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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 234 316 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.32% 19.64% 18.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.01% 47.38% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 185 258 330
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £101,250 £111,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,000 £147,875 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -5.66%

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 557 667 1,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 22.18% 41.45% 46.88%
Number of salaries quoted 461 570 917
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,650
25th Percentile £70,000 £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 £110,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £132,500 £119,250
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 16 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 10 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.78%) AWS
1 65 (27.78%) Azure
2 32 (13.68%) Power Platform
3 26 (11.11%) SaaS
4 21 (8.97%) GCP
5 12 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (4.27%) GitHub
7 9 (3.85%) Snowflake
8 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (2.99%) Serverless
10 6 (2.56%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.14%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.14%) Azure Machine Learning
11 5 (2.14%) Datadog
11 5 (2.14%) dbt
11 5 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.14%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.71%) Cloud Run
12 4 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.14%) Firewall
1 5 (2.14%) Network Security
2 4 (1.71%) BGP
2 4 (1.71%) OSPF
3 3 (1.28%) MPLS
3 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.28%) VLAN
3 3 (1.28%) WAN
4 2 (0.85%) Broadband
4 2 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.43%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.43%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.43%) HSRP
5 1 (0.43%) SSL
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) VRRP
5 1 (0.43%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (11.54%) Power BI
3 13 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.70%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 9 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.71%) KDB
9 4 (1.71%) MySQL
9 4 (1.71%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.28%) OLTP
10 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.28%) SSDT
10 3 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.84%) Git
2 9 (3.85%) GitLab
3 8 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.99%) JIRA
5 3 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.85%) Snyk
6 2 (0.85%) Vite
7 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.43%) JMeter
7 1 (0.43%) MLflow
7 1 (0.43%) Postman
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 89 (38.03%) Finance
2 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 43 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (6.84%) Banking
6 13 (5.56%) Front Office
7 9 (3.85%) Law
8 8 (3.42%) Marketing
9 6 (2.56%) Legal
10 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.71%) Advertising
12 3 (1.28%) Games
13 2 (0.85%) iGaming
13 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.85%) Private Banking
14 1 (0.43%) Back Office
14 1 (0.43%) Legal Technology
14 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (19.23%) Senior
2 42 (17.95%) Developer
2 42 (17.95%) Software Engineer
3 40 (17.09%) Python Engineer
4 39 (16.67%) Lead
5 23 (9.83%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.40%) Python Developer
7 18 (7.69%) Analyst
8 16 (6.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Architect
13 10 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) C++ Software Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.42%) Lead Python Developer
15 7 (2.99%) Business Analyst
15 7 (2.99%) Consultant
15 7 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.39%) Terraform
2 17 (7.26%) React
3 15 (6.41%) FastAPI
4 13 (5.56%) LangChain
4 13 (5.56%) REST
5 10 (4.27%) PySpark
6 8 (3.42%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (3.42%) LangGraph
7 7 (2.99%) Django
7 7 (2.99%) Node.js
7 7 (2.99%) PyTorch
8 6 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.56%) Kafka
8 6 (2.56%) Next.js
9 5 (2.14%) .NET
9 5 (2.14%) RESTful
10 4 (1.71%) CrewAI
10 4 (1.71%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (1.71%) Spring
10 4 (1.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.97%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (7.26%) Onboarding
4 15 (6.41%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (5.56%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.70%) Reinsurance
7 7 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.56%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.56%) Low-Code
9 5 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.71%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.28%) Market Risk
12 2 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
12 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.82%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Windows
3 4 (1.71%) Unix
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (32.91%) Software Engineering
2 76 (32.48%) AI
3 52 (22.22%) Analytics
3 52 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 37 (15.81%) Fintech
5 35 (14.96%) Data Engineering
6 34 (14.53%) Machine Learning
7 33 (14.10%) Agile
7 33 (14.10%) Data Pipeline
8 32 (13.68%) DevOps
8 32 (13.68%) LLM
9 31 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (12.82%) Observability
11 29 (12.39%) Decision-Making
12 28 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.68%) Containerisation
15 22 (9.40%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.05%) SQL
2 42 (17.95%) Java
3 24 (10.26%) C#
3 24 (10.26%) C++
4 20 (8.55%) TypeScript
5 18 (7.69%) Bash
6 17 (7.26%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.26%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.26%) R
7 9 (3.85%) Julia
7 9 (3.85%) MATLAB
8 8 (3.42%) VBA
9 6 (2.56%) Go
9 6 (2.56%) Rust
10 4 (1.71%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.71%) T-SQL
11 3 (1.28%) Bicep
11 3 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.28%) Scala
12 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (10.26%) Degree
2 14 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.27%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.56%) CFA
7 4 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CCNP
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.43%) CCIE
10 1 (0.43%) CCNA
10 1 (0.43%) CCSP
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.39%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.13%) GDPR
3 7 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.28%) QA
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) IASME
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (15.38%) Docker
2 6 (2.56%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 14 (5.98%) Ansible
3 9 (3.85%) Grafana
4 7 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.28%) SQL Sentry
6 2 (0.85%) Argo
6 2 (0.85%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) Nessus
7 1 (0.43%) Nmap
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (12.82%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.97%) Databricks
3 12 (5.13%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.70%) Google
5 9 (3.85%) Oracle
6 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.56%) Splunk
7 4 (1.71%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco
8 3 (1.28%) Mistral
8 3 (1.28%) RedGate
9 2 (0.85%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.85%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.85%) Foundry
9 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) Veracode
9 2 (0.85%) VMware
10 1 (0.43%) Aruba
10 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace