Python Job Trends in West London

Python
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 32 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 -6 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 15 22 16
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 2.90% 5.84% 4.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.25% 27.85% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 11
10th Percentile £28,550 £57,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £65,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +5.36% +40.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £79,500
90th Percentile £105,500 £100,000 £82,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 48 79 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 9.28% 20.95% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 33 39 78
10th Percentile £30,050 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £67,500 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% +12.03% +9.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £72,188
90th Percentile £96,500 £87,500 £81,625
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.23%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Python job vacancy trend in West London

Python
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in West London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in West London

Python
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the West London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Richmond upon Thames -2 4 £40,138 -40.54% 2
Harrow 0 3 £31,500 -68.50%
Hillingdon - 2 £113,750 - 8
Hammersmith -1 1 - - 2
Python
London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) dbt
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
2 1 (6.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) LabVIEW
3 1 (6.67%) Jaeger
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Multimedia
3 2 (13.33%) Electronics
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Aviation
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
1 4 (26.67%) Trainee
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Trainee Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Trainee Web Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Trainee Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) OpenID
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (6.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Mentoring
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) Web Development
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 2 (13.33%) Data Science
6 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) R
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) Go
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Certification
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (13.33%) PhD
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) Kustomize
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce