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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 429 457 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.95% 21.99% 14.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.98% 46.21% 29.68%
Number of salaries quoted 328 358 342
10th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,563 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - +11.48% -1.61%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £140,000 £122,400
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% -6.25%

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 1,022 989 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.08% 47.59% 47.71%
Number of salaries quoted 800 826 1,292
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,250 £61,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £101,600 £123,750 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%

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 May 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 (4.90%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Actimize
1 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 154 (35.90%) Azure
2 126 (29.37%) AWS
3 57 (13.29%) GCP
4 48 (11.19%) Power Platform
5 32 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (6.06%) SaaS
7 25 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (4.90%) GitHub
9 16 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.03%) dbt
10 13 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 11 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.10%) PaaS
13 7 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (1.63%) Serverless
14 5 (1.17%) Figma
14 5 (1.17%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.20%) Network Security
2 14 (3.26%) Broadband
3 9 (2.10%) Wireless
4 5 (1.17%) DHCP
4 5 (1.17%) DNS
4 5 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.70%) HTTP
5 3 (0.70%) LAN
5 3 (0.70%) WAN
6 2 (0.47%) 4G
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.47%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.47%) MPLS
6 2 (0.47%) NAS
6 2 (0.47%) SAN
6 2 (0.47%) SNMP
6 2 (0.47%) VPN
7 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
2 39 (9.09%) Power BI
3 30 (6.99%) BigQuery
4 27 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (4.43%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.20%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.73%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.80%) NoSQL
9 12 (2.80%) Tableau
10 10 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.10%) MySQL
12 6 (1.40%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.40%) Looker
12 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.40%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (7.93%) Git
2 9 (2.10%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.10%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.86%) MLflow
4 6 (1.40%) JIRA
5 5 (1.17%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.70%) Postman
7 3 (0.70%) Selenium
8 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.47%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.23%) GitLab
9 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 116 (27.04%) Finance
2 87 (20.28%) Social Skills
3 45 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (7.69%) Banking
6 15 (3.50%) Front Office
7 9 (2.10%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.40%) Advertising
9 5 (1.17%) Legal
9 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.17%) Retail
10 4 (0.93%) Law
11 3 (0.70%) Games
11 3 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Marketing
12 2 (0.47%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (24.94%) Senior
2 92 (21.45%) Developer
3 62 (14.45%) Lead
4 55 (12.82%) Python Developer
5 50 (11.66%) Python Engineer
6 48 (11.19%) Data Engineer
7 41 (9.56%) Software Engineer
8 40 (9.32%) Analyst
9 26 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.59%) Security Analyst
11 21 (4.90%) Architect
12 19 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.73%) Senior Python Developer
15 15 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 15 (3.50%) Lead Developer
15 15 (3.50%) Lead Python Developer
16 13 (3.03%) Python Data Engineer
16 13 (3.03%) Python Software Engineer
16 13 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.86%) Django
2 36 (8.39%) React
3 20 (4.66%) Kafka
4 19 (4.43%) Node.js
5 16 (3.73%) RESTful
6 15 (3.50%) FastAPI
6 15 (3.50%) PySpark
7 12 (2.80%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.56%) LangChain
9 9 (2.10%) .NET
9 9 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.86%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (1.86%) Model Context Protocol
10 8 (1.86%) REST
10 8 (1.86%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.63%) Flask
11 7 (1.63%) gRPC
12 6 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.40%) Next.js
12 6 (1.40%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 39 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 36 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.53%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.29%) Data Structures
5 26 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
5 26 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
6 25 (5.83%) Public Cloud
7 22 (5.13%) Onboarding
8 19 (4.43%) Product Ownership
8 19 (4.43%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (3.03%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.10%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.86%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.86%) Hedge funds
12 8 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.63%) Clustering
13 7 (1.63%) Over-the-Top Content
14 6 (1.40%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 61 (14.22%) Linux
2 32 (7.46%) Windows
3 6 (1.40%) Unix
4 5 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.70%) CentOS
6 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (21.45%) Software Engineering
2 90 (20.98%) CI/CD
3 87 (20.28%) AI
4 81 (18.88%) Agile
4 81 (18.88%) DevOps
5 80 (18.65%) Analytics
5 80 (18.65%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 58 (13.52%) Data Engineering
8 56 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (13.05%) Data Science
9 52 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
10 51 (11.89%) Fintech
10 51 (11.89%) Machine Learning
11 46 (10.72%) Computer Science
12 45 (10.49%) Microservices
13 40 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (9.32%) ETL
14 37 (8.62%) Data Modelling
15 36 (8.39%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 125 (29.14%) SQL
2 76 (17.72%) PowerShell
3 40 (9.32%) JavaScript
4 33 (7.69%) Java
5 31 (7.23%) Bash
6 28 (6.53%) C#
6 28 (6.53%) C++
7 23 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 19 (4.43%) Go
9 10 (2.33%) Scala
10 7 (1.63%) R
10 7 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.63%) VBA
11 6 (1.40%) Perl
12 5 (1.17%) C
12 5 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.17%) PHP
12 5 (1.17%) Rust
13 4 (0.93%) Ruby
14 3 (0.70%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 54 (12.59%) Degree
2 35 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.96%) GIAC
4 14 (3.26%) OSCP
5 13 (3.03%) CREST Certified
6 12 (2.80%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.10%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.10%) CHECK Team Member
8 8 (1.86%) Security Cleared
9 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.17%) GPEN
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.93%) GXPN
11 4 (0.93%) OSCE
11 4 (0.93%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.23%) GCFA
13 1 (0.23%) GCIH
13 1 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.29%) NIST
2 26 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.50%) GDPR
3 15 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (1.40%) QA
5 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.70%) EMIR
5 3 (0.70%) PMO
5 3 (0.70%) SLA
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) Basel III
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (9.56%) Docker
2 9 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (10.26%) Terraform
2 38 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.26%) Ansible
4 9 (2.10%) Nessus
5 8 (1.86%) Grafana
6 7 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.70%) Argo
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.23%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.23%) SCCM
9 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 78 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.69%) Google
3 30 (6.99%) Databricks
4 11 (2.56%) Oracle
5 8 (1.86%) Dell
6 7 (1.63%) CyberArk
6 7 (1.63%) Typelevel
6 7 (1.63%) VMware
7 6 (1.40%) Cloudera
8 5 (1.17%) Commvault
8 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.17%) Splunk
9 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.70%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.47%) Cisco
11 2 (0.47%) Confluent
11 2 (0.47%) HP
11 2 (0.47%) SAP
11 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow