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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 393 416 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.18% 21.52% 14.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.07% 46.22% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 299 330 308
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,000 £152,500 £121,800
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 957 900 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.36% 46.56% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 750 755 1,203
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +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 18 June 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 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (4.83%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.80%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 122 (31.04%) Azure
2 115 (29.26%) AWS
3 54 (13.74%) GCP
4 31 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.62%) SaaS
6 20 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (3.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.31%) GitHub
9 11 (2.80%) dbt
9 11 (2.80%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.53%) Serverless
14 5 (1.27%) PaaS
15 4 (1.02%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.02%) Figma
15 4 (1.02%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.58%) Network Security
2 14 (3.56%) Broadband
3 9 (2.29%) Wireless
4 5 (1.27%) BGP
4 5 (1.27%) MPLS
5 4 (1.02%) Firewall
6 3 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.76%) HTTP
6 3 (0.76%) OSPF
7 2 (0.51%) 4G
7 2 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.51%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.51%) VLAN
7 2 (0.51%) WAN
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) DNS
8 1 (0.25%) LAN
8 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.25%) VPN
8 1 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.41%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (7.38%) BigQuery
3 25 (6.36%) Power BI
4 23 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.33%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.82%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.56%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.54%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.29%) MySQL
11 8 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.04%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.04%) Tableau
12 7 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.53%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.53%) Looker
13 6 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.27%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (6.87%) Git
2 9 (2.29%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.29%) Metasploit
3 8 (2.04%) MLflow
4 5 (1.27%) GitLab
5 4 (1.02%) Balsamiq
5 4 (1.02%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.02%) JIRA
6 3 (0.76%) Postman
6 3 (0.76%) Selenium
6 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.51%) Vite
8 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
General
1 108 (27.48%) Finance
2 81 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.87%) Banking
6 17 (4.33%) Front Office
7 6 (1.53%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.53%) Marketing
8 5 (1.27%) Law
9 4 (1.02%) Advertising
9 4 (1.02%) Legal
9 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Games
10 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.76%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.76%) Retail
11 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Back Office
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 101 (25.70%) Senior
2 86 (21.88%) Developer
3 60 (15.27%) Python Engineer
4 50 (12.72%) Lead
5 49 (12.47%) Python Developer
5 49 (12.47%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.92%) Data Engineer
7 33 (8.40%) Analyst
8 21 (5.34%) Security Analyst
9 20 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (4.58%) Architect
11 17 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.33%) Senior Developer
12 16 (4.07%) Python Software Engineer
13 14 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (3.31%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.31%) Lead Python Developer
14 13 (3.31%) Python Data Engineer
15 12 (3.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 11 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.63%) Django
2 24 (6.11%) React
3 17 (4.33%) Kafka
4 15 (3.82%) RESTful
5 14 (3.56%) FastAPI
6 13 (3.31%) LangChain
6 13 (3.31%) PySpark
6 13 (3.31%) PyTorch
7 10 (2.54%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.29%) .NET
8 9 (2.29%) REST
8 9 (2.29%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (1.78%) gRPC
10 7 (1.78%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (1.78%) Node.js
10 7 (1.78%) Pandas
10 7 (1.78%) pgvector
11 6 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.27%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.41%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (9.16%) Algorithms
3 32 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.87%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.36%) Data Structures
5 25 (6.36%) Public Cloud
6 23 (5.85%) Onboarding
7 22 (5.60%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.82%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (3.31%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.31%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.80%) Reinsurance
11 10 (2.54%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (2.29%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.78%) Clustering
13 7 (1.78%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.78%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.78%) Over-the-Top Content
14 5 (1.27%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.27%) Linux
2 27 (6.87%) Windows
3 4 (1.02%) Unix
3 4 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) CentOS
4 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.97%) Software Engineering
2 88 (22.39%) AI
3 79 (20.10%) CI/CD
4 71 (18.07%) Analytics
5 65 (16.54%) DevOps
5 65 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (16.28%) Agile
7 57 (14.50%) Mentoring
8 56 (14.25%) Fintech
9 51 (12.98%) Data Engineering
9 51 (12.98%) Machine Learning
10 46 (11.70%) Data Science
11 44 (11.20%) Computer Science
11 44 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.18%) Microservices
13 38 (9.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (9.16%) Observability
15 33 (8.40%) Containerisation
16 30 (7.63%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 118 (30.03%) SQL
2 61 (15.52%) PowerShell
3 40 (10.18%) Java
4 39 (9.92%) C++
5 33 (8.40%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.89%) C#
7 28 (7.12%) Bash
8 16 (4.07%) Go
9 15 (3.82%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.56%) R
11 9 (2.29%) Julia
11 9 (2.29%) MATLAB
11 9 (2.29%) Scala
12 7 (1.78%) Rust
12 7 (1.78%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.53%) C
13 6 (1.53%) VBA
14 5 (1.27%) Bicep
14 5 (1.27%) PHP
15 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 46 (11.70%) Degree
2 30 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.31%) CREST Certified
3 13 (3.31%) GIAC
3 13 (3.31%) OSCP
4 12 (3.05%) CCSAM
5 10 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.29%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.29%) CHECK Team Member
6 9 (2.29%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.53%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.02%) CFA
8 4 (1.02%) GPEN
8 4 (1.02%) GXPN
8 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.02%) OSCE
9 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.51%) PhD
11 1 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.85%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.58%) NIST
3 16 (4.07%) GDPR
4 6 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.27%) QA
6 4 (1.02%) SLA
7 3 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) EMIR
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (10.69%) Docker
2 6 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (11.70%) Terraform
2 42 (10.69%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.05%) Ansible
4 9 (2.29%) Grafana
4 9 (2.29%) Nessus
4 9 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.25%) SCCM
5 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 52 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.38%) Databricks
2 29 (7.38%) Google
3 10 (2.54%) Oracle
4 7 (1.78%) Splunk
4 7 (1.78%) Typelevel
5 6 (1.53%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.53%) Dell
6 4 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.02%) VMware
7 3 (0.76%) Cisco
7 3 (0.76%) Commvault
7 3 (0.76%) CyberArk
7 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.51%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.51%) BT
8 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.51%) SAP
8 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.25%) McAfee