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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 237 319 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.37% 19.73% 17.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.55% 47.12% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 189 258 323
10th Percentile £59,500 £48,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +12.58% -5.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £145,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -4.76%

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 557 677 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.02% 41.87% 46.75%
Number of salaries quoted 461 575 911
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £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 £108,375 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £132,500 £118,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -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 13 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 11 (4.64%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.95%) Apache
4 2 (0.84%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Camunda
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.69%) Azure
2 65 (27.43%) AWS
3 32 (13.50%) Power Platform
4 26 (10.97%) SaaS
5 20 (8.44%) GCP
6 14 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (4.22%) GitHub
8 9 (3.80%) Snowflake
9 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (2.95%) Serverless
11 6 (2.53%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.53%) dbt
12 5 (2.11%) Azure Databricks
12 5 (2.11%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (2.11%) Datadog
12 5 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (2.11%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.69%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) Firewall
1 5 (2.11%) Network Security
2 4 (1.69%) BGP
2 4 (1.69%) OSPF
3 3 (1.27%) MPLS
3 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.27%) VLAN
3 3 (1.27%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) Broadband
5 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.42%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.42%) HSRP
5 1 (0.42%) HTTP
5 1 (0.42%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) VRRP
5 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.39%) Power BI
3 14 (5.91%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.22%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.80%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.95%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.11%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.69%) KDB
10 4 (1.69%) MySQL
10 4 (1.69%) OLTP
10 4 (1.69%) Spark SQL
11 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.27%) SSDT
11 3 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.17%) Git
2 9 (3.80%) GitLab
3 8 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.95%) JIRA
5 3 (1.27%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.84%) Snyk
6 2 (0.84%) Vite
7 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.42%) JMeter
7 1 (0.42%) MLflow
7 1 (0.42%) Postman
7 1 (0.42%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (37.55%) Finance
2 51 (21.52%) Social Skills
3 43 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (10.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.33%) Banking
6 13 (5.49%) Front Office
7 9 (3.80%) Law
8 8 (3.38%) Marketing
9 6 (2.53%) Legal
10 5 (2.11%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.69%) Advertising
12 3 (1.27%) Games
13 2 (0.84%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Back Office
14 1 (0.42%) iGaming
14 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.42%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (19.83%) Senior
2 44 (18.57%) Developer
3 41 (17.30%) Software Engineer
4 40 (16.88%) Python Engineer
5 39 (16.46%) Lead
6 24 (10.13%) Data Engineer
7 22 (9.28%) Python Developer
8 18 (7.59%) Analyst
9 16 (6.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 15 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (5.49%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (5.06%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (4.64%) Architect
14 10 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 9 (3.80%) C++ Software Engineer
16 8 (3.38%) Lead Developer
16 8 (3.38%) Lead Python Developer
16 8 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 7 (2.95%) Business Analyst
17 7 (2.95%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.08%) Terraform
2 17 (7.17%) React
3 15 (6.33%) FastAPI
4 13 (5.49%) LangChain
5 12 (5.06%) REST
6 10 (4.22%) PySpark
7 8 (3.38%) LangGraph
8 7 (2.95%) Django
8 7 (2.95%) Kafka
8 7 (2.95%) Node.js
8 7 (2.95%) PyTorch
9 6 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (2.53%) Next.js
10 5 (2.11%) .NET
10 5 (2.11%) RESTful
11 4 (1.69%) CrewAI
11 4 (1.69%) Spring
11 4 (1.69%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.75%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.33%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.49%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.64%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.95%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.53%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.53%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.11%) Fixed Income
9 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.84%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.84%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.66%) Linux
2 6 (2.53%) Windows
3 3 (1.27%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (32.07%) AI
1 76 (32.07%) Software Engineering
2 54 (22.78%) CI/CD
3 52 (21.94%) Analytics
4 38 (16.03%) Data Engineering
5 37 (15.61%) Fintech
6 34 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (13.92%) Agile
7 33 (13.92%) DevOps
7 33 (13.92%) LLM
7 33 (13.92%) Machine Learning
8 32 (13.50%) Observability
9 31 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (11.81%) Business Intelligence
11 28 (11.81%) Decision-Making
12 27 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (10.97%) Containerisation
14 24 (10.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (8.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 78 (32.91%) SQL
2 40 (16.88%) Java
3 25 (10.55%) C++
4 24 (10.13%) C#
5 19 (8.02%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.59%) Bash
6 18 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.17%) R
8 9 (3.80%) Julia
8 9 (3.80%) MATLAB
9 8 (3.38%) VBA
10 6 (2.53%) Go
10 6 (2.53%) Rust
11 4 (1.69%) Bicep
11 4 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.69%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.27%) Scala
13 2 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (10.13%) Degree
2 14 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.53%) CFA
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.84%) CCNP
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) CCIE
10 1 (0.42%) CCNA
10 1 (0.42%) CCSP
10 1 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.08%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.06%) GDPR
3 7 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.27%) QA
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.84%) NIST
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) IASME
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (15.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (18.14%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.91%) Ansible
3 9 (3.80%) Grafana
4 7 (2.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.27%) SQL Sentry
6 2 (0.84%) Argo
6 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.42%) Nmap
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.70%) Databricks
3 12 (5.06%) Google
3 12 (5.06%) OpenAI
4 9 (3.80%) Oracle
5 6 (2.53%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.53%) Splunk
6 4 (1.69%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.27%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.27%) Cisco
7 3 (1.27%) Mistral
7 3 (1.27%) RedGate
8 2 (0.84%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.84%) Foundry
8 2 (0.84%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.84%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.84%) Veracode
8 2 (0.84%) VMware
9 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace