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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 390 413 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.04% 21.47% 14.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.23% 46.30% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 301 327 312
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £57,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £152,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 946 892 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.93% 46.36% 46.72%
Number of salaries quoted 748 745 1,177
10th Percentile £51,925 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -0.64%
75th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £75,500
% change year-on-year +3.66% +8.61% -2.58%

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 1 July 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%) Camunda
3 1 (0.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.74%) Azure
2 113 (28.97%) AWS
3 51 (13.08%) GCP
4 30 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.92%) SaaS
6 19 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.82%) dbt
9 11 (2.82%) GitHub
9 11 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 8 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.79%) Serverless
13 5 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.03%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.03%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.03%) PaaS
15 3 (0.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.62%) Network Security
2 14 (3.59%) Broadband
3 9 (2.31%) Wireless
4 6 (1.54%) BGP
5 5 (1.28%) MPLS
6 4 (1.03%) OSPF
7 3 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (0.77%) Firewall
7 3 (0.77%) HTTP
7 3 (0.77%) VLAN
7 3 (0.77%) WAN
8 2 (0.51%) 4G
8 2 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.51%) IOS XR
8 2 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.26%) DNS
9 1 (0.26%) HSRP
9 1 (0.26%) LAN
9 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.97%) Elasticsearch
2 27 (6.92%) BigQuery
3 25 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.15%) Power BI
5 17 (4.36%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.10%) 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%) Geospatial Data
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 6 (1.54%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.54%) Looker
12 6 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.28%) KDB
Development Applications
1 27 (6.92%) Git
2 8 (2.05%) Burp Suite
2 8 (2.05%) Metasploit
2 8 (2.05%) MLflow
3 5 (1.28%) GitLab
4 4 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.03%) JIRA
5 3 (0.77%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.77%) Postman
5 3 (0.77%) Selenium
5 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.51%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.51%) Vite
7 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
General
1 106 (27.18%) Finance
2 80 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (6.67%) Banking
6 17 (4.36%) Front Office
7 6 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.54%) Law
7 6 (1.54%) Marketing
8 5 (1.28%) Legal
9 4 (1.03%) Advertising
10 3 (0.77%) Games
10 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.77%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.77%) Retail
11 2 (0.51%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.26%) Automotive
12 1 (0.26%) Back Office
12 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (25.13%) Senior
2 84 (21.54%) Developer
3 60 (15.38%) Python Engineer
4 50 (12.82%) Software Engineer
5 47 (12.05%) Lead
6 44 (11.28%) Python Developer
7 40 (10.26%) Data Engineer
8 32 (8.21%) Analyst
9 20 (5.13%) Security Analyst
9 20 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (4.36%) Python Software Engineer
12 16 (4.10%) Architect
13 15 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 14 (3.59%) Senior Data Engineer
15 13 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) C++ Software Engineer
16 12 (3.08%) Lead Developer
16 12 (3.08%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.18%) Django
2 23 (5.90%) React
3 17 (4.36%) Kafka
4 15 (3.85%) FastAPI
5 14 (3.59%) RESTful
6 13 (3.33%) PySpark
6 13 (3.33%) PyTorch
7 12 (3.08%) LangChain
8 11 (2.82%) REST
9 10 (2.56%) TensorFlow
10 9 (2.31%) .NET
10 9 (2.31%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (1.79%) gRPC
11 7 (1.79%) LlamaIndex
11 7 (1.79%) Node.js
11 7 (1.79%) Pandas
11 7 (1.79%) pgvector
12 6 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
13 5 (1.28%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (8.46%) Algorithms
3 32 (8.21%) Cloud Native
4 25 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.15%) Public Cloud
6 23 (5.90%) Data Structures
7 21 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
8 15 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
9 12 (3.08%) Reinsurance
10 11 (2.82%) Product Ownership
10 11 (2.82%) Security Posture
11 10 (2.56%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
12 8 (2.05%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.79%) Clustering
13 7 (1.79%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.79%) Over-the-Top Content
14 6 (1.54%) Hedge funds
14 6 (1.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 62 (15.90%) 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
1 108 (27.69%) Software Engineering
2 88 (22.56%) AI
3 79 (20.26%) CI/CD
4 70 (17.95%) Analytics
5 63 (16.15%) DevOps
6 60 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (14.87%) Agile
8 56 (14.36%) Fintech
9 52 (13.33%) Machine Learning
10 51 (13.08%) Data Engineering
10 51 (13.08%) Mentoring
11 45 (11.54%) Data Science
12 44 (11.28%) Computer Science
13 42 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (10.00%) Microservices
15 38 (9.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 36 (9.23%) Observability
17 33 (8.46%) Containerisation
18 30 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 116 (29.74%) SQL
2 59 (15.13%) PowerShell
3 44 (11.28%) Java
4 39 (10.00%) C++
5 32 (8.21%) C#
5 32 (8.21%) JavaScript
6 28 (7.18%) Bash
7 16 (4.10%) Go
8 15 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.59%) R
10 9 (2.31%) Julia
10 9 (2.31%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.31%) Scala
11 8 (2.05%) Rust
12 7 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.79%) VBA
13 6 (1.54%) C
14 5 (1.28%) Bicep
14 5 (1.28%) PHP
15 3 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (11.79%) Degree
2 29 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.33%) GIAC
4 12 (3.08%) CREST Certified
4 12 (3.08%) OSCP
5 11 (2.82%) CCSAM
6 10 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.31%) Security Cleared
8 8 (2.05%) CHECK Team Leader
8 8 (2.05%) CHECK Team Member
9 6 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.54%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.03%) CFA
10 4 (1.03%) GPEN
10 4 (1.03%) GXPN
10 4 (1.03%) OSCE
11 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.15%) 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
3 5 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (12.05%) Terraform
2 44 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.59%) Ansible
4 10 (2.56%) Grafana
4 10 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 8 (2.05%) Nessus
6 1 (0.26%) Argo
6 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.26%) SCCM
6 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 48 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.69%) Databricks
3 28 (7.18%) Google
4 10 (2.56%) Oracle
5 8 (2.05%) Splunk
6 7 (1.79%) Typelevel
7 6 (1.54%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.54%) Dell
7 6 (1.54%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.03%) Cisco
8 4 (1.03%) VMware
9 3 (0.77%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.77%) Commvault
9 3 (0.77%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.51%) BT
10 2 (0.51%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.51%) SAP
11 1 (0.26%) Alteryx