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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 375 500 411
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 14.20% 19.67% 13.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.25% 42.19% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 279 366 371
10th Percentile £52,350 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £83,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +4.69% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £104,688 £106,250
90th Percentile £133,000 £123,125 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £77,750
% change year-on-year +6.06% +6.11% +0.32%

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 867 1,185 1,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.83% 46.62% 49.68%
Number of salaries quoted 697 872 1,426
10th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £49,375
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,188
90th Percentile £119,050 £118,625 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £79,250
% change year-on-year +9.68% -2.21% +2.26%

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 7 February 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 12 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.33%) Apache
4 4 (1.07%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.53%) Luigi
6 2 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.53%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.27%) Actimize
2 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 148 (39.47%) Azure
2 97 (25.87%) AWS
3 48 (12.80%) Power Platform
4 42 (11.20%) GCP
5 27 (7.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (6.40%) GitHub
8 14 (3.73%) Datadog
8 14 (3.73%) SaaS
9 13 (3.47%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.87%) PaaS
11 7 (1.87%) Serverless
12 6 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.60%) dbt
13 5 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.33%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.33%) Figma
13 5 (1.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.40%) Wireless
2 8 (2.13%) Network Security
3 5 (1.33%) Broadband
3 5 (1.33%) DHCP
3 5 (1.33%) DNS
3 5 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.07%) WAN
5 3 (0.80%) HTTP
5 3 (0.80%) LAN
5 3 (0.80%) NAS
5 3 (0.80%) SAN
5 3 (0.80%) VPN
6 2 (0.53%) 4G
6 2 (0.53%) BGP
6 2 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.53%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.53%) MPLS
6 2 (0.53%) SNMP
6 2 (0.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.40%) Power BI
2 29 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.33%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.80%) Data Lake
6 17 (4.53%) BigQuery
6 17 (4.53%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.93%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.40%) Tableau
11 7 (1.87%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.33%) ClickHouse
13 5 (1.33%) Power Query
14 4 (1.07%) Big Data
14 4 (1.07%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 28 (7.47%) Git
2 9 (2.40%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.40%) Metasploit
3 7 (1.87%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.80%) GitLab
6 2 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.53%) MLflow
6 2 (0.53%) Postman
6 2 (0.53%) Selenium
6 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.27%) Deequ
7 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Mocha
7 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 107 (28.53%) Finance
2 86 (22.93%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (8.00%) Banking
6 19 (5.07%) Front Office
7 13 (3.47%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.40%) Advertising
10 8 (2.13%) Legal
11 7 (1.87%) Retail
12 4 (1.07%) International Banking
12 4 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.80%) Law
13 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.53%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 100 (26.67%) Senior
2 94 (25.07%) Developer
3 51 (13.60%) Python Developer
4 48 (12.80%) Data Engineer
5 43 (11.47%) Lead
6 36 (9.60%) Senior Developer
7 34 (9.07%) Analyst
8 26 (6.93%) Software Engineer
9 25 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
10 22 (5.87%) Python Engineer
11 18 (4.80%) Senior Python Developer
12 17 (4.53%) Architect
12 17 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (4.53%) Security Analyst
13 15 (4.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 15 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
14 13 (3.47%) React Developer
14 13 (3.47%) Support Engineer
15 12 (3.20%) Lead Developer
15 12 (3.20%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (10.40%) Django
2 38 (10.13%) React
3 21 (5.60%) FastAPI
4 19 (5.07%) Node.js
5 14 (3.73%) PySpark
6 11 (2.93%) .NET
6 11 (2.93%) Kafka
7 9 (2.40%) Flask
7 9 (2.40%) RESTful
8 8 (2.13%) Model Context Protocol
8 8 (2.13%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.87%) .NET Core
9 7 (1.87%) Next.js
10 6 (1.60%) Hugging Face
10 6 (1.60%) Redux
11 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.33%) HTML
11 5 (1.33%) LangChain
11 5 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.93%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.80%) Cyber Defence
3 18 (4.80%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 17 (4.53%) Greenfield Project
5 16 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.47%) AI Agents
7 12 (3.20%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.93%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (2.67%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.40%) Derivative
10 9 (2.40%) Hedge funds
10 9 (2.40%) Mobile App
11 8 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (2.13%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.87%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.60%) Educational Technology
13 6 (1.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.53%) Linux
2 17 (4.53%) Windows
3 10 (2.67%) Unix
4 4 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.80%) CentOS
6 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (26.40%) Agile
2 97 (25.87%) AI
3 94 (25.07%) Analytics
4 89 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (19.73%) CI/CD
6 73 (19.47%) DevOps
7 63 (16.80%) Mentoring
8 60 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 54 (14.40%) Machine Learning
10 49 (13.07%) Data Pipeline
10 49 (13.07%) ETL
11 43 (11.47%) Data Modelling
11 43 (11.47%) Data Science
12 42 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (11.20%) Test Automation
13 39 (10.40%) Data Engineering
13 39 (10.40%) Decision-Making
14 38 (10.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (9.60%) Computer Science
16 33 (8.80%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 127 (33.87%) SQL
2 49 (13.07%) PowerShell
3 44 (11.73%) Java
4 41 (10.93%) C#
5 35 (9.33%) Bash
6 27 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 26 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 19 (5.07%) C++
9 12 (3.20%) Rust
10 9 (2.40%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (2.13%) Go
12 6 (1.60%) Scala
12 6 (1.60%) VBA
13 5 (1.33%) R
14 4 (1.07%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.80%) Perl
15 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.53%) VC++
17 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (15.47%) Degree
2 23 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.93%) OSCP
4 10 (2.67%) CREST Certified
4 10 (2.67%) GIAC
5 9 (2.40%) CCSAM
5 9 (2.40%) CHECK Team Leader
5 9 (2.40%) CHECK Team Member
6 8 (2.13%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.60%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.07%) PhD
10 4 (1.07%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.53%) CISM
12 2 (0.53%) CISSP
12 2 (0.53%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.60%) NIST
2 18 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) EMIR
5 2 (0.53%) PMO
5 2 (0.53%) QA
5 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Basel III
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.27%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (9.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.87%) Terraform
3 16 (4.27%) Ansible
4 9 (2.40%) Nessus
5 7 (1.87%) Grafana
6 6 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.80%) Argo
7 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.53%) Puppet
8 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 43 (11.47%) Databricks
3 30 (8.00%) Google
4 12 (3.20%) Guidewire
5 9 (2.40%) VMware
6 7 (1.87%) CyberArk
7 6 (1.60%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.33%) Commvault
8 5 (1.33%) Oracle
8 5 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.07%) Splunk
10 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.80%) Dell
10 3 (0.80%) Informatica
11 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.53%) Cisco
11 2 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.53%) HP
11 2 (0.53%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.53%) SAP