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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 248 327 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 8.97% 19.52% 17.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.11% 46.45% 37.42%
Number of salaries quoted 200 264 318
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,188 £68,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +12.96% -2.90%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,250 £150,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 589 704 1,328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.29% 42.03% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 485 595 921
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -2.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,750 £132,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 4 October 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 13 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.63%) Apache
4 2 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Camunda
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (28.23%) Azure
2 64 (25.81%) AWS
3 31 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.89%) SaaS
5 21 (8.47%) GCP
6 13 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.63%) GitHub
7 9 (3.63%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.82%) Serverless
9 6 (2.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (2.42%) dbt
9 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.02%) Azure AI
10 5 (2.02%) Azure Databricks
10 5 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.02%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (2.02%) Datadog
10 5 (2.02%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.61%) Azure Functions
11 4 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) Firewall
2 4 (1.61%) BGP
2 4 (1.61%) Network Security
2 4 (1.61%) OSPF
3 3 (1.21%) MPLS
3 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.21%) VLAN
3 3 (1.21%) WAN
4 2 (0.81%) Broadband
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.40%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.40%) HSRP
5 1 (0.40%) HTTP
5 1 (0.40%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) VRRP
5 1 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.71%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.48%) Power BI
3 15 (6.05%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.24%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.03%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.63%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.82%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.42%) MySQL
9 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.02%) KDB
10 4 (1.61%) OLTP
10 4 (1.61%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.21%) SSDT
11 3 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.26%) Git
2 9 (3.63%) GitLab
2 9 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.82%) JIRA
4 3 (1.21%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.81%) MLflow
5 2 (0.81%) Snyk
5 2 (0.81%) Vite
6 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.40%) JMeter
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
6 1 (0.40%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (35.08%) Finance
2 51 (20.56%) Social Skills
3 43 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.05%) Banking
5 15 (6.05%) Front Office
6 9 (3.63%) Law
7 8 (3.23%) Marketing
8 5 (2.02%) Legal
9 4 (1.61%) Advertising
9 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.21%) Games
11 2 (0.81%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) iGaming
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Legal Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (19.76%) Senior
2 47 (18.95%) Developer
3 45 (18.15%) Python Engineer
4 41 (16.53%) Software Engineer
5 39 (15.73%) Lead
6 26 (10.48%) Data Engineer
7 21 (8.47%) Python Developer
8 18 (7.26%) Analyst
9 16 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (5.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 14 (5.65%) Python Software Engineer
12 11 (4.44%) Architect
13 10 (4.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) C++ Software Engineer
14 9 (3.63%) Consultant
15 8 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
15 8 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
15 8 (3.23%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.90%) Terraform
2 17 (6.85%) React
3 15 (6.05%) FastAPI
4 13 (5.24%) LangChain
5 12 (4.84%) REST
6 9 (3.63%) Kafka
6 9 (3.63%) PySpark
7 8 (3.23%) LangGraph
7 8 (3.23%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.82%) Django
8 7 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (2.82%) Node.js
9 6 (2.42%) Next.js
10 5 (2.02%) .NET
10 5 (2.02%) RESTful
11 4 (1.61%) Spring
11 4 (1.61%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.61%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.48%) Cloud Native
1 26 (10.48%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.65%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (5.24%) AI Agents
5 11 (4.44%) Reinsurance
6 7 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.82%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.42%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.42%) Low-Code
7 6 (2.42%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.81%) Autonomous Agent
10 2 (0.81%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.31%) Linux
2 8 (3.23%) Windows
3 3 (1.21%) Unix
4 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (31.85%) AI
2 77 (31.05%) Software Engineering
3 58 (23.39%) CI/CD
4 54 (21.77%) Analytics
5 38 (15.32%) Data Engineering
5 38 (15.32%) Fintech
6 35 (14.11%) Data Pipeline
6 35 (14.11%) DevOps
6 35 (14.11%) LLM
6 35 (14.11%) Machine Learning
7 34 (13.71%) Agile
7 34 (13.71%) Observability
8 31 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (12.10%) Decision-Making
9 30 (12.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (10.89%) Containerisation
10 27 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (9.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (8.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.45%) SQL
2 43 (17.34%) Java
3 25 (10.08%) C#
3 25 (10.08%) C++
4 19 (7.66%) JavaScript
4 19 (7.66%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.26%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.85%) Bash
6 17 (6.85%) R
7 9 (3.63%) Julia
7 9 (3.63%) MATLAB
8 8 (3.23%) VBA
9 6 (2.42%) Go
9 6 (2.42%) Rust
10 5 (2.02%) Bicep
10 5 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.61%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.21%) Scala
13 2 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (10.08%) Degree
2 14 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.42%) CFA
6 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.81%) CCNP
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.40%) CCIE
10 1 (0.40%) CCNA
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.84%) GDPR
3 7 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.61%) QA
5 2 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) IASME
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 39 (15.73%) Docker
2 6 (2.42%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (18.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.65%) Ansible
3 9 (3.63%) Grafana
4 8 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.21%) SQL Sentry
6 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) Nessus
7 1 (0.40%) Nmap
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.27%) Databricks
3 13 (5.24%) Google
4 12 (4.84%) OpenAI
5 10 (4.03%) Oracle
6 7 (2.82%) Splunk
7 6 (2.42%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.61%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.21%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.21%) Cisco
9 3 (1.21%) Mistral
9 3 (1.21%) RedGate
10 2 (0.81%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.81%) Foundry
10 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.81%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) Veracode
10 2 (0.81%) VMware
11 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace