Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 26 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 337 285 424
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.98% 8.47% 6.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.99% 37.11% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 177 134 334
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,325 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,283 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +0.51% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -12.00%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 911 768 1,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.16% 22.82% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 671 488 1,550
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,959 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +17 138 £55,000 +5.77% 55
Oxfordshire +2 114 £63,750 +15.91% 92
Buckinghamshire +8 85 £55,000 -10.20% 31
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (1.78%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.59%) Confluence
2 2 (0.59%) WordPress
3 1 (0.30%) Apache
3 1 (0.30%) Camunda
3 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.30%) Kinematics
Applications
1 80 (23.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.56%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 180 (53.41%) Azure
2 104 (30.86%) Power Platform
3 94 (27.89%) AWS
4 83 (24.63%) Azure AI
5 32 (9.50%) GCP
6 22 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (4.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (4.15%) Serverless
10 13 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (3.56%) OpenShift
12 11 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (3.26%) GitHub
13 10 (2.97%) SaaS
14 9 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (2.37%) Cloudflare
16 7 (2.08%) Amazon S3
16 7 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.12%) Firewall
2 19 (5.64%) DNS
3 7 (2.08%) SSL
3 7 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.78%) VPN
5 5 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.48%) HTTP
6 3 (0.89%) DHCP
7 2 (0.59%) Internet
7 2 (0.59%) MQTT
8 1 (0.30%) Broadband
8 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.30%) Modbus
8 1 (0.30%) Network Security
8 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.30%) SMTP
8 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
8 1 (0.30%) SpaceWire
8 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (25.52%) Power BI
2 66 (19.58%) Tableau
3 19 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.67%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.67%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.48%) Airbyte
7 5 (1.48%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.89%) Metadata
8 3 (0.89%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.59%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.59%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.30%) Looker
10 1 (0.30%) MySQL
10 1 (0.30%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 43 (12.76%) Git
2 24 (7.12%) GitLab
3 19 (5.64%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.26%) JIRA
5 7 (2.08%) JMeter
5 7 (2.08%) JUnit
5 7 (2.08%) Mockito
6 6 (1.78%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.89%) MLflow
9 3 (0.89%) Polyspace
9 3 (0.89%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.30%) Subversion
11 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 165 (48.96%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.69%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (13.65%) Finance
4 25 (7.42%) Manufacturing
5 15 (4.45%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.86%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (2.67%) Law
9 7 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.19%) Automotive
12 4 (1.19%) Games
13 3 (0.89%) Marketing
13 3 (0.89%) Retail
14 2 (0.59%) Aviation
14 2 (0.59%) Electronics
14 2 (0.59%) Multimedia
14 2 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (28.78%) Analyst
2 79 (23.44%) Data Analyst
3 64 (18.99%) Junior
4 63 (18.69%) Junior Analyst
4 63 (18.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 60 (17.80%) Software Engineer
6 49 (14.54%) Python Engineer
7 47 (13.95%) Developer
8 42 (12.46%) Python Software Engineer
9 29 (8.61%) Senior
10 27 (8.01%) C++ Software Engineer
11 23 (6.82%) Data Engineer
12 22 (6.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 20 (5.93%) C# Software Engineer
14 19 (5.64%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (4.45%) Power Platform Developer
16 14 (4.15%) Network Engineer
16 14 (4.15%) Python Developer
17 13 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
18 12 (3.56%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.20%) REST
2 20 (5.93%) JSON
3 14 (4.15%) NumPy
3 14 (4.15%) Pandas
3 14 (4.15%) YAML
4 11 (3.26%) .NET
4 11 (3.26%) HTML
5 10 (2.97%) Jinja
5 10 (2.97%) React
5 10 (2.97%) Web Services
5 10 (2.97%) XML
6 9 (2.67%) Django
6 9 (2.67%) Middleware
7 8 (2.37%) SOAP
7 8 (2.37%) Spring
8 7 (2.08%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (2.08%) Apache Camel
8 7 (2.08%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.08%) jQuery
8 7 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
1 27 (8.01%) Low-Code
2 20 (5.93%) Life Science
3 16 (4.75%) Algorithms
3 16 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.86%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.26%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (2.97%) Hackathon
7 9 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
8 8 (2.37%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.78%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.19%) PKI
12 4 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 60 (17.80%) Linux
2 17 (5.04%) Windows
3 7 (2.08%) Unix
4 3 (0.89%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.30%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.30%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (39.17%) AI
2 92 (27.30%) CI/CD
3 91 (27.00%) Business Intelligence
4 74 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (21.66%) Agile
5 73 (21.66%) Software Engineering
6 59 (17.51%) DevOps
7 47 (13.95%) Analytics
8 46 (13.65%) Computer Science
9 44 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (11.87%) Machine Learning
11 37 (10.98%) Deployment Automation
12 36 (10.68%) Containerisation
13 35 (10.39%) Test Automation
14 34 (10.09%) Data Modelling
15 33 (9.79%) Decision-Making
16 32 (9.50%) Data Governance
17 30 (8.90%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (8.90%) ETL
18 28 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 121 (35.91%) SQL
2 51 (15.13%) JavaScript
3 50 (14.84%) C++
4 42 (12.46%) C#
5 28 (8.31%) Java
6 20 (5.93%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.34%) C
8 15 (4.45%) Bash
8 15 (4.45%) VBA
9 14 (4.15%) TypeScript
10 13 (3.86%) Rust
11 11 (3.26%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.78%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.78%) Groovy
13 5 (1.48%) R
14 4 (1.19%) Go
14 4 (1.19%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) Scala
15 1 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 83 (24.63%) Azure Certification
2 78 (23.15%) Degree
3 46 (13.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 30 (8.90%) Security Cleared
5 24 (7.12%) SC Cleared
6 21 (6.23%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.56%) ACCA
7 12 (3.56%) CIMA
8 8 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (1.78%) PhD
11 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.59%) CompTIA CySA+
13 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.30%) GCIA
14 1 (0.30%) GIAC
14 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.98%) QA
2 17 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.89%) IEC 61508
4 3 (0.89%) ISO 26262
4 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.59%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.59%) GxP
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) ECSS
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (8.90%) Docker
2 21 (6.23%) Hyper-V
2 21 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.34%) KVM
4 10 (2.97%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.93%) Terraform
3 11 (3.26%) Ansible
4 8 (2.37%) Graylog
4 8 (2.37%) Kibana
5 6 (1.78%) Grafana
5 6 (1.78%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.48%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.19%) Argo
7 4 (1.19%) Packer
7 4 (1.19%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.59%) Istio
8 2 (0.59%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 110 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.23%) VMware
3 17 (5.04%) SAP
4 14 (4.15%) Databricks
5 13 (3.86%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.97%) Cisco
6 10 (2.97%) Oracle
7 9 (2.67%) Splunk
8 7 (2.08%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.78%) IBM
9 6 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.48%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.48%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.48%) F5
10 5 (1.48%) Google
10 5 (1.48%) Juniper
10 5 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.48%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.19%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.19%) Veeam