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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 425 434 453
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 10.25% 21.61% 14.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.63% 46.12% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 325 349 317
10th Percentile £52,050 £52,500 £46,850
25th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £140,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +13.33% -6.25%

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 1,021 941 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 24.63% 46.86% 47.61%
Number of salaries quoted 803 798 1,248
10th Percentile £51,800 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £58,759 £61,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile - £126,250 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £79,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +1.27% +1.94%

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 19 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 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
1 20 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.59%) Apache
3 2 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.59%) 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
1 150 (35.29%) Azure
2 125 (29.41%) AWS
3 56 (13.18%) GCP
4 42 (9.88%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (6.35%) SaaS
6 24 (5.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (4.00%) GitHub
8 16 (3.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 12 (2.82%) dbt
9 12 (2.82%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.12%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (2.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.88%) PaaS
13 5 (1.18%) Figma
13 5 (1.18%) Lucidchart
13 5 (1.18%) Serverless
14 4 (0.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.47%) Network Security
2 14 (3.29%) Broadband
3 9 (2.12%) Wireless
4 3 (0.71%) BGP
4 3 (0.71%) DHCP
4 3 (0.71%) DNS
4 3 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 3 (0.71%) MPLS
4 3 (0.71%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.71%) WAN
5 2 (0.47%) 4G
5 2 (0.47%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.47%) Firewall
5 2 (0.47%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.47%) LAN
5 2 (0.47%) VPN
6 1 (0.24%) NAS
6 1 (0.24%) OSPF
6 1 (0.24%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.41%) Elasticsearch
2 33 (7.76%) Power BI
3 31 (7.29%) BigQuery
4 25 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (4.47%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.06%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (2.35%) Tableau
10 9 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.12%) MySQL
11 7 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.65%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.41%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.41%) Looker
12 6 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (8.00%) Git
2 9 (2.12%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.12%) Metasploit
3 8 (1.88%) MLflow
4 6 (1.41%) JIRA
5 5 (1.18%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.94%) GitLab
7 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.71%) Postman
7 3 (0.71%) Selenium
7 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.24%) Vite
General
1 116 (27.29%) Finance
2 82 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.12%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (7.06%) Banking
6 17 (4.00%) Front Office
7 7 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.18%) Law
8 5 (1.18%) Legal
8 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.18%) Retail
9 4 (0.94%) Marketing
10 3 (0.71%) Advertising
10 3 (0.71%) Games
10 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.24%) Automotive
12 1 (0.24%) International Banking
12 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (26.12%) Senior
2 98 (23.06%) Developer
3 59 (13.88%) Python Developer
4 58 (13.65%) Lead
5 55 (12.94%) Python Engineer
6 46 (10.82%) Software Engineer
7 45 (10.59%) Data Engineer
8 36 (8.47%) Analyst
9 26 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.65%) Security Analyst
11 19 (4.47%) Architect
11 19 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (3.76%) Senior Python Developer
14 15 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 15 (3.53%) Lead Developer
14 15 (3.53%) Lead Python Developer
14 15 (3.53%) Python Software Engineer
15 13 (3.06%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.71%) Django
2 32 (7.53%) React
3 20 (4.71%) Kafka
4 16 (3.76%) PySpark
4 16 (3.76%) RESTful
5 14 (3.29%) FastAPI
6 13 (3.06%) Node.js
7 12 (2.82%) PyTorch
8 11 (2.59%) LangChain
9 10 (2.35%) .NET
10 9 (2.12%) REST
10 9 (2.12%) scikit-learn
10 9 (2.12%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
11 8 (1.88%) Model Context Protocol
12 7 (1.65%) gRPC
12 7 (1.65%) Pandas
13 6 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
13 6 (1.41%) Flask
13 6 (1.41%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.88%) Algorithms
2 38 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (6.59%) Data Structures
5 27 (6.35%) Cloud Native
6 26 (6.12%) Cyber Defence
6 26 (6.12%) Public Cloud
7 20 (4.71%) Onboarding
8 18 (4.24%) Product Ownership
8 18 (4.24%) Security Operations Centre
9 13 (3.06%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.12%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.88%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.65%) Clustering
13 7 (1.65%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.65%) Over-the-Top Content
13 7 (1.65%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.82%) Linux
2 31 (7.29%) Windows
3 5 (1.18%) Unix
4 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.47%) CentOS
5 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (23.53%) Software Engineering
2 90 (21.18%) CI/CD
3 86 (20.24%) AI
4 79 (18.59%) Agile
5 77 (18.12%) Analytics
6 76 (17.88%) DevOps
7 70 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (14.82%) Mentoring
9 57 (13.41%) Data Engineering
9 57 (13.41%) Fintech
10 55 (12.94%) Data Science
11 54 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (12.00%) Machine Learning
13 47 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
14 46 (10.82%) Computer Science
15 44 (10.35%) Microservices
16 36 (8.47%) Observability
17 35 (8.24%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (8.24%) ETL
18 34 (8.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 124 (29.18%) SQL
2 71 (16.71%) PowerShell
3 35 (8.24%) JavaScript
4 34 (8.00%) C++
5 33 (7.76%) Java
6 30 (7.06%) C#
7 28 (6.59%) Bash
8 22 (5.18%) TypeScript
9 16 (3.76%) Go
10 10 (2.35%) Scala
11 8 (1.88%) R
12 7 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.41%) C
13 6 (1.41%) VBA
14 5 (1.18%) Perl
14 5 (1.18%) PHP
15 4 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.94%) Julia
15 4 (0.94%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 53 (12.47%) Degree
2 33 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (4.00%) GIAC
4 14 (3.29%) OSCP
5 13 (3.06%) CREST Certified
6 12 (2.82%) CCSAM
7 9 (2.12%) CHECK Team Leader
7 9 (2.12%) CHECK Team Member
8 8 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.41%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.18%) GPEN
10 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (0.94%) GXPN
11 4 (0.94%) OSCE
11 4 (0.94%) Security Cleared
12 3 (0.71%) CFA
13 2 (0.47%) PhD
13 2 (0.47%) SC Cleared
14 1 (0.24%) CISSP
14 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.88%) NIST
2 24 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.53%) GDPR
4 11 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.18%) QA
7 3 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.71%) SLA
8 2 (0.47%) EMIR
8 2 (0.47%) PMO
9 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (9.65%) Docker
2 7 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (10.12%) Terraform
2 36 (8.47%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.35%) Ansible
4 9 (2.12%) Nessus
5 6 (1.41%) Grafana
5 6 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.24%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (0.24%) SCCM
7 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 70 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.53%) Google
3 30 (7.06%) Databricks
4 11 (2.59%) Oracle
5 7 (1.65%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.65%) Dell
5 7 (1.65%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.41%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
7 4 (0.94%) Splunk
7 4 (0.94%) VMware
8 3 (0.71%) Cisco
8 3 (0.71%) Commvault
8 3 (0.71%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.71%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.47%) BT
9 2 (0.47%) SAP
9 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow