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 2 October 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 316 266
Rank change year-on-year +44 -50 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 709 359 699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.83% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.92% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 594 253 614
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 96,584 39,137 63,749
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 90.50% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 67,856 23,062 37,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,600 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.55% - -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -21 368 £100,000 -9.09% 376
South East +34 92 £80,000 +6.67% 36
North of England +8 85 £80,000 +20.75% 29
South West -26 61 £75,000 +7.14% 38
Midlands -7 57 £70,000 +7.69% 13
East of England +9 56 £77,500 +19.23% 31
North West +11 52 £75,000 +7.14% 15
West Midlands -10 40 £77,500 +29.17% 4
North East -37 26 £85,000 +183.33% 3
East Midlands -31 17 £45,000 -33.33% 9
Yorkshire -28 7 £100,000 +66.67% 12
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 October 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.

1 709 (100.00%) Python
2 447 (63.05%) Software Engineering
3 240 (33.85%) AI
4 235 (33.15%) AWS
5 124 (17.49%) Azure
6 88 (12.41%) C++
7 86 (12.13%) CI/CD
8 85 (11.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 79 (11.14%) GCP
10 77 (10.86%) SQL
11 76 (10.72%) Agile
12 74 (10.44%) FastAPI
13 73 (10.30%) Django
14 67 (9.45%) Degree
15 64 (9.03%) DevOps
16 63 (8.89%) Fintech
17 62 (8.74%) LLM
18 61 (8.60%) Docker
18 61 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
18 61 (8.60%) TypeScript
19 58 (8.18%) React
20 57 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
21 55 (7.76%) Terraform
22 53 (7.48%) Machine Learning
23 51 (7.19%) Clean Code
24 49 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
24 49 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
25 47 (6.63%) Flask
25 47 (6.63%) SaaS
26 46 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement

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 17 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 235 (33.15%) AWS
2 124 (17.49%) Azure
3 79 (11.14%) GCP
4 47 (6.63%) SaaS
5 14 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (1.97%) Power Platform
6 13 (1.83%) GitHub
6 13 (1.83%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.55%) Datadog
7 11 (1.55%) Serverless
8 10 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.27%) Amazon Bedrock
10 8 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (0.99%) Azure AI
11 7 (0.99%) Azure Stack
11 7 (0.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.83%) Multicast
2 12 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.71%) DNS
3 5 (0.71%) MQTT
4 4 (0.56%) SMS
5 3 (0.42%) BGP
5 3 (0.42%) Broadband
5 3 (0.42%) OSPF
6 2 (0.28%) DHCP
6 2 (0.28%) VLAN
6 2 (0.28%) VPN
7 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.14%) LAN
7 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.24%) MySQL
4 21 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.97%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.83%) Power BI
7 10 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.27%) Redis
9 7 (0.99%) Big Data
10 4 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.56%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.42%) GIS
12 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.28%) Metadata
13 1 (0.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 33 (4.65%) Git
2 18 (2.54%) JIRA
3 15 (2.12%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 103 (14.53%) Finance
2 84 (11.85%) Social Skills
3 34 (4.80%) Banking
4 25 (3.53%) Front Office
5 22 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.69%) Marketing
9 7 (0.99%) Automotive
9 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 5 (0.71%) Legal
11 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.56%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.42%) Games
13 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.14%) Advertising
14 1 (0.14%) Law
14 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (10.44%) FastAPI
2 73 (10.30%) Django
3 58 (8.18%) React
4 55 (7.76%) Terraform
5 47 (6.63%) Flask
6 34 (4.80%) Kafka
7 23 (3.24%) RESTful
8 22 (3.10%) REST
9 20 (2.82%) Node.js
9 20 (2.82%) SQLAlchemy
10 18 (2.54%) LangChain
11 16 (2.26%) pytest
12 14 (1.97%) Vue
13 13 (1.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 13 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
13 13 (1.83%) Keycloak
13 13 (1.83%) LangGraph
14 12 (1.69%) Celery
15 10 (1.41%) Next.js
16 9 (1.27%) CrewAI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.63%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (4.65%) Distributed Computing
4 28 (3.95%) Cyber Threat
5 27 (3.81%) Algorithms
6 26 (3.67%) AI Agents
7 24 (3.39%) Hedge funds
8 20 (2.82%) Equities
9 15 (2.12%) Derivative
9 15 (2.12%) Fixed Income
10 13 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.41%) Product Ownership
12 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.99%) PKI
14 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.85%) PropTech
15 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.78%) Linux
2 11 (1.55%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (63.05%) Software Engineering
2 240 (33.85%) AI
3 86 (12.13%) CI/CD
4 85 (11.99%) Full-Stack Development
5 76 (10.72%) Agile
6 64 (9.03%) DevOps
7 63 (8.89%) Fintech
8 62 (8.74%) LLM
9 57 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (7.48%) Machine Learning
11 51 (7.19%) Clean Code
12 49 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (6.35%) Computer Science
15 44 (6.21%) Data Pipeline
16 43 (6.06%) Observability
17 42 (5.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (5.92%) Technical Leadership
18 41 (5.78%) Data Engineering
18 41 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 709 (100.00%) Python
2 88 (12.41%) C++
3 77 (10.86%) SQL
4 61 (8.60%) TypeScript
5 42 (5.92%) C#
6 40 (5.64%) Java
7 26 (3.67%) JavaScript
8 24 (3.39%) Go
9 16 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.12%) Rust
11 12 (1.69%) R
12 11 (1.55%) Ruby
13 4 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.28%) C
14 2 (0.28%) Julia
15 1 (0.14%) Bash
Qualifications
1 67 (9.45%) Degree
2 49 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (5.64%) Security Cleared
4 30 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 29 (4.09%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.40%) PhD
8 14 (1.97%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) CEH
9 4 (0.56%) CISSP
9 4 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.56%) GCIA
9 4 (0.56%) GCIH
9 4 (0.56%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.53%) QA
2 10 (1.41%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.56%) SLA
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 61 (8.60%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (6.21%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.68%) Ansible
3 10 (1.41%) Grafana
4 5 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (3.53%) Databricks
2 20 (2.82%) Google
3 12 (1.69%) Microsoft
4 10 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 9 (1.27%) OpenAI
6 8 (1.13%) Intel
7 6 (0.85%) Splunk
8 4 (0.56%) Palantir
9 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.42%) Revolut
10 1 (0.14%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.14%) Arista
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco
10 1 (0.14%) Foundry
10 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.14%) VMware