Python Developer Job Trends in London

Python Developer
England > London

The median Python Developer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 158 217
Rank change year-on-year -115 +59 -35
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 180 266 294
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 2.22% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 2.43% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 130 201 233
10th Percentile £62,250 £63,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -18.18% +7.32%
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £142,500
90th Percentile £122,000 - £168,000
England median annual salary £71,250 £85,000 £97,250
% change year-on-year -16.18% -12.60% +8.06%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 22,910 10,961 18,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 91.30% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15,812 7,151 11,736
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -0.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -8.33%

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 10 September 2026.

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 10 September 2026. 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 -23 25 £85,000 +6.25% 5
West London - 3 - - 4
South London - 1 - - 1
East London - 1 - - 3
Python Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 2026, 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.

1 180 (100.00%) Python
2 56 (31.11%) AWS
3 49 (27.22%) Software Engineering
4 47 (26.11%) SQL
5 46 (25.56%) AI
6 34 (18.89%) CI/CD
7 28 (15.56%) FastAPI
8 25 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (13.89%) RESTful
9 23 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (12.22%) Test Automation
11 21 (11.67%) Fintech
12 20 (11.11%) Django
12 20 (11.11%) Docker
13 17 (9.44%) Analytics
13 17 (9.44%) Azure
13 17 (9.44%) Data Engineering
13 17 (9.44%) Microservices
13 17 (9.44%) Observability
14 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (8.89%) REST
15 15 (8.33%) API Development
15 15 (8.33%) Kubernetes
15 15 (8.33%) Linux
15 15 (8.33%) OO
15 15 (8.33%) Validation
16 14 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (7.78%) DevOps
16 14 (7.78%) Flask
16 14 (7.78%) Machine Learning

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 9 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Apache
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.11%) AWS
2 17 (9.44%) Azure
3 14 (7.78%) SaaS
4 8 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (3.89%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.89%) Serverless
6 6 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon Bedrock
8 4 (2.22%) GCP
8 4 (2.22%) Kong
9 3 (1.67%) GitHub
9 3 (1.67%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.11%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.00%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) 4G
2 1 (0.56%) 5G
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) SSH
2 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.44%) Big Data
5 5 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.78%) MySQL
5 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.67%) Power BI
6 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.11%) Redis
8 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (1.11%) GitLab
2 2 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 45 (25.00%) Finance
2 23 (12.78%) Front Office
3 14 (7.78%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.56%) Banking
5 9 (5.00%) Games
5 9 (5.00%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.00%) Tech for Good
6 4 (2.22%) Publishing
7 3 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.67%) Law
8 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.11%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Back Office
9 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.56%) FastAPI
2 25 (13.89%) RESTful
3 20 (11.11%) Django
4 16 (8.89%) REST
5 14 (7.78%) Flask
6 11 (6.11%) Terraform
7 10 (5.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 10 (5.56%) Kafka
8 9 (5.00%) React
9 7 (3.89%) Pandas
10 6 (3.33%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.33%) NumPy
11 4 (2.22%) Next.js
11 4 (2.22%) Node.js
11 4 (2.22%) Swagger
12 3 (1.67%) Plotly
13 2 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
13 2 (1.11%) Jinja
13 2 (1.11%) PySpark
13 2 (1.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.11%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (11.67%) Hedge funds
3 18 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 16 (8.89%) Algorithms
5 15 (8.33%) Equities
6 13 (7.22%) Data Structures
6 13 (7.22%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (7.22%) Low-Code
7 10 (5.56%) Management Information System
8 9 (5.00%) Fixed Income
8 9 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (3.89%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (2.78%) Market Risk
11 4 (2.22%) Derivative
11 4 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.67%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.22%) Software Engineering
2 46 (25.56%) AI
3 34 (18.89%) CI/CD
4 23 (12.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (12.22%) Test Automation
6 21 (11.67%) Fintech
7 17 (9.44%) Analytics
7 17 (9.44%) Data Engineering
7 17 (9.44%) Microservices
7 17 (9.44%) Observability
8 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (8.33%) API Development
9 15 (8.33%) OO
9 15 (8.33%) Validation
10 14 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (7.78%) DevOps
10 14 (7.78%) Machine Learning
10 14 (7.78%) OOP
11 13 (7.22%) Agile
11 13 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 180 (100.00%) Python
2 47 (26.11%) SQL
3 10 (5.56%) C++
4 9 (5.00%) Go
5 8 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.89%) C#
7 5 (2.78%) Java
8 2 (1.11%) Bash
8 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (4.44%) Degree
2 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.11%) Grafana
2 2 (1.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.56%) Kibana
3 1 (0.56%) logstash
3 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (5.00%) Databricks
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.11%) Oracle