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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 282 386
Rank change year-on-year -48 +104 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 407 405 520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 1.08% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.21% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 321 365 465
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 £111,250 £140,000 £141,500
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 72,201 33,355 77,747
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 89.27% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 47,190 21,366 59,531
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%

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 21 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 21 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 -68 240 £100,000 -9.09% 50
South East -7 69 £65,000 +4.00% 18
North of England -22 45 £90,000 +28.57% 12
North West +6 38 £90,000 +9.09% 9
South West - 21 £68,750 - 3
Midlands -20 19 £65,000 +52.94% 4
West Midlands -16 13 £60,000 +71.43% 4
East of England -29 12 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East Midlands -54 6 £85,000 +30.77%
North East -34 5 £100,000 -
Yorkshire -60 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 21 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.

1 407 (100.00%) Python
2 215 (52.83%) Software Engineering
3 130 (31.94%) AWS
4 124 (30.47%) AI
5 79 (19.41%) Agile
5 79 (19.41%) SQL
6 73 (17.94%) Degree
7 69 (16.95%) Azure
7 69 (16.95%) CI/CD
8 63 (15.48%) C++
9 60 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 59 (14.50%) Computer Science
10 59 (14.50%) Fintech
11 50 (12.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 50 (12.29%) GCP
12 49 (12.04%) DevOps
13 45 (11.06%) SaaS
14 43 (10.57%) Git
14 43 (10.57%) Terraform
15 42 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
15 42 (10.32%) Kubernetes
16 40 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
17 38 (9.34%) TypeScript
18 37 (9.09%) Django
19 36 (8.85%) Linux
19 36 (8.85%) QA
20 35 (8.60%) FastAPI
21 34 (8.35%) Machine Learning
22 33 (8.11%) Test Automation
23 31 (7.62%) Analytics

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 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.18%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.46%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 130 (31.94%) AWS
2 69 (16.95%) Azure
3 50 (12.29%) GCP
4 45 (11.06%) SaaS
5 27 (6.63%) GitHub
6 17 (4.18%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.69%) Serverless
8 12 (2.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.70%) IaaS
9 11 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.70%) PaaS
9 11 (2.70%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.97%) Power Platform
12 7 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.47%) Dagster
14 5 (1.23%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.44%) Multicast
2 6 (1.47%) HTTP
3 5 (1.23%) DNS
3 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.98%) SMTP
5 2 (0.49%) 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 40 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (5.65%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.67%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.95%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.46%) Tableau
6 9 (2.21%) MySQL
7 8 (1.97%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.72%) Power BI
8 7 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.47%) Flink
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.98%) Big Data
10 4 (0.98%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.74%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.74%) Metadata
12 2 (0.49%) Redis
13 1 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 43 (10.57%) Git
2 15 (3.69%) JIRA
3 6 (1.47%) GitLab
3 6 (1.47%) Selenium
4 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (23.59%) Finance
2 44 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 31 (7.62%) Banking
4 29 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.18%) Legal
6 16 (3.93%) Front Office
7 12 (2.95%) Games
8 8 (1.97%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.98%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.74%) Law
11 3 (0.74%) Tech for Good
11 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Advertising
12 2 (0.49%) Automotive
12 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.49%) Retail
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.09%) Django
2 35 (8.60%) FastAPI
3 28 (6.88%) React
4 23 (5.65%) Kafka
5 20 (4.91%) Node.js
6 18 (4.42%) Flask
7 14 (3.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 14 (3.44%) FIX Protocol
7 14 (3.44%) pytest
8 12 (2.95%) REST
8 12 (2.95%) RESTful
9 11 (2.70%) PySpark
10 10 (2.46%) AngularJS
10 10 (2.46%) Celery
11 9 (2.21%) Redux
12 8 (1.97%) HTML
12 8 (1.97%) Playwright
13 7 (1.72%) SQLAlchemy
13 7 (1.72%) Vue
14 6 (1.47%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.88%) Fixed Income
3 25 (6.14%) Hedge funds
4 23 (5.65%) Management Information System
5 22 (5.41%) Derivative
5 22 (5.41%) Equities
6 20 (4.91%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.70%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (2.21%) Robotics
11 7 (1.72%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.47%) CUDA
12 6 (1.47%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.98%) Satnav
13 4 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.85%) Linux
2 15 (3.69%) Windows
3 11 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 11 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (52.83%) Software Engineering
2 124 (30.47%) AI
3 79 (19.41%) Agile
4 69 (16.95%) CI/CD
5 59 (14.50%) Computer Science
5 59 (14.50%) Fintech
6 50 (12.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 49 (12.04%) DevOps
8 42 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (8.35%) Machine Learning
10 33 (8.11%) Test Automation
11 31 (7.62%) Analytics
11 31 (7.62%) TDD
12 28 (6.88%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (6.63%) Data Science
14 25 (6.14%) Process Improvement
14 25 (6.14%) SDLC
15 24 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
16 22 (5.41%) Data Engineering
16 22 (5.41%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 407 (100.00%) Python
2 79 (19.41%) SQL
3 63 (15.48%) C++
4 38 (9.34%) TypeScript
5 22 (5.41%) C#
6 20 (4.91%) Java
6 20 (4.91%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.19%) Bash
8 12 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.47%) Rust
10 5 (1.23%) Go
11 4 (0.98%) C
11 4 (0.98%) Scala
12 2 (0.49%) Julia
12 2 (0.49%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.49%) PHP
12 2 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (17.94%) Degree
2 60 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (5.41%) CISSP
4 18 (4.42%) Master's Degree
5 13 (3.19%) PhD
6 11 (2.70%) CCSK
6 11 (2.70%) CISA
6 11 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (0.98%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.74%) 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 (8.85%) QA
2 15 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.95%) NIST
4 10 (2.46%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (7.13%) Docker
2 4 (0.98%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.98%) KVM
2 4 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (10.57%) Terraform
2 42 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.47%) Argo
3 6 (1.47%) Grafana
4 5 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (5.65%) Google
2 11 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.72%) Databricks
4 5 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.98%) VMware
6 1 (0.25%) Splunk