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 11 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,611 3,882 4,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.75% 16.50% 16.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.77% 40.98% 34.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 2,937 3,798
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 5,466 9,473 13,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.35% 40.27% 46.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,622 7,245 11,354
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,063 £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 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £133,250 £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 11 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 11 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 +5 480 £85,000 +13.33% 338
South London +40 105 £65,000 -7.14% 49
West London +42 59 £62,500 +13.64% 101
East London -5 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
1 277 (10.61%) Apache Airflow
2 190 (7.28%) Apache
3 136 (5.21%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 21 (0.80%) Confluence
7 17 (0.65%) nginx
8 14 (0.54%) CMS
9 10 (0.38%) SAS
10 6 (0.23%) Luigi
11 5 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
12 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.15%) Drupal
12 4 (0.15%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.15%) Traefik
12 4 (0.15%) WordPress
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 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 48 (1.84%) 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 1,240 (47.49%) AWS
2 801 (30.68%) Azure
3 478 (18.31%) GCP
4 329 (12.60%) Serverless
5 270 (10.34%) dbt
6 255 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
7 219 (8.39%) Snowflake
8 158 (6.05%) Power Platform
9 131 (5.02%) SaaS
10 119 (4.56%) GitHub
11 114 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 113 (4.33%) Amazon S3
13 103 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
14 90 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
15 86 (3.29%) Pulumi
16 75 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
17 73 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
18 53 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
19 48 (1.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 187 (7.16%) Broadband
2 87 (3.33%) Firewall
3 43 (1.65%) DNS
4 42 (1.61%) VPN
5 37 (1.42%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.30%) SSL
7 32 (1.23%) BGP
8 31 (1.19%) HTTP
9 28 (1.07%) Network Security
10 27 (1.03%) WAN
11 25 (0.96%) Multicast
11 25 (0.96%) OSPF
12 24 (0.92%) SSH
12 24 (0.92%) VLAN
13 19 (0.73%) LAN
14 16 (0.61%) MPLS
15 15 (0.57%) DHCP
15 15 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.38%) Wireshark
17 9 (0.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (8.92%) Amazon Athena
2 218 (8.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 205 (7.85%) Dremio
4 204 (7.81%) Relational Database
5 203 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
6 197 (7.55%) Apache Arrow
7 178 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
7 178 (6.82%) NoSQL
8 159 (6.09%) Data Lake
9 145 (5.55%) Power BI
10 110 (4.21%) Apache Ignite
11 102 (3.91%) RDBMS
12 97 (3.72%) Tableau
13 79 (3.03%) DynamoDB
14 78 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
14 78 (2.99%) SQL Server
15 66 (2.53%) Big Data
16 51 (1.95%) MySQL
17 47 (1.80%) MongoDB
18 40 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 215 (8.23%) Git
2 109 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 67 (2.57%) Jaeger
4 66 (2.53%) GitLab
5 65 (2.49%) JIRA
6 44 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 31 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 28 (1.07%) JMeter
10 21 (0.80%) JUnit
10 21 (0.80%) Selenium
11 18 (0.69%) Mockito
12 15 (0.57%) CircleCI
13 13 (0.50%) Bitbucket
13 13 (0.50%) Postman
14 10 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.38%) MLflow
15 9 (0.34%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.34%) Maven
15 9 (0.34%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,149 (44.01%) Finance
2 490 (18.77%) Social Skills
3 485 (18.58%) Front Office
4 461 (17.66%) Banking
5 415 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
6 368 (14.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 291 (11.15%) Law
8 185 (7.09%) Marketing
9 152 (5.82%) Investment Banking
10 85 (3.26%) Public Sector
11 70 (2.68%) Games
12 60 (2.30%) Retail
13 52 (1.99%) Legal
14 51 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 47 (1.80%) Advertising
16 39 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
17 37 (1.42%) Publishing
18 35 (1.34%) Manufacturing
19 32 (1.23%) Financial Institution
20 24 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 690 (26.43%) Senior
2 568 (21.75%) Developer
3 485 (18.58%) Software Engineer
4 384 (14.71%) Lead
5 339 (12.98%) Python Engineer
6 302 (11.57%) Data Engineer
7 268 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
8 249 (9.54%) Python Developer
9 234 (8.96%) Analyst
10 226 (8.66%) Python Software Engineer
11 182 (6.97%) AWS Software Engineer
12 180 (6.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 162 (6.20%) Senior Developer
14 155 (5.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 146 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
16 131 (5.02%) AWS Developer
17 121 (4.63%) 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
1 376 (14.40%) React
2 225 (8.62%) Pandas
3 199 (7.62%) PySpark
4 179 (6.86%) Node.js
5 174 (6.66%) NumPy
6 164 (6.28%) Kafka
7 153 (5.86%) REST
8 144 (5.52%) SciPy
9 124 (4.75%) AngularJS
10 113 (4.33%) RESTful
11 107 (4.10%) Django
12 104 (3.98%) Vue
13 89 (3.41%) Flask
14 87 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
15 83 (3.18%) gRPC
16 79 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
17 78 (2.99%) .NET
18 77 (2.95%) Protocol Buffers
19 73 (2.80%) GraphQL
20 72 (2.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 314 (12.03%) Fixed Income
2 262 (10.03%) Equities
3 261 (10.00%) Hedge funds
4 232 (8.89%) Derivative
5 201 (7.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 155 (5.94%) Cloud Native
7 150 (5.74%) Algorithms
8 96 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
9 92 (3.52%) Onboarding
10 90 (3.45%) Management Information System
11 88 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
12 78 (2.99%) Data Structures
13 65 (2.49%) Public Cloud
14 64 (2.45%) Pricing Data
15 61 (2.34%) Product Ownership
16 55 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
17 36 (1.38%) Cyberattack
17 36 (1.38%) Data Centre
18 31 (1.19%) Mobile App
19 30 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 341 (13.06%) Linux
2 140 (5.36%) 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
13 2 (0.077%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.077%) Robot Operating System
13 2 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.038%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.038%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (40.21%) Agile
2 753 (28.84%) CI/CD
3 721 (27.61%) Software Engineering
4 617 (23.63%) DevOps
5 611 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
6 493 (18.88%) Analytics
7 469 (17.96%) Artificial Intelligence
8 419 (16.05%) Machine Learning
9 407 (15.59%) Data Science
9 407 (15.59%) Mentoring
10 339 (12.98%) Containerisation
11 331 (12.68%) Asset Management
12 300 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 285 (10.92%) Computer Science
14 272 (10.42%) Investment Management
15 259 (9.92%) Data Engineering
16 256 (9.80%) ETL
17 252 (9.65%) Data Pipeline
17 252 (9.65%) Roadmaps
18 233 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 846 (32.40%) SQL
2 636 (24.36%) Java
3 494 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 474 (18.15%) TypeScript
5 272 (10.42%) Bash
6 261 (10.00%) Go
7 210 (8.04%) PowerShell
8 175 (6.70%) C++
9 138 (5.29%) C#
10 74 (2.83%) R
11 72 (2.76%) Scala
12 65 (2.49%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.84%) Rust
14 35 (1.34%) 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
1 509 (19.49%) Degree
2 155 (5.94%) PhD
3 152 (5.82%) AWS Certification
4 136 (5.21%) Master's Degree
5 120 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 118 (4.52%) Security Cleared
7 69 (2.64%) SC Cleared
8 52 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 37 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.11%) CCNP
11 27 (1.03%) DBS Check
11 27 (1.03%) DV Cleared
12 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (0.84%) CCNA
14 16 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 15 (0.57%) CISSP
16 14 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
17 12 (0.46%) OSCP
18 10 (0.38%) CEH
18 10 (0.38%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (3.98%) QA
2 91 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.37%) 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
14 4 (0.15%) SNOMED CT
15 3 (0.11%) HL7
15 3 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.077%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.077%) ITGC
System Software
1 481 (18.42%) Docker
2 77 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.23%) vSphere
7 5 (0.19%) Apache Flume
7 5 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.19%) zsh
8 4 (0.15%) KVM
8 4 (0.15%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
9 3 (0.11%) Xen
10 2 (0.077%) Firmware
10 2 (0.077%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.038%) Corosync
11 1 (0.038%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 513 (19.65%) Kubernetes
2 487 (18.65%) Terraform
3 260 (9.96%) 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%) Packer
Vendors
1 234 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 227 (8.69%) Google
3 222 (8.50%) Databricks
4 67 (2.57%) Splunk
5 49 (1.88%) VMware
6 48 (1.84%) Oracle
7 47 (1.80%) BISAM
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 32 (1.23%) Cisco
12 31 (1.19%) OpenAI
13 29 (1.11%) ServiceNow
13 29 (1.11%) SolarWinds
14 26 (1.00%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.88%) Adobe
16 22 (0.84%) Thales
17 21 (0.80%) Trayport