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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 324 381
Rank change year-on-year +20 +57 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 463 364 574
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.94% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.05% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 381 336 518
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% +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 74,648 34,765 79,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 89.48% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 50,252 20,835 60,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,670 £52,686
% change year-on-year -4.63% +9.46% -12.19%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -36 269 £100,000 -9.09% 48
South East +41 76 £65,000 +4.00% 18
North of England +28 58 £97,500 +39.29% 5
North West +41 42 £90,000 +9.09% 4
Midlands -11 28 £65,000 +67.74% 4
West Midlands -3 22 £65,000 +85.71% 4
South West - 18 £62,500 - 2
East of England -9 12 £55,000 - 1
North East -28 11 £100,000 -
East Midlands -19 6 £85,000 +25.93%
Yorkshire -59 5 £100,000 +56.86% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 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.

1 463 (100.00%) Python
2 241 (52.05%) Software Engineering
3 143 (30.89%) AI
4 141 (30.45%) AWS
5 85 (18.36%) SQL
6 77 (16.63%) Agile
7 72 (15.55%) Azure
8 70 (15.12%) C++
8 70 (15.12%) Degree
9 69 (14.90%) Fintech
10 63 (13.61%) CI/CD
11 58 (12.53%) Computer Science
11 58 (12.53%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
13 54 (11.66%) SaaS
14 49 (10.58%) DevOps
15 46 (9.94%) FastAPI
15 46 (9.94%) GCP
16 45 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
17 44 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
18 43 (9.29%) Django
18 43 (9.29%) Git
18 43 (9.29%) TypeScript
19 42 (9.07%) Terraform
20 40 (8.64%) Machine Learning
21 39 (8.42%) Kubernetes
22 37 (7.99%) QA
23 35 (7.56%) Data Pipeline
24 34 (7.34%) Linux
25 33 (7.13%) Analytics

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 20 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.22%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 141 (30.45%) AWS
2 72 (15.55%) Azure
3 54 (11.66%) SaaS
4 46 (9.94%) GCP
5 21 (4.54%) GitHub
6 18 (3.89%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.46%) Snowflake
8 15 (3.24%) Serverless
9 13 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (2.38%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.16%) IaaS
11 10 (2.16%) PaaS
12 9 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 6 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.30%) Anthropic Claude
15 6 (1.30%) Azure Stack
16 4 (0.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.24%) Multicast
2 5 (1.08%) HTTP
3 4 (0.86%) Broadband
3 4 (0.86%) DNS
3 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.65%) SMTP
5 1 (0.22%) BGP
5 1 (0.22%) Firewall
5 1 (0.22%) IPv4
5 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (5.18%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.59%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.16%) MySQL
5 10 (2.16%) Power BI
5 10 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.94%) DynamoDB
6 9 (1.94%) Tableau
7 6 (1.30%) Big Data
8 5 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.08%) Redis
9 4 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.86%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.65%) Metadata
11 2 (0.43%) Flink
Development Applications
1 43 (9.29%) Git
2 16 (3.46%) JIRA
3 6 (1.30%) GitLab
3 6 (1.30%) Selenium
4 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 92 (19.87%) Finance
2 42 (9.07%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.91%) Banking
4 31 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (3.02%) Games
6 13 (2.81%) Front Office
7 11 (2.38%) Legal
7 11 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.73%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.86%) Public Sector
9 4 (0.86%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.65%) Law
10 3 (0.65%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.43%) Advertising
11 2 (0.43%) Automotive
11 2 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.43%) Retail
12 1 (0.22%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.22%) Back Office
12 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.94%) FastAPI
2 43 (9.29%) Django
3 28 (6.05%) React
4 23 (4.97%) Kafka
5 22 (4.75%) Flask
5 22 (4.75%) Node.js
6 17 (3.67%) RESTful
7 16 (3.46%) pytest
8 15 (3.24%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 15 (3.24%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (3.02%) REST
10 13 (2.81%) PySpark
11 12 (2.59%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.59%) SQLAlchemy
12 9 (1.94%) HTML
13 8 (1.73%) Celery
13 8 (1.73%) Playwright
13 8 (1.73%) Redux
14 6 (1.30%) Puppeteer
15 5 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.07%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.62%) Hedge funds
3 25 (5.40%) Algorithms
3 25 (5.40%) Fixed Income
4 23 (4.97%) Derivative
4 23 (4.97%) Equities
5 20 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 20 (4.32%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
7 10 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.94%) Robotics
9 8 (1.73%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.30%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.30%) CUDA
11 6 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.08%) PropTech
13 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.34%) Linux
2 12 (2.59%) Windows
3 10 (2.16%) Unix
4 9 (1.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (52.05%) Software Engineering
2 143 (30.89%) AI
3 77 (16.63%) Agile
4 69 (14.90%) Fintech
5 63 (13.61%) CI/CD
6 58 (12.53%) Computer Science
7 57 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (10.58%) DevOps
9 45 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (8.64%) Machine Learning
11 35 (7.56%) Data Pipeline
12 33 (7.13%) Analytics
12 33 (7.13%) Test Automation
13 31 (6.70%) TDD
14 29 (6.26%) SDLC
15 28 (6.05%) Microservices
16 27 (5.83%) Data Engineering
16 27 (5.83%) Data Science
17 26 (5.62%) Observability
18 25 (5.40%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 463 (100.00%) Python
2 85 (18.36%) SQL
3 70 (15.12%) C++
4 43 (9.29%) TypeScript
5 25 (5.40%) C#
6 21 (4.54%) Java
6 21 (4.54%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.59%) Bash
8 10 (2.16%) Go
8 10 (2.16%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.30%) Rust
10 4 (0.86%) C
10 4 (0.86%) Scala
11 2 (0.43%) Julia
11 2 (0.43%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.43%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 70 (15.12%) Degree
2 58 (12.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.10%) CISSP
4 18 (3.89%) Master's Degree
5 13 (2.81%) PhD
6 10 (2.16%) CCSK
7 9 (1.94%) CISA
7 9 (1.94%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.08%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.86%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.99%) QA
2 17 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.16%) NIST
4 9 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (6.70%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.86%) KVM
2 4 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (9.07%) Terraform
2 39 (8.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.08%) Grafana
4 4 (0.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (4.54%) Google
2 9 (1.94%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.73%) Databricks
3 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
4 4 (0.86%) VMware
5 3 (0.65%) Palantir
6 1 (0.22%) Splunk