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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 14
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 354 521 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 15.25% 19.62% 12.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.75% 41.68% 25.21%
Number of salaries quoted 268 376 319
10th Percentile £46,750 £52,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,750 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -3.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £105,000 £98,750 £106,250
90th Percentile £135,000 £120,000 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +6.67%

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 791 1,250 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.08% 47.08% 50.85%
Number of salaries quoted 640 913 1,290
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £51,175
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £61,250
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 £122,500 £118,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% +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 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 2026. 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 -1 1 £102,000 -15.00%
Python
Central 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 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.69%) Apache
4 4 (1.13%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.56%) Luigi
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Actimize
1 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.28%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 133 (37.57%) Azure
2 96 (27.12%) AWS
3 44 (12.43%) Power Platform
4 41 (11.58%) GCP
5 24 (6.78%) GitHub
6 22 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.80%) Datadog
9 13 (3.67%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.39%) SaaS
11 11 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (2.54%) Serverless
13 8 (2.26%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.98%) dbt
15 6 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.41%) Network Security
2 4 (1.13%) Broadband
2 4 (1.13%) DHCP
2 4 (1.13%) DNS
2 4 (1.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.13%) VPN
3 3 (0.85%) NAS
3 3 (0.85%) SAN
3 3 (0.85%) WAN
3 3 (0.85%) Wireless
4 2 (0.56%) 4G
4 2 (0.56%) BGP
4 2 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.56%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.56%) IOS XR
4 2 (0.56%) LAN
4 2 (0.56%) MPLS
4 2 (0.56%) SNMP
5 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.17%) Power BI
2 30 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (7.34%) Relational Database
4 23 (6.50%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.65%) Data Lake
6 15 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.67%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.26%) Tableau
10 5 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.41%) ClickHouse
10 5 (1.41%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.41%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.41%) Power Query
11 4 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.13%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (9.60%) Git
2 9 (2.54%) JIRA
3 3 (0.85%) Burp Suite
3 3 (0.85%) GitLab
3 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.85%) Metasploit
3 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.56%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.28%) Deequ
5 1 (0.28%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.28%) MLflow
5 1 (0.28%) Mocha
5 1 (0.28%) Postman
5 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 93 (26.27%) Finance
2 81 (22.88%) Social Skills
3 44 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (7.91%) Banking
6 20 (5.65%) Front Office
7 14 (3.95%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.26%) Advertising
9 8 (2.26%) Legal
10 7 (1.98%) Retail
11 5 (1.41%) Health Technology
11 5 (1.41%) International Banking
11 5 (1.41%) Law
12 4 (1.13%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.85%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.56%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (25.99%) Developer
2 87 (24.58%) Senior
3 46 (12.99%) Python Developer
4 44 (12.43%) Data Engineer
4 44 (12.43%) Lead
5 32 (9.04%) Senior Developer
6 28 (7.91%) Software Engineer
7 26 (7.34%) Analyst
8 24 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
9 18 (5.08%) Python Engineer
10 17 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.80%) Senior Python Developer
10 17 (4.80%) Support Engineer
10 17 (4.80%) Technical Engineer
11 16 (4.52%) Technical Support
11 16 (4.52%) Technical Support Engineer
12 15 (4.24%) Graduate
12 15 (4.24%) Graduate Technical Engineer
12 15 (4.24%) Principal Engineer
13 14 (3.95%) Graduate Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.17%) React
2 32 (9.04%) Django
3 22 (6.21%) FastAPI
4 20 (5.65%) Node.js
5 15 (4.24%) PySpark
6 14 (3.95%) Kafka
7 9 (2.54%) Flask
8 8 (2.26%) .NET
8 8 (2.26%) AngularJS
8 8 (2.26%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.98%) Next.js
9 7 (1.98%) RESTful
9 7 (1.98%) Vue
10 6 (1.69%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.69%) Pandas
10 6 (1.69%) Redux
10 6 (1.69%) Web Services
11 5 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.41%) Hugging Face
11 5 (1.41%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.34%) Algorithms
2 22 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (5.37%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.11%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.82%) AI Agents
7 10 (2.82%) Derivative
8 9 (2.54%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (2.54%) Equities
8 9 (2.54%) Hedge funds
9 8 (2.26%) Market Risk
9 8 (2.26%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.69%) Educational Technology
10 6 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (1.41%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.34%) Linux
2 14 (3.95%) Windows
3 8 (2.26%) Unix
4 4 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.56%) CentOS
6 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (26.55%) AI
2 92 (25.99%) Analytics
3 90 (25.42%) Agile
4 89 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (21.47%) DevOps
6 75 (21.19%) CI/CD
7 58 (16.38%) Software Engineering
8 53 (14.97%) ETL
8 53 (14.97%) Machine Learning
9 50 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
9 50 (14.12%) Mentoring
10 41 (11.58%) Computer Science
10 41 (11.58%) Data Modelling
11 39 (11.02%) Test Automation
12 38 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (10.73%) Data Engineering
12 38 (10.73%) Data Science
13 34 (9.60%) Decision-Making
13 34 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 124 (35.03%) SQL
2 50 (14.12%) Java
3 45 (12.71%) C#
4 39 (11.02%) PowerShell
5 33 (9.32%) Bash
6 26 (7.34%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.50%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.80%) C++
9 12 (3.39%) Rust
10 9 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.54%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.69%) Go
11 6 (1.69%) Scala
11 6 (1.69%) VBA
12 5 (1.41%) R
13 4 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.85%) Perl
15 2 (0.56%) Ruby
15 2 (0.56%) VC++
16 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (18.36%) Degree
2 20 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.11%) Master's Degree
4 9 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.26%) PhD
6 7 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.69%) GIAC
8 4 (1.13%) MCP
8 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.13%) OSCP
8 4 (1.13%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.85%) CCSAM
9 3 (0.85%) CHECK Team Leader
9 3 (0.85%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (0.85%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.56%) CISM
10 2 (0.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.95%) NIST
3 12 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.54%) GDPR
5 2 (0.56%) EMIR
5 2 (0.56%) PMO
5 2 (0.56%) QA
5 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.28%) Basel III
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (9.04%) Docker
2 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.06%) Terraform
3 18 (5.08%) Ansible
4 8 (2.26%) Grafana
5 5 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.85%) Argo
7 3 (0.85%) Nessus
7 3 (0.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.56%) Puppet
8 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 1 (0.28%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.28%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 78 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.58%) Databricks
3 24 (6.78%) Google
4 15 (4.24%) Guidewire
5 8 (2.26%) VMware
6 6 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 6 (1.69%) Oracle
7 5 (1.41%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.85%) Commvault
9 3 (0.85%) Dell
9 3 (0.85%) Informatica
9 3 (0.85%) Splunk
10 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.56%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco
10 2 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.56%) HP
10 2 (0.56%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.56%) SAP