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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 390 418 455
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.12% 21.56% 14.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.92% 46.44% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 297 333 304
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,550
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £152,500 £120,000
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 953 900 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.29% 46.42% 46.50%
Number of salaries quoted 749 755 1,191
10th Percentile £51,950 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £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 21 June 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 19 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (4.87%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.82%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (30.77%) Azure
2 114 (29.23%) AWS
3 54 (13.85%) GCP
4 31 (7.95%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.92%) SaaS
6 20 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.33%) GitHub
9 11 (2.82%) dbt
9 11 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.54%) Serverless
14 5 (1.28%) PaaS
15 4 (1.03%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.03%) Figma
15 4 (1.03%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.62%) Network Security
2 14 (3.59%) Broadband
3 9 (2.31%) Wireless
4 5 (1.28%) BGP
4 5 (1.28%) MPLS
5 3 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.77%) Firewall
5 3 (0.77%) HTTP
5 3 (0.77%) OSPF
6 2 (0.51%) 4G
6 2 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.51%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.51%) VLAN
6 2 (0.51%) WAN
7 1 (0.26%) DHCP
7 1 (0.26%) DNS
7 1 (0.26%) LAN
7 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.49%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (7.44%) BigQuery
3 25 (6.41%) Power BI
4 23 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.36%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.59%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.31%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.31%) MySQL
11 8 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.05%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.05%) Tableau
12 7 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.54%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.54%) Looker
13 6 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.28%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (6.92%) Git
2 9 (2.31%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.31%) Metasploit
3 8 (2.05%) MLflow
4 5 (1.28%) GitLab
5 4 (1.03%) Balsamiq
5 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.03%) JIRA
6 3 (0.77%) Postman
6 3 (0.77%) Selenium
6 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.51%) Vite
8 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
General
1 106 (27.18%) Finance
2 80 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.92%) Banking
6 17 (4.36%) Front Office
7 6 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.54%) Marketing
8 5 (1.28%) Law
9 4 (1.03%) Advertising
9 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Games
10 3 (0.77%) Legal
10 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.77%) Retail
11 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (25.90%) Senior
2 85 (21.79%) Developer
3 62 (15.90%) Python Engineer
4 50 (12.82%) Software Engineer
5 49 (12.56%) Lead
6 48 (12.31%) Python Developer
7 39 (10.00%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.21%) Analyst
9 21 (5.38%) Security Analyst
10 20 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.36%) Architect
12 17 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
12 17 (4.36%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (3.33%) Lead Developer
14 13 (3.33%) Lead Python Developer
14 13 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
15 12 (3.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 11 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.69%) Django
2 24 (6.15%) React
3 17 (4.36%) Kafka
4 15 (3.85%) FastAPI
4 15 (3.85%) RESTful
5 13 (3.33%) LangChain
5 13 (3.33%) PySpark
5 13 (3.33%) PyTorch
6 10 (2.56%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.31%) .NET
7 9 (2.31%) REST
7 9 (2.31%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.05%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (1.79%) gRPC
9 7 (1.79%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (1.79%) Node.js
9 7 (1.79%) Pandas
9 7 (1.79%) pgvector
10 6 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.28%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (9.23%) Algorithms
3 32 (8.21%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.92%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (6.41%) Data Structures
5 25 (6.41%) Public Cloud
6 23 (5.90%) Onboarding
7 22 (5.64%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (3.33%) Product Ownership
10 12 (3.08%) Security Posture
11 11 (2.82%) Reinsurance
12 10 (2.56%) AI Agents
12 10 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
13 9 (2.31%) Mobile App
14 7 (1.79%) Clustering
14 7 (1.79%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.79%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.79%) Over-the-Top Content
15 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 61 (15.64%) Linux
2 27 (6.92%) Windows
3 4 (1.03%) Unix
3 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) CentOS
4 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (27.44%) Software Engineering
2 87 (22.31%) AI
3 79 (20.26%) CI/CD
4 70 (17.95%) Analytics
5 65 (16.67%) DevOps
6 64 (16.41%) Agile
6 64 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (14.36%) Fintech
7 56 (14.36%) Mentoring
8 51 (13.08%) Data Engineering
8 51 (13.08%) Machine Learning
9 46 (11.79%) Data Science
10 44 (11.28%) Computer Science
11 43 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
12 40 (10.26%) Microservices
13 38 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (9.23%) Observability
15 33 (8.46%) Containerisation
16 30 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 119 (30.51%) SQL
2 59 (15.13%) PowerShell
3 40 (10.26%) Java
4 39 (10.00%) C++
5 33 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.95%) C#
7 28 (7.18%) Bash
8 16 (4.10%) Go
9 15 (3.85%) TypeScript
10 14 (3.59%) R
11 9 (2.31%) Julia
11 9 (2.31%) MATLAB
11 9 (2.31%) Scala
12 7 (1.79%) Rust
12 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.54%) C
13 6 (1.54%) VBA
14 5 (1.28%) Bicep
14 5 (1.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.77%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 46 (11.79%) Degree
2 30 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.33%) CREST Certified
3 13 (3.33%) GIAC
3 13 (3.33%) OSCP
4 12 (3.08%) CCSAM
5 10 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.31%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.31%) CHECK Team Member
6 9 (2.31%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.54%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.54%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.03%) CFA
8 4 (1.03%) GPEN
8 4 (1.03%) GXPN
8 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.03%) OSCE
9 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.51%) PhD
11 1 (0.26%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.90%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.36%) NIST
3 15 (3.85%) GDPR
4 6 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.28%) QA
6 4 (1.03%) SLA
7 3 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) EMIR
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (10.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (11.79%) Terraform
2 42 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.08%) Ansible
4 9 (2.31%) Grafana
4 9 (2.31%) Nessus
4 9 (2.31%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.26%) SCCM
5 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 50 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.69%) Databricks
3 29 (7.44%) Google
4 10 (2.56%) Oracle
5 7 (1.79%) Splunk
5 7 (1.79%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.54%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.54%) Dell
7 4 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.03%) VMware
8 3 (0.77%) Cisco
8 3 (0.77%) Commvault
8 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.51%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.51%) BT
9 2 (0.51%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.51%) SAP
9 2 (0.51%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.26%) MuleSoft