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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 355 406 442
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.19% 21.35% 15.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.31% 47.37% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 284 323 299
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £152,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 839 857 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.73% 45.06% 47.18%
Number of salaries quoted 667 714 1,069
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,075 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.19% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,875 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.85%

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 25 July 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 21 (5.92%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.35%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.10%) Apache
4 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) Camunda
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (30.42%) Azure
2 105 (29.58%) AWS
3 49 (13.80%) GCP
4 35 (9.86%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.45%) SaaS
6 20 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.66%) Snowflake
9 11 (3.10%) dbt
10 8 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (2.25%) Serverless
11 7 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.97%) GitHub
11 7 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.41%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.41%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.13%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.13%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.23%) Network Security
2 11 (3.10%) Broadband
3 4 (1.13%) BGP
3 4 (1.13%) OSPF
3 4 (1.13%) Wireless
4 3 (0.85%) Firewall
4 3 (0.85%) HTTP
4 3 (0.85%) MPLS
4 3 (0.85%) VLAN
5 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.56%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.28%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.28%) HSRP
6 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) VRRP
6 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (7.89%) Power BI
4 23 (6.48%) BigQuery
5 17 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.51%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.23%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.82%) Tableau
10 9 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.54%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.54%) MySQL
11 8 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.25%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.25%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.97%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.69%) Looker
13 6 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.41%) KDB
Development Applications
1 22 (6.20%) Git
2 9 (2.54%) MLflow
3 6 (1.69%) GitLab
3 6 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.13%) JIRA
5 3 (0.85%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.85%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.85%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.85%) Postman
5 3 (0.85%) Selenium
5 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.56%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.56%) Vite
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 102 (28.73%) Finance
2 78 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.92%) Banking
6 14 (3.94%) Front Office
7 9 (2.54%) Law
8 7 (1.97%) Legal
9 6 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.13%) Advertising
11 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.85%) Games
11 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.56%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Back Office
13 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (23.10%) Senior
2 67 (18.87%) Developer
3 58 (16.34%) Python Engineer
4 48 (13.52%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.39%) Lead
6 41 (11.55%) Data Engineer
7 27 (7.61%) Python Developer
8 26 (7.32%) Analyst
9 18 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (4.23%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (3.94%) Architect
13 13 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) C++ Software Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.38%) Security Analyst
14 12 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.48%) React
2 21 (5.92%) Django
3 18 (5.07%) Kafka
4 17 (4.79%) LangChain
5 16 (4.51%) FastAPI
5 16 (4.51%) PyTorch
6 15 (4.23%) PySpark
7 13 (3.66%) REST
8 12 (3.38%) RESTful
9 10 (2.82%) Node.js
9 10 (2.82%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.54%) scikit-learn
11 8 (2.25%) .NET
12 7 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.97%) gRPC
12 7 (1.97%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.97%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.97%) Pandas
12 7 (1.97%) pgvector
13 6 (1.69%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 29 (8.17%) Algorithms
4 26 (7.32%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.48%) Public Cloud
6 21 (5.92%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (5.07%) Data Structures
8 13 (3.66%) Cyber Defence
9 12 (3.38%) Reinsurance
10 11 (3.10%) Security Operations Centre
11 10 (2.82%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
11 10 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
12 7 (1.97%) Clustering
12 7 (1.97%) Over-the-Top Content
13 6 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.41%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.21%) Linux
2 23 (6.48%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.01%) Software Engineering
2 92 (25.92%) AI
3 80 (22.54%) CI/CD
4 63 (17.75%) Analytics
5 59 (16.62%) DevOps
5 59 (16.62%) Machine Learning
6 58 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (15.21%) Data Engineering
8 53 (14.93%) Fintech
9 48 (13.52%) Agile
10 45 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (12.11%) Data Science
12 41 (11.55%) Computer Science
13 40 (11.27%) Mentoring
14 39 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 38 (10.70%) Microservices
16 37 (10.42%) Observability
17 33 (9.30%) LLM
18 32 (9.01%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (32.39%) SQL
2 48 (13.52%) Java
2 48 (13.52%) PowerShell
3 38 (10.70%) C++
4 34 (9.58%) JavaScript
5 33 (9.30%) C#
6 22 (6.20%) Bash
7 19 (5.35%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.51%) Go
8 16 (4.51%) R
9 12 (3.38%) Scala
10 9 (2.54%) Julia
10 9 (2.54%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.54%) Rust
10 9 (2.54%) VBA
11 6 (1.69%) C
11 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.41%) Bicep
13 4 (1.13%) PHP
14 3 (0.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (10.99%) Degree
2 26 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.82%) GIAC
5 9 (2.54%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.97%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.97%) OSCP
7 6 (1.69%) CCSAM
8 4 (1.13%) GPEN
8 4 (1.13%) GXPN
8 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.13%) OSCE
9 3 (0.85%) CFA
9 3 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
9 3 (0.85%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.73%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.23%) GDPR
3 10 (2.82%) NIST
4 7 (1.97%) QA
5 6 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.13%) SLA
7 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) EMIR
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (11.83%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (13.52%) Kubernetes
2 46 (12.96%) Terraform
3 15 (4.23%) Ansible
4 9 (2.54%) Grafana
5 8 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.85%) Nessus
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.58%) Databricks
3 23 (6.48%) Google
4 11 (3.10%) Oracle
5 10 (2.82%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.25%) Splunk
7 7 (1.97%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.97%) Typelevel
8 6 (1.69%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.69%) Dell
9 4 (1.13%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.56%) BT
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco
10 2 (0.56%) Foundry
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.56%) SAP
10 2 (0.56%) VMware
11 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat