Python Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Python Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Engineer salary in the City of London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 162 191
Rank change year-on-year +36 +29 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 15 20 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.60% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.62% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13 15 39
10th Percentile - £67,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £61,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +3.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £93,625
90th Percentile £150,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £88,750 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.52% +3.33% -14.29%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,921 3,220 4,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 95.86% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 2,569 3,851
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in the City of London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Python Engineer 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 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 City of London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 8 (53.33%) Azure
4 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 6 (40.00%) SQL
5 6 (40.00%) Terraform
6 5 (33.33%) Agile
7 4 (26.67%) TDD
7 4 (26.67%) Front Office
7 4 (26.67%) HTML
7 4 (26.67%) CSS
7 4 (26.67%) OOP
7 4 (26.67%) Docker
7 4 (26.67%) Git
7 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
7 4 (26.67%) React
7 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 3 (20.00%) FastAPI
8 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (20.00%) Reinsurance
8 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (20.00%) Degree
8 3 (20.00%) AWS
8 3 (20.00%) Visualisation

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) ChatGPT
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) dbt
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (6.67%) Google Gemini
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Big Data
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Agriculture
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) React
2 3 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) Plotly
4 1 (6.67%) pytest
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Blog
3 1 (6.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (26.67%) OOP
4 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) OO
5 3 (20.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Extraction
6 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI