Python Developer Job Trends in London

Python Developer
England > London

The median Python Developer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 224 163
Rank change year-on-year +39 -61 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 220 238 366
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.66% 1.40% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.48% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 160 179 345
10th Percentile £63,975 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £74,500 £62,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £137,500 £112,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £140,000 £143,250 £150,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £78,750 £95,000
% change year-on-year +7.94% -17.11% +18.75%

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 11,999 16,073 17,401
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 94.54% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,854 9,745 14,189
10th Percentile £35,825 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% -1.67% -

Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Python Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Python Developer job vacancy trend in London

Python Developer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Python Developer job vacancies in London

Python Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python Developer in London

Python Developer
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 Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Central London +21 28 £85,000 +54.55% 12
Python Developer
England

Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Python Developer in the job title.

1 220 (100.00%) Python
2 99 (45.00%) Agile
3 87 (39.55%) AWS
4 81 (36.82%) Software Engineering
5 77 (35.00%) React
6 62 (28.18%) TypeScript
7 59 (26.82%) CI/CD
7 59 (26.82%) Order Management
8 57 (25.91%) PostgreSQL
9 55 (25.00%) Fintech
10 54 (24.55%) GCP
10 54 (24.55%) JavaScript
11 50 (22.73%) Node.js
12 48 (21.82%) Test Automation
13 47 (21.36%) AngularJS
14 46 (20.91%) Vue
15 45 (20.45%) NumPy
15 45 (20.45%) Pandas
16 44 (20.00%) Azure
16 44 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (19.55%) Amazon Athena
17 43 (19.55%) Apache Iceberg
17 43 (19.55%) Asset Management
17 43 (19.55%) dbt
17 43 (19.55%) Risk Management
18 41 (18.64%) AI
18 41 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
18 41 (18.64%) Apache Arrow
18 41 (18.64%) Dremio
18 41 (18.64%) Investment Management

Python Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 41 (18.64%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.73%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.82%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.91%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 87 (39.55%) AWS
2 54 (24.55%) GCP
3 44 (20.00%) Azure
4 43 (19.55%) dbt
5 30 (13.64%) Serverless
6 28 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (8.64%) GitHub
8 15 (6.82%) Amazon S3
8 15 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (5.45%) Azure AI
10 8 (3.64%) n8n
10 8 (3.64%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.64%) SaaS
11 6 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) FTP
1 2 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (25.91%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (19.55%) Amazon Athena
2 43 (19.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 41 (18.64%) Apache Arrow
3 41 (18.64%) Dremio
4 24 (10.91%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.82%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.91%) Big Data
6 13 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (5.45%) Tick Data
8 11 (5.00%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.09%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.82%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.91%) MySQL
13 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (7.27%) Git
2 3 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.91%) JIRA
3 2 (0.91%) Maven
3 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 116 (52.73%) Finance
2 67 (30.45%) Front Office
3 41 (18.64%) Social Skills
4 27 (12.27%) Health Technology
4 27 (12.27%) Publishing
5 26 (11.82%) Tech for Good
6 19 (8.64%) Marketing
7 16 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (6.82%) Banking
9 13 (5.91%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.09%) Electronics
10 9 (4.09%) Manufacturing
10 9 (4.09%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.09%) Telecoms
11 7 (3.18%) Legal
12 6 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (2.73%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.36%) Retail
14 2 (0.91%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (35.00%) React
2 50 (22.73%) Node.js
3 47 (21.36%) AngularJS
4 46 (20.91%) Vue
5 45 (20.45%) NumPy
5 45 (20.45%) Pandas
6 41 (18.64%) SciPy
7 35 (15.91%) RESTful
8 31 (14.09%) REST
9 29 (13.18%) Flask
10 27 (12.27%) Django
11 22 (10.00%) FastAPI
12 18 (8.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 14 (6.36%) Kafka
14 12 (5.45%) Swagger
15 10 (4.55%) LangChain
16 7 (3.18%) PyTorch
17 5 (2.27%) PyXLL
18 4 (1.82%) CSS
18 4 (1.82%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 64 (29.09%) Equities
2 42 (19.09%) Fixed Income
3 41 (18.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 26 (11.82%) Hedge funds
4 26 (11.82%) Management Information System
5 22 (10.00%) Algorithms
6 19 (8.64%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.64%) AI Agents
7 8 (3.64%) Low-Code
8 6 (2.73%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (2.27%) Grid Computing
10 3 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.45%) Blockchain
12 1 (0.45%) Derivative
12 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (45.00%) Agile
2 81 (36.82%) Software Engineering
3 59 (26.82%) CI/CD
3 59 (26.82%) Order Management
4 55 (25.00%) Fintech
5 48 (21.82%) Test Automation
6 44 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (19.55%) Asset Management
7 43 (19.55%) Risk Management
8 41 (18.64%) AI
8 41 (18.64%) Investment Management
8 41 (18.64%) Performance Attribution
9 32 (14.55%) Containerisation
10 29 (13.18%) TDD
11 28 (12.73%) Pair Programming
12 27 (12.27%) Mentoring
13 26 (11.82%) Scrum
14 25 (11.36%) Operational Stability
15 24 (10.91%) OOP
16 23 (10.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 220 (100.00%) Python
2 62 (28.18%) TypeScript
3 54 (24.55%) JavaScript
4 34 (15.45%) SQL
5 29 (13.18%) C++
6 12 (5.45%) Java
7 9 (4.09%) C#
8 3 (1.36%) Bash
8 3 (1.36%) Bicep
9 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.91%) Ruby
9 2 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (8.64%) Degree
2 6 (2.73%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.27%) PhD
4 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.36%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.91%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.36%) QA
2 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.91%) GDPR
3 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.91%) PSD2
System Software
1 31 (14.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 25 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.45%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (7.73%) Databricks
2 12 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.55%) Google
3 10 (4.55%) SAP
4 8 (3.64%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.73%) iManage
6 2 (0.91%) Foundry
6 2 (0.91%) Solace
6 2 (0.91%) Splunk
7 1 (0.45%) UiPath