Office
5 15 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.29%) Marketing
8 7 (1.00%) Automotive
8 7 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.86%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.57%) Legal
12 3 (0.43%) Games
12 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.29%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.14%) Advertising
14 1 (0.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (11.02%) Django
2 68 (9.73%) FastAPI
3 58 (8.30%) React
4 56 (8.01%) Terraform
5 49 (7.01%) Flask
6 30 (4.29%) Kafka
7 22 (3.15%) RESTful
8 21 (3.00%) Node.js
8 21 (3.00%) REST
8 21 (3.00%) SQLAlchemy
9 15 (2.15%) pytest
10 14 (2.00%) LangChain
11 13 (1.86%) Celery
11 13 (1.86%) Vue
12 12 (1.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 12 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
13 11 (1.57%) Keycloak
14 10 (1.43%) Next.js
15 9 (1.29%) LangGraph
16 8 (1.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.86%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.72%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 23 (3.29%) AI Agents
7 21 (3.00%) Hedge funds
8 19 (2.72%) Equities
9 14 (2.00%) Derivative
9 14 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.43%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.00%) PKI
15 6 (0.86%) Client/Server
15 6 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.86%) PropTech
16 5 (0.72%) Management Information System
16 5 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.58%) Linux
2 11 (1.57%) Windows
3 9 (1.29%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 433 (61.95%) Software Engineering
2 236 (33.76%) AI
3 90 (12.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (12.45%) CI/CD
5 78 (11.16%) Agile
6 68 (9.73%) DevOps
7 66 (9.44%) Fintech
8 57 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (8.01%) LLM
10 55 (7.87%) Machine Learning
11 47 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (6.58%) Computer Science
13 45 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (6.29%) Clean Code
14 44 (6.29%) Observability
15 43 (6.15%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (5.87%) Data Pipeline
16 41 (5.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 41 (5.87%) Technical Leadership
17 38 (5.44%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 699 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (13.16%) C++
3 77 (11.02%) SQL
4 64 (9.16%) TypeScript
5 47 (6.72%) C#
6 39 (5.58%) Java
7 29 (4.15%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.15%) Go
9 16 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.15%) Rust
11 13 (1.86%) Ruby
12 9 (1.29%) R
13 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.43%) Julia
15 2 (0.29%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (10.87%) Degree
2 58 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (5.15%) Security Cleared
4 34 (4.86%) Master's Degree
5 28 (4.01%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 21 (3.00%) PhD
7 12 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.57%) CEH
8 4 (0.57%) CISSP
8 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.57%) GCIA
8 4 (0.57%) GCIH
8 4 (0.57%) OSCP
9 1 (0.14%) CCIE
9 1 (0.14%) CCNP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.86%) QA
2 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (7.87%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.72%) Ansible
3 10 (1.43%) Grafana
4 4 (0.57%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (2.86%) Databricks
2 15 (2.15%) Google
3 11 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.14%) Intel
7 6 (0.86%) Splunk
8 4 (0.57%) Palantir
9 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.43%) Revolut
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Arista
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco
10 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.14%) VMware