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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 317 506 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 18.85% 18.10% 12.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.82% 39.13% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 250 352 350
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,800 £51,250
25th Percentile £69,313 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £111,250 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £145,250 £112,500 £132,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%

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 677 1,293 1,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 40.25% 46.24% 50.93%
Number of salaries quoted 562 917 1,400
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £59,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £132,500 £120,000 £118,250
Central London median annual salary £84,250 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +12.33% -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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the City of London

Python
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the City of London region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge -1 4 £102,000 +33.77%
Python
Central 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 (3.79%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.89%) Apache
4 5 (1.58%) Confluence
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) Luigi
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 121 (38.17%) Azure
2 97 (30.60%) AWS
3 45 (14.20%) GCP
4 34 (10.73%) Power Platform
5 25 (7.89%) Datadog
6 22 (6.94%) GitHub
7 18 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (5.68%) Snowflake
8 15 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (4.73%) Serverless
9 11 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.84%) dbt
11 9 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.21%) SaaS
14 6 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) VPN
2 3 (0.95%) Network Security
2 3 (0.95%) WAN
3 2 (0.63%) Firewall
3 2 (0.63%) LAN
3 2 (0.63%) NAS
3 2 (0.63%) SAN
4 1 (0.32%) Broadband
4 1 (0.32%) DHCP
4 1 (0.32%) DNS
4 1 (0.32%) HTTP
4 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.32%) SNMP
4 1 (0.32%) SSH
4 1 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.32%) VLAN
4 1 (0.32%) VSAN
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.41%) Relational Database
2 28 (8.83%) Power BI
3 23 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (7.26%) SQL Server
4 16 (5.05%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.10%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.52%) ClickHouse
6 8 (2.52%) Delta Lake
7 7 (2.21%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.89%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.89%) Tableau
9 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (1.58%) Big Data
9 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 28 (8.83%) Git
2 10 (3.15%) JIRA
3 6 (1.89%) GitLab
4 5 (1.58%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.95%) MLflow
7 2 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.32%) Deequ
8 1 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.32%) Mocha
8 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.32%) Postman
8 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 95 (29.97%) Finance
2 78 (24.61%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.52%) Banking
5 21 (6.62%) Front Office
6 19 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.42%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.15%) Advertising
9 9 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.84%) Law
10 7 (2.21%) Legal
11 6 (1.89%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.89%) Marketing
12 5 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.58%) Retail
13 4 (1.26%) International Banking
14 3 (0.95%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.63%) Games
15 2 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 85 (26.81%) Developer
2 67 (21.14%) Senior
3 42 (13.25%) Data Engineer
4 27 (8.52%) Lead
5 24 (7.57%) Analyst
6 21 (6.62%) Python Developer
7 20 (6.31%) Senior Developer
8 19 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
9 18 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.36%) Graduate
10 17 (5.36%) Graduate Technical Engineer
10 17 (5.36%) Software Engineer
10 17 (5.36%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (5.05%) Support Engineer
12 15 (4.73%) Graduate Support Engineer
12 15 (4.73%) Graduate Technical Support
12 15 (4.73%) Technical Support
12 15 (4.73%) Technical Support Engineer
13 14 (4.42%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.51%) React
2 22 (6.94%) Django
3 19 (5.99%) Node.js
3 19 (5.99%) PySpark
4 17 (5.36%) FastAPI
5 15 (4.73%) .NET
6 14 (4.42%) Kafka
7 10 (3.15%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.15%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.84%) Pandas
9 8 (2.52%) Flask
9 8 (2.52%) Next.js
10 7 (2.21%) Redux
10 7 (2.21%) Vue
10 7 (2.21%) Web Services
11 6 (1.89%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.89%) HTML
11 6 (1.89%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.58%) Hugging Face
12 5 (1.58%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.83%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.26%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.05%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.79%) Market Risk
6 11 (3.47%) Derivative
7 10 (3.15%) Equities
8 9 (2.84%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.52%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.52%) Reinsurance
10 7 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.89%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.58%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.58%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.26%) Fixed Income
13 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.99%) Linux
2 10 (3.15%) Windows
3 9 (2.84%) Unix
4 6 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.95%) CentOS
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.32%) VMS
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (27.76%) CI/CD
3 86 (27.13%) Analytics
4 85 (26.81%) AI
5 82 (25.87%) DevOps
6 73 (23.03%) Agile
7 54 (17.03%) Machine Learning
8 47 (14.83%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (14.83%) Software Engineering
9 43 (13.56%) Data Modelling
9 43 (13.56%) ETL
10 40 (12.62%) Computer Science
10 40 (12.62%) Data Science
10 40 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (11.99%) Test Automation
12 37 (11.67%) Migration
13 36 (11.36%) Decision-Making
14 34 (10.73%) Data Engineering
15 32 (10.09%) Full-Stack Development
16 31 (9.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 133 (41.96%) SQL
2 74 (23.34%) Java
3 58 (18.30%) C#
4 36 (11.36%) Bash
5 27 (8.52%) PowerShell
5 27 (8.52%) TypeScript
6 22 (6.94%) C++
7 21 (6.62%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.79%) Rust
8 12 (3.79%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.84%) Go
10 7 (2.21%) Scala
11 6 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.58%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.58%) R
13 4 (1.26%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.26%) Ruby
14 3 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.63%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (23.03%) Degree
2 21 (6.62%) Master's Degree
3 13 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.47%) PhD
5 9 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.52%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.89%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.95%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.95%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.63%) MBA
10 2 (0.63%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.32%) CCNP
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CISM
11 1 (0.32%) CISSP
11 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.79%) GDPR
2 11 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.21%) NIST
4 4 (1.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) Basel III
5 1 (0.32%) EMIR
5 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.32%) ITGC
5 1 (0.32%) MiFID
5 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 25 (7.89%) Docker
2 7 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.95%) vSphere
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) KVM
6 1 (0.32%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 28 (8.83%) Terraform
3 22 (6.94%) Ansible
4 9 (2.84%) Grafana
5 6 (1.89%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.63%) Argo
6 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.63%) Puppet
6 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.63%) SCCM
6 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 58 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 48 (15.14%) Databricks
3 23 (7.26%) Guidewire
4 15 (4.73%) Google
5 8 (2.52%) VMware
6 6 (1.89%) Oracle
7 5 (1.58%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.26%) Informatica
8 4 (1.26%) Splunk
9 3 (0.95%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.95%) Dell
9 3 (0.95%) Hitachi
9 3 (0.95%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.63%) Commvault
10 2 (0.63%) IBM
10 2 (0.63%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.32%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.32%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.32%) UiPath