Python Software Engineer Jobs in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software Engineer salary in London is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 310 482 546
Rank change year-on-year +172 +64 -107
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 211 147 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.42% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.44% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 195 119 287
10th Percentile £85,000 £63,200 £63,750
25th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £102,500 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% +21.05%
75th Percentile £138,750 £129,375 £128,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £136,250
England median annual salary £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +52.00%

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 22,176 33,447 64,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,669 24,574 34,911
10th Percentile £38,084 £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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software 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 Software Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +55 14 £77,500 -35.42% 6
West London -8 3 £67,500 +17.39%
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 211 (100.00%) Python
1 211 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 190 (90.05%) AWS
3 181 (85.78%) Finance
4 180 (85.31%) Agile
5 169 (80.09%) Fixed Income
5 169 (80.09%) Apache Airflow
6 167 (79.15%) Front Office
7 166 (78.67%) Asset Management
8 165 (78.20%) Protocol Buffers
8 165 (78.20%) gRPC
9 163 (77.25%) TypeScript
10 158 (74.88%) Apache
11 153 (72.51%) Apache Ignite
12 143 (67.77%) Banking
12 143 (67.77%) Investment Management
13 139 (65.88%) Hedge funds
14 131 (62.09%) GCP
15 111 (52.61%) React
16 107 (50.71%) Equities
17 104 (49.29%) Azure
18 98 (46.45%) Full Stack Development
19 92 (43.60%) Material-UI
20 91 (43.13%) Redux
21 90 (42.65%) JavaScript
22 87 (41.23%) Pandas
23 84 (39.81%) Google
24 83 (39.34%) Artificial Intelligence
25 81 (38.39%) PostgreSQL
25 81 (38.39%) Machine Learning

Python Software 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
1 169 (80.09%) Apache Airflow
2 158 (74.88%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 190 (90.05%) AWS
2 131 (62.09%) GCP
3 104 (49.29%) Azure
4 73 (34.60%) dbt
5 53 (25.12%) Snowflake
6 20 (9.48%) Serverless
7 18 (8.53%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.84%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.37%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.42%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.47%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.47%) CloudFront
12 1 (0.47%) SaaS
12 1 (0.47%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (72.51%) Apache Ignite
2 81 (38.39%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (34.60%) Amazon Athena
3 73 (34.60%) Apache Arrow
3 73 (34.60%) Dremio
4 53 (25.12%) Data Lake
5 13 (6.16%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.37%) Flink
8 4 (1.90%) Power BI
8 4 (1.90%) Tableau
9 2 (0.95%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (22.75%) Cypress.io
2 19 (9.00%) Git
3 13 (6.16%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) NUnit
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
General
1 181 (85.78%) Finance
2 167 (79.15%) Front Office
3 143 (67.77%) Banking
4 63 (29.86%) Investment Banking
5 25 (11.85%) Social Skills
6 4 (1.90%) Law
7 3 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.42%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.95%) Back Office
8 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Advertising
9 1 (0.47%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (78.20%) gRPC
1 165 (78.20%) Protocol Buffers
2 111 (52.61%) React
3 92 (43.60%) Material-UI
4 91 (43.13%) Redux
5 87 (41.23%) Pandas
6 73 (34.60%) NumPy
6 73 (34.60%) SciPy
7 28 (13.27%) AngularJS
8 22 (10.43%) Vue
9 19 (9.00%) RESTful
10 15 (7.11%) Django
11 14 (6.64%) Node.js
12 13 (6.16%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.37%) Kafka
14 4 (1.90%) .NET
14 4 (1.90%) CSS
14 4 (1.90%) Flask
14 4 (1.90%) HTML
14 4 (1.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 169 (80.09%) Fixed Income
2 139 (65.88%) Hedge funds
3 107 (50.71%) Equities
4 73 (34.60%) Derivative
5 69 (32.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (8.53%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.37%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.95%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.47%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 180 (85.31%) Agile
3 166 (78.67%) Asset Management
4 143 (67.77%) Investment Management
5 98 (46.45%) Full Stack Development
6 83 (39.34%) Artificial Intelligence
7 81 (38.39%) Machine Learning
8 80 (37.91%) Automated Trading
9 25 (11.85%) Analytics
10 24 (11.37%) CI/CD
11 22 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (8.53%) Line Management
13 17 (8.06%) Fintech
13 17 (8.06%) Greeks
13 17 (8.06%) TDD
14 13 (6.16%) DevOps
14 13 (6.16%) Pair Programming
15 10 (4.74%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 10 (4.74%) Data Engineering
15 10 (4.74%) Performance Attribution
Programming Languages
1 211 (100.00%) Python
2 163 (77.25%) TypeScript
3 90 (42.65%) JavaScript
4 58 (27.49%) Java
5 41 (19.43%) SQL
6 12 (5.69%) C#
7 5 (2.37%) VBA
8 4 (1.90%) Ruby
8 4 (1.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (5.69%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
2 3 (1.42%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.47%) Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.37%) QA
System Software
1 9 (4.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.84%) Terraform
3 3 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 84 (39.81%) Google
2 7 (3.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.95%) Calypso