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 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 330 259
Rank change year-on-year +59 -71 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 693 347 684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.80% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.88% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 578 239 608
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,125 £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 £115,750 £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 96,140 39,294 61,877
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 90.57% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 67,276 23,232 35,571
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,019 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £35,828 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,235
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -0.42% -7.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,210 £53,688 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.42% -2.39% -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 9 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 9 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 -13 354 £100,000 -9.09% 374
South East +29 90 £80,000 +6.67% 30
North of England -4 80 £80,000 +14.29% 21
South West -31 62 £75,000 +7.14% 30
East of England +13 60 £77,500 +19.23% 28
Midlands -2 57 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North West +16 47 £71,991 +2.84% 10
West Midlands -8 40 £77,500 +29.17% 7
North East -40 26 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -26 17 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Yorkshire -30 7 £100,000 +60.00% 11
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 693 (100.00%) Python
2 440 (63.49%) Software Engineering
3 236 (34.05%) AI
3 236 (34.05%) AWS
4 125 (18.04%) Azure
5 87 (12.55%) C++
6 81 (11.69%) CI/CD
7 78 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 78 (11.26%) GCP
8 74 (10.68%) Agile
9 70 (10.10%) SQL
10 69 (9.96%) FastAPI
11 66 (9.52%) LLM
12 65 (9.38%) Django
13 63 (9.09%) Degree
13 63 (9.09%) Docker
14 61 (8.80%) Fintech
15 60 (8.66%) TypeScript
16 58 (8.37%) DevOps
16 58 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
17 56 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
17 56 (8.08%) React
18 53 (7.65%) Machine Learning
19 52 (7.50%) Clean Code
20 51 (7.36%) Terraform
21 46 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
21 46 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
22 45 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
23 44 (6.35%) Kubernetes
24 43 (6.20%) Observability

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 16 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.59%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 236 (34.05%) AWS
2 125 (18.04%) Azure
3 78 (11.26%) GCP
4 41 (5.92%) SaaS
5 14 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (2.02%) GitHub
6 13 (1.88%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.88%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.73%) Amazon Bedrock
8 11 (1.59%) Datadog
8 11 (1.59%) Serverless
9 10 (1.44%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.15%) Azure AI
11 7 (1.01%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
11 7 (1.01%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.01%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.88%) Multicast
2 12 (1.73%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.01%) MQTT
4 5 (0.72%) DNS
5 4 (0.58%) SMS
6 3 (0.43%) BGP
6 3 (0.43%) Broadband
6 3 (0.43%) OSPF
7 2 (0.29%) DHCP
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
7 2 (0.29%) VPN
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.33%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.17%) MySQL
4 20 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (1.88%) Power BI
6 12 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.30%) Redis
9 5 (0.72%) Big Data
10 4 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.58%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.43%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.43%) GIS
11 3 (0.43%) Metadata
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (4.76%) Git
2 18 (2.60%) JIRA
3 15 (2.16%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.15%) GitLab
5 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 105 (15.15%) Finance
2 84 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 37 (5.34%) Banking
4 28 (4.04%) Front Office
5 22 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.16%) Marketing
6 15 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.01%) Automotive
8 7 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.72%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.43%) Games
12 3 (0.43%) Legal
12 3 (0.43%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.14%) Law
13 1 (0.14%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (9.96%) FastAPI
2 65 (9.38%) Django
3 56 (8.08%) React
4 51 (7.36%) Terraform
5 42 (6.06%) Flask
6 33 (4.76%) Kafka
7 22 (3.17%) RESTful
8 21 (3.03%) LangChain
9 20 (2.89%) Node.js
9 20 (2.89%) REST
9 20 (2.89%) SQLAlchemy
10 17 (2.45%) LangGraph
11 16 (2.31%) pytest
12 13 (1.88%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (1.88%) FIX Protocol
12 13 (1.88%) Keycloak
12 13 (1.88%) Vue
13 12 (1.73%) CrewAI
13 12 (1.73%) pydantic
14 10 (1.44%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.91%) Distributed Computing
4 31 (4.47%) AI Agents
5 29 (4.18%) Cyber Threat
6 28 (4.04%) Algorithms
7 27 (3.90%) Hedge funds
8 20 (2.89%) Equities
9 15 (2.16%) Derivative
9 15 (2.16%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.44%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.01%) PKI
14 6 (0.87%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.87%) PropTech
15 5 (0.72%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.72%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.92%) Linux
2 11 (1.59%) Windows
3 9 (1.30%) Unix
4 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (63.49%) Software Engineering
2 236 (34.05%) AI
3 81 (11.69%) CI/CD
4 78 (11.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 74 (10.68%) Agile
6 66 (9.52%) LLM
7 61 (8.80%) Fintech
8 58 (8.37%) DevOps
9 56 (8.08%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (7.65%) Machine Learning
11 52 (7.50%) Clean Code
12 46 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (6.20%) Observability
15 42 (6.06%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 41 (5.92%) Mentoring
16 41 (5.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 41 (5.92%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (5.63%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 693 (100.00%) Python
2 87 (12.55%) C++
3 70 (10.10%) SQL
4 60 (8.66%) TypeScript
5 42 (6.06%) C#
6 39 (5.63%) Java
7 24 (3.46%) JavaScript
8 23 (3.32%) Go
9 16 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.16%) R
10 15 (2.16%) Rust
11 11 (1.59%) Ruby
12 4 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.29%) C
13 2 (0.29%) Julia
14 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 63 (9.09%) Degree
2 46 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.77%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.33%) SC Cleared
5 27 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.46%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.31%) PhD
8 13 (1.88%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.58%) CEH
9 4 (0.58%) CISSP
9 4 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.58%) GCIA
9 4 (0.58%) GCIH
9 4 (0.58%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.32%) QA
2 9 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.58%) SLA
4 3 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (9.09%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.74%) Ansible
3 10 (1.44%) Grafana
4 5 (0.72%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (3.46%) Databricks
2 23 (3.32%) Google
3 13 (1.88%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.44%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.15%) Intel
7 6 (0.87%) Splunk
8 4 (0.58%) Palantir
9 3 (0.43%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.43%) Revolut
10 2 (0.29%) Foundry
11 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.14%) Arista
11 1 (0.14%) Cisco
11 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle
11 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.14%) VMware