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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 26 19
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 96 43 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 8.32% 8.63% 8.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.34% 32.09% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 41 22 91
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.62% -10.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £91,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £114,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% -13.33% -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 187 134 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 16.20% 26.91% 31.17%
Number of salaries quoted 115 74 360
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,261 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £91,750 £81,375
Berkshire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -14.29%

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 29 May 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 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) Camunda
2 1 (1.04%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 65 (67.71%) Azure
2 44 (45.83%) AWS
3 26 (27.08%) Azure AI
3 26 (27.08%) Power Platform
4 24 (25.00%) GCP
5 13 (13.54%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (13.54%) Serverless
6 10 (10.42%) OpenShift
7 9 (9.38%) GitHub
8 8 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (7.29%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.21%) Apigee
11 5 (5.21%) Figma
11 5 (5.21%) Kong
12 2 (2.08%) Prefect
13 1 (1.04%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.58%) Firewall
2 5 (5.21%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (4.17%) DNS
4 1 (1.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.04%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) Tableau
2 19 (19.79%) Power BI
3 7 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.21%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) Git
2 20 (20.83%) GitLab
3 13 (13.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.29%) JMeter
4 7 (7.29%) JUnit
4 7 (7.29%) Mockito
5 6 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.21%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.21%) JIRA
7 4 (4.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (51.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Telecoms
3 13 (13.54%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.04%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Developer
2 22 (22.92%) Analyst
3 20 (20.83%) Data Analyst
3 20 (20.83%) Junior
3 20 (20.83%) Software Engineer
4 19 (19.79%) Junior Analyst
4 19 (19.79%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Network Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Telecoms Engineer
6 8 (8.33%) Python Developer
7 7 (7.29%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Network Specialist
8 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) REST
2 20 (20.83%) JSON
3 14 (14.58%) YAML
4 10 (10.42%) Jinja
4 10 (10.42%) Web Services
4 10 (10.42%) XML
5 9 (9.38%) NumPy
5 9 (9.38%) Pandas
5 9 (9.38%) React
6 8 (8.33%) HTML
6 8 (8.33%) Spring
7 7 (7.29%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (7.29%) Apache Camel
7 7 (7.29%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.29%) jQuery
7 7 (7.29%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.29%) WireMock
8 6 (6.25%) Django
8 6 (6.25%) WebSockets
9 5 (5.21%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (14.58%) Client/Server
3 11 (11.46%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (9.38%) Algorithms
5 8 (8.33%) Low-Code
6 7 (7.29%) Cloud Native
7 6 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
8 5 (5.21%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (2.08%) Security Posture
11 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
11 1 (1.04%) Clustering
11 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) CI/CD
2 29 (30.21%) AI
2 29 (30.21%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (27.08%) DevOps
4 25 (26.04%) Containerisation
4 25 (26.04%) Test Automation
5 24 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 21 (21.88%) Code Quality
7 20 (20.83%) Agile
8 19 (19.79%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (19.79%) Microservices
9 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (17.71%) Computer Science
11 14 (14.58%) System Testing
12 13 (13.54%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.42%) API Management
14 10 (10.42%) Task Automation
15 9 (9.38%) Collaborative Culture
15 9 (9.38%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.13%) JavaScript
2 22 (22.92%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) C
3 14 (14.58%) C++
3 14 (14.58%) Java
3 14 (14.58%) Rust
4 11 (11.46%) C#
5 9 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.29%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.25%) Groovy
8 4 (4.17%) Perl
9 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (28.13%) Azure Certification
2 19 (19.79%) Degree
3 16 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.88%) QA
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Docker
2 14 (14.58%) Hyper-V
2 14 (14.58%) KVM
2 14 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.71%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.29%) Kibana
3 6 (6.25%) Ansible
3 6 (6.25%) Terraform
4 4 (4.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 29 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.58%) VMware
3 10 (10.42%) Cisco
3 10 (10.42%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.29%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.29%) Splunk
5 5 (5.21%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.21%) F5
5 5 (5.21%) Juniper
5 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.17%) IBM
7 3 (3.13%) Databricks
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.04%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.04%) Pega
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) UiPath