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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 7 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 34 128 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 5.92% 14.70% 12.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.53% 44.44% 28.99%
Number of salaries quoted 9 55 63
10th Percentile £44,500 £55,750 £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 £98,750 £72,500
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 86 288 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 14.98% 33.07% 42.40%
Number of salaries quoted 49 121 250
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,050
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.07% -15.31%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £112,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £56,430 £70,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year -19.39% +23.84% -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 17 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) AWS
2 17 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (44.12%) Amazon ECS
3 15 (44.12%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (44.12%) Serverless
4 14 (41.18%) Azure
5 9 (26.47%) Power Platform
6 5 (14.71%) Azure AI
7 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.88%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.88%) GCP
8 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.94%) SaaS
9 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) DNS
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) FTP
2 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) SMTP
2 2 (5.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (55.88%) Relational Database
2 16 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (44.12%) RDBMS
4 7 (20.59%) Power BI
5 6 (17.65%) Tableau
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (5.88%) Data Hub
6 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.88%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.94%) Looker
7 1 (2.94%) MySQL
7 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 15 (44.12%) JMeter
2 15 (44.12%) JUnit
2 15 (44.12%) Mockito
3 5 (14.71%) Git
4 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.82%) Postman
4 3 (8.82%) Selenium
4 3 (8.82%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.88%) Vagrant
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 15 (44.12%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Developer
2 15 (44.12%) Java Developer
3 14 (41.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 14 (41.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 14 (41.18%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Data Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Junior
4 5 (14.71%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Junior Data Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (47.06%) REST
1 16 (47.06%) Spring
1 16 (47.06%) Spring Boot
2 15 (44.12%) ActiveMQ
2 15 (44.12%) Apache Camel
2 15 (44.12%) Hibernate
2 15 (44.12%) HTML
2 15 (44.12%) jQuery
2 15 (44.12%) JSON
2 15 (44.12%) Web Services
2 15 (44.12%) WireMock
2 15 (44.12%) XML
3 4 (11.76%) SOAP
4 3 (8.82%) pytest
5 1 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.94%) Middleware
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (2.94%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.94%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (5.88%) VMS
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) Agile
3 16 (47.06%) Full-Stack Development
3 16 (47.06%) Microservices
4 15 (44.12%) BDD
4 15 (44.12%) Process Management
4 15 (44.12%) TDD
4 15 (44.12%) Workflow
5 14 (41.18%) SDLC
6 8 (23.53%) AI
7 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (20.59%) DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 3 (8.82%) Data Architecture
9 3 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (8.82%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (8.82%) ETL
9 3 (8.82%) Fintech
9 3 (8.82%) Process Improvement
9 3 (8.82%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Java
2 17 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (44.12%) Shell Script
4 11 (32.35%) SQL
5 4 (11.76%) Go
6 3 (8.82%) PHP
7 2 (5.88%) Groovy
7 2 (5.88%) Perl
7 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.94%) C#
8 1 (2.94%) R
8 1 (2.94%) Ruby
8 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (44.12%) Security Cleared
2 9 (26.47%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (44.12%) Kibana
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Dynatrace
1 15 (44.12%) Splunk
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Databricks
4 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.94%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce