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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 268 333 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 9.02% 19.61% 16.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.23% 47.23% 36.63%
Number of salaries quoted 214 270 302
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £69,063 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £94,688
90th Percentile £119,625 £148,875 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +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 650 705 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.89% 41.52% 46.18%
Number of salaries quoted 526 595 927
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £70,313 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £132,500 £115,000
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 24 September 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 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.99%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.37%) Camunda
5 1 (0.37%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.48%) Azure
2 67 (25.00%) AWS
3 30 (11.19%) Power Platform
4 25 (9.33%) SaaS
5 24 (8.96%) GCP
6 16 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.36%) Serverless
8 7 (2.61%) GitHub
8 7 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (2.24%) Azure Databricks
9 6 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.87%) Azure AI
10 5 (1.87%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.87%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.87%) Datadog
10 5 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.61%) Network Security
2 5 (1.87%) Firewall
3 4 (1.49%) BGP
3 4 (1.49%) OSPF
4 3 (1.12%) Broadband
4 3 (1.12%) MPLS
4 3 (1.12%) VLAN
4 3 (1.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.37%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.37%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.37%) HSRP
6 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) VPN
6 1 (0.37%) VRRP
6 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (8.96%) Power BI
3 15 (5.60%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.48%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.36%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.36%) Geospatial Data
7 8 (2.99%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.99%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.24%) MySQL
9 6 (2.24%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.87%) KDB
10 5 (1.87%) Spark SQL
11 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Tableau
13 2 (0.75%) Metadata
13 2 (0.75%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 18 (6.72%) Git
2 8 (2.99%) GitLab
2 8 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.49%) JIRA
4 2 (0.75%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.75%) MLflow
4 2 (0.75%) Snyk
4 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.75%) Vite
5 1 (0.37%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.37%) JMeter
5 1 (0.37%) Postman
5 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 95 (35.45%) Finance
2 59 (22.01%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.34%) Banking
6 16 (5.97%) Front Office
7 10 (3.73%) Law
8 8 (2.99%) Marketing
9 6 (2.24%) Legal
10 4 (1.49%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Games
11 3 (1.12%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.75%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.37%) Automotive
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) iGaming
13 1 (0.37%) Legal Technology
13 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (18.28%) Python Engineer
2 48 (17.91%) Senior
3 47 (17.54%) Developer
4 43 (16.04%) Software Engineer
5 42 (15.67%) Lead
6 30 (11.19%) Data Engineer
7 21 (7.84%) Python Developer
8 20 (7.46%) Analyst
9 16 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (5.22%) Lead Data Engineer
10 14 (5.22%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Architect
12 11 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) C++ Software Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.99%) Consultant
14 8 (2.99%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.31%) Terraform
2 14 (5.22%) React
3 13 (4.85%) FastAPI
4 12 (4.48%) LangChain
5 11 (4.10%) REST
6 10 (3.73%) PySpark
7 9 (3.36%) Django
8 8 (2.99%) Kafka
8 8 (2.99%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.61%) .NET
9 7 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.61%) Node.js
10 6 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (2.24%) LangGraph
11 5 (1.87%) Next.js
11 5 (1.87%) RESTful
12 4 (1.49%) Model Context Protocol
12 4 (1.49%) Spring
12 4 (1.49%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.82%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (10.45%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
3 16 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.85%) Reinsurance
5 12 (4.48%) AI Agents
6 11 (4.10%) Algorithms
7 10 (3.73%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.99%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.24%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.24%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.24%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.12%) Equities
12 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
13 2 (0.75%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.81%) Linux
2 11 (4.10%) Windows
3 3 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.85%) AI
1 80 (29.85%) Software Engineering
2 67 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 53 (19.78%) Analytics
4 41 (15.30%) DevOps
5 40 (14.93%) Data Engineering
6 39 (14.55%) Fintech
7 37 (13.81%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (13.81%) Machine Learning
8 35 (13.06%) LLM
9 34 (12.69%) Agile
9 34 (12.69%) Observability
10 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (11.57%) Decision-Making
11 31 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (10.45%) Mentoring
14 27 (10.07%) Containerisation
15 25 (9.33%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (8.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 86 (32.09%) SQL
2 45 (16.79%) Java
3 29 (10.82%) C++
4 27 (10.07%) C#
5 22 (8.21%) PowerShell
6 20 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.34%) Bash
7 17 (6.34%) R
8 16 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.36%) Go
9 9 (3.36%) Julia
9 9 (3.36%) MATLAB
10 8 (2.99%) Rust
10 8 (2.99%) VBA
11 5 (1.87%) Bicep
11 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.49%) C
12 4 (1.49%) Scala
13 3 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.75%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 29 (10.82%) Degree
2 13 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (4.85%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.61%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 6 (2.24%) CFA
6 4 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.75%) CCNP
8 2 (0.75%) CCSAM
8 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.75%) GPEN
8 2 (0.75%) GXPN
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.75%) OSCE
8 2 (0.75%) OSCP
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.31%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.48%) GDPR
3 7 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.49%) QA
5 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (13.43%) Docker
2 6 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (16.79%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.60%) Ansible
3 9 (3.36%) Grafana
4 8 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.37%) Argo
6 1 (0.37%) Puppet
6 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (11.57%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.58%) Databricks
3 13 (4.85%) Google
4 10 (3.73%) OpenAI
4 10 (3.73%) Oracle
5 7 (2.61%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.61%) Splunk
6 4 (1.49%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco
8 2 (0.75%) Checkmarx
8 2 (0.75%) Foundry
8 2 (0.75%) Mistral
8 2 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.75%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) SAP
8 2 (0.75%) Veracode
8 2 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.37%) Typelevel