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 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 309 333
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 567 410 723
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.95% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.05% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 474 301 649
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £82,500 £70,000
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 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% +15.79% +5.56%

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 81,756 38,938 85,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.26% 90.41% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 57,481 23,375 62,455
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +5.99% -11.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 9 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 9 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 -26 323 £100,000 -9.09% 65
South East +44 98 £65,000 +4.00% 12
North of England +19 68 £85,000 +21.43% 11
North West +35 45 £77,500 -22.50% 8
South West -42 33 £75,000 +20.00% 19
West Midlands +5 32 £65,000 +85.71% 6
Midlands -9 32 £65,000 - 6
North East -27 18 £92,500 +208.33% 2
East of England -12 13 £80,000 +39.13% 6
Yorkshire -34 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 9 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.

1 567 (100.00%) Python
2 329 (58.02%) Software Engineering
3 195 (34.39%) AWS
4 192 (33.86%) AI
5 97 (17.11%) Agile
6 92 (16.23%) C++
7 84 (14.81%) SQL
8 83 (14.64%) Azure
8 83 (14.64%) Degree
9 79 (13.93%) CI/CD
10 78 (13.76%) Fintech
11 72 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 69 (12.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 65 (11.46%) Django
14 64 (11.29%) Computer Science
14 64 (11.29%) FastAPI
15 59 (10.41%) DevOps
15 59 (10.41%) TypeScript
16 58 (10.23%) GCP
17 57 (10.05%) Docker
17 57 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
18 53 (9.35%) Machine Learning
19 50 (8.82%) SaaS
19 50 (8.82%) Terraform
20 48 (8.47%) Kubernetes
21 47 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
21 47 (8.29%) React
22 46 (8.11%) Flask
23 42 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
23 42 (7.41%) 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 27 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.65%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 195 (34.39%) AWS
2 83 (14.64%) Azure
3 58 (10.23%) GCP
4 50 (8.82%) SaaS
5 21 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 19 (3.35%) Snowflake
7 17 (3.00%) GitHub
7 17 (3.00%) Serverless
8 12 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (1.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.23%) Azure Stack
13 6 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (1.06%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.00%) Multicast
2 5 (0.88%) Broadband
3 4 (0.71%) SMS
4 2 (0.35%) HTTP
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.88%) Relational Database
3 25 (4.41%) MySQL
4 20 (3.53%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 15 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.76%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.76%) Power BI
7 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.06%) Big Data
8 6 (1.06%) Redis
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.71%) Metadata
10 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.71%) Tableau
11 3 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.53%) GIS
Development Applications
1 42 (7.41%) Git
2 21 (3.70%) JIRA
3 15 (2.65%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.41%) GitLab
5 6 (1.06%) Selenium
6 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 108 (19.05%) Finance
2 56 (9.88%) Social Skills
3 33 (5.82%) Banking
4 26 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (2.29%) Front Office
6 13 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.76%) Games
8 8 (1.41%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.23%) Legal
10 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Automotive
11 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.71%) Law
11 4 (0.71%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.53%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.53%) Marketing
13 2 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (11.46%) Django
2 64 (11.29%) FastAPI
3 47 (8.29%) React
4 46 (8.11%) Flask
5 27 (4.76%) Kafka
6 26 (4.59%) Node.js
7 25 (4.41%) SQLAlchemy
8 20 (3.53%) RESTful
9 19 (3.35%) pytest
10 17 (3.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 17 (3.00%) FIX Protocol
11 15 (2.65%) Celery
12 13 (2.29%) REST
13 11 (1.94%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.94%) Vue
14 10 (1.76%) HTML
15 8 (1.41%) Playwright
15 8 (1.41%) Redux
16 7 (1.23%) Next.js
16 7 (1.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.11%) Algorithms
4 27 (4.76%) Equities
5 25 (4.41%) Derivative
5 25 (4.41%) Distributed Computing
5 25 (4.41%) Fixed Income
6 15 (2.65%) Hedge funds
7 12 (2.12%) AI Agents
8 10 (1.76%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.59%) Robotics
10 8 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.23%) PropTech
11 7 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.06%) CUDA
12 6 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.00%) Linux
2 9 (1.59%) Windows
3 5 (0.88%) Unix
4 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (58.02%) Software Engineering
2 192 (33.86%) AI
3 97 (17.11%) Agile
4 79 (13.93%) CI/CD
5 78 (13.76%) Fintech
6 72 (12.70%) Full-Stack Development
7 64 (11.29%) Computer Science
8 59 (10.41%) DevOps
9 53 (9.35%) Machine Learning
10 47 (8.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (7.41%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (6.88%) LLM
14 38 (6.70%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (6.17%) Analytics
15 35 (6.17%) Clean Code
15 35 (6.17%) Data Science
15 35 (6.17%) Microservices
15 35 (6.17%) Observability
16 34 (6.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 567 (100.00%) Python
2 92 (16.23%) C++
3 84 (14.81%) SQL
4 59 (10.41%) TypeScript
5 39 (6.88%) C#
6 28 (4.94%) Java
7 27 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.82%) Go
9 11 (1.94%) Rust
10 9 (1.59%) Ruby
11 7 (1.23%) Bash
11 7 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.06%) C
13 4 (0.71%) Julia
13 4 (0.71%) Scala
14 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.18%) PHP
15 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 83 (14.64%) Degree
2 69 (12.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (5.29%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.53%) PhD
5 15 (2.65%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.47%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.59%) CISSP
9 5 (0.88%) CCSK
10 4 (0.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.71%) CISA
10 4 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
11 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.88%) QA
2 18 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.88%) NIST
4 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (10.05%) Docker
2 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.88%) KVM
2 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (8.82%) Terraform
2 48 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.41%) Ansible
4 5 (0.88%) Grafana
5 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.53%) Kibana
7 2 (0.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (2.82%) Databricks
2 12 (2.12%) Google
3 7 (1.23%) Splunk
4 6 (1.06%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.88%) VMware
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.71%) Palantir
7 3 (0.53%) Intel