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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 385 496 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 12.92% 20.97% 13.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.12% 44.29% 27.66%
Number of salaries quoted 284 382 366
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £109,688 £106,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £123,750 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +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 914 1,120 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.68% 47.36% 48.62%
Number of salaries quoted 723 875 1,345
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £120,000 £117,500
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 5 March 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 13 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.56%) Apache
4 4 (1.04%) Confluence
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.52%) nginx
6 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (4.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.26%) Actimize
2 1 (0.26%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 153 (39.74%) Azure
2 113 (29.35%) AWS
3 47 (12.21%) GCP
3 47 (12.21%) Power Platform
4 29 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 23 (5.97%) GitHub
7 15 (3.90%) SaaS
8 13 (3.38%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.86%) Datadog
11 9 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.08%) PaaS
12 8 (2.08%) Serverless
13 7 (1.82%) dbt
14 6 (1.56%) Nutanix
15 5 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.30%) Figma
16 4 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.12%) Network Security
2 9 (2.34%) Broadband
2 9 (2.34%) Wireless
3 5 (1.30%) DHCP
3 5 (1.30%) DNS
3 5 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.04%) WAN
5 3 (0.78%) HTTP
5 3 (0.78%) LAN
5 3 (0.78%) NAS
5 3 (0.78%) SAN
5 3 (0.78%) VPN
6 2 (0.52%) 4G
6 2 (0.52%) BGP
6 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.52%) IOS XR
6 2 (0.52%) MPLS
6 2 (0.52%) SNMP
6 2 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (10.13%) Power BI
2 29 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (5.97%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.71%) BigQuery
4 22 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 17 (4.42%) Data Lake
6 16 (4.16%) Relational Database
7 14 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (2.34%) Tableau
10 7 (1.82%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.30%) Big Data
11 5 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.04%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (8.05%) Git
2 9 (2.34%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.34%) JIRA
2 9 (2.34%) Metasploit
3 4 (1.04%) Balsamiq
4 3 (0.78%) GitLab
4 3 (0.78%) MLflow
4 3 (0.78%) Postman
5 2 (0.52%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) Selenium
5 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.26%) Deequ
6 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.26%) Mocha
6 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 105 (27.27%) Finance
2 89 (23.12%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (6.75%) Banking
6 13 (3.38%) Front Office
7 10 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.08%) Advertising
8 8 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (1.82%) Legal
9 7 (1.82%) Retail
10 4 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.04%) Law
10 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.52%) International Banking
12 2 (0.52%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.26%) Marketing
13 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (24.68%) Senior
2 87 (22.60%) Developer
3 50 (12.99%) Python Developer
4 48 (12.47%) Data Engineer
5 44 (11.43%) Lead
6 41 (10.65%) Analyst
7 34 (8.83%) Senior Developer
8 26 (6.75%) Python Engineer
8 26 (6.75%) Software Engineer
9 23 (5.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (5.45%) Security Analyst
11 17 (4.42%) Architect
11 17 (4.42%) Principal Engineer
11 17 (4.42%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (4.16%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (3.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
14 12 (3.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 12 (3.12%) Lead Developer
15 11 (2.86%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.91%) Django
2 37 (9.61%) React
3 21 (5.45%) Node.js
4 20 (5.19%) FastAPI
5 15 (3.90%) PySpark
6 12 (3.12%) RESTful
7 11 (2.86%) .NET
8 10 (2.60%) Kafka
9 9 (2.34%) Flask
10 8 (2.08%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.82%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.82%) Next.js
12 6 (1.56%) HTML
12 6 (1.56%) Hugging Face
12 6 (1.56%) LangChain
12 6 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (1.56%) REST
13 5 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (1.30%) Redux
13 5 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.27%) Algorithms
2 27 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (5.71%) Cyber Defence
4 21 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 21 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
4 21 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.68%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 12 (3.12%) Product Ownership
8 11 (2.86%) AI Agents
8 11 (2.86%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.60%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.34%) Hedge funds
10 9 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.34%) Mobile App
11 8 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.56%) Educational Technology
12 6 (1.56%) Reinsurance
13 5 (1.30%) Derivative
13 5 (1.30%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.61%) Linux
2 22 (5.71%) Windows
3 10 (2.60%) Unix
4 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.78%) CentOS
5 3 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (23.64%) AI
1 91 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (23.38%) Agile
3 89 (23.12%) Analytics
4 79 (20.52%) CI/CD
5 78 (20.26%) DevOps
6 69 (17.92%) Software Engineering
7 65 (16.88%) Mentoring
8 54 (14.03%) Machine Learning
9 51 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
10 46 (11.95%) Data Science
11 45 (11.69%) ETL
12 44 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (11.17%) Data Modelling
14 42 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
15 40 (10.39%) Data Engineering
16 39 (10.13%) Computer Science
17 38 (9.87%) Microservices
17 38 (9.87%) Test Automation
18 37 (9.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 126 (32.73%) SQL
2 58 (15.06%) PowerShell
3 36 (9.35%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.57%) Bash
4 33 (8.57%) C#
4 33 (8.57%) Java
5 26 (6.75%) TypeScript
6 17 (4.42%) C++
7 12 (3.12%) Rust
8 11 (2.86%) Go
9 8 (2.08%) Scala
10 7 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.82%) R
10 7 (1.82%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.82%) VBA
11 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.78%) Perl
11 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.78%) VC++
12 2 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 55 (14.29%) Degree
2 28 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.64%) GIAC
4 11 (2.86%) OSCP
5 10 (2.60%) CREST Certified
6 9 (2.34%) CCSAM
6 9 (2.34%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.34%) CHECK Team Member
7 7 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.56%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.52%) CISM
11 2 (0.52%) CISSP
11 2 (0.52%) GPEN
11 2 (0.52%) MBA
11 2 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.75%) NIST
2 20 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.12%) GDPR
5 4 (1.04%) QA
6 3 (0.78%) EMIR
7 2 (0.52%) PMO
7 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.26%) Basel III
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (10.13%) Docker
2 8 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (7.53%) Kubernetes
1 29 (7.53%) Terraform
2 14 (3.64%) Ansible
3 9 (2.34%) Nessus
4 7 (1.82%) Grafana
5 6 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.78%) Argo
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.26%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.26%) SCCM
8 1 (0.26%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.26%) vRealize
Vendors
1 89 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 41 (10.65%) Databricks
3 32 (8.31%) Google
4 9 (2.34%) Guidewire
4 9 (2.34%) VMware
5 7 (1.82%) CyberArk
5 7 (1.82%) Oracle
6 6 (1.56%) Commvault
7 5 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.30%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.30%) Typelevel
8 4 (1.04%) Dell
8 4 (1.04%) Splunk
9 3 (0.78%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.78%) Informatica
9 3 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.52%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.52%) Cisco
10 2 (0.52%) HP
10 2 (0.52%) SAP