Python Jobs in Reading

Python
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 24 11
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 64 142 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 12.65% 8.29% 14.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.95% 25.59% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 40 81 112
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £51,337 £39,500 £38,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% -7.20% -
75th Percentile £101,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,750 £90,625
Berkshire median annual salary £55,565 £58,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.20% -14.07% +3.85%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 149 555 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 29.45% 32.42% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 90 362 428
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £38,725
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -17.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £82,500 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Reading

Python
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Reading.

Salary trend for Python in Reading

Python
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Reading

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (3.13%) Apache
1 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (4.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 30 (46.88%) AWS
2 28 (43.75%) Serverless
3 22 (34.38%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 20 (31.25%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (18.75%) Azure
6 6 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (7.81%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (6.25%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.69%) Azure AI
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.69%) IaaS
10 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.13%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
1 4 (6.25%) SSL
2 2 (3.13%) LAN
2 2 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (42.19%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (31.25%) RDBMS
2 20 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.69%) Pinecone
4 3 (4.69%) Weaviate
5 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.13%) Metadata
5 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 2 (3.13%) Redis
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 18 (28.13%) JMeter
2 18 (28.13%) JUnit
2 18 (28.13%) Mockito
3 9 (14.06%) Git
4 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (6.25%) JIRA
5 3 (4.69%) GitLab
5 3 (4.69%) MLflow
6 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.13%) Mocha
6 2 (3.13%) Selenium
6 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (29.69%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.25%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Automotive
4 3 (4.69%) Electronics
5 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Developer
2 20 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 14 (21.88%) Software Engineer
4 12 (18.75%) Senior
5 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Principal Software Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Junior
7 6 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Graduate
8 5 (7.81%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Junior Software Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Developer
9 4 (6.25%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.69%) Design Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (34.38%) HTML
1 22 (34.38%) REST
2 18 (28.13%) ActiveMQ
2 18 (28.13%) Apache Camel
2 18 (28.13%) Hibernate
2 18 (28.13%) jQuery
2 18 (28.13%) Spring
2 18 (28.13%) Spring Boot
2 18 (28.13%) Web Services
2 18 (28.13%) WireMock
3 10 (15.63%) Node.js
4 7 (10.94%) Flutter
4 7 (10.94%) JSON
5 6 (9.38%) React
6 5 (7.81%) XML
7 4 (6.25%) CSS
8 3 (4.69%) Mustache
8 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
8 3 (4.69%) scikit-learn
8 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.69%) IoT
3 2 (3.13%) Acoustics
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Microservices
2 30 (46.88%) Agile
3 29 (45.31%) Collaborative Working
4 28 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 20 (31.25%) Workflow
6 19 (29.69%) TDD
7 18 (28.13%) BDD
7 18 (28.13%) Process Management
8 17 (26.56%) Software Engineering
9 15 (23.44%) DevOps
10 13 (20.31%) Architectural Design
10 13 (20.31%) Kanban
10 13 (20.31%) Scrum
11 11 (17.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
11 11 (17.19%) Machine Learning
11 11 (17.19%) SDLC
12 9 (14.06%) Roadmaps
13 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (12.50%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.88%) Java
2 24 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 22 (34.38%) JavaScript
4 20 (31.25%) C++
5 10 (15.63%) SQL
6 9 (14.06%) C
6 9 (14.06%) Perl
7 7 (10.94%) C#
7 7 (10.94%) Go
7 7 (10.94%) Ruby
7 7 (10.94%) Rust
8 4 (6.25%) Bash
9 3 (4.69%) R
10 2 (3.13%) Fortran
10 2 (3.13%) Groovy
10 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (17.19%) Degree
4 8 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.13%) QA
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (56.25%) Docker
2 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 34 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 18 (28.13%) Kibana
3 17 (26.56%) Terraform
4 10 (15.63%) Ansible
5 4 (6.25%) Nessus
5 4 (6.25%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.69%) Kubeflow
7 2 (3.13%) Packer
8 1 (1.56%) Grafana
8 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Dynatrace
1 18 (28.13%) Splunk
2 4 (6.25%) Juniper
3 2 (3.13%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.13%) Aruba
3 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco
3 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.13%) IBM
3 2 (3.13%) Mellanox
3 2 (3.13%) NVIDIA
3 2 (3.13%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.56%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) VMware