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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 399 418 459
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.39% 21.54% 14.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.55% 46.60% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 301 327 310
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £47,459
25th Percentile £67,500 £69,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £99,688
90th Percentile £107,500 £152,500 £121,600
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £83,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.48% +8.06% -

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 984 897 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 23.16% 46.21% 46.80%
Number of salaries quoted 769 747 1,201
10th Percentile £51,250 £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 £107,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £130,000 £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 12 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 19 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (3.26%) 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
1 131 (32.83%) Azure
2 119 (29.82%) AWS
3 54 (13.53%) GCP
4 34 (8.52%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.27%) SaaS
6 23 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (5.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (3.51%) GitHub
9 13 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (2.76%) dbt
11 10 (2.51%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (2.01%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.50%) PaaS
15 6 (1.50%) Serverless
16 5 (1.25%) Figma
16 5 (1.25%) Lucidchart
17 4 (1.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.51%) Network Security
2 14 (3.51%) Broadband
3 9 (2.26%) Wireless
4 5 (1.25%) BGP
4 5 (1.25%) MPLS
5 4 (1.00%) 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%) IOS XR
7 2 (0.50%) VLAN
7 2 (0.50%) WAN
8 1 (0.25%) DHCP
8 1 (0.25%) DNS
8 1 (0.25%) LAN
8 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.25%) VPN
8 1 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.27%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (7.02%) BigQuery
3 27 (6.77%) Power BI
4 24 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.26%) Relational Database
6 15 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.51%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.26%) MySQL
10 8 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.01%) Spark SQL
10 8 (2.01%) Tableau
11 6 (1.50%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.50%) Looker
11 6 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.25%) KDB
Development Applications
1 28 (7.02%) Git
2 9 (2.26%) Burp Suite
2 9 (2.26%) Metasploit
3 8 (2.01%) MLflow
4 5 (1.25%) Balsamiq
4 5 (1.25%) GitLab
5 4 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.00%) JIRA
6 3 (0.75%) Postman
6 3 (0.75%) Selenium
6 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.50%) Vite
8 1 (0.25%) Jaeger
General
1 110 (27.57%) Finance
2 83 (20.80%) Social Skills
3 46 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (6.77%) Banking
6 17 (4.26%) Front Office
7 6 (1.50%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.50%) Marketing
8 5 (1.25%) Law
8 5 (1.25%) Legal
8 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.00%) Advertising
9 4 (1.00%) Retail
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
1 102 (25.56%) Senior
2 89 (22.31%) Developer
3 59 (14.79%) Python Engineer
4 52 (13.03%) Lead
5 51 (12.78%) Python Developer
6 46 (11.53%) Software Engineer
7 39 (9.77%) Data Engineer
8 33 (8.27%) Analyst
9 21 (5.26%) Security Analyst
10 19 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (4.51%) Architect
11 18 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 17 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (3.76%) Python Software Engineer
14 14 (3.51%) Senior Data Engineer
15 13 (3.26%) Lead Developer
15 13 (3.26%) Lead Python Developer
15 13 (3.26%) Python Data Engineer
16 12 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (3.01%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.77%) Django
2 25 (6.27%) React
3 18 (4.51%) Kafka
4 15 (3.76%) FastAPI
4 15 (3.76%) RESTful
5 13 (3.26%) LangChain
5 13 (3.26%) PySpark
5 13 (3.26%) PyTorch
6 10 (2.51%) .NET
6 10 (2.51%) TensorFlow
7 9 (2.26%) Node.js
7 9 (2.26%) REST
7 9 (2.26%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.01%) LlamaIndex
8 8 (2.01%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (1.75%) gRPC
9 7 (1.75%) Pandas
9 7 (1.75%) pgvector
10 6 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.50%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (9.02%) Algorithms
3 30 (7.52%) Cloud Native
4 26 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (6.52%) Public Cloud
5 24 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 23 (5.76%) Cyber Defence
6 23 (5.76%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.76%) Security Operations Centre
8 14 (3.51%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.26%) Security Posture
10 10 (2.51%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.51%) Video\Live Streaming
11 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
11 9 (2.26%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.75%) Clustering
12 7 (1.75%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.75%) Hedge funds
12 7 (1.75%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 61 (15.29%) Linux
2 27 (6.77%) Windows
3 4 (1.00%) Unix
3 4 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.25%) CentOS
4 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (25.81%) Software Engineering
2 90 (22.56%) AI
3 84 (21.05%) CI/CD
4 73 (18.30%) Analytics
5 69 (17.29%) DevOps
6 66 (16.54%) Agile
6 66 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (15.04%) Mentoring
8 55 (13.78%) Fintech
9 52 (13.03%) Data Engineering
9 52 (13.03%) Machine Learning
10 48 (12.03%) Data Science
11 46 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (11.03%) Computer Science
13 43 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (10.28%) Microservices
15 39 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (9.27%) Observability
17 36 (9.02%) Containerisation
18 30 (7.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 119 (29.82%) SQL
2 63 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 39 (9.77%) Java
4 38 (9.52%) C++
5 34 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 32 (8.02%) C#
7 31 (7.77%) Bash
8 16 (4.01%) Go
8 16 (4.01%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.26%) R
10 9 (2.26%) Scala
11 8 (2.01%) Julia
11 8 (2.01%) MATLAB
12 7 (1.75%) Rust
12 7 (1.75%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.75%) VBA
13 6 (1.50%) C
14 5 (1.25%) Bicep
14 5 (1.25%) PHP
15 4 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (11.78%) Degree
2 30 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (3.51%) GIAC
3 14 (3.51%) OSCP
4 13 (3.26%) CREST Certified
5 12 (3.01%) CCSAM
6 9 (2.26%) CHECK Team Leader
6 9 (2.26%) CHECK Team Member
7 8 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.75%) Security Cleared
9 6 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.25%) GPEN
10 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.00%) CFA
11 4 (1.00%) GXPN
11 4 (1.00%) OSCE
11 4 (1.00%) SC Cleared
12 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.50%) PhD
13 1 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.76%) NIST
3 16 (4.01%) GDPR
4 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (1.50%) QA
6 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) EMIR
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (11.28%) Docker
2 6 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (11.53%) Terraform
2 43 (10.78%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.01%) Ansible
4 9 (2.26%) Nessus
5 8 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 7 (1.75%) Grafana
7 1 (0.25%) Argo
7 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.25%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) SCCM
7 1 (0.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 58 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.27%) Databricks
3 28 (7.02%) Google
4 10 (2.51%) Oracle
5 7 (1.75%) Splunk
5 7 (1.75%) Typelevel
6 6 (1.50%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.50%) Dell
7 5 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.00%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.00%) VMware
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco
9 3 (0.75%) Commvault
9 3 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.50%) BT
10 2 (0.50%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.50%) SAP
10 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.25%) Alteryx