Python Job Trends in South London

Python
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 63 24
Rank change year-on-year +39 -39 -17
Permanent jobs citing Python 23 23 40
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 4.79% 3.97% 9.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.70% 13.29% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 33
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,875 £54,000
25th Percentile £38,463 £46,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £61,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% -18.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £80,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £83,750
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 61 173 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 12.71% 29.88% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 34 43 118
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £49,000 £63,750 £80,188
90th Percentile £60,275 £85,000 £83,750
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South London.

Python job vacancy trend in South London

Python
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in South London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in South London

Python
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South London region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Croydon +23 20 £55,200 -11.68% 6
Bromley - 3 £40,000 - 4
Python
London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 13 (56.52%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (47.83%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (47.83%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (8.70%) AWS KMS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure
6 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Broadband
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) FTP
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) SMTP
2 2 (8.70%) SSH
3 1 (4.35%) 4G
3 1 (4.35%) BGP
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.35%) IOS XR
3 1 (4.35%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (52.17%) RDBMS
1 12 (52.17%) Relational Database
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.70%) GIS
3 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Power BI
3 2 (8.70%) Tableau
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) DB2
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (4.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Jenkins
2 12 (52.17%) JUnit
3 11 (47.83%) JMeter
3 11 (47.83%) Mockito
4 2 (8.70%) Git
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) Subversion
4 2 (8.70%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) Jaeger
5 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 13 (56.52%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Full-Stack Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Java Developer
2 11 (47.83%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Trainee
5 2 (8.70%) Trainee Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (52.17%) Spring
1 12 (52.17%) Spring Boot
2 11 (47.83%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (47.83%) Apache Camel
2 11 (47.83%) Hibernate
2 11 (47.83%) HTML
2 11 (47.83%) jQuery
2 11 (47.83%) JSON
2 11 (47.83%) REST
2 11 (47.83%) Web Services
2 11 (47.83%) WireMock
2 11 (47.83%) XML
3 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.70%) PySpark
3 2 (8.70%) YAML
4 1 (4.35%) Flask
4 1 (4.35%) Jinja
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Social Media
3 1 (4.35%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) VMS
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
3 13 (56.52%) SDLC
4 12 (52.17%) BDD
4 12 (52.17%) Microservices
4 12 (52.17%) TDD
5 11 (47.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (47.83%) Process Management
5 11 (47.83%) Workflow
6 8 (34.78%) DevOps
7 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) Project Management
9 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
9 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics
9 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
10 2 (8.70%) Change Management
10 2 (8.70%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
2 12 (52.17%) JavaScript
3 11 (47.83%) Shell Script
4 5 (21.74%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) Groovy
5 2 (8.70%) Perl
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 2 (8.70%) Scala
5 2 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.35%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Kubernetes
2 11 (47.83%) Kibana
3 6 (26.09%) Terraform
4 3 (13.04%) Nagios
5 2 (8.70%) Ansible
5 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.35%) Argo
6 1 (4.35%) Control-M
6 1 (4.35%) Grafana
6 1 (4.35%) Icinga
6 1 (4.35%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Dynatrace
1 11 (47.83%) Splunk
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) BMC
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Talend
4 1 (4.35%) VMware