Python Jobs in the City of London

Python
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 417 488 641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.49% 14.72% 14.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.38% 32.32% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 329 314 551
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,938 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £111,250 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £152,500 £120,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -3.23% -3.13%

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 899 1,510 2,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 46.34% 45.55% 51.26%
Number of salaries quoted 746 1,184 2,018
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -0.64% +4.00%
75th Percentile £108,438 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% +3.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the City of London.

Salary trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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 - 8 - -
Python
Central London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (6.24%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.68%) Apache
4 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (0.72%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.24%) MTS
Applications
1 13 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.72%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 162 (38.85%) AWS
2 134 (32.13%) Azure
3 53 (12.71%) GCP
4 33 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (7.67%) GitHub
6 31 (7.43%) SaaS
7 28 (6.71%) Power Platform
8 25 (6.00%) Serverless
9 20 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (4.80%) Datadog
10 18 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (4.08%) Snowflake
12 14 (3.36%) Pulumi
13 13 (3.12%) Amazon S3
13 13 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
15 8 (1.92%) dbt
15 8 (1.92%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.08%) HTTP
2 5 (1.20%) DNS
2 5 (1.20%) Multicast
3 4 (0.96%) Broadband
3 4 (0.96%) Firewall
4 3 (0.72%) DHCP
4 3 (0.72%) VPN
5 2 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.48%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.48%) LAN
5 2 (0.48%) Network Security
5 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.48%) Telnet
5 2 (0.48%) VLAN
5 2 (0.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.15%) Relational Database
2 28 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.76%) Power BI
5 21 (5.04%) NoSQL
6 20 (4.80%) Tableau
7 18 (4.32%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.12%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.92%) Big Data
9 8 (1.92%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.92%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (1.44%) MySQL
11 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.20%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.20%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.20%) Metadata
12 4 (0.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (11.27%) Git
2 11 (2.64%) JIRA
3 8 (1.92%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.96%) Eclipse
4 4 (0.96%) GitLab
5 3 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.72%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.72%) Selenium
6 2 (0.48%) Jaeger
6 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.24%) Moq
7 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.24%) Postman
7 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.24%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 129 (30.94%) Finance
2 93 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 61 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.31%) Banking
5 29 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (5.76%) Front Office
6 24 (5.76%) Retail
7 22 (5.28%) Law
8 21 (5.04%) Games
9 20 (4.80%) Advertising
9 20 (4.80%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.36%) Marketing
11 13 (3.12%) Publishing
12 8 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.20%) Legal
15 4 (0.96%) Agriculture
16 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
16 3 (0.72%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.24%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 99 (23.74%) Senior
2 88 (21.10%) Developer
3 55 (13.19%) Lead
4 53 (12.71%) Analyst
5 37 (8.87%) Software Engineer
6 35 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 32 (7.67%) Python Developer
8 30 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
9 24 (5.76%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (5.04%) Qualitative Analyst
11 21 (5.04%) Quantitative Analyst
12 17 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 17 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.60%) Data Analyst
14 14 (3.36%) Data Scientist
14 14 (3.36%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (3.12%) Architect
15 13 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (21.82%) React
2 35 (8.39%) Django
3 30 (7.19%) REST
4 29 (6.95%) Node.js
5 20 (4.80%) Pandas
6 18 (4.32%) Kafka
6 18 (4.32%) PySpark
7 17 (4.08%) .NET
7 17 (4.08%) Next.js
8 12 (2.88%) RESTful
9 11 (2.64%) FIX Protocol
10 10 (2.40%) Flask
11 9 (2.16%) ARM Templates
11 9 (2.16%) JSON
12 8 (1.92%) Loki
12 8 (1.92%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.68%) scikit-learn
13 7 (1.68%) Web Services
14 6 (1.44%) HTML
14 6 (1.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.60%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.36%) Robotics
4 13 (3.12%) Derivative
4 13 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.12%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.64%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.64%) Reinsurance
6 10 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.92%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.68%) Equities
8 7 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.35%) Linux
2 15 (3.60%) Windows
3 13 (3.12%) Unix
4 7 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.20%) CentOS
7 4 (0.96%) Rocky
8 3 (0.72%) Android
9 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.24%) Solaris
10 1 (0.24%) VMS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (23.50%) Agile
2 94 (22.54%) DevOps
3 93 (22.30%) Software Engineering
4 92 (22.06%) CI/CD
5 89 (21.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 85 (20.38%) Analytics
7 78 (18.71%) Data Science
8 72 (17.27%) Machine Learning
9 69 (16.55%) Computer Science
10 68 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (15.11%) Roadmaps
12 56 (13.43%) Containerisation
13 52 (12.47%) Mentoring
14 46 (11.03%) Platform Engineering
15 45 (10.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 44 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
17 42 (10.07%) ETL
18 40 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
18 40 (9.59%) Product Roadmap
19 39 (9.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 144 (34.53%) SQL
2 90 (21.58%) Java
3 71 (17.03%) TypeScript
4 50 (11.99%) JavaScript
5 46 (11.03%) Bash
5 46 (11.03%) C++
6 44 (10.55%) C#
7 39 (9.35%) PowerShell
8 28 (6.71%) Scala
9 20 (4.80%) Go
10 19 (4.56%) MATLAB
11 8 (1.92%) R
11 8 (1.92%) Rust
12 5 (1.20%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.96%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) F#
14 3 (0.72%) Ruby
14 3 (0.72%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.48%) Bicep
15 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 100 (23.98%) Degree
2 30 (7.19%) Master's Degree
3 29 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.24%) PhD
5 9 (2.16%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.16%) Security Cleared
6 7 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.96%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.72%) ACCA
10 3 (0.72%) CIMA
10 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.48%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.48%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.84%) GDPR
2 15 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.40%) QA
4 6 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.96%) GRC
5 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.96%) NIST
6 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) CDISC
8 1 (0.24%) ITGC
System Software
1 47 (11.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.48%) Firmware
6 2 (0.48%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 60 (14.39%) Terraform
2 54 (12.95%) Kubernetes
3 29 (6.95%) Ansible
4 16 (3.84%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.36%) Grafana
6 4 (0.96%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.72%) Argo
7 3 (0.72%) Puppet
8 2 (0.48%) Consul
8 2 (0.48%) Kibana
8 2 (0.48%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.48%) logstash
8 2 (0.48%) Nagios
8 2 (0.48%) Packer
8 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 59 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.83%) Google
3 35 (8.39%) Databricks
4 12 (2.88%) Apple
5 11 (2.64%) VMware
6 10 (2.40%) Guidewire
7 9 (2.16%) OpenAI
7 9 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.92%) Hitachi
8 8 (1.92%) SAP
9 7 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.44%) Ping Identity
10 6 (1.44%) Workday
11 4 (0.96%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.96%) SimCorp
12 3 (0.72%) Informatica
12 3 (0.72%) Oracle
13 2 (0.48%) CheckPoint
13 2 (0.48%) Cisco
13 2 (0.48%) Talend