Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 316 385
Rank change year-on-year +4 +69 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 459 380 557
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.98% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 1.09% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 373 349 504
10th Percentile £58,750 £64,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% +22.22% -

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 75,001 34,765 79,111
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 89.30% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 49,625 21,079 60,257
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -37 270 £100,000 -9.09% 52
South East +11 72 £65,000 +4.00% 22
North of England -2 56 £97,500 +39.29% 9
North West +21 42 £90,000 +9.09% 5
Midlands -3 28 £65,000 +67.74% 7
West Midlands -5 22 £65,000 +85.71% 5
South West - 20 £62,500 - 2
East of England -12 11 £55,000 - 2
North East -25 10 £100,000 - 1
East Midlands -26 6 £85,000 +25.93% 2
Yorkshire -50 4 £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 8 May 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.

1 459 (100.00%) Python
2 237 (51.63%) Software Engineering
3 142 (30.94%) AI
3 142 (30.94%) AWS
4 86 (18.74%) SQL
5 77 (16.78%) Agile
6 76 (16.56%) Azure
7 72 (15.69%) Degree
8 71 (15.47%) C++
9 68 (14.81%) Fintech
10 65 (14.16%) CI/CD
11 59 (12.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 58 (12.64%) Computer Science
13 56 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
14 53 (11.55%) SaaS
15 50 (10.89%) DevOps
16 49 (10.68%) GCP
17 46 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (9.80%) Git
19 44 (9.59%) FastAPI
19 44 (9.59%) Terraform
20 43 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
20 43 (9.37%) TypeScript
21 40 (8.71%) Django
21 40 (8.71%) Machine Learning
22 39 (8.50%) Kubernetes
23 36 (7.84%) Linux
23 36 (7.84%) QA
24 35 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
25 34 (7.41%) Test Automation

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 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 142 (30.94%) AWS
2 76 (16.56%) Azure
3 53 (11.55%) SaaS
4 49 (10.68%) GCP
5 23 (5.01%) GitHub
6 18 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.49%) Serverless
7 16 (3.49%) Snowflake
8 13 (2.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.40%) IaaS
9 11 (2.40%) PaaS
9 11 (2.40%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.31%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (0.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.27%) Multicast
2 6 (1.31%) HTTP
3 5 (1.09%) DNS
3 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.87%) Broadband
4 4 (0.87%) SMTP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) IPv4
5 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.23%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.14%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.18%) MySQL
5 10 (2.18%) Power BI
5 10 (2.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.96%) Tableau
7 5 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.09%) Redis
8 4 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (0.87%) Big Data
8 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.87%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.65%) Flink
9 3 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (9.80%) Git
2 16 (3.49%) JIRA
3 6 (1.31%) GitLab
3 6 (1.31%) Selenium
4 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (20.92%) Finance
2 42 (9.15%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (7.19%) Banking
4 14 (3.05%) Front Office
4 14 (3.05%) Games
5 13 (2.83%) Legal
6 10 (2.18%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.74%) Retail Banking
8 4 (0.87%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.65%) Law
9 3 (0.65%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.44%) Advertising
10 2 (0.44%) Automotive
10 2 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.44%) Retail
11 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.22%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.59%) FastAPI
2 40 (8.71%) Django
3 28 (6.10%) React
4 23 (5.01%) Kafka
5 22 (4.79%) Node.js
6 20 (4.36%) Flask
7 17 (3.70%) RESTful
8 16 (3.49%) pytest
9 15 (3.27%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 15 (3.27%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (2.83%) PySpark
11 12 (2.61%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.61%) REST
12 11 (2.40%) SQLAlchemy
13 9 (1.96%) HTML
13 9 (1.96%) Redux
14 8 (1.74%) Celery
14 8 (1.74%) Playwright
15 6 (1.31%) Puppeteer
16 5 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.88%) Hedge funds
3 26 (5.66%) Fixed Income
4 23 (5.01%) Algorithms
4 23 (5.01%) Derivative
4 23 (5.01%) Equities
5 22 (4.79%) Management Information System
6 20 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.96%) Robotics
9 8 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.53%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.31%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.31%) CUDA
11 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.87%) Satnav
13 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.84%) Linux
2 14 (3.05%) Windows
3 11 (2.40%) Unix
4 10 (2.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (51.63%) Software Engineering
2 142 (30.94%) AI
3 77 (16.78%) Agile
4 68 (14.81%) Fintech
5 65 (14.16%) CI/CD
6 58 (12.64%) Computer Science
7 56 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
8 50 (10.89%) DevOps
9 46 (10.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (8.71%) Machine Learning
11 35 (7.63%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (7.41%) Test Automation
13 32 (6.97%) Analytics
14 30 (6.54%) TDD
15 27 (5.88%) Data Engineering
15 27 (5.88%) Data Science
15 27 (5.88%) SDLC
16 26 (5.66%) Microservices
16 26 (5.66%) Observability
16 26 (5.66%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 459 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (18.74%) SQL
3 71 (15.47%) C++
4 43 (9.37%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.45%) C#
6 21 (4.58%) Java
6 21 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.83%) Bash
8 11 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.18%) Go
10 6 (1.31%) Rust
11 4 (0.87%) C
11 4 (0.87%) Scala
12 2 (0.44%) Julia
12 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.44%) PHP
12 2 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 72 (15.69%) Degree
2 59 (12.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (4.58%) CISSP
4 18 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.83%) PhD
6 11 (2.40%) CCSK
7 10 (2.18%) CISA
7 10 (2.18%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.09%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.87%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.44%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.84%) QA
2 17 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.40%) NIST
4 9 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (6.75%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.87%) KVM
2 4 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (9.59%) Terraform
2 39 (8.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.31%) Grafana
4 5 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.65%) Argo
6 2 (0.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (4.79%) Google
2 10 (2.18%) Microsoft
3 9 (1.96%) Databricks
4 8 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.87%) VMware
6 3 (0.65%) Palantir
7 1 (0.22%) Splunk