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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 6 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 35 149 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.82% 13.41% 13.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.21% 46.13% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 55 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £37,328
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +34.86% -17.29%
75th Percentile £88,125 £93,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,500 £79,250
Berkshire median annual salary £47,520 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -32.11% +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 81 323 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.79% 29.07% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 46 133 260
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,625 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £99,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £58,750 £67,500 £55,050
% change year-on-year -12.96% +22.62% -8.25%

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 25 November 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 (5.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (68.57%) AWS
2 21 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 19 (54.29%) Serverless
4 18 (51.43%) Amazon ECS
4 18 (51.43%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (28.57%) Azure
6 5 (14.29%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.71%) Azure AI
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.71%) GCP
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.86%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) FTP
2 2 (5.71%) HTTP
2 2 (5.71%) SMTP
2 2 (5.71%) SSH
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (62.86%) Relational Database
2 20 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (51.43%) RDBMS
4 4 (11.43%) Power BI
5 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.57%) Tableau
6 2 (5.71%) Data Hub
6 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.71%) Metadata
7 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.86%) Looker
7 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.86%) MySQL
7 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.86%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 18 (51.43%) JMeter
2 18 (51.43%) JUnit
2 18 (51.43%) Mockito
3 5 (14.29%) Git
4 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.57%) Postman
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
4 3 (8.57%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.71%) JIRA
5 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
6 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 18 (51.43%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Developer
2 18 (51.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 18 (51.43%) Java Developer
3 17 (48.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (42.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Junior
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Data Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (54.29%) HTML
1 19 (54.29%) REST
1 19 (54.29%) Spring
1 19 (54.29%) Spring Boot
2 18 (51.43%) ActiveMQ
2 18 (51.43%) Apache Camel
2 18 (51.43%) Hibernate
2 18 (51.43%) jQuery
2 18 (51.43%) JSON
2 18 (51.43%) Web Services
2 18 (51.43%) WireMock
2 18 (51.43%) XML
3 4 (11.43%) SOAP
4 3 (8.57%) pytest
4 3 (8.57%) React
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.86%) PySpark
5 1 (2.86%) React Native
5 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) VMS
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Agile
1 23 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 20 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (54.29%) Microservices
3 19 (54.29%) TDD
4 18 (51.43%) BDD
4 18 (51.43%) Process Management
4 18 (51.43%) Workflow
5 15 (42.86%) SDLC
6 6 (17.14%) AI
6 6 (17.14%) DevOps
7 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.43%) Fintech
7 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
8 3 (8.57%) Batch Processing
8 3 (8.57%) Data Architecture
8 3 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (8.57%) ETL
8 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) Java
2 21 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 18 (51.43%) Shell Script
4 9 (25.71%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Go
5 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.71%) Groovy
7 2 (5.71%) Perl
7 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.86%) Bash
8 1 (2.86%) R
8 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 20 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 18 (51.43%) Kibana
3 3 (8.57%) Terraform
4 2 (5.71%) Grafana
4 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Dynatrace
1 18 (51.43%) Splunk
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce