Python Software Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Python Software Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Software Engineer salary in the City of London is £105,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 166 225
Rank change year-on-year +30 +59 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 9 10 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.43% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 8
10th Percentile - £70,000 £57,400
25th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £77,500 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -35.42% +73.29%
75th Percentile £112,500 £81,250 -
90th Percentile £150,000 £88,125 £151,500
Central London median annual salary £105,000 £77,500 £120,000
% change year-on-year +35.48% -35.42% +45.45%

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 1,924 3,226 4,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 95.90% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 2,578 3,850
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Python Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in the City of London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in the City of London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in the City of London

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Reinsurance
4 3 (33.33%) React
4 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) HTML
4 3 (33.33%) CSS
4 3 (33.33%) OOP
4 3 (33.33%) OO
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Front Office
4 3 (33.33%) Git
4 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
5 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Docker

Python Software 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 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (11.11%) ChatGPT
3 1 (11.11%) Google Gemini
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Front Office
2 2 (22.22%) Agriculture
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) React
2 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
2 2 (22.22%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Reinsurance
2 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) BDD
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) OOP
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) API Development
4 2 (22.22%) API Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAI