Python Engineer Job Trends in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer salary in London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 140 117
Rank change year-on-year -25 -23 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 353 309 580
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.42% 2.59% 3.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.53% 2.84% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 279 227 519
10th Percentile £71,726 £82,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £84,375 £100,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +2.33%
75th Percentile - £135,000 £136,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,750
England median annual salary £85,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,070 10,877 18,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 91.16% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,887 7,089 11,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 London.

Python Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Python Engineer job vacancies in London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +44 52 £100,000 -4.76% 36
East London - 1 - - 7
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 353 (100.00%) Python
2 194 (54.96%) Software Engineering
3 134 (37.96%) AI
4 117 (33.14%) AWS
5 64 (18.13%) Fintech
6 58 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 52 (14.73%) Django
8 50 (14.16%) Agile
9 45 (12.75%) FastAPI
9 45 (12.75%) SQL
10 44 (12.46%) CI/CD
11 42 (11.90%) Azure
12 40 (11.33%) LLM
13 39 (11.05%) GCP
13 39 (11.05%) TypeScript
14 38 (10.76%) Flask
15 36 (10.20%) Computer Science
15 36 (10.20%) Observability
15 36 (10.20%) React
15 36 (10.20%) SaaS
15 36 (10.20%) Terraform
16 31 (8.78%) Data Engineering
16 31 (8.78%) Relational Database
16 31 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
17 29 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (8.22%) Microservices
18 27 (7.65%) Clean Code
18 27 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
19 26 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 26 (7.37%) DevOps

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 14 (3.97%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.55%) Apache
3 8 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 117 (33.14%) AWS
2 42 (11.90%) Azure
3 39 (11.05%) GCP
4 36 (10.20%) SaaS
5 11 (3.12%) Datadog
6 10 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 8 (2.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (1.98%) GitHub
10 6 (1.70%) Azure AI
10 6 (1.70%) Copilot Studio
10 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 6 (1.70%) Serverless
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.13%) Anthropic Claude
11 4 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.13%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.12%) Multicast
2 6 (1.70%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.13%) DNS
3 4 (1.13%) SMS
4 2 (0.57%) BGP
4 2 (0.57%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.28%) Firewall
5 1 (0.28%) IPv4
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.28%) OSPF
5 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.78%) Relational Database
2 27 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (6.80%) MySQL
4 12 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.27%) Power BI
6 7 (1.98%) Big Data
7 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.85%) Redis
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.28%) Parquet
10 1 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (4.25%) Claude Code
1 15 (4.25%) Git
2 11 (3.12%) JIRA
3 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 86 (24.36%) Finance
2 39 (11.05%) Social Skills
3 27 (7.65%) Banking
4 16 (4.53%) Front Office
5 15 (4.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.70%) Marketing
8 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.57%) Games
10 2 (0.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.57%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.28%) Advertising
11 1 (0.28%) Law
11 1 (0.28%) Legal Technology
11 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.28%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.73%) Django
2 45 (12.75%) FastAPI
3 38 (10.76%) Flask
4 36 (10.20%) React
4 36 (10.20%) Terraform
5 17 (4.82%) Kafka
6 13 (3.68%) Node.js
6 13 (3.68%) REST
6 13 (3.68%) SQLAlchemy
7 12 (3.40%) pytest
8 11 (3.12%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 11 (3.12%) FIX Protocol
8 11 (3.12%) LangChain
9 9 (2.55%) RESTful
10 7 (1.98%) Celery
10 7 (1.98%) PySpark
11 6 (1.70%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.70%) LangGraph
12 4 (1.13%) Jinja
12 4 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.82%) Equities
4 16 (4.53%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.25%) AI Agents
5 15 (4.25%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.40%) Derivative
6 12 (3.40%) Fixed Income
7 9 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 6 (1.70%) PropTech
9 5 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.13%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.85%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.85%) NHS
11 3 (0.85%) PKI
11 3 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.38%) Linux
2 6 (1.70%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (54.96%) Software Engineering
2 134 (37.96%) AI
3 64 (18.13%) Fintech
4 58 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (14.16%) Agile
6 44 (12.46%) CI/CD
7 40 (11.33%) LLM
8 36 (10.20%) Computer Science
8 36 (10.20%) Observability
9 31 (8.78%) Data Engineering
9 31 (8.78%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (8.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (8.22%) Microservices
11 27 (7.65%) Clean Code
12 26 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (7.37%) DevOps
13 23 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (6.52%) Web Development
14 22 (6.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 353 (100.00%) Python
2 45 (12.75%) SQL
3 39 (11.05%) TypeScript
4 22 (6.23%) C++
5 19 (5.38%) Java
6 16 (4.53%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.68%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.55%) Go
9 6 (1.70%) C#
9 6 (1.70%) Ruby
10 5 (1.42%) R
11 4 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (5.10%) Degree
2 15 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (2.83%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.13%) CEH
4 4 (1.13%) CISSP
4 4 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (1.13%) GCIA
4 4 (1.13%) GCIH
4 4 (1.13%) OSCP
4 4 (1.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.85%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.28%) CCIE
6 1 (0.28%) CCNP
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.38%) QA
2 9 (2.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.13%) SLA
4 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (6.23%) Docker
2 4 (1.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (3.68%) Ansible
1 13 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.83%) Grafana
3 2 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (2.83%) Dynatrace
1 10 (2.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.98%) Databricks
3 6 (1.70%) Google
4 5 (1.42%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.13%) Palantir
6 3 (0.85%) Intel
6 3 (0.85%) Revolut
7 2 (0.57%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.28%) Arista
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco
8 1 (0.28%) MarketAxess
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle
8 1 (0.28%) Refinitiv