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 £98,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 135 151
Rank change year-on-year +40 +16 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 57 9 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.42% 0.47% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.50% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 54 8 14
10th Percentile £70,000 - £65,375
25th Percentile £80,625 £72,500 £70,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,750 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +29.03% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £121,875 £93,438
90th Percentile £115,000 £150,000 £107,000
Central London median annual salary £98,750 £95,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.95% +22.58% -1.59%

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 3,842 1,817 2,957
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 94.54% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,788 1,413 2,406
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £119,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 57 (100.00%) Python
2 24 (42.11%) Software Engineering
3 22 (38.60%) AI
4 20 (35.09%) Fintech
5 18 (31.58%) AWS
6 14 (24.56%) SaaS
7 13 (22.81%) Data Engineering
8 12 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (17.54%) FastAPI
9 10 (17.54%) LLM
9 10 (17.54%) Relational Database
10 9 (15.79%) Observability
11 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (14.04%) NoSQL
12 7 (12.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (12.28%) Apache
12 7 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
12 7 (12.28%) Apache Spark
12 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
12 7 (12.28%) Data Ingestion
12 7 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (12.28%) Data Quality
12 7 (12.28%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (12.28%) Kafka
12 7 (12.28%) Microservices
12 7 (12.28%) MySQL
12 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (12.28%) Refactoring
13 6 (10.53%) Java
13 6 (10.53%) Machine Learning

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 7 (12.28%) Apache
1 7 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (12.28%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 14 (24.56%) SaaS
3 7 (12.28%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (8.77%) Azure
5 4 (7.02%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (17.54%) Relational Database
3 8 (14.04%) NoSQL
4 7 (12.28%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (12.28%) MySQL
5 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Selenium
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 5 (8.77%) Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) FastAPI
2 7 (12.28%) Kafka
3 3 (5.26%) Django
3 3 (5.26%) LangChain
3 3 (5.26%) React
3 3 (5.26%) REST
4 2 (3.51%) DOM
4 2 (3.51%) Flask
4 2 (3.51%) HTML
4 2 (3.51%) LangGraph
4 2 (3.51%) Playwright
4 2 (3.51%) Puppeteer
4 2 (3.51%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.75%) Celery
5 1 (1.75%) Next.js
5 1 (1.75%) pytest
5 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.51%) CUDA
4 1 (1.75%) PropTech
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Software Engineering
2 22 (38.60%) AI
3 20 (35.09%) Fintech
4 13 (22.81%) Data Engineering
5 10 (17.54%) LLM
6 9 (15.79%) Observability
7 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
8 7 (12.28%) Data Ingestion
8 7 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (12.28%) Microservices
8 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (12.28%) Refactoring
9 6 (10.53%) Machine Learning
10 5 (8.77%) Data Science
11 4 (7.02%) Test Automation
12 3 (5.26%) Agile
12 3 (5.26%) Analytics
12 3 (5.26%) Investment Management
12 3 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (10.53%) Java
3 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.26%) C++
4 3 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Terraform
2 5 (8.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (1.75%) Databricks