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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 305 309
Rank change year-on-year +28 +4 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 617 406 709
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.03% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 520 296 638
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £83,438 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,625 £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 83,806 39,235 77,320
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 90.56% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,024 23,683 55,489
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,629
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,500
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 22 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 22 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 -28 345 £100,000 -9.09% 107
South East +66 107 £65,000 +18.18% 11
North of England +32 75 £82,500 +17.86% 13
North West +36 48 £65,000 -35.00% 6
South West -42 40 £75,000 +20.00% 14
West Midlands +15 34 £66,250 +89.29% 7
Midlands -1 34 £66,250 +1.92% 7
North East -30 22 £85,000 +183.33% 2
East of England +4 18 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Yorkshire -39 5 £100,000 +60.00% 5
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 617 (100.00%) Python
2 366 (59.32%) Software Engineering
3 210 (34.04%) AI
4 207 (33.55%) AWS
5 103 (16.69%) Agile
6 93 (15.07%) C++
7 87 (14.10%) CI/CD
8 85 (13.78%) Azure
8 85 (13.78%) SQL
9 83 (13.45%) Degree
10 81 (13.13%) Fintech
11 78 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 71 (11.51%) Django
13 69 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
14 68 (11.02%) FastAPI
15 65 (10.53%) GCP
16 64 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
17 63 (10.21%) DevOps
17 63 (10.21%) TypeScript
18 61 (9.89%) Computer Science
19 60 (9.72%) Machine Learning
20 57 (9.24%) Docker
21 54 (8.75%) React
22 52 (8.43%) SaaS
22 52 (8.43%) Terraform
23 49 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
23 49 (7.94%) Kubernetes
24 48 (7.78%) LLM
25 47 (7.62%) Flask
26 45 (7.29%) 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 (4.54%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.43%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 207 (33.55%) AWS
2 85 (13.78%) Azure
3 65 (10.53%) GCP
4 52 (8.43%) SaaS
5 23 (3.73%) Amazon S3
6 20 (3.24%) Serverless
7 19 (3.08%) Snowflake
8 17 (2.76%) GitHub
9 14 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (1.62%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.13%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (1.13%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.59%) Multicast
2 5 (0.81%) Broadband
3 4 (0.65%) SMS
4 2 (0.32%) BGP
4 2 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) IPv4
5 1 (0.16%) LAN
5 1 (0.16%) Network Security
5 1 (0.16%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.16%) OSPF
5 1 (0.16%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.16%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.16%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 25 (4.05%) MySQL
4 20 (3.24%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.62%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.62%) Redis
8 9 (1.46%) Power BI
9 8 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.13%) Big Data
11 5 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.65%) Metadata
13 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.49%) GIS
13 3 (0.49%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 45 (7.29%) Git
2 22 (3.57%) JIRA
3 15 (2.43%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.62%) GitLab
5 6 (0.97%) Selenium
6 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (17.50%) Finance
2 61 (9.89%) Social Skills
3 33 (5.35%) Banking
4 26 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.27%) Front Office
7 13 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.30%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.13%) Games
10 6 (0.97%) Health Technology
10 6 (0.97%) Legal
10 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.81%) Automotive
12 4 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.65%) Law
12 4 (0.65%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.49%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.49%) Marketing
14 2 (0.32%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.51%) Django
2 68 (11.02%) FastAPI
3 54 (8.75%) React
4 47 (7.62%) Flask
5 29 (4.70%) Kafka
6 28 (4.54%) Node.js
7 25 (4.05%) SQLAlchemy
8 20 (3.24%) RESTful
9 18 (2.92%) pytest
10 17 (2.76%) REST
11 16 (2.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 16 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (2.43%) Celery
13 11 (1.78%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.78%) Vue
14 10 (1.62%) HTML
15 8 (1.30%) Next.js
15 8 (1.30%) Playwright
15 8 (1.30%) Redux
16 7 (1.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 33 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.70%) Algorithms
4 28 (4.54%) Distributed Computing
5 26 (4.21%) Equities
6 24 (3.89%) Derivative
6 24 (3.89%) Fixed Income
7 17 (2.76%) Hedge funds
8 15 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (1.78%) Client/Server
10 11 (1.78%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.62%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.46%) Robotics
13 8 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.13%) PropTech
14 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.97%) CUDA
15 6 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
16 5 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (5.83%) Linux
2 10 (1.62%) Windows
3 4 (0.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.49%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (59.32%) Software Engineering
2 210 (34.04%) AI
3 103 (16.69%) Agile
4 87 (14.10%) CI/CD
5 81 (13.13%) Fintech
6 78 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (10.21%) DevOps
8 61 (9.89%) Computer Science
9 60 (9.72%) Machine Learning
10 49 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (7.78%) LLM
12 44 (7.13%) Data Pipeline
12 44 (7.13%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (6.97%) Data Engineering
14 40 (6.48%) Technical Leadership
15 38 (6.16%) Microservices
16 37 (6.00%) Clean Code
17 36 (5.83%) Analytics
17 36 (5.83%) Observability
17 36 (5.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 617 (100.00%) Python
2 93 (15.07%) C++
3 85 (13.78%) SQL
4 63 (10.21%) TypeScript
5 40 (6.48%) C#
6 33 (5.35%) Java
7 30 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.92%) Go
9 12 (1.94%) Rust
10 10 (1.62%) Ruby
11 6 (0.97%) Bash
11 6 (0.97%) C
11 6 (0.97%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.65%) Julia
12 4 (0.65%) Scala
13 2 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
14 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (13.45%) Degree
2 69 (11.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (5.19%) Master's Degree
4 21 (3.40%) PhD
5 18 (2.92%) Security Cleared
6 16 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 14 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.13%) CISSP
9 6 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.65%) CCSK
11 3 (0.49%) CISA
11 3 (0.49%) CompTIA CySA+
12 1 (0.16%) CCIE
12 1 (0.16%) CCNP
12 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.00%) QA
2 18 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.65%) NIST
4 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (9.24%) Docker
2 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.81%) KVM
2 5 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (8.43%) Terraform
2 49 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.46%) Ansible
4 5 (0.81%) Grafana
5 4 (0.65%) Kibana
5 4 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (3.08%) Databricks
2 10 (1.62%) Google
3 9 (1.46%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.13%) Splunk
5 5 (0.81%) Intel
5 5 (0.81%) VMware
6 4 (0.65%) Palantir
7 3 (0.49%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.16%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.16%) Arista
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco