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 to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 480 550
Rank change year-on-year +188 +70 -117
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 227 150 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.96% 0.44% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.46% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 210 122 282
10th Percentile £85,000 £63,875 £63,750
25th Percentile £87,500 £75,438 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £128,750
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £136,250
England median annual salary £105,000 £90,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +52.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,236 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,670 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +53 14 £77,500 -35.42% 6
West London -2 2 £55,000 -4.35%
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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.

1 227 (100.00%) Python
1 227 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 208 (91.63%) AWS
3 199 (87.67%) Finance
4 197 (86.78%) Agile
5 186 (81.94%) Fixed Income
5 186 (81.94%) Apache Airflow
6 184 (81.06%) Asset Management
6 184 (81.06%) Front Office
7 182 (80.18%) gRPC
7 182 (80.18%) Protocol Buffers
8 181 (79.74%) TypeScript
9 175 (77.09%) Apache
10 170 (74.89%) Apache Ignite
11 159 (70.04%) Investment Management
12 158 (69.60%) Banking
13 154 (67.84%) Hedge funds
14 145 (63.88%) GCP
15 124 (54.63%) React
16 119 (52.42%) Equities
17 115 (50.66%) Azure
18 108 (47.58%) Full Stack Development
19 105 (46.26%) Redux
20 104 (45.81%) Material-UI
21 97 (42.73%) JavaScript
22 94 (41.41%) Artificial Intelligence
22 94 (41.41%) Google
22 94 (41.41%) Pandas
23 92 (40.53%) PostgreSQL
23 92 (40.53%) Machine Learning

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
1 186 (81.94%) Apache Airflow
2 175 (77.09%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 208 (91.63%) AWS
2 145 (63.88%) GCP
3 115 (50.66%) Azure
4 79 (34.80%) dbt
5 57 (25.11%) Snowflake
6 20 (8.81%) Serverless
7 18 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (2.64%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.76%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (1.76%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.32%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon Cognito
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.44%) Azure Pipelines
12 1 (0.44%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (74.89%) Apache Ignite
2 92 (40.53%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (34.80%) Amazon Athena
3 79 (34.80%) Apache Arrow
3 79 (34.80%) Dremio
4 57 (25.11%) Data Lake
5 13 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (5.73%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.20%) Flink
7 4 (1.76%) Power BI
7 4 (1.76%) Tableau
8 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.88%) SQLPlus
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (24.67%) Cypress.io
2 19 (8.37%) Git
3 13 (5.73%) GitLab
4 1 (0.44%) NUnit
4 1 (0.44%) Postman
4 1 (0.44%) webpack
General
1 199 (87.67%) Finance
2 184 (81.06%) Front Office
3 158 (69.60%) Banking
4 67 (29.52%) Investment Banking
5 25 (11.01%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.20%) Law
7 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.88%) Back Office
9 1 (0.44%) Advertising
9 1 (0.44%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (80.18%) gRPC
1 182 (80.18%) Protocol Buffers
2 124 (54.63%) React
3 105 (46.26%) Redux
4 104 (45.81%) Material-UI
5 94 (41.41%) Pandas
6 80 (35.24%) NumPy
7 79 (34.80%) SciPy
8 30 (13.22%) AngularJS
9 24 (10.57%) Vue
10 20 (8.81%) RESTful
11 17 (7.49%) Node.js
12 15 (6.61%) Django
13 13 (5.73%) GraphQL
14 5 (2.20%) Kafka
15 4 (1.76%) .NET
15 4 (1.76%) CSS
15 4 (1.76%) HTML
16 3 (1.32%) Flask
16 3 (1.32%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 186 (81.94%) Fixed Income
2 154 (67.84%) Hedge funds
3 119 (52.42%) Equities
4 77 (33.92%) Derivative
5 73 (32.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (7.93%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.20%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.44%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 197 (86.78%) Agile
3 184 (81.06%) Asset Management
4 159 (70.04%) Investment Management
5 108 (47.58%) Full Stack Development
6 94 (41.41%) Artificial Intelligence
7 92 (40.53%) Machine Learning
8 91 (40.09%) Automated Trading
9 25 (11.01%) Analytics
9 25 (11.01%) CI/CD
10 21 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (8.81%) Line Management
12 19 (8.37%) Greeks
13 18 (7.93%) Fintech
14 17 (7.49%) TDD
15 13 (5.73%) DevOps
15 13 (5.73%) Pair Programming
16 12 (5.29%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 12 (5.29%) Performance Attribution
17 10 (4.41%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 227 (100.00%) Python
2 181 (79.74%) TypeScript
3 97 (42.73%) JavaScript
4 62 (27.31%) Java
5 46 (20.26%) SQL
6 12 (5.29%) C#
7 5 (2.20%) VBA
8 4 (1.76%) Ruby
8 4 (1.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (5.29%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
2 3 (1.32%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.44%) Degree
3 1 (0.44%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.20%) QA
System Software
1 9 (3.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.64%) Terraform
3 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 94 (41.41%) Google
2 7 (3.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.88%) Calypso