Python Engineer Jobs 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 to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 252 345
Rank change year-on-year +52 +93 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 379 502 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.61% 1.43% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.50% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 352 452 641
10th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +15.63%
75th Percentile £130,000 £150,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £175,000 £133,750
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,176 33,447 64,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,669 24,574 34,911
10th Percentile £38,084 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +33 25 £77,500 +3.33% 8
West London -11 3 £67,500 +17.39% 1
East London - 1 £65,000 - 1
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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.

1 379 (100.00%) Python
2 278 (73.35%) AWS
3 255 (67.28%) Software Engineering
4 232 (61.21%) Finance
5 213 (56.20%) Agile
6 178 (46.97%) Apache Airflow
7 173 (45.65%) Apache
7 173 (45.65%) Asset Management
8 172 (45.38%) TypeScript
9 171 (45.12%) Fixed Income
10 170 (44.85%) Front Office
11 165 (43.54%) Protocol Buffers
11 165 (43.54%) gRPC
12 157 (41.42%) Azure
13 155 (40.90%) GCP
14 153 (40.37%) Apache Ignite
15 149 (39.31%) Investment Management
16 146 (38.52%) Banking
17 143 (37.73%) Hedge funds
18 129 (34.04%) React
19 121 (31.93%) Artificial Intelligence
20 114 (30.08%) PostgreSQL
21 113 (29.82%) Full Stack Development
22 111 (29.29%) Google
23 108 (28.50%) Machine Learning
24 107 (28.23%) Equities
25 105 (27.70%) SQL
26 96 (25.33%) JavaScript
27 93 (24.54%) Pandas
28 92 (24.27%) Material-UI

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
1 178 (46.97%) Apache Airflow
2 173 (45.65%) Apache
3 17 (4.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 278 (73.35%) AWS
2 157 (41.42%) Azure
3 155 (40.90%) GCP
4 79 (20.84%) dbt
5 59 (15.57%) Snowflake
6 37 (9.76%) Serverless
7 30 (7.92%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (5.54%) Power Platform
9 17 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 16 (4.22%) SaaS
11 13 (3.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.11%) GitHub
14 7 (1.85%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 6 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
16 5 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (40.37%) Apache Ignite
2 114 (30.08%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (20.05%) Amazon Athena
3 76 (20.05%) Apache Arrow
4 73 (19.26%) Dremio
5 66 (17.41%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.33%) NoSQL
7 21 (5.54%) Power BI
8 20 (5.28%) DynamoDB
9 17 (4.49%) MongoDB
10 16 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (4.22%) Tableau
11 13 (3.43%) Hadoop
12 12 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (2.37%) Redis
14 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
15 7 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 6 (1.58%) MySQL
17 5 (1.32%) Flink
Development Applications
1 48 (12.66%) Cypress.io
2 27 (7.12%) GitLab
3 23 (6.07%) Git
4 9 (2.37%) JIRA
5 7 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.06%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.26%) NUnit
8 1 (0.26%) Postman
8 1 (0.26%) Selenium
8 1 (0.26%) TestComplete
General
1 232 (61.21%) Finance
2 170 (44.85%) Front Office
3 146 (38.52%) Banking
4 63 (16.62%) Investment Banking
5 58 (15.30%) Social Skills
6 16 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.90%) Law
8 10 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.06%) Games
11 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.79%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.53%) Back Office
12 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.26%) Advertising
13 1 (0.26%) Aviation
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (43.54%) gRPC
1 165 (43.54%) Protocol Buffers
2 129 (34.04%) React
3 93 (24.54%) Pandas
4 92 (24.27%) Material-UI
5 91 (24.01%) Redux
6 77 (20.32%) NumPy
7 73 (19.26%) SciPy
8 40 (10.55%) Django
9 33 (8.71%) FastAPI
10 29 (7.65%) Flask
11 28 (7.39%) AngularJS
12 26 (6.86%) RESTful
13 22 (5.80%) REST
13 22 (5.80%) Vue
14 16 (4.22%) Kafka
15 15 (3.96%) GraphQL
15 15 (3.96%) Node.js
16 9 (2.37%) .NET
17 6 (1.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (45.12%) Fixed Income
2 143 (37.73%) Hedge funds
3 107 (28.23%) Equities
4 74 (19.53%) Derivative
5 69 (18.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (4.75%) Pricing Data
7 11 (2.90%) Client/Server
7 11 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.85%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.58%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.06%) Bitcoin
11 4 (1.06%) Hackathon
11 4 (1.06%) Product Ownership
12 3 (0.79%) Onboarding
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.26%) Semantic Web
13 1 (0.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.28%) Linux
2 11 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (67.28%) Software Engineering
2 213 (56.20%) Agile
3 173 (45.65%) Asset Management
4 149 (39.31%) Investment Management
5 121 (31.93%) Artificial Intelligence
6 113 (29.82%) Full Stack Development
7 108 (28.50%) Machine Learning
8 81 (21.37%) Automated Trading
9 76 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (13.98%) Analytics
11 52 (13.72%) CI/CD
12 47 (12.40%) DevOps
13 37 (9.76%) Data Science
14 30 (7.92%) Containerisation
15 28 (7.39%) Computer Science
16 26 (6.86%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (6.60%) TDD
18 24 (6.33%) Line Management
19 23 (6.07%) Fintech
20 21 (5.54%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 379 (100.00%) Python
2 172 (45.38%) TypeScript
3 105 (27.70%) SQL
4 96 (25.33%) JavaScript
5 72 (19.00%) Java
6 25 (6.60%) C#
7 8 (2.11%) Ruby
8 7 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (1.85%) Go
8 7 (1.85%) Rust
8 7 (1.85%) U-SQL
9 6 (1.58%) C
9 6 (1.58%) C++
10 5 (1.32%) VBA
11 4 (1.06%) Bash
11 4 (1.06%) Scala
12 2 (0.53%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.26%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.26%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (3.69%) DBS Check
2 13 (3.43%) Degree
3 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.79%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.79%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.53%) PhD
7 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.01%) QA
3 4 (1.06%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (12.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (6.86%) Terraform
3 8 (2.11%) Grafana
4 5 (1.32%) Ansible
5 4 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 111 (29.29%) Google
2 21 (5.54%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.96%) Databricks
4 10 (2.64%) Oracle
5 4 (1.06%) YouTube
6 2 (0.53%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.53%) Calypso
6 2 (0.53%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.26%) SaltStack