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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 309 271
Rank change year-on-year +41 -38 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 661 387 723
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.88% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.98% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 548 283 651
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -2.44%
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% -

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 89,484 39,616 68,834
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.59% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,877 23,853 46,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -27 353 £100,000 -9.09% 29
South East +57 102 £65,000 +4.00% 9
North of England +39 86 £80,000 +20.75% 7
North West +31 54 £71,991 +2.84% 4
South West -37 49 £75,000 +20.00% 6
Midlands -1 41 £70,000 +16.67% 7
West Midlands +3 39 £70,000 +16.67% 2
East of England +5 34 £80,000 +33.33% 7
North East -33 27 £85,000 +183.33%
Yorkshire -30 5 £100,000 +66.67% 3
East Midlands -33 2 - - 5
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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.

1 661 (100.00%) Python
2 390 (59.00%) Software Engineering
3 218 (32.98%) AWS
4 210 (31.77%) AI
5 92 (13.92%) Agile
6 91 (13.77%) CI/CD
7 89 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
8 87 (13.16%) Azure
9 84 (12.71%) C++
10 80 (12.10%) SQL
11 79 (11.95%) Django
12 74 (11.20%) FastAPI
12 74 (11.20%) Fintech
13 73 (11.04%) Degree
13 73 (11.04%) GCP
14 70 (10.59%) DevOps
15 66 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
16 64 (9.68%) TypeScript
17 62 (9.38%) Machine Learning
18 61 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
18 61 (9.23%) React
19 59 (8.93%) Terraform
20 58 (8.77%) Docker
21 53 (8.02%) SaaS
22 52 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
23 51 (7.72%) Computer Science
23 51 (7.72%) LLM
24 50 (7.56%) Flask
24 50 (7.56%) Kubernetes
25 47 (7.11%) 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 23 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.12%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 218 (32.98%) AWS
2 87 (13.16%) Azure
3 73 (11.04%) GCP
4 53 (8.02%) SaaS
5 22 (3.33%) Amazon S3
6 17 (2.57%) Serverless
7 16 (2.42%) Snowflake
8 11 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.51%) GitHub
9 10 (1.51%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (1.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.21%) Datadog
11 8 (1.21%) dbt
12 7 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (1.06%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.97%) Multicast
2 10 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.76%) Broadband
4 4 (0.61%) SMS
5 3 (0.45%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) BGP
6 2 (0.30%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
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%) OSPF
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.98%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.60%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.78%) MySQL
4 19 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.72%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.12%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.66%) Redis
8 10 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.36%) Power BI
10 7 (1.06%) Big Data
10 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.45%) GIS
13 3 (0.45%) Metadata
14 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (5.75%) Git
2 19 (2.87%) JIRA
3 15 (2.27%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.36%) GitLab
5 4 (0.61%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (14.67%) Finance
2 72 (10.89%) Social Skills
3 32 (4.84%) Banking
4 22 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (1.97%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.66%) Front Office
8 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.06%) Retail Banking
9 6 (0.91%) Automotive
9 6 (0.91%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.76%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.76%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.61%) Games
11 4 (0.61%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.45%) Law
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 3 (0.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.95%) Django
2 74 (11.20%) FastAPI
3 61 (9.23%) React
4 59 (8.93%) Terraform
5 50 (7.56%) Flask
6 30 (4.54%) Kafka
7 28 (4.24%) Node.js
8 25 (3.78%) SQLAlchemy
9 22 (3.33%) REST
9 22 (3.33%) RESTful
10 16 (2.42%) pytest
11 14 (2.12%) Celery
12 13 (1.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (1.82%) Vue
14 9 (1.36%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.36%) Next.js
15 8 (1.21%) HTML
15 8 (1.21%) LangChain
15 8 (1.21%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.54%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.93%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.87%) Equities
6 17 (2.57%) Derivative
6 17 (2.57%) Fixed Income
7 15 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (1.97%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.82%) Hedge funds
10 8 (1.21%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.06%) PropTech
12 6 (0.91%) CUDA
12 6 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.91%) PKI
12 6 (0.91%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.75%) Linux
2 10 (1.51%) Windows
3 7 (1.06%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (59.00%) Software Engineering
2 210 (31.77%) AI
3 92 (13.92%) Agile
4 91 (13.77%) CI/CD
5 89 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 74 (11.20%) Fintech
7 70 (10.59%) DevOps
8 62 (9.38%) Machine Learning
9 52 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (7.72%) Computer Science
10 51 (7.72%) LLM
11 47 (7.11%) Observability
12 46 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (6.96%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (6.66%) Clean Code
14 42 (6.35%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (6.20%) Data Engineering
15 41 (6.20%) Mentoring
16 40 (6.05%) Microservices
16 40 (6.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 661 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (12.71%) C++
3 80 (12.10%) SQL
4 64 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 41 (6.20%) C#
6 33 (4.99%) Java
7 29 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.87%) Go
9 13 (1.97%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.82%) Ruby
11 9 (1.36%) Rust
12 4 (0.61%) Scala
13 3 (0.45%) C
13 3 (0.45%) Julia
13 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (11.04%) Degree
2 61 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (4.99%) Master's Degree
4 30 (4.54%) Security Cleared
5 24 (3.63%) SC Cleared
6 20 (3.03%) PhD
7 16 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.45%) CEH
9 3 (0.45%) CISSP
9 3 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (0.45%) GCIA
9 3 (0.45%) GCIH
9 3 (0.45%) OSCP
10 1 (0.15%) CCIE
10 1 (0.15%) CCNP
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.54%) QA
2 13 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.45%) SLA
4 2 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (8.77%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.42%) Ansible
3 9 (1.36%) Grafana
4 4 (0.61%) Kibana
5 2 (0.30%) Puppet
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (3.03%) Databricks
2 10 (1.51%) OpenAI
3 9 (1.36%) Google
4 8 (1.21%) Dynatrace
5 7 (1.06%) Intel
6 6 (0.91%) Splunk
7 4 (0.61%) Palantir
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.45%) Revolut
9 2 (0.30%) VMware
10 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.15%) Arista
10 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco
10 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv