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 £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 155 191
Rank change year-on-year +22 +36 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 10 22 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.52% 0.67% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.69% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 34
10th Percentile - £65,500 £51,125
25th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £77,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +1.64% -23.75%
75th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £94,313
90th Percentile £150,000 £117,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £100,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +29.03% - -22.50%

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 1,827 3,171 4,239
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.95% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,395 2,447 3,506
10th Percentile £40,700 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year - -1.36% +1.38%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (70.00%) Azure
4 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 6 (60.00%) Terraform
4 6 (60.00%) SQL
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (30.00%) Reinsurance
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
6 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
6 3 (30.00%) Docker
6 3 (30.00%) CSS
6 3 (30.00%) OOP
6 3 (30.00%) OO
6 3 (30.00%) HTML
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) TDD
6 3 (30.00%) Front Office
6 3 (30.00%) Finance
6 3 (30.00%) AWS
6 3 (30.00%) Git
6 3 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (30.00%) BDD
7 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (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 2 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
3 2 (20.00%) ChatGPT
3 2 (20.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Front Office
2 2 (20.00%) Agriculture
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) CSS
1 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) Pandas
2 2 (20.00%) React
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Reinsurance
2 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) OO
4 3 (30.00%) OOP
4 3 (30.00%) TDD
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAI