Python Job Trends in the City of London

Python
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 415 481 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 11.61% 22.89% 13.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.83% 47.11% 27.77%
Number of salaries quoted 309 380 334
10th Percentile £48,550 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.68% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £132,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% -3.23%

All Programming Languages
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 992 1,021 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 27.75% 48.60% 47.72%
Number of salaries quoted 763 856 1,302
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Python job vacancy trend in the City of London

Python
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the City of London over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 20 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.41%) Apache
4 3 (0.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.48%) nginx
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Actimize
1 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 158 (38.07%) Azure
2 123 (29.64%) AWS
3 60 (14.46%) GCP
4 47 (11.33%) Power Platform
5 33 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (5.30%) SaaS
7 21 (5.06%) GitHub
8 14 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (3.37%) Snowflake
9 12 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.65%) dbt
11 9 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (2.17%) PaaS
12 7 (1.69%) Serverless
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (1.45%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.20%) Figma
14 5 (1.20%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.34%) Network Security
2 12 (2.89%) Broadband
3 9 (2.17%) Wireless
4 5 (1.20%) DHCP
4 5 (1.20%) DNS
4 5 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.72%) LAN
5 3 (0.72%) WAN
6 2 (0.48%) 4G
6 2 (0.48%) BGP
6 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.48%) HTTP
6 2 (0.48%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.48%) MPLS
6 2 (0.48%) NAS
6 2 (0.48%) SAN
6 2 (0.48%) SNMP
6 2 (0.48%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.16%) Power BI
2 37 (8.92%) Elasticsearch
3 32 (7.71%) BigQuery
4 31 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.58%) Data Lake
5 19 (4.58%) SQL Server
6 16 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.86%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.37%) Tableau
8 11 (2.65%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.69%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.45%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.45%) Looker
12 6 (1.45%) MySQL
12 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.20%) Big Data
13 5 (1.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (8.43%) Git
2 9 (2.17%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.17%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.93%) JIRA
3 8 (1.93%) MLflow
4 5 (1.20%) Balsamiq
5 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.72%) Postman
7 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.48%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) GitLab
8 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
General
1 113 (27.23%) Finance
2 91 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (6.75%) Banking
6 14 (3.37%) Front Office
7 9 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.93%) Advertising
9 5 (1.20%) Legal
9 5 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Retail
10 4 (0.96%) Law
11 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
12 2 (0.48%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.24%) Games
13 1 (0.24%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (24.58%) Senior
2 87 (20.96%) Developer
3 53 (12.77%) Lead
4 52 (12.53%) Python Developer
5 47 (11.33%) Data Engineer
6 41 (9.88%) Analyst
7 40 (9.64%) Python Engineer
8 34 (8.19%) Software Engineer
9 26 (6.27%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.78%) Security Analyst
11 20 (4.82%) Architect
11 20 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.86%) Senior Python Developer
13 15 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 13 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (2.89%) Lead Developer
15 12 (2.89%) Lead Python Developer
15 12 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.64%) Django
2 34 (8.19%) React
3 18 (4.34%) Node.js
4 16 (3.86%) Kafka
5 14 (3.37%) FastAPI
5 14 (3.37%) PySpark
5 14 (3.37%) RESTful
6 11 (2.65%) PyTorch
7 10 (2.41%) .NET
7 10 (2.41%) LangChain
8 9 (2.17%) LlamaIndex
9 8 (1.93%) Model Context Protocol
9 8 (1.93%) REST
9 8 (1.93%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.69%) Flask
10 7 (1.69%) gRPC
10 7 (1.69%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.45%) pgvector
12 5 (1.20%) Next.js
13 4 (0.96%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.16%) Algorithms
2 32 (7.71%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.51%) Data Structures
4 26 (6.27%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.27%) Cyber Defence
4 26 (6.27%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (5.78%) Public Cloud
6 23 (5.54%) Onboarding
7 19 (4.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (4.34%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.13%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.41%) Hedge funds
11 9 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.93%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.93%) Video\Live Streaming
13 7 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
14 6 (1.45%) Clustering
14 6 (1.45%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.53%) Linux
2 33 (7.95%) Windows
3 7 (1.69%) Unix
4 5 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.72%) CentOS
6 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (21.20%) Agile
3 87 (20.96%) Analytics
3 87 (20.96%) CI/CD
4 86 (20.72%) AI
5 83 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 82 (19.76%) DevOps
7 71 (17.11%) Mentoring
8 55 (13.25%) Data Science
9 54 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (12.77%) Data Engineering
10 53 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
11 52 (12.53%) Machine Learning
12 45 (10.84%) Computer Science
13 44 (10.60%) Microservices
14 43 (10.36%) ETL
15 41 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
16 40 (9.64%) Data Modelling
17 38 (9.16%) Fintech
18 35 (8.43%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 128 (30.84%) SQL
2 77 (18.55%) PowerShell
3 41 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.19%) Bash
5 31 (7.47%) C#
5 31 (7.47%) Java
6 23 (5.54%) C++
7 22 (5.30%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.10%) Go
9 10 (2.41%) Scala
10 7 (1.69%) Rust
11 6 (1.45%) Perl
11 6 (1.45%) VBA
12 5 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.20%) R
13 4 (0.96%) C
13 4 (0.96%) Ruby
13 4 (0.96%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.72%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (13.98%) Degree
2 35 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.10%) GIAC
4 14 (3.37%) OSCP
5 13 (3.13%) CREST Certified
6 12 (2.89%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.17%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.17%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.45%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.45%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.20%) GPEN
10 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.96%) GXPN
11 4 (0.96%) OSCE
12 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.72%) SC Cleared
13 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.48%) PhD
14 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.75%) NIST
2 22 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.86%) GDPR
3 16 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (1.45%) QA
5 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.72%) EMIR
5 3 (0.72%) PMO
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (8.92%) Docker
2 9 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (9.88%) Terraform
2 33 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.37%) Ansible
4 9 (2.17%) Nessus
5 8 (1.93%) Grafana
6 7 (1.69%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.72%) Argo
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.24%) SCCM
9 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.92%) Databricks
3 34 (8.19%) Google
4 8 (1.93%) Dell
4 8 (1.93%) Oracle
4 8 (1.93%) VMware
5 7 (1.69%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.69%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.45%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.45%) Commvault
7 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.20%) Splunk
8 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.72%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.72%) Informatica
8 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.48%) BT
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco
9 2 (0.48%) HP
9 2 (0.48%) SAP