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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 385 478 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.64% 21.60% 13.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.03% 44.80% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 282 374 365
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,563 £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 £124,000
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 916 1,067 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.06% 48.22% 48.51%
Number of salaries quoted 718 859 1,341
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,298
25th Percentile £65,313 £57,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,125 £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 13 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 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.56%) 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 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (4.16%) 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
1 152 (39.48%) Azure
2 117 (30.39%) AWS
3 50 (12.99%) GCP
4 45 (11.69%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (5.71%) GitHub
8 18 (4.68%) SaaS
9 14 (3.64%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.34%) Datadog
11 9 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.08%) dbt
12 8 (2.08%) PaaS
12 8 (2.08%) Serverless
13 6 (1.56%) Nutanix
14 5 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) Network Security
2 10 (2.60%) Broadband
3 9 (2.34%) 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 38 (9.87%) Power BI
2 29 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.49%) BigQuery
3 25 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (5.45%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.90%) Data Lake
5 15 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.90%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (2.34%) Tableau
8 7 (1.82%) Star Schema
9 6 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.30%) Big Data
11 4 (1.04%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.04%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (8.05%) Git
2 10 (2.60%) JIRA
3 9 (2.34%) Burp Suite
3 9 (2.34%) 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 (27.27%) Finance
2 89 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 42 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.01%) Banking
6 11 (2.86%) Front Office
7 10 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.08%) Advertising
8 8 (2.08%) Retail
9 6 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.56%) 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 (24.42%) Senior
2 84 (21.82%) Developer
3 50 (12.99%) Python Developer
4 45 (11.69%) Data Engineer
4 45 (11.69%) Lead
5 41 (10.65%) Analyst
6 31 (8.05%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.53%) Python Engineer
8 28 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 22 (5.71%) Security Analyst
10 21 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (4.42%) Architect
11 17 (4.42%) Senior Python Developer
12 15 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 15 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 12 (3.12%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 12 (3.12%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.12%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.91%) Django
2 36 (9.35%) React
3 20 (5.19%) FastAPI
3 20 (5.19%) Node.js
4 15 (3.90%) PySpark
5 13 (3.38%) RESTful
6 11 (2.86%) .NET
6 11 (2.86%) Kafka
7 8 (2.08%) Flask
8 7 (1.82%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.82%) LangChain
8 7 (1.82%) Next.js
8 7 (1.82%) PyTorch
8 7 (1.82%) REST
9 6 (1.56%) gRPC
9 6 (1.56%) Hugging Face
9 6 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (1.30%) LlamaIndex
10 5 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.30%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.53%) Algorithms
1 29 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (6.23%) Data Structures
2 24 (6.23%) Greenfield Project
3 23 (5.97%) Cyber Defence
4 22 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.94%) Cloud Native
6 16 (4.16%) Security Operations Centre
7 13 (3.38%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.12%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.86%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.60%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.34%) Hedge funds
11 9 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.34%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.56%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.56%) Over-the-Top Content
12 6 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
13 5 (1.30%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.87%) Linux
2 24 (6.23%) Windows
3 10 (2.60%) 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 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (23.12%) Analytics
3 87 (22.60%) Agile
3 87 (22.60%) AI
4 79 (20.52%) CI/CD
5 76 (19.74%) Software Engineering
6 75 (19.48%) DevOps
7 66 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 52 (13.51%) Machine Learning
9 49 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (12.73%) Data Science
10 47 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (11.17%) ETL
12 42 (10.91%) Data Modelling
13 41 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (10.65%) Computer Science
13 41 (10.65%) Data Engineering
13 41 (10.65%) Microservices
14 36 (9.35%) Coaching
14 36 (9.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.95%) SQL
2 62 (16.10%) PowerShell
3 39 (10.13%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.57%) Bash
5 32 (8.31%) C#
6 30 (7.79%) Java
7 27 (7.01%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.16%) C++
9 12 (3.12%) Go
10 11 (2.86%) Rust
11 8 (2.08%) Scala
12 6 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.56%) R
12 6 (1.56%) VBA
13 5 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.78%) Perl
14 3 (0.78%) PHP
14 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.78%) VC++
Qualifications
1 54 (14.03%) Degree
2 30 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.90%) GIAC
4 11 (2.86%) OSCP
5 10 (2.60%) CREST Certified
6 9 (2.34%) CCSAM
6 9 (2.34%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.34%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.56%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.52%) GPEN
11 2 (0.52%) MBA
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
12 1 (0.26%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.75%) NIST
2 20 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.38%) 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 (10.65%) Docker
2 8 (2.08%) 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 (8.31%) Terraform
2 31 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.64%) Ansible
4 9 (2.34%) Nessus
5 7 (1.82%) Grafana
6 6 (1.56%) 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 88 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.13%) Databricks
3 33 (8.57%) Google
4 9 (2.34%) VMware
5 7 (1.82%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.82%) Guidewire
5 7 (1.82%) Oracle
6 6 (1.56%) Commvault
6 6 (1.56%) 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