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 22 February 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 274 398
Rank change year-on-year -113 +124 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 260 477 411
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.09% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.20% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 193 412 380
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £77,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £138,750
UK median annual salary £96,250 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.75% +17.65% +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 55,622 39,757 63,316
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 91.26% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 35,942 21,300 50,536
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -90 172 £100,000 -4.76% 46
North of England +1 25 £100,000 +33.33% 14
South East -17 24 £66,250 +6.00% 17
North West +20 23 £95,000 +61.70% 9
Midlands +5 18 £63,750 +18.60% 3
South West -7 13 £80,000 -15.79% 5
West Midlands +14 11 £60,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands -15 9 £70,000 +7.69%
East of England +15 7 £50,000 -9.09% 2
North East -15 2 £100,000 +25.00% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 February 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.

1 260 (100.00%) Python
2 144 (55.38%) Software Engineering
3 92 (35.38%) AWS
4 75 (28.85%) Agile
5 67 (25.77%) AI
6 64 (24.62%) SQL
7 54 (20.77%) Fintech
8 51 (19.62%) Azure
9 50 (19.23%) CI/CD
10 47 (18.08%) Computer Science
11 46 (17.69%) GCP
12 45 (17.31%) Degree
12 45 (17.31%) TypeScript
13 35 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 33 (12.69%) C++
15 32 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
15 32 (12.31%) Git
16 31 (11.92%) Linux
17 30 (11.54%) DevOps
18 29 (11.15%) Investment Management
18 29 (11.15%) Test Automation
19 28 (10.77%) Full-Stack Development
19 28 (10.77%) JavaScript
19 28 (10.77%) React
19 28 (10.77%) Terraform
20 26 (10.00%) GitHub
20 26 (10.00%) Google
20 26 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
21 25 (9.62%) Kubernetes
21 25 (9.62%) QA

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 32 (12.31%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.23%) Apache
3 5 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (35.38%) AWS
2 51 (19.62%) Azure
3 46 (17.69%) GCP
4 26 (10.00%) GitHub
5 25 (9.62%) SaaS
6 22 (8.46%) dbt
7 20 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 11 (4.23%) IaaS
8 11 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.23%) PaaS
8 11 (4.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (3.46%) Serverless
10 7 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.31%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.92%) Dagster
13 4 (1.54%) Prefect
14 3 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.23%) Multicast
2 6 (2.31%) HTTP
3 5 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.54%) DNS
4 4 (1.54%) SMTP
5 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) LAN
5 1 (0.38%) Network Security
5 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.31%) Amazon Athena
2 19 (7.31%) Apache Arrow
2 19 (7.31%) Apache Iceberg
2 19 (7.31%) Dremio
3 13 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.62%) Data Lake
5 11 (4.23%) Tableau
6 9 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.08%) Apache Ignite
8 7 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.31%) Flink
9 6 (2.31%) Power BI
10 5 (1.92%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.77%) Big Data
13 2 (0.77%) MySQL
13 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (12.31%) Git
2 11 (4.23%) JIRA
3 3 (1.15%) GitLab
3 3 (1.15%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 95 (36.54%) Finance
2 32 (12.31%) Front Office
3 31 (11.92%) Social Skills
4 29 (11.15%) Banking
5 22 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.77%) Legal
7 11 (4.23%) Games
8 8 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.15%) Back Office
9 3 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Retail
10 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.77%) React
2 21 (8.08%) NumPy
2 21 (8.08%) Pandas
3 19 (7.31%) SciPy
4 18 (6.92%) Node.js
5 17 (6.54%) FastAPI
6 16 (6.15%) AngularJS
6 16 (6.15%) Django
6 16 (6.15%) Vue
7 11 (4.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 11 (4.23%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (4.23%) Kafka
7 11 (4.23%) pytest
8 8 (3.08%) Flask
8 8 (3.08%) gRPC
8 8 (3.08%) Protocol Buffers
8 8 (3.08%) PySpark
9 7 (2.69%) Celery
9 7 (2.69%) REST
10 6 (2.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 35 (13.46%) Equities
3 33 (12.69%) Hedge funds
4 24 (9.23%) Management Information System
5 23 (8.85%) Derivative
6 19 (7.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (6.15%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.38%) Algorithms
9 11 (4.23%) Security Posture
10 9 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (3.08%) Pricing Data
12 7 (2.69%) Data Structures
13 6 (2.31%) Robotics
14 5 (1.92%) Client/Server
15 4 (1.54%) GNSS
15 4 (1.54%) Satnav
15 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
17 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
17 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.92%) Linux
2 15 (5.77%) Windows
3 11 (4.23%) Mac OS
3 11 (4.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (55.38%) Software Engineering
2 75 (28.85%) Agile
3 67 (25.77%) AI
4 54 (20.77%) Fintech
5 50 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 47 (18.08%) Computer Science
7 30 (11.54%) DevOps
8 29 (11.15%) Investment Management
8 29 (11.15%) Test Automation
9 28 (10.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (8.85%) Analytics
10 23 (8.85%) Asset Management
10 23 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (8.85%) Risk Management
11 22 (8.46%) ETL
11 22 (8.46%) Information Security
11 22 (8.46%) Process Improvement
12 20 (7.69%) Data Engineering
12 20 (7.69%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 260 (100.00%) Python
2 64 (24.62%) SQL
3 45 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 33 (12.69%) C++
5 28 (10.77%) JavaScript
6 21 (8.08%) Java
7 13 (5.00%) Bash
8 12 (4.62%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.85%) C#
10 4 (1.54%) C
10 4 (1.54%) PHP
11 3 (1.15%) Rust
12 2 (0.77%) Go
12 2 (0.77%) Julia
12 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (17.31%) Degree
2 35 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (8.46%) CISSP
4 11 (4.23%) CCSK
4 11 (4.23%) CISA
4 11 (4.23%) CompTIA CySA+
5 5 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.15%) PhD
7 2 (0.77%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.62%) QA
2 12 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.62%) NIST
3 10 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
4 8 (3.08%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (8.85%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.15%) KVM
4 1 (0.38%) NFS
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (10.77%) Terraform
2 25 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.31%) Argo
3 6 (2.31%) Grafana
4 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Google
2 11 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.31%) Databricks
4 4 (1.54%) VMware
5 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco
6 1 (0.38%) Commvault
6 1 (0.38%) Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir
6 1 (0.38%) Pure Storage
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.38%) Splunk