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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -21 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 80 34 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 4.88% 6.55% 13.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.24% 35.42% 48.92%
Number of salaries quoted 45 10 77
10th Percentile - £49,888 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +32.00% +11.01%
75th Percentile £68,750 £94,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £111,250 £92,250
Berkshire median annual salary £61,250 £47,520 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.89% -26.89% +8.33%

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 194 96 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.84% 18.50% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 125 49 167
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,848 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,125
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +5.71% -1.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,750 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +12.07%

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 28 September 2026.

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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.00%) Mathematica
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) Azure
2 26 (32.50%) AWS
3 16 (20.00%) Serverless
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (16.25%) Azure AI
6 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 9 (11.25%) GitHub
8 8 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
9 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (6.25%) GCP
11 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (3.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
12 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.75%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DNS
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.50%) Power BI
3 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.00%) Tableau
4 6 (7.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (1.25%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.25%) Metadata
6 1 (1.25%) Power Query
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Git
2 14 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.50%) GitLab
4 9 (11.25%) JMeter
5 8 (10.00%) JIRA
5 8 (10.00%) JUnit
5 8 (10.00%) Mockito
6 6 (7.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.75%) Selenium
10 2 (2.50%) MLflow
10 2 (2.50%) Mocha
11 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
General
1 42 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
3 9 (11.25%) Retail
4 7 (8.75%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (2.50%) Aviation
7 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Electronics
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Developer
2 17 (21.25%) Software Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Security Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Python Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Python Software Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Junior
7 5 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Junior Data Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) REST
2 14 (17.50%) React
3 11 (13.75%) JSON
4 10 (12.50%) HTML
5 9 (11.25%) Spring
6 8 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (10.00%) Apache Camel
6 8 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 8 (10.00%) jQuery
6 8 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.00%) WireMock
7 6 (7.50%) NumPy
7 6 (7.50%) Pandas
7 6 (7.50%) Terraform
7 6 (7.50%) Web Services
7 6 (7.50%) XML
8 5 (6.25%) Django
8 5 (6.25%) FastAPI
8 5 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (7.50%) Synthetic Data
6 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
6 3 (3.75%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.50%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (2.50%) CUDA
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.50%) Hackathon
7 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.25%) Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) AI
2 29 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (32.50%) Agile
4 24 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 23 (28.75%) Software Engineering
6 21 (26.25%) Microservices
7 19 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (23.75%) DevOps
7 19 (23.75%) SDLC
8 18 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (20.00%) Open Source
9 16 (20.00%) Workflow
10 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
11 12 (15.00%) Business Analysis
11 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
11 12 (15.00%) Process Improvement
12 11 (13.75%) Data Engineering
13 10 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
13 10 (12.50%) User Experience
13 10 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.00%) Java
2 27 (33.75%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.75%) SQL
4 16 (20.00%) C++
4 16 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 11 (13.75%) C#
6 10 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 6 (7.50%) Groovy
8 5 (6.25%) Apex Code
9 4 (5.00%) MATLAB
9 4 (5.00%) Perl
10 3 (3.75%) Bash
10 3 (3.75%) C
10 3 (3.75%) Rust
11 2 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.25%) Azure Certification
4 12 (15.00%) Degree
5 8 (10.00%) Master's Degree
6 6 (7.50%) PhD
7 5 (6.25%) CISSP
8 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (2.50%) SANS
10 1 (1.25%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.25%) IASME
4 1 (1.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (17.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) KVM
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.00%) Kibana
3 6 (7.50%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Packer
5 2 (2.50%) Argo
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Istio
6 1 (1.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 8 (10.00%) Splunk
3 7 (8.75%) Thales
4 5 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 5 (6.25%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (6.25%) Darktrace
4 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.00%) IBM
6 3 (3.75%) Databricks
6 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.50%) VMware
8 1 (1.25%) Atlassian