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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 397 475 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.60% 21.98% 13.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.32% 45.11% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 290 374 359
10th Percentile £47,475 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,563 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £128,875 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +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 938 1,053 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 29.76% 48.73% 48.45%
Number of salaries quoted 729 868 1,333
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,860
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £101,063 £101,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% 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 19 March 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 16 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.02%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.02%) Apache
4 4 (1.01%) Confluence
5 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
6 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Actimize
1 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.25%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (39.29%) Azure
2 121 (30.48%) AWS
3 52 (13.10%) GCP
4 46 (11.59%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (5.54%) GitHub
8 21 (5.29%) SaaS
9 14 (3.53%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (2.52%) dbt
12 9 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.02%) Datadog
13 8 (2.02%) PaaS
13 8 (2.02%) Serverless
14 6 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (1.51%) Nutanix
15 5 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.53%) Network Security
2 12 (3.02%) Broadband
3 9 (2.27%) Wireless
4 5 (1.26%) DHCP
4 5 (1.26%) DNS
4 5 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.01%) WAN
6 3 (0.76%) HTTP
6 3 (0.76%) LAN
6 3 (0.76%) NAS
6 3 (0.76%) SAN
6 3 (0.76%) VPN
7 2 (0.50%) 4G
7 2 (0.50%) BGP
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.50%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.50%) MPLS
7 2 (0.50%) SNMP
7 2 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.82%) Power BI
2 30 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (7.56%) Elasticsearch
3 27 (6.80%) BigQuery
4 22 (5.54%) SQL Server
5 17 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.03%) Relational Database
7 12 (3.02%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.52%) Tableau
9 9 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.76%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.26%) Big Data
12 5 (1.26%) MySQL
13 4 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.01%) Power Query
13 4 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 30 (7.56%) Git
2 10 (2.52%) JIRA
3 9 (2.27%) Burp Suite
3 9 (2.27%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.26%) MLflow
5 4 (1.01%) Balsamiq
5 4 (1.01%) Postman
6 3 (0.76%) GitLab
7 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.50%) Selenium
7 2 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.25%) Deequ
8 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.25%) Mocha
8 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 104 (26.20%) Finance
2 90 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.05%) Banking
6 12 (3.02%) Front Office
7 10 (2.52%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.02%) Advertising
9 7 (1.76%) Retail
10 6 (1.51%) Legal
11 5 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Law
13 3 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.50%) International Banking
14 2 (0.50%) Marketing
14 2 (0.50%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 101 (25.44%) Senior
2 85 (21.41%) Developer
3 51 (12.85%) Lead
3 51 (12.85%) Python Developer
4 49 (12.34%) Data Engineer
5 40 (10.08%) Analyst
6 32 (8.06%) Python Engineer
7 30 (7.56%) Senior Developer
8 29 (7.30%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.79%) Senior Data Engineer
10 22 (5.54%) Security Analyst
11 17 (4.28%) Architect
11 17 (4.28%) Senior Python Developer
12 14 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.27%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 13 (3.27%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.02%) Lead Python Developer
14 12 (3.02%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.58%) Django
2 35 (8.82%) React
3 20 (5.04%) Node.js
4 18 (4.53%) FastAPI
5 15 (3.78%) PySpark
6 14 (3.53%) Kafka
7 13 (3.27%) RESTful
8 11 (2.77%) .NET
9 9 (2.27%) PyTorch
10 8 (2.02%) Flask
10 8 (2.02%) LangChain
11 7 (1.76%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.76%) REST
12 6 (1.51%) gRPC
12 6 (1.51%) LlamaIndex
12 6 (1.51%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (1.51%) Next.js
13 5 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.26%) scikit-learn
13 5 (1.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.56%) Algorithms
2 30 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (6.55%) Data Structures
3 26 (6.55%) Greenfield Project
4 23 (5.79%) Cyber Defence
4 23 (5.79%) Onboarding
5 20 (5.04%) Cloud Native
6 16 (4.03%) Public Cloud
6 16 (4.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 14 (3.53%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.77%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.27%) Hedge funds
10 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.76%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (1.51%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.51%) Over-the-Top Content
13 5 (1.26%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 40 (10.08%) Linux
2 25 (6.30%) Windows
3 10 (2.52%) Unix
4 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.76%) CentOS
5 3 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (22.67%) Analytics
3 89 (22.42%) Agile
3 89 (22.42%) AI
4 81 (20.40%) CI/CD
5 79 (19.90%) Software Engineering
6 77 (19.40%) DevOps
7 68 (17.13%) Mentoring
8 53 (13.35%) Machine Learning
9 51 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (12.59%) Data Science
11 46 (11.59%) Data Engineering
12 44 (11.08%) ETL
13 43 (10.83%) Computer Science
13 43 (10.83%) Data Modelling
14 42 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
14 42 (10.58%) Microservices
15 36 (9.07%) Coaching
16 35 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (31.49%) SQL
2 65 (16.37%) PowerShell
3 40 (10.08%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.56%) Bash
5 33 (8.31%) C#
6 31 (7.81%) Java
7 25 (6.30%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.53%) C++
9 14 (3.53%) Go
10 10 (2.52%) Rust
11 8 (2.02%) Scala
12 6 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.51%) R
12 6 (1.51%) VBA
13 4 (1.01%) Perl
13 4 (1.01%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.76%) PHP
14 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.76%) VC++
Qualifications
1 57 (14.36%) Degree
2 32 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.78%) GIAC
4 12 (3.02%) OSCP
5 11 (2.77%) CREST Certified
6 10 (2.52%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.27%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.27%) CHECK Team Member
8 8 (2.02%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.51%) Security Cleared
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.76%) GPEN
11 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.50%) GXPN
12 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.50%) OSCE
12 2 (0.50%) PhD
12 2 (0.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.55%) NIST
2 21 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.53%) GDPR
5 5 (1.26%) QA
6 3 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.76%) EMIR
7 2 (0.50%) PMO
7 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) Basel III
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (9.82%) Docker
2 8 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (8.56%) Terraform
2 30 (7.56%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.53%) Ansible
4 9 (2.27%) Nessus
5 7 (1.76%) Grafana
6 6 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.76%) Argo
7 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.76%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) SCCM
9 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (22.17%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.57%) Databricks
3 32 (8.06%) Google
4 9 (2.27%) VMware
5 7 (1.76%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.76%) Oracle
6 6 (1.51%) Commvault
6 6 (1.51%) Dell
6 6 (1.51%) Guidewire
6 6 (1.51%) Typelevel
7 5 (1.26%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.01%) Splunk
9 3 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.76%) Cloudera
9 3 (0.76%) Informatica
9 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.50%) BT
10 2 (0.50%) HP
10 2 (0.50%) SAP