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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 343 389 437
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.27% 20.69% 15.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.19% 46.87% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 274 306 284
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,813 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £114,625 £150,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +6.06% +11.86% -4.84%

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 813 830 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.96% 44.15% 47.45%
Number of salaries quoted 647 685 1,006
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £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 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 6 August 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 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.21%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 104 (30.32%) AWS
2 103 (30.03%) Azure
3 48 (13.99%) GCP
4 33 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 29 (8.45%) SaaS
6 17 (4.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (3.79%) Snowflake
8 11 (3.21%) dbt
9 10 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (2.62%) Serverless
11 8 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.33%) GitHub
12 7 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.46%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.46%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.46%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.46%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.79%) Network Security
2 10 (2.92%) Broadband
3 4 (1.17%) BGP
3 4 (1.17%) OSPF
4 3 (0.87%) Firewall
4 3 (0.87%) MPLS
4 3 (0.87%) VLAN
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.58%) 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%) HTTP
6 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) VRRP
6 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (8.16%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (8.16%) Power BI
3 21 (6.12%) BigQuery
4 18 (5.25%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.66%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.37%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (2.62%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.62%) MySQL
8 9 (2.62%) Tableau
9 8 (2.33%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.04%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.04%) Spark SQL
11 6 (1.75%) Looker
11 6 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.46%) KDB
Development Applications
1 23 (6.71%) Git
2 8 (2.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.33%) MLflow
3 6 (1.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.17%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) Postman
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.58%) Vite
7 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.29%) JMeter
7 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 98 (28.57%) Finance
2 75 (21.87%) Social Skills
3 45 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.41%) Banking
6 15 (4.37%) Front Office
7 9 (2.62%) Law
8 7 (2.04%) Marketing
9 6 (1.75%) Legal
10 3 (0.87%) Advertising
10 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.87%) Games
10 3 (0.87%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Back Office
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (21.28%) Senior
2 62 (18.08%) Developer
3 59 (17.20%) Python Engineer
4 50 (14.58%) Software Engineer
5 48 (13.99%) Lead
6 39 (11.37%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.29%) Python Developer
8 23 (6.71%) Analyst
9 18 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 16 (4.66%) Lead Data Engineer
12 15 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 15 (4.37%) Python Software Engineer
13 13 (3.79%) Architect
14 12 (3.50%) C++ Software Engineer
14 12 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
15 10 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (2.92%) Lead Developer
15 10 (2.92%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.83%) React
2 19 (5.54%) LangChain
3 18 (5.25%) Kafka
4 17 (4.96%) Django
5 16 (4.66%) FastAPI
5 16 (4.66%) PyTorch
6 14 (4.08%) REST
7 13 (3.79%) PySpark
8 11 (3.21%) RESTful
9 10 (2.92%) Node.js
9 10 (2.92%) scikit-learn
9 10 (2.92%) TensorFlow
10 8 (2.33%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.04%) Pandas
11 7 (2.04%) pgvector
12 6 (1.75%) .NET
12 6 (1.75%) gRPC
12 6 (1.75%) LangGraph
13 5 (1.46%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.95%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.87%) Algorithms
4 26 (7.58%) Onboarding
5 21 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (6.12%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.66%) Data Structures
7 11 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.21%) Reinsurance
8 10 (2.92%) AI Agents
9 9 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
9 9 (2.62%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (2.33%) Cyber Defence
10 8 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.04%) Clustering
12 6 (1.75%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.75%) Over-the-Top Content
13 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.46%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.87%) Linux
2 22 (6.41%) Windows
3 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.03%) Software Engineering
2 91 (26.53%) AI
3 80 (23.32%) CI/CD
4 62 (18.08%) Analytics
5 55 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (15.74%) DevOps
6 54 (15.74%) Machine Learning
7 50 (14.58%) Data Engineering
7 50 (14.58%) Fintech
8 46 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (12.54%) Agile
10 40 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (11.37%) Computer Science
12 38 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
13 37 (10.79%) Data Science
13 37 (10.79%) Microservices
13 37 (10.79%) Observability
14 34 (9.91%) Mentoring
15 33 (9.62%) Containerisation
15 33 (9.62%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 111 (32.36%) SQL
2 50 (14.58%) Java
3 44 (12.83%) PowerShell
4 36 (10.50%) C++
5 31 (9.04%) C#
5 31 (9.04%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.83%) Bash
6 20 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.66%) Go
7 16 (4.66%) R
8 11 (3.21%) Scala
9 9 (2.62%) Julia
9 9 (2.62%) MATLAB
9 9 (2.62%) Rust
9 9 (2.62%) VBA
10 6 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.46%) Bicep
11 5 (1.46%) C
12 4 (1.17%) PHP
13 3 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (11.08%) Degree
2 24 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.79%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.92%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.62%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.04%) GIAC
8 4 (1.17%) CFA
8 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.87%) CCSAM
9 3 (0.87%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.87%) GPEN
9 3 (0.87%) GXPN
9 3 (0.87%) OSCE
9 3 (0.87%) OSCP
10 2 (0.58%) CCNP
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.58%) PhD
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.66%) GDPR
3 8 (2.33%) NIST
4 7 (2.04%) QA
5 6 (1.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.17%) SLA
7 3 (0.87%) 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 (11.66%) Docker
2 6 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Firmware
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (14.87%) Kubernetes
2 48 (13.99%) Terraform
3 16 (4.66%) Ansible
4 9 (2.62%) Grafana
5 8 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.04%) Databricks
3 20 (5.83%) Google
4 11 (3.21%) Oracle
5 10 (2.92%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.33%) Splunk
7 7 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.75%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.75%) Dell
8 6 (1.75%) Typelevel
9 5 (1.46%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.87%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.87%) VMware
11 2 (0.58%) BT
11 2 (0.58%) Cisco
11 2 (0.58%) Foundry
11 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.58%) SAP
12 1 (0.29%) Okta