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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 277 342 485
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.17% 20.13% 16.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.72% 48.10% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 220 277 300
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £94,063
90th Percentile £120,250 £150,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 664 711 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.99% 41.85% 46.47%
Number of salaries quoted 535 598 939
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £61,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.96% -2.89%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £96,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 21 September 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 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.25%) Apache
4 2 (0.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.36%) Camunda
5 1 (0.36%) CMS
5 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.72%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 85 (30.69%) Azure
2 71 (25.63%) AWS
3 34 (12.27%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.11%) GCP
5 25 (9.03%) SaaS
6 16 (5.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.25%) GitHub
7 9 (3.25%) Serverless
7 9 (3.25%) Snowflake
8 8 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (2.17%) Azure Databricks
10 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (1.81%) Azure AI
11 5 (1.81%) Azure Functions
11 5 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (1.81%) Datadog
11 5 (1.81%) dbt
11 5 (1.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.53%) Network Security
2 5 (1.81%) Firewall
3 4 (1.44%) BGP
3 4 (1.44%) OSPF
4 3 (1.08%) Broadband
4 3 (1.08%) MPLS
4 3 (1.08%) VLAN
4 3 (1.08%) WAN
5 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.36%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.36%) HSRP
6 1 (0.36%) HTTP
6 1 (0.36%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) VRRP
6 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.19%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (9.75%) Power BI
3 15 (5.42%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.61%) BigQuery
8 9 (3.25%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (2.89%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.17%) MySQL
11 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (2.17%) Tableau
12 5 (1.81%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.81%) KDB
12 5 (1.81%) Spark SQL
13 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (6.86%) Git
2 8 (2.89%) GitLab
2 8 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.44%) JIRA
3 4 (1.44%) MLflow
4 3 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.72%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.72%) Snyk
5 2 (0.72%) Vite
6 1 (0.36%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) Postman
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
General
1 97 (35.02%) Finance
2 60 (21.66%) Social Skills
3 40 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.14%) Banking
6 16 (5.78%) Front Office
7 10 (3.61%) Law
8 8 (2.89%) Marketing
9 6 (2.17%) Legal
10 4 (1.44%) Advertising
11 3 (1.08%) Games
11 3 (1.08%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.72%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.36%) Automotive
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) iGaming
13 1 (0.36%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (18.77%) Senior
2 49 (17.69%) Developer
2 49 (17.69%) Python Engineer
3 44 (15.88%) Software Engineer
4 41 (14.80%) Lead
5 30 (10.83%) Data Engineer
6 22 (7.94%) Python Developer
7 20 (7.22%) Analyst
8 17 (6.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (5.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 14 (5.05%) Architect
10 14 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
11 11 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.97%) C++ Software Engineer
11 11 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (2.89%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.64%) Terraform
2 14 (5.05%) LangChain
2 14 (5.05%) React
3 13 (4.69%) FastAPI
4 11 (3.97%) REST
5 10 (3.61%) Kafka
5 10 (3.61%) PySpark
5 10 (3.61%) PyTorch
6 9 (3.25%) Django
7 7 (2.53%) .NET
7 7 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (2.53%) Node.js
8 6 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
8 6 (2.17%) LangGraph
8 6 (2.17%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.81%) Next.js
9 5 (1.81%) RESTful
9 5 (1.81%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.44%) Pandas
10 4 (1.44%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.19%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.14%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.78%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (4.33%) AI Agents
5 12 (4.33%) Algorithms
5 12 (4.33%) Reinsurance
6 11 (3.97%) Public Cloud
7 10 (3.61%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.89%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.17%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.17%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.08%) Clustering
12 3 (1.08%) Equities
12 3 (1.08%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.44%) Linux
2 13 (4.69%) Windows
3 4 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (30.32%) AI
2 80 (28.88%) Software Engineering
3 69 (24.91%) CI/CD
4 56 (20.22%) Analytics
5 43 (15.52%) Data Engineering
5 43 (15.52%) DevOps
6 41 (14.80%) Fintech
6 41 (14.80%) Machine Learning
7 40 (14.44%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (12.64%) LLM
8 35 (12.64%) Observability
9 34 (12.27%) Agile
9 34 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (11.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 30 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (10.83%) Decision-Making
12 28 (10.11%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (10.11%) Containerisation
12 28 (10.11%) Mentoring
13 24 (8.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 93 (33.57%) SQL
2 45 (16.25%) Java
3 31 (11.19%) C++
4 27 (9.75%) C#
5 25 (9.03%) PowerShell
6 21 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.14%) Bash
8 16 (5.78%) R
8 16 (5.78%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.25%) Go
9 9 (3.25%) Julia
9 9 (3.25%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.89%) Rust
10 8 (2.89%) VBA
11 5 (1.81%) Bicep
11 5 (1.81%) Scala
11 5 (1.81%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.44%) C
13 3 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.72%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (10.47%) Degree
2 13 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.53%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.17%) CFA
6 4 (1.44%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 2 (0.72%) CCSAM
8 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.72%) GPEN
8 2 (0.72%) GXPN
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.72%) OSCE
8 2 (0.72%) OSCP
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.91%) Data Quality
2 14 (5.05%) GDPR
3 7 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.44%) QA
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (13.00%) Docker
2 6 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) Firmware
5 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.78%) Ansible
3 9 (3.25%) Grafana
4 8 (2.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.36%) Argo
6 1 (0.36%) Puppet
6 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.75%) Databricks
3 13 (4.69%) Google
4 10 (3.61%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.61%) Oracle
5 7 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.53%) Splunk
6 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.08%) Cisco
8 2 (0.72%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.72%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.72%) Dell
8 2 (0.72%) Foundry
8 2 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.72%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.72%) SAP
8 2 (0.72%) Veracode
8 2 (0.72%) VMware