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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 31 119 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 5.43% 14.22% 12.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.80% 43.59% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9 56 65
10th Percentile £44,500 £52,625 £38,130
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £98,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £46,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -34.29% +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 82 273 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 14.36% 32.62% 42.70%
Number of salaries quoted 48 118 254
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £52,125 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,250 £55,813
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% +18.70% -14.13%
75th Percentile £69,375 £83,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £112,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £56,900
% change year-on-year -21.43% +23.02% -8.96%

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 20 December 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:

Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 14 (45.16%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (45.16%) Amazon ECS
2 14 (45.16%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (45.16%) Serverless
3 12 (38.71%) Azure
4 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
5 5 (16.13%) Azure AI
6 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.45%) GCP
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.23%) dbt
8 1 (3.23%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) Relational Database
2 15 (48.39%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (45.16%) RDBMS
4 7 (22.58%) Power BI
5 6 (19.35%) Tableau
6 2 (6.45%) Data Hub
6 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.45%) Metadata
7 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (3.23%) Looker
7 1 (3.23%) MySQL
7 1 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Jenkins
2 14 (45.16%) JMeter
2 14 (45.16%) JUnit
2 14 (45.16%) Mockito
3 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
3 3 (9.68%) Git
3 3 (9.68%) Postman
3 3 (9.68%) Selenium
3 3 (9.68%) SoapUI
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 14 (45.16%) Public Sector
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Java Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Data Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Junior
3 5 (16.13%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Junior Data Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (48.39%) REST
1 15 (48.39%) Spring
1 15 (48.39%) Spring Boot
2 14 (45.16%) ActiveMQ
2 14 (45.16%) Apache Camel
2 14 (45.16%) Hibernate
2 14 (45.16%) HTML
2 14 (45.16%) jQuery
2 14 (45.16%) JSON
2 14 (45.16%) Web Services
2 14 (45.16%) WireMock
2 14 (45.16%) XML
3 4 (12.90%) SOAP
4 3 (9.68%) pytest
5 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (3.23%) Middleware
5 1 (3.23%) PySpark
5 1 (3.23%) React
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (48.39%) Microservices
4 14 (45.16%) BDD
4 14 (45.16%) Process Management
4 14 (45.16%) SDLC
4 14 (45.16%) TDD
4 14 (45.16%) Workflow
5 8 (25.81%) AI
6 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (16.13%) DevOps
8 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.68%) Batch Processing
9 3 (9.68%) Data Architecture
9 3 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (9.68%) ETL
9 3 (9.68%) Fintech
9 3 (9.68%) QA Automation
10 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 16 (51.61%) JavaScript
3 14 (45.16%) Shell Script
4 11 (35.48%) SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Go
6 3 (9.68%) PHP
7 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.23%) C#
7 1 (3.23%) R
7 1 (3.23%) Ruby
7 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
2 14 (45.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Dynatrace
1 14 (45.16%) Splunk
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce