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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 323 270
Rank change year-on-year +57 -53 +73
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 665 386 722
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.88% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.97% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 551 282 650
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -2.44%
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% -

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 89,225 39,845 68,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.07% 90.60% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 62,704 24,052 46,480
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,019 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £56,350 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.45% - -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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -27 355 £100,000 -9.09% 87
South East +52 105 £65,000 +18.18% 8
North of England +19 85 £80,000 +20.75% 11
North West +28 53 £68,496 -2.15% 6
South West -41 49 £75,000 +20.00% 9
Midlands 0 41 £70,000 +16.67% 5
West Midlands +15 39 £70,000 +16.67% 3
East of England +6 34 £80,000 +33.33% 8
North East -36 27 £85,000 +183.33% 1
Yorkshire -28 5 £100,000 +66.67% 4
East Midlands -26 2 - - 2
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 August 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.

1 665 (100.00%) Python
2 393 (59.10%) Software Engineering
3 220 (33.08%) AWS
4 213 (32.03%) AI
5 95 (14.29%) Agile
6 92 (13.83%) CI/CD
7 89 (13.38%) Azure
7 89 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 86 (12.93%) C++
9 81 (12.18%) SQL
10 79 (11.88%) Django
11 75 (11.28%) Degree
11 75 (11.28%) Fintech
11 75 (11.28%) GCP
12 74 (11.13%) FastAPI
13 70 (10.53%) DevOps
14 66 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
15 64 (9.62%) TypeScript
16 63 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
17 62 (9.32%) Machine Learning
18 61 (9.17%) Terraform
19 60 (9.02%) React
20 59 (8.87%) Docker
21 54 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
21 54 (8.12%) SaaS
22 53 (7.97%) Computer Science
23 51 (7.67%) Kubernetes
23 51 (7.67%) LLM
24 50 (7.52%) Flask
25 48 (7.22%) 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 24 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.11%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 220 (33.08%) AWS
2 89 (13.38%) Azure
3 75 (11.28%) GCP
4 54 (8.12%) SaaS
5 22 (3.31%) Amazon S3
6 17 (2.56%) Serverless
6 17 (2.56%) Snowflake
7 11 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (1.50%) GitHub
8 10 (1.50%) Power Platform
9 9 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
9 9 (1.35%) dbt
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (1.20%) Datadog
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.05%) Azure Stack
12 6 (0.90%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.95%) Multicast
2 10 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.75%) Broadband
4 4 (0.60%) SMS
5 3 (0.45%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) BGP
6 2 (0.30%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) IPv4
7 1 (0.15%) LAN
7 1 (0.15%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.15%) OSPF
7 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.76%) MySQL
4 19 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.71%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.65%) Redis
8 10 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.35%) Power BI
10 7 (1.05%) Big Data
10 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.60%) SQL Server
13 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.45%) GIS
13 3 (0.45%) Metadata
14 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 38 (5.71%) Git
2 19 (2.86%) JIRA
3 15 (2.26%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.35%) GitLab
5 4 (0.60%) Selenium
6 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 99 (14.89%) Finance
2 73 (10.98%) Social Skills
3 32 (4.81%) Banking
4 23 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.65%) Front Office
8 7 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.05%) Retail Banking
9 6 (0.90%) Automotive
9 6 (0.90%) Health Technology
10 5 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.75%) Games
10 5 (0.75%) Tech for Good
10 5 (0.75%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.45%) Law
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Marketing
12 3 (0.45%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (11.88%) Django
2 74 (11.13%) FastAPI
3 60 (9.02%) React
4 50 (7.52%) Flask
5 31 (4.66%) Kafka
6 28 (4.21%) Node.js
7 25 (3.76%) SQLAlchemy
8 22 (3.31%) REST
8 22 (3.31%) RESTful
9 16 (2.41%) pytest
10 14 (2.11%) Celery
11 13 (1.95%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 13 (1.95%) FIX Protocol
12 12 (1.80%) Vue
13 9 (1.35%) AngularJS
13 9 (1.35%) Next.js
14 8 (1.20%) HTML
14 8 (1.20%) LangChain
14 8 (1.20%) Ruby on Rails
15 7 (1.05%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.51%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.91%) Algorithms
5 19 (2.86%) Equities
6 17 (2.56%) Derivative
6 17 (2.56%) Fixed Income
7 15 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 15 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (1.95%) Hedge funds
8 13 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.35%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) PropTech
11 6 (0.90%) CUDA
11 6 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.90%) PKI
11 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.86%) Linux
2 10 (1.50%) Windows
3 8 (1.20%) Unix
4 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (59.10%) Software Engineering
2 213 (32.03%) AI
3 95 (14.29%) Agile
4 92 (13.83%) CI/CD
5 89 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 75 (11.28%) Fintech
7 70 (10.53%) DevOps
8 62 (9.32%) Machine Learning
9 54 (8.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 53 (7.97%) Computer Science
11 51 (7.67%) LLM
12 48 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (7.22%) Observability
13 46 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (6.62%) Clean Code
15 43 (6.47%) Data Pipeline
16 42 (6.32%) Data Engineering
17 41 (6.17%) Mentoring
18 40 (6.02%) Microservices
18 40 (6.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 665 (100.00%) Python
2 86 (12.93%) C++
3 81 (12.18%) SQL
4 64 (9.62%) TypeScript
5 41 (6.17%) C#
6 34 (5.11%) Java
7 29 (4.36%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.86%) Go
9 13 (1.95%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.80%) Ruby
11 10 (1.50%) Rust
12 4 (0.60%) C
12 4 (0.60%) Scala
13 3 (0.45%) Julia
13 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.15%) Bash
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (11.28%) Degree
2 63 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (4.96%) Master's Degree
4 30 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 24 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 20 (3.01%) PhD
7 16 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.60%) CISSP
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.45%) CEH
10 3 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.45%) GCIA
10 3 (0.45%) GCIH
10 3 (0.45%) OSCP
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) CCSK
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.66%) QA
2 14 (2.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.45%) SLA
4 2 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (8.87%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
2 3 (0.45%) KVM
2 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (9.17%) Terraform
2 51 (7.67%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.41%) Ansible
4 10 (1.50%) Grafana
5 4 (0.60%) Kibana
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (3.01%) Databricks
2 10 (1.50%) Google
2 10 (1.50%) OpenAI
3 8 (1.20%) Dynatrace
4 7 (1.05%) Intel
5 6 (0.90%) Splunk
6 4 (0.60%) Palantir
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft
7 3 (0.45%) Revolut
7 3 (0.45%) VMware
8 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.15%) Arista
8 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco
8 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv