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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 321 262
Rank change year-on-year +54 -59 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 687 368 711
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.85% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.94% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 572 265 626
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £67,806 £85,000 £74,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -
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% -

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 93,551 39,204 65,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 90.37% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 66,181 23,579 40,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -16 358 £100,000 -9.09% 231
South East +58 102 £65,000 +4.00% 24
North of England +17 83 £80,000 +20.75% 25
South West -42 54 £75,000 +20.00% 18
Midlands -1 51 £70,000 +7.69% 8
North West +23 50 £75,000 +7.14% 13
East of England +11 46 £77,500 +24.00% 14
West Midlands -8 39 £75,000 +25.00%
North East -36 27 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -31 12 £45,000 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire -46 6 £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 12 September 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.

1 687 (100.00%) Python
2 414 (60.26%) Software Engineering
3 230 (33.48%) AI
4 224 (32.61%) AWS
5 102 (14.85%) Azure
6 90 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 88 (12.81%) CI/CD
8 84 (12.23%) C++
9 79 (11.50%) Agile
9 79 (11.50%) Django
10 76 (11.06%) SQL
11 73 (10.63%) GCP
12 69 (10.04%) Degree
12 69 (10.04%) FastAPI
13 68 (9.90%) DevOps
14 66 (9.61%) Fintech
15 61 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
15 61 (8.88%) TypeScript
16 59 (8.59%) React
17 58 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
17 58 (8.44%) Machine Learning
17 58 (8.44%) Terraform
18 54 (7.86%) Docker
19 52 (7.57%) LLM
19 52 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
20 50 (7.28%) Flask
20 50 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
21 49 (7.13%) SaaS
22 48 (6.99%) Computer Science
22 48 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement

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 19 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.60%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 224 (32.61%) AWS
2 102 (14.85%) Azure
3 73 (10.63%) GCP
4 49 (7.13%) SaaS
5 14 (2.04%) Serverless
6 13 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 13 (1.89%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.89%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (1.60%) Datadog
8 10 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.31%) GitHub
9 9 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.02%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.02%) dbt
12 5 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.89%) Multicast
2 12 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.73%) Broadband
3 5 (0.73%) DNS
4 4 (0.58%) SMS
5 3 (0.44%) BGP
6 2 (0.29%) MQTT
6 2 (0.29%) OSPF
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.15%) DHCP
7 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) IPv4
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.15%) VLAN
7 1 (0.15%) VPN
7 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.09%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.64%) MySQL
4 20 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 12 (1.75%) Power BI
8 11 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.46%) Redis
10 7 (1.02%) Big Data
11 4 (0.58%) SQL Server
11 4 (0.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.44%) GIS
13 2 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (4.66%) Git
2 19 (2.77%) JIRA
3 15 (2.18%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.31%) GitLab
5 3 (0.44%) Selenium
6 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (13.39%) Finance
2 76 (11.06%) Social Skills
3 29 (4.22%) Banking
4 18 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (2.47%) Front Office
6 15 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.02%) Automotive
8 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.87%) Health Technology
9 6 (0.87%) Marketing
10 5 (0.73%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.58%) Games
11 4 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.58%) Legal
11 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.29%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.15%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.15%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.50%) Django
2 69 (10.04%) FastAPI
3 59 (8.59%) React
4 58 (8.44%) Terraform
5 50 (7.28%) Flask
6 31 (4.51%) Kafka
7 24 (3.49%) Node.js
8 22 (3.20%) REST
8 22 (3.20%) RESTful
8 22 (3.20%) SQLAlchemy
9 16 (2.33%) pytest
10 14 (2.04%) Celery
11 13 (1.89%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 13 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
11 13 (1.89%) Vue
12 11 (1.60%) LangChain
13 10 (1.46%) Keycloak
13 10 (1.46%) Next.js
14 8 (1.16%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (1.02%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.51%) Distributed Computing
4 28 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 22 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (2.62%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.47%) Equities
7 17 (2.47%) Hedge funds
8 14 (2.04%) Derivative
8 14 (2.04%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 10 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (1.16%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.02%) PKI
12 7 (1.02%) PropTech
13 6 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.73%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.97%) Linux
2 11 (1.60%) Windows
3 8 (1.16%) Unix
4 3 (0.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (60.26%) Software Engineering
2 230 (33.48%) AI
3 90 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 88 (12.81%) CI/CD
5 79 (11.50%) Agile
6 68 (9.90%) DevOps
7 66 (9.61%) Fintech
8 58 (8.44%) Machine Learning
9 52 (7.57%) LLM
9 52 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (7.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (6.99%) Computer Science
11 48 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (6.99%) Observability
12 44 (6.40%) Clean Code
13 41 (5.97%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (5.82%) Data Engineering
14 40 (5.82%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (5.39%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 687 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (12.23%) C++
3 76 (11.06%) SQL
4 61 (8.88%) TypeScript
5 41 (5.97%) C#
6 37 (5.39%) Java
7 27 (3.93%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.20%) Go
9 16 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.75%) Ruby
11 11 (1.60%) Rust
12 5 (0.73%) R
13 4 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.44%) C
14 3 (0.44%) Julia
15 2 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (10.04%) Degree
2 58 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (4.95%) Master's Degree
3 34 (4.95%) Security Cleared
4 26 (3.78%) SC Cleared
5 20 (2.91%) PhD
6 19 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.58%) CEH
8 4 (0.58%) CISSP
8 4 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (0.58%) GCIA
8 4 (0.58%) GCIH
8 4 (0.58%) OSCP
9 1 (0.15%) CCIE
9 1 (0.15%) CCNP
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.37%) QA
2 10 (1.46%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.58%) SLA
4 3 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (7.86%) Docker
2 4 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.29%) KVM
3 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.77%) Ansible
3 10 (1.46%) Grafana
4 4 (0.58%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (2.77%) Databricks
2 12 (1.75%) Google
3 10 (1.46%) Dynatrace
4 9 (1.31%) Microsoft
4 9 (1.31%) OpenAI
5 8 (1.16%) Intel
6 6 (0.87%) Splunk
7 4 (0.58%) Palantir
8 3 (0.44%) Revolut
9 2 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.29%) VMware
10 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.15%) Arista
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco
10 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle
10 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv