Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 302 353
Rank change year-on-year +12 +51 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 524 401 679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.02% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.13% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 447 288 609
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £143,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 77,507 35,371 88,423
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.95% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54,461 20,505 65,670
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -12.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 June 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 June 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 -32 302 £100,000 -9.09% 33
South East +45 91 £65,000 +4.00% 12
North of England +22 67 £90,000 +28.57% 5
North West +54 46 £82,500 -9.59% 3
West Midlands +1 29 £65,000 +85.71% 5
Midlands 0 29 £65,000 +20.93% 5
South West -57 21 £70,000 +12.00% 6
North East - 16 £100,000 - 2
East of England -14 11 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire -39 5 £100,000 +60.00%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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.

1 524 (100.00%) Python
2 283 (54.01%) Software Engineering
3 171 (32.63%) AI
4 158 (30.15%) AWS
5 86 (16.41%) Agile
6 85 (16.22%) C++
7 82 (15.65%) SQL
8 77 (14.69%) Degree
9 74 (14.12%) Azure
10 72 (13.74%) Fintech
11 66 (12.60%) CI/CD
12 65 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 63 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 62 (11.83%) Computer Science
15 55 (10.50%) Django
16 53 (10.11%) TypeScript
17 51 (9.73%) FastAPI
17 51 (9.73%) GCP
17 51 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
17 51 (9.73%) SaaS
18 50 (9.54%) Machine Learning
19 46 (8.78%) DevOps
19 46 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
20 43 (8.21%) Kubernetes
20 43 (8.21%) Terraform
21 42 (8.02%) QA
22 41 (7.82%) Git
23 37 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
24 36 (6.87%) Data Pipeline
24 36 (6.87%) Docker

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 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.15%) AWS
2 74 (14.12%) Azure
3 51 (9.73%) GCP
3 51 (9.73%) SaaS
4 21 (4.01%) Amazon S3
4 21 (4.01%) GitHub
5 19 (3.63%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.24%) Serverless
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (2.10%) Power Platform
9 8 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (1.53%) IaaS
9 8 (1.53%) PaaS
10 7 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.34%) Azure Stack
10 7 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (0.95%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.44%) Multicast
2 5 (0.95%) Broadband
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) BGP
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) IPv4
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.77%) Relational Database
3 19 (3.63%) NoSQL
4 16 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.91%) MySQL
6 10 (1.91%) Power BI
6 10 (1.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.72%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.34%) Tableau
9 6 (1.15%) Big Data
10 5 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.95%) Redis
11 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 41 (7.82%) Git
2 19 (3.63%) JIRA
3 6 (1.15%) Selenium
4 5 (0.95%) GitLab
5 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 104 (19.85%) Finance
2 49 (9.35%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.11%) Banking
4 30 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.86%) Games
6 11 (2.10%) Front Office
6 11 (2.10%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.91%) Legal
8 8 (1.53%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.76%) Automotive
10 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.76%) Law
10 4 (0.76%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Retail
13 1 (0.19%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.19%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.50%) Django
2 51 (9.73%) FastAPI
3 31 (5.92%) React
4 27 (5.15%) Flask
5 23 (4.39%) Kafka
6 21 (4.01%) Node.js
7 20 (3.82%) pytest
8 19 (3.63%) RESTful
9 18 (3.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 18 (3.44%) FIX Protocol
10 13 (2.48%) REST
10 13 (2.48%) SQLAlchemy
11 11 (2.10%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.91%) Celery
12 10 (1.91%) HTML
13 8 (1.53%) Playwright
13 8 (1.53%) Redux
13 8 (1.53%) Vue
14 7 (1.34%) PySpark
15 6 (1.15%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.73%) Algorithms
2 30 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.96%) Derivative
3 26 (4.96%) Equities
3 26 (4.96%) Fixed Income
4 22 (4.20%) Hedge funds
5 20 (3.82%) Distributed Computing
6 16 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.91%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.72%) Robotics
9 8 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.53%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.34%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.34%) PropTech
11 6 (1.15%) CUDA
11 6 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.49%) Linux
2 8 (1.53%) Unix
3 7 (1.34%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (54.01%) Software Engineering
2 171 (32.63%) AI
3 86 (16.41%) Agile
4 72 (13.74%) Fintech
5 66 (12.60%) CI/CD
6 63 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (11.83%) Computer Science
8 50 (9.54%) Machine Learning
9 46 (8.78%) DevOps
9 46 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
11 36 (6.87%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (6.68%) LLM
13 34 (6.49%) Data Science
14 33 (6.30%) Microservices
14 33 (6.30%) Test Automation
15 32 (6.11%) Observability
15 32 (6.11%) SDLC
16 31 (5.92%) Data Engineering
17 29 (5.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 524 (100.00%) Python
2 85 (16.22%) C++
3 82 (15.65%) SQL
4 53 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 34 (6.49%) C#
6 26 (4.96%) Java
7 25 (4.77%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.48%) Go
9 10 (1.91%) Bash
10 8 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.53%) Rust
11 5 (0.95%) C
11 5 (0.95%) Ruby
12 4 (0.76%) Julia
12 4 (0.76%) Scala
13 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (14.69%) Degree
2 65 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (4.96%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.82%) PhD
5 15 (2.86%) CISSP
6 9 (1.72%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.53%) CCSK
7 8 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.34%) CISA
8 7 (1.34%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.02%) QA
2 18 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.53%) NIST
4 7 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 36 (6.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.95%) KVM
2 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (8.21%) Kubernetes
1 43 (8.21%) Terraform
2 5 (0.95%) Ansible
2 5 (0.95%) Grafana
3 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (3.44%) Google
2 12 (2.29%) Databricks
3 8 (1.53%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.34%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.95%) VMware
6 4 (0.76%) Palantir
6 4 (0.76%) Splunk