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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 323 265
Rank change year-on-year +57 -58 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 714 356 696
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.82% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.91% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 597 251 612
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £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 £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 96,512 39,065 63,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 90.52% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,878 23,017 36,945
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
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 £59,000 £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 1 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 1 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 -15 369 £100,000 -9.09% 377
South East +28 95 £75,000 +7.14% 37
North of England 0 86 £80,000 +20.75% 28
South West -31 62 £75,000 +7.14% 36
East of England +21 56 £77,500 +19.23% 31
Midlands -4 56 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North West +15 53 £75,000 +7.14% 16
West Midlands -14 40 £77,500 +29.17% 4
North East -41 26 £85,000 +183.33% 1
East Midlands -27 16 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Yorkshire -30 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 1 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.

1 714 (100.00%) Python
2 449 (62.89%) Software Engineering
3 242 (33.89%) AI
4 239 (33.47%) AWS
5 125 (17.51%) Azure
6 88 (12.32%) C++
6 88 (12.32%) CI/CD
7 87 (12.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 81 (11.34%) GCP
9 78 (10.92%) SQL
10 77 (10.78%) Agile
11 75 (10.50%) Django
11 75 (10.50%) FastAPI
12 68 (9.52%) Degree
13 66 (9.24%) DevOps
14 64 (8.96%) Fintech
15 63 (8.82%) Docker
15 63 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
16 62 (8.68%) LLM
16 62 (8.68%) TypeScript
17 59 (8.26%) React
18 58 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
19 56 (7.84%) Terraform
20 53 (7.42%) Machine Learning
21 52 (7.28%) Clean Code
22 50 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
23 48 (6.72%) Cybersecurity
23 48 (6.72%) Flask
24 47 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
24 47 (6.58%) SaaS

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 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.82%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 239 (33.47%) AWS
2 125 (17.51%) Azure
3 81 (11.34%) GCP
4 47 (6.58%) SaaS
5 14 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.82%) Serverless
6 13 (1.82%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.68%) GitHub
8 11 (1.54%) Datadog
9 10 (1.40%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.26%) Amazon Bedrock
11 8 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (0.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (0.98%) Azure AI
12 7 (0.98%) Azure Stack
12 7 (0.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.68%) Multicast
1 12 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.70%) DNS
2 5 (0.70%) MQTT
3 4 (0.56%) SMS
4 3 (0.42%) BGP
4 3 (0.42%) Broadband
4 3 (0.42%) OSPF
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) VLAN
5 2 (0.28%) 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 63 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.62%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.22%) MySQL
4 21 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.82%) Power BI
7 12 (1.68%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.26%) Redis
10 7 (0.98%) Big Data
11 5 (0.70%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.42%) GIS
14 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.28%) Metadata
15 1 (0.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 32 (4.48%) Git
2 17 (2.38%) JIRA
3 15 (2.10%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.12%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 102 (14.29%) Finance
2 85 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 33 (4.62%) Banking
4 25 (3.50%) Front Office
5 22 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.68%) Marketing
9 7 (0.98%) Automotive
9 7 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.84%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.70%) Legal
11 5 (0.70%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Games
13 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.14%) Law
15 1 (0.14%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (10.50%) Django
1 75 (10.50%) FastAPI
2 59 (8.26%) React
3 56 (7.84%) Terraform
4 48 (6.72%) Flask
5 35 (4.90%) Kafka
6 24 (3.36%) RESTful
7 23 (3.22%) REST
8 20 (2.80%) Node.js
8 20 (2.80%) SQLAlchemy
9 18 (2.52%) LangChain
10 15 (2.10%) pytest
10 15 (2.10%) Vue
11 13 (1.82%) Keycloak
11 13 (1.82%) LangGraph
12 12 (1.68%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 12 (1.68%) Celery
12 12 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
13 10 (1.40%) Next.js
14 9 (1.26%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
4 28 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
5 26 (3.64%) AI Agents
5 26 (3.64%) Algorithms
6 24 (3.36%) Hedge funds
7 19 (2.66%) Equities
8 14 (1.96%) Derivative
8 14 (1.96%) Fixed Income
9 13 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (1.40%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.98%) PKI
13 6 (0.84%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.84%) PropTech
14 5 (0.70%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.60%) Linux
2 11 (1.54%) Windows
3 9 (1.26%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (62.89%) Software Engineering
2 242 (33.89%) AI
3 88 (12.32%) CI/CD
4 87 (12.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 77 (10.78%) Agile
6 66 (9.24%) DevOps
7 64 (8.96%) Fintech
8 62 (8.68%) LLM
9 58 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (7.42%) Machine Learning
11 52 (7.28%) Clean Code
12 48 (6.72%) Cybersecurity
13 47 (6.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (6.16%) Computer Science
14 44 (6.16%) Data Pipeline
14 44 (6.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 44 (6.16%) Observability
15 41 (5.74%) Data Engineering
15 41 (5.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 41 (5.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 714 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (12.32%) C++
3 78 (10.92%) SQL
4 62 (8.68%) TypeScript
5 44 (6.16%) C#
6 40 (5.60%) Java
7 27 (3.78%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.36%) Go
9 16 (2.24%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.10%) Rust
11 12 (1.68%) R
12 11 (1.54%) Ruby
13 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Julia
15 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 68 (9.52%) Degree
2 50 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.60%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.06%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.38%) PhD
8 14 (1.96%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) CEH
9 4 (0.56%) CISSP
9 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.56%) GCIA
9 4 (0.56%) GCIH
9 4 (0.56%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.36%) QA
2 10 (1.40%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.56%) SLA
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (8.82%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.66%) Ansible
3 10 (1.40%) Grafana
4 5 (0.70%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (3.50%) Databricks
2 20 (2.80%) Google
3 12 (1.68%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.40%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.26%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.12%) Intel
7 6 (0.84%) Splunk
8 4 (0.56%) 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%) Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.14%) VMware