Python Jobs in the City of London

Python
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 430 492 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.98% 14.70% 14.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.57% 31.82% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 336 320 564
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% +3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £111,250 £99,063 £100,000
90th Percentile £149,375 £121,600 £116,750
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -3.23% -3.13%

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 904 1,546 2,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 46.22% 46.20% 51.52%
Number of salaries quoted 753 1,233 2,071
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £103,750
90th Percentile £129,500 £115,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% - +3.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the City of London.

Salary trend for Python in the City of London

Python
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 - 8 £120,000 -
Python
Central London

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (6.28%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.63%) Apache
4 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.16%) nginx
5 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.47%) Kinematics
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.23%) Confluence
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) MTS
Applications
1 14 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.70%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) SimCorp Dimension
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 170 (39.53%) AWS
2 123 (28.60%) Azure
3 50 (11.63%) GCP
4 33 (7.67%) SaaS
5 32 (7.44%) GitHub
6 29 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (5.12%) Serverless
8 21 (4.88%) Power Platform
9 19 (4.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (3.72%) Datadog
12 13 (3.02%) Pulumi
13 12 (2.79%) Amazon S3
14 11 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.56%) Snowflake
15 9 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (1.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.35%) HTTP
2 6 (1.40%) DNS
3 5 (1.16%) Multicast
4 4 (0.93%) Broadband
4 4 (0.93%) DHCP
5 3 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (0.70%) Ethernet
5 3 (0.70%) Firewall
5 3 (0.70%) LAN
5 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.70%) WAN
6 2 (0.47%) Telnet
6 2 (0.47%) VLAN
7 1 (0.23%) Network Security
7 1 (0.23%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.60%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (6.74%) Relational Database
3 27 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (5.58%) NoSQL
5 23 (5.35%) Tableau
6 18 (4.19%) MongoDB
6 18 (4.19%) Power BI
7 14 (3.26%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.86%) MySQL
8 8 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
9 7 (1.63%) Big Data
9 7 (1.63%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.16%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (0.93%) Metadata
12 4 (0.93%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 53 (12.33%) Git
2 10 (2.33%) JIRA
3 6 (1.40%) GitLab
3 6 (1.40%) SonarQube
4 4 (0.93%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.70%) Selenium
6 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.47%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.47%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.23%) Moq
7 1 (0.23%) Postman
7 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.23%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 130 (30.23%) Finance
2 95 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 66 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (10.47%) Banking
5 31 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (6.98%) Retail
7 29 (6.74%) Advertising
8 25 (5.81%) Games
9 24 (5.58%) Front Office
10 20 (4.65%) Law
11 19 (4.42%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.02%) Publishing
13 12 (2.79%) Marketing
14 6 (1.40%) Legal
14 6 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.93%) Agriculture
17 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 3 (0.70%) Public Sector
18 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (25.12%) Senior
2 84 (19.53%) Developer
3 56 (13.02%) Lead
4 55 (12.79%) Analyst
5 47 (10.93%) Software Engineer
6 38 (8.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 31 (7.21%) Python Developer
8 28 (6.51%) Data Engineer
9 25 (5.81%) Qualitative Analyst
9 25 (5.81%) Quantitative Analyst
10 22 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (5.12%) Senior Developer
11 19 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 17 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.49%) Architect
14 15 (3.49%) Data Scientist
15 14 (3.26%) Data Analyst
15 14 (3.26%) Lead Data Engineer
16 12 (2.79%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (22.56%) React
2 38 (8.84%) Django
3 36 (8.37%) REST
4 35 (8.14%) Node.js
5 21 (4.88%) Kafka
5 21 (4.88%) Next.js
6 19 (4.42%) Pandas
7 15 (3.49%) .NET
8 14 (3.26%) RESTful
9 12 (2.79%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (2.79%) JSON
10 11 (2.56%) PySpark
11 10 (2.33%) Flask
12 9 (2.09%) ARM Templates
13 8 (1.86%) TensorFlow
13 8 (1.86%) Web Services
14 7 (1.63%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.63%) Loki
15 6 (1.40%) GraphQL
15 6 (1.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.21%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.12%) Robotics
3 17 (3.95%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.02%) Fixed Income
6 12 (2.79%) Derivative
6 12 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 12 (2.79%) Reinsurance
7 11 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.86%) Equities
10 7 (1.63%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.63%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.30%) Linux
2 15 (3.49%) Windows
3 12 (2.79%) Unix
4 7 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.40%) CentOS
5 6 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.16%) Robot Operating System
7 4 (0.93%) Rocky
8 3 (0.70%) Android
9 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.23%) Solaris
10 1 (0.23%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.35%) Software Engineering
2 96 (22.33%) Agile
3 88 (20.47%) Artificial Intelligence
4 85 (19.77%) Analytics
4 85 (19.77%) DevOps
5 83 (19.30%) CI/CD
6 81 (18.84%) Computer Science
7 79 (18.37%) Data Science
7 79 (18.37%) Machine Learning
8 73 (16.98%) Roadmaps
9 62 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (13.72%) Containerisation
11 56 (13.02%) Mentoring
12 50 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 45 (10.47%) Product Roadmap
14 44 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (9.77%) Visualisation
17 41 (9.53%) ETL
17 41 (9.53%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 124 (28.84%) SQL
2 81 (18.84%) Java
3 79 (18.37%) TypeScript
4 56 (13.02%) JavaScript
5 52 (12.09%) C++
6 44 (10.23%) Bash
7 39 (9.07%) C#
8 36 (8.37%) PowerShell
9 32 (7.44%) Scala
10 22 (5.12%) MATLAB
11 20 (4.65%) Go
12 12 (2.79%) R
13 9 (2.09%) Rust
14 4 (0.93%) F#
14 4 (0.93%) PHP
14 4 (0.93%) Ruby
15 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.47%) C
16 2 (0.47%) Perl
16 2 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (26.05%) Degree
2 41 (9.53%) Master's Degree
3 34 (7.91%) PhD
4 30 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 10 (2.33%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.16%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.70%) ACCA
10 3 (0.70%) CIMA
10 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.02%) QA
3 11 (2.56%) GDPR
4 6 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.16%) SLA
6 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) CDISC
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 48 (11.16%) Docker
2 7 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.70%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (14.65%) Terraform
2 59 (13.72%) Kubernetes
3 32 (7.44%) Ansible
4 16 (3.72%) Grafana
4 16 (3.72%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.16%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.93%) Nagios
6 4 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.70%) Argo
7 3 (0.70%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.70%) Puppet
8 2 (0.47%) Consul
8 2 (0.47%) Kibana
8 2 (0.47%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.47%) logstash
8 2 (0.47%) Packer
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.23%) Google
3 29 (6.74%) Databricks
4 16 (3.72%) Apple
5 10 (2.33%) VMware
6 9 (2.09%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.86%) Ping Identity
7 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.86%) SAP
7 8 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.63%) Hitachi
9 6 (1.40%) Guidewire
9 6 (1.40%) Workday
10 4 (0.93%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.93%) SimCorp
10 4 (0.93%) Splunk
11 3 (0.70%) Blue Coat
11 3 (0.70%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.70%) Informatica
11 3 (0.70%) Oracle