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 12 October 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 329 264
Rank change year-on-year +55 -65 +89
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 698 341 679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.80% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.88% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 584 234 608
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,813 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £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 96,110 38,793 61,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 90.54% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,178 23,108 35,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,160 £35,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -20 359 £100,000 -9.09% 311
South East +29 86 £80,000 +6.67% 25
North of England +11 78 £80,000 +14.29% 19
East of England +20 65 £80,000 +23.08% 26
South West -28 62 £75,000 +7.14% 18
Midlands -1 57 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North West +9 45 £71,991 +2.84% 8
West Midlands -7 40 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North East -41 27 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -22 17 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -37 6 £100,000 +60.00% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 October 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.

1 698 (100.00%) Python
2 446 (63.90%) Software Engineering
3 241 (34.53%) AI
4 240 (34.38%) AWS
5 130 (18.62%) Azure
6 86 (12.32%) C++
7 82 (11.75%) CI/CD
8 81 (11.60%) GCP
9 78 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
10 76 (10.89%) Agile
11 72 (10.32%) SQL
12 70 (10.03%) FastAPI
12 70 (10.03%) LLM
13 64 (9.17%) Degree
13 64 (9.17%) Django
13 64 (9.17%) Docker
14 60 (8.60%) DevOps
14 60 (8.60%) Fintech
14 60 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
14 60 (8.60%) TypeScript
15 58 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (8.02%) React
17 54 (7.74%) Machine Learning
18 53 (7.59%) Clean Code
19 52 (7.45%) Terraform
20 49 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
21 46 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
22 45 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
23 44 (6.30%) Kubernetes
24 43 (6.16%) Data Pipeline

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 16 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 240 (34.38%) AWS
2 130 (18.62%) Azure
3 81 (11.60%) GCP
4 41 (5.87%) SaaS
5 16 (2.29%) GitHub
6 15 (2.15%) Amazon Bedrock
6 15 (2.15%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.15%) Snowflake
7 14 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (1.58%) Datadog
9 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.43%) Serverless
10 8 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.15%) Azure AI
10 8 (1.15%) dbt
11 7 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.00%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.86%) Multicast
2 12 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.00%) MQTT
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
5 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 3 (0.43%) BGP
6 3 (0.43%) Broadband
6 3 (0.43%) OSPF
7 2 (0.29%) DHCP
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.30%) Relational Database
3 21 (3.01%) MySQL
4 19 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.15%) Power BI
6 11 (1.58%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.29%) Redis
9 8 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.72%) Big Data
10 5 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.57%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.43%) GIS
12 3 (0.43%) Metadata
13 2 (0.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (5.01%) Git
2 18 (2.58%) JIRA
3 15 (2.15%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) MLflow
5 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (15.62%) Finance
2 89 (12.75%) Social Skills
3 41 (5.87%) Banking
4 31 (4.44%) Front Office
5 22 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.58%) Marketing
7 15 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.58%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.00%) Automotive
9 7 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.86%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.57%) Legal
13 3 (0.43%) Games
13 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.14%) Law
14 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (10.03%) FastAPI
2 64 (9.17%) Django
3 56 (8.02%) React
4 52 (7.45%) Terraform
5 42 (6.02%) Flask
6 33 (4.73%) Kafka
7 25 (3.58%) LangChain
8 22 (3.15%) RESTful
9 20 (2.87%) LangGraph
9 20 (2.87%) Node.js
9 20 (2.87%) REST
9 20 (2.87%) SQLAlchemy
10 16 (2.29%) pytest
11 15 (2.15%) CrewAI
11 15 (2.15%) pydantic
12 13 (1.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (1.86%) FIX Protocol
12 13 (1.86%) Keycloak
12 13 (1.86%) Vue
13 10 (1.43%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.16%) AI Agents
4 33 (4.73%) Distributed Computing
5 30 (4.30%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (4.30%) Hedge funds
6 29 (4.15%) Algorithms
7 20 (2.87%) Equities
8 15 (2.15%) Derivative
8 15 (2.15%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.00%) PKI
13 6 (0.86%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.86%) PropTech
14 5 (0.72%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.72%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.87%) Linux
2 11 (1.58%) Windows
3 9 (1.29%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (63.90%) Software Engineering
2 241 (34.53%) AI
3 82 (11.75%) CI/CD
4 78 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 76 (10.89%) Agile
6 70 (10.03%) LLM
7 60 (8.60%) DevOps
7 60 (8.60%) Fintech
7 60 (8.60%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (7.74%) Machine Learning
9 53 (7.59%) Clean Code
10 49 (7.02%) Cybersecurity
11 45 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (6.16%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (6.02%) Observability
14 41 (5.87%) Computer Science
14 41 (5.87%) Mentoring
14 41 (5.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 41 (5.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 698 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (12.32%) C++
3 72 (10.32%) SQL
4 60 (8.60%) TypeScript
5 41 (5.87%) C#
6 39 (5.59%) Java
7 24 (3.44%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.15%) Go
9 18 (2.58%) R
10 16 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.29%) Rust
11 11 (1.58%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) Julia
14 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 64 (9.17%) Degree
2 46 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.73%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 27 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.29%) PhD
8 13 (1.86%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CEH
9 4 (0.57%) CISSP
9 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.57%) GCIA
9 4 (0.57%) GCIH
9 4 (0.57%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.30%) QA
2 9 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 64 (9.17%) 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 44 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.72%) Ansible
3 10 (1.43%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (3.72%) Databricks
1 26 (3.72%) Google
2 14 (2.01%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.43%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.29%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.15%) Intel
6 6 (0.86%) Splunk
7 4 (0.57%) Palantir
8 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.43%) Revolut
9 2 (0.29%) Foundry
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%) Perforce
10 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.14%) VMware