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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 256 332 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.00% 19.64% 17.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.69% 46.56% 37.10%
Number of salaries quoted 206 269 311
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £150,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -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 614 713 1,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.57% 42.19% 46.36%
Number of salaries quoted 503 603 920
10th Percentile £56,150 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,625 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -3.85%

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 1 October 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 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.52%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Camunda
5 1 (0.39%) CMS
5 1 (0.39%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 75 (29.30%) Azure
2 66 (25.78%) AWS
3 30 (11.72%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.16%) SaaS
5 23 (8.98%) GCP
6 15 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (3.13%) GitHub
7 8 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.73%) Serverless
9 6 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.95%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.95%) Azure Databricks
10 5 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.95%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.95%) Datadog
10 5 (1.95%) dbt
10 5 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) Firewall
1 5 (1.95%) Network Security
2 4 (1.56%) BGP
2 4 (1.56%) OSPF
3 3 (1.17%) MPLS
3 3 (1.17%) VLAN
3 3 (1.17%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) Broadband
4 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.39%) HSRP
5 1 (0.39%) HTTP
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) VPN
5 1 (0.39%) VRRP
5 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.77%) Power BI
3 15 (5.86%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.52%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.52%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.52%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.73%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.34%) MySQL
10 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.95%) KDB
11 4 (1.56%) Spark SQL
12 3 (1.17%) OLTP
12 3 (1.17%) Tableau
13 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.78%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 19 (7.42%) Git
2 8 (3.13%) GitLab
2 8 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.34%) JIRA
4 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.78%) MLflow
4 2 (0.78%) Snyk
4 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.78%) Vite
5 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.39%) JMeter
5 1 (0.39%) Postman
5 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 91 (35.55%) Finance
2 53 (20.70%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.64%) Banking
6 15 (5.86%) Front Office
7 9 (3.52%) Law
8 8 (3.13%) Marketing
9 5 (1.95%) Legal
10 4 (1.56%) Advertising
10 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.17%) Games
12 2 (0.78%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Back Office
13 1 (0.39%) iGaming
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (19.53%) Senior
2 48 (18.75%) Python Engineer
3 46 (17.97%) Developer
4 44 (17.19%) Software Engineer
5 39 (15.23%) Lead
6 28 (10.94%) Data Engineer
7 20 (7.81%) Python Developer
8 18 (7.03%) Analyst
9 16 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (5.86%) Python Software Engineer
11 14 (5.47%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) Architect
13 10 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) C++ Software Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Consultant
15 7 (2.73%) Business Analyst
15 7 (2.73%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.28%) Terraform
2 16 (6.25%) React
3 15 (5.86%) FastAPI
4 13 (5.08%) LangChain
5 12 (4.69%) REST
6 9 (3.52%) Django
6 9 (3.52%) Kafka
6 9 (3.52%) PySpark
7 8 (3.13%) PyTorch
8 7 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.73%) FIX Protocol
8 7 (2.73%) LangGraph
8 7 (2.73%) Node.js
9 6 (2.34%) Next.js
9 6 (2.34%) RESTful
10 5 (1.95%) .NET
11 4 (1.56%) Spring
11 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.56%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.94%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (10.16%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.69%) AI Agents
5 11 (4.30%) Reinsurance
6 9 (3.52%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.73%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.34%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.34%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.78%) Autonomous Agent
12 2 (0.78%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.06%) Linux
2 9 (3.52%) Windows
3 3 (1.17%) Unix
3 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 79 (30.86%) AI
3 61 (23.83%) CI/CD
4 54 (21.09%) Analytics
5 40 (15.63%) Data Engineering
5 40 (15.63%) Fintech
6 39 (15.23%) DevOps
7 36 (14.06%) Data Pipeline
8 35 (13.67%) Agile
8 35 (13.67%) LLM
8 35 (13.67%) Machine Learning
9 33 (12.89%) Observability
10 31 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (11.72%) Decision-Making
11 30 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.55%) Containerisation
14 26 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (8.98%) Computer Science
15 23 (8.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (31.64%) SQL
2 44 (17.19%) Java
3 28 (10.94%) C++
4 25 (9.77%) C#
5 19 (7.42%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.03%) PowerShell
6 18 (7.03%) TypeScript
7 17 (6.64%) Bash
7 17 (6.64%) R
8 9 (3.52%) Julia
8 9 (3.52%) MATLAB
9 8 (3.13%) VBA
10 7 (2.73%) Go
10 7 (2.73%) Rust
11 5 (1.95%) Bicep
11 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.17%) C
12 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.17%) Scala
12 3 (1.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (10.94%) Degree
2 13 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.52%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.34%) CFA
7 4 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CCNP
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.39%) CCIE
10 1 (0.39%) CCNA
10 1 (0.39%) CCSP
10 1 (0.39%) GPEN
10 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.39%) OSCE
10 1 (0.39%) OSCP
10 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.89%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.69%) GDPR
3 7 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.56%) QA
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (14.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.34%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.86%) Ansible
3 9 (3.52%) Grafana
4 8 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.78%) SQL Sentry
6 1 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
6 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.38%) Databricks
3 15 (5.86%) Google
4 11 (4.30%) OpenAI
5 10 (3.91%) Oracle
6 7 (2.73%) Splunk
7 6 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.56%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.17%) Cisco
10 2 (0.78%) Checkmarx
10 2 (0.78%) Foundry
10 2 (0.78%) Mistral
10 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.78%) RedGate
10 2 (0.78%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.78%) Veracode
10 2 (0.78%) VMware
11 1 (0.39%) Confluent