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 leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 447 572
Rank change year-on-year +206 +125 -135
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Software Engineer 322 157 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.30% 0.50% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 0.53% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 297 133 288
10th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% - +49.02%

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 23,340 29,809 71,349
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.45% 94.99% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,175 22,417 34,826
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +48 17 £77,500 -22.31% 1
West London -5 2 £55,000 -38.89% 1
Python Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 322 (100.00%) Python
1 322 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 298 (92.55%) AWS
3 284 (88.20%) Finance
4 279 (86.65%) Agile
5 264 (81.99%) Apache Airflow
6 263 (81.68%) Fixed Income
7 262 (81.37%) Asset Management
8 261 (81.06%) Front Office
9 260 (80.75%) TypeScript
10 259 (80.43%) Protocol Buffers
10 259 (80.43%) gRPC
11 252 (78.26%) Apache
12 247 (76.71%) Apache Ignite
13 227 (70.50%) Banking
14 223 (69.25%) Hedge funds
15 220 (68.32%) Investment Management
16 188 (58.39%) Equities
17 182 (56.52%) GCP
18 166 (51.55%) JavaScript
19 164 (50.93%) Pandas
20 149 (46.27%) dbt
20 149 (46.27%) NumPy
21 148 (45.96%) SciPy
21 148 (45.96%) Dremio
21 148 (45.96%) Apache Arrow
21 148 (45.96%) Amazon Athena
22 141 (43.79%) React
23 138 (42.86%) Derivative
24 134 (41.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

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
1 264 (81.99%) Apache Airflow
2 252 (78.26%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 298 (92.55%) AWS
2 182 (56.52%) GCP
3 149 (46.27%) dbt
4 129 (40.06%) Azure
5 119 (36.96%) Snowflake
6 27 (8.39%) Serverless
7 22 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (1.24%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (1.24%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
14 3 (0.93%) OpenShift
15 2 (0.62%) CloudFront
15 2 (0.62%) SaaS
15 2 (0.62%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (76.71%) Apache Ignite
2 148 (45.96%) Amazon Athena
2 148 (45.96%) Apache Arrow
2 148 (45.96%) Dremio
3 118 (36.65%) Data Lake
4 100 (31.06%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (5.28%) DynamoDB
6 16 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.55%) Flink
7 5 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.55%) Tableau
8 4 (1.24%) Power BI
9 2 (0.62%) SQLPlus
10 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (19.88%) Cypress.io
2 24 (7.45%) Git
3 16 (4.97%) GitLab
4 2 (0.62%) Postman
5 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 284 (88.20%) Finance
2 261 (81.06%) Front Office
3 227 (70.50%) Banking
4 128 (39.75%) Investment Banking
5 27 (8.39%) Social Skills
6 6 (1.86%) Law
7 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (0.93%) Public Sector
9 2 (0.62%) Advertising
9 2 (0.62%) Back Office
10 1 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.31%) Aviation
10 1 (0.31%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 259 (80.43%) gRPC
1 259 (80.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 164 (50.93%) Pandas
3 149 (46.27%) NumPy
4 148 (45.96%) SciPy
5 141 (43.79%) React
6 121 (37.58%) Redux
7 112 (34.78%) Material-UI
8 38 (11.80%) AngularJS
9 32 (9.94%) Vue
10 26 (8.07%) Django
11 25 (7.76%) Node.js
12 23 (7.14%) RESTful
13 16 (4.97%) GraphQL
14 6 (1.86%) PySpark
15 5 (1.55%) Kafka
16 4 (1.24%) CSS
16 4 (1.24%) HTML
16 4 (1.24%) Lambda Expressions
17 3 (0.93%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 263 (81.68%) Fixed Income
2 223 (69.25%) Hedge funds
3 188 (58.39%) Equities
4 138 (42.86%) Derivative
5 134 (41.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 48 (14.91%) Pricing Data
7 5 (1.55%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.62%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.31%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.31%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 279 (86.65%) Agile
3 262 (81.37%) Asset Management
4 220 (68.32%) Investment Management
5 118 (36.65%) Full Stack Development
6 107 (33.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 101 (31.37%) Machine Learning
8 99 (30.75%) Automated Trading
9 36 (11.18%) Line Management
10 34 (10.56%) Greeks
11 33 (10.25%) CI/CD
12 27 (8.39%) Fintech
13 25 (7.76%) Analytics
13 25 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (6.52%) TDD
15 20 (6.21%) Credit Risk Analysis
15 20 (6.21%) Performance Attribution
16 19 (5.90%) DevOps
17 16 (4.97%) Pair Programming
18 12 (3.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 322 (100.00%) Python
2 260 (80.75%) TypeScript
3 166 (51.55%) JavaScript
4 123 (38.20%) Java
5 55 (17.08%) SQL
6 12 (3.73%) C#
7 5 (1.55%) VBA
8 4 (1.24%) Ruby
8 4 (1.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (4.66%) DBS Check
2 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
2 3 (0.93%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.31%) Degree
3 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.48%) QA
System Software
1 9 (2.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.86%) Terraform
3 3 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 105 (32.61%) Google
2 7 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.86%) Bloomberg
3 6 (1.86%) Reuters
4 2 (0.62%) Calypso