Python Jobs in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 7 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 489 881 794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.25% 14.26% 11.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.75% 35.44% 26.19%
Number of salaries quoted 349 319 444
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,875 £34,990
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £61,700 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.86% +7.30% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,976 2,486 3,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.29% 40.25% 44.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,613 1,438 1,912
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,324 £34,990
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,264 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Berkshire -26 201 £58,000 -10.77% 61
Oxfordshire -5 190 £55,000 +44.55% 52
Buckinghamshire -26 98 £52,500 -19.23% 23
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 29 (5.93%) ArcGIS
1 29 (5.93%) GeoServer
2 24 (4.91%) OpenStack
3 18 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.43%) Apache
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.02%) nginx
6 2 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.41%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.20%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Simulink
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) SPSS
2 2 (0.41%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 135 (27.61%) AWS
2 134 (27.40%) Azure
3 37 (7.57%) Serverless
4 21 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (4.29%) GitHub
5 20 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 19 (3.89%) Amazon S3
6 19 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.68%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (2.86%) GCP
9 12 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (2.04%) Snowflake
11 9 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.43%) IaaS
13 6 (1.23%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.23%) SaaS
14 5 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.32%) Wireless
2 23 (4.70%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (4.50%) 5G
3 22 (4.50%) Bluetooth
3 22 (4.50%) GSM
3 22 (4.50%) ISDN
3 22 (4.50%) LTE
3 22 (4.50%) PSTN
3 22 (4.50%) UMTS
4 17 (3.48%) VPN
5 16 (3.27%) Internet
6 12 (2.45%) Firewall
7 9 (1.84%) LAN
7 9 (1.84%) Network Security
7 9 (1.84%) WAN
8 7 (1.43%) NAS
8 7 (1.43%) SAN
8 7 (1.43%) SNMP
9 5 (1.02%) IPsec
9 5 (1.02%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (7.36%) GIS
3 29 (5.93%) QGIS
4 25 (5.11%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 23 (4.70%) MySQL
5 23 (4.70%) Relational Database
6 21 (4.29%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.68%) Power BI
7 18 (3.68%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.45%) Tableau
10 11 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.04%) Redis
12 8 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.64%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.23%) Big Data
13 6 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (1.02%) InfluxDB
14 5 (1.02%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 45 (9.20%) Git
2 33 (6.75%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.50%) LabVIEW
4 12 (2.45%) GitLab
5 10 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.04%) JIRA
6 8 (1.64%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.23%) JUnit
8 5 (1.02%) JMeter
8 5 (1.02%) Mockito
8 5 (1.02%) Selenium
8 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.61%) JDeveloper
11 2 (0.41%) Maven
11 2 (0.41%) Postman
11 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.41%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 103 (21.06%) Social Skills
2 58 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 36 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 32 (6.54%) Telecoms
6 24 (4.91%) Finance
7 16 (3.27%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.04%) Electronics
8 10 (2.04%) Marketing
9 8 (1.64%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.43%) Retail
11 6 (1.23%) Games
12 5 (1.02%) Automotive
12 5 (1.02%) Legal
12 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.82%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.82%) Law
14 3 (0.61%) Banking
14 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.41%) Billing
Job Titles
1 110 (22.49%) Senior
2 105 (21.47%) Software Engineer
3 96 (19.63%) Developer
4 39 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
5 31 (6.34%) Python Engineer
6 28 (5.73%) Hardware Engineer
7 27 (5.52%) Full Stack Developer
8 26 (5.32%) Java Developer
9 25 (5.11%) Junior
10 24 (4.91%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.70%) Analyst
12 21 (4.29%) Research Engineer
13 20 (4.09%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.09%) Data Scientist
13 20 (4.09%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.89%) Architect
14 19 (3.89%) Lead
15 18 (3.68%) Software Developer
16 15 (3.07%) Support Engineer
17 12 (2.45%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.77%) React
2 36 (7.36%) .NET
3 35 (7.16%) CSS
3 35 (7.16%) Spring
4 34 (6.95%) OpenLayers
5 31 (6.34%) Leaflet
5 31 (6.34%) REST
6 29 (5.93%) PostGIS
7 25 (5.11%) .NET Core
7 25 (5.11%) AngularJS
8 23 (4.70%) Django
9 22 (4.50%) Kafka
9 22 (4.50%) Node.js
9 22 (4.50%) Web Services
10 21 (4.29%) Spring Boot
11 20 (4.09%) OpenMP
12 17 (3.48%) Apache Camel
12 17 (3.48%) HTML
12 17 (3.48%) JSON
13 16 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 107 (21.88%) Algorithms
2 30 (6.13%) IoT
3 29 (5.93%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.50%) Acoustics
4 22 (4.50%) Satnav
5 21 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (4.09%) CUDA
7 17 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.25%) Life Science
8 11 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.84%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.84%) PKI
10 6 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.02%) Robotics
11 5 (1.02%) Verilog
12 4 (0.82%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 118 (24.13%) Linux
2 34 (6.95%) Unix
3 32 (6.54%) Windows
4 8 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.23%) CentOS
6 5 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
6 5 (1.02%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.61%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.61%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.41%) Android
8 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.41%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (32.52%) Agile
2 150 (30.67%) Software Engineering
3 135 (27.61%) Computer Science
4 115 (23.52%) DevOps
5 105 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
6 97 (19.84%) Physics
7 78 (15.95%) Mathematics
8 72 (14.72%) Machine Learning
9 61 (12.47%) Full Stack Development
10 56 (11.45%) Microservices
11 47 (9.61%) CI/CD
12 46 (9.41%) Parallel Programming
13 44 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
14 43 (8.79%) Coaching
15 42 (8.59%) Artificial Intelligence
15 42 (8.59%) Software Testing
15 42 (8.59%) Test Automation
16 38 (7.77%) Data Science
16 38 (7.77%) SDLC
17 36 (7.36%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 111 (22.70%) Java
2 104 (21.27%) JavaScript
3 83 (16.97%) SQL
4 81 (16.56%) C
5 76 (15.54%) Fortran
6 75 (15.34%) C++
7 68 (13.91%) Bash
8 61 (12.47%) C#
9 41 (8.38%) PowerShell
10 30 (6.13%) TypeScript
11 26 (5.32%) R
12 23 (4.70%) MATLAB
13 21 (4.29%) Perl
14 19 (3.89%) Shell Script
15 18 (3.68%) Ruby
16 15 (3.07%) Go
17 12 (2.45%) Scala
18 10 (2.04%) Kotlin
19 6 (1.23%) Embedded C
19 6 (1.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 215 (43.97%) Degree
2 119 (24.34%) Security Cleared
3 91 (18.61%) PhD
4 83 (16.97%) Master's Degree
5 59 (12.07%) SC Cleared
6 48 (9.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.68%) CCNA
7 18 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.82%) MCSE
12 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.61%) CISSP
13 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.20%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.20%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.09%) QA
2 18 (3.68%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.61%) GDPR
4 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (0.61%) NIST
4 3 (0.61%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.41%) PMO
5 2 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 90 (18.40%) Docker
2 33 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 26 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (3.89%) Hyper-V
5 15 (3.07%) Firmware
6 5 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 4 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 62 (12.68%) Kubernetes
2 39 (7.98%) Ansible
3 38 (7.77%) Terraform
4 6 (1.23%) Puppet
5 5 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 5 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.82%) Kibana
7 3 (0.61%) Nessus
7 3 (0.61%) Suricata
7 3 (0.61%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.41%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.41%) Nagios
8 2 (0.41%) Netcool
8 2 (0.41%) Packer
9 1 (0.20%) Consul
9 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 70 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.93%) ESRI
3 26 (5.32%) VMware
4 22 (4.50%) Cisco
5 13 (2.66%) WSO2
6 11 (2.25%) Databricks
7 9 (1.84%) Google
7 9 (1.84%) Juniper
7 9 (1.84%) SAP
7 9 (1.84%) Splunk
8 8 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.02%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.02%) NetApp
10 5 (1.02%) Oracle
10 5 (1.02%) SolidFire
10 5 (1.02%) Talend
11 4 (0.82%) IBM
11 4 (0.82%) OpenAI