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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 9 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 87 66 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 8.84% 13.23% 6.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.18% 41.77% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 36 42 73
10th Percentile - £32,825 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £68,750 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +18.53% -3.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £103,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £114,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,783 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.38% -10.77%

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 170 158 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 17.28% 31.66% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 105 94 363
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £38,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,500 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,250 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +14.22% -17.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £110,250 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 April 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 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Camunda
2 1 (1.15%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (24.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 62 (71.26%) Azure
2 39 (44.83%) AWS
3 29 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 25 (28.74%) Azure AI
5 22 (25.29%) GCP
6 10 (11.49%) OpenShift
7 9 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (10.34%) Serverless
8 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.90%) GitHub
11 5 (5.75%) Apigee
11 5 (5.75%) Figma
11 5 (5.75%) Kong
12 3 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (2.30%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) Firewall
2 5 (5.75%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.30%) DNS
4 1 (1.15%) Internet
4 1 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) Tableau
2 21 (24.14%) Power BI
3 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.30%) Metadata
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.15%) Looker
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Git
2 18 (20.69%) GitLab
3 10 (11.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.90%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.75%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.75%) JIRA
6 4 (4.60%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.45%) JMeter
7 3 (3.45%) JUnit
7 3 (3.45%) Mockito
8 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 45 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 16 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.09%) Telecoms
4 12 (13.79%) Finance
5 5 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (26.44%) Analyst
2 21 (24.14%) Data Analyst
2 21 (24.14%) Junior
3 20 (22.99%) Developer
3 20 (22.99%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (22.99%) Junior Data Analyst
4 18 (20.69%) Software Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Network Engineer
5 10 (11.49%) Telecoms Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Automation Specialist
8 6 (6.90%) Network Specialist
8 6 (6.90%) Python Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Telecoms Specialist
9 5 (5.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.84%) REST
2 18 (20.69%) JSON
3 14 (16.09%) YAML
4 10 (11.49%) Jinja
5 8 (9.20%) Web Services
5 8 (9.20%) XML
6 7 (8.05%) NumPy
6 7 (8.05%) Pandas
6 7 (8.05%) React
7 5 (5.75%) Django
7 5 (5.75%) Spring
7 5 (5.75%) Twisted
7 5 (5.75%) WebSockets
7 5 (5.75%) YANG
8 4 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.60%) HTML
8 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.60%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.45%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (14.94%) Client/Server
3 10 (11.49%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (9.20%) Low-Code
5 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.75%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (37.93%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) CI/CD
2 30 (34.48%) AI
3 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (28.74%) Test Automation
5 22 (25.29%) Software Engineering
6 21 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 21 (24.14%) DevOps
7 18 (20.69%) Code Quality
8 17 (19.54%) Computer Science
9 16 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (17.24%) Microservices
11 14 (16.09%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (14.94%) Agile
12 13 (14.94%) System Testing
13 12 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (11.49%) API Management
14 10 (11.49%) Task Automation
15 9 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
15 9 (10.34%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.44%) SQL
2 22 (25.29%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.94%) C
3 13 (14.94%) C++
3 13 (14.94%) Rust
4 11 (12.64%) Java
5 9 (10.34%) C#
6 6 (6.90%) Groovy
6 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.75%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.60%) Perl
9 2 (2.30%) R
10 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) Azure Certification
2 19 (21.84%) Degree
3 16 (18.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.14%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Hyper-V
1 13 (14.94%) KVM
1 13 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (13.79%) Docker
3 5 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.90%) Ansible
2 6 (6.90%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Packer
4 3 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 30 (34.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) VMware
3 10 (11.49%) Cisco
3 10 (11.49%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.75%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.75%) F5
4 5 (5.75%) Juniper
4 5 (5.75%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.60%) IBM
6 3 (3.45%) Databricks
6 3 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.45%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.15%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.15%) Informatica
7 1 (1.15%) Pega
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) UiPath