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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 271 393
Rank change year-on-year -103 +122 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 297 441 446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.15% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.27% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 221 391 415
10th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £62,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £102,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +20.59% -2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £115,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £138,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £102,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -17.07% +20.59% +0.29%

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 60,858 34,668 70,561
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 90.35% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 39,701 21,008 55,609
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £28,501
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -89 189 £100,000 -4.76% 41
South East -14 33 £67,500 +8.00% 24
North of England -19 32 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North West +11 29 £90,000 +53.19% 3
Midlands -14 18 £62,500 +56.25% 2
South West -12 16 £80,000 -15.79% 10
West Midlands +2 12 £60,000 +71.43% 2
East of England -17 8 £50,000 -9.09% 4
East Midlands -32 7 £85,000 +30.77%
North East -20 3 £100,000 +37.93% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 297 (100.00%) Python
2 153 (51.52%) Software Engineering
3 99 (33.33%) AWS
4 83 (27.95%) AI
5 75 (25.25%) Agile
6 70 (23.57%) SQL
7 59 (19.87%) Azure
8 57 (19.19%) CI/CD
9 53 (17.85%) Computer Science
9 53 (17.85%) Degree
10 50 (16.84%) Fintech
11 41 (13.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 41 (13.80%) GCP
12 40 (13.47%) C++
13 38 (12.79%) DevOps
13 38 (12.79%) Git
14 36 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (11.45%) TypeScript
16 33 (11.11%) Linux
17 32 (10.77%) Kubernetes
17 32 (10.77%) Terraform
18 31 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
18 31 (10.44%) SaaS
19 30 (10.10%) Test Automation
20 29 (9.76%) QA
21 28 (9.43%) Analytics
21 28 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
21 28 (9.43%) Docker
22 27 (9.09%) GitHub
22 27 (9.09%) PostgreSQL

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 22 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.03%) Apache
2 9 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.34%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 99 (33.33%) AWS
2 59 (19.87%) Azure
3 41 (13.80%) GCP
4 31 (10.44%) SaaS
5 27 (9.09%) GitHub
6 16 (5.39%) Snowflake
7 15 (5.05%) Amazon S3
8 13 (4.38%) Serverless
9 11 (3.70%) IaaS
9 11 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (3.70%) PaaS
9 11 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.69%) dbt
12 7 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (2.36%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.36%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (2.02%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.38%) Multicast
2 6 (2.02%) HTTP
3 4 (1.35%) DNS
3 4 (1.35%) SMTP
3 4 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.67%) Broadband
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.38%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.37%) MongoDB
3 10 (3.37%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.37%) Tableau
4 8 (2.69%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.69%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (2.36%) Power BI
5 7 (2.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (2.02%) Flink
7 5 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.35%) Apache Arrow
8 4 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
8 4 (1.35%) Apache Ignite
8 4 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.35%) Dremio
9 3 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 38 (12.79%) Git
2 13 (4.38%) JIRA
3 5 (1.68%) GitLab
3 5 (1.68%) Selenium
4 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
General
1 90 (30.30%) Finance
2 34 (11.45%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.11%) Banking
4 29 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.73%) Front Office
6 15 (5.05%) Legal
7 12 (4.04%) Games
8 7 (2.36%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.01%) Back Office
10 3 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.01%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.01%) Retail
10 3 (1.01%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) iGaming
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.42%) React
2 21 (7.07%) FastAPI
3 20 (6.73%) Django
4 16 (5.39%) Node.js
5 13 (4.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 13 (4.38%) FIX Protocol
5 13 (4.38%) Kafka
5 13 (4.38%) pytest
6 9 (3.03%) Redux
7 8 (2.69%) Celery
7 8 (2.69%) Flask
7 8 (2.69%) HTML
7 8 (2.69%) PySpark
8 7 (2.36%) NumPy
8 7 (2.36%) Pandas
8 7 (2.36%) RESTful
9 6 (2.02%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.02%) REST
10 5 (1.68%) Playwright
10 5 (1.68%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.44%) Fixed Income
2 29 (9.76%) Hedge funds
3 25 (8.42%) Derivative
3 25 (8.42%) Equities
4 24 (8.08%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.74%) Management Information System
6 17 (5.72%) Algorithms
7 11 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 9 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.69%) Robotics
10 6 (2.02%) Client/Server
10 6 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.35%) GNSS
11 4 (1.35%) Pricing Data
11 4 (1.35%) Satnav
11 4 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.11%) Linux
2 15 (5.05%) Windows
3 11 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 11 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (51.52%) Software Engineering
2 83 (27.95%) AI
3 75 (25.25%) Agile
4 57 (19.19%) CI/CD
5 53 (17.85%) Computer Science
6 50 (16.84%) Fintech
7 38 (12.79%) DevOps
8 36 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 31 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (10.10%) Test Automation
11 28 (9.43%) Analytics
11 28 (9.43%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (8.75%) Data Science
13 25 (8.42%) ETL
14 24 (8.08%) Process Improvement
14 24 (8.08%) TDD
15 22 (7.41%) Information Security
16 21 (7.07%) Data Engineering
16 21 (7.07%) Machine Learning
17 20 (6.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 297 (100.00%) Python
2 70 (23.57%) SQL
3 40 (13.47%) C++
4 34 (11.45%) TypeScript
5 19 (6.40%) Java
6 18 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 13 (4.38%) Bash
8 12 (4.04%) PowerShell
9 11 (3.70%) C#
10 4 (1.35%) C
10 4 (1.35%) Rust
11 3 (1.01%) PHP
11 3 (1.01%) Scala
12 2 (0.67%) Go
12 2 (0.67%) Julia
12 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (17.85%) Degree
2 41 (13.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.41%) CISSP
4 11 (3.70%) CCSK
4 11 (3.70%) CISA
4 11 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 8 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.68%) PhD
7 4 (1.35%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.35%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.76%) QA
2 13 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.04%) NIST
4 10 (3.37%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (9.43%) Docker
2 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.01%) KVM
2 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (10.77%) Kubernetes
1 32 (10.77%) Terraform
2 6 (2.02%) Argo
2 6 (2.02%) Grafana
3 5 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (8.08%) Google
2 11 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.02%) Databricks
4 3 (1.01%) OpenAI
4 3 (1.01%) VMware
5 1 (0.34%) Foundry
5 1 (0.34%) Palantir
5 1 (0.34%) Splunk