Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 273 406
Rank change year-on-year -104 +133 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 252 500 399
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 1.11% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 1.22% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 188 434 369
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £111,250 £116,250 £111,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £140,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% +6.25%

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 53,516 41,112 62,181
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 91.53% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 34,293 21,800 49,647
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,940
25th Percentile £37,750 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -100 170 £102,500 -2.38% 48
North of England +3 21 £100,000 +25.00% 11
South East -4 21 £67,500 +8.00% 23
North West +32 19 £100,000 +70.21% 8
Midlands -1 18 £65,000 - 6
South West -3 13 £80,000 -15.79% 3
West Midlands +15 11 £57,500 +35.29% 6
East Midlands -7 10 £70,000 +7.69%
East of England +11 7 £50,000 -9.09% 1
North East -10 2 £100,000 +25.00% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 February 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.

1 252 (100.00%) Python
2 145 (57.54%) Software Engineering
3 93 (36.90%) AWS
4 77 (30.56%) Agile
5 62 (24.60%) AI
6 58 (23.02%) SQL
7 53 (21.03%) TypeScript
8 52 (20.63%) Fintech
9 46 (18.25%) Azure
10 45 (17.86%) CI/CD
10 45 (17.86%) Computer Science
11 44 (17.46%) GCP
12 42 (16.67%) Degree
13 39 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
14 36 (14.29%) Investment Management
14 36 (14.29%) JavaScript
15 33 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
16 32 (12.70%) Linux
17 31 (12.30%) C++
18 30 (11.90%) Asset Management
18 30 (11.90%) Git
18 30 (11.90%) NumPy
18 30 (11.90%) Pandas
19 29 (11.51%) dbt
20 28 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
20 28 (11.11%) Apache Arrow
20 28 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
20 28 (11.11%) DevOps
20 28 (11.11%) Dremio
20 28 (11.11%) React

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 39 (15.48%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (6.75%) Apache
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 93 (36.90%) AWS
2 46 (18.25%) Azure
3 44 (17.46%) GCP
4 29 (11.51%) dbt
5 25 (9.92%) GitHub
6 24 (9.52%) SaaS
7 23 (9.13%) Snowflake
8 11 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.97%) IaaS
9 10 (3.97%) PaaS
9 10 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (3.17%) Serverless
11 7 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.98%) Dagster
13 5 (1.98%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.59%) Prefect
15 2 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.76%) Multicast
2 6 (2.38%) HTTP
2 6 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) SMTP
4 2 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) LAN
4 2 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (11.11%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (11.11%) Dremio
2 26 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.56%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (4.37%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.37%) Tableau
6 8 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.38%) Flink
8 5 (1.98%) Power BI
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.59%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.79%) Big Data
11 2 (0.79%) MySQL
12 1 (0.40%) Looker
Development Applications
1 30 (11.90%) Git
2 12 (4.76%) JIRA
3 3 (1.19%) Selenium
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 98 (38.89%) Finance
2 39 (15.48%) Front Office
3 35 (13.89%) Banking
4 29 (11.51%) Social Skills
5 19 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.95%) Legal
7 14 (5.56%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.97%) Games
9 3 (1.19%) Back Office
9 3 (1.19%) Law
9 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) iGaming
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.90%) NumPy
1 30 (11.90%) Pandas
2 28 (11.11%) React
2 28 (11.11%) SciPy
3 19 (7.54%) AngularJS
3 19 (7.54%) Node.js
4 18 (7.14%) Vue
5 17 (6.75%) FastAPI
6 15 (5.95%) Django
6 15 (5.95%) gRPC
7 14 (5.56%) Protocol Buffers
8 12 (4.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 12 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
8 12 (4.76%) pytest
9 9 (3.57%) Kafka
10 8 (3.17%) PySpark
11 7 (2.78%) Flask
11 7 (2.78%) REST
12 6 (2.38%) HTML
13 5 (1.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.05%) Fixed Income
2 43 (17.06%) Equities
3 38 (15.08%) Hedge funds
4 28 (11.11%) Derivative
4 28 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (9.52%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.95%) Algorithms
7 14 (5.56%) Cloud Native
7 14 (5.56%) Pricing Data
8 10 (3.97%) Security Posture
9 8 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.59%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.59%) GNSS
11 4 (1.59%) Satnav
11 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.19%) Reinsurance
12 3 (1.19%) Robotics
13 2 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.70%) Linux
2 15 (5.95%) Windows
3 11 (4.37%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.97%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (57.54%) Software Engineering
2 77 (30.56%) Agile
3 62 (24.60%) AI
4 52 (20.63%) Fintech
5 45 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 45 (17.86%) Computer Science
6 36 (14.29%) Investment Management
7 30 (11.90%) Asset Management
8 28 (11.11%) DevOps
9 26 (10.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (10.32%) Risk Management
9 26 (10.32%) Test Automation
10 22 (8.73%) Analytics
10 22 (8.73%) Process Improvement
11 21 (8.33%) ETL
11 21 (8.33%) Information Security
12 20 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (7.54%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (7.54%) Data Science
14 18 (7.14%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 252 (100.00%) Python
2 58 (23.02%) SQL
3 53 (21.03%) TypeScript
4 36 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 31 (12.30%) C++
6 25 (9.92%) Java
7 12 (4.76%) Bash
7 12 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.97%) C#
9 5 (1.98%) PHP
10 4 (1.59%) C
11 3 (1.19%) Julia
11 3 (1.19%) VBA
12 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.79%) Rust
13 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 42 (16.67%) Degree
2 33 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (8.33%) CISSP
4 11 (4.37%) CISA
4 11 (4.37%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (3.97%) CCSK
6 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.59%) PhD
8 3 (1.19%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.19%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.92%) QA
2 12 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.76%) NIST
3 10 (3.97%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (7.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.79%) KVM
3 2 (0.79%) NFS
3 2 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (9.92%) Terraform
2 23 (9.13%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.38%) Argo
4 4 (1.59%) Grafana
5 3 (1.19%) Ansible
5 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (9.92%) Google
2 11 (4.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.38%) Databricks
4 4 (1.59%) VMware
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco
5 2 (0.79%) Commvault
5 2 (0.79%) Foundry
5 2 (0.79%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.79%) Palantir
5 2 (0.79%) Pure Storage
5 2 (0.79%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk