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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 458 578
Rank change year-on-year +217 +120 -139
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 294 160 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.22% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 271 136 284
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £87,500 £77,313 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £112,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +18.42%
75th Percentile £142,500 £142,500 £127,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £151,250 £136,250
England median annual salary £110,000 £91,250 £95,000
% change year-on-year +20.55% -3.95% +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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +54 17 £77,500 -22.31% 1
West London +1 2 £55,000 -25.42% 1
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 294 (100.00%) Python
1 294 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 272 (92.52%) AWS
3 259 (88.10%) Finance
4 256 (87.07%) Agile
5 241 (81.97%) Apache Airflow
6 240 (81.63%) Fixed Income
7 239 (81.29%) Asset Management
8 238 (80.95%) Front Office
9 237 (80.61%) TypeScript
10 236 (80.27%) gRPC
10 236 (80.27%) Protocol Buffers
11 229 (77.89%) Apache
12 224 (76.19%) Apache Ignite
13 207 (70.41%) Investment Management
14 206 (70.07%) Banking
15 202 (68.71%) Hedge funds
16 169 (57.48%) GCP
17 167 (56.80%) Equities
18 143 (48.64%) JavaScript
19 141 (47.96%) Pandas
20 139 (47.28%) React
21 128 (43.54%) Azure
22 126 (42.86%) NumPy
22 126 (42.86%) dbt
23 125 (42.52%) Apache Arrow
23 125 (42.52%) Dremio
23 125 (42.52%) Amazon Athena
23 125 (42.52%) SciPy
24 119 (40.48%) Redux

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
1 241 (81.97%) Apache Airflow
2 229 (77.89%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 272 (92.52%) AWS
2 169 (57.48%) GCP
3 128 (43.54%) Azure
4 126 (42.86%) dbt
5 98 (33.33%) Snowflake
6 27 (9.18%) Serverless
7 22 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (2.38%) Amazon S3
9 6 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.36%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (1.36%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (1.02%) OpenShift
13 2 (0.68%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.68%) CloudFront
13 2 (0.68%) SaaS
13 2 (0.68%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (76.19%) Apache Ignite
2 125 (42.52%) Amazon Athena
2 125 (42.52%) Apache Arrow
2 125 (42.52%) Dremio
3 100 (34.01%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (32.99%) Data Lake
5 17 (5.78%) DynamoDB
6 16 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.70%) Flink
7 5 (1.70%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.70%) Tableau
8 4 (1.36%) Power BI
9 2 (0.68%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (21.77%) Cypress.io
2 24 (8.16%) Git
3 16 (5.44%) GitLab
4 2 (0.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.34%) webpack
General
1 259 (88.10%) Finance
2 238 (80.95%) Front Office
3 206 (70.07%) Banking
4 107 (36.39%) Investment Banking
5 27 (9.18%) Social Skills
6 6 (2.04%) Law
7 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.02%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.68%) Advertising
9 2 (0.68%) Back Office
10 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.34%) Aviation
10 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (80.27%) gRPC
1 236 (80.27%) Protocol Buffers
2 141 (47.96%) Pandas
3 139 (47.28%) React
4 126 (42.86%) NumPy
5 125 (42.52%) SciPy
6 119 (40.48%) Redux
7 112 (38.10%) Material-UI
8 36 (12.24%) AngularJS
9 30 (10.20%) Vue
10 24 (8.16%) Django
11 23 (7.82%) Node.js
11 23 (7.82%) RESTful
12 16 (5.44%) GraphQL
13 5 (1.70%) Kafka
14 4 (1.36%) CSS
14 4 (1.36%) HTML
14 4 (1.36%) Lambda Expressions
15 3 (1.02%) .NET
15 3 (1.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 240 (81.63%) Fixed Income
2 202 (68.71%) Hedge funds
3 167 (56.80%) Equities
4 117 (39.80%) Derivative
5 113 (38.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 42 (14.29%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.70%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.68%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 256 (87.07%) Agile
3 239 (81.29%) Asset Management
4 207 (70.41%) Investment Management
5 118 (40.14%) Full Stack Development
6 105 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
7 101 (34.35%) Machine Learning
8 99 (33.67%) Automated Trading
9 32 (10.88%) CI/CD
10 29 (9.86%) Greeks
11 26 (8.84%) Line Management
12 25 (8.50%) Analytics
12 25 (8.50%) Fintech
12 25 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (7.14%) TDD
14 18 (6.12%) Credit Risk Analysis
14 18 (6.12%) DevOps
14 18 (6.12%) Performance Attribution
15 16 (5.44%) Pair Programming
16 12 (4.08%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 294 (100.00%) Python
2 237 (80.61%) TypeScript
3 143 (48.64%) JavaScript
4 102 (34.69%) Java
5 49 (16.67%) SQL
6 12 (4.08%) C#
7 5 (1.70%) VBA
8 4 (1.36%) Ruby
8 4 (1.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (5.10%) DBS Check
2 3 (1.02%) DV Cleared
2 3 (1.02%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.34%) Degree
3 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (3.06%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.04%) Terraform
3 3 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 104 (35.37%) Google
2 7 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.68%) Calypso