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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 316 364 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.37% 20.26% 16.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.25% 47.21% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 249 288 285
10th Percentile £55,900 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £119,000 £150,000 £112,000
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 748 771 1,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.18% 42.90% 47.28%
Number of salaries quoted 596 639 966
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £68,438 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,750 £95,938
90th Percentile £113,750 £132,500 £112,500
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 30 August 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 20 (6.33%) Apache Spark
2 17 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.48%) Apache
4 2 (0.63%) Confluence
4 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Camunda
Applications
1 12 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.63%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 94 (29.75%) Azure
2 85 (26.90%) AWS
3 38 (12.03%) GCP
4 36 (11.39%) Power Platform
5 29 (9.18%) SaaS
6 17 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 12 (3.80%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.85%) dbt
9 8 (2.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.22%) GitHub
10 7 (2.22%) Serverless
11 6 (1.90%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.58%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.58%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.27%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.16%) Network Security
2 6 (1.90%) Broadband
3 4 (1.27%) BGP
3 4 (1.27%) OSPF
4 3 (0.95%) Firewall
4 3 (0.95%) MPLS
4 3 (0.95%) VLAN
5 2 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.63%) WAN
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.32%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.32%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.32%) HSRP
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.32%) VPN
6 1 (0.32%) VRRP
6 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (9.81%) Power BI
3 23 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (6.01%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.38%) BigQuery
5 17 (5.38%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.43%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.16%) Tableau
9 9 (2.85%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (2.85%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (2.53%) MySQL
11 7 (2.22%) Looker
12 6 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.90%) Milvus
12 6 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.90%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (6.65%) Git
2 8 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.53%) MLflow
3 7 (2.22%) GitLab
4 4 (1.27%) JIRA
5 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.63%) Postman
6 2 (0.63%) Vite
7 1 (0.32%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.32%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) Snyk
General
1 100 (31.65%) Finance
2 71 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 46 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.33%) Banking
6 16 (5.06%) Front Office
7 10 (3.16%) Law
8 8 (2.53%) Marketing
9 6 (1.90%) Legal
10 5 (1.58%) Advertising
11 4 (1.27%) Games
12 3 (0.95%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.63%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Automotive
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
14 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.32%) iGaming
14 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (22.15%) Senior
2 57 (18.04%) Python Engineer
3 56 (17.72%) Developer
4 50 (15.82%) Lead
5 48 (15.19%) Software Engineer
6 37 (11.71%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.91%) Python Developer
8 22 (6.96%) Analyst
9 19 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (5.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (4.75%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (4.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
14 12 (3.80%) Architect
14 12 (3.80%) C++ Software Engineer
14 12 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 11 (3.48%) Platform Engineer
16 10 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
16 10 (3.16%) Lead Developer
16 10 (3.16%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.97%) Terraform
2 18 (5.70%) LangChain
3 17 (5.38%) Kafka
4 15 (4.75%) FastAPI
4 15 (4.75%) PyTorch
5 14 (4.43%) React
6 12 (3.80%) Django
6 12 (3.80%) PySpark
6 12 (3.80%) REST
7 10 (3.16%) scikit-learn
7 10 (3.16%) TensorFlow
8 8 (2.53%) RESTful
9 7 (2.22%) .NET
9 7 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.22%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (2.22%) pgvector
10 6 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.90%) LangGraph
10 6 (1.90%) Pandas
11 5 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.13%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (7.28%) Onboarding
4 20 (6.33%) Algorithms
5 19 (6.01%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (5.70%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.80%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.80%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.80%) Reinsurance
8 10 (3.16%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.53%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.22%) Clustering
11 6 (1.90%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.58%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.58%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (14.56%) Linux
2 18 (5.70%) Windows
3 3 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (28.48%) Software Engineering
2 88 (27.85%) AI
3 70 (22.15%) CI/CD
4 65 (20.57%) Analytics
5 52 (16.46%) Data Engineering
6 48 (15.19%) Machine Learning
7 47 (14.87%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (13.92%) DevOps
9 44 (13.92%) Fintech
10 38 (12.03%) Agile
10 38 (12.03%) Observability
11 36 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
12 33 (10.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (10.44%) LLM
13 32 (10.13%) Computer Science
14 31 (9.81%) Decision-Making
14 31 (9.81%) Mentoring
15 30 (9.49%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 106 (33.54%) SQL
2 49 (15.51%) Java
3 35 (11.08%) C++
3 35 (11.08%) PowerShell
4 30 (9.49%) C#
5 25 (7.91%) JavaScript
6 18 (5.70%) Bash
7 17 (5.38%) R
8 16 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.48%) Go
10 9 (2.85%) Julia
10 9 (2.85%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.85%) Rust
11 8 (2.53%) VBA
12 7 (2.22%) Scala
13 5 (1.58%) Bicep
13 5 (1.58%) C
13 5 (1.58%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.95%) Perl
14 3 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (11.08%) Degree
2 19 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 9 (2.85%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.58%) CFA
8 4 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.27%) GIAC
9 3 (0.95%) CCSAM
9 3 (0.95%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.95%) GPEN
9 3 (0.95%) GXPN
9 3 (0.95%) OSCE
9 3 (0.95%) OSCP
10 2 (0.63%) CCNP
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.63%) PhD
11 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.08%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.38%) GDPR
3 7 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.58%) QA
6 4 (1.27%) NIST
7 3 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.95%) SLA
8 1 (0.32%) PMO
8 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (11.39%) Docker
2 6 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.32%) Firmware
4 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.75%) Ansible
3 9 (2.85%) Grafana
4 8 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) Puppet
5 1 (0.32%) SCCM
5 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.13%) Databricks
3 16 (5.06%) Google
4 10 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 9 (2.85%) Oracle
6 7 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.22%) Splunk
7 6 (1.90%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.90%) Dell
8 4 (1.27%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.63%) Cisco
10 2 (0.63%) Foundry
10 2 (0.63%) Mistral
10 2 (0.63%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.63%) SAP
10 2 (0.63%) Typelevel
10 2 (0.63%) VMware
11 1 (0.32%) Confluent
11 1 (0.32%) Okta