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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 303 300
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 623 406 709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.94% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.03% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 524 297 638
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -

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 84,123 39,251 75,359
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 90.71% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 23,732 53,784
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,578 £75,000 £71,650
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
% change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%

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 July 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 July 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 -20 347 £100,000 -9.09% 118
South East +76 107 £65,000 +18.18% 14
North of England +25 75 £82,500 +17.86% 15
North West +36 48 £65,000 -35.00% 7
South West -34 41 £75,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands -1 36 £67,500 +92.86% 9
Midlands -10 36 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North East -26 22 £85,000 +183.33% 4
East of England -2 19 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Yorkshire -32 5 £100,000 +60.00% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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.

1 623 (100.00%) Python
2 370 (59.39%) Software Engineering
3 213 (34.19%) AI
4 208 (33.39%) AWS
5 101 (16.21%) Agile
6 92 (14.77%) C++
7 87 (13.96%) Azure
8 86 (13.80%) CI/CD
9 85 (13.64%) SQL
10 83 (13.32%) Degree
10 83 (13.32%) Fintech
11 81 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 73 (11.72%) Django
13 69 (11.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 69 (11.08%) FastAPI
14 68 (10.91%) GCP
15 66 (10.59%) DevOps
15 66 (10.59%) TypeScript
16 65 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
17 61 (9.79%) Machine Learning
18 60 (9.63%) Computer Science
19 58 (9.31%) Docker
20 56 (8.99%) React
21 53 (8.51%) SaaS
21 53 (8.51%) Terraform
22 50 (8.03%) LLM
23 49 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
23 49 (7.87%) Kubernetes
24 48 (7.70%) Flask
25 45 (7.22%) 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 27 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 208 (33.39%) AWS
2 87 (13.96%) Azure
3 68 (10.91%) GCP
4 53 (8.51%) SaaS
5 23 (3.69%) Amazon S3
6 20 (3.21%) Snowflake
7 18 (2.89%) Serverless
8 14 (2.25%) GitHub
9 12 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.77%) Power Platform
11 10 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.28%) Anthropic Claude
12 8 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (1.12%) Azure Stack
14 6 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (0.96%) dbt
15 5 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.41%) Multicast
2 5 (0.80%) Broadband
3 4 (0.64%) SMS
4 3 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.32%) BGP
5 2 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.16%) DNS
6 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.16%) Firewall
6 1 (0.16%) IPv4
6 1 (0.16%) LAN
6 1 (0.16%) Network Security
6 1 (0.16%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.16%) OSPF
6 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.26%) Relational Database
3 25 (4.01%) MySQL
4 19 (3.05%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.61%) Power BI
7 10 (1.61%) Redis
8 8 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.12%) Big Data
10 5 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.64%) Metadata
12 3 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.48%) GIS
12 3 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.48%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (6.74%) Git
2 21 (3.37%) JIRA
3 15 (2.41%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.61%) GitLab
5 6 (0.96%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (17.01%) Finance
2 63 (10.11%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.98%) Banking
4 26 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.25%) Front Office
7 13 (2.09%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.28%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.12%) Games
10 6 (0.96%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.96%) Legal
10 6 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.80%) Automotive
12 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.64%) Law
12 4 (0.64%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.48%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.72%) Django
2 69 (11.08%) FastAPI
3 56 (8.99%) React
4 48 (7.70%) Flask
5 29 (4.65%) Kafka
5 29 (4.65%) Node.js
6 25 (4.01%) SQLAlchemy
7 20 (3.21%) RESTful
8 19 (3.05%) REST
9 17 (2.73%) pytest
10 15 (2.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 15 (2.41%) Celery
10 15 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
11 11 (1.77%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.77%) Vue
12 10 (1.61%) HTML
13 8 (1.28%) Next.js
13 8 (1.28%) Playwright
13 8 (1.28%) Redux
14 7 (1.12%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 37 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.49%) Algorithms
3 28 (4.49%) Distributed Computing
4 25 (4.01%) Equities
5 23 (3.69%) Derivative
5 23 (3.69%) Fixed Income
6 17 (2.73%) Hedge funds
7 15 (2.41%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.09%) Cyber Threat
9 11 (1.77%) Client/Server
9 11 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.44%) Robotics
12 7 (1.12%) PropTech
13 6 (0.96%) CUDA
13 6 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.94%) Linux
2 10 (1.61%) Windows
3 6 (0.96%) Unix
4 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (59.39%) Software Engineering
2 213 (34.19%) AI
3 101 (16.21%) Agile
4 86 (13.80%) CI/CD
5 83 (13.32%) Fintech
6 81 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 66 (10.59%) DevOps
8 61 (9.79%) Machine Learning
9 60 (9.63%) Computer Science
10 50 (8.03%) LLM
11 49 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 45 (7.22%) Data Pipeline
13 44 (7.06%) Data Engineering
13 44 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (6.26%) Observability
15 38 (6.10%) Microservices
15 38 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
16 37 (5.94%) Clean Code
16 37 (5.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (5.78%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 623 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (14.77%) C++
3 85 (13.64%) SQL
4 66 (10.59%) TypeScript
5 41 (6.58%) C#
6 34 (5.46%) Java
7 31 (4.98%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.89%) Go
9 12 (1.93%) Rust
10 11 (1.77%) Ruby
11 6 (0.96%) Bash
11 6 (0.96%) C
11 6 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.64%) Julia
12 4 (0.64%) Scala
13 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (13.32%) Degree
2 69 (11.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (5.14%) Master's Degree
4 21 (3.37%) PhD
4 21 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 18 (2.89%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.25%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.12%) CISSP
8 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.64%) CCSK
10 3 (0.48%) CISA
10 3 (0.48%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.16%) CCIE
11 1 (0.16%) CCNP
11 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.78%) QA
2 18 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.64%) NIST
4 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (9.31%) Docker
2 5 (0.80%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.80%) KVM
2 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (8.51%) Terraform
2 49 (7.87%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.44%) Ansible
4 5 (0.80%) Grafana
5 4 (0.64%) Kibana
5 4 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (3.05%) Databricks
2 12 (1.93%) Google
3 10 (1.61%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.12%) Splunk
5 5 (0.80%) Intel
5 5 (0.80%) VMware
6 4 (0.64%) Palantir
7 3 (0.48%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.16%) Arista
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco
8 1 (0.16%) Revolut