Python Engineer Jobs in Central London

Python Engineer
London > Central London

The median Python Engineer salary in Central London is £88,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 164 200
Rank change year-on-year +20 +36 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 16 24 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.63% 0.64% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.67% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 41
10th Percentile £72,500 £68,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,375 £73,750 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £111,875 £107,500 £92,250
90th Percentile £150,000 £118,750 £120,000
London median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +8.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in Central London

Python Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +27 15 £85,000 +6.25% 12
Python Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
3 8 (50.00%) Azure
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 7 (43.75%) DevOps
5 6 (37.50%) Finance
5 6 (37.50%) SQL
5 6 (37.50%) Terraform
6 5 (31.25%) Agile
7 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 4 (25.00%) Front Office
7 4 (25.00%) HTML
7 4 (25.00%) CSS
7 4 (25.00%) OOP
7 4 (25.00%) AWS
7 4 (25.00%) Git
7 4 (25.00%) Docker
7 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 4 (25.00%) React
7 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (18.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (18.75%) FastAPI
8 3 (18.75%) Microservices
8 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 3 (18.75%) Reinsurance
8 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) ChatGPT
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) Google Gemini
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Front Office
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Agriculture
5 1 (6.25%) Back Office
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Legal
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) CSS
1 4 (25.00%) HTML
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) FastAPI
3 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 2 (12.50%) Flask
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) Pandas
3 2 (12.50%) pytest
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) Plotly
4 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Reinsurance
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Blog
3 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (25.00%) OOP
4 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (18.75%) Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) BDD
5 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (18.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) OO
5 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Google