Python Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Python Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Engineer salary in the City of London is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 129 155
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 +39
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 40 15 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.12% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 0.78% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 34 13 13
10th Percentile £61,375 £59,500 £67,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile - £150,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.15% +6.45% +3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,409 1,927 3,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 91.94% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,433 1,469 2,556
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.66% -1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £79,750 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.00%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the City of London

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 April 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 City of London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) Python
2 18 (45.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (35.00%) AWS
4 9 (22.50%) Data Engineering
4 9 (22.50%) Fintech
5 8 (20.00%) AI
5 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
6 7 (17.50%) SaaS
6 7 (17.50%) Terraform
7 6 (15.00%) Analytics
7 6 (15.00%) Azure
7 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (15.00%) FastAPI
7 6 (15.00%) SQL
8 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (12.50%) Data Science
8 5 (12.50%) Observability
8 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (10.00%) Degree
9 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (10.00%) Git
10 3 (7.50%) Agile
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (7.50%) Apache
10 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
10 3 (7.50%) BDD
10 3 (7.50%) Data Ingestion

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 5 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Apache
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) SaaS
3 6 (15.00%) Azure
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (5.00%) Dagster
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.50%) MySQL
3 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 3 (7.50%) React
3 2 (5.00%) Celery
3 2 (5.00%) Django
3 2 (5.00%) DOM
3 2 (5.00%) HTML
3 2 (5.00%) Playwright
3 2 (5.00%) Puppeteer
3 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (2.50%) Flask
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) LangChain
4 1 (2.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) CUDA
2 2 (5.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.50%) PropTech
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Software Engineering
2 9 (22.50%) Data Engineering
2 9 (22.50%) Fintech
3 8 (20.00%) AI
3 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.00%) Analytics
4 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (12.50%) Data Science
5 5 (12.50%) Observability
5 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (7.50%) Agile
7 3 (7.50%) BDD
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.50%) LLM
7 3 (7.50%) Microservices
7 3 (7.50%) TDD
7 3 (7.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) Java
3 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Google