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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,472 3,639 5,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.12% 15.43% 17.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.14% 38.39% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,683 2,813 4,176
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +3.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £142,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £74,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.04% +3.47%

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 5,244 9,478 17,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.56% 40.18% 49.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,754 7,582 12,630
10th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,750 £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 £132,500 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +4 523 £85,000 +13.33% 306
South London +18 73 £62,500 -16.67% 21
West London +39 44 £67,500 +22.73% 68
East London -9 34 £90,000 +14.29% 44
North London +5 15 £42,500 -39.29% 1
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
1 300 (12.14%) Apache Airflow
2 220 (8.90%) Apache
3 153 (6.19%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.85%) Confluence
6 19 (0.77%) SAS
7 15 (0.61%) CMS
7 15 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.49%) nginx
9 9 (0.36%) Drupal
9 9 (0.36%) WordPress
10 5 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.20%) Luigi
11 4 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 4 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Kinematics
11 4 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.081%) CICS
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 65 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (0.97%) Chatbot
3 13 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
5 8 (0.32%) SPSS
6 7 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.24%) Stata
8 5 (0.20%) InDesign
9 4 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.081%) Trello
11 1 (0.040%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.040%) Simulink
11 1 (0.040%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 59 (2.39%) Aladdin
2 36 (1.46%) thinkFolio
3 10 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.28%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.20%) Shopify
7 4 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.081%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
9 2 (0.081%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.081%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.040%) Actimize
10 1 (0.040%) Endur
10 1 (0.040%) Lorenzo
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.040%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.040%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 1,170 (47.33%) AWS
2 719 (29.09%) Azure
3 478 (19.34%) GCP
4 309 (12.50%) Serverless
5 298 (12.06%) dbt
6 252 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
7 192 (7.77%) Snowflake
8 163 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
8 163 (6.59%) Power Platform
9 127 (5.14%) SaaS
10 108 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 108 (4.37%) GitHub
11 98 (3.96%) Pulumi
12 97 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
13 94 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
14 93 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
15 83 (3.36%) OpenShift
16 76 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
17 72 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
18 48 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 135 (5.46%) Broadband
2 86 (3.48%) Firewall
3 45 (1.82%) DNS
4 43 (1.74%) HTTP
5 32 (1.29%) Network Security
5 32 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 24 (0.97%) VPN
7 23 (0.93%) DHCP
7 23 (0.93%) VLAN
8 20 (0.81%) BGP
9 19 (0.77%) SAN
10 18 (0.73%) Multicast
11 16 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
12 15 (0.61%) OSPF
12 15 (0.61%) WAN
13 14 (0.57%) SMTP
14 13 (0.53%) LAN
15 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 11 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
17 10 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (10.11%) Amazon Athena
2 238 (9.63%) Dremio
3 234 (9.47%) Apache Iceberg
4 215 (8.70%) Apache Arrow
5 179 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
6 164 (6.63%) NoSQL
7 155 (6.27%) Relational Database
8 154 (6.23%) Apache Ignite
9 147 (5.95%) Data Lake
10 146 (5.91%) Power BI
11 142 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
12 134 (5.42%) Tableau
13 87 (3.52%) RDBMS
14 68 (2.75%) SQL Server
15 63 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 58 (2.35%) Big Data
16 58 (2.35%) MongoDB
17 57 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
18 49 (1.98%) MySQL
19 45 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 221 (8.94%) Git
2 108 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.32%) Artifactory
4 68 (2.75%) Jaeger
5 66 (2.67%) GitLab
6 63 (2.55%) JIRA
7 32 (1.29%) Selenium
8 30 (1.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (1.17%) JMeter
10 24 (0.97%) JUnit
11 22 (0.89%) Postman
11 22 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.77%) CircleCI
13 15 (0.61%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.57%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.49%) Mockito
16 10 (0.40%) Maven
16 10 (0.40%) TestNG
17 9 (0.36%) SpecFlow
18 7 (0.28%) Cucumber
General
1 1,003 (40.57%) Finance
2 515 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 491 (19.86%) Front Office
4 398 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
5 340 (13.75%) Banking
6 186 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 130 (5.26%) Investment Banking
8 96 (3.88%) Law
9 95 (3.84%) Marketing
10 78 (3.16%) Retail
11 76 (3.07%) Games
12 63 (2.55%) Advertising
13 55 (2.22%) Public Sector
14 49 (1.98%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 42 (1.70%) Legal
17 33 (1.33%) Publishing
18 29 (1.17%) Manufacturing
19 27 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
20 22 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 618 (25.00%) Senior
2 472 (19.09%) Developer
3 344 (13.92%) Software Engineer
4 319 (12.90%) Python Engineer
5 295 (11.93%) Data Engineer
6 289 (11.69%) AWS Engineer
7 281 (11.37%) Lead
8 278 (11.25%) Analyst
9 203 (8.21%) Python Developer
10 186 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 158 (6.39%) AWS Software Engineer
12 139 (5.62%) Python Software Engineer
13 135 (5.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 126 (5.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 120 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
16 113 (4.57%) Senior Developer
17 112 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 97 (3.92%) AWS Developer
19 94 (3.80%) Data Analyst
20 86 (3.48%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (12.34%) React
2 227 (9.18%) Pandas
3 221 (8.94%) PySpark
4 185 (7.48%) NumPy
5 174 (7.04%) Node.js
6 156 (6.31%) Kafka
6 156 (6.31%) SciPy
7 134 (5.42%) REST
8 111 (4.49%) AngularJS
9 107 (4.33%) Django
10 93 (3.76%) gRPC
11 88 (3.56%) Elastic Stack
12 87 (3.52%) Protocol Buffers
13 84 (3.40%) RESTful
14 81 (3.28%) Vue
15 74 (2.99%) J2EE
16 72 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
17 69 (2.79%) .NET
18 67 (2.71%) HTML
19 66 (2.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 295 (11.93%) Fixed Income
2 262 (10.60%) Hedge funds
3 210 (8.50%) Derivative
3 210 (8.50%) Equities
4 156 (6.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 141 (5.70%) Algorithms
6 84 (3.40%) Cloud Native
7 81 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 81 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
8 67 (2.71%) Product Ownership
9 66 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
10 59 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 59 (2.39%) Robotics
11 53 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 50 (2.02%) Data Structures
13 48 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
14 41 (1.66%) Pricing Data
15 30 (1.21%) Reinsurance
15 30 (1.21%) Virtual Team
16 29 (1.17%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 368 (14.89%) Linux
2 125 (5.06%) Unix
3 124 (5.02%) Windows
4 37 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.21%) Android
6 23 (0.93%) CentOS
6 23 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.69%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.44%) Rocky
8 11 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.36%) Robot Operating System
10 6 (0.24%) VMS
11 4 (0.16%) Solaris
12 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.12%) Debian
12 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (37.70%) Agile
2 645 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 622 (25.16%) Software Engineering
4 586 (23.71%) DevOps
5 511 (20.67%) Analytics
6 493 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
7 413 (16.71%) Machine Learning
8 393 (15.90%) Asset Management
9 385 (15.57%) Data Science
10 375 (15.17%) Artificial Intelligence
11 363 (14.68%) Mentoring
12 302 (12.22%) Containerisation
13 294 (11.89%) Computer Science
14 278 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 264 (10.68%) Roadmaps
16 258 (10.44%) Data Engineering
17 248 (10.03%) Investment Management
18 238 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
19 230 (9.30%) Visualisation
20 221 (8.94%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 776 (31.39%) SQL
2 539 (21.80%) Java
3 468 (18.93%) JavaScript
4 396 (16.02%) TypeScript
5 251 (10.15%) Bash
6 240 (9.71%) Go
7 226 (9.14%) PowerShell
8 175 (7.08%) C++
9 132 (5.34%) C#
10 89 (3.60%) R
11 75 (3.03%) Scala
12 47 (1.90%) Rust
13 41 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 40 (1.62%) C
15 34 (1.38%) Bicep
16 32 (1.29%) MATLAB
17 31 (1.25%) Perl
18 29 (1.17%) Ruby
19 22 (0.89%) T-SQL
20 18 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 581 (23.50%) Degree
2 180 (7.28%) Master's Degree
3 171 (6.92%) PhD
4 134 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (4.33%) AWS Certification
6 98 (3.96%) Security Cleared
7 65 (2.63%) SC Cleared
8 51 (2.06%) DBS Check
9 41 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (1.42%) CISSP
11 34 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 30 (1.21%) OSCP
13 28 (1.13%) CEH
14 27 (1.09%) GCIH
15 26 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
15 26 (1.05%) DV Cleared
16 23 (0.93%) GCIA
17 21 (0.85%) CCNP
18 18 (0.73%) CCNA
19 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (4.37%) QA
2 77 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.31%) GDPR
4 38 (1.54%) NIST
5 28 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 23 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (0.65%) SLA
8 14 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 13 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.32%) IFRS
12 8 (0.32%) IFRS 9
13 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.16%) CDISC
14 4 (0.16%) FINRA
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.12%) MiFID
15 3 (0.12%) SEPA
15 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 497 (20.11%) Docker
2 62 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 5 (0.20%) Apache Flume
9 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.081%) Firmware
11 2 (0.081%) KVM
12 1 (0.040%) Corosync
12 1 (0.040%) HDFS
12 1 (0.040%) Kamailio
12 1 (0.040%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.040%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.040%) Xen
Systems Management
1 518 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 507 (20.51%) Terraform
3 258 (10.44%) Ansible
4 129 (5.22%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.03%) Argo
6 69 (2.79%) Grafana
7 68 (2.75%) Kustomize
8 42 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 41 (1.66%) Puppet
10 26 (1.05%) Nagios
11 19 (0.77%) Podman
12 18 (0.73%) Kibana
12 18 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.69%) Istio
14 13 (0.53%) SCCM
15 11 (0.44%) CASB
16 9 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
17 8 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
17 8 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
17 8 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 227 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 217 (8.78%) Google
3 176 (7.12%) Databricks
4 65 (2.63%) VMware
5 57 (2.31%) BISAM
6 48 (1.94%) Oracle
7 44 (1.78%) Charles River
7 44 (1.78%) Splunk
8 42 (1.70%) SimCorp
9 38 (1.54%) Calypso
9 38 (1.54%) SAP
10 34 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 32 (1.29%) Cisco
12 27 (1.09%) Adobe
13 25 (1.01%) Apple
13 25 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 23 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 23 (0.93%) SolarWinds
15 20 (0.81%) Trayport
16 19 (0.77%) Citrix