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 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 171 219
Rank change year-on-year -106 +48 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Python Developer 187 245 279
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.72% 2.08% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 2.29% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 133 179 214
10th Percentile £62,500 £63,950 £54,650
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,750 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £95,000 £102,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £137,500 £136,250
90th Percentile £138,500 - £165,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% -10.53% -

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 24,072 10,722 17,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 90.97% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,132 6,932 10,838
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -3 22 £85,000 - 15
West London - 3 - -
South London - 1 - -
East London - 1 - -
Python Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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.

1 187 (100.00%) Python
2 68 (36.36%) AI
3 67 (35.83%) AWS
4 61 (32.62%) Software Engineering
5 42 (22.46%) SQL
6 39 (20.86%) Azure
7 38 (20.32%) CI/CD
8 29 (15.51%) FastAPI
9 28 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
10 23 (12.30%) Docker
10 23 (12.30%) Test Automation
11 22 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (11.76%) GCP
11 22 (11.76%) Observability
11 22 (11.76%) RESTful
12 20 (10.70%) LLM
13 19 (10.16%) Generative AI
13 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (10.16%) Investment Management
14 18 (9.63%) Agile
14 18 (9.63%) Fintech
15 17 (9.09%) Data Engineering
15 17 (9.09%) DevOps
15 17 (9.09%) Kubernetes
15 17 (9.09%) Validation
16 16 (8.56%) Amazon Bedrock
16 16 (8.56%) Analytics
16 16 (8.56%) Pair Programming
17 15 (8.02%) API Development
17 15 (8.02%) Django

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 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 67 (35.83%) AWS
2 39 (20.86%) Azure
3 22 (11.76%) GCP
4 16 (8.56%) Amazon Bedrock
5 15 (8.02%) SaaS
6 9 (4.81%) GitHub
7 7 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.74%) Serverless
8 5 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.67%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.14%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.14%) Kong
9 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.81%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) 4G
2 1 (0.53%) 5G
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) SSH
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.42%) MongoDB
3 8 (4.28%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.67%) MySQL
5 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.14%) Power BI
7 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.07%) Big Data
8 2 (1.07%) Chroma
8 2 (1.07%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.07%) Redis
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (5.35%) Git
2 6 (3.21%) GitLab
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
4 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (28.88%) Finance
2 33 (17.65%) Front Office
3 26 (13.90%) Banking
4 24 (12.83%) Social Skills
5 13 (6.95%) Marketing
6 10 (5.35%) Tech for Good
7 9 (4.81%) Games
7 9 (4.81%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.67%) Law
9 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.14%) Publishing
10 3 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Back Office
12 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.51%) FastAPI
2 22 (11.76%) RESTful
3 15 (8.02%) Django
3 15 (8.02%) LangChain
3 15 (8.02%) LangGraph
4 14 (7.49%) CrewAI
5 13 (6.95%) pydantic
5 13 (6.95%) React
6 12 (6.42%) Terraform
7 11 (5.88%) REST
8 9 (4.81%) Flask
9 7 (3.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 4 (2.14%) Kafka
10 4 (2.14%) Next.js
10 4 (2.14%) Node.js
10 4 (2.14%) Pandas
10 4 (2.14%) Swagger
11 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.60%) NumPy
11 3 (1.60%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.51%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (14.44%) Hedge funds
3 16 (8.56%) AI Agents
4 15 (8.02%) Cloud Native
4 15 (8.02%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (7.49%) Equities
6 13 (6.95%) Low-Code
7 10 (5.35%) Algorithms
7 10 (5.35%) Data Structures
8 9 (4.81%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
10 6 (3.21%) Derivative
10 6 (3.21%) Market Risk
11 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (2.14%) Fixed Income
11 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.36%) AI
2 61 (32.62%) Software Engineering
3 38 (20.32%) CI/CD
4 23 (12.30%) Test Automation
5 22 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (11.76%) Observability
6 20 (10.70%) LLM
7 19 (10.16%) Generative AI
7 19 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (10.16%) Investment Management
8 18 (9.63%) Agile
8 18 (9.63%) Fintech
9 17 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 17 (9.09%) DevOps
9 17 (9.09%) Validation
10 16 (8.56%) Analytics
10 16 (8.56%) Pair Programming
11 15 (8.02%) API Development
12 14 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
13 13 (6.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 187 (100.00%) Python
2 42 (22.46%) SQL
3 14 (7.49%) R
4 10 (5.35%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.81%) Go
5 9 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.28%) C#
7 7 (3.74%) C++
8 3 (1.60%) Java
9 2 (1.07%) Bash
9 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (3.21%) Degree
2 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.42%) QA
2 2 (1.07%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (12.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Grafana
3 2 (1.07%) Kibana
3 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) logstash
4 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (6.95%) Google
2 8 (4.28%) Databricks
3 5 (2.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.07%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.07%) Mistral
4 2 (1.07%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle
5 1 (0.53%) Autodesk