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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 6 14
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 345 531 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 16.80% 19.57% 12.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.07% 41.39% 25.16%
Number of salaries quoted 269 389 335
10th Percentile £42,700 £52,400 £51,550
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 £107,500 £97,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £135,000 £116,000 £127,500
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 733 1,283 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.69% 47.29% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 596 949 1,336
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,875
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £60,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £120,000 £116,250
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 25 December 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 25 December 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 -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 14 (4.06%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.03%) Apache
4 5 (1.45%) 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 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.03%) 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
1 134 (38.84%) Azure
2 102 (29.57%) AWS
3 48 (13.91%) Power Platform
4 45 (13.04%) GCP
5 24 (6.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 22 (6.38%) GitHub
7 20 (5.80%) Datadog
8 18 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.06%) SaaS
9 14 (4.06%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.19%) Serverless
11 10 (2.90%) dbt
12 9 (2.61%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.74%) PaaS
16 5 (1.45%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.16%) DHCP
1 4 (1.16%) DNS
1 4 (1.16%) Network Security
1 4 (1.16%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.16%) VPN
1 4 (1.16%) WAN
2 3 (0.87%) LAN
2 3 (0.87%) NAS
2 3 (0.87%) SAN
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.59%) Power BI
2 29 (8.41%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (7.83%) Relational Database
4 24 (6.96%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.51%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.61%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.32%) Tableau
11 7 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.03%) ClickHouse
11 7 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.74%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.74%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.45%) Power Query
14 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.16%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 31 (8.99%) Git
2 11 (3.19%) JIRA
3 6 (1.74%) GitLab
4 4 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.87%) MLflow
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) Balsamiq
6 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.29%) Deequ
7 1 (0.29%) Mocha
7 1 (0.29%) Postman
7 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 101 (29.28%) Finance
2 80 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 50 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.83%) Banking
5 23 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.80%) Front Office
7 15 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.61%) Legal
10 8 (2.32%) Advertising
10 8 (2.32%) Law
11 7 (2.03%) Retail
12 5 (1.45%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.45%) International Banking
13 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.87%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 84 (24.35%) Developer
2 77 (22.32%) Senior
3 46 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 41 (11.88%) Lead
5 33 (9.57%) Python Developer
6 27 (7.83%) Senior Developer
7 24 (6.96%) Software Engineer
8 23 (6.67%) Analyst
8 23 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (5.51%) Technical Engineer
10 18 (5.22%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.93%) Graduate
11 17 (4.93%) Graduate Technical Engineer
11 17 (4.93%) Technical Support
11 17 (4.93%) Technical Support Engineer
12 15 (4.35%) Graduate Support Engineer
12 15 (4.35%) Graduate Technical Support
13 14 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
14 13 (3.77%) Architect
14 13 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.59%) React
2 27 (7.83%) Django
3 22 (6.38%) Node.js
4 21 (6.09%) FastAPI
5 20 (5.80%) PySpark
6 16 (4.64%) Kafka
7 12 (3.48%) .NET
8 9 (2.61%) AngularJS
8 9 (2.61%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.32%) Flask
9 8 (2.32%) Next.js
10 7 (2.03%) Pandas
10 7 (2.03%) Vue
11 6 (1.74%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.74%) Redux
11 6 (1.74%) RESTful
11 6 (1.74%) Web Services
12 5 (1.45%) HTML
12 5 (1.45%) React Native
12 5 (1.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 21 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 20 (5.80%) Cloud Native
3 20 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.90%) AI Agents
4 10 (2.90%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.90%) Equities
4 10 (2.90%) Market Risk
5 9 (2.61%) Derivative
5 9 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (2.61%) Reinsurance
6 8 (2.32%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.03%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.16%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.67%) Linux
2 11 (3.19%) Windows
3 8 (2.32%) Unix
4 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.16%) CentOS
5 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (26.96%) Analytics
2 92 (26.67%) AI
2 92 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (24.64%) DevOps
4 84 (24.35%) CI/CD
5 79 (22.90%) Agile
6 58 (16.81%) Machine Learning
7 54 (15.65%) ETL
8 53 (15.36%) Software Engineering
9 52 (15.07%) Data Pipeline
10 44 (12.75%) Data Modelling
11 41 (11.88%) Data Science
12 40 (11.59%) Data Engineering
12 40 (11.59%) Mentoring
12 40 (11.59%) Test Automation
13 39 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (11.30%) Computer Science
14 38 (11.01%) Decision-Making
15 33 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 33 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (37.39%) SQL
2 57 (16.52%) Java
3 50 (14.49%) C#
4 38 (11.01%) PowerShell
5 33 (9.57%) Bash
6 29 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 18 (5.22%) C++
9 12 (3.48%) Rust
10 10 (2.90%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.74%) Go
12 6 (1.74%) Scala
13 5 (1.45%) R
13 5 (1.45%) VBA
14 4 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.87%) Perl
15 3 (0.87%) Ruby
16 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.58%) VC++
Qualifications
1 64 (18.55%) Degree
2 19 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.06%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.61%) PhD
4 9 (2.61%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.16%) GIAC
7 4 (1.16%) MCP
7 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.16%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.58%) CISM
9 2 (0.58%) CISSP
9 2 (0.58%) MBA
10 1 (0.29%) CCNP
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) GCIH
10 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.77%) NIST
3 11 (3.19%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) EMIR
4 2 (0.58%) PMO
4 2 (0.58%) QA
4 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.29%) Basel III
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.29%) GRC
5 1 (0.29%) MiFID
5 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (8.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (8.12%) Terraform
2 27 (7.83%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.80%) Ansible
4 8 (2.32%) Grafana
5 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.58%) Argo
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.58%) Puppet
7 2 (0.58%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (21.45%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.04%) Databricks
3 19 (5.51%) Google
4 18 (5.22%) Guidewire
5 8 (2.32%) VMware
6 6 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.74%) Oracle
6 6 (1.74%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.45%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.16%) Splunk
9 3 (0.87%) Commvault
9 3 (0.87%) Dell
9 3 (0.87%) Informatica
10 2 (0.58%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.58%) HP
10 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.58%) SAP
10 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow