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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 362 402 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.07% 21.05% 15.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.75% 46.64% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 290 319 320
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,400 £47,459
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,250 £152,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £87,500 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 867 862 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.72% 45.13% 47.02%
Number of salaries quoted 691 717 1,151
10th Percentile £50,500 £52,150 £46,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £58,000
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 £106,250 £130,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -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 19 July 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 (5.25%) Apache Airflow
1 19 (5.25%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.04%) Apache
3 1 (0.28%) Camunda
3 1 (0.28%) Confluence
3 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 113 (31.22%) Azure
2 108 (29.83%) AWS
3 50 (13.81%) GCP
4 32 (8.84%) Power Platform
5 29 (8.01%) SaaS
6 19 (5.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.04%) dbt
9 11 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (2.21%) GitHub
11 7 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (1.93%) Serverless
12 6 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.38%) Azure AI
13 5 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.10%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.10%) Azure Functions
14 4 (1.10%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.42%) Network Security
2 11 (3.04%) Broadband
3 5 (1.38%) Wireless
4 4 (1.10%) BGP
4 4 (1.10%) OSPF
5 3 (0.83%) Firewall
5 3 (0.83%) HTTP
5 3 (0.83%) MPLS
5 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.83%) VLAN
5 3 (0.83%) WAN
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.28%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.28%) HSRP
6 1 (0.28%) NGFW
6 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.28%) VSAN
6 1 (0.28%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (8.84%) Elasticsearch
2 28 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (7.18%) Power BI
4 25 (6.91%) BigQuery
5 16 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 15 (4.14%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.59%) NoSQL
8 12 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.76%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (2.49%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.49%) MySQL
10 9 (2.49%) Tableau
11 7 (1.93%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.66%) Looker
12 6 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.38%) KDB
Development Applications
1 24 (6.63%) Git
2 9 (2.49%) MLflow
3 6 (1.66%) GitLab
4 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.10%) Burp Suite
5 4 (1.10%) JIRA
5 4 (1.10%) Metasploit
5 4 (1.10%) Postman
6 3 (0.83%) Balsamiq
6 3 (0.83%) Selenium
6 3 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.55%) Vite
8 1 (0.28%) JMeter
General
1 103 (28.45%) Finance
2 78 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (6.08%) Banking
6 16 (4.42%) Front Office
7 7 (1.93%) Law
8 6 (1.66%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.66%) Legal
8 6 (1.66%) Marketing
9 4 (1.10%) Advertising
10 3 (0.83%) Games
10 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.83%) Retail
11 1 (0.28%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 86 (23.76%) Senior
2 71 (19.61%) Developer
3 57 (15.75%) Python Engineer
4 47 (12.98%) Software Engineer
5 44 (12.15%) Lead
6 38 (10.50%) Data Engineer
7 31 (8.56%) Python Developer
8 26 (7.18%) Analyst
9 18 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.42%) Python Software Engineer
12 15 (4.14%) Architect
13 14 (3.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 14 (3.87%) Security Analyst
14 13 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (3.31%) C++ Software Engineer
15 12 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
15 12 (3.31%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.91%) Django
2 24 (6.63%) React
3 17 (4.70%) Kafka
4 16 (4.42%) FastAPI
4 16 (4.42%) LangChain
5 14 (3.87%) PyTorch
6 13 (3.59%) RESTful
7 12 (3.31%) PySpark
7 12 (3.31%) REST
8 10 (2.76%) TensorFlow
9 9 (2.49%) .NET
9 9 (2.49%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.93%) gRPC
10 7 (1.93%) LlamaIndex
10 7 (1.93%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (1.93%) Node.js
10 7 (1.93%) Pandas
10 7 (1.93%) pgvector
11 6 (1.66%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.22%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (8.84%) Cloud Native
3 31 (8.56%) Algorithms
4 25 (6.91%) Onboarding
5 24 (6.63%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (6.63%) Public Cloud
6 21 (5.80%) Data Structures
7 15 (4.14%) Cyber Defence
8 12 (3.31%) Reinsurance
8 12 (3.31%) Security Operations Centre
9 11 (3.04%) AI Agents
10 10 (2.76%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.76%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.93%) Clustering
11 7 (1.93%) Over-the-Top Content
11 7 (1.93%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.66%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.66%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.38%) Data Centre
14 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.75%) Linux
2 25 (6.91%) Windows
3 4 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
5 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (28.73%) Software Engineering
2 89 (24.59%) AI
3 78 (21.55%) CI/CD
4 66 (18.23%) Analytics
5 60 (16.57%) DevOps
6 57 (15.75%) Machine Learning
7 55 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (14.92%) Fintech
9 49 (13.54%) Data Engineering
10 47 (12.98%) Agile
11 44 (12.15%) Mentoring
12 43 (11.88%) Data Science
13 42 (11.60%) Computer Science
13 42 (11.60%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (10.77%) Microservices
15 38 (10.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 37 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (9.39%) Observability
18 31 (8.56%) Containerisation
18 31 (8.56%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 113 (31.22%) SQL
2 52 (14.36%) PowerShell
3 47 (12.98%) Java
4 39 (10.77%) C++
5 34 (9.39%) C#
6 31 (8.56%) JavaScript
7 24 (6.63%) Bash
8 18 (4.97%) TypeScript
9 15 (4.14%) Go
9 15 (4.14%) R
10 9 (2.49%) Julia
10 9 (2.49%) MATLAB
10 9 (2.49%) Rust
10 9 (2.49%) Scala
11 8 (2.21%) VBA
12 6 (1.66%) C
12 6 (1.66%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.38%) Bicep
14 4 (1.10%) PHP
15 3 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (11.33%) Degree
2 28 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.04%) GIAC
4 9 (2.49%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.49%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.21%) CREST Certified
5 8 (2.21%) OSCP
6 7 (1.93%) CCSAM
7 6 (1.66%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.66%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.10%) CFA
8 4 (1.10%) CHECK Team Leader
8 4 (1.10%) CHECK Team Member
8 4 (1.10%) GPEN
8 4 (1.10%) GXPN
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.10%) OSCE
9 3 (0.83%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.55%) CCNP
10 2 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.46%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.14%) GDPR
3 13 (3.59%) NIST
4 7 (1.93%) QA
5 6 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (11.05%) Docker
2 6 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (12.98%) Terraform
2 44 (12.15%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.14%) Ansible
4 10 (2.76%) Grafana
5 9 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.10%) Nessus
7 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.28%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.28%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.56%) Databricks
3 25 (6.91%) Google
4 11 (3.04%) Oracle
5 8 (2.21%) OpenAI
5 8 (2.21%) Splunk
6 7 (1.93%) Typelevel
7 6 (1.66%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.66%) Dell
7 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.83%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.83%) VMware
9 2 (0.55%) BT
9 2 (0.55%) Cisco
9 2 (0.55%) Commvault
9 2 (0.55%) Foundry
9 2 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.55%) SAP
10 1 (0.28%) Aruba