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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 292 342
Rank change year-on-year -1 +50 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 532 398 696
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 1.01% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.12% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 454 286 625
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -2.70%
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £138,750 £143,750
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 78,266 35,581 89,728
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.96% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 55,070 20,653 66,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -12.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
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 17 June 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 June 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 -37 303 £100,000 -9.09% 48
South East +60 95 £65,000 +4.00% 25
North of England +23 69 £90,000 +28.57% 18
North West +38 47 £82,500 -9.59% 10
West Midlands +8 29 £65,000 +85.71% 7
Midlands 0 29 £65,000 - 10
South West -47 22 £70,000 +12.00% 16
North East - 17 £100,000 - 4
East of England -10 11 £55,000 -8.33% 18
Yorkshire -43 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 17 June 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.

1 532 (100.00%) Python
2 294 (55.26%) Software Engineering
3 175 (32.89%) AI
4 165 (31.02%) AWS
5 87 (16.35%) Agile
5 87 (16.35%) C++
6 80 (15.04%) SQL
7 78 (14.66%) Degree
8 74 (13.91%) Azure
9 73 (13.72%) Fintech
10 67 (12.59%) CI/CD
11 66 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 65 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
13 60 (11.28%) Computer Science
14 56 (10.53%) TypeScript
15 55 (10.34%) Django
16 52 (9.77%) FastAPI
17 51 (9.59%) GCP
17 51 (9.59%) Machine Learning
18 50 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
19 49 (9.21%) SaaS
20 46 (8.65%) DevOps
21 45 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
22 43 (8.08%) Kubernetes
22 43 (8.08%) Terraform
23 41 (7.71%) Docker
23 41 (7.71%) Git
23 41 (7.71%) QA
24 37 (6.95%) C#
24 37 (6.95%) LLM

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 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.63%) Apache
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 165 (31.02%) AWS
2 74 (13.91%) Azure
3 51 (9.59%) GCP
4 49 (9.21%) SaaS
5 20 (3.76%) Amazon S3
6 19 (3.57%) GitHub
6 19 (3.57%) Snowflake
7 16 (3.01%) Serverless
8 11 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (2.07%) Power Platform
8 11 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (1.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (1.32%) Azure Stack
10 7 (1.32%) IaaS
10 7 (1.32%) PaaS
11 6 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.20%) Multicast
2 5 (0.94%) Broadband
3 2 (0.38%) HTTP
3 2 (0.38%) SMS
4 1 (0.19%) BGP
4 1 (0.19%) DNS
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) IPv4
4 1 (0.19%) Network Security
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (5.08%) Relational Database
3 19 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 16 (3.01%) MongoDB
5 13 (2.44%) MySQL
6 11 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.88%) Power BI
7 10 (1.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.69%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.13%) Big Data
9 6 (1.13%) Tableau
10 5 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.94%) Redis
11 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.75%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.56%) GIS
12 3 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 41 (7.71%) Git
2 19 (3.57%) JIRA
3 6 (1.13%) GitLab
3 6 (1.13%) Selenium
4 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.19%) Zephyr
General
1 102 (19.17%) Finance
2 48 (9.02%) Social Skills
3 31 (5.83%) Banking
4 28 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (2.82%) Games
6 12 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.88%) Front Office
8 9 (1.69%) Legal
9 8 (1.50%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.75%) Automotive
11 4 (0.75%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.75%) Law
11 4 (0.75%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.56%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.38%) Advertising
13 2 (0.38%) Retail
14 1 (0.19%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (10.34%) Django
2 52 (9.77%) FastAPI
3 35 (6.58%) React
4 30 (5.64%) Flask
5 23 (4.32%) Kafka
6 21 (3.95%) Node.js
7 19 (3.57%) pytest
7 19 (3.57%) RESTful
8 17 (3.20%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 17 (3.20%) FIX Protocol
9 15 (2.82%) SQLAlchemy
10 13 (2.44%) REST
11 11 (2.07%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.88%) Celery
12 10 (1.88%) HTML
13 9 (1.69%) Vue
14 8 (1.50%) Playwright
14 8 (1.50%) Redux
15 6 (1.13%) Puppeteer
15 6 (1.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (5.45%) Algorithms
4 26 (4.89%) Equities
5 25 (4.70%) Derivative
5 25 (4.70%) Fixed Income
6 23 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
7 19 (3.57%) Hedge funds
8 14 (2.63%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.88%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.69%) Robotics
11 8 (1.50%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.32%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.32%) PropTech
12 7 (1.32%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.13%) CUDA
13 6 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.20%) Linux
2 7 (1.32%) Unix
2 7 (1.32%) Windows
3 6 (1.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (55.26%) Software Engineering
2 175 (32.89%) AI
3 87 (16.35%) Agile
4 73 (13.72%) Fintech
5 67 (12.59%) CI/CD
6 65 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 60 (11.28%) Computer Science
8 51 (9.59%) Machine Learning
9 46 (8.65%) DevOps
10 45 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (6.95%) LLM
12 36 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (6.77%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (6.39%) Data Science
13 34 (6.39%) Test Automation
14 33 (6.20%) Observability
15 32 (6.02%) Microservices
15 32 (6.02%) SDLC
16 31 (5.83%) Data Engineering
17 29 (5.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 532 (100.00%) Python
2 87 (16.35%) C++
3 80 (15.04%) SQL
4 56 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 37 (6.95%) C#
6 26 (4.89%) Java
7 25 (4.70%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.44%) Go
9 9 (1.69%) Bash
10 8 (1.50%) Rust
11 7 (1.32%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.32%) Ruby
12 5 (0.94%) C
13 4 (0.75%) Julia
13 4 (0.75%) Scala
14 2 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (14.66%) Degree
2 66 (12.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (4.89%) Master's Degree
4 20 (3.76%) PhD
5 13 (2.44%) CISSP
6 9 (1.69%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.50%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.32%) CCSK
9 6 (1.13%) CISA
9 6 (1.13%) CompTIA CySA+
9 6 (1.13%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.19%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.71%) QA
2 17 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.32%) NIST
4 6 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.19%) GDPR
5 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (7.71%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.94%) KVM
2 5 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (8.08%) Kubernetes
1 43 (8.08%) Terraform
2 7 (1.32%) Ansible
3 5 (0.94%) Grafana
4 4 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (3.01%) Google
2 12 (2.26%) Databricks
3 7 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 6 (1.13%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.13%) Splunk
5 5 (0.94%) VMware
6 4 (0.75%) Palantir
7 1 (0.19%) Intel