Python Software Engineer Jobs in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software 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 254 307 484
Rank change year-on-year +53 +177 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 140 207 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.10% 0.88% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 0.93% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 140 191 118
10th Percentile £79,750 £85,000 £62,925
25th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £135,625 £138,750 £124,688
90th Percentile £148,750 £148,750 £151,250
England median annual salary £107,500 £100,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% +14.29% -5.41%

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Python Software Engineer in London

Python Software 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 Software 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 +23 9 £105,000 +35.48% 16
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 140 (100.00%) Python
1 140 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 131 (93.57%) Agile
3 125 (89.29%) AWS
4 124 (88.57%) Finance
5 119 (85.00%) Fixed Income
6 117 (83.57%) Front Office
7 114 (81.43%) Asset Management
8 113 (80.71%) Amazon Athena
8 113 (80.71%) Apache Airflow
8 113 (80.71%) Dremio
8 113 (80.71%) dbt
8 113 (80.71%) Apache Arrow
8 113 (80.71%) Apache Iceberg
9 100 (71.43%) TypeScript
10 99 (70.71%) Pandas
11 98 (70.00%) JavaScript
12 97 (69.29%) SciPy
12 97 (69.29%) NumPy
13 91 (65.00%) Equities
14 88 (62.86%) Apache
15 87 (62.14%) Investment Management
16 85 (60.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 75 (53.57%) Banking
18 72 (51.43%) Derivative
18 72 (51.43%) Protocol Buffers
18 72 (51.43%) gRPC
18 72 (51.43%) Apache Ignite
19 71 (50.71%) Java
20 67 (47.86%) Investment Banking

Python Software 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
1 113 (80.71%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (62.86%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 125 (89.29%) AWS
2 113 (80.71%) dbt
3 66 (47.14%) Snowflake
4 61 (43.57%) GCP
5 11 (7.86%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (7.86%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (7.86%) Dagster
6 7 (5.00%) Azure
7 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.57%) Serverless
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.71%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.71%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.71%) Google Gemini
9 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (80.71%) Amazon Athena
1 113 (80.71%) Apache Arrow
1 113 (80.71%) Apache Iceberg
1 113 (80.71%) Dremio
2 72 (51.43%) Apache Ignite
3 50 (35.71%) Data Lake
4 25 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.43%) MySQL
6 2 (1.43%) Redis
6 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.29%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Git
3 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 124 (88.57%) Finance
2 117 (83.57%) Front Office
3 75 (53.57%) Banking
4 67 (47.86%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.57%) Social Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Health Technology
6 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Publishing
6 4 (2.86%) Tech for Good
7 2 (1.43%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (70.71%) Pandas
2 97 (69.29%) NumPy
2 97 (69.29%) SciPy
3 72 (51.43%) gRPC
3 72 (51.43%) Protocol Buffers
4 52 (37.14%) React
5 50 (35.71%) AngularJS
6 48 (34.29%) Node.js
6 48 (34.29%) Vue
7 27 (19.29%) PySpark
8 22 (15.71%) Redux
9 7 (5.00%) RESTful
10 6 (4.29%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 6 (4.29%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (4.29%) pytest
11 4 (2.86%) Kafka
12 3 (2.14%) CSS
12 3 (2.14%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.14%) HTML
13 2 (1.43%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 119 (85.00%) Fixed Income
2 91 (65.00%) Equities
3 85 (60.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 72 (51.43%) Derivative
5 66 (47.14%) Hedge funds
6 39 (27.86%) Pricing Data
7 8 (5.71%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.86%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
9 3 (2.14%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 131 (93.57%) Agile
3 114 (81.43%) Asset Management
4 87 (62.14%) Investment Management
5 48 (34.29%) Fintech
6 47 (33.57%) Performance Attribution
7 25 (17.86%) Order Management
7 25 (17.86%) Risk Management
8 22 (15.71%) Credit Risk Analysis
9 16 (11.43%) Data Management
10 11 (7.86%) Computer Science
10 11 (7.86%) Migration
11 10 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (7.14%) Process Improvement
12 9 (6.43%) CI/CD
12 9 (6.43%) OOP
13 8 (5.71%) Low Latency
13 8 (5.71%) Mentoring
13 8 (5.71%) TDD
14 7 (5.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Python
2 100 (71.43%) TypeScript
3 98 (70.00%) JavaScript
4 71 (50.71%) Java
5 26 (18.57%) SQL
6 6 (4.29%) C++
7 3 (2.14%) C#
8 2 (1.43%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (3.57%) Degree
2 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
3 2 (1.43%) PhD
4 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.57%) Terraform
2 4 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (0.71%) Google
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft
1 1 (0.71%) OpenAI