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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 412 472 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.42% 22.75% 13.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.87% 46.23% 28.04%
Number of salaries quoted 303 374 346
10th Percentile £47,950 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,750 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £105,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £130,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +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 961 1,021 1,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 28.96% 49.20% 48.05%
Number of salaries quoted 740 860 1,315
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £120,000 £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 31 March 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 18 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.18%) Apache
4 4 (0.97%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.49%) nginx
5 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 20 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.49%) 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
1 163 (39.56%) Azure
2 125 (30.34%) AWS
3 59 (14.32%) GCP
4 50 (12.14%) Power Platform
5 33 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.83%) GitHub
7 23 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (5.10%) SaaS
9 16 (3.88%) Snowflake
10 13 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (2.91%) dbt
12 9 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.18%) PaaS
12 9 (2.18%) Serverless
13 7 (1.70%) Datadog
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.46%) Nutanix
15 5 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.21%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.13%) Network Security
2 13 (3.16%) Broadband
3 9 (2.18%) Wireless
4 5 (1.21%) DHCP
4 5 (1.21%) DNS
4 5 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.73%) HTTP
5 3 (0.73%) LAN
5 3 (0.73%) WAN
6 2 (0.49%) 4G
6 2 (0.49%) BGP
6 2 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.49%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.49%) MPLS
6 2 (0.49%) NAS
6 2 (0.49%) SAN
6 2 (0.49%) SNMP
6 2 (0.49%) VPN
7 1 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.95%) Power BI
2 33 (8.01%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (8.01%) Elasticsearch
3 30 (7.28%) BigQuery
4 21 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.85%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.40%) Tableau
8 12 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.70%) Delta Lake
11 7 (1.70%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.46%) Big Data
12 6 (1.46%) Looker
12 6 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.21%) MySQL
13 5 (1.21%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (8.01%) Git
2 10 (2.43%) JIRA
3 9 (2.18%) Burp Suite
3 9 (2.18%) Metasploit
4 8 (1.94%) MLflow
5 5 (1.21%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.97%) Postman
7 3 (0.73%) GitLab
7 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.24%) Deequ
9 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.24%) Mocha
9 1 (0.24%) webpack
General
1 112 (27.18%) Finance
2 95 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.55%) Banking
6 12 (2.91%) Front Office
7 10 (2.43%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.94%) Advertising
9 6 (1.46%) Legal
9 6 (1.46%) Retail
10 5 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Law
12 3 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.49%) International Banking
13 2 (0.49%) Marketing
13 2 (0.49%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (25.24%) Senior
2 89 (21.60%) Developer
3 54 (13.11%) Lead
4 53 (12.86%) Python Developer
5 48 (11.65%) Data Engineer
6 42 (10.19%) Analyst
7 34 (8.25%) Python Engineer
8 31 (7.52%) Software Engineer
9 29 (7.04%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.83%) Security Analyst
11 22 (5.34%) Senior Data Engineer
12 20 (4.85%) Architect
13 17 (4.13%) Senior Python Developer
14 15 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 14 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (3.40%) Lead Developer
16 13 (3.16%) Lead Python Developer
17 12 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.95%) Django
2 36 (8.74%) React
3 20 (4.85%) Node.js
4 17 (4.13%) FastAPI
4 17 (4.13%) Kafka
5 15 (3.64%) PySpark
6 13 (3.16%) RESTful
7 12 (2.91%) .NET
7 12 (2.91%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.67%) LangChain
9 9 (2.18%) Flask
9 9 (2.18%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (1.94%) REST
10 8 (1.94%) scikit-learn
10 8 (1.94%) TensorFlow
11 7 (1.70%) gRPC
11 7 (1.70%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (1.46%) .NET Core
12 6 (1.46%) Next.js
12 6 (1.46%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.98%) Algorithms
2 31 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.55%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.31%) Data Structures
4 26 (6.31%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.07%) Cyber Defence
6 24 (5.83%) Onboarding
7 22 (5.34%) Public Cloud
8 18 (4.37%) Security Operations Centre
9 15 (3.64%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.91%) Security Posture
11 10 (2.43%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.43%) Hedge funds
12 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (2.18%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.94%) Video\Live Streaming
14 7 (1.70%) Clustering
14 7 (1.70%) Over-the-Top Content
15 6 (1.46%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.41%) Linux
2 30 (7.28%) Windows
3 10 (2.43%) Unix
4 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.73%) CentOS
5 3 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (21.84%) AI
3 89 (21.60%) Analytics
4 88 (21.36%) Agile
5 87 (21.12%) CI/CD
6 81 (19.66%) DevOps
6 81 (19.66%) Software Engineering
7 70 (16.99%) Mentoring
8 58 (14.08%) Machine Learning
9 56 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
10 55 (13.35%) Data Science
11 52 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (12.38%) Data Engineering
13 46 (11.17%) ETL
14 44 (10.68%) Computer Science
14 44 (10.68%) Data Modelling
15 43 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
16 42 (10.19%) Microservices
17 36 (8.74%) Coaching
18 35 (8.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 133 (32.28%) SQL
2 73 (17.72%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.44%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.25%) Bash
4 34 (8.25%) C#
5 31 (7.52%) Java
6 24 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.10%) C++
8 16 (3.88%) Go
9 10 (2.43%) Scala
10 8 (1.94%) Rust
11 6 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.46%) R
11 6 (1.46%) VBA
12 5 (1.21%) Perl
13 3 (0.73%) C
13 3 (0.73%) PHP
13 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.73%) VC++
Qualifications
1 57 (13.83%) Degree
2 33 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.13%) GIAC
4 13 (3.16%) OSCP
5 12 (2.91%) CREST Certified
6 11 (2.67%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.18%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.18%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (1.70%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.46%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.97%) GPEN
12 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.73%) GXPN
12 3 (0.73%) OSCE
13 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.49%) PhD
13 2 (0.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (6.80%) NIST
2 21 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.88%) GDPR
5 6 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.21%) QA
7 3 (0.73%) EMIR
7 3 (0.73%) PMO
8 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.49%) SLA
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) Basel III
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (9.22%) Docker
2 9 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (8.98%) Terraform
2 33 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.40%) Ansible
4 9 (2.18%) Nessus
5 7 (1.70%) Grafana
6 6 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.73%) Argo
7 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.73%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.49%) 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%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) SCCM
9 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.19%) Databricks
3 32 (7.77%) Google
4 9 (2.18%) Dell
5 8 (1.94%) VMware
6 7 (1.70%) CyberArk
6 7 (1.70%) Oracle
6 7 (1.70%) Typelevel
7 6 (1.46%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.46%) Commvault
8 5 (1.21%) Guidewire
8 5 (1.21%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.97%) Splunk
10 3 (0.73%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.73%) Informatica
10 3 (0.73%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.49%) BT
11 2 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.49%) Refinitiv