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 24 August 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 315 262
Rank change year-on-year +47 -53 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 669 380 734
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.87% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.96% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 551 275 659
10th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £71,250
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 90,192 39,670 69,296
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 90.52% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 63,568 23,991 46,044
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 £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 24 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 24 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 -20 357 £100,000 -9.09% 8
South East +58 101 £65,000 +4.00% 8
North of England +35 87 £80,000 +20.75% 6
North West +31 55 £73,496 +4.99% 4
South West -33 51 £75,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands -11 43 £71,991 +15.19% 5
West Midlands +15 40 £71,991 +19.99% 1
East of England -1 35 £80,000 +33.33% 8
North East -29 27 £85,000 +183.33%
Yorkshire -24 5 £100,000 +66.67% 2
East Midlands -29 3 - - 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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.

1 669 (100.00%) Python
2 390 (58.30%) Software Engineering
3 219 (32.74%) AWS
4 213 (31.84%) AI
5 91 (13.60%) CI/CD
5 91 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
6 90 (13.45%) Agile
7 88 (13.15%) Azure
8 83 (12.41%) C++
9 80 (11.96%) SQL
10 79 (11.81%) Django
11 74 (11.06%) FastAPI
12 73 (10.91%) Degree
12 73 (10.91%) GCP
13 71 (10.61%) DevOps
13 71 (10.61%) Fintech
14 65 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
15 62 (9.27%) TypeScript
16 61 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
16 61 (9.12%) Machine Learning
16 61 (9.12%) Terraform
17 60 (8.97%) React
18 58 (8.67%) Docker
19 54 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
20 53 (7.92%) SaaS
21 52 (7.77%) Computer Science
22 51 (7.62%) LLM
23 50 (7.47%) Flask
23 50 (7.47%) Kubernetes
24 49 (7.32%) Observability

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 23 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.09%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 219 (32.74%) AWS
2 88 (13.15%) Azure
3 73 (10.91%) GCP
4 53 (7.92%) SaaS
5 22 (3.29%) Amazon S3
6 17 (2.54%) Serverless
7 15 (2.24%) Snowflake
8 11 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (1.49%) Datadog
9 10 (1.49%) GitHub
9 10 (1.49%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (1.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.20%) dbt
12 7 (1.05%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (1.05%) Azure Stack
13 6 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.94%) Multicast
2 11 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 5 (0.75%) Broadband
4 4 (0.60%) DNS
4 4 (0.60%) SMS
5 2 (0.30%) BGP
5 2 (0.30%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.15%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.15%) Firewall
6 1 (0.15%) IPv4
6 1 (0.15%) LAN
6 1 (0.15%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.15%) OSPF
6 1 (0.15%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.15%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.53%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.74%) MySQL
4 20 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 18 (2.69%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.09%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.64%) Redis
8 10 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.35%) Power BI
10 7 (1.05%) Big Data
11 6 (0.90%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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 (5.68%) Git
2 19 (2.84%) JIRA
3 15 (2.24%) 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 96 (14.35%) Finance
2 73 (10.91%) Social Skills
3 32 (4.78%) Banking
4 22 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
6 13 (1.94%) Manufacturing
7 9 (1.35%) 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%) Tech for Good
11 4 (0.60%) Games
11 4 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
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 (11.81%) Django
2 74 (11.06%) FastAPI
3 61 (9.12%) Terraform
4 60 (8.97%) React
5 50 (7.47%) Flask
6 31 (4.63%) Kafka
7 27 (4.04%) Node.js
8 25 (3.74%) SQLAlchemy
9 22 (3.29%) REST
9 22 (3.29%) RESTful
10 16 (2.39%) pytest
11 14 (2.09%) Celery
12 13 (1.94%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 13 (1.94%) FIX Protocol
13 12 (1.79%) Vue
14 9 (1.35%) AngularJS
14 9 (1.35%) Next.js
15 8 (1.20%) HTML
15 8 (1.20%) Keycloak
15 8 (1.20%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 41 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.48%) Distributed Computing
4 26 (3.89%) Algorithms
5 17 (2.54%) Equities
6 15 (2.24%) AI Agents
6 15 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
6 15 (2.24%) Derivative
6 15 (2.24%) Fixed Income
7 13 (1.94%) Hedge funds
7 13 (1.94%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.20%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.05%) PKI
9 7 (1.05%) PropTech
10 6 (0.90%) CUDA
10 6 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.83%) Linux
2 11 (1.64%) Windows
3 7 (1.05%) Unix
4 3 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (58.30%) Software Engineering
2 213 (31.84%) AI
3 91 (13.60%) CI/CD
3 91 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
4 90 (13.45%) Agile
5 71 (10.61%) DevOps
5 71 (10.61%) Fintech
6 61 (9.12%) Machine Learning
7 54 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 52 (7.77%) Computer Science
9 51 (7.62%) LLM
10 49 (7.32%) Observability
11 48 (7.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (6.58%) Clean Code
14 42 (6.28%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (6.13%) Data Engineering
16 40 (5.98%) Microservices
16 40 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 40 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 669 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (12.41%) C++
3 80 (11.96%) SQL
4 62 (9.27%) TypeScript
5 40 (5.98%) C#
6 34 (5.08%) Java
7 27 (4.04%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.99%) Go
9 16 (2.39%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.79%) Ruby
11 9 (1.35%) Rust
12 4 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.60%) Scala
13 3 (0.45%) C
13 3 (0.45%) Julia
14 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 73 (10.91%) Degree
2 61 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.08%) Master's Degree
4 32 (4.78%) Security Cleared
5 25 (3.74%) SC Cleared
6 20 (2.99%) PhD
7 17 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.35%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.60%) CEH
9 4 (0.60%) CISSP
9 4 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.60%) GCIA
9 4 (0.60%) GCIH
9 4 (0.60%) OSCP
10 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.15%) CCIE
11 1 (0.15%) CCNP
11 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.15%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.48%) QA
2 13 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.60%) SLA
4 3 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 58 (8.67%) Docker
2 4 (0.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.69%) Ansible
3 11 (1.64%) Grafana
4 4 (0.60%) Kibana
5 2 (0.30%) Puppet
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (2.99%) Databricks
2 10 (1.49%) Dynatrace
2 10 (1.49%) OpenAI
3 9 (1.35%) Google
4 8 (1.20%) Intel
5 6 (0.90%) Splunk
6 5 (0.75%) Microsoft
7 4 (0.60%) Palantir
8 3 (0.45%) Revolut
9 2 (0.30%) VMware
10 1 (0.15%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.15%) Arista
10 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.15%) Cisco
10 1 (0.15%) MarketAxess
10 1 (0.15%) Refinitiv