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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 304 347
Rank change year-on-year +12 +43 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 524 399 684
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.63% 1.01% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.13% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 449 286 613
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 £143,500
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 77,628 35,459 88,812
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 89.91% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54,586 20,559 65,811
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,355
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +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 13 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 13 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 -28 299 £100,000 -9.09% 41
South East +59 93 £65,000 +4.00% 14
North of England +15 68 £90,000 +28.57% 8
North West +46 47 £82,500 -9.59% 5
West Midlands +3 29 £65,000 +85.71% 5
Midlands +3 29 £65,000 +20.93% 5
South West -50 21 £70,000 +12.00% 6
North East - 16 £100,000 - 2
East of England -12 11 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Yorkshire -40 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 13 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
2 285 (54.39%) Software Engineering
3 171 (32.63%) AI
4 160 (30.53%) AWS
5 87 (16.60%) Agile
6 86 (16.41%) C++
7 81 (15.46%) SQL
8 78 (14.89%) Degree
9 72 (13.74%) Azure
10 71 (13.55%) Fintech
11 66 (12.60%) CI/CD
11 66 (12.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 63 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 62 (11.83%) Computer Science
14 55 (10.50%) Django
15 53 (10.11%) TypeScript
16 52 (9.92%) FastAPI
17 51 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
18 50 (9.54%) GCP
18 50 (9.54%) Machine Learning
19 49 (9.35%) SaaS
20 47 (8.97%) DevOps
21 45 (8.59%) Infrastructure as Code
22 44 (8.40%) Kubernetes
23 43 (8.21%) Terraform
24 42 (8.02%) QA
25 41 (7.82%) Git
26 38 (7.25%) Docker
27 37 (7.06%) Technical Leadership
28 36 (6.87%) Data Pipeline

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 72 (13.74%) Azure
3 50 (9.54%) GCP
4 49 (9.35%) SaaS
5 21 (4.01%) Amazon S3
5 21 (4.01%) GitHub
6 19 (3.63%) Snowflake
7 17 (3.24%) Serverless
8 12 (2.29%) 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 25 (4.77%) 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 Lake
11 3 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.57%) GIS
Development Applications
1 41 (7.82%) Git
2 19 (3.63%) JIRA
3 6 (1.15%) Selenium
4 5 (0.95%) GitLab
5 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 102 (19.47%) Finance
2 49 (9.35%) Social Skills
3 32 (6.11%) Banking
4 29 (5.53%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.86%) Games
6 11 (2.10%) Front Office
6 11 (2.10%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.72%) Legal
8 8 (1.53%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.76%) Automotive
10 4 (0.76%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.76%) Law
10 4 (0.76%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Retail
13 1 (0.19%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.19%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.50%) 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 8 (1.53%) Playwright
13 8 (1.53%) Redux
13 8 (1.53%) Vue
14 7 (1.34%) PySpark
15 6 (1.15%) Puppeteer
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 20 (3.82%) 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 33 (6.30%) Linux
2 7 (1.34%) Unix
3 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
3 6 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (54.39%) Software Engineering
2 171 (32.63%) AI
3 87 (16.60%) Agile
4 71 (13.55%) Fintech
5 66 (12.60%) CI/CD
6 63 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (11.83%) Computer Science
8 50 (9.54%) 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
14 33 (6.30%) Microservices
14 33 (6.30%) Observability
14 33 (6.30%) Test Automation
15 32 (6.11%) SDLC
16 31 (5.92%) Data Engineering
17 29 (5.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 524 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (16.41%) C++
3 81 (15.46%) SQL
4 53 (10.11%) TypeScript
5 35 (6.68%) 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 78 (14.89%) Degree
2 66 (12.60%) 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 18 (3.44%) 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 12 (2.29%) Databricks
3 8 (1.53%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.95%) Splunk
5 5 (0.95%) VMware
6 4 (0.76%) Palantir