Python Job Trends in East London

Python
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 17 10 21
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 6.91% 5.75% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.67% 43.48% 52.50%
Number of salaries quoted 15 2 21
10th Percentile £29,635 £105,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £112,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £125,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% +117.39% -14.81%
75th Percentile £87,500 £137,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £145,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Programming Languages
East London

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 23 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 12.20% 13.22% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22 9 40
10th Percentile - £51,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £32,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £80,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +39.13% -8.00%
75th Percentile £84,375 £127,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £132,000 £117,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in East London.

Python job vacancy trend in East London

Python
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in East London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in East London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in East London

Python
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the East London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Docklands, London - 6 £85,000 -
Barking - 4 £40,000 - 2
Havering - 2 £30,000 - 4
Redbridge - 1 £30,000 - 5
Bexley - 1 - -
Python
London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Tomcat
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Amazon S3
2 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (41.18%) Serverless
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (35.29%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (35.29%) Route 53
3 6 (35.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) Broadband
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (35.29%) DB2
1 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Data Mining
2 4 (23.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (11.76%) Multimedia
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Support
1 6 (35.29%) Applications Support Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Support Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Trainee
2 5 (29.41%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Linux Support
2 5 (29.41%) Linux Support Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Trainee Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Trainee Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Web Administrator
6 1 (5.88%) Data Insight Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Finance Modeller
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (5.88%) Monitoring Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) LAPP Stack
1 6 (35.29%) LDAP
1 6 (35.29%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Unix
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Acceptance Criteria
1 6 (35.29%) Change Management
1 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (35.29%) ITIL
1 6 (35.29%) Release Management
1 6 (35.29%) Service Management
1 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
3 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) AI
4 3 (17.65%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
5 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) R
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) AWS Certification
2 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 6 (35.29%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) IBM
2 6 (35.29%) Red Hat