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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 29 10
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 97 38 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.50% 7.13% 11.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.99% 32.20% 43.65%
Number of salaries quoted 52 14 84
10th Percentile £35,250 £41,625 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,848 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,750 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +33.47% -1.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £94,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,375 £115,500 £86,750
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,520 £60,500
% change year-on-year +26.26% -21.45% -12.95%

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 198 118 378
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 13.27% 22.14% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 133 64 218
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,636 £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 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%

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 13 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 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (51.55%) Azure
2 39 (40.21%) AWS
3 20 (20.62%) Azure AI
4 17 (17.53%) Power Platform
5 16 (16.49%) GCP
6 15 (15.46%) Serverless
7 14 (14.43%) GitHub
8 13 (13.40%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (10.31%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.19%) Amazon S3
11 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.15%) Figma
13 4 (4.12%) Apigee
13 4 (4.12%) Kong
14 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (3.09%) WeChat
15 2 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) Firewall
2 4 (4.12%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.06%) DNS
4 1 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Tableau
2 15 (15.46%) Power BI
3 11 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.15%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.06%) MySQL
6 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.06%) Redis
7 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (27.84%) Git
2 18 (18.56%) GitLab
3 13 (13.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.22%) JIRA
4 7 (7.22%) JMeter
4 7 (7.22%) JUnit
4 7 (7.22%) Mockito
5 6 (6.19%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.06%) Mocha
8 2 (2.06%) Selenium
9 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (52.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Finance
2 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
3 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Retail
6 3 (3.09%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Software Engineer
2 21 (21.65%) Developer
3 20 (20.62%) Analyst
4 16 (16.49%) Data Analyst
5 13 (13.40%) Junior
6 12 (12.37%) Junior Analyst
6 12 (12.37%) Junior Data Analyst
7 8 (8.25%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Java Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Network Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Python Software Engineer
7 8 (8.25%) Telecoms Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Python Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (5.15%) Automation Specialist
10 5 (5.15%) Network Specialist
10 5 (5.15%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.77%) REST
2 18 (18.56%) JSON
2 18 (18.56%) React
3 12 (12.37%) YAML
4 10 (10.31%) Django
4 10 (10.31%) HTML
4 10 (10.31%) Web Services
5 9 (9.28%) XML
6 8 (8.25%) Jinja
6 8 (8.25%) NumPy
6 8 (8.25%) Pandas
6 8 (8.25%) Spring
7 7 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
7 7 (7.22%) Apache Camel
7 7 (7.22%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.22%) jQuery
7 7 (7.22%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.22%) WireMock
8 6 (6.19%) WebSockets
9 5 (5.15%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.25%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.25%) Client/Server
4 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.15%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.06%) Hackathon
6 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.03%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.03%) Clustering
7 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.90%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.99%) AI
2 30 (30.93%) Software Engineering
3 29 (29.90%) CI/CD
4 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (24.74%) Agile
5 24 (24.74%) Microservices
6 23 (23.71%) Containerisation
7 21 (21.65%) DevOps
8 20 (20.62%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (20.62%) Test Automation
9 17 (17.53%) Code Quality
10 14 (14.43%) Workflow
11 13 (13.40%) SDLC
12 12 (12.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (11.34%) User Experience
14 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
14 10 (10.31%) Open Source
15 9 (9.28%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
2 24 (24.74%) SQL
3 22 (22.68%) Java
4 17 (17.53%) TypeScript
5 14 (14.43%) C++
6 10 (10.31%) C#
7 9 (9.28%) C
7 9 (9.28%) Rust
7 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.19%) Groovy
9 5 (5.15%) Apex Code
10 4 (4.12%) Perl
11 3 (3.09%) Bash
12 1 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) Azure Certification
2 14 (14.43%) Degree
3 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
4 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.06%) CISSP
6 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.53%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (19.59%) Docker
2 9 (9.28%) KVM
2 9 (9.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.25%) Hyper-V
4 6 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.22%) Kibana
3 6 (6.19%) Ansible
3 6 (6.19%) Terraform
4 4 (4.12%) Packer
5 2 (2.06%) Argo
5 2 (2.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.06%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.03%) Istio
6 1 (1.03%) Podman
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Red Hat
3 9 (9.28%) VMware
4 8 (8.25%) Cisco
5 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
5 7 (7.22%) Splunk
6 5 (5.15%) AppDynamics
6 5 (5.15%) Salesforce
7 4 (4.12%) F5
7 4 (4.12%) IBM
7 4 (4.12%) Juniper
7 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.09%) Databricks
9 2 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (2.06%) Darktrace
9 2 (2.06%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.03%) Atlassian