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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 398 419 454
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.48% 21.71% 14.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.95% 46.97% 30.39%
Number of salaries quoted 298 326 313
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,375 £70,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £149,375 £121,200
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% +6.45% -

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 972 892 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.16% 46.22% 47.17%
Number of salaries quoted 759 741 1,212
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £127,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 6 June 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 20 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 19 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 132 (33.17%) Azure
2 115 (28.89%) AWS
3 53 (13.32%) GCP
4 35 (8.79%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.78%) SaaS
6 24 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (5.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (3.77%) GitHub
9 13 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (2.76%) dbt
11 10 (2.51%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.51%) PaaS
14 6 (1.51%) Serverless
15 5 (1.26%) Figma
15 5 (1.26%) Lucidchart
16 4 (1.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.52%) Network Security
2 14 (3.52%) Broadband
3 9 (2.26%) Wireless
4 5 (1.26%) BGP
4 5 (1.26%) MPLS
5 4 (1.01%) Firewall
6 3 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.75%) HTTP
6 3 (0.75%) OSPF
7 2 (0.50%) 4G
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.50%) DHCP
7 2 (0.50%) DNS
7 2 (0.50%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.50%) VPN
7 2 (0.50%) WAN
8 1 (0.25%) LAN
8 1 (0.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.30%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (7.04%) BigQuery
2 28 (7.04%) Power BI
3 22 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 15 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 12 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.51%) SQL Server
8 9 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (2.26%) MySQL
8 9 (2.26%) Tableau
9 8 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.01%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.51%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (1.51%) Looker
10 6 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.26%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (6.78%) Git
2 9 (2.26%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.26%) Metasploit
3 8 (2.01%) MLflow
4 5 (1.26%) Balsamiq
4 5 (1.26%) JIRA
5 4 (1.01%) GitLab
6 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.75%) Postman
6 3 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.25%) Vite
General
1 110 (27.64%) Finance
2 85 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 48 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.04%) Banking
6 17 (4.27%) Front Office
7 7 (1.76%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.26%) Legal
8 5 (1.26%) Marketing
8 5 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.26%) Retail
9 4 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (0.75%) Advertising
10 3 (0.75%) Games
10 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.50%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Back Office
12 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (26.38%) Senior
2 93 (23.37%) Developer
3 55 (13.82%) Python Developer
4 54 (13.57%) Python Engineer
5 51 (12.81%) Lead
6 42 (10.55%) Software Engineer
7 40 (10.05%) Data Engineer
8 33 (8.29%) Analyst
9 21 (5.28%) Security Analyst
9 21 (5.28%) Senior Developer
10 18 (4.52%) Architect
10 18 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (4.02%) Senior Data Engineer
13 15 (3.77%) Lead Developer
13 15 (3.77%) Lead Python Developer
14 13 (3.27%) Python Data Engineer
14 13 (3.27%) Python Software Engineer
15 12 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.79%) Django
2 25 (6.28%) React
3 19 (4.77%) Kafka
4 14 (3.52%) FastAPI
4 14 (3.52%) RESTful
5 13 (3.27%) PySpark
5 13 (3.27%) PyTorch
6 12 (3.02%) LangChain
7 10 (2.51%) .NET
7 10 (2.51%) TensorFlow
8 9 (2.26%) Node.js
8 9 (2.26%) REST
8 9 (2.26%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.01%) LlamaIndex
9 8 (2.01%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (1.76%) gRPC
10 7 (1.76%) Pandas
11 6 (1.51%) Flask
11 6 (1.51%) pgvector
12 5 (1.26%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.55%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (7.04%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.53%) Public Cloud
5 25 (6.28%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (6.03%) Data Structures
7 23 (5.78%) Cyber Defence
8 21 (5.28%) Onboarding
9 15 (3.77%) Product Ownership
9 15 (3.77%) Security Operations Centre
10 13 (3.27%) Security Posture
11 10 (2.51%) AI Agents
11 10 (2.51%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
12 9 (2.26%) Reinsurance
13 8 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (2.01%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.76%) Clustering
14 7 (1.76%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.76%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.57%) Linux
2 28 (7.04%) Windows
3 4 (1.01%) Unix
3 4 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) CentOS
5 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (24.37%) Software Engineering
2 88 (22.11%) AI
3 83 (20.85%) CI/CD
4 75 (18.84%) Analytics
5 70 (17.59%) Agile
6 69 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (16.83%) DevOps
8 60 (15.08%) Mentoring
9 54 (13.57%) Data Engineering
10 52 (13.07%) Machine Learning
11 51 (12.81%) Fintech
12 50 (12.56%) Data Science
13 48 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (11.31%) Data Pipeline
15 44 (11.06%) Computer Science
16 39 (9.80%) Microservices
17 36 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 36 (9.05%) Observability
18 34 (8.54%) Containerisation
19 32 (8.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 121 (30.40%) SQL
2 64 (16.08%) PowerShell
3 38 (9.55%) C++
3 38 (9.55%) Java
4 33 (8.29%) JavaScript
5 31 (7.79%) C#
6 30 (7.54%) Bash
7 16 (4.02%) Go
8 15 (3.77%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.02%) R
10 10 (2.51%) Scala
11 8 (2.01%) Julia
11 8 (2.01%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.76%) VBA
13 6 (1.51%) C
14 5 (1.26%) Bicep
14 5 (1.26%) PHP
14 5 (1.26%) Rust
15 4 (1.01%) Perl
Qualifications
1 48 (12.06%) Degree
2 30 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.52%) GIAC
3 14 (3.52%) OSCP
4 13 (3.27%) CREST Certified
5 12 (3.02%) CCSAM
6 9 (2.26%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.26%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.51%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.51%) Security Cleared
9 5 (1.26%) GPEN
9 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (1.01%) GXPN
10 4 (1.01%) OSCE
11 3 (0.75%) CFA
11 3 (0.75%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.50%) PhD
13 1 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.78%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.77%) NIST
3 16 (4.02%) GDPR
4 8 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.51%) QA
6 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.75%) SLA
7 2 (0.50%) EMIR
8 1 (0.25%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (10.55%) Docker
2 7 (1.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (10.80%) Terraform
2 39 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.51%) Ansible
4 9 (2.26%) Nessus
5 6 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.26%) Grafana
7 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) Argo
8 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 61 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.29%) Databricks
3 28 (7.04%) Google
4 12 (3.02%) Oracle
5 7 (1.76%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.51%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.51%) Dell
7 5 (1.26%) Splunk
8 4 (1.01%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.01%) VMware
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco
9 3 (0.75%) Commvault
9 3 (0.75%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.75%) SAP
10 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.50%) BT
10 2 (0.50%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) Alteryx