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 29 November 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 226 159
Rank change year-on-year +56 -67 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 225 238 372
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.71% 1.37% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.44% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 162 180 351
10th Percentile £61,500 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,625 £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 £142,875 £150,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +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 11,942 16,474 17,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.56% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,747 10,025 14,453
10th Percentile £36,000 £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 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +12 31 £85,000 +54.55% 8
Python Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 November 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.

1 225 (100.00%) Python
2 107 (47.56%) Agile
3 93 (41.33%) AWS
4 84 (37.33%) React
5 83 (36.89%) Software Engineering
6 66 (29.33%) TypeScript
7 62 (27.56%) CI/CD
7 62 (27.56%) Order Management
7 62 (27.56%) PostgreSQL
8 59 (26.22%) JavaScript
9 58 (25.78%) GCP
10 57 (25.33%) Fintech
11 53 (23.56%) Node.js
12 51 (22.67%) AngularJS
12 51 (22.67%) Pandas
13 50 (22.22%) NumPy
14 49 (21.78%) Test Automation
14 49 (21.78%) Vue
15 48 (21.33%) Risk Management
16 47 (20.89%) Asset Management
17 46 (20.44%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (20.44%) Apache Iceberg
17 46 (20.44%) Azure
17 46 (20.44%) dbt
18 44 (19.56%) Apache Airflow
18 44 (19.56%) Apache Arrow
18 44 (19.56%) Dremio
18 44 (19.56%) Investment Management
18 44 (19.56%) Performance Attribution
18 44 (19.56%) SciPy

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 44 (19.56%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.89%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.78%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.89%) Apache
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 93 (41.33%) AWS
2 58 (25.78%) GCP
3 46 (20.44%) Azure
3 46 (20.44%) dbt
4 31 (13.78%) Serverless
5 29 (12.89%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (8.89%) GitHub
7 15 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (4.89%) Azure AI
9 8 (3.56%) n8n
9 8 (3.56%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.22%) SaaS
12 3 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.89%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) FTP
2 2 (0.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.56%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (20.44%) Amazon Athena
2 46 (20.44%) Apache Iceberg
3 44 (19.56%) Apache Arrow
3 44 (19.56%) Dremio
4 24 (10.67%) NoSQL
5 16 (7.11%) DynamoDB
6 14 (6.22%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (5.33%) Big Data
7 12 (5.33%) Tick Data
8 11 (4.89%) Relational Database
9 10 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.00%) RDBMS
11 7 (3.11%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.89%) MySQL
13 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (8.00%) Git
2 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.89%) JIRA
3 2 (0.89%) Maven
3 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (54.22%) Finance
2 72 (32.00%) Front Office
3 41 (18.22%) Social Skills
4 27 (12.00%) Health Technology
4 27 (12.00%) Publishing
5 26 (11.56%) Tech for Good
6 20 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (8.44%) Marketing
8 17 (7.56%) Banking
9 13 (5.78%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (5.78%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (4.00%) Electronics
10 9 (4.00%) Manufacturing
10 9 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 9 (4.00%) Telecoms
11 8 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.56%) Legal
12 6 (2.67%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.33%) Law
14 2 (0.89%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (37.33%) React
2 53 (23.56%) Node.js
3 51 (22.67%) AngularJS
3 51 (22.67%) Pandas
4 50 (22.22%) NumPy
5 49 (21.78%) Vue
6 44 (19.56%) SciPy
7 36 (16.00%) RESTful
8 31 (13.78%) REST
9 30 (13.33%) Flask
10 27 (12.00%) Django
11 23 (10.22%) FastAPI
12 18 (8.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 14 (6.22%) Kafka
14 13 (5.78%) Swagger
15 10 (4.44%) LangChain
16 7 (3.11%) PyTorch
17 5 (2.22%) CSS
17 5 (2.22%) PySpark
17 5 (2.22%) PyXLL
Miscellaneous
1 67 (29.78%) Equities
2 45 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 44 (19.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (12.89%) Hedge funds
5 26 (11.56%) Management Information System
6 22 (9.78%) Algorithms
7 19 (8.44%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.56%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.56%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.67%) Cloud Native
10 5 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.22%) Grid Computing
11 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.44%) Blockchain
13 1 (0.44%) Derivative
13 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.44%) Reinsurance
13 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (47.56%) Agile
2 83 (36.89%) Software Engineering
3 62 (27.56%) CI/CD
3 62 (27.56%) Order Management
4 57 (25.33%) Fintech
5 49 (21.78%) Test Automation
6 48 (21.33%) Risk Management
7 47 (20.89%) Asset Management
8 44 (19.56%) Investment Management
8 44 (19.56%) Performance Attribution
9 42 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.00%) AI
11 32 (14.22%) Containerisation
12 31 (13.78%) TDD
13 30 (13.33%) Pair Programming
14 28 (12.44%) Mentoring
15 27 (12.00%) Scrum
16 26 (11.56%) Operational Stability
17 25 (11.11%) OO
18 24 (10.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 225 (100.00%) Python
2 66 (29.33%) TypeScript
3 59 (26.22%) JavaScript
4 36 (16.00%) SQL
5 29 (12.89%) C++
6 12 (5.33%) Java
7 9 (4.00%) C#
8 4 (1.78%) Bash
9 3 (1.33%) Bicep
9 3 (1.33%) Scala
10 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.89%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) Clojure
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (10.22%) Degree
2 7 (3.11%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.22%) PhD
4 4 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.89%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.44%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (16.44%) QA
2 4 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.89%) GDPR
3 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.89%) PSD2
4 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (14.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.78%) zsh
Systems Management
1 26 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.33%) Terraform
3 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (8.44%) Databricks
2 11 (4.89%) Google
2 11 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.44%) SAP
4 8 (3.56%) OpenAI
5 6 (2.67%) iManage
6 2 (0.89%) Foundry
6 2 (0.89%) Solace
6 2 (0.89%) Splunk
7 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.44%) Reuters
7 1 (0.44%) UiPath