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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 2,422 3,562 6,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.02% 15.08% 17.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.18% 37.63% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 2,786 4,304
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 5,245 9,466 17,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.18% 40.08% 49.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,867 7,634 12,995
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,563 £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 £130,000 £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 1 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 1 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 +5 525 £85,000 +13.33% 261
South London +7 37 £62,500 -16.67% 16
East London -16 15 £90,000 +22.03% 45
West London +36 12 £67,500 - 81
North London +3 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
1 313 (12.92%) Apache Airflow
2 232 (9.58%) Apache
3 163 (6.73%) Apache Spark
4 30 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.91%) Confluence
6 21 (0.87%) SAS
7 15 (0.62%) CMS
7 15 (0.62%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.45%) nginx
9 9 (0.37%) Drupal
9 9 (0.37%) WordPress
10 6 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.21%) Luigi
12 4 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
12 4 (0.17%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.17%) Kinematics
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.083%) CICS
13 2 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.041%) OpenStack
Applications
1 78 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (0.95%) Chatbot
3 15 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.54%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (0.33%) SPSS
6 6 (0.25%) Stata
7 5 (0.21%) InDesign
8 4 (0.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.083%) Trello
10 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 1 (0.041%) Simulink
10 1 (0.041%) SPSS Modeler
Business Applications
1 51 (2.11%) Aladdin
2 28 (1.16%) 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 1,089 (44.96%) AWS
2 670 (27.66%) Azure
3 437 (18.04%) GCP
4 307 (12.68%) dbt
5 276 (11.40%) Serverless
6 205 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
7 193 (7.97%) Snowflake
8 190 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
9 181 (7.47%) Power Platform
10 128 (5.28%) SaaS
11 126 (5.20%) Amazon S3
12 121 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
13 110 (4.54%) GitHub
14 102 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 92 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
16 89 (3.67%) OpenShift
17 86 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
18 71 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
19 58 (2.39%) Dagster
20 50 (2.06%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 88 (3.63%) Firewall
2 48 (1.98%) DNS
2 48 (1.98%) HTTP
3 35 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.40%) Network Security
5 27 (1.11%) DHCP
6 26 (1.07%) VLAN
6 26 (1.07%) VPN
7 23 (0.95%) BGP
8 22 (0.91%) SAN
9 20 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
10 18 (0.74%) OSPF
11 17 (0.70%) Multicast
11 17 (0.70%) SMTP
12 16 (0.66%) LAN
12 16 (0.66%) WAN
13 14 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
14 13 (0.54%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.50%) FTP
15 12 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (10.86%) Amazon Athena
2 253 (10.45%) Dremio
3 248 (10.24%) Apache Iceberg
4 223 (9.21%) Apache Arrow
5 197 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
6 170 (7.02%) Apache Ignite
7 159 (6.56%) Power BI
8 158 (6.52%) Data Lake
9 149 (6.15%) Tableau
10 139 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
11 98 (4.05%) NoSQL
12 97 (4.00%) Relational Database
13 82 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 74 (3.06%) SQL Server
15 70 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
16 68 (2.81%) Big Data
17 60 (2.48%) MongoDB
18 47 (1.94%) MySQL
19 45 (1.86%) DynamoDB
20 42 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 217 (8.96%) Git
2 115 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 88 (3.63%) Artifactory
4 67 (2.77%) GitLab
5 63 (2.60%) JIRA
6 36 (1.49%) Selenium
7 34 (1.40%) JMeter
8 30 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (1.20%) JUnit
10 23 (0.95%) Postman
11 20 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 19 (0.78%) CircleCI
13 17 (0.70%) Mockito
14 15 (0.62%) Cypress.io
15 14 (0.58%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.41%) TestNG
17 9 (0.37%) Maven
17 9 (0.37%) SpecFlow
18 8 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 7 (0.29%) Cucumber
General
1 1,046 (43.19%) Finance
2 560 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 521 (21.51%) Front Office
4 358 (14.78%) Banking
5 340 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
6 138 (5.70%) Investment Banking
7 121 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 96 (3.96%) Marketing
9 91 (3.76%) Law
10 77 (3.18%) Retail
11 75 (3.10%) Games
12 65 (2.68%) Advertising
13 58 (2.39%) Public Sector
14 49 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
14 49 (2.02%) Telecoms
15 48 (1.98%) Legal
16 36 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 36 (1.49%) Publishing
17 31 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
18 25 (1.03%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 571 (23.58%) Senior
2 478 (19.74%) Developer
3 358 (14.78%) Software Engineer
4 343 (14.16%) Python Engineer
5 308 (12.72%) AWS Engineer
6 305 (12.59%) Data Engineer
7 289 (11.93%) Analyst
8 227 (9.37%) Lead
9 200 (8.26%) Python Developer
10 199 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 163 (6.73%) AWS Software Engineer
12 140 (5.78%) Python Software Engineer
13 138 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
14 131 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
15 129 (5.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 123 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 110 (4.54%) Senior Developer
18 97 (4.00%) Data Analyst
19 96 (3.96%) AWS Developer
20 88 (3.63%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (13.09%) React
2 239 (9.87%) Pandas
3 235 (9.70%) PySpark
4 201 (8.30%) NumPy
5 179 (7.39%) Node.js
6 166 (6.85%) Kafka
6 166 (6.85%) SciPy
7 141 (5.82%) REST
8 112 (4.62%) AngularJS
9 109 (4.50%) Django
10 105 (4.34%) gRPC
11 99 (4.09%) Protocol Buffers
12 86 (3.55%) RESTful
13 82 (3.39%) J2EE
14 76 (3.14%) Redux
15 75 (3.10%) HTML
15 75 (3.10%) Vue
16 69 (2.85%) .NET
17 66 (2.73%) Flask
18 57 (2.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 298 (12.30%) Fixed Income
2 265 (10.94%) Hedge funds
3 214 (8.84%) Equities
4 209 (8.63%) Derivative
5 153 (6.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 142 (5.86%) Algorithms
7 89 (3.67%) Cloud Native
8 82 (3.39%) Management Information System
9 79 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
10 78 (3.22%) Product Ownership
11 62 (2.56%) Robotics
12 56 (2.31%) Public Cloud
13 54 (2.23%) Data Structures
13 54 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
14 53 (2.19%) Onboarding
15 39 (1.61%) Pricing Data
16 31 (1.28%) Data Centre
17 29 (1.20%) Virtual Team
18 27 (1.11%) Reinsurance
19 24 (0.99%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 304 (12.55%) Linux
2 131 (5.41%) Windows
3 59 (2.44%) Unix
4 39 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.36%) Android
6 23 (0.95%) CentOS
7 21 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 14 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.45%) Rocky
11 9 (0.37%) Robot Operating System
12 8 (0.33%) 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
1 847 (34.97%) Agile
2 668 (27.58%) Software Engineering
3 605 (24.98%) CI/CD
4 533 (22.01%) Analytics
5 529 (21.84%) DevOps
6 437 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
7 419 (17.30%) Asset Management
8 376 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 358 (14.78%) Machine Learning
10 315 (13.01%) Computer Science
11 309 (12.76%) Data Science
12 276 (11.40%) Data Engineering
13 252 (10.40%) Visualisation
14 248 (10.24%) Investment Management
15 239 (9.87%) Mentoring
16 237 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
17 234 (9.66%) Containerisation
18 233 (9.62%) Fintech
19 221 (9.12%) ETL
20 218 (9.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 790 (32.62%) SQL
2 504 (20.81%) Java
3 438 (18.08%) JavaScript
4 343 (14.16%) TypeScript
5 234 (9.66%) PowerShell
6 183 (7.56%) Go
7 181 (7.47%) Bash
8 179 (7.39%) C++
9 141 (5.82%) C#
10 96 (3.96%) R
11 78 (3.22%) Scala
12 49 (2.02%) Rust
13 47 (1.94%) C
14 45 (1.86%) Shell Script
15 38 (1.57%) Bicep
16 33 (1.36%) MATLAB
17 32 (1.32%) Ruby
18 30 (1.24%) Perl
19 20 (0.83%) T-SQL
20 18 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 543 (22.42%) Degree
2 179 (7.39%) Master's Degree
3 152 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 99 (4.09%) PhD
4 99 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 71 (2.93%) SC Cleared
6 63 (2.60%) DBS Check
7 48 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 37 (1.53%) CISSP
10 32 (1.32%) Azure Certification
11 30 (1.24%) OSCP
12 28 (1.16%) CEH
13 27 (1.11%) GCIH
14 26 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 26 (1.07%) DV Cleared
15 23 (0.95%) CCNP
15 23 (0.95%) GCIA
16 21 (0.87%) CCNA
16 21 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (4.58%) QA
2 70 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.44%) GDPR
4 41 (1.69%) NIST
5 33 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 20 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.74%) SLA
8 16 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.41%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.33%) IFRS
12 8 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.21%) FINRA
15 4 (0.17%) CDISC
15 4 (0.17%) MiFID
16 3 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 456 (18.83%) Docker
2 69 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 18 (0.74%) 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
1 483 (19.94%) Kubernetes
2 456 (18.83%) Terraform
3 192 (7.93%) Ansible
4 65 (2.68%) Grafana
5 60 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.73%) Progress Chef
7 40 (1.65%) Puppet
8 25 (1.03%) Nagios
9 22 (0.91%) Kibana
10 20 (0.83%) Istio
10 20 (0.83%) Podman
11 19 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (0.66%) SCCM
13 15 (0.62%) CASB
14 11 (0.45%) WSUS
15 9 (0.37%) Argo
16 8 (0.33%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
16 8 (0.33%) Packer
16 8 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 243 (10.03%) Microsoft
2 179 (7.39%) Databricks
3 161 (6.65%) Google
4 68 (2.81%) VMware
5 51 (2.11%) Oracle
6 49 (2.02%) BISAM
7 48 (1.98%) Splunk
8 39 (1.61%) Cisco
8 39 (1.61%) SAP
9 36 (1.49%) Charles River
10 33 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 33 (1.36%) SimCorp
11 30 (1.24%) Calypso
12 27 (1.11%) Adobe
12 27 (1.11%) Apple
13 25 (1.03%) Citrix
13 25 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 24 (0.99%) SolarWinds
15 23 (0.95%) Dynatrace
15 23 (0.95%) OpenAI