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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 100 41 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.98% 7.68% 10.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.51% 33.06% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 54 16 79
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,313 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +16.38% -3.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £93,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £112,500 £87,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% -14.29%

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 198 124 395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 13.83% 23.22% 26.82%
Number of salaries quoted 133 69 235
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,848 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year - +7.88% -10.74%

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 1 August 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 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 53 (53.00%) Azure
2 40 (40.00%) AWS
3 21 (21.00%) Azure AI
4 19 (19.00%) Power Platform
5 18 (18.00%) GCP
6 15 (15.00%) Serverless
7 13 (13.00%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (13.00%) Amazon EKS
7 13 (13.00%) GitHub
8 12 (12.00%) OpenShift
9 7 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (6.00%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.00%) Apigee
11 5 (5.00%) Figma
11 5 (5.00%) Kong
12 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.00%) WeChat
13 2 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (2.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) Firewall
2 5 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.00%) DNS
4 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.00%) Tableau
2 17 (17.00%) Power BI
3 11 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.00%) Redis
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (28.00%) Git
2 20 (20.00%) GitLab
3 13 (13.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.00%) JIRA
4 7 (7.00%) JMeter
4 7 (7.00%) JUnit
4 7 (7.00%) Mockito
5 6 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.00%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.00%) Mocha
8 2 (2.00%) Selenium
9 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (51.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Telecoms
3 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Finance
4 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (3.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Software Engineer
2 21 (21.00%) Developer
3 20 (20.00%) Analyst
4 18 (18.00%) Data Analyst
5 15 (15.00%) Junior
6 14 (14.00%) Junior Analyst
6 14 (14.00%) Junior Data Analyst
7 10 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Network Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Python Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 10 (10.00%) Telecoms Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Java Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Python Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Automation Specialist
10 6 (6.00%) Network Specialist
10 6 (6.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.00%) REST
2 20 (20.00%) JSON
3 17 (17.00%) React
4 14 (14.00%) YAML
5 10 (10.00%) Django
5 10 (10.00%) HTML
5 10 (10.00%) Jinja
5 10 (10.00%) Web Services
5 10 (10.00%) XML
6 8 (8.00%) NumPy
6 8 (8.00%) Pandas
6 8 (8.00%) Spring
7 7 (7.00%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (7.00%) Apache Camel
7 7 (7.00%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.00%) jQuery
7 7 (7.00%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.00%) WireMock
8 6 (6.00%) WebSockets
9 5 (5.00%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (11.00%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 8 (8.00%) Algorithms
5 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.00%) Hackathon
7 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.00%) Clustering
8 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.00%) Linux
2 5 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (1.00%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.00%) AI
2 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (31.00%) Software Engineering
3 28 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 25 (25.00%) Microservices
5 24 (24.00%) Agile
6 22 (22.00%) DevOps
6 22 (22.00%) Test Automation
7 21 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (18.00%) Code Quality
9 14 (14.00%) Workflow
10 13 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (12.00%) Computer Science
11 12 (12.00%) SDLC
12 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.00%) Task Automation
13 10 (10.00%) API Management
13 10 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.00%) JavaScript
2 26 (26.00%) SQL
3 21 (21.00%) Java
4 16 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 15 (15.00%) C++
6 11 (11.00%) C
6 11 (11.00%) Rust
7 10 (10.00%) C#
8 9 (9.00%) Shell Script
9 6 (6.00%) Groovy
10 5 (5.00%) Apex Code
11 4 (4.00%) Perl
12 3 (3.00%) Bash
13 1 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Azure Certification
2 16 (16.00%) Degree
3 12 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (19.00%) Docker
2 11 (11.00%) KVM
2 11 (11.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.00%) Kibana
3 6 (6.00%) Ansible
3 6 (6.00%) Terraform
4 4 (4.00%) Packer
5 2 (2.00%) Argo
5 2 (2.00%) Grafana
5 2 (2.00%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.00%) Istio
6 1 (1.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 11 (11.00%) VMware
4 10 (10.00%) Cisco
5 7 (7.00%) Dynatrace
5 7 (7.00%) Splunk
6 5 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 5 (5.00%) F5
6 5 (5.00%) Juniper
6 5 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.00%) IBM
8 3 (3.00%) Databricks
9 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.00%) OpenAI