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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 371 495 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 14.54% 19.19% 13.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.80% 41.42% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 278 357 378
10th Percentile £50,500 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £77,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +6.11% +0.32%
75th Percentile £105,000 £102,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £133,250 £122,500 £123,250
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.38% +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 847 1,195 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.19% 46.34% 50.34%
Number of salaries quoted 682 870 1,436
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £122,200 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -3.85% +0.65%

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 February 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 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.16%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.62%) Apache
4 4 (1.08%) Confluence
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.54%) Luigi
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
6 2 (0.54%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.27%) Actimize
2 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 144 (38.81%) Azure
2 97 (26.15%) AWS
3 46 (12.40%) Power Platform
4 42 (11.32%) GCP
5 25 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 23 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (6.20%) GitHub
7 15 (4.04%) Datadog
8 12 (3.23%) SaaS
8 12 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (1.89%) Serverless
11 6 (1.62%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (1.62%) dbt
12 5 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.35%) Azure AI
12 5 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.35%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.89%) Network Security
1 7 (1.89%) Wireless
2 5 (1.35%) Broadband
2 5 (1.35%) DHCP
2 5 (1.35%) DNS
2 5 (1.35%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.08%) WAN
4 3 (0.81%) LAN
4 3 (0.81%) NAS
4 3 (0.81%) SAN
4 3 (0.81%) VPN
5 2 (0.54%) 4G
5 2 (0.54%) BGP
5 2 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.54%) HTTP
5 2 (0.54%) IOS XR
5 2 (0.54%) MPLS
5 2 (0.54%) SNMP
5 2 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (10.24%) Power BI
2 29 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (6.74%) SQL Server
4 22 (5.93%) Relational Database
5 19 (5.12%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.04%) BigQuery
6 15 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (2.96%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.16%) Tableau
11 6 (1.62%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.35%) ClickHouse
12 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.35%) Power Query
13 4 (1.08%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 30 (8.09%) Git
2 8 (2.16%) JIRA
3 7 (1.89%) Burp Suite
3 7 (1.89%) Metasploit
4 3 (0.81%) GitLab
5 2 (0.54%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
5 2 (0.54%) Postman
5 2 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.27%) Deequ
6 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.27%) Mocha
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 103 (27.76%) Finance
2 84 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.09%) Banking
4 30 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.39%) Front Office
6 14 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.43%) Advertising
8 9 (2.43%) Legal
9 8 (2.16%) Retail
10 4 (1.08%) International Banking
10 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.08%) Law
10 4 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.81%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 97 (26.15%) Senior
2 93 (25.07%) Developer
3 50 (13.48%) Python Developer
4 47 (12.67%) Data Engineer
5 43 (11.59%) Lead
6 34 (9.16%) Senior Developer
7 32 (8.63%) Analyst
8 28 (7.55%) Software Engineer
9 25 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 21 (5.66%) Python Engineer
11 17 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 17 (4.58%) Senior Python Developer
12 15 (4.04%) Architect
12 15 (4.04%) Full-Stack Python Developer
12 15 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (4.04%) Support Engineer
13 14 (3.77%) Security Analyst
13 14 (3.77%) Technical Engineer
13 14 (3.77%) Technical Support
13 14 (3.77%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.97%) Django
1 37 (9.97%) React
2 22 (5.93%) FastAPI
3 19 (5.12%) Node.js
4 15 (4.04%) PySpark
5 12 (3.23%) Kafka
6 9 (2.43%) .NET
6 9 (2.43%) Flask
6 9 (2.43%) PyTorch
7 8 (2.16%) RESTful
8 7 (1.89%) .NET Core
8 7 (1.89%) Next.js
9 6 (1.62%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.62%) Hugging Face
9 6 (1.62%) Redux
10 5 (1.35%) HTML
10 5 (1.35%) LangChain
10 5 (1.35%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (1.35%) Pandas
10 5 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.74%) Algorithms
2 22 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.58%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.58%) Data Structures
3 17 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.04%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 12 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.43%) Derivative
6 9 (2.43%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.43%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.16%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.89%) Market Risk
8 7 (1.89%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.62%) Educational Technology
9 6 (1.62%) Equities
9 6 (1.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.82%) Linux
2 16 (4.31%) Windows
3 9 (2.43%) Unix
4 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.81%) CentOS
6 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (25.61%) Agile
1 95 (25.61%) Analytics
2 94 (25.34%) AI
3 91 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (19.95%) CI/CD
5 70 (18.87%) DevOps
6 60 (16.17%) Software Engineering
7 58 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 53 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 51 (13.75%) ETL
10 50 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (11.32%) Data Modelling
11 42 (11.32%) Test Automation
12 41 (11.05%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (11.05%) Data Science
13 38 (10.24%) Decision-Making
14 37 (9.97%) Computer Science
14 37 (9.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 37 (9.97%) Data Engineering
15 33 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 127 (34.23%) SQL
2 46 (12.40%) PowerShell
3 45 (12.13%) Java
4 41 (11.05%) C#
5 35 (9.43%) Bash
6 26 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 25 (6.74%) JavaScript
8 18 (4.85%) C++
9 12 (3.23%) Rust
10 9 (2.43%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (1.89%) Go
13 6 (1.62%) Scala
13 6 (1.62%) VBA
14 5 (1.35%) R
15 4 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.81%) Perl
17 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.54%) VC++
18 1 (0.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (16.71%) Degree
2 21 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (2.43%) GIAC
3 9 (2.43%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.43%) OSCP
4 8 (2.16%) CREST Certified
4 8 (2.16%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.89%) CCSAM
5 7 (1.89%) CHECK Team Leader
5 7 (1.89%) CHECK Team Member
6 6 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.62%) PhD
7 5 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.08%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.54%) CISM
10 2 (0.54%) CISSP
10 2 (0.54%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.39%) NIST
2 18 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 16 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.54%) EMIR
5 2 (0.54%) PMO
5 2 (0.54%) QA
5 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) Basel III
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.27%) MiFID
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (9.43%) Docker
2 8 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) KVM
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.93%) Terraform
3 16 (4.31%) Ansible
4 7 (1.89%) Grafana
4 7 (1.89%) Nessus
5 6 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.81%) Argo
6 3 (0.81%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.54%) Puppet
7 2 (0.54%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 1 (0.27%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.27%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.27%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.27%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 79 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.32%) Databricks
3 27 (7.28%) Google
4 13 (3.50%) Guidewire
5 9 (2.43%) VMware
6 7 (1.89%) CyberArk
7 6 (1.62%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.62%) Oracle
8 5 (1.35%) Commvault
8 5 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.81%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.81%) Dell
9 3 (0.81%) Informatica
9 3 (0.81%) Splunk
10 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.54%) Cisco
10 2 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.54%) HP
10 2 (0.54%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.54%) SAP