Python Developer Jobs in the City of London

Python Developer
Central London > City of London

The median Python Developer salary in the City of London is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 153 186
Rank change year-on-year +36 +33 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 28 23 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.34% 0.68% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 0.71% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 46
10th Percentile £51,250 - £62,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,750 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -14.86% +15.63%
75th Percentile £78,750 £97,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £130,750 £117,250 £128,750
Central London median annual salary £62,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -24.24% -8.33% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,924 3,226 4,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 95.90% 96.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,461 2,578 3,850
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -2.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python Developer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in the City of London

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Python Developer 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 City of London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 17 (60.71%) Finance
3 14 (50.00%) Django
4 12 (42.86%) AWS
4 12 (42.86%) React
5 11 (39.29%) Java
6 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
7 8 (28.57%) Banking
7 8 (28.57%) Investment Banking
7 8 (28.57%) Git
8 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 6 (21.43%) Investment Management
9 6 (21.43%) Flask
9 6 (21.43%) SQL
9 6 (21.43%) Front Office
10 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (17.86%) Advertising
10 5 (17.86%) Docker
10 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
10 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (17.86%) Next.js
10 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
11 4 (14.29%) Microservices
11 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (14.29%) Serverless
11 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
11 4 (14.29%) Azure
12 3 (10.71%) MySQL

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (7.14%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
3 4 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (10.71%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) MS Access
2 1 (3.57%) Power BI
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 17 (60.71%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Banking
2 8 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Front Office
4 5 (17.86%) Advertising
5 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.71%) Games
7 2 (7.14%) Legal
8 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Django
2 12 (42.86%) React
3 6 (21.43%) Flask
4 5 (17.86%) Next.js
5 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
6 2 (7.14%) LangChain
6 2 (7.14%) Pandas
6 2 (7.14%) Redux
7 1 (3.57%) jQuery
7 1 (3.57%) JSON
7 1 (3.57%) Node.js
7 1 (3.57%) NumPy
7 1 (3.57%) OAuth
7 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.57%) pytest
7 1 (3.57%) RESTful
7 1 (3.57%) Swagger
7 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Derivative
3 2 (7.14%) Equities
3 2 (7.14%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.14%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (21.43%) Investment Management
4 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Microservices
6 3 (10.71%) Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) API Development
6 3 (10.71%) Asynchronous Programming
6 3 (10.71%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (10.71%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (7.14%) Agile
7 2 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (7.14%) Front End Development
7 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 2 (7.14%) User Experience
8 1 (3.57%) Refactoring
8 1 (3.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Python
2 11 (39.29%) Java
3 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 6 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) VBA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) SimCorp
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) SAP