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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 372 413 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.02% 21.31% 14.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.52% 46.35% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 293 328 314
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,750
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 896 891 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.72% 45.98% 46.96%
Number of salaries quoted 711 742 1,176
10th Percentile £51,250 £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% -2.52%
75th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -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 10 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 (5.11%) Apache Spark
2 18 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Camunda
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 114 (30.65%) Azure
2 111 (29.84%) AWS
3 49 (13.17%) GCP
4 30 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 28 (7.53%) SaaS
6 20 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (2.96%) dbt
9 11 (2.96%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 9 (2.42%) GitHub
11 8 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (1.88%) Serverless
13 5 (1.34%) Azure Machine Learning
13 5 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.08%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.08%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.57%) Network Security
2 13 (3.49%) Broadband
3 7 (1.88%) Wireless
4 5 (1.34%) BGP
5 4 (1.08%) MPLS
5 4 (1.08%) OSPF
6 3 (0.81%) Firewall
6 3 (0.81%) HTTP
6 3 (0.81%) VLAN
6 3 (0.81%) WAN
7 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.54%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.27%) 4G
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) DNS
8 1 (0.27%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) VPN
8 1 (0.27%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.87%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (6.72%) BigQuery
4 24 (6.45%) Power BI
5 17 (4.57%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.03%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.76%) NoSQL
8 13 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.69%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.42%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.42%) MySQL
11 8 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.15%) Spark SQL
11 8 (2.15%) Tableau
12 6 (1.61%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.61%) Looker
12 6 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.34%) KDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.72%) Git
2 9 (2.42%) MLflow
3 6 (1.61%) Burp Suite
3 6 (1.61%) GitLab
3 6 (1.61%) Metasploit
4 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.08%) JIRA
5 4 (1.08%) Postman
6 3 (0.81%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.81%) Selenium
6 3 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.54%) Vite
8 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.27%) JMeter
General
1 103 (27.69%) Finance
2 78 (20.97%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (6.18%) Banking
6 17 (4.57%) Front Office
7 6 (1.61%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.61%) Law
7 6 (1.61%) Marketing
8 5 (1.34%) Legal
9 4 (1.08%) Advertising
10 3 (0.81%) Games
10 3 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.81%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.27%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.27%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 88 (23.66%) Senior
2 75 (20.16%) Developer
3 56 (15.05%) Python Engineer
4 47 (12.63%) Software Engineer
5 46 (12.37%) Lead
6 39 (10.48%) Data Engineer
7 35 (9.41%) Python Developer
8 29 (7.80%) Analyst
9 18 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.57%) Security Analyst
11 16 (4.30%) Architect
11 16 (4.30%) Python Software Engineer
12 14 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.23%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.45%) Django
2 22 (5.91%) React
3 17 (4.57%) Kafka
4 15 (4.03%) FastAPI
4 15 (4.03%) LangChain
5 14 (3.76%) PyTorch
6 13 (3.49%) PySpark
6 13 (3.49%) RESTful
7 11 (2.96%) REST
8 10 (2.69%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.42%) .NET
9 9 (2.42%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.88%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.88%) gRPC
10 7 (1.88%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (1.88%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (1.88%) Node.js
10 7 (1.88%) Pandas
10 7 (1.88%) pgvector
11 5 (1.34%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 31 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 24 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 21 (5.65%) Data Structures
5 18 (4.84%) Cyber Defence
6 14 (3.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (3.23%) Reinsurance
8 11 (2.96%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
10 9 (2.42%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.88%) Clustering
11 7 (1.88%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.88%) Over-the-Top Content
12 6 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.61%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.34%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.40%) Linux
2 27 (7.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.08%) Unix
3 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) CentOS
4 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (27.42%) Software Engineering
2 87 (23.39%) AI
3 80 (21.51%) CI/CD
4 66 (17.74%) Analytics
5 62 (16.67%) DevOps
6 56 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (14.78%) Fintech
7 55 (14.78%) Machine Learning
8 49 (13.17%) Agile
8 49 (13.17%) Data Engineering
9 46 (12.37%) Mentoring
10 44 (11.83%) Data Science
11 41 (11.02%) Computer Science
12 40 (10.75%) Data Pipeline
13 39 (10.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (10.22%) Microservices
15 37 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (9.68%) Observability
17 32 (8.60%) Containerisation
18 29 (7.80%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 112 (30.11%) SQL
2 57 (15.32%) PowerShell
3 47 (12.63%) Java
4 39 (10.48%) C++
5 33 (8.87%) C#
6 31 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 27 (7.26%) Bash
8 16 (4.30%) Go
8 16 (4.30%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.76%) R
10 9 (2.42%) Julia
10 9 (2.42%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.42%) Scala
11 8 (2.15%) Rust
12 7 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.88%) VBA
13 6 (1.61%) C
14 5 (1.34%) Bicep
15 4 (1.08%) PHP
16 3 (0.81%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 42 (11.29%) Degree
2 27 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.23%) GIAC
4 10 (2.69%) AWS Certification
4 10 (2.69%) CREST Certified
4 10 (2.69%) OSCP
5 9 (2.42%) CCSAM
5 9 (2.42%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.61%) CHECK Team Leader
6 6 (1.61%) CHECK Team Member
6 6 (1.61%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.08%) CFA
7 4 (1.08%) GPEN
7 4 (1.08%) GXPN
7 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 4 (1.08%) OSCE
8 3 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.54%) CCNP
9 2 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.30%) NIST
3 15 (4.03%) GDPR
4 6 (1.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 6 (1.61%) QA
5 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) SLA
7 3 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) EMIR
8 1 (0.27%) PMO
8 1 (0.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (11.02%) Docker
2 6 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (12.90%) Terraform
2 45 (12.10%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.03%) Ansible
4 10 (2.69%) Grafana
4 10 (2.69%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.61%) Nessus
6 1 (0.27%) Argo
6 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.27%) SCCM
6 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 48 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.80%) Databricks
3 26 (6.99%) Google
4 11 (2.96%) Oracle
5 8 (2.15%) Splunk
6 7 (1.88%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.88%) Typelevel
7 6 (1.61%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.61%) Dell
7 6 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.08%) VMware
9 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.81%) Cisco
9 3 (0.81%) Commvault
9 3 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.54%) BT
10 2 (0.54%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.54%) Foundry
10 2 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.54%) SAP