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 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 201 375
Rank change year-on-year +72 +174 -143
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 538 470 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.59% 1.73% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% 1.82% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 495 435 610
10th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £52,300
25th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £138,750 £150,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £175,000 £134,125
England median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% +13.33%

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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +27 26 £75,000 -4.76% 4
West London -10 1 £67,500 -25.00% 2
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 538 (100.00%) Python
2 433 (80.48%) AWS
3 429 (79.74%) Software Engineering
4 413 (76.77%) Finance
5 391 (72.68%) Agile
6 361 (67.10%) Asset Management
7 347 (64.50%) Apache Airflow
8 345 (64.13%) Front Office
9 331 (61.52%) Banking
10 324 (60.22%) TypeScript
11 313 (58.18%) Fixed Income
12 312 (57.99%) Apache
13 309 (57.43%) Protocol Buffers
13 309 (57.43%) gRPC
14 301 (55.95%) Apache Ignite
15 293 (54.46%) Investment Management
16 280 (52.04%) Hedge funds
17 252 (46.84%) GCP
18 251 (46.65%) Pandas
19 240 (44.61%) NumPy
20 239 (44.42%) Equities
21 237 (44.05%) dbt
22 236 (43.87%) Amazon Athena
23 232 (43.12%) Dremio
23 232 (43.12%) SciPy
24 224 (41.64%) JavaScript
25 223 (41.45%) Data Lake
26 220 (40.89%) Java
27 205 (38.10%) Apache Arrow
28 203 (37.73%) Azure

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
1 347 (64.50%) Apache Airflow
2 312 (57.99%) Apache
3 4 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 433 (80.48%) AWS
2 252 (46.84%) GCP
3 237 (44.05%) dbt
4 203 (37.73%) Azure
5 174 (32.34%) Snowflake
6 37 (6.88%) Serverless
7 34 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
7 34 (6.32%) Dagster
8 29 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (5.02%) Power Platform
11 21 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.79%) SaaS
15 12 (2.23%) Amazon S3
16 9 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (1.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 9 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (1.30%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.04%) Network Security
2 10 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (55.95%) Apache Ignite
2 236 (43.87%) Amazon Athena
3 232 (43.12%) Dremio
4 223 (41.45%) Data Lake
5 205 (38.10%) Apache Arrow
6 126 (23.42%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
8 27 (5.02%) Power BI
9 23 (4.28%) DynamoDB
10 22 (4.09%) NoSQL
11 12 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.23%) MongoDB
12 11 (2.04%) Tableau
13 9 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 7 (1.30%) Big Data
14 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.12%) MySQL
16 5 (0.93%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.74%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 64 (11.90%) Cypress.io
2 32 (5.95%) GitLab
3 31 (5.76%) Git
4 3 (0.56%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.56%) Postman
5 2 (0.37%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.37%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.19%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.19%) Selenium
6 1 (0.19%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 413 (76.77%) Finance
2 345 (64.13%) Front Office
3 331 (61.52%) Banking
4 186 (34.57%) Investment Banking
5 48 (8.92%) Social Skills
6 25 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (1.49%) Law
8 8 (1.49%) Legal
9 5 (0.93%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.56%) Advertising
10 3 (0.56%) Marketing
10 3 (0.56%) Retail
11 2 (0.37%) Back Office
11 2 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.19%) Electronics
12 1 (0.19%) Games
12 1 (0.19%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 309 (57.43%) gRPC
1 309 (57.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 251 (46.65%) Pandas
3 240 (44.61%) NumPy
4 232 (43.12%) SciPy
5 149 (27.70%) React
6 120 (22.30%) Redux
7 108 (20.07%) Material-UI
8 72 (13.38%) PySpark
9 46 (8.55%) Django
10 32 (5.95%) FastAPI
11 31 (5.76%) AngularJS
12 28 (5.20%) Vue
13 23 (4.28%) Flask
14 22 (4.09%) Node.js
14 22 (4.09%) RESTful
15 19 (3.53%) GraphQL
16 15 (2.79%) REST
17 13 (2.42%) Lambda Expressions
18 8 (1.49%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 313 (58.18%) Fixed Income
2 280 (52.04%) Hedge funds
3 239 (44.42%) Equities
4 188 (34.94%) Derivative
5 186 (34.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (13.38%) Pricing Data
7 11 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.12%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.74%) Bitcoin
10 4 (0.74%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.37%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.37%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.19%) IoT
12 1 (0.19%) Marketing Technology
12 1 (0.19%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.19%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 9 (1.67%) Linux
1 9 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (79.74%) Software Engineering
2 391 (72.68%) Agile
3 361 (67.10%) Asset Management
4 293 (54.46%) Investment Management
5 143 (26.58%) Full Stack Development
6 131 (24.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 116 (21.56%) Machine Learning
8 100 (18.59%) Automated Trading
9 71 (13.20%) Analytics
10 62 (11.52%) Fintech
11 56 (10.41%) CI/CD
12 55 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (9.48%) DevOps
13 51 (9.48%) Line Management
14 44 (8.18%) Data Engineering
15 43 (7.99%) Greeks
16 28 (5.20%) Data Science
16 28 (5.20%) Mentoring
16 28 (5.20%) TDD
17 25 (4.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 538 (100.00%) Python
2 324 (60.22%) TypeScript
3 224 (41.64%) JavaScript
4 220 (40.89%) Java
5 124 (23.05%) SQL
6 10 (1.86%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.67%) C#
7 9 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.67%) U-SQL
8 4 (0.74%) C++
8 4 (0.74%) Ruby
8 4 (0.74%) Scala
9 3 (0.56%) Go
9 3 (0.56%) Rust
10 2 (0.37%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.37%) VBA
11 1 (0.19%) C
11 1 (0.19%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (3.35%) DBS Check
2 12 (2.23%) Degree
3 10 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (0.93%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.37%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.29%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (6.13%) Docker
2 10 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (1.86%) XenApp
2 10 (1.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.83%) Terraform
3 10 (1.86%) Ansible
4 4 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.19%) Grafana
Vendors
1 122 (22.68%) Google
2 28 (5.20%) Databricks
3 25 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 15 (2.79%) Bloomberg
4 15 (2.79%) Reuters
5 10 (1.86%) Citrix
5 10 (1.86%) VMware
6 8 (1.49%) Oracle
7 2 (0.37%) ArcSight
7 2 (0.37%) Carbon Black
7 2 (0.37%) Darktrace
7 2 (0.37%) Revolut
8 1 (0.19%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.19%) SAP
8 1 (0.19%) YouTube