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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 196 261
Rank change year-on-year +59 +65 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 338 377 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.65% 1.60% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% 1.70% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 320 349 455
10th Percentile £77,500 £62,500 £58,000
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 11,488 22,226 33,689
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,726 24,705
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £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 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

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 2 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 2 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 +25 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 2 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.

1 338 (100.00%) Python
2 272 (80.47%) AWS
3 271 (80.18%) Agile
4 265 (78.40%) Software Engineering
5 253 (74.85%) Finance
6 240 (71.01%) Front Office
7 230 (68.05%) Asset Management
8 212 (62.72%) Apache Airflow
9 210 (62.13%) dbt
10 209 (61.83%) Dremio
11 205 (60.65%) Amazon Athena
11 205 (60.65%) Apache Iceberg
12 182 (53.85%) Apache Arrow
13 162 (47.93%) Java
14 154 (45.56%) Apache
15 145 (42.90%) Docker
16 143 (42.31%) Kubernetes
17 140 (41.42%) Terraform
18 138 (40.83%) Apache Ignite
19 136 (40.24%) CI/CD
20 135 (39.94%) Fixed Income
20 135 (39.94%) DevOps
21 128 (37.87%) Banking
22 124 (36.69%) PySpark
23 120 (35.50%) Pandas
23 120 (35.50%) JavaScript
24 118 (34.91%) SciPy
24 118 (34.91%) NumPy
25 109 (32.25%) Equities
25 109 (32.25%) Investment Management

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
1 212 (62.72%) Apache Airflow
2 154 (45.56%) Apache
3 75 (22.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 272 (80.47%) AWS
2 210 (62.13%) dbt
3 107 (31.66%) AWS Lambda
3 107 (31.66%) Serverless
4 106 (31.36%) Amazon ECS
5 103 (30.47%) GCP
6 71 (21.01%) OpenShift
7 64 (18.93%) Snowflake
8 51 (15.09%) Azure
9 35 (10.36%) Amazon EC2
10 34 (10.06%) Dagster
11 32 (9.47%) Amazon S3
12 28 (8.28%) Amazon SQS
13 26 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.44%) SaaS
15 11 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (2.07%) Power Platform
17 4 (1.18%) BrowserStack
17 4 (1.18%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.78%) Multicast
2 4 (1.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (61.83%) Dremio
2 205 (60.65%) Amazon Athena
2 205 (60.65%) Apache Iceberg
3 182 (53.85%) Apache Arrow
4 138 (40.83%) Apache Ignite
5 59 (17.46%) Data Lake
6 28 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.78%) Power BI
10 5 (1.48%) Big Data
11 3 (0.89%) MySQL
12 2 (0.59%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.59%) OLAP
12 2 (0.59%) Redis
12 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.59%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 71 (21.01%) Artifactory
2 18 (5.33%) GitLab
3 15 (4.44%) SonarQube
3 15 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (2.96%) Git
5 7 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 6 (1.78%) JIRA
7 5 (1.48%) Postman
7 5 (1.48%) Selenium
8 4 (1.18%) Appium
8 4 (1.18%) JUnit
8 4 (1.18%) TestNG
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
General
1 253 (74.85%) Finance
2 240 (71.01%) Front Office
3 128 (37.87%) Banking
4 65 (19.23%) Investment Banking
5 26 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 4 (1.18%) Health Technology
6 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.18%) Publishing
6 4 (1.18%) Tech for Good
7 3 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.59%) Agriculture
8 2 (0.59%) Back Office
8 2 (0.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Legal
9 1 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (36.69%) PySpark
2 120 (35.50%) Pandas
3 118 (34.91%) NumPy
3 118 (34.91%) SciPy
4 87 (25.74%) Kafka
5 71 (21.01%) J2EE
6 67 (19.82%) gRPC
6 67 (19.82%) Protocol Buffers
7 54 (15.98%) React
8 51 (15.09%) AngularJS
9 49 (14.50%) Node.js
9 49 (14.50%) Vue
10 30 (8.88%) REST
11 20 (5.92%) Redux
12 17 (5.03%) FastAPI
12 17 (5.03%) pytest
13 16 (4.73%) Flask
14 8 (2.37%) RESTful
15 7 (2.07%) CSS
15 7 (2.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (39.94%) Fixed Income
2 109 (32.25%) Equities
3 85 (25.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (20.41%) Derivative
5 65 (19.23%) Hedge funds
6 36 (10.65%) Pricing Data
7 19 (5.62%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.96%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.18%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.89%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.59%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.30%) Blog
13 1 (0.30%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.07%) Linux
2 4 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Unix
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (80.18%) Agile
2 265 (78.40%) Software Engineering
3 230 (68.05%) Asset Management
4 136 (40.24%) CI/CD
5 135 (39.94%) DevOps
6 109 (32.25%) Investment Management
7 102 (30.18%) Data Engineering
8 95 (28.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 81 (23.96%) Fintech
10 71 (21.01%) Open Source
11 48 (14.20%) Performance Attribution
12 38 (11.24%) Analytics
13 37 (10.95%) Containerisation
14 31 (9.17%) Risk Management
15 28 (8.28%) Order Management
16 27 (7.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (7.69%) Machine Learning
18 25 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
19 24 (7.10%) Process Improvement
20 23 (6.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 338 (100.00%) Python
2 162 (47.93%) Java
3 120 (35.50%) JavaScript
4 98 (28.99%) TypeScript
5 73 (21.60%) Go
6 49 (14.50%) SQL
7 6 (1.78%) C++
8 5 (1.48%) C#
9 2 (0.59%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.30%) Bash
10 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (7.99%) Degree
2 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
3 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.92%) QA
2 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.30%) FINRA
3 1 (0.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 145 (42.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 143 (42.31%) Kubernetes
2 140 (41.42%) Terraform
3 17 (5.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (4.73%) Google
2 13 (3.85%) Databricks
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.59%) OpenAI