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 24 September 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 326 273
Rank change year-on-year +59 -53 +61
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 706 366 701
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.85% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 590 261 615
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +2.56%
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 96,021 38,933 64,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 90.43% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,503 23,350 38,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,325 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £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 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -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 24 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 24 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 -14 366 £100,000 -9.09% 343
South East +35 99 £75,000 +7.14% 35
North of England +11 85 £80,000 +20.75% 27
South West -37 58 £75,000 +7.14% 31
Midlands -10 54 £70,000 +7.69% 11
East of England +13 53 £74,000 +13.85% 27
North West +20 52 £75,000 +7.14% 15
West Midlands -13 40 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -40 26 £85,000 +183.33% 1
East Midlands -22 14 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -35 7 £100,000 +66.67% 12
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 706 (100.00%) Python
2 438 (62.04%) Software Engineering
3 236 (33.43%) AI
4 231 (32.72%) AWS
5 119 (16.86%) Azure
6 91 (12.89%) C++
7 89 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (12.32%) CI/CD
9 79 (11.19%) GCP
10 78 (11.05%) SQL
11 77 (10.91%) Django
12 76 (10.76%) Agile
13 73 (10.34%) Degree
13 73 (10.34%) FastAPI
14 67 (9.49%) DevOps
15 65 (9.21%) Fintech
16 61 (8.64%) TypeScript
17 59 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
18 58 (8.22%) Docker
18 58 (8.22%) React
19 57 (8.07%) LLM
20 56 (7.93%) Terraform
21 55 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
21 55 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
22 52 (7.37%) Machine Learning
23 50 (7.08%) Flask
23 50 (7.08%) SaaS
24 48 (6.80%) Computer Science
25 47 (6.66%) Clean Code
26 46 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement

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 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 231 (32.72%) AWS
2 119 (16.86%) Azure
3 79 (11.19%) GCP
4 50 (7.08%) SaaS
5 14 (1.98%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (1.84%) Serverless
6 13 (1.84%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.56%) Datadog
7 11 (1.56%) GitHub
8 10 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.99%) dbt
12 6 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (0.85%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.84%) Multicast
2 12 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.71%) DNS
4 4 (0.57%) MQTT
4 4 (0.57%) SMS
5 3 (0.42%) BGP
5 3 (0.42%) Broadband
5 3 (0.42%) OSPF
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 2 (0.28%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.67%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.26%) MySQL
4 19 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.84%) Power BI
7 12 (1.70%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.42%) Redis
9 7 (0.99%) Big Data
10 5 (0.71%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.42%) GIS
13 2 (0.28%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (4.53%) Git
2 18 (2.55%) JIRA
3 15 (2.12%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 98 (13.88%) Finance
2 79 (11.19%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.39%) Banking
4 21 (2.97%) Front Office
5 20 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.84%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.27%) Marketing
9 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Automotive
10 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.71%) Legal
11 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Games
13 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (10.91%) Django
2 73 (10.34%) FastAPI
3 58 (8.22%) React
4 56 (7.93%) Terraform
5 50 (7.08%) Flask
6 33 (4.67%) Kafka
7 24 (3.40%) RESTful
8 22 (3.12%) REST
9 21 (2.97%) Node.js
9 21 (2.97%) SQLAlchemy
10 16 (2.27%) pytest
11 14 (1.98%) LangChain
12 13 (1.84%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (1.84%) Celery
12 13 (1.84%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (1.70%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.70%) Vue
14 10 (1.42%) Next.js
15 9 (1.27%) LangGraph
16 8 (1.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.67%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
5 25 (3.54%) Algorithms
6 22 (3.12%) AI Agents
7 21 (2.97%) Hedge funds
8 20 (2.83%) Equities
9 15 (2.12%) Derivative
9 15 (2.12%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.56%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.99%) PKI
15 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
15 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (0.85%) PropTech
16 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.52%) Linux
2 11 (1.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (62.04%) Software Engineering
2 236 (33.43%) AI
3 89 (12.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 87 (12.32%) CI/CD
5 76 (10.76%) Agile
6 67 (9.49%) DevOps
7 65 (9.21%) Fintech
8 57 (8.07%) LLM
9 55 (7.79%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (7.37%) Machine Learning
11 48 (6.80%) Computer Science
12 47 (6.66%) Clean Code
13 46 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (6.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 44 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
15 44 (6.23%) Observability
16 43 (6.09%) Technical Leadership
17 42 (5.95%) Data Pipeline
18 41 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 40 (5.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 706 (100.00%) Python
2 91 (12.89%) C++
3 78 (11.05%) SQL
4 61 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 44 (6.23%) C#
6 40 (5.67%) Java
7 27 (3.82%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.26%) Go
9 16 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.12%) Rust
11 12 (1.70%) Ruby
12 9 (1.27%) R
13 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Julia
Qualifications
1 73 (10.34%) Degree
2 55 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (5.24%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.39%) Master's Degree
5 29 (4.11%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.12%) DV Cleared
7 18 (2.55%) PhD
8 13 (1.84%) 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 27 (3.82%) QA
2 8 (1.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (8.22%) 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 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.69%) Ansible
3 10 (1.42%) Grafana
4 4 (0.57%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (3.12%) Databricks
2 15 (2.12%) Google
3 11 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.13%) Intel
7 6 (0.85%) Splunk
8 4 (0.57%) Palantir
9 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.42%) 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