Python Engineer Jobs in London

Python Engineer
England > London

The median Python 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 162 244 371
Rank change year-on-year +82 +127 -146
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Engineer 466 486 812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.93% 1.52% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.60% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 427 445 620
10th Percentile £65,750 £63,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +13.51% +15.63%
75th Percentile £136,250 £150,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £148,750 £180,000 £136,250
England median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - +2.86% +20.69%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Python Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Python Engineer in London

Python Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python Engineer in London

Python 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 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 +39 28 £77,500 +1.64% 4
West London -2 2 £55,000 -4.35% 2
East London - 1 £65,000 -
Python Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Python 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 466 (100.00%) Python
2 359 (77.04%) AWS
3 338 (72.53%) Software Engineering
4 315 (67.60%) Finance
5 301 (64.59%) Agile
6 256 (54.94%) Apache Airflow
7 253 (54.29%) Asset Management
8 247 (53.00%) Front Office
8 247 (53.00%) TypeScript
9 246 (52.79%) Apache
10 242 (51.93%) Fixed Income
11 236 (50.64%) Protocol Buffers
11 236 (50.64%) gRPC
12 224 (48.07%) Apache Ignite
13 221 (47.42%) Investment Management
14 216 (46.35%) Banking
15 206 (44.21%) Hedge funds
16 195 (41.85%) Azure
17 194 (41.63%) GCP
18 167 (35.84%) Equities
19 155 (33.26%) Pandas
20 153 (32.83%) React
21 152 (32.62%) JavaScript
22 138 (29.61%) Artificial Intelligence
22 138 (29.61%) NumPy
22 138 (29.61%) dbt
23 136 (29.18%) Amazon Athena
23 136 (29.18%) Full Stack Development
24 135 (28.97%) PostgreSQL
25 131 (28.11%) SciPy

Python 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
1 256 (54.94%) Apache Airflow
2 246 (52.79%) Apache
3 16 (3.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 359 (77.04%) AWS
2 195 (41.85%) Azure
3 194 (41.63%) GCP
4 138 (29.61%) dbt
5 103 (22.10%) Snowflake
6 46 (9.87%) Serverless
7 36 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (5.79%) Power Platform
9 19 (4.08%) Amazon S3
9 19 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (3.65%) SaaS
11 12 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.15%) Dagster
14 9 (1.93%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
15 7 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 6 (1.29%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (1.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (48.07%) Apache Ignite
2 136 (29.18%) Amazon Athena
3 135 (28.97%) PostgreSQL
4 131 (28.11%) Dremio
5 128 (27.47%) Apache Arrow
6 120 (25.75%) Data Lake
7 27 (5.79%) NoSQL
7 27 (5.79%) Power BI
8 26 (5.58%) DynamoDB
9 22 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (4.29%) MongoDB
11 18 (3.86%) Tableau
12 12 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (2.15%) Hadoop
14 9 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 9 (1.93%) SQL Server
15 8 (1.72%) Relational Database
16 7 (1.50%) MySQL
16 7 (1.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 64 (13.73%) Cypress.io
2 29 (6.22%) Git
2 29 (6.22%) GitLab
3 7 (1.50%) JIRA
4 5 (1.07%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.43%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.43%) Postman
5 2 (0.43%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.21%) Selenium
6 1 (0.21%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.21%) webpack
General
1 315 (67.60%) Finance
2 247 (53.00%) Front Office
3 216 (46.35%) Banking
4 107 (22.96%) Investment Banking
5 64 (13.73%) Social Skills
6 21 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.22%) Law
9 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.64%) Games
10 3 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.64%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.43%) Advertising
11 2 (0.43%) Back Office
11 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.43%) Legal
11 2 (0.43%) Marketing
11 2 (0.43%) Retail
12 1 (0.21%) Aviation
12 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (50.64%) gRPC
1 236 (50.64%) Protocol Buffers
2 155 (33.26%) Pandas
3 153 (32.83%) React
4 138 (29.61%) NumPy
5 131 (28.11%) SciPy
6 119 (25.54%) Redux
7 112 (24.03%) Material-UI
8 47 (10.09%) Django
9 36 (7.73%) AngularJS
10 33 (7.08%) FastAPI
11 31 (6.65%) RESTful
12 30 (6.44%) Vue
13 29 (6.22%) Flask
14 24 (5.15%) Node.js
15 20 (4.29%) REST
16 19 (4.08%) GraphQL
17 18 (3.86%) PySpark
18 15 (3.22%) Kafka
19 10 (2.15%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 242 (51.93%) Fixed Income
2 206 (44.21%) Hedge funds
3 167 (35.84%) Equities
4 118 (25.32%) Derivative
5 113 (24.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 42 (9.01%) Pricing Data
7 12 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (2.36%) Client/Server
9 9 (1.93%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.50%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.29%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.86%) Bitcoin
12 4 (0.86%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.64%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.43%) Hackathon
15 1 (0.21%) Marketing Technology
15 1 (0.21%) Self-Motivation
15 1 (0.21%) Semantic Web
15 1 (0.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.22%) Linux
2 12 (2.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (72.53%) Software Engineering
2 301 (64.59%) Agile
3 253 (54.29%) Asset Management
4 221 (47.42%) Investment Management
5 138 (29.61%) Artificial Intelligence
6 136 (29.18%) Full Stack Development
7 125 (26.82%) Machine Learning
8 100 (21.46%) Automated Trading
9 75 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (13.52%) Analytics
11 61 (13.09%) CI/CD
12 49 (10.52%) DevOps
13 39 (8.37%) Data Science
14 33 (7.08%) Fintech
15 32 (6.87%) Line Management
16 31 (6.65%) Data Pipeline
16 31 (6.65%) TDD
17 30 (6.44%) Data Engineering
18 29 (6.22%) Greeks
19 26 (5.58%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 466 (100.00%) Python
2 247 (53.00%) TypeScript
3 152 (32.62%) JavaScript
4 122 (26.18%) Java
4 122 (26.18%) SQL
5 23 (4.94%) C#
6 9 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (1.93%) U-SQL
7 6 (1.29%) C
7 6 (1.29%) Ruby
8 5 (1.07%) Go
8 5 (1.07%) Rust
8 5 (1.07%) VBA
9 4 (0.86%) C++
9 4 (0.86%) Scala
10 2 (0.43%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (3.86%) DBS Check
2 13 (2.79%) Degree
3 9 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.86%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.43%) PhD
8 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.08%) QA
3 4 (0.86%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (8.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (10.52%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.51%) Terraform
3 6 (1.29%) Grafana
4 3 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.43%) Ansible
5 2 (0.43%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 123 (26.39%) Google
2 24 (5.15%) Databricks
3 20 (4.29%) Microsoft
4 11 (2.36%) Oracle
5 3 (0.64%) YouTube
6 2 (0.43%) ArcSight
6 2 (0.43%) Calypso
6 2 (0.43%) Carbon Black
7 1 (0.21%) Atlassian