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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 27 13
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 102 46 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 7.93% 8.49% 9.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.00% 33.33% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 49 18 92
10th Percentile £37,000 £31,750 £35,025
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £73,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.03% +27.16% -3.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £91,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £109,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% -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 200 138 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 15.55% 25.46% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 128 74 328
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £38,564
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,848 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +14.99% -19.25%
75th Percentile £79,063 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,250 £82,875
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%

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 8 July 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 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.98%) Camunda
2 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.98%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (59.80%) Azure
2 45 (44.12%) AWS
3 23 (22.55%) Azure AI
3 23 (22.55%) GCP
3 23 (22.55%) Power Platform
4 15 (14.71%) Serverless
5 13 (12.75%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (12.75%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (11.76%) OpenShift
7 11 (10.78%) GitHub
8 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.90%) Apigee
10 5 (4.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (4.90%) Figma
10 5 (4.90%) Kong
11 2 (1.96%) Prefect
11 2 (1.96%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.75%) Firewall
2 5 (4.90%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) Internet
4 1 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.63%) Tableau
2 18 (17.65%) Power BI
3 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.86%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.96%) MySQL
6 2 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.96%) Redis
7 1 (0.98%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.98%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (25.49%) Git
2 21 (20.59%) GitLab
3 13 (12.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.86%) JIRA
4 7 (6.86%) JMeter
4 7 (6.86%) JUnit
4 7 (6.86%) Mockito
5 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.90%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.92%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.96%) Mocha
8 2 (1.96%) Selenium
9 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.71%) Telecoms
3 14 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.75%) Finance
5 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Retail
8 2 (1.96%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.98%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 23 (22.55%) Developer
1 23 (22.55%) Software Engineer
2 21 (20.59%) Analyst
3 19 (18.63%) Data Analyst
4 17 (16.67%) Junior
5 16 (15.69%) Junior Analyst
5 16 (15.69%) Junior Data Analyst
6 10 (9.80%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Network Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Telecoms Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Java Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Python Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Automation Specialist
10 6 (5.88%) Network Specialist
10 6 (5.88%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.53%) REST
2 20 (19.61%) JSON
3 14 (13.73%) YAML
4 11 (10.78%) React
5 10 (9.80%) HTML
5 10 (9.80%) Jinja
5 10 (9.80%) Web Services
5 10 (9.80%) XML
6 9 (8.82%) NumPy
6 9 (8.82%) Pandas
7 8 (7.84%) Spring
8 7 (6.86%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (6.86%) Apache Camel
8 7 (6.86%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.86%) jQuery
8 7 (6.86%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.86%) WireMock
9 6 (5.88%) Django
9 6 (5.88%) WebSockets
10 5 (4.90%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.51%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (13.73%) Client/Server
3 11 (10.78%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (8.82%) Algorithms
5 8 (7.84%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (5.88%) Low-Code
7 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.90%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.94%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.96%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.96%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.98%) Clustering
10 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (35.29%) Linux
2 5 (4.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.31%) CI/CD
2 33 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (30.39%) AI
4 28 (27.45%) Software Engineering
5 26 (25.49%) Containerisation
5 26 (25.49%) DevOps
6 25 (24.51%) Test Automation
7 23 (22.55%) Agile
7 23 (22.55%) Microservices
8 21 (20.59%) Code Quality
9 20 (19.61%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (16.67%) Computer Science
12 14 (13.73%) System Testing
13 13 (12.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (11.76%) Workflow
15 11 (10.78%) Deployment Automation
15 11 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
16 10 (9.80%) API Management
16 10 (9.80%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (31.37%) JavaScript
2 25 (24.51%) SQL
3 19 (18.63%) Java
4 17 (16.67%) C++
5 14 (13.73%) C
5 14 (13.73%) Rust
6 12 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.78%) C#
8 9 (8.82%) Shell Script
9 6 (5.88%) Groovy
10 4 (3.92%) Perl
11 3 (2.94%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.94%) Bash
12 1 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (23.53%) Azure Certification
2 21 (20.59%) Degree
3 16 (15.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
5 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.59%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (17.65%) Docker
2 14 (13.73%) Hyper-V
2 14 (13.73%) KVM
2 14 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.86%) Kibana
3 6 (5.88%) Ansible
3 6 (5.88%) Terraform
4 4 (3.92%) Packer
5 2 (1.96%) Argo
5 2 (1.96%) Grafana
5 2 (1.96%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) Istio
Vendors
1 24 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.73%) VMware
3 12 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.80%) Cisco
5 7 (6.86%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.86%) Splunk
6 5 (4.90%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.90%) F5
6 5 (4.90%) Juniper
6 5 (4.90%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.92%) IBM
8 3 (2.94%) Databricks
8 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.98%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.98%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.98%) Pega
9 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.98%) UiPath