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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 429 441 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.61% 21.79% 14.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.39% 46.13% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 329 353 325
10th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £140,000 £122,100
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% -6.25%

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 1,012 956 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 25.02% 47.23% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 793 809 1,263
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,500 £58,759 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £78,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £97,500
90th Percentile - £126,250 £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 13 May 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 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
1 20 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.56%) Apache
3 2 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) nginx
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Actimize
1 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 154 (35.90%) Azure
2 125 (29.14%) AWS
3 57 (13.29%) GCP
4 49 (11.42%) Power Platform
5 29 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (6.06%) SaaS
7 25 (5.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (3.96%) GitHub
9 16 (3.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 12 (2.80%) dbt
12 10 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.10%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.10%) PaaS
14 8 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (1.17%) Figma
15 5 (1.17%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.17%) Serverless
16 4 (0.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.43%) Network Security
2 14 (3.26%) Broadband
3 9 (2.10%) Wireless
4 4 (0.93%) DHCP
4 4 (0.93%) DNS
4 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.70%) BGP
5 3 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.70%) HTTP
5 3 (0.70%) MPLS
5 3 (0.70%) VPN
5 3 (0.70%) WAN
6 2 (0.47%) 4G
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.47%) Firewall
6 2 (0.47%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.47%) LAN
7 1 (0.23%) NAS
7 1 (0.23%) OSPF
7 1 (0.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
1 40 (9.32%) Power BI
2 31 (7.23%) BigQuery
3 26 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (4.43%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.03%) NoSQL
9 12 (2.80%) Tableau
10 10 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (2.10%) MySQL
12 7 (1.63%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.40%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.40%) Looker
13 6 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (1.40%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (8.16%) Git
2 9 (2.10%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.10%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.86%) MLflow
4 7 (1.63%) JIRA
5 5 (1.17%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.93%) GitLab
7 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.70%) Postman
7 3 (0.70%) Selenium
7 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.23%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 114 (26.57%) Finance
2 84 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (7.46%) Banking
6 17 (3.96%) Front Office
7 7 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.17%) Law
8 5 (1.17%) Legal
8 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.17%) Retail
9 3 (0.70%) Advertising
9 3 (0.70%) Games
10 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.47%) Marketing
10 2 (0.47%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 110 (25.64%) Senior
2 97 (22.61%) Developer
3 60 (13.99%) Lead
4 58 (13.52%) Python Developer
5 51 (11.89%) Python Engineer
6 47 (10.96%) Data Engineer
7 42 (9.79%) Software Engineer
8 40 (9.32%) Analyst
9 26 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.59%) Security Analyst
11 19 (4.43%) Architect
11 19 (4.43%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (3.73%) Senior Python Developer
13 16 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 15 (3.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 15 (3.50%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.50%) Lead Python Developer
15 13 (3.03%) Python Data Engineer
15 13 (3.03%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.62%) Django
2 32 (7.46%) React
3 20 (4.66%) Kafka
4 16 (3.73%) PySpark
4 16 (3.73%) RESTful
5 14 (3.26%) FastAPI
5 14 (3.26%) Node.js
6 12 (2.80%) PyTorch
7 11 (2.56%) LangChain
8 10 (2.33%) .NET
9 9 (2.10%) REST
9 9 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 8 (1.86%) LlamaIndex
10 8 (1.86%) Model Context Protocol
10 8 (1.86%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.63%) gRPC
12 6 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
12 6 (1.40%) Flask
12 6 (1.40%) Next.js
12 6 (1.40%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.56%) Algorithms
2 38 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (6.76%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (6.53%) Data Structures
5 27 (6.29%) Cloud Native
6 26 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
7 25 (5.83%) Public Cloud
8 22 (5.13%) Onboarding
9 19 (4.43%) Product Ownership
10 18 (4.20%) Security Operations Centre
11 13 (3.03%) Security Posture
12 10 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
13 9 (2.10%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.86%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.86%) Hedge funds
15 7 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (1.63%) Clustering
15 7 (1.63%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.63%) Over-the-Top Content
16 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (13.99%) Linux
2 32 (7.46%) Windows
3 5 (1.17%) Unix
4 4 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.47%) CentOS
6 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (22.14%) Software Engineering
2 90 (20.98%) AI
3 88 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 80 (18.65%) Agile
5 78 (18.18%) Analytics
5 78 (18.18%) DevOps
6 74 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (15.15%) Mentoring
8 57 (13.29%) Data Engineering
9 56 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (12.59%) Data Science
10 54 (12.59%) Fintech
11 50 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
11 50 (11.66%) Machine Learning
12 46 (10.72%) Computer Science
13 44 (10.26%) Microservices
14 41 (9.56%) Business Intelligence
15 38 (8.86%) ETL
16 37 (8.62%) Data Modelling
17 36 (8.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 128 (29.84%) SQL
2 75 (17.48%) PowerShell
3 37 (8.62%) JavaScript
4 32 (7.46%) Java
5 30 (6.99%) C++
6 29 (6.76%) C#
7 27 (6.29%) Bash
8 22 (5.13%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.73%) Go
10 10 (2.33%) Scala
11 8 (1.86%) R
12 7 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.40%) C
13 6 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.40%) VBA
14 5 (1.17%) Perl
14 5 (1.17%) PHP
15 4 (0.93%) Rust
16 3 (0.70%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.70%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 53 (12.35%) Degree
2 34 (7.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (3.96%) GIAC
4 14 (3.26%) OSCP
5 13 (3.03%) CREST Certified
6 12 (2.80%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.10%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.10%) CHECK Team Member
8 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.17%) GPEN
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (1.17%) Security Cleared
11 4 (0.93%) GXPN
11 4 (0.93%) OSCE
12 3 (0.70%) CFA
12 3 (0.70%) SC Cleared
13 1 (0.23%) GCFA
13 1 (0.23%) GCIH
13 1 (0.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.29%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.06%) NIST
3 15 (3.50%) GDPR
4 14 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.17%) QA
7 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.70%) PMO
7 3 (0.70%) SLA
8 2 (0.47%) EMIR
8 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (9.09%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (9.79%) Terraform
2 36 (8.39%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.33%) Ansible
4 9 (2.10%) Nessus
5 6 (1.40%) Grafana
5 6 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.23%) Argo
7 1 (0.23%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.23%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.23%) SCCM
7 1 (0.23%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 76 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.93%) Google
3 30 (6.99%) Databricks
4 11 (2.56%) Oracle
5 7 (1.63%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.63%) Dell
5 7 (1.63%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.40%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.40%) VMware
7 4 (0.93%) Commvault
7 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.93%) Splunk
8 3 (0.70%) Cisco
8 3 (0.70%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.47%) BT
9 2 (0.47%) SAP
9 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow