Python Jobs in London

Python
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,609 3,910 4,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.69% 16.51% 16.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.62% 40.99% 34.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 2,959 3,812
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £143,750 £142,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Programming Languages
London

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,479 9,539 13,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.34% 40.28% 46.98%
Number of salaries quoted 3,639 7,305 11,444
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £132,500 £122,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in London

Python
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in London.

Salary trend for Python in London

Python
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in London

Python
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 10 July 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 +5 481 £85,000 +13.33% 337
South London +39 104 £65,000 -7.14% 48
West London +44 59 £62,500 +13.64% 104
East London -3 35 £83,750 +4.69% 80
North London +1 22 £56,250 -19.64% 25
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 281 (10.77%) Apache Airflow
2 194 (7.44%) Apache
3 140 (5.37%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.77%) Confluence
7 17 (0.65%) nginx
8 14 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.38%) SAS
10 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.19%) Luigi
10 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
11 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.15%) Drupal
11 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.15%) Traefik
11 4 (0.15%) WordPress
12 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 63 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.23%) SPSS
4 5 (0.19%) InDesign
5 4 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.077%) Stata
6 2 (0.077%) Trello
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.038%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.038%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 50 (1.92%) Aladdin
2 39 (1.49%) thinkFolio
3 9 (0.34%) Shopify
4 6 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.19%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.077%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.077%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.038%) Actimize
9 1 (0.038%) Lorenzo
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.038%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.038%) Summit
9 1 (0.038%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (47.64%) AWS
2 792 (30.36%) Azure
3 479 (18.36%) GCP
4 330 (12.65%) Serverless
5 274 (10.50%) dbt
6 258 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
7 219 (8.39%) Snowflake
8 154 (5.90%) Power Platform
9 131 (5.02%) SaaS
10 118 (4.52%) GitHub
11 113 (4.33%) Amazon S3
12 112 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
13 106 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
14 90 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
15 86 (3.30%) Pulumi
16 74 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
17 73 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
18 52 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (1.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 187 (7.17%) Broadband
2 85 (3.26%) Firewall
3 43 (1.65%) DNS
4 39 (1.49%) VPN
5 37 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.30%) SSL
7 32 (1.23%) HTTP
8 29 (1.11%) BGP
9 28 (1.07%) Network Security
10 26 (1.00%) WAN
11 25 (0.96%) Multicast
12 24 (0.92%) SSH
13 23 (0.88%) VLAN
14 22 (0.84%) OSPF
15 18 (0.69%) LAN
16 16 (0.61%) MPLS
17 15 (0.57%) DHCP
18 14 (0.54%) SD-WAN
19 9 (0.34%) Wireshark
20 8 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (9.12%) Amazon Athena
2 223 (8.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 210 (8.05%) Dremio
4 203 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
5 202 (7.74%) Apache Arrow
5 202 (7.74%) Relational Database
6 177 (6.78%) NoSQL
7 176 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
8 159 (6.09%) Data Lake
9 141 (5.40%) Power BI
10 115 (4.41%) Apache Ignite
11 102 (3.91%) RDBMS
12 98 (3.76%) Tableau
13 79 (3.03%) DynamoDB
14 78 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
15 76 (2.91%) SQL Server
16 67 (2.57%) Big Data
17 51 (1.95%) MySQL
18 48 (1.84%) MongoDB
19 41 (1.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 213 (8.16%) Git
2 109 (4.18%) Jenkins
3 67 (2.57%) Jaeger
4 66 (2.53%) GitLab
4 66 (2.53%) JIRA
5 47 (1.80%) Artifactory
6 31 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 28 (1.07%) JMeter
9 21 (0.80%) JUnit
9 21 (0.80%) Selenium
10 18 (0.69%) Mockito
11 15 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.50%) Bitbucket
12 13 (0.50%) Postman
13 10 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 10 (0.38%) MLflow
14 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.34%) Maven
14 9 (0.34%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,152 (44.15%) Finance
2 490 (18.78%) Front Office
3 489 (18.74%) Social Skills
4 459 (17.59%) Banking
5 409 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
6 370 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 290 (11.12%) Law
8 184 (7.05%) Marketing
9 152 (5.83%) Investment Banking
10 85 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 71 (2.72%) Games
12 61 (2.34%) Retail
13 51 (1.95%) Legal
13 51 (1.95%) Telecoms
14 48 (1.84%) Advertising
15 39 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (1.42%) Publishing
17 35 (1.34%) Manufacturing
18 31 (1.19%) Financial Institution
19 24 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 691 (26.49%) Senior
2 563 (21.58%) Developer
3 489 (18.74%) Software Engineer
4 382 (14.64%) Lead
5 345 (13.22%) Python Engineer
6 303 (11.61%) Data Engineer
7 273 (10.46%) AWS Engineer
8 245 (9.39%) Python Developer
9 238 (9.12%) Analyst
10 228 (8.74%) Python Software Engineer
11 184 (7.05%) AWS Software Engineer
12 181 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 162 (6.21%) Senior Developer
14 157 (6.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 149 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
16 133 (5.10%) AWS Developer
17 121 (4.64%) Java Engineer
18 113 (4.33%) Java Software Engineer
19 112 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
20 84 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (14.56%) React
2 226 (8.66%) Pandas
3 202 (7.74%) PySpark
4 183 (7.01%) Node.js
5 175 (6.71%) NumPy
6 166 (6.36%) Kafka
7 153 (5.86%) REST
8 146 (5.60%) SciPy
9 126 (4.83%) AngularJS
10 113 (4.33%) RESTful
11 107 (4.10%) Django
12 106 (4.06%) Vue
13 88 (3.37%) Flask
14 87 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
15 85 (3.26%) gRPC
16 79 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
16 79 (3.03%) Protocol Buffers
17 78 (2.99%) .NET
18 73 (2.80%) GraphQL
19 72 (2.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 318 (12.19%) Fixed Income
2 264 (10.12%) Hedge funds
3 258 (9.89%) Equities
4 234 (8.97%) Derivative
5 201 (7.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 154 (5.90%) Cloud Native
7 148 (5.67%) Algorithms
8 94 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
9 91 (3.49%) Onboarding
10 87 (3.33%) Management Information System
10 87 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
11 77 (2.95%) Data Structures
12 65 (2.49%) Public Cloud
13 64 (2.45%) Pricing Data
14 61 (2.34%) Product Ownership
15 55 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (1.38%) Cyberattack
16 36 (1.38%) Data Centre
17 32 (1.23%) Robotics
18 31 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 339 (12.99%) Linux
2 140 (5.37%) Unix
3 87 (3.33%) Windows
4 25 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.84%) Android
7 18 (0.69%) CentOS
8 13 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.38%) Rocky
10 5 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.19%) zOS
11 4 (0.15%) Solaris
11 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.11%) Debian
12 3 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.038%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (40.40%) Agile
2 752 (28.82%) CI/CD
3 729 (27.94%) Software Engineering
4 615 (23.57%) DevOps
5 604 (23.15%) Problem-Solving
6 491 (18.82%) Analytics
7 468 (17.94%) Artificial Intelligence
8 416 (15.94%) Machine Learning
9 408 (15.64%) Mentoring
10 403 (15.45%) Data Science
11 338 (12.96%) Asset Management
11 338 (12.96%) Containerisation
12 299 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 283 (10.85%) Computer Science
14 276 (10.58%) Investment Management
15 259 (9.93%) Data Engineering
16 253 (9.70%) ETL
16 253 (9.70%) Roadmaps
17 249 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
18 232 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 841 (32.23%) SQL
2 634 (24.30%) Java
3 497 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 479 (18.36%) TypeScript
5 270 (10.35%) Bash
6 264 (10.12%) Go
7 209 (8.01%) PowerShell
8 177 (6.78%) C++
9 136 (5.21%) C#
10 73 (2.80%) R
11 72 (2.76%) Scala
12 65 (2.49%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.88%) Rust
14 36 (1.38%) C
15 33 (1.26%) Perl
16 27 (1.03%) MATLAB
17 20 (0.77%) Kotlin
18 18 (0.69%) T-SQL
19 17 (0.65%) Bicep
19 17 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 504 (19.32%) Degree
2 152 (5.83%) AWS Certification
2 152 (5.83%) PhD
3 134 (5.14%) Master's Degree
4 117 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 117 (4.48%) Security Cleared
5 69 (2.64%) SC Cleared
6 51 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 36 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.07%) CCNP
9 27 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 27 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 23 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.80%) CCNA
12 17 (0.65%) CISSP
13 16 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 14 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (0.54%) OSCP
15 12 (0.46%) GCIA
15 12 (0.46%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (3.87%) QA
2 89 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.38%) GDPR
4 59 (2.26%) NIST
5 51 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 15 (0.57%) SLA
8 13 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.34%) IFRS
11 8 (0.31%) GRC
11 8 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.27%) IFRS 9
13 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.15%) CDISC
15 3 (0.11%) HL7
15 3 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
15 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.077%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 482 (18.47%) Docker
2 77 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.19%) Apache Flume
6 5 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.19%) vSphere
7 4 (0.15%) KVM
7 4 (0.15%) ProxySG
7 4 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.15%) zsh
8 3 (0.11%) Xen
9 2 (0.077%) Firmware
9 2 (0.077%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.038%) Corosync
10 1 (0.038%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 514 (19.70%) Kubernetes
2 489 (18.74%) Terraform
3 258 (9.89%) Ansible
4 149 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 96 (3.68%) Grafana
6 71 (2.72%) Argo
7 70 (2.68%) Kustomize
8 28 (1.07%) Kibana
8 28 (1.07%) Puppet
9 27 (1.03%) Nagios
10 23 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
12 13 (0.50%) Istio
13 12 (0.46%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
15 8 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
15 8 (0.31%) Mesos
16 7 (0.27%) HAProxy
17 6 (0.23%) FortiGate
17 6 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 231 (8.85%) Microsoft
2 229 (8.78%) Google
3 219 (8.39%) Databricks
4 65 (2.49%) Splunk
5 49 (1.88%) BISAM
6 48 (1.84%) VMware
7 47 (1.80%) Oracle
8 45 (1.72%) Charles River
8 45 (1.72%) SimCorp
9 41 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 41 (1.57%) SAP
10 39 (1.49%) Calypso
11 30 (1.15%) Cisco
11 30 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.07%) SolarWinds
13 26 (1.00%) Dynatrace
14 24 (0.92%) Adobe
15 22 (0.84%) Thales
16 21 (0.80%) Trayport