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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 6 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 314 502 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 18.80% 18.05% 12.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.29% 38.91% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 245 354 355
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,750 £52,200
25th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £96,250 £103,750
90th Percentile £146,500 £115,000 £130,000
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 664 1,290 1,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 39.76% 46.39% 50.63%
Number of salaries quoted 546 920 1,405
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £133,750 £120,000 £117,950
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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -1 4 £102,000 +33.77%
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 11 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.91%) Apache
3 5 (1.59%) Confluence
4 2 (0.64%) Luigi
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.64%) nginx
5 1 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 120 (38.22%) Azure
2 95 (30.25%) AWS
3 44 (14.01%) GCP
4 36 (11.46%) Power Platform
5 24 (7.64%) Datadog
6 21 (6.69%) GitHub
7 19 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 17 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 15 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (4.78%) Serverless
10 11 (3.50%) Amazon S3
11 9 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (2.87%) dbt
12 8 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.55%) SaaS
13 6 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.27%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) VPN
2 3 (0.96%) Network Security
2 3 (0.96%) WAN
3 2 (0.64%) DHCP
3 2 (0.64%) DNS
3 2 (0.64%) Firewall
3 2 (0.64%) LAN
3 2 (0.64%) NAS
3 2 (0.64%) SAN
3 2 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.32%) Broadband
4 1 (0.32%) HTTP
4 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.32%) SNMP
4 1 (0.32%) SSH
4 1 (0.32%) VLAN
4 1 (0.32%) VSAN
4 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.87%) Relational Database
2 30 (9.55%) Power BI
3 24 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.10%) Data Lake
6 13 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (3.82%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.55%) ClickHouse
8 8 (2.55%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.23%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.23%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.91%) Tableau
11 5 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.59%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.59%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.27%) Big Data
13 3 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (8.28%) Git
2 11 (3.50%) JIRA
3 6 (1.91%) GitLab
4 4 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.96%) MLflow
5 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.64%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.32%) Deequ
7 1 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.32%) Mocha
7 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.32%) Postman
7 1 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 94 (29.94%) Finance
2 78 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 42 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.60%) Banking
5 21 (6.69%) Front Office
6 18 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (4.46%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.87%) Advertising
8 9 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.87%) Law
9 7 (2.23%) Legal
10 6 (1.91%) Health Technology
10 6 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.59%) Marketing
11 5 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Retail
12 4 (1.27%) International Banking
13 3 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.64%) Games
14 2 (0.64%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 84 (26.75%) Developer
2 68 (21.66%) Senior
3 44 (14.01%) Data Engineer
4 27 (8.60%) Lead
5 23 (7.32%) Analyst
6 21 (6.69%) Python Developer
6 21 (6.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (6.37%) Senior Developer
8 18 (5.73%) Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.41%) Graduate
9 17 (5.41%) Graduate Technical Engineer
9 17 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 17 (5.41%) Support Engineer
10 16 (5.10%) Technical Support
10 16 (5.10%) Technical Support Engineer
11 15 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.78%) Graduate Support Engineer
11 15 (4.78%) Graduate Technical Support
12 14 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.33%) React
2 22 (7.01%) Django
3 19 (6.05%) Node.js
3 19 (6.05%) PySpark
4 17 (5.41%) FastAPI
5 14 (4.46%) .NET
6 13 (4.14%) Kafka
7 10 (3.18%) AngularJS
7 10 (3.18%) PyTorch
8 9 (2.87%) Pandas
9 8 (2.55%) Flask
9 8 (2.55%) Next.js
10 7 (2.23%) Redux
10 7 (2.23%) Vue
10 7 (2.23%) Web Services
11 6 (1.91%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.91%) HTML
11 6 (1.91%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.59%) Hugging Face
12 5 (1.59%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 23 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 13 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.82%) Market Risk
6 11 (3.50%) Derivative
7 10 (3.18%) Equities
8 9 (2.87%) AI Agents
9 8 (2.55%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.55%) Reinsurance
10 7 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.91%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.27%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.27%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.41%) Linux
2 9 (2.87%) Windows
3 8 (2.55%) Unix
4 4 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.96%) CentOS
6 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (28.98%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (27.39%) AI
3 84 (26.75%) Analytics
4 83 (26.43%) CI/CD
5 79 (25.16%) DevOps
6 72 (22.93%) Agile
7 54 (17.20%) Machine Learning
8 47 (14.97%) Data Pipeline
9 46 (14.65%) Software Engineering
10 44 (14.01%) ETL
11 42 (13.38%) Data Modelling
12 41 (13.06%) Computer Science
13 40 (12.74%) Data Science
14 38 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (11.78%) Test Automation
16 36 (11.46%) Decision-Making
17 34 (10.83%) Data Engineering
17 34 (10.83%) Migration
18 32 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
19 31 (9.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 130 (41.40%) SQL
2 71 (22.61%) Java
3 57 (18.15%) C#
4 35 (11.15%) Bash
5 28 (8.92%) PowerShell
6 27 (8.60%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.01%) C++
7 22 (7.01%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.82%) Rust
8 12 (3.82%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.87%) Go
10 6 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.91%) Scala
11 5 (1.59%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.59%) R
12 4 (1.27%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.27%) Ruby
13 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.64%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (23.25%) Degree
2 21 (6.69%) Master's Degree
3 14 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.50%) PhD
5 9 (2.87%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.55%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.91%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.27%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.96%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.64%) MBA
10 2 (0.64%) MCP
11 1 (0.32%) CCNP
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.32%) CISM
11 1 (0.32%) CISSP
11 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.50%) Data Quality
1 11 (3.50%) GDPR
2 8 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.23%) NIST
4 4 (1.27%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) Basel III
5 1 (0.32%) EMIR
5 1 (0.32%) ITGC
5 1 (0.32%) MiFID
5 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.32%) QA
5 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (7.96%) Docker
2 6 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.96%) vSphere
4 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.32%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.96%) Terraform
3 20 (6.37%) Ansible
4 9 (2.87%) Grafana
5 5 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.64%) Argo
7 2 (0.64%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.64%) Puppet
7 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.64%) SCCM
7 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 47 (14.97%) Databricks
3 22 (7.01%) Guidewire
4 15 (4.78%) Google
5 9 (2.87%) VMware
6 6 (1.91%) Oracle
7 5 (1.59%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.59%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.27%) Splunk
9 3 (0.96%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.96%) Dell
9 3 (0.96%) Hitachi
9 3 (0.96%) Informatica
9 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.64%) Commvault
10 2 (0.64%) IBM
10 2 (0.64%) Refinitiv
11 1 (0.32%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.32%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.32%) UiPath