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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 24 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 80 39 175
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 5.03% 7.44% 12.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.67% 36.45% 46.79%
Number of salaries quoted 44 12 83
10th Percentile - £50,848 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,899 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +36.36% +5.22%
75th Percentile £70,938 £99,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £111,250 £87,000
Berkshire median annual salary £61,250 £47,520 £62,500
% change year-on-year +28.89% -23.97% -3.85%

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 192 107 374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 12.06% 20.42% 27.70%
Number of salaries quoted 125 55 184
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,049 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +8.55% -2.50%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £72,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,250 £85,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +8.33%

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 16 September 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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Mathematica
Cloud Services
1 32 (40.00%) Azure
2 25 (31.25%) AWS
3 16 (20.00%) Azure AI
3 16 (20.00%) Serverless
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (17.50%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (16.25%) Power Platform
6 10 (12.50%) GitHub
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (7.50%) Amazon S3
8 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (7.50%) GCP
9 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.75%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (3.75%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DNS
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (13.75%) Power BI
3 10 (12.50%) Tableau
4 8 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.50%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.50%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Git
2 14 (17.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.50%) GitLab
4 9 (11.25%) JMeter
5 8 (10.00%) JIRA
5 8 (10.00%) JUnit
5 8 (10.00%) Mockito
6 6 (7.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.00%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.75%) Selenium
10 2 (2.50%) MLflow
10 2 (2.50%) Mocha
11 1 (1.25%) Burp Suite
General
1 42 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Finance
3 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.75%) Retail
5 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (2.50%) Aviation
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Developer
2 18 (22.50%) Software Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) Analyst
4 10 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Java Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Junior
6 7 (8.75%) Junior Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Junior Data Analyst
6 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Python Software Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.50%) Senior
8 5 (6.25%) Python Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Security Analyst
8 5 (6.25%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.50%) REST
2 15 (18.75%) React
3 11 (13.75%) JSON
4 10 (12.50%) HTML
5 9 (11.25%) Spring
6 8 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (10.00%) Apache Camel
6 8 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 8 (10.00%) jQuery
6 8 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.00%) WireMock
7 7 (8.75%) NumPy
7 7 (8.75%) Pandas
7 7 (8.75%) Web Services
8 6 (7.50%) Django
8 6 (7.50%) Terraform
8 6 (7.50%) XML
9 5 (6.25%) FastAPI
9 5 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (12.50%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 7 (8.75%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.25%) Synthetic Data
5 4 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.50%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (2.50%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.50%) CUDA
7 2 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.50%) Hackathon
7 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (43.75%) AI
2 26 (32.50%) Agile
2 26 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
5 21 (26.25%) Microservices
6 19 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (22.50%) DevOps
7 18 (22.50%) SDLC
8 15 (18.75%) Open Source
8 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (17.50%) Workflow
10 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
11 11 (13.75%) Business Analysis
11 11 (13.75%) Process Improvement
11 11 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 10 (12.50%) Code Quality
12 10 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 10 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (33.75%) Java
1 27 (33.75%) JavaScript
2 20 (25.00%) SQL
3 16 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 14 (17.50%) C++
5 10 (12.50%) C#
5 10 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 6 (7.50%) Groovy
7 5 (6.25%) Apex Code
8 4 (5.00%) Perl
9 3 (3.75%) Bash
9 3 (3.75%) C
9 3 (3.75%) MATLAB
9 3 (3.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (15.00%) Degree
5 7 (8.75%) Master's Degree
6 5 (6.25%) PhD
7 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.75%) CISSP
8 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) KVM
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.00%) Kibana
3 6 (7.50%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Packer
5 2 (2.50%) Argo
5 2 (2.50%) Grafana
5 2 (2.50%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.25%) Istio
6 1 (1.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 8 (10.00%) Splunk
3 5 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.25%) Thales
4 4 (5.00%) IBM
5 3 (3.75%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.75%) Darktrace
5 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.75%) VMware
6 2 (2.50%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian