Senior Python Developer Jobs in London

Senior Python Developer
England > London

The median Senior Python Developer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 455 561
Rank change year-on-year +104 +106 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 41 47 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.21% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 24 44 53
10th Percentile £55,950 £72,500 £64,850
25th Percentile £64,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +21.21% -17.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £138,750 £107,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% +9.68% -18.42%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in London

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Python Developer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Python Developer in London

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in London

Senior Python Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer 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 +30 7 £77,500 -8.82% 3
East London -2 1 £77,500 - 1
Senior Python Developer
England

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 25 (60.98%) Finance
3 21 (51.22%) Test Automation
4 18 (43.90%) Linux
5 15 (36.59%) C++
5 15 (36.59%) Front Office
5 15 (36.59%) Data Structures
5 15 (36.59%) Algorithms
6 14 (34.15%) Low Latency
6 14 (34.15%) Hedge funds
6 14 (34.15%) Equities
6 14 (34.15%) Management Information System
6 14 (34.15%) OOP
6 14 (34.15%) OO
6 14 (34.15%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 14 (34.15%) Order Management
7 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
7 13 (31.71%) QA
8 12 (29.27%) Flask
9 10 (24.39%) AWS
9 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
10 9 (21.95%) React
10 9 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (21.95%) Serverless
10 9 (21.95%) NoSQL
10 9 (21.95%) Docker
10 9 (21.95%) RESTful
10 9 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (19.51%) Django
11 8 (19.51%) Agile

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) AWS
2 9 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (21.95%) Serverless
3 8 (19.51%) GCP
4 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (7.32%) Azure
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.44%) CloudAMQP
6 1 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) NoSQL
1 9 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.07%) RDBMS
2 7 (17.07%) Relational Database
3 5 (12.20%) DynamoDB
3 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.32%) MySQL
5 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Git
General
1 25 (60.98%) Finance
2 15 (36.59%) Front Office
3 7 (17.07%) Electronics
3 7 (17.07%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.07%) Marketing
3 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 7 (17.07%) Telecoms
4 6 (14.63%) Health Technology
4 6 (14.63%) Publishing
4 6 (14.63%) Tech for Good
5 5 (12.20%) Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Games
6 3 (7.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 12 (29.27%) Flask
3 9 (21.95%) React
3 9 (21.95%) RESTful
4 8 (19.51%) Django
5 7 (17.07%) FastAPI
5 7 (17.07%) REST
6 5 (12.20%) Swagger
7 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.88%) Vue
8 1 (2.44%) .NET
8 1 (2.44%) CSS
8 1 (2.44%) DOM
8 1 (2.44%) Next.js
8 1 (2.44%) Node.js
8 1 (2.44%) Pyramid
8 1 (2.44%) pytest
8 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.44%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Algorithms
1 15 (36.59%) Data Structures
2 14 (34.15%) Equities
2 14 (34.15%) Hedge funds
2 14 (34.15%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Test Automation
2 14 (34.15%) Low Latency
2 14 (34.15%) OO
2 14 (34.15%) OOP
2 14 (34.15%) Order Management
3 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
4 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (19.51%) Process Improvement
5 7 (17.07%) Architectural Patterns
5 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
5 7 (17.07%) Digital Marketing
5 7 (17.07%) Product Management
5 7 (17.07%) Programme Management
5 7 (17.07%) TDD
6 6 (14.63%) Data Science
6 6 (14.63%) Operational Stability
6 6 (14.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Python
2 15 (36.59%) C++
3 6 (14.63%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.76%) Java
4 4 (9.76%) SQL
5 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) C
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) Go
6 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (31.71%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.07%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Google
2 7 (17.07%) SAP
3 4 (9.76%) Databricks
4 3 (7.32%) SimCorp