Python Developer Job Trends in London

Python Developer
England > London

The median Python Developer salary in London is £92,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 221 162
Rank change year-on-year +55 -59 +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 228 253 386
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.85% 1.46% 1.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.54% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 161 192 363
10th Percentile £64,000 £52,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £133,750
90th Percentile - £145,875 £150,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -10.53% +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 11,232 16,454 18,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 95.01% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,362 10,107 15,114
10th Percentile £35,775 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 8 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 8 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 +24 30 £85,000 +54.55% 90
Python Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 228 (100.00%) Python
2 114 (50.00%) Agile
3 103 (45.18%) AWS
4 94 (41.23%) React
5 93 (40.79%) Software Engineering
6 76 (33.33%) TypeScript
7 74 (32.46%) PostgreSQL
8 72 (31.58%) Order Management
9 70 (30.70%) GCP
10 68 (29.82%) CI/CD
10 68 (29.82%) JavaScript
11 64 (28.07%) AngularJS
12 62 (27.19%) Fintech
12 62 (27.19%) Node.js
12 62 (27.19%) Pandas
12 62 (27.19%) Vue
13 61 (26.75%) NumPy
14 57 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
14 57 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
14 57 (25.00%) dbt
14 57 (25.00%) Risk Management
15 56 (24.56%) Asset Management
16 54 (23.68%) Investment Management
16 54 (23.68%) Test Automation
17 53 (23.25%) Apache Airflow
17 53 (23.25%) Apache Arrow
17 53 (23.25%) Azure
17 53 (23.25%) Dremio
17 53 (23.25%) Performance Attribution
17 53 (23.25%) 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 53 (23.25%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.75%) Apache
5 3 (1.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 103 (45.18%) AWS
2 70 (30.70%) GCP
3 57 (25.00%) dbt
4 53 (23.25%) Azure
5 29 (12.72%) Serverless
6 27 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (7.02%) GitHub
8 12 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 11 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (4.39%) Azure AI
11 8 (3.51%) n8n
11 8 (3.51%) Power Platform
12 6 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.88%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 2 (0.88%) Copilot Studio
15 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
15 2 (0.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) FTP
2 2 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (32.46%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 53 (23.25%) Apache Arrow
3 53 (23.25%) Dremio
4 28 (12.28%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 15 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (6.14%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (6.14%) Tick Data
8 13 (5.70%) Relational Database
9 12 (5.26%) Big Data
10 11 (4.82%) RDBMS
11 9 (3.95%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.88%) MySQL
14 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
14 1 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (9.65%) Git
2 3 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.88%) JIRA
3 2 (0.88%) Maven
3 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 134 (58.77%) Finance
2 82 (35.96%) Front Office
3 31 (13.60%) Social Skills
4 26 (11.40%) Marketing
5 23 (10.09%) Banking
6 22 (9.65%) Health Technology
7 21 (9.21%) Publishing
7 21 (9.21%) Tech for Good
8 19 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (4.82%) Electronics
9 11 (4.82%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.82%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.82%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
11 8 (3.51%) Legal
12 7 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (3.07%) Investment Banking
12 7 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (2.19%) Law
14 2 (0.88%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (41.23%) React
2 64 (28.07%) AngularJS
3 62 (27.19%) Node.js
3 62 (27.19%) Pandas
3 62 (27.19%) Vue
4 61 (26.75%) NumPy
5 53 (23.25%) SciPy
6 38 (16.67%) Flask
7 33 (14.47%) REST
8 31 (13.60%) RESTful
9 29 (12.72%) Django
10 23 (10.09%) FastAPI
11 19 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 15 (6.58%) Swagger
13 12 (5.26%) Kafka
14 10 (4.39%) LangChain
14 10 (4.39%) PySpark
15 8 (3.51%) CSS
15 8 (3.51%) HTML
16 6 (2.63%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 77 (33.77%) Equities
2 54 (23.68%) Fixed Income
3 53 (23.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 29 (12.72%) Hedge funds
4 29 (12.72%) Management Information System
5 23 (10.09%) Algorithms
6 20 (8.77%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.51%) AI Agents
7 8 (3.51%) Low-Code
8 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.19%) Grid Computing
9 5 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
12 1 (0.44%) Derivative
12 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.44%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (50.00%) Agile
2 93 (40.79%) Software Engineering
3 72 (31.58%) Order Management
4 68 (29.82%) CI/CD
5 62 (27.19%) Fintech
6 57 (25.00%) Risk Management
7 56 (24.56%) Asset Management
8 54 (23.68%) Investment Management
8 54 (23.68%) Test Automation
9 53 (23.25%) Performance Attribution
10 41 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (17.54%) Containerisation
12 30 (13.16%) TDD
13 29 (12.72%) OO
14 28 (12.28%) AI
14 28 (12.28%) OOP
15 26 (11.40%) Pair Programming
16 24 (10.53%) Mentoring
17 22 (9.65%) Data Science
17 22 (9.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 228 (100.00%) Python
2 76 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 68 (29.82%) JavaScript
4 39 (17.11%) SQL
5 30 (13.16%) C++
6 13 (5.70%) Java
7 9 (3.95%) C#
8 5 (2.19%) Bash
9 3 (1.32%) Bicep
9 3 (1.32%) Scala
10 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.88%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) Clojure
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (9.21%) Degree
2 7 (3.07%) Master's Degree
3 6 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.19%) PhD
5 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.32%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.35%) QA
2 6 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.88%) GDPR
3 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.88%) PSD2
4 1 (0.44%) MiFID
System Software
1 38 (16.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.19%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.46%) Terraform
3 1 (0.44%) Grafana
3 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (12.72%) Databricks
2 14 (6.14%) Google
3 12 (5.26%) SAP
4 10 (4.39%) Microsoft
5 8 (3.51%) OpenAI
6 6 (2.63%) iManage
7 4 (1.75%) Splunk
8 2 (0.88%) Foundry
8 2 (0.88%) Solace
9 1 (0.44%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.44%) Reuters
9 1 (0.44%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.44%) UiPath