Python Job Trends in Reading

Python
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 31 149 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.21% 12.68% 14.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.23% 45.57% 32.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9 48 77
10th Percentile £44,250 £41,750 £37,328
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +27.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,500 £82,250
Berkshire median annual salary £47,520 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -32.11% +27.27% -15.38%

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 88 327 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 17.64% 27.83% 44.72%
Number of salaries quoted 44 131 287
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £51,188 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +10.57% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £90,250 £87,500 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -7.69% +14.99% -9.56%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Python job vacancy trend in Reading

Python
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Reading over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Reading

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) AWS
2 23 (74.19%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (67.74%) Serverless
4 20 (64.52%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (64.52%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (16.13%) Azure
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (6.45%) AWS KMS
7 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.23%) GCP
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) FTP
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) SMTP
2 2 (6.45%) SSH
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (74.19%) Relational Database
2 21 (67.74%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (64.52%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.45%) Data Hub
6 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (70.97%) Jenkins
2 20 (64.52%) JMeter
2 20 (64.52%) JUnit
2 20 (64.52%) Mockito
3 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
3 3 (9.68%) Postman
3 3 (9.68%) Selenium
3 3 (9.68%) SoapUI
4 2 (6.45%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (6.45%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (64.52%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.68%) Finance
2 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (64.52%) Developer
2 19 (61.29%) Java Developer
3 17 (54.84%) Full-Stack Developer
4 16 (51.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 14 (45.16%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Senior
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (67.74%) HTML
2 20 (64.52%) ActiveMQ
2 20 (64.52%) Apache Camel
2 20 (64.52%) Hibernate
2 20 (64.52%) jQuery
2 20 (64.52%) REST
2 20 (64.52%) Spring
2 20 (64.52%) Spring Boot
2 20 (64.52%) Web Services
2 20 (64.52%) WireMock
3 18 (58.06%) JSON
3 18 (58.06%) XML
4 3 (9.68%) pytest
4 3 (9.68%) SOAP
5 2 (6.45%) React
6 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.23%) Mustache
6 1 (3.23%) Node.js
6 1 (3.23%) React Native
6 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (64.52%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Replication
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) VMS
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Agile
2 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
2 21 (67.74%) TDD
3 20 (64.52%) BDD
3 20 (64.52%) Microservices
3 20 (64.52%) Process Management
3 20 (64.52%) Workflow
4 18 (58.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (48.39%) SDLC
6 5 (16.13%) DevOps
7 4 (12.90%) Fintech
8 3 (9.68%) Batch Processing
8 3 (9.68%) QA Automation
8 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
9 2 (6.45%) Data Architecture
9 2 (6.45%) Kanban
9 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
9 2 (6.45%) Patch Management
9 2 (6.45%) Process Improvement
9 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (80.65%) Java
2 22 (70.97%) JavaScript
3 20 (64.52%) Shell Script
4 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 4 (12.90%) PHP
6 3 (9.68%) Go
6 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.45%) Groovy
7 2 (6.45%) Perl
8 1 (3.23%) Bash
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (54.84%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 21 (67.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (64.52%) Kibana
3 3 (9.68%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) Dynatrace
1 20 (64.52%) Splunk
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
2 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow