Python Engineer Job Trends in England

Python Engineer
UK > England

The median Python Engineer salary in England is £101,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 267 335
Rank change year-on-year -110 +68 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 237 546 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 1.10% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 1.18% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 184 482 354
10th Percentile £59,125 £53,875 £51,625
25th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,250 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £135,000 £118,750 £120,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £142,250 £143,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +12.50%

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 47,162 46,092 43,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 92.95% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,558 24,542 33,827
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,205 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -119 173 £110,000 +10.00% 119
Midlands +20 16 £70,000 +7.69% 4
North of England +25 15 £95,000 +18.75% 20
North West +38 14 £92,500 +57.45% 16
South West +12 13 £80,000 +33.33% 3
South East -4 13 £62,500 - 13
East Midlands +1 10 £70,000 +7.69% 1
West Midlands +12 9 £60,000 +20.00% 3
East of England +19 4 £60,000 +9.09% 4
North East -2 1 £100,000 +25.00% 1
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 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.

1 237 (100.00%) Python
2 152 (64.14%) Software Engineering
3 111 (46.84%) AWS
4 103 (43.46%) Agile
5 78 (32.91%) TypeScript
6 72 (30.38%) Apache Airflow
7 68 (28.69%) Investment Management
8 66 (27.85%) JavaScript
9 64 (27.00%) NumPy
9 64 (27.00%) Pandas
10 62 (26.16%) Amazon Athena
10 62 (26.16%) Apache Arrow
10 62 (26.16%) Apache Iceberg
10 62 (26.16%) Asset Management
10 62 (26.16%) dbt
10 62 (26.16%) Dremio
10 62 (26.16%) SciPy
11 56 (23.63%) Fintech
12 51 (21.52%) SQL
13 50 (21.10%) GCP
14 44 (18.57%) AI
15 41 (17.30%) Java
15 41 (17.30%) React
16 39 (16.46%) Computer Science
16 39 (16.46%) Snowflake
17 38 (16.03%) Azure
17 38 (16.03%) CI/CD
18 37 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
18 37 (15.61%) Risk Management
19 36 (15.19%) Apache

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 72 (30.38%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (15.19%) Apache
3 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 111 (46.84%) AWS
2 62 (26.16%) dbt
3 50 (21.10%) GCP
4 39 (16.46%) Snowflake
5 38 (16.03%) Azure
6 24 (10.13%) GitHub
7 18 (7.59%) SaaS
8 8 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (2.53%) IaaS
10 6 (2.53%) PaaS
10 6 (2.53%) Serverless
10 6 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.11%) Prefect
12 4 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.69%) Dagster
13 3 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.06%) Multicast
2 10 (4.22%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.53%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (2.53%) Firewall
3 6 (2.53%) LAN
3 6 (2.53%) WAN
4 4 (1.69%) DNS
4 4 (1.69%) HTTP
4 4 (1.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (26.16%) Amazon Athena
1 62 (26.16%) Apache Arrow
1 62 (26.16%) Apache Iceberg
1 62 (26.16%) Dremio
2 37 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (15.19%) Data Lake
4 33 (13.92%) Apache Ignite
5 12 (5.06%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.38%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.95%) Tableau
8 6 (2.53%) Flink
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.27%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.27%) Parquet
9 3 (1.27%) Power BI
9 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.84%) Big Data
10 2 (0.84%) MySQL
10 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (12.66%) Git
2 14 (5.91%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) GitLab
3 2 (0.84%) MLflow
4 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 119 (50.21%) Finance
2 72 (30.38%) Front Office
3 52 (21.94%) Banking
4 33 (13.92%) Investment Banking
5 24 (10.13%) Social Skills
6 13 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.64%) Legal
8 5 (2.11%) Games
9 4 (1.69%) Retail
10 3 (1.27%) Automotive
10 3 (1.27%) Back Office
10 3 (1.27%) Law
10 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.84%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.42%) iGaming
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (27.00%) NumPy
1 64 (27.00%) Pandas
2 62 (26.16%) SciPy
3 41 (17.30%) React
4 35 (14.77%) gRPC
5 34 (14.35%) Vue
6 33 (13.92%) AngularJS
6 33 (13.92%) Protocol Buffers
7 32 (13.50%) Node.js
8 19 (8.02%) FastAPI
9 14 (5.91%) Django
10 12 (5.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 12 (5.06%) FIX Protocol
10 12 (5.06%) PySpark
10 12 (5.06%) pytest
11 11 (4.64%) Kafka
12 8 (3.38%) Flask
13 7 (2.95%) REST
14 5 (2.11%) HTML
14 5 (2.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (33.76%) Fixed Income
2 75 (31.65%) Equities
3 62 (26.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 49 (20.68%) Hedge funds
5 45 (18.99%) Derivative
6 33 (13.92%) Pricing Data
7 19 (8.02%) Management Information System
8 15 (6.33%) Algorithms
9 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.53%) Security Posture
12 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.69%) GNSS
13 4 (1.69%) Satnav
13 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
15 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
15 2 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.66%) Linux
2 11 (4.64%) Windows
3 7 (2.95%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (64.14%) Software Engineering
2 103 (43.46%) Agile
3 68 (28.69%) Investment Management
4 62 (26.16%) Asset Management
5 56 (23.63%) Fintech
6 44 (18.57%) AI
7 39 (16.46%) Computer Science
8 38 (16.03%) CI/CD
9 37 (15.61%) Risk Management
10 31 (13.08%) DevOps
11 29 (12.24%) Order Management
11 29 (12.24%) Performance Attribution
12 23 (9.70%) Containerisation
13 20 (8.44%) Analytics
13 20 (8.44%) ETL
13 20 (8.44%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (8.02%) Data Engineering
14 19 (8.02%) Low Latency
15 18 (7.59%) Data Science
15 18 (7.59%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 237 (100.00%) Python
2 78 (32.91%) TypeScript
3 66 (27.85%) JavaScript
4 51 (21.52%) SQL
5 41 (17.30%) Java
6 24 (10.13%) C++
7 8 (3.38%) Bash
7 8 (3.38%) C#
8 7 (2.95%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.27%) C
9 3 (1.27%) Go
9 3 (1.27%) Julia
9 3 (1.27%) PHP
9 3 (1.27%) VBA
10 1 (0.42%) Rust
10 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (14.35%) Degree
2 27 (11.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.49%) CISSP
4 7 (2.95%) CISA
4 7 (2.95%) CompTIA CySA+
5 6 (2.53%) CCSK
6 5 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.27%) PhD
8 2 (0.84%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.17%) QA
2 7 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.95%) NIST
3 6 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (8.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) NFS
2 6 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (11.81%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.86%) Terraform
3 8 (3.38%) Ansible
4 6 (2.53%) Argo
5 3 (1.27%) Grafana
5 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.84%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.42%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (6.75%) Google
2 10 (4.22%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.80%) Databricks
4 6 (2.53%) Cisco
4 6 (2.53%) Commvault
4 6 (2.53%) Pure Storage
4 6 (2.53%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.53%) VMware
5 2 (0.84%) Foundry
5 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.84%) Palantir
6 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.42%) SAP