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 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 338 267
Rank change year-on-year +62 -71 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 706 342 679
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.80% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.88% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 592 235 608
10th Percentile £60,000 £63,500 £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 £82,500 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +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 96,749 38,808 60,512
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 90.55% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67,708 23,182 34,779
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £41,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.35% -2.73% -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 15 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 15 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 -17 362 £100,000 -9.09% 300
South East +23 85 £80,000 +6.67% 23
North of England -2 79 £80,000 +20.75% 19
East of England +17 68 £80,000 +23.08% 24
South West -27 63 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Midlands 0 58 £70,000 +7.69% 12
North West +8 45 £71,991 +2.84% 9
West Midlands -13 40 £77,500 +29.17% 6
North East -36 28 £85,000 +183.33%
East Midlands -18 18 £45,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire -31 6 £100,000 +60.00% 10
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 706 (100.00%) Python
2 448 (63.46%) Software Engineering
3 244 (34.56%) AI
4 243 (34.42%) AWS
5 134 (18.98%) Azure
6 86 (12.18%) C++
7 84 (11.90%) CI/CD
8 81 (11.47%) GCP
9 78 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 77 (10.91%) Agile
11 72 (10.20%) SQL
12 71 (10.06%) FastAPI
12 71 (10.06%) LLM
13 66 (9.35%) Docker
14 64 (9.07%) Django
15 63 (8.92%) Degree
16 61 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
16 61 (8.64%) TypeScript
17 60 (8.50%) DevOps
17 60 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
18 57 (8.07%) Fintech
19 56 (7.93%) React
20 55 (7.79%) Machine Learning
21 54 (7.65%) Clean Code
21 54 (7.65%) Terraform
22 51 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
23 47 (6.66%) Kubernetes
24 45 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
24 45 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
25 44 (6.23%) Linux

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 16 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.70%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 243 (34.42%) AWS
2 134 (18.98%) Azure
3 81 (11.47%) GCP
4 41 (5.81%) SaaS
5 17 (2.41%) GitHub
6 15 (2.12%) Amazon Bedrock
6 15 (2.12%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.12%) Snowflake
7 14 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (1.56%) Datadog
9 10 (1.42%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.42%) Serverless
10 8 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.13%) Azure AI
10 8 (1.13%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (1.13%) dbt
11 7 (0.99%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (0.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.98%) Multicast
2 13 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.13%) MQTT
4 6 (0.85%) DNS
5 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 3 (0.42%) BGP
6 3 (0.42%) Broadband
6 3 (0.42%) OSPF
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) VLAN
7 2 (0.28%) VPN
8 1 (0.14%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.14%) HTTP
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.14%) SSL
8 1 (0.14%) VXLAN
8 1 (0.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (8.50%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (4.25%) Relational Database
3 21 (2.97%) MySQL
4 19 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.12%) Power BI
6 11 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.42%) Redis
8 8 (1.13%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.57%) Big Data
10 4 (0.57%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.57%) 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
11 3 (0.42%) Metadata
12 2 (0.28%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 36 (5.10%) Git
2 19 (2.69%) JIRA
3 15 (2.12%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.13%) GitLab
5 2 (0.28%) MLflow
5 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.14%) Jenkins
General
1 109 (15.44%) Finance
2 91 (12.89%) Social Skills
3 43 (6.09%) Banking
4 31 (4.39%) Front Office
5 22 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.55%) Marketing
7 15 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.13%) Automotive
10 7 (0.99%) Aerospace
10 7 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
12 5 (0.71%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.57%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.57%) Legal
14 3 (0.42%) Games
14 3 (0.42%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.28%) Law
15 2 (0.28%) Public Sector
16 1 (0.14%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (10.06%) FastAPI
2 64 (9.07%) Django
3 56 (7.93%) React
4 54 (7.65%) Terraform
5 41 (5.81%) Flask
6 33 (4.67%) Kafka
7 26 (3.68%) LangChain
8 22 (3.12%) RESTful
9 21 (2.97%) REST
10 20 (2.83%) LangGraph
10 20 (2.83%) Node.js
10 20 (2.83%) SQLAlchemy
11 18 (2.55%) pytest
12 15 (2.12%) CrewAI
12 15 (2.12%) pydantic
13 14 (1.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 14 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
13 14 (1.98%) Vue
14 13 (1.84%) Keycloak
15 10 (1.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 39 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 35 (4.96%) Distributed Computing
5 30 (4.25%) Algorithms
5 30 (4.25%) Cyber Threat
5 30 (4.25%) Hedge funds
6 21 (2.97%) Equities
7 16 (2.27%) Derivative
7 16 (2.27%) Fixed Income
8 13 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.99%) PKI
12 6 (0.85%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.85%) PropTech
13 5 (0.71%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.71%) NHS
14 4 (0.57%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.23%) Linux
2 11 (1.56%) Windows
3 9 (1.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.42%) macOS
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (63.46%) Software Engineering
2 244 (34.56%) AI
3 84 (11.90%) CI/CD
4 78 (11.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 77 (10.91%) Agile
6 71 (10.06%) LLM
7 61 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (8.50%) DevOps
9 57 (8.07%) Fintech
10 55 (7.79%) Machine Learning
11 54 (7.65%) Clean Code
12 51 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 43 (6.09%) Data Pipeline
14 43 (6.09%) Observability
15 42 (5.95%) Infrastructure as Code
15 42 (5.95%) Mentoring
15 42 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
16 41 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 40 (5.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 706 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (12.18%) C++
3 72 (10.20%) SQL
4 61 (8.64%) TypeScript
5 42 (5.95%) C#
6 40 (5.67%) Java
7 25 (3.54%) JavaScript
8 22 (3.12%) Go
9 18 (2.55%) R
10 16 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.27%) Rust
11 11 (1.56%) Ruby
12 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.28%) Bash
13 2 (0.28%) C
13 2 (0.28%) Julia
Qualifications
1 63 (8.92%) Degree
2 45 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 31 (4.39%) SC Cleared
5 27 (3.82%) Master's Degree
6 24 (3.40%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.27%) PhD
8 13 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CEH
9 4 (0.57%) CISSP
9 4 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.57%) GCIA
9 4 (0.57%) GCIH
9 4 (0.57%) OSCP
10 1 (0.14%) CCIE
10 1 (0.14%) CCNP
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.40%) QA
2 9 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.57%) SLA
4 3 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 66 (9.35%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.14%) KVM
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (6.66%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.83%) Ansible
3 10 (1.42%) Grafana
4 5 (0.71%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (3.68%) Databricks
1 26 (3.68%) Google
2 14 (1.98%) Microsoft
3 10 (1.42%) Dynatrace
3 10 (1.42%) OpenAI
4 8 (1.13%) Intel
5 6 (0.85%) Splunk
6 4 (0.57%) Palantir
7 3 (0.42%) Bloomberg
7 3 (0.42%) Revolut
8 2 (0.28%) Foundry
9 1 (0.14%) Arista
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco
9 1 (0.14%) F5
9 1 (0.14%) MarketAxess
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle
9 1 (0.14%) Perforce
9 1 (0.14%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.14%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.14%) VMware