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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 127 154
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 52 10 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.25% 0.52% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 0.56% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 48 9 15
10th Percentile £70,000 - £65,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £105,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +35.48% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,625 £150,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £100,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +29.03% +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 3,978 1,797 3,039
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 93.35% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,872 1,366 2,503
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 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.28% -2.08%
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% - -3.33%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 52 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (44.23%) Software Engineering
3 16 (30.77%) AWS
4 15 (28.85%) Fintech
5 14 (26.92%) AI
6 13 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 12 (23.08%) SaaS
8 11 (21.15%) Relational Database
9 10 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (17.31%) Observability
11 8 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (13.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (13.46%) Apache
12 7 (13.46%) Apache Spark
12 7 (13.46%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
12 7 (13.46%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (13.46%) Kafka
12 7 (13.46%) LLM
12 7 (13.46%) MySQL
12 7 (13.46%) NoSQL
13 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
13 6 (11.54%) FastAPI
13 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (11.54%) Terraform
14 5 (9.62%) Analytics
14 5 (9.62%) Data Science
14 5 (9.62%) SQL
15 4 (7.69%) Azure

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 8 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (13.46%) Apache
2 7 (13.46%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.77%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) SaaS
3 7 (13.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (7.69%) Azure
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) Dagster
6 1 (1.92%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Relational Database
2 10 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (13.46%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (13.46%) MySQL
3 7 (13.46%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 9 (17.31%) Finance
2 6 (11.54%) Banking
3 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Kafka
2 6 (11.54%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.85%) Celery
3 2 (3.85%) Django
3 2 (3.85%) DOM
3 2 (3.85%) HTML
3 2 (3.85%) Playwright
3 2 (3.85%) Puppeteer
3 2 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.85%) REST
3 2 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.92%) Flask
4 1 (1.92%) JSON
4 1 (1.92%) LangChain
4 1 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) CUDA
3 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.92%) PropTech
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Software Engineering
2 15 (28.85%) Fintech
3 14 (26.92%) AI
4 13 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (17.31%) Observability
6 7 (13.46%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (13.46%) LLM
7 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (9.62%) Analytics
8 5 (9.62%) Data Science
9 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (7.69%) Microservices
9 4 (7.69%) Refactoring
10 3 (5.77%) Computer Science
10 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (5.77%) Investment Management
10 3 (5.77%) Machine Learning
10 3 (5.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (9.62%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) C++
4 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) PHP
5 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Terraform
2 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.85%) Google