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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 28 8
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 92 38 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.02% 7.10% 11.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.67% 33.04% 44.32%
Number of salaries quoted 53 14 84
10th Percentile £35,500 £41,625 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,848 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,750 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +32.91% -1.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £94,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £115,500 £86,750
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,520 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.26% -23.97% -7.41%

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 193 115 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 12.64% 21.50% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 133 61 209
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 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £84,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

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 22 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 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 45 (48.91%) Azure
2 35 (38.04%) AWS
3 20 (21.74%) Azure AI
4 16 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 15 (16.30%) Serverless
6 14 (15.22%) GitHub
7 13 (14.13%) Amazon EC2
7 13 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (13.04%) GCP
9 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.52%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.35%) Figma
13 3 (3.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 3 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (3.26%) Kong
13 3 (3.26%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.70%) Firewall
2 3 (3.26%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.17%) DNS
4 1 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) Tableau
2 14 (15.22%) Power BI
3 11 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.43%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.17%) MySQL
6 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.17%) Redis
7 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (27.17%) Git
2 16 (17.39%) GitLab
3 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.61%) JIRA
4 7 (7.61%) JMeter
4 7 (7.61%) JUnit
4 7 (7.61%) Mockito
5 6 (6.52%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.43%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.17%) Mocha
8 2 (2.17%) Selenium
9 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.96%) Finance
3 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Retail
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Software Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) Developer
3 20 (21.74%) Analyst
4 15 (16.30%) Data Analyst
5 12 (13.04%) Junior
6 11 (11.96%) Junior Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) Junior Data Analyst
7 8 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Java Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Python Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Python Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Python Software Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Network Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior
9 6 (6.52%) Telecoms Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.43%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.00%) REST
2 18 (19.57%) React
3 16 (17.39%) JSON
4 10 (10.87%) HTML
4 10 (10.87%) YAML
5 9 (9.78%) Django
5 9 (9.78%) Web Services
6 8 (8.70%) NumPy
6 8 (8.70%) Pandas
6 8 (8.70%) Spring
6 8 (8.70%) XML
7 7 (7.61%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (7.61%) Apache Camel
7 7 (7.61%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.61%) jQuery
7 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.61%) WireMock
8 6 (6.52%) Jinja
8 6 (6.52%) Terraform
9 5 (5.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.43%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (3.26%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.17%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.17%) Hackathon
7 2 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.09%) Clustering
8 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (35.87%) AI
2 27 (29.35%) CI/CD
2 27 (29.35%) Software Engineering
3 26 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (26.09%) Agile
5 23 (25.00%) Microservices
6 20 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 20 (21.74%) DevOps
7 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 14 (15.22%) Code Quality
8 14 (15.22%) SDLC
8 14 (15.22%) Workflow
9 12 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (11.96%) Open Source
10 11 (11.96%) User Experience
11 10 (10.87%) Business Analysis
12 9 (9.78%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) JavaScript
2 23 (25.00%) Java
2 23 (25.00%) SQL
3 17 (18.48%) TypeScript
4 12 (13.04%) C++
5 10 (10.87%) C#
6 9 (9.78%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.52%) C
7 6 (6.52%) Groovy
7 6 (6.52%) Rust
8 5 (5.43%) Apex Code
9 4 (4.35%) Perl
10 3 (3.26%) Bash
11 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Azure Certification
2 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.96%) Degree
4 9 (9.78%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.26%) CISSP
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) KVM
2 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.43%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (20.65%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.61%) Kibana
3 6 (6.52%) Ansible
4 4 (4.35%) Packer
5 2 (2.17%) Argo
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.09%) Istio
6 1 (1.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 7 (7.61%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.61%) Splunk
4 6 (6.52%) Cisco
4 6 (6.52%) VMware
5 5 (5.43%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.43%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.35%) IBM
7 3 (3.26%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.26%) Darktrace
7 3 (3.26%) Databricks
7 3 (3.26%) F5
7 3 (3.26%) Juniper
7 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
7 3 (3.26%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.09%) Atlassian