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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 326 503 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 18.80% 18.06% 12.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.45% 38.93% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 257 357 347
10th Percentile £45,600 £50,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £58,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £96,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £145,000 £115,000 £131,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%

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 687 1,292 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 39.62% 46.39% 50.60%
Number of salaries quoted 568 922 1,379
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £118,250
Central London median annual salary £83,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.67% -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 20 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the City of London region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge -1 4 £102,000 +33.77%
Python
Central 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 11 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.84%) Apache
3 5 (1.53%) Confluence
4 2 (0.61%) Luigi
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.61%) nginx
4 2 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
5 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 122 (37.42%) Azure
2 97 (29.75%) AWS
3 45 (13.80%) GCP
4 42 (12.88%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.36%) Datadog
6 21 (6.44%) GitHub
7 20 (6.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (5.52%) Snowflake
9 15 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.60%) Serverless
10 11 (3.37%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (2.76%) dbt
12 9 (2.76%) SaaS
13 8 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.23%) Azure Functions
16 4 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.53%) VPN
2 4 (1.23%) Network Security
3 3 (0.92%) WAN
4 2 (0.61%) DHCP
4 2 (0.61%) DNS
4 2 (0.61%) Firewall
4 2 (0.61%) LAN
4 2 (0.61%) NAS
4 2 (0.61%) SAN
4 2 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.31%) Broadband
5 1 (0.31%) HTTP
5 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.31%) SNMP
5 1 (0.31%) SSH
5 1 (0.31%) VLAN
5 1 (0.31%) VSAN
5 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.04%) Power BI
2 31 (9.51%) Relational Database
3 24 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.06%) SQL Server
5 15 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.68%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.45%) ClickHouse
8 8 (2.45%) Tableau
9 7 (2.15%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.15%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.15%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.53%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.23%) Big Data
11 4 (1.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (7.98%) Git
2 11 (3.37%) JIRA
3 6 (1.84%) GitLab
4 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.23%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.92%) MLflow
5 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.31%) Deequ
7 1 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.31%) Mocha
7 1 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 97 (29.75%) Finance
2 81 (24.85%) Social Skills
3 45 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.59%) Banking
5 21 (6.44%) Front Office
6 20 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.29%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.76%) Advertising
9 9 (2.76%) Law
10 7 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.15%) Legal
10 7 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.84%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.53%) Marketing
12 5 (1.53%) Retail
13 4 (1.23%) International Banking
14 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.92%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.61%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 84 (25.77%) Developer
2 68 (20.86%) Senior
3 44 (13.50%) Data Engineer
4 30 (9.20%) Lead
5 29 (8.90%) Analyst
6 21 (6.44%) Python Developer
6 21 (6.44%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (6.13%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.52%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.21%) Graduate
9 17 (5.21%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.21%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.91%) Technical Support
10 16 (4.91%) Technical Support Engineer
11 15 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.60%) Graduate Support Engineer
11 15 (4.60%) Graduate Technical Support
12 14 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (14.42%) React
2 22 (6.75%) Django
2 22 (6.75%) Node.js
3 20 (6.13%) PySpark
4 17 (5.21%) FastAPI
5 14 (4.29%) .NET
6 13 (3.99%) Kafka
7 10 (3.07%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.07%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.76%) Pandas
9 8 (2.45%) Flask
9 8 (2.45%) Next.js
10 7 (2.15%) Redux
10 7 (2.15%) Vue
10 7 (2.15%) Web Services
11 6 (1.84%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.84%) HTML
11 6 (1.84%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.53%) React Native
12 5 (1.53%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.36%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.91%) Algorithms
4 14 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.68%) Market Risk
6 11 (3.37%) Derivative
7 10 (3.07%) Equities
8 9 (2.76%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.45%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (2.45%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.84%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.53%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.23%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.23%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.52%) Linux
2 10 (3.07%) Windows
3 8 (2.45%) Unix
4 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.92%) CentOS
6 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (27.30%) AI
2 89 (27.30%) Analytics
3 84 (25.77%) CI/CD
4 80 (24.54%) DevOps
5 74 (22.70%) Agile
6 55 (16.87%) Machine Learning
7 50 (15.34%) Data Pipeline
8 46 (14.11%) Software Engineering
9 44 (13.50%) Data Modelling
9 44 (13.50%) ETL
10 42 (12.88%) Data Science
11 41 (12.58%) Computer Science
12 39 (11.96%) Decision-Making
12 39 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (11.66%) Test Automation
14 35 (10.74%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (10.74%) Data Engineering
15 34 (10.43%) Mentoring
15 34 (10.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 134 (41.10%) SQL
2 71 (21.78%) Java
3 57 (17.48%) C#
4 35 (10.74%) Bash
5 30 (9.20%) PowerShell
5 30 (9.20%) TypeScript
6 23 (7.06%) JavaScript
7 22 (6.75%) C++
8 12 (3.68%) Rust
8 12 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 10 (3.07%) Go
10 8 (2.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (2.15%) R
12 5 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.53%) Scala
13 4 (1.23%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.23%) Ruby
14 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (22.39%) Degree
2 21 (6.44%) Master's Degree
3 14 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.37%) PhD
5 9 (2.76%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.23%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.92%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.61%) MBA
10 2 (0.61%) MCP
11 1 (0.31%) CCNP
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.68%) GDPR
3 10 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.76%) NIST
5 4 (1.23%) GRC
6 2 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.31%) Basel III
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.31%) EMIR
7 1 (0.31%) ITGC
7 1 (0.31%) MiFID
7 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) QA
7 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (7.67%) Docker
2 6 (1.84%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.92%) vSphere
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) KVM
5 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.98%) Terraform
3 20 (6.13%) Ansible
4 9 (2.76%) Grafana
5 5 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.61%) Argo
7 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.61%) Puppet
7 2 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.61%) SCCM
7 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.31%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 63 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.11%) Databricks
3 22 (6.75%) Guidewire
4 17 (5.21%) Google
5 10 (3.07%) VMware
6 6 (1.84%) Oracle
7 5 (1.53%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.23%) Splunk
9 3 (0.92%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.92%) Commvault
9 3 (0.92%) Dell
9 3 (0.92%) Hitachi
9 3 (0.92%) Informatica
9 3 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.31%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.31%) Citrix
11 1 (0.31%) SAP