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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 342 386 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.34% 20.52% 16.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.48% 46.79% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 273 305 280
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £114,750 £150,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -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 805 825 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.99% 43.86% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 641 682 994
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,575 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,750
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 £107,188 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 9 August 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 20 (5.85%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.22%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 102 (29.82%) AWS
1 102 (29.82%) Azure
2 48 (14.04%) GCP
3 34 (9.94%) Power Platform
4 29 (8.48%) SaaS
5 17 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (3.80%) Snowflake
7 11 (3.22%) dbt
8 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.63%) Serverless
10 8 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.05%) GitHub
12 5 (1.46%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.46%) Azure AKS
12 5 (1.46%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.80%) Network Security
2 10 (2.92%) Broadband
3 4 (1.17%) BGP
3 4 (1.17%) OSPF
4 3 (0.88%) Firewall
4 3 (0.88%) MPLS
4 3 (0.88%) VLAN
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.29%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.29%) HSRP
6 1 (0.29%) HTTP
6 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) VRRP
6 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (8.48%) Power BI
3 27 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (6.14%) BigQuery
5 18 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.68%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.39%) Data Lake
8 12 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.92%) Tableau
10 9 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.63%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.63%) MySQL
11 8 (2.34%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.05%) Delta Lake
12 7 (2.05%) Looker
12 7 (2.05%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.46%) KDB
Development Applications
1 23 (6.73%) Git
2 8 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.34%) MLflow
3 6 (1.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.17%) JIRA
5 3 (0.88%) Postman
5 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) Vite
7 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.29%) JMeter
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 98 (28.65%) Finance
2 75 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.43%) Banking
6 15 (4.39%) Front Office
7 11 (3.22%) Law
8 9 (2.63%) Marketing
9 6 (1.75%) Legal
10 5 (1.46%) Advertising
11 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.88%) Games
11 3 (0.88%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.58%) Retail
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
13 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 73 (21.35%) Senior
2 60 (17.54%) Developer
3 59 (17.25%) Python Engineer
4 49 (14.33%) Lead
4 49 (14.33%) Software Engineer
5 39 (11.40%) Data Engineer
6 25 (7.31%) Python Developer
7 24 (7.02%) Analyst
8 18 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (4.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (4.68%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (4.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (4.39%) Python Software Engineer
12 13 (3.80%) Architect
13 12 (3.51%) C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (3.51%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (2.92%) Lead Python Developer
14 10 (2.92%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.56%) LangChain
1 19 (5.56%) React
2 18 (5.26%) Kafka
3 17 (4.97%) Django
4 16 (4.68%) PyTorch
5 15 (4.39%) FastAPI
6 13 (3.80%) PySpark
7 12 (3.51%) REST
8 11 (3.22%) RESTful
9 10 (2.92%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.92%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.63%) Node.js
11 8 (2.34%) LlamaIndex
12 7 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (2.05%) Pandas
12 7 (2.05%) pgvector
13 6 (1.75%) .NET
13 6 (1.75%) gRPC
13 6 (1.75%) LangGraph
14 5 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.89%) Algorithms
3 27 (7.89%) Onboarding
4 21 (6.14%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (5.85%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.68%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.22%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.22%) Reinsurance
8 9 (2.63%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
9 8 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
9 8 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 7 (2.05%) Clustering
11 6 (1.75%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.75%) Over-the-Top Content
12 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.46%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 50 (14.62%) Linux
2 22 (6.43%) Windows
3 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (29.82%) Software Engineering
2 89 (26.02%) AI
3 79 (23.10%) CI/CD
4 63 (18.42%) Analytics
5 54 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 54 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (15.50%) DevOps
7 50 (14.62%) Data Engineering
8 49 (14.33%) Fintech
9 45 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
10 43 (12.57%) Agile
11 40 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (11.40%) Computer Science
13 37 (10.82%) Data Science
13 37 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (10.82%) Observability
14 36 (10.53%) Microservices
15 34 (9.94%) Mentoring
16 33 (9.65%) Containerisation
16 33 (9.65%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 112 (32.75%) SQL
2 49 (14.33%) Java
3 44 (12.87%) PowerShell
4 36 (10.53%) C++
5 31 (9.06%) C#
6 30 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.85%) Bash
7 20 (5.85%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.97%) R
9 15 (4.39%) Go
10 11 (3.22%) Scala
11 9 (2.63%) Julia
11 9 (2.63%) MATLAB
11 9 (2.63%) Rust
11 9 (2.63%) VBA
12 5 (1.46%) Bicep
12 5 (1.46%) C
12 5 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.17%) PHP
14 3 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (11.11%) Degree
2 24 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.80%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.92%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.63%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.05%) GIAC
8 4 (1.17%) CFA
8 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.88%) CCSAM
9 3 (0.88%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.88%) GPEN
9 3 (0.88%) GXPN
9 3 (0.88%) OSCE
9 3 (0.88%) OSCP
10 2 (0.58%) CCNP
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.58%) PhD
11 1 (0.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.68%) GDPR
3 8 (2.34%) NIST
4 7 (2.05%) QA
5 6 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.17%) SLA
7 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) EMIR
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (11.40%) Docker
2 6 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (14.62%) Kubernetes
2 47 (13.74%) Terraform
3 16 (4.68%) Ansible
4 9 (2.63%) Grafana
5 8 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (13.74%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.06%) Databricks
3 20 (5.85%) Google
4 11 (3.22%) Oracle
5 10 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 7 (2.05%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.05%) Splunk
7 6 (1.75%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.75%) Dell
7 6 (1.75%) Typelevel
8 5 (1.46%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.88%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.88%) VMware
10 2 (0.58%) BT
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco
10 2 (0.58%) Foundry
10 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.58%) SAP
11 1 (0.29%) Aruba