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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 47 189 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.58% 9.82% 15.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.81% 34.87% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19 92 99
10th Percentile £31,750 £35,025 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £39,500 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,000 £83,750 £83,000
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -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 139 542 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.36% 28.16% 45.95%
Number of salaries quoted 75 334 397
10th Percentile £39,000 £37,689 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,424 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,013 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.05% -19.98% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,000 £82,125 £105,000
Berkshire median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.50% -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 July 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 4 (8.51%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) Serverless
3 22 (46.81%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (46.81%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (40.43%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (17.02%) Amazon S3
6 7 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (12.77%) AWS KMS
7 6 (12.77%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (10.64%) Azure
9 4 (8.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (4.26%) GCP
10 2 (4.26%) GitHub
10 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (2.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) SSL
3 3 (6.38%) DNS
4 2 (4.26%) FTP
4 2 (4.26%) HTTP
4 2 (4.26%) LAN
4 2 (4.26%) SMTP
4 2 (4.26%) SSH
4 2 (4.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (44.68%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (42.55%) RDBMS
2 20 (42.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.38%) Pinecone
3 3 (6.38%) Weaviate
4 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.26%) Metadata
4 2 (4.26%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (53.19%) Jenkins
2 18 (38.30%) JMeter
2 18 (38.30%) JUnit
2 18 (38.30%) Mockito
3 6 (12.77%) Git
4 5 (10.64%) JIRA
5 4 (8.51%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (6.38%) MLflow
7 2 (4.26%) GitLab
7 2 (4.26%) Mocha
7 2 (4.26%) Selenium
7 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.26%) Vagrant
8 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (40.43%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Electronics
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Developer
2 19 (40.43%) Java Developer
3 12 (25.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) Senior
7 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Graduate
8 4 (8.51%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Junior
8 4 (8.51%) Junior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Lead
8 4 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Developer
10 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (44.68%) HTML
1 21 (44.68%) REST
2 18 (38.30%) ActiveMQ
2 18 (38.30%) Apache Camel
2 18 (38.30%) Hibernate
2 18 (38.30%) jQuery
2 18 (38.30%) Spring
2 18 (38.30%) Spring Boot
2 18 (38.30%) Web Services
2 18 (38.30%) WireMock
3 12 (25.53%) JSON
4 11 (23.40%) XML
5 7 (14.89%) Node.js
6 3 (6.38%) CSS
6 3 (6.38%) PyTorch
6 3 (6.38%) scikit-learn
6 3 (6.38%) TensorFlow
7 2 (4.26%) Kafka
7 2 (4.26%) Pandas
7 2 (4.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (40.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Acoustics
2 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.26%) Replication
2 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
3 2 (4.26%) VMS
3 2 (4.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) Agile
2 23 (48.94%) CI/CD
3 21 (44.68%) Microservices
4 20 (42.55%) TDD
5 18 (38.30%) BDD
5 18 (38.30%) Process Management
5 18 (38.30%) Workflow
6 13 (27.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (25.53%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (23.40%) DevOps
9 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
10 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
12 7 (14.89%) Architectural Design
12 7 (14.89%) Kanban
12 7 (14.89%) Scrum
13 6 (12.77%) Patch Management
14 5 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
14 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 5 (10.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) Java
2 23 (48.94%) Shell Script
3 22 (46.81%) JavaScript
4 11 (23.40%) C++
5 9 (19.15%) SQL
6 4 (8.51%) C#
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 3 (6.38%) Groovy
7 3 (6.38%) Perl
7 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.38%) R
8 2 (4.26%) C
8 2 (4.26%) Fortran
9 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.13%) PHP
9 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) Degree
3 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
6 3 (6.38%) PhD
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 32 (68.09%) Docker
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (8.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.26%) DFS Replication
4 2 (4.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Kubernetes
2 18 (38.30%) Kibana
3 12 (25.53%) Terraform
4 10 (21.28%) Ansible
5 4 (8.51%) Nessus
5 4 (8.51%) Proxmox
6 3 (6.38%) Grafana
6 3 (6.38%) Kubeflow
6 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Dynatrace
1 18 (38.30%) Splunk
2 4 (8.51%) Juniper
3 2 (4.26%) Aruba
3 2 (4.26%) Cisco
3 2 (4.26%) Fortinet
3 2 (4.26%) Mellanox
3 2 (4.26%) NVIDIA
3 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) VMware