Python Jobs in Reading

Python
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 20 11
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 61 144 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.91% 8.48% 14.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.50% 26.13% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 38 82 111
10th Percentile £31,750 £37,625 £34,875
25th Percentile £51,011 £39,500 £38,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.77% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £83,750 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £55,565 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.39% -14.29% +7.69%

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 147 551 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 28.71% 32.45% 43.71%
Number of salaries quoted 89 358 424
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £38,725
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -17.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £82,875 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +12.50%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Python in Reading

Python
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in Reading.

Salary trend for Python in Reading

Python
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Reading over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in Reading

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) Apache
1 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (4.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) AWS
2 27 (44.26%) Serverless
3 22 (36.07%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (31.15%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (31.15%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (18.03%) Azure
6 6 (9.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (8.20%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (6.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (6.56%) AWS KMS
8 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.92%) Azure AI
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Firewall
1 4 (6.56%) SSL
2 2 (3.28%) LAN
2 2 (3.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (42.62%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (32.79%) RDBMS
2 20 (32.79%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.92%) Pinecone
4 3 (4.92%) Weaviate
5 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.28%) Metadata
5 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.28%) MySQL
5 2 (3.28%) Redis
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (37.70%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.51%) JMeter
2 18 (29.51%) JUnit
2 18 (29.51%) Mockito
3 8 (13.11%) Git
4 4 (6.56%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (4.92%) JIRA
5 3 (4.92%) MLflow
6 2 (3.28%) GitLab
6 2 (3.28%) Mocha
6 2 (3.28%) Selenium
7 1 (1.64%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.64%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (31.15%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Finance
4 3 (4.92%) Automotive
4 3 (4.92%) Electronics
4 3 (4.92%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.64%) Marketing
6 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (44.26%) Developer
2 20 (32.79%) Java Developer
3 13 (21.31%) Software Engineer
4 11 (18.03%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (9.84%) Junior
6 6 (9.84%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Principal Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Graduate
7 5 (8.20%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Junior Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Lead
8 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (36.07%) HTML
2 21 (34.43%) REST
3 18 (29.51%) ActiveMQ
3 18 (29.51%) Apache Camel
3 18 (29.51%) Hibernate
3 18 (29.51%) jQuery
3 18 (29.51%) Spring
3 18 (29.51%) Spring Boot
3 18 (29.51%) Web Services
3 18 (29.51%) WireMock
4 10 (16.39%) Node.js
5 6 (9.84%) Flutter
5 6 (9.84%) JSON
5 6 (9.84%) React
6 5 (8.20%) XML
7 4 (6.56%) CSS
8 3 (4.92%) Mustache
8 3 (4.92%) PyTorch
8 3 (4.92%) scikit-learn
8 3 (4.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (31.15%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.92%) IoT
3 2 (3.28%) Acoustics
3 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Agile
1 29 (47.54%) Microservices
2 27 (44.26%) CI/CD
2 27 (44.26%) Collaborative Working
3 20 (32.79%) Workflow
4 19 (31.15%) TDD
5 18 (29.51%) BDD
5 18 (29.51%) Process Management
6 16 (26.23%) Software Engineering
7 14 (22.95%) DevOps
8 13 (21.31%) Architectural Design
8 13 (21.31%) Kanban
8 13 (21.31%) Scrum
9 11 (18.03%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (18.03%) Computer Science
9 11 (18.03%) Machine Learning
9 11 (18.03%) SDLC
10 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (13.11%) LLM
10 8 (13.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 29 (47.54%) Java
2 23 (37.70%) Shell Script
3 22 (36.07%) JavaScript
4 19 (31.15%) C++
5 10 (16.39%) SQL
6 8 (13.11%) C
7 7 (11.48%) C#
7 7 (11.48%) Perl
8 6 (9.84%) Go
8 6 (9.84%) Ruby
8 6 (9.84%) Rust
9 3 (4.92%) Bash
9 3 (4.92%) R
10 2 (3.28%) Fortran
11 1 (1.64%) Groovy
11 1 (1.64%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) Security Cleared
2 16 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.03%) Degree
4 8 (13.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
6 3 (4.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 35 (57.38%) Docker
2 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (52.46%) Kubernetes
2 18 (29.51%) Kibana
3 15 (24.59%) Terraform
4 9 (14.75%) Ansible
5 4 (6.56%) Nessus
5 4 (6.56%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.92%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.64%) Grafana
7 1 (1.64%) Packer
7 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Dynatrace
1 18 (29.51%) Splunk
2 4 (6.56%) Juniper
3 2 (3.28%) Aruba
3 2 (3.28%) Cisco
3 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.28%) Mellanox
3 2 (3.28%) NVIDIA
3 2 (3.28%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.28%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.64%) IBM
4 1 (1.64%) SAP
4 1 (1.64%) VMware