Python Engineer Jobs in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python Engineer salary in London is £110,000 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 129 193 258
Rank change year-on-year +64 +65 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 343 376 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.69% 1.59% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.99% 1.69% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 325 348 454
10th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £57,875
25th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £135,000 £130,000 £150,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £148,750 £175,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Python Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

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 1 May 2025. 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 +20 16 £88,750 +10.94% 18
Python Engineer
England

Python Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Python Engineer in the job title.

1 343 (100.00%) Python
2 277 (80.76%) AWS
3 275 (80.17%) Agile
4 270 (78.72%) Software Engineering
5 257 (74.93%) Finance
6 244 (71.14%) Front Office
7 234 (68.22%) Asset Management
8 214 (62.39%) Apache Airflow
9 213 (62.10%) dbt
10 212 (61.81%) Dremio
11 207 (60.35%) Amazon Athena
11 207 (60.35%) Apache Iceberg
12 184 (53.64%) Apache Arrow
13 165 (48.10%) Java
14 159 (46.36%) Apache
15 147 (42.86%) Docker
16 145 (42.27%) Kubernetes
17 143 (41.69%) Apache Ignite
18 142 (41.40%) Terraform
19 138 (40.23%) CI/CD
20 137 (39.94%) Fixed Income
20 137 (39.94%) DevOps
21 133 (38.78%) Banking
22 124 (36.15%) JavaScript
22 124 (36.15%) PySpark
23 122 (35.57%) Pandas
24 120 (34.99%) SciPy
24 120 (34.99%) NumPy
25 111 (32.36%) Investment Management
26 110 (32.07%) AWS Lambda

Python Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 214 (62.39%) Apache Airflow
2 159 (46.36%) Apache
3 75 (21.87%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 277 (80.76%) AWS
2 213 (62.10%) dbt
3 110 (32.07%) AWS Lambda
3 110 (32.07%) Serverless
4 108 (31.49%) Amazon ECS
5 102 (29.74%) GCP
6 71 (20.70%) OpenShift
7 67 (19.53%) Snowflake
8 51 (14.87%) Azure
9 37 (10.79%) Amazon EC2
10 35 (10.20%) Amazon S3
11 34 (9.91%) Dagster
12 30 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
13 28 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.37%) SaaS
15 11 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (2.33%) Power Platform
17 7 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
18 5 (1.46%) AWS Step Functions
19 4 (1.17%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.75%) Multicast
2 4 (1.17%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (61.81%) Dremio
2 207 (60.35%) Amazon Athena
2 207 (60.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 184 (53.64%) Apache Arrow
4 143 (41.69%) Apache Ignite
5 63 (18.37%) Data Lake
6 26 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.04%) Power BI
10 6 (1.75%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.46%) Big Data
12 3 (0.87%) MySQL
13 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.58%) OLAP
13 2 (0.58%) Redis
13 2 (0.58%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.58%) SQL Server
14 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (20.70%) Artifactory
2 18 (5.25%) GitLab
3 15 (4.37%) SonarQube
3 15 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.92%) Git
5 7 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.75%) JIRA
7 5 (1.46%) Postman
7 5 (1.46%) Selenium
8 4 (1.17%) Appium
8 4 (1.17%) JUnit
8 4 (1.17%) TestNG
9 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
General
1 257 (74.93%) Finance
2 244 (71.14%) Front Office
3 133 (38.78%) Banking
4 68 (19.83%) Investment Banking
5 26 (7.58%) Social Skills
6 4 (1.17%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.17%) Publishing
6 4 (1.17%) Tech for Good
7 3 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.58%) Agriculture
8 2 (0.58%) Back Office
8 2 (0.58%) Marketing
9 1 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Legal
9 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (36.15%) PySpark
2 122 (35.57%) Pandas
3 120 (34.99%) NumPy
3 120 (34.99%) SciPy
4 87 (25.36%) Kafka
5 72 (20.99%) gRPC
5 72 (20.99%) Protocol Buffers
6 71 (20.70%) J2EE
7 53 (15.45%) React
8 50 (14.58%) AngularJS
9 48 (13.99%) Node.js
9 48 (13.99%) Vue
10 30 (8.75%) REST
11 22 (6.41%) Redux
12 17 (4.96%) FastAPI
12 17 (4.96%) pytest
13 16 (4.66%) Flask
14 8 (2.33%) RESTful
15 7 (2.04%) CSS
15 7 (2.04%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (39.94%) Fixed Income
2 109 (31.78%) Equities
3 85 (24.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 72 (20.99%) Derivative
5 68 (19.83%) Hedge funds
6 39 (11.37%) Pricing Data
7 19 (5.54%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.92%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.62%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.87%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.58%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.29%) Blog
13 1 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.04%) Linux
2 4 (1.17%) Android
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (80.17%) Agile
2 270 (78.72%) Software Engineering
3 234 (68.22%) Asset Management
4 138 (40.23%) CI/CD
5 137 (39.94%) DevOps
6 111 (32.36%) Investment Management
7 103 (30.03%) Data Engineering
8 97 (28.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 82 (23.91%) Fintech
10 71 (20.70%) Open Source
11 47 (13.70%) Performance Attribution
12 38 (11.08%) Analytics
13 37 (10.79%) Containerisation
14 28 (8.16%) Risk Management
15 27 (7.87%) Infrastructure as Code
16 26 (7.58%) Machine Learning
17 25 (7.29%) Order Management
17 25 (7.29%) Platform Engineering
18 24 (7.00%) Process Improvement
18 24 (7.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 343 (100.00%) Python
2 165 (48.10%) Java
3 124 (36.15%) JavaScript
4 100 (29.15%) TypeScript
5 73 (21.28%) Go
6 50 (14.58%) SQL
7 6 (1.75%) C++
8 5 (1.46%) C#
9 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.29%) Bash
10 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (7.87%) Degree
2 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.83%) QA
2 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.29%) FINRA
3 1 (0.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 147 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 145 (42.27%) Kubernetes
2 142 (41.40%) Terraform
3 17 (4.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (4.66%) Google
2 13 (3.79%) Databricks
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.58%) OpenAI