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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 386 481 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.69% 21.59% 13.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.09% 44.70% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 283 377 369
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £126,250 £123,000
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 917 1,076 1,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.15% 48.29% 48.69%
Number of salaries quoted 719 869 1,354
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,509
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £113,750 £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 12 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 13 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.55%) Apache
4 4 (1.04%) Confluence
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Actimize
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 153 (39.64%) Azure
2 117 (30.31%) AWS
3 50 (12.95%) GCP
4 46 (11.92%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (6.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (5.70%) GitHub
8 18 (4.66%) SaaS
9 14 (3.63%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (2.33%) Datadog
11 9 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.07%) dbt
12 8 (2.07%) PaaS
12 8 (2.07%) Serverless
13 6 (1.55%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.04%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.37%) Network Security
2 10 (2.59%) Broadband
3 9 (2.33%) Wireless
4 5 (1.30%) DHCP
4 5 (1.30%) DNS
4 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.04%) WAN
6 3 (0.78%) HTTP
6 3 (0.78%) LAN
6 3 (0.78%) NAS
6 3 (0.78%) SAN
6 3 (0.78%) VPN
7 2 (0.52%) 4G
7 2 (0.52%) BGP
7 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.52%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.52%) MPLS
7 2 (0.52%) SNMP
7 2 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.10%) Power BI
2 30 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.48%) BigQuery
3 25 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 16 (4.15%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (2.59%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.33%) Tableau
9 7 (1.81%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.30%) Big Data
11 5 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (8.29%) Git
2 10 (2.59%) JIRA
3 9 (2.33%) Burp Suite
3 9 (2.33%) Metasploit
4 4 (1.04%) Balsamiq
4 4 (1.04%) MLflow
4 4 (1.04%) Postman
5 3 (0.78%) GitLab
6 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.52%) Selenium
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.26%) Deequ
7 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.26%) Mocha
7 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 105 (27.20%) Finance
2 90 (23.32%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.99%) Banking
6 11 (2.85%) Front Office
7 10 (2.59%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.07%) Advertising
8 8 (2.07%) Retail
9 6 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.55%) Legal
10 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.78%) Law
12 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.52%) International Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Marketing
13 2 (0.52%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (24.35%) Senior
2 84 (21.76%) Developer
3 50 (12.95%) Python Developer
4 46 (11.92%) Data Engineer
5 45 (11.66%) Lead
6 41 (10.62%) Analyst
7 31 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.51%) Python Engineer
9 28 (7.25%) Software Engineer
10 22 (5.70%) Security Analyst
11 21 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
12 17 (4.40%) Architect
12 17 (4.40%) Senior Python Developer
13 15 (3.89%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 12 (3.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 12 (3.11%) Lead Developer
15 12 (3.11%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.88%) Django
2 36 (9.33%) React
3 20 (5.18%) FastAPI
3 20 (5.18%) Node.js
4 15 (3.89%) PySpark
5 13 (3.37%) RESTful
6 11 (2.85%) .NET
6 11 (2.85%) Kafka
7 8 (2.07%) Flask
8 7 (1.81%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.81%) LangChain
8 7 (1.81%) Next.js
8 7 (1.81%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.81%) REST
9 6 (1.55%) gRPC
9 6 (1.55%) Hugging Face
9 6 (1.55%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (1.30%) HTML
10 5 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.30%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.51%) Algorithms
1 29 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.22%) Data Structures
2 24 (6.22%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (5.96%) Cyber Defence
4 22 (5.70%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.92%) Cloud Native
6 16 (4.15%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.11%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.85%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.59%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.33%) Hedge funds
11 9 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.33%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.55%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.55%) Over-the-Top Content
12 6 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (1.30%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.84%) Linux
2 24 (6.22%) Windows
3 10 (2.59%) Unix
4 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.78%) CentOS
5 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (23.32%) Analytics
3 88 (22.80%) Agile
3 88 (22.80%) AI
4 80 (20.73%) CI/CD
5 76 (19.69%) DevOps
5 76 (19.69%) Software Engineering
6 66 (17.10%) Mentoring
7 52 (13.47%) Machine Learning
8 50 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (12.69%) Data Science
10 47 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (11.40%) ETL
12 43 (11.14%) Data Modelling
13 42 (10.88%) Business Intelligence
13 42 (10.88%) Data Engineering
14 41 (10.62%) Computer Science
14 41 (10.62%) Microservices
15 36 (9.33%) Coaching
15 36 (9.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 124 (32.12%) SQL
2 62 (16.06%) PowerShell
3 39 (10.10%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.55%) Bash
5 32 (8.29%) C#
6 30 (7.77%) Java
7 27 (6.99%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.15%) C++
9 12 (3.11%) Go
10 11 (2.85%) Rust
11 9 (2.33%) Scala
12 7 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.55%) R
13 6 (1.55%) VBA
14 5 (1.30%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.78%) Perl
15 3 (0.78%) PHP
15 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.78%) VC++
Qualifications
1 54 (13.99%) Degree
2 30 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.89%) GIAC
4 11 (2.85%) OSCP
5 10 (2.59%) CREST Certified
6 9 (2.33%) CCSAM
6 9 (2.33%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.33%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.55%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.52%) GPEN
12 2 (0.52%) MBA
12 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
13 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.74%) NIST
2 20 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.37%) GDPR
5 4 (1.04%) QA
6 3 (0.78%) EMIR
7 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.52%) PMO
7 2 (0.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) Basel III
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (10.62%) Docker
2 8 (2.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (8.29%) Terraform
2 31 (8.03%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.63%) Ansible
4 9 (2.33%) Nessus
5 7 (1.81%) Grafana
6 6 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.78%) Argo
7 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) SCCM
9 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (23.06%) Microsoft
2 40 (10.36%) Databricks
3 33 (8.55%) Google
4 9 (2.33%) VMware
5 7 (1.81%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.81%) Guidewire
5 7 (1.81%) Oracle
6 6 (1.55%) Commvault
6 6 (1.55%) Typelevel
7 5 (1.30%) Dell
7 5 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.04%) Splunk
9 3 (0.78%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.78%) Informatica
9 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.52%) BT
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco
10 2 (0.52%) HP
10 2 (0.52%) SAP