Python Job Trends in London

Python
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,430 2,336 3,860
As % of all permanent jobs in London 11.41% 19.12% 15.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.44% 46.03% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,620 1,557 2,952
10th Percentile £49,525 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,563
90th Percentile £120,000 £137,500 £143,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

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 5,348 5,075 9,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.11% 41.54% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,771 3,503 7,631
10th Percentile £50,000 £49,400 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £132,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Python job vacancy trend in London

Python
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 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 -1 423 £87,500 +4.48% 165
West London +26 56 £82,500 +29.41% 46
South London +15 36 £55,200 -15.08% 11
East London +9 29 £32,500 -63.89% 37
Python
England

Python
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
1 130 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (5.31%) Apache Spark
3 80 (3.29%) Apache
4 26 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
5 24 (0.99%) SAS
6 20 (0.82%) Jupyter
7 15 (0.62%) Confluence
8 13 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.53%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.49%) WordPress
10 8 (0.33%) Appian
11 6 (0.25%) IIS
12 3 (0.12%) CMS
13 2 (0.082%) Apache Pulsar
13 2 (0.082%) Apache Superset
13 2 (0.082%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.082%) nginx
13 2 (0.082%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.041%) Drupal
14 1 (0.041%) GeoServer
Applications
1 69 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (0.99%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.66%) Chatbot
5 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.12%) Blender
7 3 (0.12%) Maya
8 2 (0.082%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.041%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.041%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.21%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.082%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.082%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.082%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.041%) Endur
7 1 (0.041%) FastStats
7 1 (0.041%) Findur
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.041%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 898 (36.95%) AWS
2 739 (30.41%) Azure
3 381 (15.68%) GCP
4 199 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 183 (7.53%) GitHub
6 138 (5.68%) SaaS
7 137 (5.64%) Serverless
8 102 (4.20%) Amazon S3
9 96 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
10 95 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (3.70%) Snowflake
12 89 (3.66%) dbt
13 84 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
14 81 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 72 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
16 62 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
17 60 (2.47%) Azure AI
18 59 (2.43%) Anthropic Claude
18 59 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 47 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (5.68%) Broadband
2 72 (2.96%) Firewall
3 63 (2.59%) Network Security
4 56 (2.30%) DNS
5 44 (1.81%) VPN
6 38 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.48%) WAN
8 33 (1.36%) Wireless
9 30 (1.23%) SD-WAN
10 29 (1.19%) BGP
11 28 (1.15%) LAN
12 21 (0.86%) Internet
12 21 (0.86%) Multicast
13 17 (0.70%) SSL
13 17 (0.70%) VLAN
14 15 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
14 15 (0.62%) Cisco Wireless
14 15 (0.62%) MPLS
14 15 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
15 14 (0.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (7.37%) Power BI
2 138 (5.68%) Tableau
3 121 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
4 113 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 90 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 89 (3.66%) Data Lake
7 87 (3.58%) BigQuery
8 85 (3.50%) Relational Database
9 73 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
10 69 (2.84%) SQL Server
11 58 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (2.39%) MongoDB
12 56 (2.30%) Metadata
13 49 (2.02%) Big Data
14 38 (1.56%) Delta Lake
15 36 (1.48%) DynamoDB
16 35 (1.44%) MySQL
17 29 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
17 29 (1.19%) Spark SQL
18 28 (1.15%) Looker
Development Applications
1 265 (10.91%) Git
2 112 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 98 (4.03%) GitLab
4 64 (2.63%) JIRA
5 41 (1.69%) MLflow
6 30 (1.23%) Claude Code
7 22 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 20 (0.82%) Postman
9 16 (0.66%) IBM UrbanCode
9 16 (0.66%) TeamCity
10 15 (0.62%) Jaeger
10 15 (0.62%) Selenium
11 13 (0.53%) CircleCI
11 13 (0.53%) Metasploit
11 13 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (0.41%) Vite
13 9 (0.37%) Burp Suite
14 8 (0.33%) Maven
15 7 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.29%) ERwin
General
1 751 (30.91%) Finance
2 572 (23.54%) Social Skills
3 337 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (8.85%) Banking
5 182 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 130 (5.35%) Front Office
7 84 (3.46%) Public Sector
8 77 (3.17%) Law
9 69 (2.84%) Legal
10 63 (2.59%) Retail
11 59 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 46 (1.89%) Marketing
13 45 (1.85%) Investment Banking
14 30 (1.23%) Games
15 28 (1.15%) Advertising
16 26 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.86%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.82%) Multimedia
19 16 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 532 (21.89%) Senior
2 453 (18.64%) Developer
3 302 (12.43%) Python Engineer
4 277 (11.40%) Software Engineer
5 260 (10.70%) Lead
6 254 (10.45%) Data Engineer
7 226 (9.30%) Python Developer
8 195 (8.02%) Analyst
9 130 (5.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 119 (4.90%) Python Software Engineer
11 112 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
12 109 (4.49%) Senior Developer
13 101 (4.16%) Architect
14 98 (4.03%) Data Analyst
14 98 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 87 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
16 83 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
17 78 (3.21%) Senior Software Engineer
18 77 (3.17%) Consultant
19 73 (3.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (7.70%) React
2 184 (7.57%) Kafka
3 128 (5.27%) RESTful
4 120 (4.94%) Django
5 113 (4.65%) PySpark
6 111 (4.57%) FastAPI
7 103 (4.24%) LangChain
8 102 (4.20%) Node.js
8 102 (4.20%) PyTorch
9 97 (3.99%) REST
10 80 (3.29%) TensorFlow
11 77 (3.17%) .NET
12 65 (2.67%) Flask
13 62 (2.55%) LangGraph
13 62 (2.55%) Pandas
14 55 (2.26%) Next.js
15 50 (2.06%) scikit-learn
16 42 (1.73%) Redux
17 41 (1.69%) LlamaIndex
18 40 (1.65%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 250 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 183 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (6.54%) Algorithms
4 128 (5.27%) Data Structures
5 112 (4.61%) AI Agents
6 84 (3.46%) Fixed Income
7 82 (3.37%) Equities
8 74 (3.05%) Video\Live Streaming
9 65 (2.67%) Hedge funds
9 65 (2.67%) Security Posture
10 59 (2.43%) Derivative
11 58 (2.39%) Public Cloud
12 56 (2.30%) Onboarding
13 54 (2.22%) Management Information System
14 50 (2.06%) Data Centre
15 47 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
15 47 (1.93%) Product Ownership
16 43 (1.77%) Low-Code
17 41 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
18 34 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 289 (11.89%) Linux
2 113 (4.65%) Windows
3 59 (2.43%) Unix
4 29 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 19 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.49%) CentOS
8 7 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.25%) Android
9 6 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.21%) Rocky
10 5 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.12%) VMS
13 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.082%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.041%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.041%) Solaris
14 1 (0.041%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (33.70%) AI
2 682 (28.07%) CI/CD
3 666 (27.41%) Software Engineering
4 489 (20.12%) Analytics
5 465 (19.14%) Agile
6 456 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
7 444 (18.27%) DevOps
8 434 (17.86%) Machine Learning
9 398 (16.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 367 (15.10%) Mentoring
11 326 (13.42%) Data Engineering
12 320 (13.17%) Data Science
13 318 (13.09%) Data Modelling
13 318 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
14 255 (10.49%) Computer Science
15 254 (10.45%) Full-Stack Development
16 247 (10.16%) ETL
17 238 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
18 229 (9.42%) Decision-Making
19 227 (9.34%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 762 (31.36%) SQL
2 300 (12.35%) Java
3 254 (10.45%) PowerShell
4 227 (9.34%) JavaScript
5 208 (8.56%) Bash
6 185 (7.61%) TypeScript
7 183 (7.53%) Go
8 166 (6.83%) C++
9 131 (5.39%) C#
10 71 (2.92%) Scala
11 66 (2.72%) R
12 42 (1.73%) C
13 40 (1.65%) Rust
14 27 (1.11%) Bicep
15 20 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.78%) VBA
17 16 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
18 11 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 11 (0.45%) Julia
18 11 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 322 (13.25%) Degree
2 213 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 142 (5.84%) SC Cleared
4 105 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 103 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 82 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 60 (2.47%) Master's Degree
9 50 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.02%) PhD
11 45 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
12 43 (1.77%) OSCP
13 34 (1.40%) CCNP
14 30 (1.23%) CISSP
15 28 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 21 (0.86%) GIAC
17 18 (0.74%) CREST Certified
18 14 (0.58%) RHCSA
19 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 12 (0.49%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (8.19%) Data Quality
2 88 (3.62%) QA
3 76 (3.13%) NIST
4 58 (2.39%) GDPR
5 39 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 24 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 23 (0.95%) Accessibility
8 23 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 22 (0.91%) GRC
10 11 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 11 (0.45%) PMO
11 9 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.33%) Basel III
12 8 (0.33%) ISO 22301
13 7 (0.29%) SLA
14 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.25%) IFRS
15 4 (0.16%) Solvency II
16 3 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 281 (11.56%) Docker
2 47 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.33%) Firmware
6 6 (0.25%) vSphere
7 5 (0.21%) KVM
7 5 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.16%) Squid
8 4 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.12%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.12%) IAG
9 3 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.082%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.082%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.041%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.041%) Xen
Systems Management
1 409 (16.83%) Terraform
2 315 (12.96%) Kubernetes
3 157 (6.46%) Ansible
4 81 (3.33%) Grafana
5 80 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.56%) Argo
7 23 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.95%) Nagios
8 16 (0.66%) Packer
9 15 (0.62%) Kustomize
10 14 (0.58%) Istio
11 10 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (0.41%) Kibana
11 10 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.37%) Nessus
13 8 (0.33%) SCCM
14 7 (0.29%) Kubeflow
15 6 (0.25%) Cilium
15 6 (0.25%) Rundeck
15 6 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 340 (13.99%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.67%) Databricks
3 121 (4.98%) Google
4 73 (3.00%) OpenAI
5 66 (2.72%) Oracle
6 64 (2.63%) Splunk
7 57 (2.35%) VMware
8 52 (2.14%) Foundry
9 51 (2.10%) Cisco
10 46 (1.89%) Red Hat
11 37 (1.52%) Palo Alto
12 36 (1.48%) Typelevel
13 35 (1.44%) Palantir
14 32 (1.32%) ServiceNow
15 31 (1.28%) Salesforce
16 30 (1.23%) SolarWinds
17 19 (0.78%) F5
18 18 (0.74%) Cloudera
18 18 (0.74%) Dell
18 18 (0.74%) Fortinet