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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 318 275
Rank change year-on-year +45 -43 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 664 393 714
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.90% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.99% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 552 289 641
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
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 £117,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +2.56%

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 88,389 39,568 69,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 90.60% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62,111 23,903 47,017
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 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 12 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 -28 362 £100,000 -9.09% 274
South East +62 104 £65,000 +18.18% 18
North of England +20 84 £80,000 +20.75% 13
North West +26 54 £71,991 +2.84% 7
South West -30 47 £75,000 +20.00% 15
Midlands +4 39 £70,000 +16.67% 8
West Midlands +9 37 £70,000 +16.67% 5
East of England -9 31 £75,000 +25.00% 12
North East -31 25 £85,000 +183.33% 2
Yorkshire -25 5 £100,000 +66.67% 4
East Midlands -26 2 - - 3
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 664 (100.00%) Python
2 391 (58.89%) Software Engineering
3 222 (33.43%) AWS
4 215 (32.38%) AI
5 99 (14.91%) Agile
6 96 (14.46%) CI/CD
7 91 (13.70%) Azure
8 88 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 86 (12.95%) C++
10 85 (12.80%) SQL
11 79 (11.90%) Django
12 78 (11.75%) Fintech
13 76 (11.45%) GCP
14 75 (11.30%) Degree
14 75 (11.30%) FastAPI
15 72 (10.84%) DevOps
16 67 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
17 65 (9.79%) TypeScript
18 63 (9.49%) Machine Learning
18 63 (9.49%) React
19 62 (9.34%) Computer Science Degree
20 61 (9.19%) Docker
20 61 (9.19%) Terraform
21 54 (8.13%) Computer Science
21 54 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
21 54 (8.13%) SaaS
22 52 (7.83%) Kubernetes
23 51 (7.68%) Flask
23 51 (7.68%) LLM
24 48 (7.23%) 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 25 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 222 (33.43%) AWS
2 91 (13.70%) Azure
3 76 (11.45%) GCP
4 54 (8.13%) SaaS
5 23 (3.46%) Amazon S3
6 18 (2.71%) Serverless
6 18 (2.71%) Snowflake
7 12 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (1.81%) GitHub
8 10 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.51%) dbt
8 10 (1.51%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.36%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.05%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (1.05%) Azure Stack
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.96%) Multicast
2 9 (1.36%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.75%) Broadband
4 4 (0.60%) SMS
5 2 (0.30%) BGP
5 2 (0.30%) DNS
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) IPv4
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) Network Security
6 1 (0.15%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.15%) OSPF
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.77%) MySQL
4 20 (3.01%) NoSQL
5 18 (2.71%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.66%) Redis
8 10 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.36%) Power BI
10 7 (1.05%) Big Data
10 7 (1.05%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.60%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.45%) GIS
12 3 (0.45%) Metadata
12 3 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (6.17%) Git
2 19 (2.86%) JIRA
3 15 (2.26%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.51%) GitLab
5 4 (0.60%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (15.21%) Finance
2 73 (10.99%) Social Skills
3 32 (4.82%) Banking
4 24 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (1.96%) Front Office
6 13 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.20%) Retail Banking
8 7 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.75%) Automotive
10 5 (0.75%) Games
10 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.45%) Law
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 3 (0.45%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.90%) Django
2 75 (11.30%) FastAPI
3 63 (9.49%) React
4 51 (7.68%) Flask
5 31 (4.67%) Kafka
6 30 (4.52%) Node.js
7 25 (3.77%) SQLAlchemy
8 23 (3.46%) RESTful
9 22 (3.31%) REST
10 16 (2.41%) Celery
10 16 (2.41%) pytest
11 13 (1.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 13 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (1.81%) Vue
13 9 (1.36%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.36%) Next.js
14 8 (1.20%) HTML
14 8 (1.20%) LangChain
14 8 (1.20%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (1.05%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.73%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.22%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 21 (3.16%) Equities
6 19 (2.86%) Derivative
6 19 (2.86%) Fixed Income
7 15 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 12 (1.81%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.36%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.05%) PropTech
12 6 (0.90%) CUDA
12 6 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 37 (5.57%) Linux
2 9 (1.36%) Windows
3 8 (1.20%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (58.89%) Software Engineering
2 215 (32.38%) AI
3 99 (14.91%) Agile
4 96 (14.46%) CI/CD
5 88 (13.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 78 (11.75%) Fintech
7 72 (10.84%) DevOps
8 63 (9.49%) Machine Learning
9 54 (8.13%) Computer Science
9 54 (8.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (7.68%) LLM
11 48 (7.23%) Observability
11 48 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (6.78%) Clean Code
14 44 (6.63%) Data Engineering
14 44 (6.63%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (6.48%) Mentoring
16 41 (6.17%) Microservices
17 40 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 664 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (12.95%) C++
3 85 (12.80%) SQL
4 65 (9.79%) TypeScript
5 40 (6.02%) C#
6 34 (5.12%) Java
7 30 (4.52%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.86%) Go
9 12 (1.81%) Ruby
10 10 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.51%) Rust
11 4 (0.60%) C
11 4 (0.60%) Scala
12 3 (0.45%) Julia
13 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.15%) Bash
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (11.30%) Degree
2 62 (9.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (4.82%) Master's Degree
4 28 (4.22%) Security Cleared
5 23 (3.46%) SC Cleared
6 19 (2.86%) PhD
7 15 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.45%) CISSP
10 2 (0.30%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.30%) CEH
10 2 (0.30%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.30%) GCIA
10 2 (0.30%) GCIH
10 2 (0.30%) OSCP
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) CCSK
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.67%) QA
2 16 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.30%) GDPR
4 2 (0.30%) SLA
5 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (9.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.45%) KVM
2 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (9.19%) Terraform
2 52 (7.83%) Kubernetes
3 15 (2.26%) Ansible
4 9 (1.36%) Grafana
5 4 (0.60%) Kibana
6 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (3.01%) Databricks
2 10 (1.51%) Google
2 10 (1.51%) OpenAI
3 6 (0.90%) Dynatrace
3 6 (0.90%) Intel
3 6 (0.90%) Splunk
4 4 (0.60%) Palantir
5 3 (0.45%) Revolut
5 3 (0.45%) VMware
6 2 (0.30%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.15%) Arista
7 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco
7 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
7 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv