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 £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 125 150
Rank change year-on-year +31 +25 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 55 13 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.32% 0.69% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 0.74% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49 12 15
10th Percentile £70,000 - £65,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +29.03% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £121,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £150,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £95,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +2.63% +22.58% +1.64%

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 3,977 1,764 3,047
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.67% 93.19% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,899 1,348 2,532
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -0.68% -2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% - -0.97%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 55 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (43.64%) Software Engineering
3 17 (30.91%) Fintech
4 16 (29.09%) AWS
5 14 (25.45%) Data Engineering
6 13 (23.64%) AI
6 13 (23.64%) SaaS
7 11 (20.00%) Relational Database
8 10 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (16.36%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (16.36%) Observability
9 9 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (12.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 7 (12.73%) Analytics
10 7 (12.73%) Apache
10 7 (12.73%) Apache Spark
10 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
10 7 (12.73%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (12.73%) Data Quality
10 7 (12.73%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (12.73%) Kafka
10 7 (12.73%) MySQL
10 7 (12.73%) NoSQL
11 6 (10.91%) FastAPI
11 6 (10.91%) LLM
11 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.91%) SQL
11 6 (10.91%) Terraform
12 5 (9.09%) Azure
12 5 (9.09%) Data Science

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 9 (16.36%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (12.73%) Apache
2 7 (12.73%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) AWS
2 13 (23.64%) SaaS
3 7 (12.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (9.09%) Azure
5 2 (3.64%) Dagster
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.73%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (12.73%) MySQL
3 7 (12.73%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Git
1 2 (3.64%) Selenium
General
1 9 (16.36%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Banking
3 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (3.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) Kafka
2 6 (10.91%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.64%) Celery
3 2 (3.64%) Django
3 2 (3.64%) DOM
3 2 (3.64%) HTML
3 2 (3.64%) Playwright
3 2 (3.64%) Puppeteer
3 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.64%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.82%) Flask
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) LangChain
4 1 (1.82%) PySpark
4 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.64%) CUDA
3 1 (1.82%) PropTech
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) Software Engineering
2 17 (30.91%) Fintech
3 14 (25.45%) Data Engineering
4 13 (23.64%) AI
5 10 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (16.36%) Observability
7 7 (12.73%) Analytics
7 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
7 7 (12.73%) Data Ingestion
8 6 (10.91%) LLM
8 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Data Science
10 4 (7.27%) Computer Science
10 4 (7.27%) Microservices
10 4 (7.27%) Refactoring
11 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (5.45%) Investment Management
11 3 (5.45%) Machine Learning
11 3 (5.45%) Technical Leadership
11 3 (5.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (10.91%) SQL
3 3 (5.45%) C++
3 3 (5.45%) Java
3 3 (5.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) PHP
4 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.64%) Google