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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 305 287
Rank change year-on-year +33 -18 +75
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 650 413 700
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.94% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 1.04% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 545 305 628
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £137,500 £148,750
UK median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%

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 86,690 39,662 68,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.29% 90.71% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 60,890 24,081 47,610
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -34 355 £100,000 -9.09% 114
South East +79 110 £65,000 +18.18% 13
North of England +28 79 £80,000 +14.29% 17
North West +43 51 £68,496 -2.15% 7
South West -42 43 £75,000 +20.00% 12
West Midlands +2 38 £68,750 +96.43% 4
Midlands -3 38 £68,750 +5.77% 5
East of England -6 27 £75,000 +25.00% 4
North East -32 23 £85,000 +183.33% 6
Yorkshire -36 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 3 August 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.

1 650 (100.00%) Python
2 387 (59.54%) Software Engineering
3 221 (34.00%) AWS
4 217 (33.38%) AI
5 104 (16.00%) Agile
6 96 (14.77%) CI/CD
7 94 (14.46%) Azure
8 92 (14.15%) C++
9 88 (13.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 85 (13.08%) SQL
11 82 (12.62%) Degree
12 80 (12.31%) Fintech
13 78 (12.00%) Django
13 78 (12.00%) GCP
14 73 (11.23%) FastAPI
15 71 (10.92%) DevOps
16 68 (10.46%) Computer Science Degree
16 68 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
16 68 (10.46%) TypeScript
17 64 (9.85%) Machine Learning
18 63 (9.69%) React
19 61 (9.38%) Docker
20 60 (9.23%) Terraform
21 58 (8.92%) Computer Science
22 55 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
23 53 (8.15%) SaaS
24 52 (8.00%) Kubernetes
25 51 (7.85%) LLM
26 50 (7.69%) Flask
27 49 (7.54%) Problem-Solving

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 27 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.31%) Apache
4 2 (0.31%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 221 (34.00%) AWS
2 94 (14.46%) Azure
3 78 (12.00%) GCP
4 53 (8.15%) SaaS
5 24 (3.69%) Amazon S3
6 19 (2.92%) Serverless
6 19 (2.92%) Snowflake
7 13 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (2.00%) GitHub
8 10 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (1.54%) dbt
8 10 (1.54%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.38%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (1.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (1.08%) Azure Stack
12 6 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.15%) Multicast
2 7 (1.08%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.77%) Broadband
4 4 (0.62%) SMS
5 2 (0.31%) BGP
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.15%) DNS
6 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) HTTP
6 1 (0.15%) IPv4
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Network Security
6 1 (0.15%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.15%) OSPF
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (10.46%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (6.15%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.85%) MySQL
4 20 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 17 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.31%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.69%) Redis
8 10 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.38%) Power BI
10 8 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.08%) Big Data
11 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.62%) Metadata
14 3 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.46%) GIS
14 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (6.46%) Git
2 20 (3.08%) JIRA
3 15 (2.31%) Claude Code
4 10 (1.54%) GitLab
5 5 (0.77%) Selenium
6 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 101 (15.54%) Finance
2 72 (11.08%) Social Skills
3 31 (4.77%) Banking
4 25 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.15%) Front Office
6 14 (2.15%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.23%) Retail Banking
8 6 (0.92%) Games
8 6 (0.92%) Health Technology
8 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.77%) Automotive
9 5 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.62%) Law
10 4 (0.62%) Legal
10 4 (0.62%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.46%) Marketing
11 3 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.00%) Django
2 73 (11.23%) FastAPI
3 63 (9.69%) React
4 50 (7.69%) Flask
5 30 (4.62%) Kafka
5 30 (4.62%) Node.js
6 25 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
7 22 (3.38%) REST
7 22 (3.38%) RESTful
8 17 (2.62%) pytest
9 16 (2.46%) Celery
10 14 (2.15%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 14 (2.15%) FIX Protocol
11 12 (1.85%) Vue
12 11 (1.69%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.38%) HTML
13 9 (1.38%) Next.js
14 8 (1.23%) Redux
14 8 (1.23%) Ruby on Rails
14 8 (1.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.46%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (4.31%) Distributed Computing
4 27 (4.15%) Algorithms
5 24 (3.69%) Equities
6 22 (3.38%) Derivative
6 22 (3.38%) Fixed Income
7 15 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (2.00%) Hedge funds
9 12 (1.85%) Product Ownership
10 11 (1.69%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.08%) PropTech
13 6 (0.92%) CUDA
13 6 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.92%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.85%) Linux
2 8 (1.23%) Unix
2 8 (1.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (59.54%) Software Engineering
2 217 (33.38%) AI
3 104 (16.00%) Agile
4 96 (14.77%) CI/CD
5 88 (13.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 80 (12.31%) Fintech
7 71 (10.92%) DevOps
8 64 (9.85%) Machine Learning
9 58 (8.92%) Computer Science
10 55 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (7.85%) LLM
12 49 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (7.23%) Observability
14 45 (6.92%) Data Engineering
14 45 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (6.62%) Clean Code
16 42 (6.46%) Mentoring
17 41 (6.31%) Microservices
18 40 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 650 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (14.15%) C++
3 85 (13.08%) SQL
4 68 (10.46%) TypeScript
5 43 (6.62%) C#
6 36 (5.54%) Java
7 32 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.77%) Go
9 12 (1.85%) Ruby
9 12 (1.85%) Rust
10 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.92%) C
12 4 (0.62%) Bash
12 4 (0.62%) Julia
12 4 (0.62%) Scala
13 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (12.62%) Degree
2 68 (10.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 26 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 22 (3.38%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.23%) PhD
7 14 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.46%) CISSP
10 2 (0.31%) CCSK
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) CISA
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.38%) QA
2 18 (2.77%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.31%) GDPR
4 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.15%) SLA
5 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (9.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.77%) KVM
2 5 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (9.23%) Terraform
2 52 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.00%) Ansible
4 9 (1.38%) Grafana
5 4 (0.62%) Kibana
5 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (3.08%) Databricks
2 12 (1.85%) Google
3 10 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.08%) Splunk
5 5 (0.77%) Intel
5 5 (0.77%) VMware
6 4 (0.62%) Dynatrace
6 4 (0.62%) Palantir
7 2 (0.31%) Revolut
8 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.15%) Arista
8 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco
8 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv