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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 350 401 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.22% 21.09% 15.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.02% 47.12% 32.98%
Number of salaries quoted 278 319 283
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,850 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £94,375
90th Percentile £113,750 £152,500 £117,500
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 833 851 1,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.95% 44.77% 46.94%
Number of salaries quoted 660 708 1,022
10th Percentile £51,125 £51,775 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,250 £58,750
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 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £131,625 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -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 31 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 21 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.14%) Apache
4 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 107 (30.57%) Azure
2 106 (30.29%) AWS
3 48 (13.71%) GCP
4 37 (10.57%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.57%) SaaS
6 19 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (4.00%) Snowflake
8 13 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.14%) dbt
10 9 (2.57%) Serverless
11 8 (2.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 7 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.00%) GitHub
12 7 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.43%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.43%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.14%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.14%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.00%) Network Security
2 10 (2.86%) Broadband
3 4 (1.14%) BGP
3 4 (1.14%) OSPF
4 3 (0.86%) Firewall
4 3 (0.86%) MPLS
4 3 (0.86%) VLAN
4 3 (0.86%) Wireless
5 2 (0.57%) HTTP
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) 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%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) VRRP
6 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (8.57%) Power BI
3 23 (6.57%) BigQuery
4 18 (5.14%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.57%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.86%) Tableau
9 9 (2.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.57%) Geospatial Data
9 9 (2.57%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.57%) MySQL
9 9 (2.57%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.29%) Spark SQL
11 7 (2.00%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.71%) Looker
12 6 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.43%) KDB
Development Applications
1 22 (6.29%) Git
2 8 (2.29%) MLflow
3 6 (1.71%) GitLab
3 6 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.14%) JIRA
5 3 (0.86%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.86%) Postman
5 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.57%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.57%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.57%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.57%) Selenium
6 2 (0.57%) Vite
7 1 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 104 (29.71%) Finance
2 79 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 45 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.00%) Banking
6 15 (4.29%) Front Office
7 9 (2.57%) Law
8 7 (2.00%) Marketing
9 6 (1.71%) Legal
10 3 (0.86%) Advertising
10 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.86%) Games
10 3 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Back Office
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (22.29%) Senior
2 64 (18.29%) Developer
3 59 (16.86%) Python Engineer
4 49 (14.00%) Software Engineer
5 47 (13.43%) Lead
6 40 (11.43%) Data Engineer
7 26 (7.43%) Analyst
7 26 (7.43%) Python Developer
8 18 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 17 (4.86%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 15 (4.29%) Lead Data Engineer
10 15 (4.29%) Python Software Engineer
11 14 (4.00%) Architect
11 14 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (3.43%) C++ Software Engineer
12 12 (3.43%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (2.86%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.00%) React
2 19 (5.43%) Django
3 18 (5.14%) Kafka
3 18 (5.14%) LangChain
4 16 (4.57%) FastAPI
5 15 (4.29%) PySpark
5 15 (4.29%) PyTorch
6 13 (3.71%) REST
7 12 (3.43%) RESTful
8 10 (2.86%) Node.js
8 10 (2.86%) scikit-learn
8 10 (2.86%) TensorFlow
9 8 (2.29%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (2.00%) .NET
10 7 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.00%) Pandas
10 7 (2.00%) pgvector
11 6 (1.71%) gRPC
11 6 (1.71%) LangGraph
11 6 (1.71%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.86%) Cloud Native
1 38 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (8.29%) Algorithms
3 26 (7.43%) Onboarding
4 23 (6.57%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (6.57%) Public Cloud
5 18 (5.14%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.14%) Cyber Defence
6 11 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.14%) Reinsurance
7 10 (2.86%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
8 9 (2.57%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (2.00%) Clustering
10 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.71%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.71%) Over-the-Top Content
11 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.43%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 52 (14.86%) Linux
2 22 (6.29%) Windows
3 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.43%) Software Engineering
2 91 (26.00%) AI
3 79 (22.57%) CI/CD
4 63 (18.00%) Analytics
5 58 (16.57%) DevOps
5 58 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (16.29%) Machine Learning
7 53 (15.14%) Data Engineering
8 52 (14.86%) Fintech
9 48 (13.71%) Agile
10 46 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (11.71%) Computer Science
12 41 (11.71%) Data Science
13 40 (11.43%) Mentoring
14 38 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (10.86%) Microservices
15 36 (10.29%) Observability
16 32 (9.14%) Containerisation
16 32 (9.14%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 116 (33.14%) SQL
2 48 (13.71%) Java
3 46 (13.14%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.57%) C++
5 33 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 32 (9.14%) C#
7 21 (6.00%) Bash
8 19 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.57%) R
10 15 (4.29%) Go
11 11 (3.14%) Scala
12 9 (2.57%) Julia
12 9 (2.57%) MATLAB
12 9 (2.57%) Rust
12 9 (2.57%) VBA
13 6 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.43%) Bicep
14 5 (1.43%) C
15 4 (1.14%) PHP
16 3 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (11.43%) Degree
2 26 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.43%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.57%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.29%) GIAC
7 7 (2.00%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.43%) CCSAM
8 5 (1.43%) CREST Certified
8 5 (1.43%) OSCP
9 4 (1.14%) CFA
9 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.86%) GPEN
10 3 (0.86%) GXPN
10 3 (0.86%) OSCE
11 2 (0.57%) CCNP
11 2 (0.57%) CHECK Team Leader
11 2 (0.57%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.57%) GDPR
3 9 (2.57%) NIST
4 7 (2.00%) QA
5 6 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.14%) SLA
7 3 (0.86%) 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 40 (11.43%) Docker
2 6 (1.71%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (13.71%) Kubernetes
2 46 (13.14%) Terraform
3 15 (4.29%) Ansible
4 9 (2.57%) Grafana
5 8 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.57%) Nessus
7 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.43%) Databricks
3 22 (6.29%) Google
4 11 (3.14%) Oracle
5 10 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.29%) Splunk
7 7 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.71%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.71%) Dell
8 6 (1.71%) Typelevel
9 5 (1.43%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.86%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.57%) BT
11 2 (0.57%) Cisco
11 2 (0.57%) Foundry
11 2 (0.57%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.57%) SAP
11 2 (0.57%) VMware
12 1 (0.29%) Confluent