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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 30 11
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 101 40 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 7.34% 7.43% 10.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 31.75% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 53 16 81
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,313 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £78,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +35.78% -3.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £93,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £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 202 126 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 14.68% 23.42% 27.92%
Number of salaries quoted 135 71 274
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,825
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,424 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £56,013
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +16.05% -19.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 23 July 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 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) Camunda
2 1 (0.99%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (18.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (54.46%) Azure
2 41 (40.59%) AWS
3 22 (21.78%) Azure AI
4 21 (20.79%) Power Platform
5 19 (18.81%) GCP
6 15 (14.85%) Serverless
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (11.88%) GitHub
8 12 (11.88%) OpenShift
9 7 (6.93%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.94%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.95%) Apigee
11 5 (4.95%) Figma
11 5 (4.95%) Kong
12 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.97%) WeChat
14 2 (1.98%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) Firewall
2 5 (4.95%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.99%) Internet
4 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.81%) Tableau
2 18 (17.82%) Power BI
3 11 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.95%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.98%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.98%) MySQL
6 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.98%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.99%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (26.73%) Git
2 20 (19.80%) GitLab
3 13 (12.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.93%) JIRA
4 7 (6.93%) JMeter
4 7 (6.93%) JUnit
4 7 (6.93%) Mockito
5 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.95%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.96%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.98%) Mocha
8 2 (1.98%) Selenium
9 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 53 (52.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.85%) Telecoms
3 12 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Mandarin Language
6 3 (2.97%) Retail
7 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.99%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 25 (24.75%) Software Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) Analyst
2 21 (20.79%) Developer
3 19 (18.81%) Data Analyst
4 16 (15.84%) Junior
5 15 (14.85%) Junior Analyst
5 15 (14.85%) Junior Data Analyst
6 10 (9.90%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Network Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Telecoms Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Python Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) Python Software Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) Java Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Automation Specialist
10 6 (5.94%) Network Specialist
10 6 (5.94%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) REST
2 20 (19.80%) JSON
3 15 (14.85%) React
4 14 (13.86%) YAML
5 10 (9.90%) HTML
5 10 (9.90%) Jinja
5 10 (9.90%) Web Services
5 10 (9.90%) XML
6 9 (8.91%) Django
7 8 (7.92%) NumPy
7 8 (7.92%) Pandas
7 8 (7.92%) Spring
8 7 (6.93%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (6.93%) Apache Camel
8 7 (6.93%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.93%) jQuery
8 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.93%) WireMock
9 6 (5.94%) WebSockets
10 5 (4.95%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.78%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (10.89%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (9.90%) Client/Server
4 8 (7.92%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.93%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.95%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.96%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.98%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.98%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.99%) Clustering
10 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.68%) Linux
2 5 (4.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.67%) AI
2 32 (31.68%) CI/CD
3 30 (29.70%) Software Engineering
4 29 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (25.74%) Containerisation
6 24 (23.76%) Microservices
7 23 (22.77%) Agile
7 23 (22.77%) DevOps
8 22 (21.78%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (21.78%) Test Automation
9 18 (17.82%) Code Quality
10 13 (12.87%) Computer Science
10 13 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (12.87%) Workflow
11 12 (11.88%) SDLC
12 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (10.89%) Task Automation
13 10 (9.90%) API Management
13 10 (9.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.67%) JavaScript
2 26 (25.74%) SQL
3 21 (20.79%) Java
4 15 (14.85%) C++
4 15 (14.85%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.89%) C
5 11 (10.89%) Rust
6 10 (9.90%) C#
7 9 (8.91%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.94%) Groovy
9 4 (3.96%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.96%) Perl
10 3 (2.97%) Bash
11 1 (0.99%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Azure Certification
2 17 (16.83%) Degree
3 12 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.88%) Security Cleared
4 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.83%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (18.81%) Docker
2 11 (10.89%) KVM
2 11 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.90%) Hyper-V
4 6 (5.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.93%) Kibana
3 6 (5.94%) Ansible
3 6 (5.94%) Terraform
4 4 (3.96%) Packer
5 2 (1.98%) Argo
5 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 2 (1.98%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.99%) Istio
6 1 (0.99%) Podman
Vendors
1 21 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Red Hat
3 11 (10.89%) VMware
4 10 (9.90%) Cisco
5 7 (6.93%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.93%) Splunk
6 5 (4.95%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.95%) F5
6 5 (4.95%) Juniper
6 5 (4.95%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.96%) IBM
7 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.97%) Databricks
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.99%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.99%) Pega
9 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.99%) UiPath