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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,418 3,576 6,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.97% 15.13% 17.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.20% 37.74% 35.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 2,787 4,259
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £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 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

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 5,234 9,475 17,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.06% 40.09% 49.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,866 7,629 12,902
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,063 £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 £101,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £127,500 £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 4 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 4 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 +5 526 £85,000 +13.33% 280
South London +6 37 £62,500 -16.67% 11
East London -16 15 £90,000 +16.13% 43
West London +40 12 £67,500 +2.66% 88
North London +4 1 £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
1 316 (13.07%) Apache Airflow
2 232 (9.59%) Apache
3 164 (6.78%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.91%) Confluence
6 21 (0.87%) SAS
7 15 (0.62%) CMS
8 14 (0.58%) SharePoint
9 11 (0.45%) nginx
10 9 (0.37%) Drupal
10 9 (0.37%) WordPress
11 6 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.21%) Luigi
13 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.17%) Kinematics
13 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.083%) CICS
14 2 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
Applications
1 76 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) SPSS
6 7 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.25%) Stata
8 5 (0.21%) InDesign
9 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.083%) Trello
11 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
11 1 (0.041%) Simulink
11 1 (0.041%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 55 (2.27%) Aladdin
2 32 (1.32%) thinkFolio
3 15 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.21%) Shopify
5 5 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.17%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.083%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 2 (0.083%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.083%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.041%) Actimize
9 1 (0.041%) Endur
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.041%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.041%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,086 (44.91%) AWS
2 670 (27.71%) Azure
3 436 (18.03%) GCP
4 311 (12.86%) dbt
5 270 (11.17%) Serverless
6 199 (8.23%) AWS Lambda
7 196 (8.11%) Snowflake
8 186 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
9 178 (7.36%) Power Platform
10 128 (5.29%) SaaS
11 120 (4.96%) Amazon S3
12 119 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
13 109 (4.51%) GitHub
14 101 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
15 91 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
16 88 (3.64%) OpenShift
17 86 (3.56%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
19 59 (2.44%) Dagster
20 49 (2.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 87 (3.60%) Firewall
2 48 (1.99%) HTTP
3 47 (1.94%) DNS
4 35 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.32%) Network Security
6 26 (1.08%) DHCP
7 25 (1.03%) VLAN
7 25 (1.03%) VPN
8 21 (0.87%) BGP
8 21 (0.87%) SAN
9 17 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
9 17 (0.70%) Multicast
9 17 (0.70%) OSPF
10 16 (0.66%) SMTP
10 16 (0.66%) WAN
11 15 (0.62%) LAN
12 13 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.50%) MPLS
14 11 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (11.00%) Amazon Athena
2 254 (10.50%) Dremio
3 250 (10.34%) Apache Iceberg
4 225 (9.31%) Apache Arrow
5 201 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
6 169 (6.99%) Apache Ignite
7 159 (6.58%) Data Lake
8 156 (6.45%) Power BI
9 147 (6.08%) Tableau
10 139 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
11 98 (4.05%) NoSQL
12 96 (3.97%) Relational Database
13 77 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 76 (3.14%) SQL Server
15 66 (2.73%) Big Data
16 65 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
17 62 (2.56%) MongoDB
18 48 (1.99%) MySQL
19 46 (1.90%) DynamoDB
20 43 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 222 (9.18%) Git
2 114 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 87 (3.60%) Artifactory
4 67 (2.77%) GitLab
5 65 (2.69%) JIRA
6 36 (1.49%) Selenium
7 34 (1.41%) JMeter
8 29 (1.20%) JUnit
8 29 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (0.95%) Postman
10 20 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 19 (0.79%) CircleCI
12 17 (0.70%) Mockito
13 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.58%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.41%) Maven
15 10 (0.41%) TestNG
16 9 (0.37%) SpecFlow
17 8 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 1,049 (43.38%) Finance
2 557 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 523 (21.63%) Front Office
4 361 (14.93%) Banking
5 340 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
6 138 (5.71%) Investment Banking
7 121 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 96 (3.97%) Marketing
9 91 (3.76%) Law
10 77 (3.18%) Retail
11 74 (3.06%) Games
12 66 (2.73%) Advertising
13 59 (2.44%) Public Sector
14 49 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 47 (1.94%) Legal
16 36 (1.49%) Manufacturing
17 35 (1.45%) Publishing
18 31 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 568 (23.49%) Senior
2 483 (19.98%) Developer
3 359 (14.85%) Software Engineer
4 342 (14.14%) Python Engineer
5 306 (12.66%) AWS Engineer
5 306 (12.66%) Data Engineer
6 292 (12.08%) Analyst
7 227 (9.39%) Lead
8 204 (8.44%) Python Developer
9 196 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 165 (6.82%) AWS Software Engineer
11 142 (5.87%) Python Software Engineer
12 139 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
13 131 (5.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 128 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
15 120 (4.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 110 (4.55%) Senior Developer
17 97 (4.01%) AWS Developer
18 96 (3.97%) Data Analyst
19 89 (3.68%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (13.19%) React
2 242 (10.01%) Pandas
3 235 (9.72%) PySpark
4 203 (8.40%) NumPy
5 182 (7.53%) Node.js
6 168 (6.95%) SciPy
7 167 (6.91%) Kafka
8 141 (5.83%) REST
9 112 (4.63%) AngularJS
10 110 (4.55%) Django
11 104 (4.30%) gRPC
12 98 (4.05%) Protocol Buffers
13 86 (3.56%) RESTful
14 80 (3.31%) J2EE
15 77 (3.18%) Vue
16 75 (3.10%) HTML
16 75 (3.10%) Redux
17 69 (2.85%) .NET
18 67 (2.77%) Flask
19 57 (2.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 307 (12.70%) Fixed Income
2 270 (11.17%) Hedge funds
3 219 (9.06%) Equities
4 215 (8.89%) Derivative
5 158 (6.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 142 (5.87%) Algorithms
7 85 (3.52%) Cloud Native
8 82 (3.39%) Management Information System
9 76 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
9 76 (3.14%) Product Ownership
10 62 (2.56%) Robotics
11 57 (2.36%) Onboarding
12 55 (2.27%) Public Cloud
13 53 (2.19%) Data Structures
13 53 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
14 40 (1.65%) Pricing Data
15 30 (1.24%) Data Centre
16 29 (1.20%) Virtual Team
17 28 (1.16%) Reinsurance
18 24 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 307 (12.70%) Linux
2 130 (5.38%) Windows
3 59 (2.44%) Unix
4 39 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.32%) Android
6 23 (0.95%) CentOS
7 21 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.74%) Ubuntu
9 13 (0.54%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.45%) Rocky
11 9 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
12 6 (0.25%) VMS
13 5 (0.21%) Solaris
14 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.12%) Debian
14 3 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
14 3 (0.12%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.083%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (35.11%) Agile
2 666 (27.54%) Software Engineering
3 601 (24.86%) CI/CD
4 530 (21.92%) Analytics
5 527 (21.79%) DevOps
6 441 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
7 422 (17.45%) Asset Management
8 376 (15.55%) Artificial Intelligence
9 356 (14.72%) Machine Learning
10 315 (13.03%) Computer Science
11 309 (12.78%) Data Science
12 274 (11.33%) Data Engineering
13 255 (10.55%) Investment Management
14 249 (10.30%) Visualisation
15 241 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
16 240 (9.93%) Mentoring
17 237 (9.80%) Containerisation
18 234 (9.68%) Fintech
19 221 (9.14%) ETL
20 216 (8.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 791 (32.71%) SQL
2 501 (20.72%) Java
3 437 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 345 (14.27%) TypeScript
5 230 (9.51%) PowerShell
6 181 (7.49%) Bash
6 181 (7.49%) Go
7 180 (7.44%) C++
8 141 (5.83%) C#
9 97 (4.01%) R
10 78 (3.23%) Scala
11 49 (2.03%) Rust
12 47 (1.94%) C
13 45 (1.86%) Shell Script
14 38 (1.57%) Bicep
15 33 (1.36%) MATLAB
16 32 (1.32%) Ruby
17 30 (1.24%) Perl
18 20 (0.83%) T-SQL
19 18 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 539 (22.29%) Degree
2 179 (7.40%) Master's Degree
3 150 (6.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (4.09%) PhD
5 98 (4.05%) Security Cleared
6 70 (2.89%) SC Cleared
7 63 (2.61%) DBS Check
8 44 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 35 (1.45%) CISSP
11 32 (1.32%) Azure Certification
12 30 (1.24%) OSCP
13 28 (1.16%) CEH
14 27 (1.12%) GCIH
15 26 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
15 26 (1.08%) DV Cleared
16 23 (0.95%) GCIA
17 22 (0.91%) CCNP
18 21 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
19 20 (0.83%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.59%) QA
2 73 (3.02%) Data Quality
3 57 (2.36%) GDPR
4 39 (1.61%) NIST
5 33 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 20 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (0.79%) SLA
8 14 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 14 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.33%) IFRS
11 8 (0.33%) IFRS 9
12 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.21%) FINRA
14 4 (0.17%) CDISC
14 4 (0.17%) MiFID
15 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 453 (18.73%) Docker
2 67 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 17 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.33%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 5 (0.21%) Apache Flume
11 3 (0.12%) vSphere
12 2 (0.083%) Firmware
12 2 (0.083%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.041%) HDFS
13 1 (0.041%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 478 (19.77%) Kubernetes
2 451 (18.65%) Terraform
3 191 (7.90%) Ansible
4 64 (2.65%) Grafana
5 59 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 41 (1.70%) Puppet
8 25 (1.03%) Nagios
9 23 (0.95%) Kibana
10 21 (0.87%) Podman
11 19 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (0.70%) Istio
13 15 (0.62%) SCCM
14 13 (0.54%) CASB
15 10 (0.41%) WSUS
16 9 (0.37%) Argo
17 8 (0.33%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
17 8 (0.33%) Packer
18 7 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 237 (9.80%) Microsoft
2 180 (7.44%) Databricks
3 157 (6.49%) Google
4 67 (2.77%) VMware
5 53 (2.19%) BISAM
6 52 (2.15%) Oracle
7 48 (1.99%) Splunk
8 40 (1.65%) Charles River
9 39 (1.61%) SAP
10 37 (1.53%) SimCorp
11 36 (1.49%) Cisco
12 34 (1.41%) Calypso
13 32 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.12%) Adobe
14 27 (1.12%) Apple
15 25 (1.03%) ServiceNow
16 24 (0.99%) Citrix
17 23 (0.95%) Dynatrace
17 23 (0.95%) OpenAI
18 22 (0.91%) SolarWinds