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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 239 329 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.22% 20.07% 17.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.68% 47.68% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 192 266 327
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +12.58% -2.58%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,250 £148,125 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 560 690 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.61% 42.10% 46.99%
Number of salaries quoted 463 586 927
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £69,375 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -2.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,563 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £132,500 £117,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 10 October 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 12 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.87%) Azure
2 64 (26.78%) AWS
3 32 (13.39%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.30%) SaaS
5 20 (8.37%) GCP
6 14 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.77%) GitHub
7 9 (3.77%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.35%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (2.93%) Serverless
10 6 (2.51%) Azure AI
10 6 (2.51%) dbt
11 5 (2.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (2.09%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (2.09%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.09%) Datadog
11 5 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.09%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.09%) Firewall
1 5 (2.09%) Network Security
2 4 (1.67%) BGP
2 4 (1.67%) OSPF
3 3 (1.26%) MPLS
3 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.26%) VLAN
3 3 (1.26%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.42%) HSRP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) VRRP
5 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.30%) Power BI
3 14 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.02%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.18%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.77%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.93%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.09%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.09%) KDB
10 5 (2.09%) MySQL
11 4 (1.67%) OLTP
11 4 (1.67%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.26%) SSDT
12 3 (1.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.11%) Git
2 9 (3.77%) GitLab
3 8 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.93%) JIRA
5 3 (1.26%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.84%) MLflow
6 2 (0.84%) Snyk
6 2 (0.84%) Vite
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) JMeter
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (36.40%) Finance
2 51 (21.34%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.28%) Banking
6 14 (5.86%) Front Office
7 9 (3.77%) Law
8 8 (3.35%) Marketing
9 6 (2.51%) Legal
10 4 (1.67%) Advertising
10 4 (1.67%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.26%) Games
12 2 (0.84%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Back Office
13 1 (0.42%) iGaming
13 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (20.08%) Senior
2 44 (18.41%) Developer
3 42 (17.57%) Python Engineer
4 40 (16.74%) Lead
4 40 (16.74%) Software Engineer
5 25 (10.46%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.21%) Python Developer
7 18 (7.53%) Analyst
8 16 (6.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Lead Data Engineer
10 13 (5.44%) Python Software Engineer
11 11 (4.60%) Architect
12 10 (4.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (3.77%) C++ Software Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Consultant
14 8 (3.35%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.55%) Terraform
2 17 (7.11%) React
3 15 (6.28%) FastAPI
4 13 (5.44%) LangChain
5 12 (5.02%) REST
6 9 (3.77%) PySpark
7 8 (3.35%) Kafka
7 8 (3.35%) LangGraph
7 8 (3.35%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.93%) Django
8 7 (2.93%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (2.93%) Node.js
9 6 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.51%) Next.js
10 5 (2.09%) .NET
10 5 (2.09%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (2.09%) RESTful
11 4 (1.67%) Spring
11 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.46%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.69%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.28%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (5.86%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.60%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.51%) Fixed Income
8 6 (2.51%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.51%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.09%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.84%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.84%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.97%) Linux
2 6 (2.51%) Windows
3 3 (1.26%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.64%) AI
2 75 (31.38%) Software Engineering
3 54 (22.59%) CI/CD
4 53 (22.18%) Analytics
5 38 (15.90%) Data Engineering
5 38 (15.90%) Fintech
6 34 (14.23%) LLM
6 34 (14.23%) Machine Learning
7 33 (13.81%) Agile
7 33 (13.81%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (13.81%) DevOps
7 33 (13.81%) Observability
8 30 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (11.72%) Decision-Making
11 26 (10.88%) Containerisation
11 26 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (8.79%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.80%) SQL
2 41 (17.15%) Java
3 25 (10.46%) C++
4 24 (10.04%) C#
5 19 (7.95%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.53%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.11%) Bash
7 17 (7.11%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.11%) R
8 9 (3.77%) Julia
8 9 (3.77%) MATLAB
9 8 (3.35%) VBA
10 6 (2.51%) Go
10 6 (2.51%) Rust
11 5 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.67%) Bicep
12 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.26%) Scala
14 2 (0.84%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (10.04%) Degree
2 13 (5.44%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.93%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.51%) CFA
6 4 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.84%) CCNP
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) CCIE
9 1 (0.42%) CCNA
9 1 (0.42%) CCSP
9 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (13.39%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.02%) GDPR
3 7 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.26%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.84%) NIST
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) IASME
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (15.48%) Docker
2 6 (2.51%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (17.99%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.86%) Ansible
3 8 (3.35%) Grafana
4 7 (2.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.26%) SQL Sentry
6 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Argo
7 1 (0.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.42%) Nmap
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.62%) Databricks
3 12 (5.02%) Google
3 12 (5.02%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.18%) Oracle
5 6 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.51%) Splunk
6 4 (1.67%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.26%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.26%) Cisco
7 3 (1.26%) Mistral
7 3 (1.26%) RedGate
8 2 (0.84%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.84%) Foundry
8 2 (0.84%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.84%) Veracode
8 2 (0.84%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace