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 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 202 329
Rank change year-on-year -34 +127 +149
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 155 271 117
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.59% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.69% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 122 252 115
10th Percentile £97,500 £76,000 £67,250
25th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £88,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £107,500 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -4.44% +21.62%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £138,750
90th Percentile - £148,750 £155,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £105,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%

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 11,999 16,073 17,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 94.54% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,854 9,745 14,189
10th Percentile £35,825 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -

Python Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Software Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Python Software Engineer job vacancy trend 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +32 4 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Python Software Engineer
England

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Python Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Python Software Engineer in the job title.

1 155 (100.00%) Python
1 155 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 137 (88.39%) Agile
3 108 (69.68%) AWS
4 103 (66.45%) TypeScript
5 96 (61.94%) Apache Iceberg
6 95 (61.29%) JavaScript
7 94 (60.65%) Amazon Athena
7 94 (60.65%) Apache Airflow
7 94 (60.65%) Apache Arrow
7 94 (60.65%) Asset Management
7 94 (60.65%) dbt
7 94 (60.65%) Dremio
7 94 (60.65%) Investment Management
7 94 (60.65%) NumPy
7 94 (60.65%) Pandas
7 94 (60.65%) SciPy
8 68 (43.87%) Java
9 59 (38.06%) Fintech
10 53 (34.19%) Apache
10 53 (34.19%) Apache Ignite
10 53 (34.19%) Data Lake
10 53 (34.19%) gRPC
10 53 (34.19%) Protocol Buffers
10 53 (34.19%) Snowflake
11 49 (31.61%) React
12 45 (29.03%) GCP
13 43 (27.74%) PostgreSQL
14 42 (27.10%) AngularJS
15 41 (26.45%) Node.js

Python Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 94 (60.65%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (34.19%) Apache
3 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 108 (69.68%) AWS
2 94 (60.65%) dbt
3 53 (34.19%) Snowflake
4 45 (29.03%) GCP
5 7 (4.52%) Azure
6 6 (3.87%) SaaS
7 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (1.94%) GitHub
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.65%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.81%) Multicast
2 2 (1.29%) DNS
2 2 (1.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (61.94%) Apache Iceberg
2 94 (60.65%) Amazon Athena
2 94 (60.65%) Apache Arrow
2 94 (60.65%) Dremio
3 53 (34.19%) Apache Ignite
3 53 (34.19%) Data Lake
4 43 (27.74%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.87%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.58%) Big Data
6 4 (2.58%) KDB
7 2 (1.29%) Kdb+
7 2 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.29%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.29%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.10%) JIRA
2 6 (3.87%) Git
3 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (1.29%) Spinnaker
4 2 (1.29%) YouTrack
5 1 (0.65%) Locust
5 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 142 (91.61%) Finance
2 106 (68.39%) Front Office
3 89 (57.42%) Banking
4 59 (38.06%) Investment Banking
5 29 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (18.71%) Law
6 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.52%) Social Skills
8 3 (1.94%) Marketing
9 2 (1.29%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (60.65%) NumPy
1 94 (60.65%) Pandas
1 94 (60.65%) SciPy
2 53 (34.19%) gRPC
2 53 (34.19%) Protocol Buffers
3 49 (31.61%) React
4 42 (27.10%) AngularJS
5 41 (26.45%) Node.js
5 41 (26.45%) Vue
6 10 (6.45%) pytest
7 9 (5.81%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 9 (5.81%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (3.87%) FastAPI
9 5 (3.23%) Kafka
10 3 (1.94%) Django
11 2 (1.29%) Flask
11 2 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.29%) REST
11 2 (1.29%) RESTful
11 2 (1.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 105 (67.74%) Equities
2 103 (66.45%) Fixed Income
3 94 (60.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 66 (42.58%) Derivative
5 53 (34.19%) Hedge funds
5 53 (34.19%) Pricing Data
6 14 (9.03%) Algorithms
7 12 (7.74%) Cloud Native
8 9 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.58%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.58%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.94%) Reinsurance
12 2 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.81%) Linux
2 2 (1.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 137 (88.39%) Agile
3 94 (60.65%) Asset Management
3 94 (60.65%) Investment Management
4 59 (38.06%) Fintech
5 41 (26.45%) Order Management
5 41 (26.45%) Performance Attribution
5 41 (26.45%) Risk Management
6 30 (19.35%) Computer Science
7 27 (17.42%) SDLC
8 26 (16.77%) CI/CD
9 18 (11.61%) Community of Practice
9 18 (11.61%) Operational Stability
9 18 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (10.97%) Mathematics
11 14 (9.03%) Low Latency
12 13 (8.39%) Software Testing
13 12 (7.74%) AI
13 12 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.74%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 155 (100.00%) Python
2 103 (66.45%) TypeScript
3 95 (61.29%) JavaScript
4 68 (43.87%) Java
5 14 (9.03%) SQL
6 10 (6.45%) C++
7 6 (3.87%) C#
7 6 (3.87%) Go
8 2 (1.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (9.68%) Degree
2 10 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.58%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.81%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.81%) Terraform
3 2 (1.29%) Ansible
3 2 (1.29%) Grafana
3 2 (1.29%) Mesos
3 2 (1.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.29%) Puppet
3 2 (1.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (1.94%) Google
2 2 (1.29%) Foundry
2 2 (1.29%) Oracle
2 2 (1.29%) Palantir
2 2 (1.29%) Vertica
3 1 (0.65%) Databricks