Python Software Engineer Jobs in London

Python Software Engineer
England > London

The median Python Software Engineer salary in London is £115,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 213 419
Rank change year-on-year +11 +206 +173
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 223 365 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.72% 1.50% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.59% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 156 339 143
10th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% +1.20%
75th Percentile £137,500 £142,500 £142,500
90th Percentile - £148,750 £151,250
England median annual salary £110,000 £110,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%

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 11,874 22,993 28,609
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 94.43% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 7,215 16,891 21,759
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +27 9 £105,000 +35.48% 50
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 223 (100.00%) Python
1 223 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 212 (95.07%) Finance
3 201 (90.13%) Agile
4 167 (74.89%) AWS
5 158 (70.85%) Front Office
6 144 (64.57%) Banking
7 140 (62.78%) Fixed Income
8 138 (61.88%) Apache Iceberg
9 135 (60.54%) Asset Management
10 134 (60.09%) Apache Airflow
10 134 (60.09%) Amazon Athena
10 134 (60.09%) Dremio
10 134 (60.09%) dbt
10 134 (60.09%) Apache Arrow
11 132 (59.19%) Equities
12 130 (58.30%) TypeScript
13 122 (54.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 120 (53.81%) JavaScript
14 120 (53.81%) Pandas
15 118 (52.91%) SciPy
15 118 (52.91%) NumPy
15 118 (52.91%) Investment Management
16 113 (50.67%) Java
17 90 (40.36%) Derivative
18 89 (39.91%) Investment Banking
19 82 (36.77%) Apache
20 77 (34.53%) Fintech
21 76 (34.08%) Snowflake
21 76 (34.08%) Hedge funds

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
1 134 (60.09%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (36.77%) Apache
3 8 (3.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 167 (74.89%) AWS
2 134 (60.09%) dbt
3 76 (34.08%) Snowflake
4 65 (29.15%) GCP
5 11 (4.93%) Azure
6 7 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.69%) Serverless
8 4 (1.79%) SaaS
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon Bedrock
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.90%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.90%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.90%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) Multicast
2 4 (1.79%) DNS
2 4 (1.79%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (61.88%) Apache Iceberg
2 134 (60.09%) Amazon Athena
2 134 (60.09%) Apache Arrow
2 134 (60.09%) Dremio
3 66 (29.60%) Apache Ignite
4 60 (26.91%) Data Lake
5 58 (26.01%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (9.42%) NoSQL
7 12 (5.38%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.59%) Big Data
8 8 (3.59%) KDB
9 6 (2.69%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.79%) Kdb+
10 4 (1.79%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.79%) Spark SQL
11 2 (0.90%) MySQL
11 2 (0.90%) Redis
12 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.48%) JIRA
2 7 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (1.79%) Spinnaker
3 4 (1.79%) YouTrack
4 3 (1.35%) Git
4 3 (1.35%) Locust
4 3 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 212 (95.07%) Finance
2 158 (70.85%) Front Office
3 144 (64.57%) Banking
4 89 (39.91%) Investment Banking
5 65 (29.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 65 (29.15%) Law
6 19 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.38%) Social Skills
8 9 (4.04%) Marketing
9 6 (2.69%) Agriculture
10 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Electronics
11 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.90%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (53.81%) Pandas
2 118 (52.91%) NumPy
2 118 (52.91%) SciPy
3 74 (33.18%) React
4 66 (29.60%) gRPC
4 66 (29.60%) Protocol Buffers
5 60 (26.91%) AngularJS
5 60 (26.91%) Node.js
6 58 (26.01%) Vue
7 17 (7.62%) Kafka
8 16 (7.17%) PySpark
9 10 (4.48%) RESTful
10 9 (4.04%) pytest
11 6 (2.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 6 (2.69%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (2.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (2.69%) Redux
12 5 (2.24%) FastAPI
13 4 (1.79%) Django
13 4 (1.79%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 140 (62.78%) Fixed Income
2 132 (59.19%) Equities
3 122 (54.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 90 (40.36%) Derivative
5 76 (34.08%) Hedge funds
6 60 (26.91%) Pricing Data
7 32 (14.35%) Cloud Native
8 17 (7.62%) Algorithms
9 16 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (7.17%) Mobile App
10 14 (6.28%) Client/Server
11 11 (4.93%) Public Cloud
12 8 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (2.24%) Data Structures
14 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
15 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.69%) Linux
2 4 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 201 (90.13%) Agile
3 135 (60.54%) Asset Management
4 118 (52.91%) Investment Management
5 77 (34.53%) Fintech
6 58 (26.01%) Performance Attribution
7 52 (23.32%) Order Management
7 52 (23.32%) Risk Management
8 48 (21.52%) SDLC
9 42 (18.83%) Operational Stability
10 41 (18.39%) CI/CD
11 40 (17.94%) Community of Practice
12 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (16.14%) Computer Science
14 22 (9.87%) Mathematics
15 21 (9.42%) Artificial Intelligence
15 21 (9.42%) Microservices
16 19 (8.52%) Machine Learning
17 18 (8.07%) Visualisation
18 17 (7.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 223 (100.00%) Python
2 130 (58.30%) TypeScript
3 120 (53.81%) JavaScript
4 113 (50.67%) Java
5 48 (21.52%) SQL
6 15 (6.73%) Go
7 6 (2.69%) C#
7 6 (2.69%) C++
8 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (8.07%) Degree
2 10 (4.48%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.35%) PhD
6 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.69%) QA
System Software
1 12 (5.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (12.56%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.52%) Terraform
3 6 (2.69%) Grafana
3 6 (2.69%) Mesos
3 6 (2.69%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.79%) Ansible
4 4 (1.79%) Puppet
4 4 (1.79%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (2.69%) Google
1 6 (2.69%) Oracle
2 4 (1.79%) Vertica
3 3 (1.35%) Databricks
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
4 2 (0.90%) SAP