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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 336 513 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 18.16% 18.31% 12.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.80% 39.19% 24.42%
Number of salaries quoted 268 370 342
10th Percentile £47,675 £51,200 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £59,081
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £111,250 £96,250 £104,688
90th Percentile £145,000 £115,000 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 703 1,309 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 38.00% 46.73% 50.25%
Number of salaries quoted 581 954 1,386
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,750 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the City of London region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge -1 2 £102,000 +33.77%
Python
Central 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 14 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.08%) Apache
4 5 (1.49%) Confluence
5 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.60%) Luigi
6 2 (0.60%) nginx
6 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.30%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 131 (38.99%) Azure
2 99 (29.46%) AWS
3 46 (13.69%) Power Platform
4 44 (13.10%) GCP
5 25 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (6.55%) Datadog
7 19 (5.65%) GitHub
7 19 (5.65%) Snowflake
8 16 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.46%) Serverless
10 11 (3.27%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.27%) SaaS
11 10 (2.98%) dbt
12 8 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.49%) Network Security
1 5 (1.49%) VPN
2 4 (1.19%) WAN
3 3 (0.89%) DHCP
3 3 (0.89%) DNS
3 3 (0.89%) LAN
3 3 (0.89%) NAS
3 3 (0.89%) SAN
3 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.60%) Firewall
4 2 (0.60%) SNMP
5 1 (0.30%) Broadband
5 1 (0.30%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.30%) SSH
5 1 (0.30%) VLAN
5 1 (0.30%) VSAN
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.61%) Power BI
2 30 (8.93%) Relational Database
3 29 (8.63%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.65%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.87%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.68%) ClickHouse
8 9 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.68%) Tableau
9 8 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.38%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.08%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.79%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.19%) Power Query
14 3 (0.89%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (9.52%) Git
2 11 (3.27%) JIRA
3 6 (1.79%) GitLab
4 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.89%) MLflow
5 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.60%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.30%) Deequ
7 1 (0.30%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.30%) Mocha
7 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.30%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 100 (29.76%) Finance
2 78 (23.21%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.10%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.04%) Banking
5 22 (6.55%) Front Office
6 21 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.68%) Advertising
9 9 (2.68%) Law
10 7 (2.08%) Legal
11 6 (1.79%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.49%) Retail
13 4 (1.19%) International Banking
14 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.89%) Marketing
14 3 (0.89%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.60%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 80 (23.81%) Developer
2 70 (20.83%) Senior
3 50 (14.88%) Data Engineer
4 34 (10.12%) Lead
5 23 (6.85%) Analyst
5 23 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 22 (6.55%) Python Developer
6 22 (6.55%) Software Engineer
7 20 (5.95%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.36%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Graduate
9 17 (5.06%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.06%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.76%) Technical Support
10 16 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
11 15 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (4.46%) Graduate Support Engineer
11 15 (4.46%) Graduate Technical Support
12 13 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.57%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (14.29%) React
2 25 (7.44%) Django
3 22 (6.55%) Node.js
3 22 (6.55%) PySpark
4 19 (5.65%) FastAPI
5 14 (4.17%) .NET
6 13 (3.87%) Kafka
7 10 (2.98%) AngularJS
8 9 (2.68%) Next.js
8 9 (2.68%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.38%) Pandas
9 8 (2.38%) Vue
10 7 (2.08%) Flask
10 7 (2.08%) Web Services
11 6 (1.79%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.79%) HTML
11 6 (1.79%) Redux
12 5 (1.49%) React Native
12 5 (1.49%) scikit-learn
12 5 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.85%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 18 (5.36%) Algorithms
4 17 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.57%) Market Risk
6 11 (3.27%) Derivative
7 10 (2.98%) Equities
8 9 (2.68%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 8 (2.38%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (2.08%) Hedge funds
10 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.79%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.19%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.25%) Linux
2 11 (3.27%) Windows
3 8 (2.38%) Unix
4 5 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.19%) CentOS
5 4 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (26.49%) Analytics
3 88 (26.19%) AI
4 84 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 82 (24.40%) DevOps
6 77 (22.92%) Agile
7 53 (15.77%) Machine Learning
8 51 (15.18%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (15.18%) Software Engineering
9 50 (14.88%) ETL
10 45 (13.39%) Data Modelling
11 38 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
11 38 (11.31%) Computer Science
11 38 (11.31%) Data Engineering
11 38 (11.31%) Data Science
11 38 (11.31%) Decision-Making
11 38 (11.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 38 (11.31%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 35 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 138 (41.07%) SQL
2 63 (18.75%) Java
3 54 (16.07%) C#
4 34 (10.12%) TypeScript
5 33 (9.82%) PowerShell
6 31 (9.23%) Bash
7 23 (6.85%) JavaScript
8 18 (5.36%) C++
9 12 (3.57%) Rust
9 12 (3.57%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (2.08%) Go
12 6 (1.79%) R
13 5 (1.49%) Scala
14 4 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.19%) Ruby
15 3 (0.89%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.60%) Perl
16 2 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (19.94%) Degree
2 16 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 10 (2.98%) PhD
4 9 (2.68%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 8 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (1.19%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.89%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.60%) GIAC
9 2 (0.60%) MBA
9 2 (0.60%) MCP
10 1 (0.30%) CCNP
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.30%) CISM
10 1 (0.30%) CISSP
10 1 (0.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.57%) GDPR
3 11 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.27%) NIST
4 3 (0.89%) GRC
5 2 (0.60%) PMO
6 1 (0.30%) Basel III
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.30%) EMIR
6 1 (0.30%) ITGC
6 1 (0.30%) MiFID
6 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) QA
6 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (7.44%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.89%) vSphere
4 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) KVM
5 1 (0.30%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (7.44%) Terraform
2 24 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.25%) Ansible
4 8 (2.38%) Grafana
5 5 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.60%) Argo
7 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.60%) Puppet
7 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (0.60%) SCCM
7 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 48 (14.29%) Databricks
3 20 (5.95%) Guidewire
4 18 (5.36%) Google
5 10 (2.98%) VMware
6 6 (1.79%) Oracle
6 6 (1.79%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.19%) Dell
7 4 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.19%) Splunk
8 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.89%) Commvault
8 3 (0.89%) Informatica
8 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.60%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.60%) HP
9 2 (0.60%) IBM
9 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv