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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 469 569
Rank change year-on-year +196 +100 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 255 153 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.08% 0.46% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.48% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 235 126 275
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £87,500 £75,438 £80,000
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 £107,500 £90,000 £93,750
% change year-on-year +19.44% -4.00% +56.25%

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 22,294 31,975 66,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,646 23,616 34,555
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £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 £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +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 18 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 18 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 +64 17 £77,500 -24.21% 3
West London -6 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 18 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.

1 255 (100.00%) Python
1 255 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 237 (92.94%) AWS
3 225 (88.24%) Agile
4 224 (87.84%) Finance
5 210 (82.35%) Fixed Income
5 210 (82.35%) Apache Airflow
6 208 (81.57%) Asset Management
6 208 (81.57%) Front Office
7 206 (80.78%) gRPC
7 206 (80.78%) Protocol Buffers
8 205 (80.39%) TypeScript
9 199 (78.04%) Apache
10 194 (76.08%) Apache Ignite
11 181 (70.98%) Investment Management
12 180 (70.59%) Banking
13 176 (69.02%) Hedge funds
14 153 (60.00%) GCP
15 141 (55.29%) Equities
16 129 (50.59%) React
17 120 (47.06%) Azure
18 117 (45.88%) JavaScript
19 115 (45.10%) Pandas
20 114 (44.71%) Full Stack Development
21 111 (43.53%) Redux
22 108 (42.35%) Material-UI
23 100 (39.22%) NumPy
24 99 (38.82%) SciPy
24 99 (38.82%) dbt
24 99 (38.82%) Dremio

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
1 210 (82.35%) Apache Airflow
2 199 (78.04%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 237 (92.94%) AWS
2 153 (60.00%) GCP
3 120 (47.06%) Azure
4 99 (38.82%) dbt
5 75 (29.41%) Snowflake
6 25 (9.80%) Serverless
7 22 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.75%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.57%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (1.57%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.18%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.18%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (0.78%) Azure Pipelines
13 2 (0.78%) CloudFront
13 2 (0.78%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (76.08%) Apache Ignite
2 99 (38.82%) Amazon Athena
2 99 (38.82%) Apache Arrow
2 99 (38.82%) Dremio
3 97 (38.04%) PostgreSQL
4 75 (29.41%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 16 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.96%) Flink
8 4 (1.57%) Power BI
8 4 (1.57%) Tableau
9 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (23.53%) Cypress.io
2 24 (9.41%) Git
3 16 (6.27%) GitLab
4 2 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.39%) NUnit
5 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 224 (87.84%) Finance
2 208 (81.57%) Front Office
3 180 (70.59%) Banking
4 85 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 28 (10.98%) Social Skills
6 5 (1.96%) Law
7 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.18%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.78%) Advertising
8 2 (0.78%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.39%) Aviation
9 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 206 (80.78%) gRPC
1 206 (80.78%) Protocol Buffers
2 129 (50.59%) React
3 115 (45.10%) Pandas
4 111 (43.53%) Redux
5 108 (42.35%) Material-UI
6 100 (39.22%) NumPy
7 99 (38.82%) SciPy
8 32 (12.55%) AngularJS
9 26 (10.20%) Vue
10 23 (9.02%) RESTful
11 19 (7.45%) Node.js
12 18 (7.06%) Django
13 16 (6.27%) GraphQL
14 5 (1.96%) Kafka
15 4 (1.57%) .NET
15 4 (1.57%) CSS
15 4 (1.57%) HTML
16 3 (1.18%) Flask
16 3 (1.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 210 (82.35%) Fixed Income
2 176 (69.02%) Hedge funds
3 141 (55.29%) Equities
4 95 (37.25%) Derivative
5 91 (35.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 30 (11.76%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.96%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.39%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 225 (88.24%) Agile
3 208 (81.57%) Asset Management
4 181 (70.98%) Investment Management
5 114 (44.71%) Full Stack Development
6 98 (38.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 96 (37.65%) Machine Learning
8 95 (37.25%) Automated Trading
9 29 (11.37%) CI/CD
10 25 (9.80%) Analytics
11 24 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (9.02%) Greeks
13 22 (8.63%) Line Management
14 21 (8.24%) Fintech
14 21 (8.24%) TDD
15 16 (6.27%) Pair Programming
16 14 (5.49%) Credit Risk Analysis
16 14 (5.49%) DevOps
16 14 (5.49%) Performance Attribution
17 10 (3.92%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 255 (100.00%) Python
2 205 (80.39%) TypeScript
3 117 (45.88%) JavaScript
4 80 (31.37%) Java
5 47 (18.43%) SQL
6 12 (4.71%) C#
7 5 (1.96%) VBA
8 4 (1.57%) Ruby
8 4 (1.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
2 3 (1.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.39%) Degree
3 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 9 (3.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.35%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 98 (38.43%) Google
2 7 (2.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.78%) Calypso