Python Software Engineer Job Trends in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software Engineer salary in London is £130,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 167 341
Rank change year-on-year -12 +174 +182
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 249 394 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.08% 2.04% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 2.14% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 181 356 146
10th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £66,250
25th Percentile £105,000 £87,500 £88,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £115,000 £107,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £142,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £151,250
England median annual salary £130,000 £110,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +13.51%

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 10,896 18,397 20,897
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 95.40% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,112 11,621 17,265
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

Salary distribution trend for Python Software Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Python Software Engineer job vacancies in London

Python Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Software Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 September 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 5 £127,500 +50.00% 2
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 249 (100.00%) Python
1 249 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 241 (96.79%) Finance
3 227 (91.16%) Agile
4 190 (76.31%) AWS
5 187 (75.10%) Front Office
6 174 (69.88%) Equities
6 174 (69.88%) TypeScript
7 170 (68.27%) Fixed Income
8 166 (66.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 165 (66.27%) JavaScript
10 163 (65.46%) Asset Management
11 162 (65.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 162 (65.06%) SciPy
11 162 (65.06%) NumPy
11 162 (65.06%) Investment Management
11 162 (65.06%) Pandas
11 162 (65.06%) Apache Airflow
11 162 (65.06%) Amazon Athena
11 162 (65.06%) Dremio
11 162 (65.06%) dbt
11 162 (65.06%) Apache Arrow
12 159 (63.86%) Banking
13 124 (49.80%) Java
14 105 (42.17%) Derivative
15 102 (40.96%) Investment Banking
16 92 (36.95%) Fintech
17 89 (35.74%) Data Lake
17 89 (35.74%) gRPC
17 89 (35.74%) Pricing Data

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
1 162 (65.06%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (35.74%) Apache
3 8 (3.21%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 190 (76.31%) AWS
2 162 (65.06%) dbt
3 89 (35.74%) Snowflake
4 81 (32.53%) GCP
5 7 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.41%) Azure
6 6 (2.41%) Serverless
7 4 (1.61%) SaaS
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon Bedrock
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.80%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (0.80%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.80%) Google Gemini
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.80%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.40%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.21%) Multicast
2 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 4 (1.61%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (66.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 162 (65.06%) Amazon Athena
2 162 (65.06%) Apache Arrow
2 162 (65.06%) Dremio
3 89 (35.74%) Apache Ignite
3 89 (35.74%) Data Lake
4 79 (31.73%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (7.63%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.82%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.21%) Big Data
7 8 (3.21%) KDB
8 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.61%) Kdb+
9 4 (1.61%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.61%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.82%) JIRA
2 7 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (1.61%) Spinnaker
3 4 (1.61%) YouTrack
4 3 (1.20%) Locust
4 3 (1.20%) Selenium
5 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 241 (96.79%) Finance
2 187 (75.10%) Front Office
3 159 (63.86%) Banking
4 102 (40.96%) Investment Banking
5 65 (26.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (26.10%) Law
6 19 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.22%) Social Skills
8 9 (3.61%) Marketing
9 6 (2.41%) Agriculture
10 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Electronics
11 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (65.06%) NumPy
1 162 (65.06%) Pandas
1 162 (65.06%) SciPy
2 89 (35.74%) gRPC
2 89 (35.74%) Protocol Buffers
3 85 (34.14%) React
4 75 (30.12%) Node.js
5 74 (29.72%) AngularJS
6 73 (29.32%) Vue
7 15 (6.02%) Kafka
8 11 (4.42%) pytest
9 8 (3.21%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 8 (3.21%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (3.21%) RESTful
10 6 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (1.61%) Django
11 4 (1.61%) Flask
11 4 (1.61%) Spark Streaming
12 3 (1.20%) FastAPI
12 3 (1.20%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 174 (69.88%) Equities
2 170 (68.27%) Fixed Income
3 162 (65.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 105 (42.17%) Derivative
5 89 (35.74%) Hedge funds
5 89 (35.74%) Pricing Data
6 33 (13.25%) Cloud Native
7 19 (7.63%) Algorithms
8 17 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (5.62%) Client/Server
9 14 (5.62%) Mobile App
10 11 (4.42%) Public Cloud
11 8 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (2.01%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.80%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.21%) Linux
2 4 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 227 (91.16%) Agile
3 163 (65.46%) Asset Management
4 162 (65.06%) Investment Management
5 92 (36.95%) Fintech
6 73 (29.32%) Order Management
6 73 (29.32%) Performance Attribution
6 73 (29.32%) Risk Management
7 50 (20.08%) SDLC
8 42 (16.87%) Operational Stability
9 40 (16.06%) Community of Practice
10 39 (15.66%) CI/CD
10 39 (15.66%) Computer Science
11 38 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (9.64%) Mathematics
13 22 (8.84%) Artificial Intelligence
14 21 (8.43%) Microservices
15 19 (7.63%) Machine Learning
15 19 (7.63%) Visualisation
16 18 (7.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 249 (100.00%) Python
2 174 (69.88%) TypeScript
3 165 (66.27%) JavaScript
4 124 (49.80%) Java
5 31 (12.45%) SQL
6 16 (6.43%) Go
7 8 (3.21%) C++
8 4 (1.61%) C#
9 2 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (7.63%) Degree
2 10 (4.02%) AWS Certification
3 6 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.20%) PhD
5 3 (1.20%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.40%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.21%) QA
System Software
1 11 (4.42%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.62%) Terraform
3 6 (2.41%) Grafana
3 6 (2.41%) Mesos
3 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.61%) Ansible
4 4 (1.61%) Puppet
4 4 (1.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (2.81%) Google
2 6 (2.41%) Oracle
3 4 (1.61%) Vertica
4 3 (1.20%) Databricks
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft
5 2 (0.80%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.80%) SAP
6 1 (0.40%) Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir