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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 30 10
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 97 38 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 6.40% 7.10% 11.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.99% 32.48% 44.35%
Number of salaries quoted 54 14 84
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,625 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,848 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,750 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% +32.91% -1.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £94,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £115,500 £86,750
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,520 £62,500
% change year-on-year +26.26% -23.97% -7.41%

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 198 117 372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 13.07% 21.87% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 134 63 211
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,848 £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 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +5.69% -5.38%

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 19 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 15 (15.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 49 (50.52%) Azure
2 39 (40.21%) AWS
3 20 (20.62%) Azure AI
4 16 (16.49%) Power Platform
5 15 (15.46%) GCP
5 15 (15.46%) GitHub
5 15 (15.46%) Serverless
6 13 (13.40%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (13.40%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (10.31%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.19%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.15%) Figma
11 4 (4.12%) Apigee
11 4 (4.12%) Kong
12 3 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.09%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (3.09%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.09%) WeChat
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 15 (15.46%) Tableau
2 14 (14.43%) 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 53 (54.64%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.34%) Finance
2 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
3 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.15%) Retail
5 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
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 15 (15.46%) Data Analyst
5 12 (12.37%) Junior
6 11 (11.34%) Junior Analyst
6 11 (11.34%) 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
9 6 (6.19%) Senior
10 5 (5.15%) Automation Specialist
10 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.77%) REST
2 19 (19.59%) React
3 18 (18.56%) JSON
4 12 (12.37%) YAML
5 10 (10.31%) Django
5 10 (10.31%) HTML
5 10 (10.31%) Web Services
6 9 (9.28%) XML
7 8 (8.25%) Jinja
7 8 (8.25%) NumPy
7 8 (8.25%) Pandas
7 8 (8.25%) Spring
8 7 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (7.22%) Apache Camel
8 7 (7.22%) Hibernate
8 7 (7.22%) jQuery
8 7 (7.22%) Spring Boot
8 7 (7.22%) WireMock
9 6 (6.19%) WebSockets
10 5 (5.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.59%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.25%) Algorithms
4 7 (7.22%) Client/Server
5 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.15%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.09%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.06%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (2.06%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.06%) Hackathon
8 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.03%) Clustering
9 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.87%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.02%) 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
9 19 (19.59%) Test Automation
10 17 (17.53%) Code Quality
11 14 (14.43%) SDLC
11 14 (14.43%) Workflow
12 13 (13.40%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (12.37%) User Experience
14 11 (11.34%) Open Source
15 10 (10.31%) Business Analysis
15 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.99%) JavaScript
2 23 (23.71%) Java
2 23 (23.71%) SQL
3 18 (18.56%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.43%) C++
5 10 (10.31%) C#
6 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.25%) C
7 8 (8.25%) Rust
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 13 (13.40%) Degree
3 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.09%) CISSP
5 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (19.59%) Docker
2 8 (8.25%) KVM
2 8 (8.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (7.22%) 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 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Red Hat
3 8 (8.25%) Cisco
3 8 (8.25%) VMware
4 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
4 7 (7.22%) Splunk
5 5 (5.15%) AppDynamics
5 5 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.12%) F5
6 4 (4.12%) IBM
6 4 (4.12%) Juniper
6 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.09%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.09%) Darktrace
7 3 (3.09%) Databricks
7 3 (3.09%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.03%) Atlassian