Python Engineer Jobs in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 250 351
Rank change year-on-year +65 +101 -122
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 401 497 785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.70% 1.45% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 1.52% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 371 448 638
10th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £54,625
25th Percentile £81,875 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +15.63%
75th Percentile £131,250 £150,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £180,000 £133,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,236 32,601 64,987
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.01% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 16,671 24,034 34,497
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Central London +28 24 £77,500 +3.33% 3
West London -5 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1
East London - 1 £65,000 - 1
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Python Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 401 (100.00%) Python
2 301 (75.06%) AWS
3 273 (68.08%) Software Engineering
4 260 (64.84%) Finance
5 240 (59.85%) Agile
6 203 (50.62%) Apache Airflow
7 200 (49.88%) Asset Management
8 199 (49.63%) Apache
9 197 (49.13%) TypeScript
10 195 (48.63%) Fixed Income
11 194 (48.38%) Front Office
12 189 (47.13%) Protocol Buffers
12 189 (47.13%) gRPC
13 177 (44.14%) Apache Ignite
14 174 (43.39%) Investment Management
15 170 (42.39%) Azure
16 169 (42.14%) GCP
17 168 (41.90%) Banking
18 165 (41.15%) Hedge funds
19 139 (34.66%) React
20 129 (32.17%) Artificial Intelligence
21 126 (31.42%) Equities
21 126 (31.42%) PostgreSQL
22 123 (30.67%) Full Stack Development
23 119 (29.68%) Google
24 117 (29.18%) Machine Learning
25 111 (27.68%) SQL
26 110 (27.43%) JavaScript
27 107 (26.68%) Pandas
28 105 (26.18%) Redux

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 203 (50.62%) Apache Airflow
2 199 (49.63%) Apache
3 17 (4.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 301 (75.06%) AWS
2 170 (42.39%) Azure
3 169 (42.14%) GCP
4 93 (23.19%) dbt
5 69 (17.21%) Snowflake
6 38 (9.48%) Serverless
7 30 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (5.74%) Power Platform
9 18 (4.49%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.49%) SaaS
10 15 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 7 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (1.75%) GitHub
16 6 (1.50%) Amazon EventBridge
17 5 (1.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.24%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (44.14%) Apache Ignite
2 126 (31.42%) PostgreSQL
3 91 (22.69%) Amazon Athena
4 89 (22.19%) Apache Arrow
5 86 (21.45%) Dremio
6 78 (19.45%) Data Lake
7 25 (6.23%) NoSQL
8 23 (5.74%) Power BI
9 21 (5.24%) DynamoDB
10 18 (4.49%) MongoDB
11 17 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
11 17 (4.24%) Tableau
12 12 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.99%) Hadoop
13 8 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 8 (2.00%) Redis
13 8 (2.00%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.50%) MySQL
14 6 (1.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 56 (13.97%) Cypress.io
2 26 (6.48%) GitLab
3 24 (5.99%) Git
4 8 (2.00%) JIRA
5 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.25%) NUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 260 (64.84%) Finance
2 194 (48.38%) Front Office
3 168 (41.90%) Banking
4 74 (18.45%) Investment Banking
5 59 (14.71%) Social Skills
6 18 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.49%) Law
8 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.00%) Games
10 3 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.75%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.50%) Advertising
11 2 (0.50%) Back Office
11 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.50%) Retail
12 1 (0.25%) Aviation
12 1 (0.25%) Marketing
12 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (47.13%) gRPC
1 189 (47.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 139 (34.66%) React
3 107 (26.68%) Pandas
4 105 (26.18%) Redux
5 104 (25.94%) Material-UI
6 91 (22.69%) NumPy
7 86 (21.45%) SciPy
8 37 (9.23%) Django
9 31 (7.73%) FastAPI
10 30 (7.48%) AngularJS
11 29 (7.23%) Flask
12 27 (6.73%) RESTful
13 24 (5.99%) Vue
14 22 (5.49%) REST
15 18 (4.49%) Node.js
16 16 (3.99%) Kafka
17 15 (3.74%) GraphQL
18 8 (2.00%) .NET
18 8 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 195 (48.63%) Fixed Income
2 165 (41.15%) Hedge funds
3 126 (31.42%) Equities
4 85 (21.20%) Derivative
5 80 (19.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 24 (5.99%) Pricing Data
7 12 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.74%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.75%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.00%) Bitcoin
12 4 (1.00%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.75%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.75%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.25%) Marketing Technology
14 1 (0.25%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.25%) Semantic Web
14 1 (0.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.49%) Linux
2 12 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (68.08%) Software Engineering
2 240 (59.85%) Agile
3 200 (49.88%) Asset Management
4 174 (43.39%) Investment Management
5 129 (32.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 123 (30.67%) Full Stack Development
7 117 (29.18%) Machine Learning
8 92 (22.94%) Automated Trading
9 72 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (13.72%) Analytics
11 52 (12.97%) CI/CD
12 46 (11.47%) DevOps
13 38 (9.48%) Data Science
14 28 (6.98%) Containerisation
14 28 (6.98%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (6.48%) Computer Science
15 26 (6.48%) Line Management
15 26 (6.48%) TDD
16 23 (5.74%) Fintech
17 21 (5.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 401 (100.00%) Python
2 197 (49.13%) TypeScript
3 111 (27.68%) SQL
4 110 (27.43%) JavaScript
5 84 (20.95%) Java
6 24 (5.99%) C#
7 8 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (2.00%) U-SQL
8 7 (1.75%) Ruby
9 6 (1.50%) C
9 6 (1.50%) Go
9 6 (1.50%) Rust
10 5 (1.25%) C++
10 5 (1.25%) VBA
11 4 (1.00%) Scala
12 2 (0.50%) Bash
12 2 (0.50%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.25%) R
13 1 (0.25%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (3.49%) DBS Check
2 12 (2.99%) Degree
3 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.75%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.50%) PhD
7 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.49%) QA
3 4 (1.00%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 41 (10.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 53 (13.22%) Kubernetes
2 23 (5.74%) Terraform
3 7 (1.75%) Grafana
4 3 (0.75%) Ansible
4 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 119 (29.68%) Google
2 20 (4.99%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.49%) Databricks
4 11 (2.74%) Oracle
5 4 (1.00%) YouTube
6 2 (0.50%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.50%) Calypso
6 2 (0.50%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.25%) Atlassian