Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 268 363
Rank change year-on-year -116 +95 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 239 532 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 1.11% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 1.20% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 184 468 366
10th Percentile £55,750 £55,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £72,188 £75,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £92,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +8.82% +3.03%
75th Percentile £123,438 £116,250 £120,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +6.25%

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 48,844 44,336 50,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.44% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 30,889 23,188 39,413
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -7.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -97 166 £105,000 +5.00% 49
North of England +23 20 £97,500 +21.88% 22
North West +31 19 £95,000 +61.70% 6
Midlands +29 17 £65,000 - 13
South West +11 13 £80,000 +33.33% 18
South East +12 12 £58,750 -6.00% 53
West Midlands +23 10 £60,000 +20.00% 6
East Midlands -1 10 £70,000 +7.69% 7
East of England +26 8 £50,000 -9.09% 19
North East -6 1 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 January 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.

1 239 (100.00%) Python
2 141 (59.00%) Software Engineering
3 98 (41.00%) AWS
4 86 (35.98%) Agile
5 68 (28.45%) TypeScript
6 56 (23.43%) Apache Airflow
7 53 (22.18%) Fintech
7 53 (22.18%) Investment Management
7 53 (22.18%) SQL
8 50 (20.92%) JavaScript
9 49 (20.50%) NumPy
9 49 (20.50%) Pandas
10 48 (20.08%) AI
11 47 (19.67%) Amazon Athena
11 47 (19.67%) Apache Arrow
11 47 (19.67%) Apache Iceberg
11 47 (19.67%) Asset Management
11 47 (19.67%) dbt
11 47 (19.67%) Dremio
11 47 (19.67%) SciPy
12 45 (18.83%) GCP
13 39 (16.32%) CI/CD
14 38 (15.90%) Azure
14 38 (15.90%) Computer Science
15 35 (14.64%) React
16 32 (13.39%) Degree
16 32 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
16 32 (13.39%) Risk Management
17 31 (12.97%) Java
17 31 (12.97%) Snowflake

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 56 (23.43%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (11.30%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 98 (41.00%) AWS
2 47 (19.67%) dbt
3 45 (18.83%) GCP
4 38 (15.90%) Azure
5 31 (12.97%) Snowflake
6 24 (10.04%) GitHub
7 22 (9.21%) SaaS
8 8 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.93%) IaaS
9 7 (2.93%) PaaS
9 7 (2.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.51%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.09%) Dagster
11 5 (2.09%) Serverless
12 4 (1.67%) Prefect
13 3 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.26%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.02%) Multicast
2 9 (3.77%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.09%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (2.09%) Firewall
3 5 (2.09%) LAN
3 5 (2.09%) WAN
4 4 (1.67%) DNS
4 4 (1.67%) HTTP
4 4 (1.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (19.67%) Amazon Athena
1 47 (19.67%) Apache Arrow
1 47 (19.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 47 (19.67%) Dremio
2 32 (13.39%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (11.72%) Data Lake
4 24 (10.04%) Apache Ignite
5 10 (4.18%) NoSQL
6 9 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.35%) Tableau
8 7 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.51%) Flink
10 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.26%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.26%) Parquet
10 3 (1.26%) Power BI
10 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (11.72%) Git
2 13 (5.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 105 (43.93%) Finance
2 56 (23.43%) Front Office
3 44 (18.41%) Banking
4 24 (10.04%) Investment Banking
5 22 (9.21%) Social Skills
6 14 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.02%) Legal
8 8 (3.35%) Games
9 4 (1.67%) Retail
10 3 (1.26%) Automotive
10 3 (1.26%) Back Office
10 3 (1.26%) Law
10 3 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) iGaming
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (20.50%) NumPy
1 49 (20.50%) Pandas
2 47 (19.67%) SciPy
3 35 (14.64%) React
4 27 (11.30%) Vue
5 26 (10.88%) AngularJS
5 26 (10.88%) gRPC
5 26 (10.88%) Node.js
6 24 (10.04%) Protocol Buffers
7 18 (7.53%) FastAPI
8 15 (6.28%) Django
9 12 (5.02%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 12 (5.02%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (5.02%) pytest
10 11 (4.60%) PySpark
11 9 (3.77%) Kafka
12 7 (2.93%) Flask
12 7 (2.93%) REST
13 5 (2.09%) Celery
13 5 (2.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 65 (27.20%) Fixed Income
2 60 (25.10%) Equities
3 47 (19.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (17.57%) Hedge funds
5 36 (15.06%) Derivative
6 24 (10.04%) Pricing Data
7 20 (8.37%) Management Information System
8 14 (5.86%) Algorithms
9 11 (4.60%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.93%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.09%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.67%) GNSS
12 4 (1.67%) Satnav
12 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.26%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.84%) Client/Server
14 2 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.55%) Linux
2 12 (5.02%) Windows
3 8 (3.35%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.93%) Unix
5 5 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (59.00%) Software Engineering
2 86 (35.98%) Agile
3 53 (22.18%) Fintech
3 53 (22.18%) Investment Management
4 48 (20.08%) AI
5 47 (19.67%) Asset Management
6 39 (16.32%) CI/CD
7 38 (15.90%) Computer Science
8 32 (13.39%) Risk Management
9 29 (12.13%) DevOps
10 23 (9.62%) Order Management
10 23 (9.62%) Performance Attribution
11 22 (9.21%) ETL
11 22 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (8.79%) Analytics
13 19 (7.95%) Process Improvement
13 19 (7.95%) Test Automation
14 18 (7.53%) Data Engineering
14 18 (7.53%) Mathematics
15 17 (7.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 239 (100.00%) Python
2 68 (28.45%) TypeScript
3 53 (22.18%) SQL
4 50 (20.92%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.97%) Java
6 23 (9.62%) C++
7 8 (3.35%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.93%) Bash
8 7 (2.93%) C#
9 4 (1.67%) PHP
10 3 (1.26%) VBA
11 2 (0.84%) C
11 2 (0.84%) Julia
12 1 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (13.39%) Degree
2 24 (10.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (6.28%) CISSP
4 8 (3.35%) CISA
4 8 (3.35%) CompTIA CySA+
5 7 (2.93%) CCSK
6 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.84%) PhD
7 2 (0.84%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.84%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.37%) QA
2 8 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.35%) NIST
3 7 (2.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (7.95%) Docker
2 5 (2.09%) NFS
2 5 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.79%) Terraform
3 7 (2.93%) Ansible
4 6 (2.51%) Argo
5 3 (1.26%) Grafana
5 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (7.11%) Google
2 11 (4.60%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.35%) Databricks
4 5 (2.09%) Cisco
4 5 (2.09%) Commvault
4 5 (2.09%) Pure Storage
4 5 (2.09%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.09%) VMware
5 2 (0.84%) Foundry
5 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.84%) Palantir
6 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics