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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 346 404 436
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.08% 21.31% 15.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.94% 47.36% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 277 321 292
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,000 £152,500 £119,875
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 825 853 1,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.65% 44.99% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 656 710 1,051
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,688 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £131,375 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% +9.33% -6.25%

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 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 21 (6.07%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.18%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Camunda
5 1 (0.29%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 106 (30.64%) Azure
2 105 (30.35%) AWS
3 49 (14.16%) GCP
4 35 (10.12%) Power Platform
5 30 (8.67%) SaaS
6 19 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 13 (3.76%) Snowflake
9 11 (3.18%) dbt
10 8 (2.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (2.31%) Serverless
11 7 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.02%) GitHub
11 7 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.45%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.45%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.16%) Figma
13 4 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.05%) Network Security
2 11 (3.18%) Broadband
3 4 (1.16%) BGP
3 4 (1.16%) OSPF
4 3 (0.87%) Firewall
4 3 (0.87%) MPLS
4 3 (0.87%) VLAN
4 3 (0.87%) Wireless
5 2 (0.58%) HTTP
5 2 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.58%) WAN
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.29%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.29%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.29%) HSRP
6 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) VRRP
6 1 (0.29%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.67%) Elasticsearch
2 29 (8.38%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (8.09%) Power BI
4 23 (6.65%) BigQuery
5 17 (4.91%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.62%) NoSQL
7 15 (4.34%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.89%) Tableau
10 9 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.60%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.60%) MySQL
11 8 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.31%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.31%) SQL Server
12 7 (2.02%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.73%) Looker
13 6 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.45%) KDB
Development Applications
1 22 (6.36%) Git
2 8 (2.31%) MLflow
3 6 (1.73%) GitLab
3 6 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.16%) JIRA
5 3 (0.87%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.87%) Postman
5 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.58%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.58%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.58%) Selenium
6 2 (0.58%) Vite
7 1 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 99 (28.61%) Finance
2 77 (22.25%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.07%) Banking
6 14 (4.05%) Front Office
7 9 (2.60%) Law
8 7 (2.02%) Legal
9 6 (1.73%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Advertising
10 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.87%) Games
10 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Back Office
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (22.83%) Senior
2 65 (18.79%) Developer
3 57 (16.47%) Python Engineer
4 48 (13.87%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.72%) Lead
6 40 (11.56%) Data Engineer
7 26 (7.51%) Python Developer
8 24 (6.94%) Analyst
9 18 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) Lead Data Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (4.05%) Architect
13 13 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 12 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.47%) C++ Software Engineer
14 12 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
15 10 (2.89%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.36%) React
2 20 (5.78%) Django
3 18 (5.20%) Kafka
4 17 (4.91%) LangChain
5 16 (4.62%) FastAPI
6 15 (4.34%) PySpark
7 14 (4.05%) PyTorch
8 13 (3.76%) REST
9 12 (3.47%) RESTful
10 10 (2.89%) Node.js
11 9 (2.60%) scikit-learn
11 9 (2.60%) TensorFlow
12 8 (2.31%) .NET
13 7 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (2.02%) gRPC
13 7 (2.02%) LlamaIndex
13 7 (2.02%) Pandas
13 7 (2.02%) pgvector
14 6 (1.73%) LangGraph
14 6 (1.73%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (10.69%) Cloud Native
3 29 (8.38%) Algorithms
4 26 (7.51%) Onboarding
5 23 (6.65%) Public Cloud
6 21 (6.07%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (5.20%) Data Structures
8 12 (3.47%) Reinsurance
9 11 (3.18%) Cyber Defence
10 10 (2.89%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
10 10 (2.89%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.60%) AI Agents
12 7 (2.02%) Clustering
12 7 (2.02%) Over-the-Top Content
13 6 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.45%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.45%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 52 (15.03%) Linux
2 22 (6.36%) Windows
3 3 (0.87%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.77%) Software Engineering
2 88 (25.43%) AI
3 79 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 61 (17.63%) Analytics
5 59 (17.05%) DevOps
6 58 (16.76%) Machine Learning
7 57 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (15.03%) Data Engineering
8 52 (15.03%) Fintech
9 47 (13.58%) Agile
10 45 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (12.14%) Data Science
12 41 (11.85%) Computer Science
13 39 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (11.27%) Mentoring
14 38 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (10.98%) Microservices
15 36 (10.40%) Observability
16 32 (9.25%) Containerisation
17 31 (8.96%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 113 (32.66%) SQL
2 48 (13.87%) Java
3 46 (13.29%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.69%) C++
5 33 (9.54%) C#
6 32 (9.25%) JavaScript
7 21 (6.07%) Bash
8 19 (5.49%) TypeScript
9 16 (4.62%) Go
9 16 (4.62%) R
10 12 (3.47%) Scala
11 9 (2.60%) Julia
11 9 (2.60%) MATLAB
11 9 (2.60%) Rust
11 9 (2.60%) VBA
12 6 (1.73%) C
12 6 (1.73%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.45%) Bicep
14 4 (1.16%) PHP
15 3 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (11.27%) Degree
2 26 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.89%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.60%) GIAC
5 9 (2.60%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.73%) CREST Certified
7 6 (1.73%) OSCP
8 5 (1.45%) CCSAM
9 4 (1.16%) GPEN
9 4 (1.16%) GXPN
9 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (1.16%) OSCE
10 3 (0.87%) CFA
10 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.58%) CCNP
11 2 (0.58%) CHECK Team Leader
11 2 (0.58%) CHECK Team Member
11 2 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.34%) GDPR
3 9 (2.60%) NIST
4 7 (2.02%) QA
5 6 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.16%) SLA
7 3 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) EMIR
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (11.85%) Docker
2 6 (1.73%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 48 (13.87%) Kubernetes
2 46 (13.29%) Terraform
3 15 (4.34%) Ansible
4 9 (2.60%) Grafana
5 8 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.58%) Nessus
7 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (13.87%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.54%) Databricks
3 22 (6.36%) Google
4 11 (3.18%) Oracle
5 10 (2.89%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.31%) Splunk
7 7 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.02%) Typelevel
8 6 (1.73%) Cloudera
8 6 (1.73%) Dell
9 4 (1.16%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.58%) BT
10 2 (0.58%) Cisco
10 2 (0.58%) Foundry
10 2 (0.58%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.58%) SAP
10 2 (0.58%) VMware
11 1 (0.29%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.29%) Commvault