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 £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +45 +19 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 49 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.61% 0.29% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 0.31% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 47 4 17
10th Percentile £76,500 £94,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £127,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +70.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,625 £150,000 £97,000
90th Percentile £115,000 - £110,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +44.83% -6.45%

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 2,906 1,616 2,735
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.50% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,100 1,304 1,883
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% - -1.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,063 £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% - -

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 49 (100.00%) Python
2 23 (46.94%) Software Engineering
3 21 (42.86%) AI
4 17 (34.69%) Fintech
5 15 (30.61%) AWS
6 12 (24.49%) LLM
6 12 (24.49%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
8 10 (20.41%) SaaS
9 9 (18.37%) Data Engineering
9 9 (18.37%) Relational Database
10 8 (16.33%) Azure
10 8 (16.33%) FastAPI
10 8 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (16.33%) Microservices
10 8 (16.33%) NoSQL
11 7 (14.29%) Agile
11 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 7 (14.29%) Observability
11 7 (14.29%) Refactoring
11 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 6 (12.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 6 (12.24%) Apache
12 6 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (12.24%) Apache Spark
12 6 (12.24%) Data Ingestion
12 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
12 6 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (12.24%) Java
12 6 (12.24%) Kafka

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 6 (12.24%) Apache
1 6 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (12.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) SaaS
3 8 (16.33%) Azure
4 6 (12.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (10.20%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Figma
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.37%) Relational Database
3 8 (16.33%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (12.24%) MySQL
5 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 5 (10.20%) Banking
2 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.04%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) FastAPI
2 6 (12.24%) Kafka
3 5 (10.20%) LangChain
3 5 (10.20%) React
4 4 (8.16%) REST
4 4 (8.16%) Terraform
5 3 (6.12%) Django
6 2 (4.08%) .NET
6 2 (4.08%) Flask
6 2 (4.08%) LangGraph
6 2 (4.08%) Spring
6 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.04%) Next.js
7 1 (2.04%) Node.js
7 1 (2.04%) pytest
7 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.04%) RESTful
7 1 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Software Engineering
2 21 (42.86%) AI
3 17 (34.69%) Fintech
4 12 (24.49%) LLM
5 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.37%) Data Engineering
7 8 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (16.33%) Microservices
8 7 (14.29%) Agile
8 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (14.29%) Observability
8 7 (14.29%) Refactoring
8 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 6 (12.24%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (12.24%) Machine Learning
10 5 (10.20%) Investment Management
10 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.16%) Generative AI
11 4 (8.16%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (12.24%) Java
2 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
3 4 (8.16%) SQL
4 3 (6.12%) C++
4 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Databricks
2 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
2 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) MarketAxess
2 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.04%) Refinitiv