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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 343 521 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 15.56% 19.49% 12.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.19% 41.61% 25.37%
Number of salaries quoted 266 376 331
10th Percentile £42,625 £52,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £125,000
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 759 1,252 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.42% 46.84% 50.83%
Number of salaries quoted 620 915 1,314
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,200 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £119,500 £115,875
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 7 January 2026.

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 7 January 2026. 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 -3 1 £102,000 +31.61%
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 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.17%) Confluence
5 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.58%) Luigi
6 2 (0.58%) nginx
6 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Actimize
1 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 135 (39.36%) Azure
2 94 (27.41%) AWS
3 44 (12.83%) Power Platform
4 43 (12.54%) GCP
5 23 (6.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (6.41%) GitHub
7 19 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.25%) Datadog
9 13 (3.79%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.50%) SaaS
11 10 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.62%) Serverless
13 8 (2.33%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.04%) dbt
15 6 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (1.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) DHCP
1 4 (1.17%) DNS
1 4 (1.17%) Network Security
1 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.17%) VPN
2 3 (0.87%) NAS
2 3 (0.87%) SAN
2 3 (0.87%) WAN
3 2 (0.58%) LAN
3 2 (0.58%) SNMP
4 1 (0.29%) Broadband
4 1 (0.29%) Firewall
4 1 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.29%) SSH
4 1 (0.29%) VLAN
4 1 (0.29%) VSAN
4 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.50%) Power BI
2 29 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (7.29%) Relational Database
4 23 (6.71%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.54%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.79%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.21%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.33%) Tableau
10 7 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.75%) ClickHouse
12 5 (1.46%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.46%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.46%) Power Query
13 4 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.17%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (9.33%) Git
2 9 (2.62%) JIRA
3 4 (1.17%) GitLab
4 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.58%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.29%) Deequ
6 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) Mocha
6 1 (0.29%) Postman
6 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 93 (27.11%) Finance
2 79 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.83%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.87%) Banking
5 23 (6.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.83%) Front Office
7 15 (4.37%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.62%) Legal
10 8 (2.33%) Advertising
11 7 (2.04%) Retail
12 5 (1.46%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.46%) International Banking
12 5 (1.46%) Law
13 4 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (25.36%) Developer
2 79 (23.03%) Senior
3 42 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 41 (11.95%) Lead
5 39 (11.37%) Python Developer
6 29 (8.45%) Software Engineer
7 28 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 23 (6.71%) Analyst
9 22 (6.41%) Senior Data Engineer
10 19 (5.54%) Technical Engineer
11 18 (5.25%) Support Engineer
12 17 (4.96%) Graduate
12 17 (4.96%) Graduate Technical Engineer
12 17 (4.96%) Technical Support
12 17 (4.96%) Technical Support Engineer
13 15 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 15 (4.37%) Graduate Support Engineer
13 15 (4.37%) Graduate Technical Support
13 15 (4.37%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (4.37%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.79%) React
2 31 (9.04%) Django
3 22 (6.41%) Node.js
4 21 (6.12%) FastAPI
5 15 (4.37%) Kafka
5 15 (4.37%) PySpark
6 11 (3.21%) .NET
7 9 (2.62%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.33%) Flask
8 8 (2.33%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.04%) Next.js
9 7 (2.04%) RESTful
9 7 (2.04%) Vue
10 6 (1.75%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.75%) Pandas
10 6 (1.75%) Redux
10 6 (1.75%) Web Services
11 5 (1.46%) HTML
11 5 (1.46%) Hugging Face
11 5 (1.46%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.87%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.54%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.25%) Cloud Native
5 14 (4.08%) Data Structures
6 13 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.92%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.92%) Equities
7 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.62%) Derivative
8 9 (2.62%) Market Risk
9 8 (2.33%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.33%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.46%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.71%) Linux
2 12 (3.50%) Windows
3 7 (2.04%) Unix
4 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.87%) CentOS
6 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (26.82%) AI
2 90 (26.24%) Analytics
3 89 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (24.49%) Agile
5 77 (22.45%) DevOps
6 74 (21.57%) CI/CD
7 58 (16.91%) Software Engineering
8 55 (16.03%) Machine Learning
9 51 (14.87%) ETL
10 48 (13.99%) Data Pipeline
11 47 (13.70%) Mentoring
12 42 (12.24%) Computer Science
13 41 (11.95%) Data Modelling
14 40 (11.66%) Test Automation
15 38 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
16 37 (10.79%) Data Engineering
17 36 (10.50%) Data Science
18 34 (9.91%) Decision-Making
19 33 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
20 32 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 123 (35.86%) SQL
2 53 (15.45%) Java
3 47 (13.70%) C#
4 36 (10.50%) PowerShell
5 31 (9.04%) Bash
6 27 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 24 (7.00%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.96%) C++
9 12 (3.50%) Rust
10 9 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.62%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.75%) Go
11 6 (1.75%) Scala
12 5 (1.46%) R
12 5 (1.46%) VBA
13 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.87%) Perl
15 2 (0.58%) Ruby
15 2 (0.58%) VC++
16 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 66 (19.24%) Degree
2 22 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.79%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.62%) PhD
4 9 (2.62%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.46%) GIAC
8 4 (1.17%) MCP
8 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.17%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.58%) CISM
10 2 (0.58%) CISSP
10 2 (0.58%) MBA
10 2 (0.58%) OSCP
11 1 (0.29%) CCNP
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.96%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.79%) NIST
3 12 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.62%) GDPR
5 2 (0.58%) EMIR
5 2 (0.58%) PMO
5 2 (0.58%) QA
5 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Basel III
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.29%) MiFID
6 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (8.45%) Docker
2 7 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (7.00%) Kubernetes
1 24 (7.00%) Terraform
2 18 (5.25%) Ansible
3 7 (2.04%) Grafana
4 4 (1.17%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.58%) Argo
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.58%) Puppet
6 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.29%) Nessus
7 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 77 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.24%) Databricks
3 23 (6.71%) Google
4 16 (4.66%) Guidewire
5 8 (2.33%) VMware
6 6 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.75%) Oracle
7 5 (1.46%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.87%) Commvault
8 3 (0.87%) Dell
8 3 (0.87%) Informatica
8 3 (0.87%) Splunk
9 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.58%) HP
9 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.58%) SAP
10 1 (0.29%) Confluent