Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £87,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 301 338
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 560 408 725
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.98% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.09% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 471 299 652
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £51,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £82,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £138,750 £148,750
UK median annual salary £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% +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 80,861 37,451 87,605
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 90.30% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,940 22,195 64,587
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,745 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.08% +8.09% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -37 316 £100,000 -9.09% 79
South East +57 97 £65,000 +4.00% 16
North of England +12 70 £85,000 +21.43% 11
North West +41 47 £81,250 -18.75% 7
West Midlands 0 31 £65,000 +85.71% 2
Midlands -10 31 £65,000 - 2
South West -46 31 £75,000 +20.00% 13
North East -34 18 £92,500 +208.33%
East of England -12 14 £73,750 +28.26% 12
Yorkshire -38 5 £100,000 +60.00% 4
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 560 (100.00%) Python
2 320 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 188 (33.57%) AWS
4 186 (33.21%) AI
5 95 (16.96%) Agile
6 93 (16.61%) C++
7 82 (14.64%) Azure
7 82 (14.64%) SQL
8 81 (14.46%) Degree
9 77 (13.75%) Fintech
10 73 (13.04%) CI/CD
11 70 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 67 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 63 (11.25%) Computer Science
13 63 (11.25%) Django
14 60 (10.71%) TypeScript
15 59 (10.54%) FastAPI
16 57 (10.18%) GCP
17 54 (9.64%) DevOps
17 54 (9.64%) Docker
17 54 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
18 52 (9.29%) Machine Learning
19 51 (9.11%) SaaS
20 47 (8.39%) Kubernetes
20 47 (8.39%) Terraform
21 45 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
22 43 (7.68%) Git
22 43 (7.68%) React
23 42 (7.50%) QA
24 40 (7.14%) Data Pipeline

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 27 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.68%) Apache
4 2 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 188 (33.57%) AWS
2 82 (14.64%) Azure
3 57 (10.18%) GCP
4 51 (9.11%) SaaS
5 21 (3.75%) Amazon S3
6 19 (3.39%) Snowflake
7 18 (3.21%) GitHub
8 17 (3.04%) Serverless
9 12 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (1.96%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (1.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.25%) Azure Stack
14 6 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (1.07%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (1.07%) AWS Step Functions
15 5 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.21%) Multicast
2 5 (0.89%) Broadband
3 4 (0.71%) SMS
4 2 (0.36%) HTTP
5 1 (0.18%) BGP
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) Firewall
5 1 (0.18%) IPv4
5 1 (0.18%) Network Security
5 1 (0.18%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.43%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.93%) MySQL
4 19 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.79%) DynamoDB
7 10 (1.79%) Power BI
7 10 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.07%) Big Data
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.89%) Redis
10 4 (0.71%) Metadata
10 4 (0.71%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.71%) Tableau
11 3 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.54%) GIS
Development Applications
1 43 (7.68%) Git
2 22 (3.93%) JIRA
3 12 (2.14%) Claude Code
4 8 (1.43%) GitLab
5 6 (1.07%) Selenium
6 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (19.11%) Finance
2 54 (9.64%) Social Skills
3 33 (5.89%) Banking
4 26 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (2.32%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.14%) Front Office
6 12 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (1.96%) Games
8 8 (1.43%) Retail Banking
9 7 (1.25%) Legal
10 6 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.71%) Automotive
11 4 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.71%) Law
11 4 (0.71%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.36%) Advertising
13 2 (0.36%) Marketing
13 2 (0.36%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.25%) Django
2 59 (10.54%) FastAPI
3 43 (7.68%) React
4 40 (7.14%) Flask
5 26 (4.64%) Kafka
6 25 (4.46%) Node.js
7 23 (4.11%) SQLAlchemy
8 20 (3.57%) pytest
9 19 (3.39%) RESTful
10 18 (3.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 18 (3.21%) FIX Protocol
11 13 (2.32%) Celery
11 13 (2.32%) REST
12 11 (1.96%) AngularJS
13 10 (1.79%) HTML
13 10 (1.79%) Vue
14 8 (1.43%) Playwright
14 8 (1.43%) Redux
15 7 (1.25%) Next.js
15 7 (1.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 48 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.36%) Algorithms
3 29 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (5.00%) Equities
5 26 (4.64%) Derivative
5 26 (4.64%) Fixed Income
6 25 (4.46%) Distributed Computing
7 15 (2.68%) Hedge funds
8 12 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.79%) Client/Server
9 10 (1.79%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.79%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.61%) Robotics
11 8 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.25%) PropTech
12 7 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.07%) CUDA
13 6 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (6.25%) Linux
2 7 (1.25%) Windows
3 5 (0.89%) Unix
4 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 186 (33.21%) AI
3 95 (16.96%) Agile
4 77 (13.75%) Fintech
5 73 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 70 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (11.25%) Computer Science
8 54 (9.64%) DevOps
9 52 (9.29%) Machine Learning
10 45 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
11 40 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
12 38 (6.79%) LLM
13 36 (6.43%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (6.25%) SDLC
15 34 (6.07%) Data Science
15 34 (6.07%) Observability
16 33 (5.89%) Data Engineering
16 33 (5.89%) Microservices
16 33 (5.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 560 (100.00%) Python
2 93 (16.61%) C++
3 82 (14.64%) SQL
4 60 (10.71%) TypeScript
5 39 (6.96%) C#
6 28 (5.00%) JavaScript
7 26 (4.64%) Java
8 15 (2.68%) Go
9 11 (1.96%) Rust
10 8 (1.43%) Ruby
11 7 (1.25%) Bash
12 6 (1.07%) C
13 5 (0.89%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.71%) Julia
14 4 (0.71%) Scala
15 2 (0.36%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.36%) PHP
16 1 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (14.46%) Degree
2 67 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (5.18%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.57%) PhD
5 14 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.32%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.61%) CISSP
9 5 (0.89%) CCSK
10 4 (0.71%) CISA
10 4 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
11 3 (0.54%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.50%) QA
2 18 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.89%) NIST
4 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.18%) GDPR
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (9.64%) Docker
2 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.89%) KVM
2 5 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (8.39%) Kubernetes
1 47 (8.39%) Terraform
2 8 (1.43%) Ansible
3 5 (0.89%) Grafana
4 4 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (2.86%) Databricks
2 12 (2.14%) Google
3 7 (1.25%) Splunk
4 6 (1.07%) OpenAI
5 5 (0.89%) VMware
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft
6 4 (0.71%) Palantir
7 3 (0.54%) Intel