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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 45
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 22 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 2.46% 4.85% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.56% 25.86% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 29
10th Percentile £37,750 £40,138 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £73,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.88% +9.26% -
75th Percentile £56,625 £95,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £108,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% +5.88%

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 72 58 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 8.04% 18.77% 23.75%
Number of salaries quoted 48 38 50
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,097 £42,250
25th Percentile £45,938 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -4.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,875 £87,500
London median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% +3.13%

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 October 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 October 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
Wembley -8 7 £49,500 - 1
Hillingdon -5 5 £70,500 -34.42% 11
Ealing -7 4 - - 4
Hounslow -11 4 £68,750 +25.00% 12
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 1 (4.55%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) GCP
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Power Automate
3 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
4 2 (9.09%) Supabase
4 2 (9.09%) Vercel
5 1 (4.55%) DigitalOcean
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Broadband
2 1 (4.55%) 5G
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) BigQuery
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (18.18%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (13.64%) Metadata
3 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
3 3 (13.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) Vite
3 2 (9.09%) webpack
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Games
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Data Scientist
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Associate Director
7 1 (4.55%) Data Network Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Scientist
7 1 (4.55%) Traffic Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Node.js
2 3 (13.64%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) CSS
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) Jest
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (9.09%) Next.js
3 2 (9.09%) React
4 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) Streamlit
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (22.73%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (13.64%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.55%) Clustering
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) FMCG
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (4.55%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) AI
2 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 9 (40.91%) Mentoring
3 9 (40.91%) Observability
3 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 8 (36.36%) Validation
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
6 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Data Science
7 5 (22.73%) Data Strategy
7 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (18.18%) Generative AI
8 4 (18.18%) Lakehouse
8 4 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 3 (13.64%) Go
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce