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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 346 472 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 20.13% 16.50% 13.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.19% 35.78% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 279 287 431
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £69,375 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.23% -
75th Percentile £111,250 £94,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £150,000 £112,500 £127,500
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -3.23% +3.33%

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 718 1,319 1,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.77% 46.10% 51.63%
Number of salaries quoted 602 929 1,645
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.94% +3.33%
75th Percentile £110,938 £97,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £115,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 0 9 £102,000 +33.77%
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 15 (4.34%) Apache Spark
2 13 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.02%) Apache
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.58%) Luigi
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) IIS
6 1 (0.29%) MTS
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) GNU Octave
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.16%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.29%) Actimize
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 128 (36.99%) AWS
2 120 (34.68%) Azure
3 50 (14.45%) GCP
4 34 (9.83%) Power Platform
5 24 (6.94%) Datadog
5 24 (6.94%) GitHub
6 21 (6.07%) Serverless
7 20 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (5.49%) Snowflake
9 18 (5.20%) SaaS
10 17 (4.91%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.89%) dbt
13 10 (2.89%) Pulumi
14 7 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Copilot
14 7 (2.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) Network Security
1 3 (0.87%) VPN
2 2 (0.58%) Firewall
2 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) LAN
3 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.67%) Relational Database
2 27 (7.80%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (7.51%) Power BI
4 22 (6.36%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.05%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 13 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.89%) Tableau
8 8 (2.31%) ClickHouse
8 8 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (2.02%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.02%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.73%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.45%) Big Data
11 5 (1.45%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Git
2 10 (2.89%) JIRA
3 8 (2.31%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.16%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.87%) GitLab
5 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.58%) MLflow
6 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.29%) Moq
7 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.29%) Postman
7 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 103 (29.77%) Finance
2 72 (20.81%) Social Skills
3 47 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.83%) Banking
5 31 (8.96%) Front Office
6 19 (5.49%) Law
7 17 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.62%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.47%) Financial Institution
10 11 (3.18%) Marketing
10 11 (3.18%) Retail
11 8 (2.31%) Advertising
12 6 (1.73%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.45%) Legal
13 5 (1.45%) Publishing
14 4 (1.16%) Agriculture
14 4 (1.16%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 106 (30.64%) Developer
2 81 (23.41%) Senior
3 39 (11.27%) Lead
4 37 (10.69%) Data Engineer
5 33 (9.54%) Python Developer
6 29 (8.38%) Analyst
7 23 (6.65%) Senior Developer
7 23 (6.65%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.07%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (3.76%) Technical Engineer
12 12 (3.47%) Data Scientist
12 12 (3.47%) Graduate
12 12 (3.47%) Graduate Technical Engineer
12 12 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.47%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (3.47%) Support Engineer
13 11 (3.18%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (19.65%) React
2 25 (7.23%) Django
3 22 (6.36%) Node.js
4 19 (5.49%) .NET
5 17 (4.91%) PySpark
6 15 (4.34%) Pandas
7 14 (4.05%) REST
8 13 (3.76%) Kafka
9 12 (3.47%) Web Services
10 11 (3.18%) Flask
10 11 (3.18%) Next.js
11 10 (2.89%) PyTorch
11 10 (2.89%) RESTful
12 8 (2.31%) AngularJS
12 8 (2.31%) Loki
13 7 (2.02%) FastAPI
13 7 (2.02%) TensorFlow
13 7 (2.02%) Vue
14 6 (1.73%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.73%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.91%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.18%) Derivative
4 11 (3.18%) Equities
4 11 (3.18%) Market Risk
5 10 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.89%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.60%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.45%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.45%) Robotics
10 4 (1.16%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.16%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.78%) Linux
2 6 (1.73%) Windows
3 4 (1.16%) Unix
3 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.87%) Android
4 3 (0.87%) CentOS
4 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.29%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.29%) VMS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (26.01%) DevOps
2 89 (25.72%) Agile
2 89 (25.72%) Artificial Intelligence
3 86 (24.86%) CI/CD
4 85 (24.57%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (23.70%) Analytics
6 62 (17.92%) Software Engineering
7 59 (17.05%) Data Science
8 56 (16.18%) Machine Learning
9 53 (15.32%) Computer Science
10 49 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
11 47 (13.58%) Containerisation
12 43 (12.43%) Data Modelling
12 43 (12.43%) Migration
13 42 (12.14%) ETL
14 40 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
15 39 (11.27%) Data Pipeline
16 38 (10.98%) Mentoring
17 36 (10.40%) Roadmaps
18 35 (10.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 132 (38.15%) SQL
2 98 (28.32%) Java
3 52 (15.03%) C#
4 41 (11.85%) TypeScript
5 36 (10.40%) Bash
6 30 (8.67%) C++
7 29 (8.38%) JavaScript
8 28 (8.09%) PowerShell
9 19 (5.49%) Go
10 14 (4.05%) Scala
11 10 (2.89%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.60%) MATLAB
13 7 (2.02%) Rust
14 5 (1.45%) R
15 4 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.87%) Ruby
17 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.58%) Search Processing Language
17 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (23.41%) Degree
2 27 (7.80%) Master's Degree
3 21 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (4.62%) PhD
5 10 (2.89%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.60%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.73%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.16%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.87%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.58%) MCP
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.58%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.29%) ACCA
12 1 (0.29%) CIMA
12 1 (0.29%) CISM
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
12 1 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.05%) GDPR
3 5 (1.45%) NIST
4 4 (1.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.16%) GRC
4 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) QA
5 3 (0.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) CDISC
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) ITGC
6 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (7.80%) Docker
2 5 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.58%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) KVM
5 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.29%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (11.56%) Terraform
2 36 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.78%) Ansible
4 12 (3.47%) Grafana
5 6 (1.73%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.16%) Puppet
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.58%) Kibana
9 2 (0.58%) logstash
9 2 (0.58%) SCCM
10 1 (0.29%) Argo
10 1 (0.29%) Consul
10 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.29%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 44 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.54%) Databricks
3 23 (6.65%) Google
4 20 (5.78%) Guidewire
5 9 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 8 (2.31%) Hitachi
7 7 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.45%) Ping Identity
8 5 (1.45%) VMware
9 4 (1.16%) Oracle
9 4 (1.16%) SAP
9 4 (1.16%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.16%) Workday
10 3 (0.87%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.58%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.58%) Checkmarx
11 2 (0.58%) Informatica
11 2 (0.58%) Splunk
12 1 (0.29%) OneLogin