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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 7 14
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 35 139 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.42% 14.05% 12.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.17% 44.84% 30.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9 55 68
10th Percentile £54,000 £55,750 £37,328
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +34.86% -13.98%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,625 £67,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,500 £82,000
Berkshire median annual salary £46,000 £70,000 £54,380
% change year-on-year -34.29% +28.72% -16.34%

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 83 310 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.23% 31.34% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 46 128 259
10th Percentile £43,750 £46,175 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,875 £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 £74,063 £81,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £105,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £55,100
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.50% -10.04%

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 9 December 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 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) AWS
2 20 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (51.43%) Amazon ECS
3 18 (51.43%) Amazon EKS
3 18 (51.43%) Serverless
4 11 (31.43%) Azure
5 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (11.43%) Azure AI
7 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
8 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.86%) dbt
9 1 (2.86%) GCP
9 1 (2.86%) SaaS
9 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) FTP
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
1 2 (5.71%) SMTP
1 2 (5.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (62.86%) Relational Database
2 19 (54.29%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (51.43%) RDBMS
4 6 (17.14%) Power BI
5 5 (14.29%) Tableau
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
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%) MySQL
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 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (54.29%) Developer
2 18 (51.43%) Java Developer
3 17 (48.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 17 (48.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (42.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Data Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Junior
5 4 (11.43%) Junior Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Lead
6 3 (8.57%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
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
5 2 (5.71%) React
6 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.86%) PySpark
6 1 (2.86%) React Native
6 1 (2.86%) RESTful
6 1 (2.86%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 18 (51.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
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 22 (62.86%) Agile
1 22 (62.86%) CI/CD
2 19 (54.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (54.29%) Microservices
2 19 (54.29%) TDD
3 18 (51.43%) BDD
3 18 (51.43%) Process Management
3 18 (51.43%) Workflow
4 15 (42.86%) SDLC
5 7 (20.00%) AI
6 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 4 (11.43%) Fintech
8 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 3 (8.57%) Batch Processing
9 3 (8.57%) Data Architecture
9 3 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (8.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
9 3 (8.57%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) Java
2 20 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 18 (51.43%) Shell Script
4 10 (28.57%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) Go
5 4 (11.43%) PHP
6 2 (5.71%) Groovy
6 2 (5.71%) Perl
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.86%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.86%) R
7 1 (2.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 19 (54.29%) Kubernetes
2 18 (51.43%) Kibana
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
3 2 (5.71%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Dynatrace
1 18 (51.43%) Splunk
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.86%) Informatica
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce