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 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 299 344
Rank change year-on-year +8 +45 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 524 401 693
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.02% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 1.13% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 449 288 622
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
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 £115,500 £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 77,803 35,497 89,090
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.90% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 54,705 20,597 65,984
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,341
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -13.32%
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 14 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 14 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 -38 297 £100,000 -9.09% 43
South East +49 94 £65,000 +4.00% 12
North of England +13 68 £90,000 +28.57% 10
North West +29 47 £82,500 -9.59% 7
West Midlands +6 29 £65,000 +85.71% 5
Midlands +1 29 £65,000 +20.93% 5
South West -44 22 £70,000 +12.00% 7
North East - 16 £100,000 - 2
East of England -18 11 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Yorkshire -46 5 £100,000 +60.00% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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
2 287 (54.77%) Software Engineering
3 172 (32.82%) AI
4 160 (30.53%) AWS
5 89 (16.98%) Agile
6 87 (16.60%) C++
7 79 (15.08%) SQL
8 77 (14.69%) Degree
9 73 (13.93%) Azure
10 71 (13.55%) Fintech
11 67 (12.79%) CI/CD
12 65 (12.40%) Computer Science Degree
13 63 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 61 (11.64%) Computer Science
15 56 (10.69%) Django
16 55 (10.50%) TypeScript
17 52 (9.92%) FastAPI
18 51 (9.73%) Machine Learning
18 51 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (9.54%) GCP
20 49 (9.35%) SaaS
21 47 (8.97%) DevOps
22 45 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
23 44 (8.40%) Kubernetes
24 43 (8.21%) Terraform
25 42 (8.02%) Git
25 42 (8.02%) QA
26 38 (7.25%) Docker
27 37 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
28 36 (6.87%) C#

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
1 160 (30.53%) AWS
2 73 (13.93%) Azure
3 50 (9.54%) GCP
4 49 (9.35%) SaaS
5 21 (4.01%) GitHub
6 20 (3.82%) Amazon S3
7 19 (3.63%) Snowflake
8 16 (3.05%) Serverless
9 11 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.10%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (1.34%) Azure Stack
11 7 (1.34%) IaaS
11 7 (1.34%) PaaS
12 6 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
12 6 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
13 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 24 (4.58%) 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 6 (1.15%) Big Data
8 6 (1.15%) Tableau
9 5 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.95%) Redis
10 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.76%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.57%) GIS
11 3 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 42 (8.02%) Git
2 20 (3.82%) JIRA
3 6 (1.15%) GitLab
3 6 (1.15%) Selenium
4 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (19.27%) Finance
2 49 (9.35%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.11%) Banking
4 29 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.86%) Games
6 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.91%) Front Office
8 9 (1.72%) Legal
9 8 (1.53%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.76%) Automotive
11 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.76%) Law
11 4 (0.76%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.38%) Advertising
13 2 (0.38%) Retail
14 1 (0.19%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.19%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.69%) Django
2 52 (9.92%) FastAPI
3 32 (6.11%) 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 9 (1.72%) Vue
14 8 (1.53%) Playwright
14 8 (1.53%) Redux
15 6 (1.15%) Puppeteer
15 6 (1.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.16%) 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 21 (4.01%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (3.63%) Hedge funds
6 14 (2.67%) 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
10 7 (1.34%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.34%) PropTech
10 7 (1.34%) Security Posture
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 7 (1.34%) Unix
2 7 (1.34%) Windows
3 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (54.77%) Software Engineering
2 172 (32.82%) AI
3 89 (16.98%) Agile
4 71 (13.55%) Fintech
5 67 (12.79%) CI/CD
6 63 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (11.64%) Computer Science
8 51 (9.73%) Machine Learning
9 47 (8.97%) DevOps
10 45 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
12 36 (6.87%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (6.87%) LLM
13 34 (6.49%) Data Science
13 34 (6.49%) Test Automation
14 33 (6.30%) Microservices
14 33 (6.30%) Observability
14 33 (6.30%) SDLC
15 31 (5.92%) Data Engineering
16 29 (5.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 524 (100.00%) Python
2 87 (16.60%) C++
3 79 (15.08%) SQL
4 55 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 36 (6.87%) C#
6 26 (4.96%) Java
7 25 (4.77%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.48%) Go
9 9 (1.72%) Bash
10 8 (1.53%) Rust
11 7 (1.34%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.15%) Ruby
13 5 (0.95%) C
14 4 (0.76%) Julia
14 4 (0.76%) Scala
15 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 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 13 (2.48%) CISSP
6 9 (1.72%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.34%) CCSK
9 6 (1.15%) CISA
9 6 (1.15%) 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 17 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.34%) NIST
4 6 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 38 (7.25%) 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 44 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 43 (8.21%) Terraform
3 6 (1.15%) Ansible
4 5 (0.95%) Grafana
5 4 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (3.05%) Google
2 11 (2.10%) Databricks
3 7 (1.34%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.95%) Splunk
5 5 (0.95%) VMware
6 4 (0.76%) Palantir
7 1 (0.19%) Intel