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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 416 415 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.01% 21.92% 14.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.68% 47.16% 30.61%
Number of salaries quoted 316 329 324
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,550
25th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,500 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £106,875 £150,000 £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 998 880 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.01% 46.49% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 781 740 1,245
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +0.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile - £126,375 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.19% -

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 28 May 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 20 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.64%) Apache
4 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Actimize
1 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 142 (34.13%) Azure
2 118 (28.37%) AWS
3 53 (12.74%) GCP
4 39 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.49%) SaaS
6 26 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (4.09%) GitHub
9 16 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (2.64%) dbt
10 11 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 10 (2.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.68%) PaaS
15 6 (1.44%) Serverless
16 5 (1.20%) Figma
16 5 (1.20%) Lucidchart
17 4 (0.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.57%) Network Security
2 14 (3.37%) Broadband
3 9 (2.16%) Wireless
4 4 (0.96%) BGP
4 4 (0.96%) MPLS
5 3 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.72%) Firewall
5 3 (0.72%) HTTP
6 2 (0.48%) 4G
6 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.48%) DHCP
6 2 (0.48%) DNS
6 2 (0.48%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.48%) OSPF
6 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.48%) VPN
6 2 (0.48%) WAN
7 1 (0.24%) LAN
7 1 (0.24%) VLAN
7 1 (0.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
2 30 (7.21%) Power BI
3 29 (6.97%) BigQuery
4 22 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (4.57%) Data Lake
7 18 (4.33%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.88%) NoSQL
10 9 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.16%) MySQL
10 9 (2.16%) Tableau
11 8 (1.92%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.68%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.44%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.44%) Looker
13 6 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.20%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (6.97%) Git
2 9 (2.16%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.16%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.92%) MLflow
4 6 (1.44%) JIRA
5 5 (1.20%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.96%) GitLab
7 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.72%) Postman
7 3 (0.72%) Selenium
7 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.48%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 113 (27.16%) Finance
2 84 (20.19%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.21%) Banking
6 16 (3.85%) Front Office
7 7 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.20%) Law
8 5 (1.20%) Legal
8 5 (1.20%) Marketing
8 5 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.20%) Retail
9 3 (0.72%) Advertising
9 3 (0.72%) Games
9 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.24%) Automotive
11 1 (0.24%) Back Office
11 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 109 (26.20%) Senior
2 98 (23.56%) Developer
3 58 (13.94%) Python Developer
4 56 (13.46%) Lead
5 55 (13.22%) Python Engineer
6 44 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 43 (10.34%) Data Engineer
8 35 (8.41%) Analyst
9 26 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.53%) Security Analyst
11 18 (4.33%) Architect
11 18 (4.33%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (4.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 17 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (3.61%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.61%) Lead Python Developer
13 15 (3.61%) Senior Python Developer
14 14 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 14 (3.37%) Python Data Engineer
14 14 (3.37%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (7.93%) Django
2 25 (6.01%) React
3 20 (4.81%) Kafka
4 15 (3.61%) RESTful
5 14 (3.37%) PySpark
6 13 (3.13%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.88%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.64%) LangChain
9 10 (2.40%) .NET
10 9 (2.16%) Node.js
10 9 (2.16%) REST
10 9 (2.16%) scikit-learn
10 9 (2.16%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.92%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.92%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.68%) gRPC
12 7 (1.68%) Pandas
13 6 (1.44%) Flask
13 6 (1.44%) pgvector
14 5 (1.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.62%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.41%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 27 (6.49%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 26 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 25 (6.01%) Cyber Defence
6 22 (5.29%) Onboarding
7 17 (4.09%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (3.85%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.13%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.16%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.92%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.68%) Clustering
13 7 (1.68%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.68%) Over-the-Top Content
13 7 (1.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 62 (14.90%) Linux
2 30 (7.21%) Windows
3 4 (0.96%) Unix
3 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (23.56%) Software Engineering
2 86 (20.67%) CI/CD
3 84 (20.19%) AI
4 77 (18.51%) Analytics
5 74 (17.79%) Agile
6 70 (16.83%) DevOps
6 70 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (14.66%) Mentoring
8 57 (13.70%) Data Engineering
9 55 (13.22%) Fintech
10 51 (12.26%) Data Science
11 50 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (12.02%) Machine Learning
12 46 (11.06%) Computer Science
12 46 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
13 41 (9.86%) Microservices
14 37 (8.89%) Observability
15 35 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 33 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (7.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 127 (30.53%) SQL
2 69 (16.59%) PowerShell
3 37 (8.89%) C++
4 34 (8.17%) Java
5 33 (7.93%) JavaScript
6 31 (7.45%) C#
7 29 (6.97%) Bash
8 17 (4.09%) TypeScript
9 15 (3.61%) Go
10 10 (2.40%) R
10 10 (2.40%) Scala
11 7 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.68%) VBA
12 6 (1.44%) C
12 6 (1.44%) Julia
12 6 (1.44%) MATLAB
13 5 (1.20%) PHP
13 5 (1.20%) Rust
14 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (12.50%) Degree
2 32 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (3.85%) GIAC
4 14 (3.37%) OSCP
5 13 (3.13%) CREST Certified
6 12 (2.88%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.16%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.16%) CHECK Team Member
8 8 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.44%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.20%) GPEN
10 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.96%) GXPN
11 4 (0.96%) OSCE
11 4 (0.96%) Security Cleared
12 3 (0.72%) CFA
13 2 (0.48%) PhD
13 2 (0.48%) SC Cleared
14 1 (0.24%) CISSP
14 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.53%) NIST
3 16 (3.85%) GDPR
4 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.44%) QA
6 3 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.48%) EMIR
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (10.10%) Docker
2 7 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (10.10%) Terraform
2 36 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.40%) Ansible
4 9 (2.16%) Nessus
5 7 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.44%) Grafana
7 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.24%) Argo
8 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.24%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 67 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.97%) Databricks
2 29 (6.97%) Google
3 11 (2.64%) Oracle
4 7 (1.68%) Typelevel
5 6 (1.44%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.44%) CyberArk
5 6 (1.44%) Dell
6 5 (1.20%) Splunk
7 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.96%) VMware
8 3 (0.72%) Cisco
8 3 (0.72%) Commvault
8 3 (0.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.72%) SAP
9 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.48%) BT
9 2 (0.48%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.48%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.24%) Guidewire