Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 308 313
Rank change year-on-year +30 +5 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 606 408 709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.04% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 511 298 638
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -

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 83,664 39,191 77,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.42% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58,936 23,658 55,533
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,726
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,574 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,650
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -19 340 £100,000 -9.09% 101
South East +55 104 £65,000 +4.00% 13
North of England +36 74 £82,500 +17.86% 12
North West +36 47 £70,000 -30.00% 6
South West -35 39 £75,000 +20.00% 15
West Midlands +9 33 £65,000 +85.71% 7
Midlands -12 33 £65,000 - 7
North East -26 22 £85,000 +183.33% 2
East of England -1 17 £80,000 +39.13% 4
Yorkshire -37 5 £100,000 +60.00% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 606 (100.00%) Python
2 359 (59.24%) Software Engineering
3 207 (34.16%) AI
4 203 (33.50%) AWS
5 101 (16.67%) Agile
6 92 (15.18%) C++
7 84 (13.86%) Azure
7 84 (13.86%) SQL
8 83 (13.70%) CI/CD
9 82 (13.53%) Degree
10 80 (13.20%) Fintech
11 78 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 69 (11.39%) Django
13 68 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 67 (11.06%) FastAPI
15 63 (10.40%) GCP
16 61 (10.07%) Computer Science
16 61 (10.07%) DevOps
16 61 (10.07%) TypeScript
17 60 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
18 57 (9.41%) Docker
18 57 (9.41%) Machine Learning
19 53 (8.75%) React
20 51 (8.42%) SaaS
20 51 (8.42%) Terraform
21 48 (7.92%) Kubernetes
22 47 (7.76%) Flask
22 47 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
23 46 (7.59%) LLM
24 44 (7.26%) Git

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 28 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 203 (33.50%) AWS
2 84 (13.86%) Azure
3 63 (10.40%) GCP
4 51 (8.42%) SaaS
5 22 (3.63%) Amazon S3
6 18 (2.97%) Serverless
7 17 (2.81%) Snowflake
8 16 (2.64%) GitHub
9 13 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.49%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (1.16%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (0.99%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.64%) Multicast
2 5 (0.83%) Broadband
3 4 (0.66%) SMS
4 2 (0.33%) HTTP
5 1 (0.17%) BGP
5 1 (0.17%) DNS
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
5 1 (0.17%) IPv4
5 1 (0.17%) Network Security
5 1 (0.17%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.44%) Relational Database
3 25 (4.13%) MySQL
4 20 (3.30%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 9 (1.49%) Redis
9 8 (1.32%) Power BI
9 8 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.99%) Big Data
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.66%) Metadata
13 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.50%) GIS
13 3 (0.50%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (7.26%) Git
2 22 (3.63%) JIRA
3 15 (2.48%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.65%) GitLab
5 6 (0.99%) Selenium
6 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (17.49%) Finance
2 57 (9.41%) Social Skills
3 32 (5.28%) Banking
4 25 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.31%) Front Office
7 13 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.32%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.16%) Games
10 6 (0.99%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.99%) Legal
10 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.66%) Automotive
11 4 (0.66%) Law
11 4 (0.66%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.50%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.50%) Marketing
13 2 (0.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.39%) Django
2 67 (11.06%) FastAPI
3 53 (8.75%) React
4 47 (7.76%) Flask
5 28 (4.62%) Kafka
5 28 (4.62%) Node.js
6 25 (4.13%) SQLAlchemy
7 20 (3.30%) RESTful
8 18 (2.97%) pytest
9 16 (2.64%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 16 (2.64%) FIX Protocol
10 15 (2.48%) Celery
10 15 (2.48%) REST
11 11 (1.82%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.65%) HTML
12 10 (1.65%) Vue
13 8 (1.32%) Next.js
13 8 (1.32%) Playwright
13 8 (1.32%) Redux
14 7 (1.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.79%) Algorithms
4 27 (4.46%) Distributed Computing
5 26 (4.29%) Equities
6 24 (3.96%) Derivative
6 24 (3.96%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.81%) Hedge funds
8 14 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (1.82%) Client/Server
10 11 (1.82%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.49%) Robotics
12 8 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 7 (1.16%) PropTech
13 7 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.99%) CUDA
14 6 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.61%) Linux
2 10 (1.65%) Windows
3 4 (0.66%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (59.24%) Software Engineering
2 207 (34.16%) AI
3 101 (16.67%) Agile
4 83 (13.70%) CI/CD
5 80 (13.20%) Fintech
6 78 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (10.07%) Computer Science
7 61 (10.07%) DevOps
8 57 (9.41%) Machine Learning
9 47 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 46 (7.59%) LLM
11 42 (6.93%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (6.77%) Data Engineering
13 40 (6.60%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (6.11%) Microservices
15 36 (5.94%) Clean Code
15 36 (5.94%) SDLC
16 35 (5.78%) Analytics
17 34 (5.61%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 606 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (15.18%) C++
3 84 (13.86%) SQL
4 61 (10.07%) TypeScript
5 39 (6.44%) C#
6 32 (5.28%) Java
7 28 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.81%) Go
9 12 (1.98%) Rust
10 10 (1.65%) Ruby
11 6 (0.99%) Bash
11 6 (0.99%) C
11 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.66%) Julia
12 4 (0.66%) Scala
13 2 (0.33%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.17%) PHP
14 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (13.53%) Degree
2 68 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (5.12%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.30%) PhD
5 17 (2.81%) Security Cleared
6 15 (2.48%) SC Cleared
7 13 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.16%) CISSP
9 5 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.66%) CCSK
11 3 (0.50%) CISA
11 3 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.11%) QA
2 18 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.66%) NIST
4 3 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (9.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.83%) KVM
2 5 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (8.42%) Terraform
2 48 (7.92%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.32%) Ansible
4 5 (0.83%) Grafana
5 4 (0.66%) Kibana
5 4 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (2.97%) Databricks
2 10 (1.65%) Google
3 8 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.16%) Splunk
5 5 (0.83%) Intel
5 5 (0.83%) VMware
6 4 (0.66%) Palantir
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft