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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 311 356
Rank change year-on-year +7 +45 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 506 381 656
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.97% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.08% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 431 287 589
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £48,750
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% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £135,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 77,255 35,140 85,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 89.76% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 53,481 20,253 64,048
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 6 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 6 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 -29 290 £100,000 -9.09% 75
South East +45 90 £65,000 +4.00% 12
North of England +22 65 £90,000 +28.57% 14
North West +43 46 £86,250 -5.48% 10
Midlands -2 29 £65,000 +20.93% 7
West Midlands -8 28 £65,000 +85.71% 7
South West -48 18 £62,500 - 10
North East - 14 £100,000 - 1
East of England -14 11 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Yorkshire -39 5 £100,000 +60.00% 3
East Midlands -31 1 £100,000 +45.45%
Python Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 506 (100.00%) Python
2 271 (53.56%) Software Engineering
3 164 (32.41%) AI
4 152 (30.04%) AWS
5 83 (16.40%) C++
6 80 (15.81%) Agile
6 80 (15.81%) SQL
7 73 (14.43%) Degree
8 70 (13.83%) Azure
9 68 (13.44%) Fintech
10 63 (12.45%) CI/CD
11 62 (12.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 59 (11.66%) Full-Stack Development
13 58 (11.46%) Computer Science
14 51 (10.08%) Django
14 51 (10.08%) SaaS
15 50 (9.88%) FastAPI
15 50 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
15 50 (9.88%) TypeScript
16 48 (9.49%) GCP
17 47 (9.29%) DevOps
18 45 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
18 45 (8.89%) Machine Learning
19 42 (8.30%) Kubernetes
19 42 (8.30%) Terraform
20 40 (7.91%) QA
21 38 (7.51%) Git
22 35 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
22 35 (6.92%) Docker
23 34 (6.72%) Technical Leadership

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 21 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
1 21 (4.15%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.77%) Apache
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
Cloud Services
1 152 (30.04%) AWS
2 70 (13.83%) Azure
3 51 (10.08%) SaaS
4 48 (9.49%) GCP
5 21 (4.15%) Amazon S3
6 20 (3.95%) GitHub
7 18 (3.56%) Snowflake
8 17 (3.36%) Serverless
9 12 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 11 (2.17%) Power Platform
11 8 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (1.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (1.58%) IaaS
11 8 (1.58%) PaaS
12 7 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.38%) Azure Stack
12 7 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
14 5 (0.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.36%) Multicast
2 4 (0.79%) Broadband
3 2 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.20%) BGP
4 1 (0.20%) DNS
4 1 (0.20%) Firewall
4 1 (0.20%) IPv4
4 1 (0.20%) Network Security
4 1 (0.20%) SMS
4 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 18 (3.56%) NoSQL
4 14 (2.77%) MongoDB
5 11 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.98%) MySQL
6 10 (1.98%) Power BI
6 10 (1.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.78%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.38%) Tableau
9 6 (1.19%) Big Data
10 5 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.99%) Redis
11 4 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.59%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.59%) GIS
Development Applications
1 38 (7.51%) Git
2 18 (3.56%) JIRA
3 6 (1.19%) Selenium
4 5 (0.99%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 100 (19.76%) Finance
2 46 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 31 (6.13%) Banking
4 30 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.77%) Games
6 11 (2.17%) Front Office
7 10 (1.98%) Legal
7 10 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.58%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.79%) Automotive
10 4 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 4 (0.79%) Law
10 4 (0.79%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.59%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.40%) Advertising
12 2 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.40%) Retail
13 1 (0.20%) Back Office
13 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.08%) Django
2 50 (9.88%) FastAPI
3 30 (5.93%) React
4 25 (4.94%) Flask
5 22 (4.35%) Kafka
6 20 (3.95%) Node.js
7 18 (3.56%) pytest
8 17 (3.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 17 (3.36%) FIX Protocol
8 17 (3.36%) RESTful
9 13 (2.57%) REST
9 13 (2.57%) SQLAlchemy
10 11 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.98%) HTML
12 9 (1.78%) Celery
13 8 (1.58%) Playwright
13 8 (1.58%) PySpark
13 8 (1.58%) Redux
14 7 (1.38%) Vue
15 6 (1.19%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.53%) Algorithms
3 25 (4.94%) Derivative
3 25 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (4.94%) Equities
3 25 (4.94%) Fixed Income
4 23 (4.55%) Hedge funds
5 18 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
6 16 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.78%) AI Agents
7 9 (1.78%) Robotics
8 8 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.58%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.38%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.38%) PropTech
10 6 (1.19%) CUDA
10 6 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.52%) Linux
2 8 (1.58%) Unix
3 7 (1.38%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (53.56%) Software Engineering
2 164 (32.41%) AI
3 80 (15.81%) Agile
4 68 (13.44%) Fintech
5 63 (12.45%) CI/CD
6 59 (11.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 58 (11.46%) Computer Science
8 47 (9.29%) DevOps
9 45 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (8.89%) Machine Learning
10 35 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (6.72%) Technical Leadership
12 33 (6.52%) Data Science
13 32 (6.32%) LLM
13 32 (6.32%) Microservices
14 31 (6.13%) SDLC
14 31 (6.13%) Test Automation
15 29 (5.73%) Analytics
15 29 (5.73%) Data Engineering
15 29 (5.73%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 506 (100.00%) Python
2 83 (16.40%) C++
3 80 (15.81%) SQL
4 50 (9.88%) TypeScript
5 32 (6.32%) C#
6 25 (4.94%) Java
7 24 (4.74%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.17%) Go
9 10 (1.98%) Bash
10 8 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 8 (1.58%) Rust
11 5 (0.99%) C
11 5 (0.99%) Ruby
12 4 (0.79%) Julia
12 4 (0.79%) Scala
13 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (14.43%) Degree
2 62 (12.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (4.74%) Master's Degree
4 19 (3.75%) PhD
5 15 (2.96%) CISSP
6 8 (1.58%) CCSK
7 7 (1.38%) CISA
7 7 (1.38%) CompTIA CySA+
7 7 (1.38%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.19%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (7.91%) QA
2 18 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.58%) NIST
4 7 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.20%) GDPR
5 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 35 (6.92%) Docker
2 5 (0.99%) Hyper-V
2 5 (0.99%) KVM
2 5 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (8.30%) Kubernetes
1 42 (8.30%) Terraform
2 5 (0.99%) Ansible
2 5 (0.99%) Grafana
3 4 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (3.36%) Google
2 10 (1.98%) Databricks
3 8 (1.58%) OpenAI
4 7 (1.38%) Microsoft
5 5 (0.99%) VMware
6 4 (0.79%) Palantir
6 4 (0.79%) Splunk