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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 384 415 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.08% 21.45% 14.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.47% 46.37% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 299 330 318
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £152,500 £120,450
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 926 895 1,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.89% 46.25% 46.82%
Number of salaries quoted 734 747 1,192
10th Percentile £51,400 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -0.64%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +8.55% -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 4 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 19 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Camunda
3 1 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 114 (29.69%) Azure
2 113 (29.43%) AWS
3 51 (13.28%) GCP
4 30 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 27 (7.03%) SaaS
6 19 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.86%) dbt
9 11 (2.86%) GitHub
9 11 (2.86%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.82%) Serverless
13 5 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.04%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.04%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.04%) PaaS
15 3 (0.78%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.69%) Network Security
2 14 (3.65%) Broadband
3 9 (2.34%) Wireless
4 6 (1.56%) BGP
5 5 (1.30%) MPLS
6 4 (1.04%) OSPF
7 3 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.78%) Firewall
7 3 (0.78%) HTTP
7 3 (0.78%) VLAN
7 3 (0.78%) WAN
8 2 (0.52%) 4G
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.52%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.26%) DNS
9 1 (0.26%) HSRP
9 1 (0.26%) LAN
9 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (9.11%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (7.03%) BigQuery
3 25 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.25%) Power BI
5 17 (4.43%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.65%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.60%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.34%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.34%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.34%) MySQL
11 8 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.08%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.08%) Tableau
12 6 (1.56%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.56%) Looker
12 6 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.30%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (7.03%) Git
2 8 (2.08%) Burp Suite
2 8 (2.08%) Metasploit
2 8 (2.08%) MLflow
3 5 (1.30%) GitLab
4 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.04%) JIRA
5 3 (0.78%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.78%) Postman
5 3 (0.78%) Selenium
5 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.52%) Vite
7 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
General
1 106 (27.60%) Finance
2 80 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (6.51%) Banking
6 17 (4.43%) Front Office
7 6 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.56%) Law
7 6 (1.56%) Marketing
8 5 (1.30%) Legal
9 4 (1.04%) Advertising
10 3 (0.78%) Games
10 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.78%) Retail
11 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Automotive
12 1 (0.26%) Back Office
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (25.26%) Senior
2 81 (21.09%) Developer
3 59 (15.36%) Python Engineer
4 50 (13.02%) Software Engineer
5 46 (11.98%) Lead
6 41 (10.68%) Python Developer
7 40 (10.42%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.33%) Analyst
9 20 (5.21%) Security Analyst
9 20 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.43%) Python Software Engineer
12 16 (4.17%) Architect
13 14 (3.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 14 (3.65%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.39%) Python Data Engineer
15 12 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 12 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (3.13%) C++ Software Engineer
15 12 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.29%) Django
2 24 (6.25%) React
3 17 (4.43%) Kafka
4 16 (4.17%) FastAPI
5 14 (3.65%) RESTful
6 13 (3.39%) LangChain
6 13 (3.39%) PySpark
6 13 (3.39%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.86%) REST
8 10 (2.60%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.34%) .NET
9 9 (2.34%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.82%) gRPC
10 7 (1.82%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (1.82%) Node.js
10 7 (1.82%) Pandas
10 7 (1.82%) pgvector
11 6 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.30%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.64%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (8.59%) Algorithms
2 33 (8.59%) Cloud Native
3 25 (6.51%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 24 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 23 (5.99%) Data Structures
6 21 (5.47%) Cyber Defence
7 15 (3.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (3.13%) Reinsurance
9 11 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.86%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.60%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (2.08%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.82%) Clustering
12 7 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
13 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
14 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (16.15%) Linux
2 27 (7.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.04%) Unix
3 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) CentOS
4 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (27.86%) Software Engineering
2 86 (22.40%) AI
3 80 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 68 (17.71%) Analytics
5 63 (16.41%) DevOps
6 58 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (14.84%) Agile
8 56 (14.58%) Fintech
9 53 (13.80%) Machine Learning
10 51 (13.28%) Data Engineering
11 49 (12.76%) Mentoring
12 45 (11.72%) Data Science
13 44 (11.46%) Computer Science
14 42 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
15 40 (10.42%) Microservices
16 39 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 38 (9.90%) Infrastructure as Code
18 36 (9.38%) Observability
19 33 (8.59%) Containerisation
20 30 (7.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 114 (29.69%) SQL
2 59 (15.36%) PowerShell
3 45 (11.72%) Java
4 39 (10.16%) C++
5 32 (8.33%) C#
5 32 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 28 (7.29%) Bash
7 16 (4.17%) Go
7 16 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.65%) R
9 9 (2.34%) Julia
9 9 (2.34%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.34%) Scala
10 8 (2.08%) Rust
11 7 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.82%) VBA
12 6 (1.56%) C
13 5 (1.30%) Bicep
13 5 (1.30%) PHP
14 3 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (11.98%) Degree
2 29 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.39%) GIAC
4 12 (3.13%) CREST Certified
4 12 (3.13%) OSCP
5 11 (2.86%) CCSAM
6 10 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.34%) Security Cleared
8 8 (2.08%) CHECK Team Leader
8 8 (2.08%) CHECK Team Member
9 6 (1.56%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.56%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.04%) CFA
10 4 (1.04%) GPEN
10 4 (1.04%) GXPN
10 4 (1.04%) OSCE
11 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.43%) NIST
3 15 (3.91%) GDPR
4 6 (1.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.30%) QA
6 4 (1.04%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) EMIR
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (10.94%) Docker
2 6 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (12.24%) Terraform
2 44 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.65%) Ansible
4 10 (2.60%) Grafana
4 10 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Argo
6 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 46 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.29%) Databricks
2 28 (7.29%) Google
3 10 (2.60%) Oracle
4 8 (2.08%) Splunk
5 7 (1.82%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.56%) Dell
6 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.04%) Cisco
7 4 (1.04%) VMware
8 3 (0.78%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.78%) Commvault
8 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.52%) BT
9 2 (0.52%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.52%) SAP
10 1 (0.26%) Alteryx