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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 373 512 403
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 13.36% 20.35% 13.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.53% 43.13% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 275 381 363
10th Percentile £52,050 £52,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £106,250 £106,250
90th Percentile £118,250 £123,750 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +6.25% +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 877 1,187 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.41% 47.18% 48.90%
Number of salaries quoted 701 891 1,374
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +1.91%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,750 £115,875
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% +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 19 February 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 12 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.34%) Apache
4 4 (1.07%) Confluence
5 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.27%) Actimize
2 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 149 (39.95%) Azure
2 104 (27.88%) AWS
3 45 (12.06%) Power Platform
4 44 (11.80%) GCP
5 27 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (6.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (6.43%) GitHub
8 13 (3.49%) SaaS
8 13 (3.49%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.22%) Datadog
10 11 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.88%) dbt
12 7 (1.88%) PaaS
13 6 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.61%) Serverless
14 5 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.34%) Figma
14 5 (1.34%) Nutanix
15 4 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.68%) Network Security
2 9 (2.41%) Wireless
3 7 (1.88%) Broadband
4 5 (1.34%) DHCP
4 5 (1.34%) DNS
4 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.07%) WAN
6 3 (0.80%) HTTP
6 3 (0.80%) LAN
6 3 (0.80%) NAS
6 3 (0.80%) SAN
6 3 (0.80%) VPN
7 2 (0.54%) 4G
7 2 (0.54%) BGP
7 2 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.54%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.54%) MPLS
7 2 (0.54%) SNMP
7 2 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.92%) Power BI
2 28 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (6.43%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.09%) BigQuery
4 19 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (4.56%) Data Lake
5 17 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 13 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.68%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.14%) Tableau
10 7 (1.88%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.34%) Big Data
12 4 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.07%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.07%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.07%) Power Query
13 3 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.80%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 29 (7.77%) Git
2 9 (2.41%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.41%) Metasploit
3 8 (2.14%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) Balsamiq
5 3 (0.80%) GitLab
6 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.54%) MLflow
6 2 (0.54%) Postman
6 2 (0.54%) Selenium
6 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.27%) Deequ
7 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Mocha
7 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 107 (28.69%) Finance
2 83 (22.25%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (7.77%) Banking
6 18 (4.83%) Front Office
7 11 (2.95%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.14%) Advertising
10 7 (1.88%) Legal
11 6 (1.61%) Retail
12 4 (1.07%) Law
12 4 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.80%) International Banking
13 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
15 1 (0.27%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (26.54%) Senior
2 91 (24.40%) Developer
3 50 (13.40%) Python Developer
4 46 (12.33%) Data Engineer
5 42 (11.26%) Lead
6 36 (9.65%) Analyst
6 36 (9.65%) Senior Developer
7 26 (6.97%) Software Engineer
8 25 (6.70%) Senior Data Engineer
9 23 (6.17%) Python Engineer
10 19 (5.09%) Security Analyst
11 18 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.83%) Senior Python Developer
12 17 (4.56%) Architect
13 16 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
14 15 (4.02%) Full-Stack Python Developer
15 13 (3.49%) React Developer
16 12 (3.22%) Lead Developer
17 11 (2.95%) Support Engineer
17 11 (2.95%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.99%) Django
2 37 (9.92%) React
3 22 (5.90%) FastAPI
4 17 (4.56%) Node.js
5 13 (3.49%) PySpark
6 11 (2.95%) .NET
7 10 (2.68%) Flask
8 9 (2.41%) RESTful
9 8 (2.14%) Kafka
10 7 (1.88%) .NET Core
10 7 (1.88%) Next.js
11 6 (1.61%) HTML
11 6 (1.61%) Hugging Face
11 6 (1.61%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (1.61%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.61%) Redux
12 5 (1.34%) React Native
13 4 (1.07%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (1.07%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.97%) Algorithms
2 24 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.36%) Cyber Defence
4 19 (5.09%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.83%) Data Structures
6 15 (4.02%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (3.22%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.95%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.68%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.41%) Derivative
11 9 (2.41%) Hedge funds
11 9 (2.41%) Mobile App
12 8 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.61%) Educational Technology
14 6 (1.61%) Reinsurance
15 4 (1.07%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.38%) Linux
2 20 (5.36%) Windows
3 10 (2.68%) Unix
4 4 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.80%) CentOS
6 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (26.27%) Agile
2 91 (24.40%) AI
2 91 (24.40%) Analytics
3 86 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (20.91%) DevOps
5 76 (20.38%) CI/CD
6 63 (16.89%) Mentoring
7 61 (16.35%) Software Engineering
8 50 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (12.87%) Machine Learning
10 45 (12.06%) ETL
11 42 (11.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (11.26%) Data Science
12 41 (10.99%) Data Modelling
13 40 (10.72%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (10.72%) Test Automation
14 38 (10.19%) Data Engineering
15 37 (9.92%) Decision-Making
16 36 (9.65%) Computer Science
17 34 (9.12%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 120 (32.17%) SQL
2 52 (13.94%) PowerShell
3 38 (10.19%) C#
4 37 (9.92%) Java
5 34 (9.12%) Bash
6 29 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 24 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.83%) C++
9 12 (3.22%) Rust
10 9 (2.41%) Go
11 8 (2.14%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.61%) R
13 6 (1.61%) VBA
14 5 (1.34%) Scala
15 4 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.80%) Perl
16 3 (0.80%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.54%) VC++
18 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (14.48%) Degree
2 24 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (3.22%) GIAC
4 11 (2.95%) OSCP
5 10 (2.68%) CREST Certified
6 9 (2.41%) CCSAM
6 9 (2.41%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.41%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (2.14%) Security Cleared
8 7 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.61%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.07%) SC Cleared
12 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.54%) CISM
13 2 (0.54%) CISSP
13 2 (0.54%) MBA
13 2 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.17%) NIST
2 18 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.95%) GDPR
5 3 (0.80%) QA
6 2 (0.54%) EMIR
6 2 (0.54%) PMO
6 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.27%) Basel III
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.27%) MiFID
7 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (9.65%) Docker
2 8 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.51%) Terraform
3 15 (4.02%) Ansible
4 9 (2.41%) Nessus
5 7 (1.88%) Grafana
6 6 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.80%) Argo
7 3 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 83 (22.25%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.26%) Databricks
3 31 (8.31%) Google
4 10 (2.68%) Guidewire
5 9 (2.41%) VMware
6 7 (1.88%) CyberArk
7 6 (1.61%) Oracle
8 5 (1.34%) Commvault
8 5 (1.34%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.34%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.07%) Splunk
10 3 (0.80%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.80%) Dell
10 3 (0.80%) Informatica
10 3 (0.80%) Typelevel
11 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.54%) Cisco
11 2 (0.54%) HP
11 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.54%) SAP