Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2026.

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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 319 362
Rank change year-on-year +22 +43 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 492 350 607
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.91% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.02% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 410 303 547
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £121,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -

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 76,887 34,400 80,103
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.62% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 52,095 19,824 60,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £57,560 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +7.59% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,063 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,519
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 May 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 May 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 -27 285 £100,000 -9.09% 41
South East +31 84 £65,000 +4.00% 13
North of England +19 62 £90,000 +35.85% 5
North West +40 45 £90,000 +9.09% 5
Midlands -14 31 £65,000 +20.93% 5
West Midlands -3 27 £65,000 +85.71% 5
South West -46 16 £62,500 - 7
East of England -12 12 £55,000 -4.35% 1
North East -24 12 £100,000 -
Yorkshire -44 5 £100,000 +60.00%
East Midlands -36 4 £100,000 +45.45%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 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.

1 492 (100.00%) Python
2 263 (53.46%) Software Engineering
3 149 (30.28%) AI
3 149 (30.28%) AWS
4 83 (16.87%) SQL
5 82 (16.67%) C++
6 80 (16.26%) Agile
7 75 (15.24%) Degree
8 74 (15.04%) Azure
9 72 (14.63%) Fintech
10 64 (13.01%) CI/CD
11 62 (12.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 60 (12.20%) Computer Science
13 57 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 55 (11.18%) SaaS
15 48 (9.76%) DevOps
16 47 (9.55%) FastAPI
16 47 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
16 47 (9.55%) TypeScript
17 46 (9.35%) Django
17 46 (9.35%) GCP
18 45 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
19 43 (8.74%) Git
19 43 (8.74%) Machine Learning
20 42 (8.54%) Terraform
21 40 (8.13%) Kubernetes
22 39 (7.93%) QA
23 36 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
23 36 (7.32%) Linux
24 34 (6.91%) 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 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 20 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 149 (30.28%) AWS
2 74 (15.04%) Azure
3 55 (11.18%) SaaS
4 46 (9.35%) GCP
5 21 (4.27%) GitHub
6 19 (3.86%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.46%) Snowflake
8 16 (3.25%) Serverless
9 13 (2.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.24%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.83%) IaaS
11 9 (1.83%) PaaS
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.42%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.22%) Anthropic Claude
15 4 (0.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.46%) Multicast
2 4 (0.81%) Broadband
2 4 (0.81%) HTTP
3 3 (0.61%) DNS
3 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.41%) SMTP
5 1 (0.20%) BGP
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) IPv4
5 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (5.08%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.24%) MySQL
6 10 (2.03%) Power BI
6 10 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.83%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.63%) Tableau
9 7 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.22%) Big Data
11 5 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.02%) Redis
12 4 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.81%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 43 (8.74%) Git
2 18 (3.66%) JIRA
3 6 (1.22%) GitLab
3 6 (1.22%) Selenium
4 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (19.72%) Finance
2 43 (8.74%) Social Skills
3 33 (6.71%) Banking
4 31 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.85%) Games
6 12 (2.44%) Front Office
6 12 (2.44%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.03%) Legal
8 8 (1.63%) Retail Banking
9 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.81%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.61%) Automotive
11 3 (0.61%) Law
11 3 (0.61%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.41%) Advertising
12 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.41%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Back Office
13 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.55%) FastAPI
2 46 (9.35%) Django
3 27 (5.49%) React
4 24 (4.88%) Flask
5 23 (4.67%) Kafka
6 20 (4.07%) Node.js
7 18 (3.66%) pytest
8 17 (3.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 17 (3.46%) FIX Protocol
8 17 (3.46%) RESTful
9 14 (2.85%) REST
10 13 (2.64%) PySpark
10 13 (2.64%) SQLAlchemy
11 12 (2.44%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.03%) HTML
13 8 (1.63%) Celery
13 8 (1.63%) Playwright
13 8 (1.63%) Redux
14 6 (1.22%) Puppeteer
14 6 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.69%) Algorithms
3 26 (5.28%) Fixed Income
4 25 (5.08%) Derivative
4 25 (5.08%) Equities
4 25 (5.08%) Hedge funds
5 23 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (1.83%) Robotics
8 9 (1.83%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.42%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.22%) CUDA
11 6 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.22%) PropTech
11 6 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.32%) Linux
2 10 (2.03%) Windows
3 9 (1.83%) Unix
4 8 (1.63%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (53.46%) Software Engineering
2 149 (30.28%) AI
3 80 (16.26%) Agile
4 72 (14.63%) Fintech
5 64 (13.01%) CI/CD
6 60 (12.20%) Computer Science
7 57 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
8 48 (9.76%) DevOps
9 45 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 43 (8.74%) Machine Learning
11 36 (7.32%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (6.91%) Analytics
13 33 (6.71%) Test Automation
14 31 (6.30%) SDLC
14 31 (6.30%) TDD
15 30 (6.10%) Data Science
15 30 (6.10%) Microservices
15 30 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (5.69%) Data Engineering
17 27 (5.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 492 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (16.87%) SQL
3 82 (16.67%) C++
4 47 (9.55%) TypeScript
5 31 (6.30%) C#
6 22 (4.47%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.07%) Java
8 11 (2.24%) Bash
9 10 (2.03%) Go
10 9 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.42%) Rust
12 5 (1.02%) C
13 4 (0.81%) Scala
14 3 (0.61%) Julia
14 3 (0.61%) Ruby
15 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (15.24%) Degree
2 62 (12.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.27%) Master's Degree
4 17 (3.46%) CISSP
5 16 (3.25%) PhD
6 9 (1.83%) CCSK
7 8 (1.63%) CISA
7 8 (1.63%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.02%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.81%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.93%) QA
2 18 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.83%) NIST
4 8 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (6.71%) Docker
2 5 (1.02%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.02%) KVM
2 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (8.54%) Terraform
2 40 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.02%) Grafana
4 4 (0.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.61%) Ansible
6 1 (0.20%) Argo
6 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 19 (3.86%) Google
2 8 (1.63%) Databricks
2 8 (1.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.63%) OpenAI
3 5 (1.02%) VMware
4 3 (0.61%) Palantir
5 2 (0.41%) Splunk