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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 272 384
Rank change year-on-year -61 +112 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 401 406 528
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.09% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.22% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 315 366 472
10th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £107,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £140,000 £139,875
UK median annual salary £85,000 £107,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -20.93% +26.47% -5.56%

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 71,466 33,303 77,907
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 89.28% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 46,824 21,286 59,791
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -63 235 £100,000 -9.09% 51
South East -16 67 £65,000 +4.00% 15
North of England -21 46 £90,000 +28.57% 11
North West +17 39 £90,000 +9.09% 7
South West - 21 £68,750 - 4
Midlands -26 19 £65,000 +52.94% 3
West Midlands -14 13 £60,000 +71.43% 3
East of England -27 12 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East Midlands -53 6 £85,000 +30.77%
North East -28 5 £100,000 - 1
Yorkshire -52 2 £100,000 +56.86% 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 401 (100.00%) Python
2 209 (52.12%) Software Engineering
3 129 (32.17%) AWS
4 124 (30.92%) AI
5 80 (19.95%) Agile
6 79 (19.70%) SQL
7 73 (18.20%) Degree
8 69 (17.21%) Azure
8 69 (17.21%) CI/CD
9 62 (15.46%) C++
10 60 (14.96%) Computer Science
10 60 (14.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 60 (14.96%) Fintech
11 51 (12.72%) GCP
12 50 (12.47%) DevOps
13 49 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 45 (11.22%) SaaS
15 43 (10.72%) Git
15 43 (10.72%) Kubernetes
15 43 (10.72%) Terraform
16 41 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 39 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
18 38 (9.48%) TypeScript
19 37 (9.23%) Django
20 36 (8.98%) FastAPI
20 36 (8.98%) Linux
20 36 (8.98%) QA
21 33 (8.23%) Test Automation
22 31 (7.73%) Analytics
22 31 (7.73%) Machine Learning

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 20 (4.99%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.49%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 129 (32.17%) AWS
2 69 (17.21%) Azure
3 51 (12.72%) GCP
4 45 (11.22%) SaaS
5 27 (6.73%) GitHub
6 17 (4.24%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.99%) Serverless
8 12 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.74%) IaaS
9 11 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.74%) PaaS
9 11 (2.74%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.50%) Dagster
14 5 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.49%) Multicast
2 6 (1.50%) HTTP
3 5 (1.25%) DNS
3 5 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.00%) SMTP
5 2 (0.50%) Broadband
6 1 (0.25%) BGP
6 1 (0.25%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) IPv4
6 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.24%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.74%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.24%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.49%) Tableau
6 8 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 8 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.75%) MySQL
7 7 (1.75%) Power BI
7 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.50%) Flink
9 4 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (1.00%) Big Data
9 4 (1.00%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.75%) Metadata
11 2 (0.50%) Redis
12 1 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 43 (10.72%) Git
2 15 (3.74%) JIRA
3 6 (1.50%) GitLab
3 6 (1.50%) Selenium
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (23.69%) Finance
2 42 (10.47%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.73%) Banking
4 29 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.24%) Legal
6 16 (3.99%) Front Office
7 12 (2.99%) Games
8 8 (2.00%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.00%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.75%) Law
11 3 (0.75%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.50%) Advertising
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.50%) Retail
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.23%) Django
2 36 (8.98%) FastAPI
3 28 (6.98%) React
4 21 (5.24%) Kafka
5 20 (4.99%) Node.js
6 18 (4.49%) Flask
7 14 (3.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 14 (3.49%) FIX Protocol
7 14 (3.49%) pytest
8 12 (2.99%) REST
8 12 (2.99%) RESTful
9 11 (2.74%) PySpark
10 10 (2.49%) Celery
11 9 (2.24%) AngularJS
11 9 (2.24%) Redux
12 8 (2.00%) HTML
12 8 (2.00%) Playwright
13 7 (1.75%) SQLAlchemy
13 7 (1.75%) Vue
14 6 (1.50%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.98%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.23%) Hedge funds
4 23 (5.74%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.49%) Derivative
5 22 (5.49%) Equities
6 20 (4.99%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (2.24%) Robotics
11 7 (1.75%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.50%) CUDA
12 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (1.00%) GNSS
13 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.00%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.00%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.98%) Linux
2 15 (3.74%) Windows
3 11 (2.74%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (52.12%) Software Engineering
2 124 (30.92%) AI
3 80 (19.95%) Agile
4 69 (17.21%) CI/CD
5 60 (14.96%) Computer Science
5 60 (14.96%) Fintech
6 50 (12.47%) DevOps
7 49 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
8 41 (10.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (8.23%) Test Automation
10 31 (7.73%) Analytics
10 31 (7.73%) Machine Learning
11 30 (7.48%) TDD
12 29 (7.23%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (6.48%) Data Science
14 25 (6.23%) Process Improvement
14 25 (6.23%) SDLC
15 23 (5.74%) Cybersecurity
15 23 (5.74%) Data Engineering
16 22 (5.49%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 401 (100.00%) Python
2 79 (19.70%) SQL
3 62 (15.46%) C++
4 38 (9.48%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.49%) C#
6 20 (4.99%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.49%) Java
8 13 (3.24%) Bash
9 12 (2.99%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.50%) Rust
11 5 (1.25%) Go
12 4 (1.00%) C
12 4 (1.00%) Scala
13 2 (0.50%) Julia
13 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.50%) PHP
13 2 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (18.20%) Degree
2 60 (14.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.49%) CISSP
4 17 (4.24%) Master's Degree
5 12 (2.99%) PhD
6 11 (2.74%) CCSK
6 11 (2.74%) CISA
6 11 (2.74%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (1.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.75%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.98%) QA
2 15 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.99%) NIST
4 10 (2.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (7.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.00%) KVM
2 4 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (10.72%) Kubernetes
1 43 (10.72%) Terraform
2 6 (1.50%) Argo
2 6 (1.50%) Grafana
3 5 (1.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (5.74%) Google
2 11 (2.74%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.75%) Databricks
4 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.00%) VMware
6 1 (0.25%) Splunk