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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 361 407 449
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.25% 21.42% 15.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.37% 47.38% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 290 324 304
10th Percentile £54,750 £51,475 £47,488
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,625 £152,500 £119,625
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 852 859 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.83% 45.21% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 678 716 1,100
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -4.76%

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 22 July 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 (5.82%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.05%) Apache
4 1 (0.28%) Camunda
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (31.30%) Azure
2 107 (29.64%) AWS
3 50 (13.85%) GCP
4 34 (9.42%) Power Platform
5 29 (8.03%) SaaS
6 20 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.60%) Snowflake
9 11 (3.05%) dbt
10 8 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (2.22%) GitHub
11 7 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.94%) Serverless
12 6 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.39%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.11%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.11%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.11%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.16%) Network Security
2 11 (3.05%) Broadband
3 4 (1.11%) BGP
3 4 (1.11%) OSPF
3 4 (1.11%) Wireless
4 3 (0.83%) Firewall
4 3 (0.83%) HTTP
4 3 (0.83%) MPLS
4 3 (0.83%) VLAN
5 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.55%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.28%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.28%) HSRP
6 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) VRRP
6 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.86%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (7.76%) Power BI
3 25 (6.93%) BigQuery
4 17 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 15 (4.16%) Data Lake
5 15 (4.16%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.77%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.77%) Tableau
8 9 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.49%) MySQL
9 8 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.22%) Spark SQL
10 7 (1.94%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.66%) Looker
11 6 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.39%) KDB
Development Applications
1 24 (6.65%) Git
2 9 (2.49%) MLflow
3 6 (1.66%) GitLab
3 6 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.11%) JIRA
5 3 (0.83%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.83%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.83%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.83%) Postman
5 3 (0.83%) Selenium
5 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.55%) Vite
7 1 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 105 (29.09%) Finance
2 78 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.93%) Banking
6 16 (4.43%) Front Office
7 8 (2.22%) Law
8 6 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.66%) Legal
8 6 (1.66%) Marketing
9 4 (1.11%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Games
10 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.83%) Retail
11 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (22.99%) Senior
2 70 (19.39%) Developer
3 58 (16.07%) Python Engineer
4 49 (13.57%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.19%) Lead
6 40 (11.08%) Data Engineer
7 31 (8.59%) Python Developer
8 24 (6.65%) Analyst
9 18 (4.99%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.43%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (3.88%) Architect
12 14 (3.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.60%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) C++ Software Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.32%) Security Analyst
14 12 (3.32%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.93%) Django
2 24 (6.65%) React
3 18 (4.99%) Kafka
4 16 (4.43%) FastAPI
4 16 (4.43%) LangChain
5 15 (4.16%) PyTorch
6 14 (3.88%) PySpark
7 13 (3.60%) RESTful
8 12 (3.32%) REST
9 10 (2.77%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.49%) .NET
10 9 (2.49%) scikit-learn
11 8 (2.22%) Node.js
12 7 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (1.94%) gRPC
12 7 (1.94%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (1.94%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.94%) Pandas
12 7 (1.94%) pgvector
13 6 (1.66%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (9.42%) Cloud Native
3 31 (8.59%) Algorithms
4 25 (6.93%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.65%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (6.65%) Public Cloud
6 21 (5.82%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.60%) Cyber Defence
8 12 (3.32%) Reinsurance
9 11 (3.05%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (2.77%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.77%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.94%) Clustering
11 7 (1.94%) Over-the-Top Content
12 6 (1.66%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.39%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.39%) Fixed Income
14 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.96%) Linux
2 23 (6.37%) Windows
3 3 (0.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (29.64%) Software Engineering
2 89 (24.65%) AI
3 79 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 64 (17.73%) Analytics
5 61 (16.90%) DevOps
6 57 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 57 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (14.68%) Fintech
8 52 (14.40%) Data Engineering
9 48 (13.30%) Agile
10 44 (12.19%) Data Pipeline
11 43 (11.91%) Data Science
12 42 (11.63%) Computer Science
13 41 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (11.36%) Mentoring
14 40 (11.08%) Microservices
15 38 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 35 (9.70%) Observability
17 32 (8.86%) Containerisation
18 31 (8.59%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 113 (31.30%) SQL
2 49 (13.57%) Java
2 49 (13.57%) PowerShell
3 38 (10.53%) C++
4 34 (9.42%) C#
4 34 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 22 (6.09%) Bash
6 18 (4.99%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.43%) R
8 15 (4.16%) Go
9 12 (3.32%) Scala
10 9 (2.49%) Julia
10 9 (2.49%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.49%) Rust
11 8 (2.22%) VBA
12 6 (1.66%) C
12 6 (1.66%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.39%) Bicep
14 4 (1.11%) PHP
15 3 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (11.36%) Degree
2 28 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.32%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.77%) GIAC
5 9 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.49%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.94%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.94%) OSCP
7 6 (1.66%) CCSAM
8 4 (1.11%) GPEN
8 4 (1.11%) GXPN
8 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.11%) OSCE
9 3 (0.83%) CFA
9 3 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
9 3 (0.83%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.16%) GDPR
3 12 (3.32%) NIST
4 7 (1.94%) QA
5 6 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.11%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 43 (11.91%) Docker
2 6 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (13.02%) Kubernetes
1 47 (13.02%) Terraform
2 15 (4.16%) Ansible
3 10 (2.77%) Grafana
4 9 (2.49%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.83%) Nessus
6 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.14%) Databricks
3 25 (6.93%) Google
4 11 (3.05%) Oracle
5 9 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.22%) Splunk
7 7 (1.94%) Typelevel
8 6 (1.66%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.66%) Dell
8 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.83%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.83%) VMware
10 2 (0.55%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.55%) BT
10 2 (0.55%) Cisco
10 2 (0.55%) Commvault
10 2 (0.55%) Foundry
10 2 (0.55%) SAP
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat