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 10 January 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 275 341
Rank change year-on-year -98 +66 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 241 524 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 1.17% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 187 461 364
10th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £135,000 £116,250 £120,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £140,000 £143,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%

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 47,612 44,722 46,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.77% 92.74% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 30,053 23,491 36,536
10th Percentile £28,697 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,600 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -107 171 £107,500 +7.50% 41
North of England +22 19 £100,000 +25.00% 7
North West +40 18 £97,500 +65.96% 3
Midlands +26 16 £70,000 +7.69% 5
South West +9 13 £80,000 +33.33% 4
South East +5 12 £65,000 +4.00% 22
East Midlands +12 10 £70,000 +7.69% 1
West Midlands +18 9 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East of England +13 7 £50,000 -9.09%
North East -2 1 £100,000 +25.00%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 January 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.

1 241 (100.00%) Python
2 149 (61.83%) Software Engineering
3 104 (43.15%) AWS
4 96 (39.83%) Agile
5 74 (30.71%) TypeScript
6 64 (26.56%) Apache Airflow
7 61 (25.31%) Investment Management
8 59 (24.48%) JavaScript
9 57 (23.65%) NumPy
9 57 (23.65%) Pandas
10 56 (23.24%) Fintech
11 55 (22.82%) Amazon Athena
11 55 (22.82%) Apache Arrow
11 55 (22.82%) Apache Iceberg
11 55 (22.82%) Asset Management
11 55 (22.82%) dbt
11 55 (22.82%) Dremio
11 55 (22.82%) SciPy
12 51 (21.16%) SQL
13 47 (19.50%) GCP
14 46 (19.09%) AI
15 39 (16.18%) Computer Science
15 39 (16.18%) React
16 38 (15.77%) CI/CD
17 37 (15.35%) Azure
17 37 (15.35%) Java
18 35 (14.52%) Snowflake
19 34 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
19 34 (14.11%) Risk Management
20 33 (13.69%) Data Lake

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 64 (26.56%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (13.28%) Apache
3 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 104 (43.15%) AWS
2 55 (22.82%) dbt
3 47 (19.50%) GCP
4 37 (15.35%) Azure
5 35 (14.52%) Snowflake
6 25 (10.37%) GitHub
7 20 (8.30%) SaaS
8 8 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.49%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.49%) IaaS
10 6 (2.49%) PaaS
10 6 (2.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.07%) Dagster
11 5 (2.07%) Serverless
12 4 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.66%) Prefect
13 3 (1.24%) Power Platform
14 2 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.39%) Multicast
2 10 (4.15%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.49%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (2.49%) Firewall
3 6 (2.49%) LAN
3 6 (2.49%) WAN
4 4 (1.66%) DNS
4 4 (1.66%) HTTP
4 4 (1.66%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.82%) Amazon Athena
1 55 (22.82%) Apache Arrow
1 55 (22.82%) Apache Iceberg
1 55 (22.82%) Dremio
2 34 (14.11%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (13.69%) Data Lake
4 29 (12.03%) Apache Ignite
5 11 (4.56%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.90%) Tableau
8 6 (2.49%) Flink
9 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.24%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.24%) Parquet
9 3 (1.24%) Power BI
9 3 (1.24%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.83%) MySQL
10 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (12.03%) Git
2 14 (5.81%) JIRA
3 2 (0.83%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 113 (46.89%) Finance
2 64 (26.56%) Front Office
3 50 (20.75%) Banking
4 29 (12.03%) Investment Banking
5 22 (9.13%) Social Skills
6 13 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.56%) Legal
8 7 (2.90%) Games
9 4 (1.66%) Retail
10 3 (1.24%) Automotive
10 3 (1.24%) Back Office
10 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.24%) Law
10 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) iGaming
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (23.65%) NumPy
1 57 (23.65%) Pandas
2 55 (22.82%) SciPy
3 39 (16.18%) React
4 31 (12.86%) gRPC
4 31 (12.86%) Vue
5 30 (12.45%) AngularJS
6 29 (12.03%) Node.js
6 29 (12.03%) Protocol Buffers
7 17 (7.05%) FastAPI
8 15 (6.22%) Django
9 13 (5.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 13 (5.39%) FIX Protocol
9 13 (5.39%) pytest
10 12 (4.98%) PySpark
11 9 (3.73%) Kafka
12 8 (3.32%) Flask
13 7 (2.90%) REST
14 5 (2.07%) RESTful
15 4 (1.66%) Celery
Miscellaneous
1 74 (30.71%) Fixed Income
2 69 (28.63%) Equities
3 55 (22.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (18.67%) Hedge funds
5 42 (17.43%) Derivative
6 29 (12.03%) Pricing Data
7 19 (7.88%) Management Information System
8 16 (6.64%) Algorithms
9 10 (4.15%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.49%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.66%) GNSS
12 4 (1.66%) Satnav
12 4 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (1.24%) Reinsurance
14 2 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
14 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.86%) Linux
2 11 (4.56%) Windows
3 7 (2.90%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (61.83%) Software Engineering
2 96 (39.83%) Agile
3 61 (25.31%) Investment Management
4 56 (23.24%) Fintech
5 55 (22.82%) Asset Management
6 46 (19.09%) AI
7 39 (16.18%) Computer Science
8 38 (15.77%) CI/CD
9 34 (14.11%) Risk Management
10 30 (12.45%) DevOps
11 26 (10.79%) Order Management
11 26 (10.79%) Performance Attribution
12 21 (8.71%) Analytics
12 21 (8.71%) ETL
13 20 (8.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (7.88%) Containerisation
14 19 (7.88%) Mathematics
14 19 (7.88%) Process Improvement
15 18 (7.47%) Data Engineering
15 18 (7.47%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 241 (100.00%) Python
2 74 (30.71%) TypeScript
3 59 (24.48%) JavaScript
4 51 (21.16%) SQL
5 37 (15.35%) Java
6 25 (10.37%) C++
7 8 (3.32%) C#
8 7 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.49%) Bash
10 4 (1.66%) PHP
11 3 (1.24%) C
11 3 (1.24%) Julia
11 3 (1.24%) VBA
12 1 (0.41%) Go
12 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (13.69%) Degree
2 25 (10.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.39%) CISSP
4 7 (2.90%) CISA
4 7 (2.90%) CompTIA CySA+
5 6 (2.49%) CCSK
6 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.24%) PhD
8 2 (0.83%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.83%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.71%) QA
2 7 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.90%) NIST
3 6 (2.49%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (7.88%) Docker
2 6 (2.49%) NFS
2 6 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (10.37%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.71%) Terraform
3 8 (3.32%) Ansible
4 6 (2.49%) Argo
5 3 (1.24%) Grafana
5 3 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (6.64%) Google
2 10 (4.15%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.73%) Databricks
4 6 (2.49%) Cisco
4 6 (2.49%) Commvault
4 6 (2.49%) Pure Storage
4 6 (2.49%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.49%) VMware
5 2 (0.83%) Foundry
5 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.83%) Palantir
6 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.41%) SAP