Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 May 2026.

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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 320 374
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 486 352 592
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.89% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.00% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 403 325 532
10th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £138,750 £142,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -

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 76,506 35,373 80,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 89.87% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 51,773 20,894 60,755
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,511
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -32 283 £100,000 -9.09% 38
South East +41 83 £65,000 +4.00% 22
North of England +28 60 £92,500 +39.62% 27
North West +48 43 £90,000 +9.09% 12
Midlands -5 30 £65,000 +52.94% 15
West Midlands +4 25 £65,000 +85.71% 10
South West - 16 £62,500 - 8
East of England -14 12 £55,000 -4.35% 3
North East -27 12 £100,000 - 8
East Midlands -24 5 £100,000 +48.15% 5
Yorkshire -49 5 £100,000 +60.00% 7
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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.

1 486 (100.00%) Python
2 258 (53.09%) Software Engineering
3 151 (31.07%) AWS
4 145 (29.84%) AI
5 84 (17.28%) SQL
6 80 (16.46%) Agile
7 79 (16.26%) C++
8 75 (15.43%) Degree
9 73 (15.02%) Azure
10 71 (14.61%) Fintech
11 64 (13.17%) CI/CD
12 63 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 60 (12.35%) Computer Science
14 58 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
15 57 (11.73%) SaaS
16 49 (10.08%) DevOps
17 48 (9.88%) FastAPI
18 47 (9.67%) GCP
18 47 (9.67%) TypeScript
19 46 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
19 46 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
20 45 (9.26%) Django
21 43 (8.85%) Git
21 43 (8.85%) Terraform
22 42 (8.64%) Machine Learning
23 41 (8.44%) Kubernetes
24 38 (7.82%) QA
25 35 (7.20%) Data Pipeline
25 35 (7.20%) Linux
26 34 (7.00%) Analytics

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 20 (4.12%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.47%) Apache
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 151 (31.07%) AWS
2 73 (15.02%) Azure
3 57 (11.73%) SaaS
4 47 (9.67%) GCP
5 22 (4.53%) GitHub
6 19 (3.91%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.29%) Serverless
7 16 (3.29%) Snowflake
8 14 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (2.26%) Power Platform
10 10 (2.06%) IaaS
10 10 (2.06%) PaaS
11 8 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
13 6 (1.23%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.82%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.29%) Multicast
2 4 (0.82%) Broadband
2 4 (0.82%) HTTP
3 3 (0.62%) DNS
3 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.41%) SMTP
5 1 (0.21%) BGP
5 1 (0.21%) Firewall
5 1 (0.21%) IPv4
5 1 (0.21%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.50%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.47%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.06%) MySQL
5 10 (2.06%) Power BI
5 10 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (1.85%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.65%) Tableau
8 7 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.23%) Big Data
10 5 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.03%) Redis
11 4 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.82%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.62%) GIS
12 3 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 43 (8.85%) Git
2 17 (3.50%) JIRA
3 6 (1.23%) GitLab
3 6 (1.23%) Selenium
4 2 (0.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (19.75%) Finance
2 43 (8.85%) Social Skills
3 33 (6.79%) Banking
4 29 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.88%) Games
6 13 (2.67%) Front Office
7 12 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.06%) Legal
9 8 (1.65%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.82%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.62%) Automotive
12 3 (0.62%) Law
12 3 (0.62%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.41%) Advertising
13 2 (0.41%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.41%) Retail
14 1 (0.21%) Back Office
14 1 (0.21%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.88%) FastAPI
2 45 (9.26%) Django
3 28 (5.76%) React
4 24 (4.94%) Flask
5 23 (4.73%) Kafka
6 21 (4.32%) Node.js
7 17 (3.50%) pytest
7 17 (3.50%) RESTful
8 16 (3.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 16 (3.29%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (2.88%) REST
10 13 (2.67%) PySpark
10 13 (2.67%) SQLAlchemy
11 12 (2.47%) AngularJS
12 10 (2.06%) HTML
13 8 (1.65%) Celery
13 8 (1.65%) Playwright
13 8 (1.65%) Redux
14 6 (1.23%) Puppeteer
14 6 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 27 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 26 (5.35%) Fixed Income
4 25 (5.14%) Hedge funds
5 24 (4.94%) Derivative
5 24 (4.94%) Equities
6 22 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (3.91%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (2.06%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.85%) Robotics
11 8 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.44%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.23%) CUDA
13 6 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.03%) PropTech
15 4 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
15 4 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.20%) Linux
2 10 (2.06%) Unix
2 10 (2.06%) Windows
3 8 (1.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (53.09%) Software Engineering
2 145 (29.84%) AI
3 80 (16.46%) Agile
4 71 (14.61%) Fintech
5 64 (13.17%) CI/CD
6 60 (12.35%) Computer Science
7 58 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (10.08%) DevOps
9 46 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (8.64%) Machine Learning
11 35 (7.20%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (7.00%) Analytics
13 33 (6.79%) Test Automation
14 31 (6.38%) TDD
15 30 (6.17%) SDLC
16 29 (5.97%) Microservices
16 29 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
17 28 (5.76%) Data Science
18 27 (5.56%) Data Engineering
19 26 (5.35%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 486 (100.00%) Python
2 84 (17.28%) SQL
3 79 (16.26%) C++
4 47 (9.67%) TypeScript
5 30 (6.17%) C#
6 22 (4.53%) JavaScript
7 21 (4.32%) Java
8 12 (2.47%) Bash
9 10 (2.06%) Go
10 9 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.44%) Rust
12 5 (1.03%) C
13 4 (0.82%) Scala
14 3 (0.62%) Julia
14 3 (0.62%) Ruby
15 2 (0.41%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (15.43%) Degree
2 63 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (4.12%) Master's Degree
4 18 (3.70%) CISSP
5 15 (3.09%) PhD
6 10 (2.06%) CCSK
7 8 (1.65%) CISA
7 8 (1.65%) CompTIA CySA+
8 5 (1.03%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.82%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.82%) QA
2 17 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.85%) NIST
4 8 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (6.79%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.03%) KVM
2 5 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (8.85%) Terraform
2 41 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.03%) Grafana
4 4 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.62%) Ansible
6 2 (0.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (4.12%) Google
2 8 (1.65%) Databricks
2 8 (1.65%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.65%) OpenAI
3 5 (1.03%) VMware
4 3 (0.62%) Palantir
5 2 (0.41%) Splunk