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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 15
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 320 492 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 19.69% 17.79% 12.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.34% 38.35% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 256 338 350
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,125
25th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £101,875
90th Percentile £146,250 £112,500 £132,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%

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 676 1,283 1,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 46.38% 50.90%
Number of salaries quoted 567 909 1,416
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £119,375
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £79,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the City of London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
London Bridge -1 5 £102,000 +33.77%
Python
Central 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 14 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.19%) Apache
3 5 (1.56%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) Luigi
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) IIS
5 1 (0.31%) nginx
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.94%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 123 (38.44%) Azure
2 102 (31.88%) AWS
3 45 (14.06%) GCP
4 35 (10.94%) Power Platform
5 27 (8.44%) Datadog
6 21 (6.56%) GitHub
7 20 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (5.94%) Snowflake
9 17 (5.31%) Serverless
10 15 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.06%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.13%) dbt
12 10 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (2.19%) SaaS
14 6 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (1.56%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) VPN
2 3 (0.94%) Network Security
3 2 (0.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.63%) WAN
4 1 (0.31%) Broadband
4 1 (0.31%) HTTP
4 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.31%) LAN
4 1 (0.31%) NAS
4 1 (0.31%) SAN
4 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.31%) SSH
4 1 (0.31%) VLAN
4 1 (0.31%) VSAN
4 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.31%) Relational Database
2 29 (9.06%) Power BI
3 25 (7.81%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.38%) NoSQL
7 12 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.50%) ClickHouse
8 8 (2.50%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.19%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.88%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.88%) Tableau
11 5 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.56%) Big Data
11 5 (1.56%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (9.06%) Git
2 10 (3.13%) JIRA
3 6 (1.88%) GitLab
3 6 (1.88%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.94%) MLflow
6 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) Deequ
7 1 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.31%) Mocha
7 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 94 (29.38%) Finance
2 77 (24.06%) Social Skills
3 43 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.13%) Banking
5 21 (6.56%) Front Office
6 17 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (4.06%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.13%) Law
9 9 (2.81%) Advertising
9 9 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.50%) Retail
11 7 (2.19%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.19%) Legal
12 6 (1.88%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.88%) Marketing
13 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.25%) International Banking
15 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.94%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 87 (27.19%) Developer
2 70 (21.88%) Senior
3 41 (12.81%) Data Engineer
4 29 (9.06%) Lead
5 24 (7.50%) Analyst
6 21 (6.56%) Python Developer
6 21 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.63%) Senior Data Engineer
9 17 (5.31%) Graduate
9 17 (5.31%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.31%) Technical Engineer
10 16 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 16 (5.00%) Support Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) Graduate Support Engineer
11 15 (4.69%) Graduate Technical Support
11 15 (4.69%) Technical Support
11 15 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
12 13 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.75%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.75%) React
2 22 (6.88%) Django
3 19 (5.94%) PySpark
4 18 (5.63%) Node.js
5 16 (5.00%) FastAPI
6 15 (4.69%) .NET
7 14 (4.38%) Kafka
8 11 (3.44%) Pandas
8 11 (3.44%) PyTorch
9 9 (2.81%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.50%) Flask
10 8 (2.50%) Next.js
10 8 (2.50%) Web Services
11 7 (2.19%) Redux
11 7 (2.19%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.88%) .NET Core
12 6 (1.88%) scikit-learn
12 6 (1.88%) Vue
13 5 (1.56%) AWS CDK
13 5 (1.56%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.75%) Market Risk
6 11 (3.44%) Derivative
7 10 (3.13%) Equities
8 9 (2.81%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.81%) Reinsurance
9 7 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.19%) Hedge funds
10 6 (1.88%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.88%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.25%) Low-Code
13 3 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.69%) Linux
2 10 (3.13%) Windows
3 7 (2.19%) Unix
4 6 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.63%) CentOS
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.31%) VMS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (27.81%) CI/CD
3 86 (26.88%) AI
3 86 (26.88%) Analytics
4 85 (26.56%) DevOps
5 75 (23.44%) Agile
6 59 (18.44%) Machine Learning
7 46 (14.38%) Software Engineering
8 45 (14.06%) Data Modelling
8 45 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (14.06%) Data Science
9 44 (13.75%) ETL
10 42 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (12.50%) Computer Science
12 39 (12.19%) Migration
13 37 (11.56%) Test Automation
14 36 (11.25%) Decision-Making
15 34 (10.63%) Data Engineering
16 33 (10.31%) Mentoring
17 31 (9.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 138 (43.13%) SQL
2 76 (23.75%) Java
3 59 (18.44%) C#
4 33 (10.31%) Bash
5 28 (8.75%) TypeScript
6 26 (8.13%) PowerShell
7 25 (7.81%) C++
8 18 (5.63%) JavaScript
9 13 (4.06%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.75%) Rust
11 9 (2.81%) Go
12 7 (2.19%) Scala
13 6 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.56%) MATLAB
15 4 (1.25%) R
16 3 (0.94%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.94%) Ruby
17 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (22.19%) Degree
2 21 (6.56%) Master's Degree
3 13 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.75%) PhD
5 9 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.50%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.94%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.94%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.63%) MBA
10 2 (0.63%) MCP
11 1 (0.31%) CCNP
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.44%) GDPR
3 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.88%) NIST
4 4 (1.25%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) EMIR
5 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.31%) ITGC
5 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (7.50%) Docker
2 7 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.94%) vSphere
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) KVM
6 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (9.06%) Terraform
2 28 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.25%) Ansible
4 9 (2.81%) Grafana
5 6 (1.88%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.63%) Argo
7 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.63%) Puppet
7 2 (0.63%) SCCM
8 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 59 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.00%) Databricks
3 24 (7.50%) Guidewire
4 15 (4.69%) Google
5 6 (1.88%) VMware
6 5 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.56%) Oracle
7 4 (1.25%) Hitachi
7 4 (1.25%) Informatica
8 3 (0.94%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.94%) Splunk
9 2 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.63%) Dell
9 2 (0.63%) IBM
9 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.31%) Citrix
10 1 (0.31%) Commvault
10 1 (0.31%) Gemalto
10 1 (0.31%) SAP
10 1 (0.31%) SimCorp