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 14 February 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 284 390
Rank change year-on-year -95 +106 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 261 492 407
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 1.10% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 1.20% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 195 426 377
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £70,625 £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 £118,750 £111,250
90th Percentile £137,500 £138,750 £139,250
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - +17.65% +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 53,952 40,914 62,881
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 91.47% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 34,762 21,614 50,204
10th Percentile £29,040 £33,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
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 14 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 14 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 -90 177 £101,250 -3.57% 36
North of England +12 23 £100,000 +25.00% 11
North West +32 21 £100,000 +70.21% 8
South East -8 21 £67,500 +8.00% 20
Midlands +12 18 £65,000 - 6
South West -7 13 £80,000 -15.79% 4
West Midlands +17 11 £57,500 +35.29% 6
East Midlands -8 10 £70,000 +7.69%
East of England +16 7 £50,000 -9.09% 1
North East -12 2 £100,000 +25.00%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 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.

1 261 (100.00%) Python
2 150 (57.47%) Software Engineering
3 96 (36.78%) AWS
4 80 (30.65%) Agile
5 65 (24.90%) AI
6 60 (22.99%) SQL
7 55 (21.07%) Fintech
8 54 (20.69%) TypeScript
9 48 (18.39%) Azure
10 47 (18.01%) CI/CD
11 46 (17.62%) Computer Science
11 46 (17.62%) GCP
12 43 (16.48%) Degree
13 40 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
14 38 (14.56%) Investment Management
15 37 (14.18%) JavaScript
16 33 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
17 32 (12.26%) Asset Management
17 32 (12.26%) C++
17 32 (12.26%) Linux
18 31 (11.88%) Git
19 30 (11.49%) dbt
19 30 (11.49%) NumPy
19 30 (11.49%) Pandas
19 30 (11.49%) React
20 29 (11.11%) DevOps
21 28 (10.73%) Amazon Athena
21 28 (10.73%) Apache Arrow
21 28 (10.73%) Apache Iceberg
21 28 (10.73%) Dremio

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 40 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (6.51%) Apache
3 4 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 96 (36.78%) AWS
2 48 (18.39%) Azure
3 46 (17.62%) GCP
4 30 (11.49%) dbt
5 26 (9.96%) GitHub
6 24 (9.20%) SaaS
6 24 (9.20%) Snowflake
7 11 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.83%) IaaS
8 10 (3.83%) PaaS
8 10 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (3.07%) Serverless
10 7 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.30%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.92%) Dagster
12 5 (1.92%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.53%) Prefect
14 2 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.60%) Multicast
2 6 (2.30%) HTTP
2 6 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.53%) DNS
3 4 (1.53%) SMTP
4 2 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.77%) Firewall
4 2 (0.77%) LAN
4 2 (0.77%) WAN
5 1 (0.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.73%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (10.73%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (10.73%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (10.73%) Dremio
1 28 (10.73%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 14 (5.36%) Apache Ignite
4 11 (4.21%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.21%) Tableau
5 8 (3.07%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.30%) Flink
6 6 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.92%) Power BI
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.53%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.77%) Big Data
10 2 (0.77%) MySQL
10 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (11.88%) Git
2 12 (4.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.15%) GitLab
3 3 (1.15%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Jenkins
General
1 102 (39.08%) Finance
2 41 (15.71%) Front Office
3 35 (13.41%) Banking
4 30 (11.49%) Social Skills
5 20 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.75%) Legal
7 14 (5.36%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.83%) Games
9 3 (1.15%) Back Office
9 3 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.38%) iGaming
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.49%) NumPy
1 30 (11.49%) Pandas
1 30 (11.49%) React
2 28 (10.73%) SciPy
3 21 (8.05%) Node.js
4 19 (7.28%) AngularJS
5 18 (6.90%) Vue
6 17 (6.51%) FastAPI
7 15 (5.75%) Django
7 15 (5.75%) gRPC
8 14 (5.36%) Protocol Buffers
9 12 (4.60%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 12 (4.60%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (4.60%) pytest
10 10 (3.83%) Kafka
11 8 (3.07%) PySpark
12 7 (2.68%) Flask
12 7 (2.68%) REST
13 6 (2.30%) Celery
13 6 (2.30%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.16%) Fixed Income
2 45 (17.24%) Equities
3 38 (14.56%) Hedge funds
4 30 (11.49%) Derivative
5 28 (10.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (9.20%) Management Information System
7 15 (5.75%) Algorithms
8 14 (5.36%) Cloud Native
8 14 (5.36%) Pricing Data
9 10 (3.83%) Security Posture
10 8 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.30%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.92%) Robotics
13 4 (1.53%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.53%) GNSS
13 4 (1.53%) Satnav
13 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
15 2 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
15 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.26%) Linux
2 15 (5.75%) Windows
3 11 (4.21%) Mac OS
4 10 (3.83%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (57.47%) Software Engineering
2 80 (30.65%) Agile
3 65 (24.90%) AI
4 55 (21.07%) Fintech
5 47 (18.01%) CI/CD
6 46 (17.62%) Computer Science
7 38 (14.56%) Investment Management
8 32 (12.26%) Asset Management
9 29 (11.11%) DevOps
10 27 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (10.34%) Test Automation
11 26 (9.96%) Risk Management
12 23 (8.81%) Analytics
13 22 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (8.43%) Process Improvement
14 21 (8.05%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (8.05%) ETL
14 21 (8.05%) Information Security
15 20 (7.66%) Data Science
16 19 (7.28%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 261 (100.00%) Python
2 60 (22.99%) SQL
3 54 (20.69%) TypeScript
4 37 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 32 (12.26%) C++
6 26 (9.96%) Java
7 12 (4.60%) Bash
7 12 (4.60%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.83%) C#
9 5 (1.92%) PHP
10 4 (1.53%) C
11 3 (1.15%) Julia
11 3 (1.15%) VBA
12 2 (0.77%) Go
12 2 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.77%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (16.48%) Degree
2 33 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (8.05%) CISSP
4 11 (4.21%) CISA
4 11 (4.21%) CompTIA CySA+
5 10 (3.83%) CCSK
6 6 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.53%) PhD
8 2 (0.77%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.77%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.58%) QA
2 12 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (4.60%) NIST
3 10 (3.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 7 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (8.05%) Docker
2 4 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.77%) KVM
3 2 (0.77%) NFS
3 2 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (10.34%) Terraform
2 24 (9.20%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.30%) Argo
4 5 (1.92%) Grafana
5 4 (1.53%) Ansible
5 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (9.58%) Google
2 11 (4.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.30%) Databricks
4 4 (1.53%) VMware
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco
5 2 (0.77%) Commvault
5 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.77%) Pure Storage
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.38%) Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir
6 1 (0.38%) Splunk