Python Jobs in London

Python
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 3,617 6,003 15,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.33% 17.45% 22.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.18% 35.19% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,796 4,172 6,234
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £142,500 £140,000 £126,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.35% +6.79% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
London

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,474 17,061 40,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.15% 49.60% 60.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,597 12,637 18,873
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,750 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Python in London

Python
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in London

Python
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +1 531 £75,000 -6.25% 101
South London -45 43 £75,000 +42.86% 24
East London +25 34 £78,750 -28.41% 48
West London -67 23 £55,000 +10.00% 45
North London -8 5 £70,000 -12.50% 7
Python
England

Python
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
1 481 (13.30%) Apache Airflow
2 446 (12.33%) Apache
3 158 (4.37%) Apache Spark
4 64 (1.77%) SAS
5 32 (0.88%) ArcGIS
5 32 (0.88%) Confluence
6 31 (0.86%) nginx
7 27 (0.75%) GeoServer
8 19 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.39%) OpenStack
11 12 (0.33%) SharePoint
11 12 (0.33%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.22%) Drupal
13 7 (0.19%) CMS
13 7 (0.19%) Ethereum
13 7 (0.19%) IIS
14 5 (0.14%) Hyperledger
15 3 (0.083%) Apache Pulsar
15 3 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 112 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.22%) SPSS
6 6 (0.17%) EViews
7 3 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.055%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.055%) InDesign
8 2 (0.055%) Stata
9 1 (0.028%) Blender
Business Applications
1 16 (0.44%) Fidessa
2 14 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.19%) Elite 3E
3 7 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.083%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.055%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.055%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.055%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.055%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.055%) Primavera
6 2 (0.055%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.055%) Relativity
7 1 (0.028%) Endur
7 1 (0.028%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.028%) LabWindows
7 1 (0.028%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.028%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.028%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,718 (47.50%) AWS
2 1,076 (29.75%) Azure
3 706 (19.52%) GCP
4 343 (9.48%) dbt
5 326 (9.01%) Snowflake
6 288 (7.96%) Power Platform
7 279 (7.71%) Serverless
8 190 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
9 188 (5.20%) Amazon S3
10 152 (4.20%) GitHub
11 147 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
12 115 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
13 101 (2.79%) SaaS
14 97 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
15 96 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 90 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
17 75 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
18 53 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
19 46 (1.27%) OpenShift
20 45 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.62%) Firewall
2 107 (2.96%) DNS
3 85 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 47 (1.30%) VPN
5 43 (1.19%) Network Security
6 38 (1.05%) WAN
7 36 (1.00%) DHCP
8 31 (0.86%) SNMP
9 28 (0.77%) LAN
10 25 (0.69%) BGP
11 24 (0.66%) HTTP
12 22 (0.61%) MPLS
13 20 (0.55%) Internet
14 19 (0.53%) SSL
15 16 (0.44%) FIX Connectivity
16 14 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
17 13 (0.36%) IPsec
17 13 (0.36%) tcpdump
18 12 (0.33%) OSPF
18 12 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (9.34%) Tableau
2 327 (9.04%) Data Lake
3 326 (9.01%) PostgreSQL
4 320 (8.85%) Apache Ignite
5 293 (8.10%) Amazon Athena
6 278 (7.69%) Dremio
7 275 (7.60%) Apache Arrow
8 269 (7.44%) Power BI
9 218 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
10 196 (5.42%) SQL Server
11 189 (5.23%) NoSQL
12 170 (4.70%) Big Data
13 132 (3.65%) MongoDB
14 111 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
15 110 (3.04%) MySQL
16 100 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
17 99 (2.74%) Relational Database
18 83 (2.29%) Data Mining
19 72 (1.99%) Hadoop
20 67 (1.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 449 (12.41%) Git
2 243 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 130 (3.59%) GitLab
4 108 (2.99%) JIRA
5 64 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 39 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 30 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 26 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 23 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 22 (0.61%) JUnit
10 22 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 19 (0.53%) Selenium
13 17 (0.47%) Oracle APEX
14 15 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 14 (0.39%) Subversion
16 12 (0.33%) JMeter
16 12 (0.33%) SonarQube
17 9 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
17 9 (0.25%) RStudio
General
1 1,464 (40.48%) Finance
2 859 (23.75%) Social Skills
3 712 (19.68%) Front Office
4 555 (15.34%) Banking
5 505 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
6 271 (7.49%) Investment Banking
7 182 (5.03%) Retail
8 154 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 152 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
10 114 (3.15%) Back Office
11 113 (3.12%) Law
12 95 (2.63%) Marketing
13 90 (2.49%) Legal
14 86 (2.38%) Public Sector
15 55 (1.52%) Health Technology
16 45 (1.24%) Games
17 34 (0.94%) Tech for Good
18 31 (0.86%) Telecoms
19 28 (0.77%) Financial Institution
20 25 (0.69%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 937 (25.91%) Senior
2 839 (23.20%) Developer
3 549 (15.18%) Software Engineer
4 437 (12.08%) Analyst
5 402 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 398 (11.00%) Python Engineer
7 367 (10.15%) Data Engineer
8 339 (9.37%) Lead
9 288 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
10 246 (6.80%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 234 (6.47%) Python Software Engineer
12 209 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
13 202 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
14 188 (5.20%) Data Analyst
15 187 (5.17%) Data Scientist
16 176 (4.87%) Senior Developer
17 151 (4.17%) Architect
18 144 (3.98%) React Developer
19 143 (3.95%) Full Stack Developer
20 139 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 492 (13.60%) React
2 385 (10.64%) gRPC
3 381 (10.53%) Protocol Buffers
4 368 (10.17%) Pandas
5 277 (7.66%) NumPy
6 251 (6.94%) .NET
7 221 (6.11%) SciPy
8 211 (5.83%) Redux
9 168 (4.64%) AngularJS
10 154 (4.26%) CSS
11 152 (4.20%) Node.js
12 151 (4.17%) HTML
13 148 (4.09%) PySpark
14 142 (3.93%) REST
15 132 (3.65%) Django
16 124 (3.43%) Material-UI
17 115 (3.18%) Kafka
18 105 (2.90%) Vue
19 100 (2.76%) TensorFlow
20 97 (2.68%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 616 (17.03%) Hedge funds
2 554 (15.32%) Fixed Income
3 454 (12.55%) Equities
4 431 (11.92%) Derivative
5 371 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 202 (5.58%) Algorithms
7 108 (2.99%) Data Structures
8 96 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 95 (2.63%) Product Ownership
10 93 (2.57%) Cloud Native
10 93 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
11 78 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
12 76 (2.10%) Management Information System
13 69 (1.91%) Clustering
14 53 (1.47%) Client/Server
15 50 (1.38%) Data Centre
16 40 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
17 38 (1.05%) IoT
18 35 (0.97%) Tandem
19 34 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 442 (12.22%) Linux
2 187 (5.17%) Windows
3 101 (2.79%) Unix
4 57 (1.58%) CentOS
5 53 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 35 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 32 (0.88%) Android
9 28 (0.77%) Apple iOS
10 21 (0.58%) Solaris
11 15 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
12 13 (0.36%) Debian
13 9 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
15 4 (0.11%) Mac OS
15 4 (0.11%) VMS
16 3 (0.083%) Embedded Linux
17 2 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
18 1 (0.028%) FreeRTOS
18 1 (0.028%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,160 (32.07%) Agile
2 1,066 (29.47%) Software Engineering
3 744 (20.57%) Analytics
4 722 (19.96%) DevOps
5 718 (19.85%) Asset Management
6 660 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 636 (17.58%) Machine Learning
8 586 (16.20%) Investment Management
9 563 (15.57%) CI/CD
10 562 (15.54%) Data Science
11 528 (14.60%) Artificial Intelligence
12 433 (11.97%) Computer Science
13 404 (11.17%) Mathematics
13 404 (11.17%) Visualisation
14 369 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
15 357 (9.87%) Data Pipeline
16 355 (9.81%) Business Intelligence
17 329 (9.10%) Statistics
18 323 (8.93%) ETL
19 317 (8.76%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1,517 (41.94%) SQL
2 782 (21.62%) Java
3 729 (20.15%) JavaScript
4 583 (16.12%) TypeScript
5 408 (11.28%) C#
6 286 (7.91%) R
7 263 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 260 (7.19%) Bash
9 189 (5.23%) C++
10 182 (5.03%) Go
11 107 (2.96%) Perl
12 106 (2.93%) C
13 93 (2.57%) Scala
14 82 (2.27%) Ruby
15 56 (1.55%) T-SQL
16 55 (1.52%) VBA
17 49 (1.35%) MATLAB
17 49 (1.35%) Shell Script
18 43 (1.19%) Kotlin
19 39 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 781 (21.59%) Degree
2 210 (5.81%) Master's Degree
3 182 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 163 (4.51%) DBS Check
5 130 (3.59%) Security Cleared
6 106 (2.93%) PhD
7 93 (2.57%) SC Cleared
8 51 (1.41%) CISSP
9 41 (1.13%) AWS Certification
10 36 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
11 31 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (0.72%) Azure Certification
13 24 (0.66%) GIAC
14 22 (0.61%) CEH
14 22 (0.61%) CISM
15 21 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
16 19 (0.53%) DV Cleared
17 15 (0.41%) CRISC
17 15 (0.41%) ISSMP
18 13 (0.36%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 127 (3.51%) QA
3 22 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (0.58%) GDPR
4 21 (0.58%) NIST
5 20 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 20 (0.55%) SLA
6 17 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.41%) COBIT
8 7 (0.19%) PMO
9 6 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.17%) NCSC
10 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.11%) JTAG
11 4 (0.11%) MiFID
11 4 (0.11%) Solvency II
12 3 (0.083%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.083%) ISO 9000
12 3 (0.083%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.083%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 459 (12.69%) Docker
2 40 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 26 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.53%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.28%) HDFS
7 10 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.22%) Firmware
9 6 (0.17%) NFS
10 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 3 (0.083%) KVM
12 2 (0.055%) Ceph
12 2 (0.055%) IAG
12 2 (0.055%) vSphere
13 1 (0.028%) etcd
13 1 (0.028%) LXC
13 1 (0.028%) OpenSIPS
13 1 (0.028%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.028%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 525 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 460 (12.72%) Terraform
3 212 (5.86%) Ansible
4 98 (2.71%) Puppet
5 91 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 73 (2.02%) Grafana
7 62 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 22 (0.61%) Salt
9 17 (0.47%) Nagios
9 17 (0.47%) Packer
10 15 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
10 15 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.41%) vCenter Server
11 14 (0.39%) Kibana
12 12 (0.33%) Graphite
12 12 (0.33%) HAProxy
13 11 (0.30%) Argo
14 10 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (0.25%) Nmap
16 8 (0.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 326 (9.01%) Databricks
2 287 (7.93%) Google
3 268 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 144 (3.98%) Oracle
5 90 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 83 (2.29%) Bloomberg
7 42 (1.16%) Alteryx
7 42 (1.16%) Cisco
8 38 (1.05%) VMware
9 37 (1.02%) Atlassian
10 34 (0.94%) ESRI
10 34 (0.94%) Splunk
11 26 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 23 (0.64%) F5
13 21 (0.58%) YouTube
14 20 (0.55%) Reuters
15 17 (0.47%) Palo Alto
15 17 (0.47%) Salesforce
16 16 (0.44%) CQG
16 16 (0.44%) Informatica