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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -12
Permanent jobs citing Python 324 281 462
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.64% 8.39% 6.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.62% 38.81% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 178 120 340
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,475 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,574 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £90,250 £80,250
South East median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% -15.38%

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 936 724 1,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.30% 21.61% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 702 436 1,562
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -14.06%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -6.78%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +22 133 £57,500 +15.00% 48
Oxfordshire +1 113 £60,000 - 41
Buckinghamshire +3 78 £56,000 -13.85% 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 (1.85%) Confluence
2 4 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.62%) WordPress
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) Camunda
4 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 65 (20.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.31%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 163 (50.31%) Azure
2 103 (31.79%) AWS
3 80 (24.69%) Power Platform
4 72 (22.22%) Azure AI
5 31 (9.57%) GCP
6 15 (4.63%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (4.63%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (4.63%) Serverless
7 14 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.32%) OpenShift
8 13 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (4.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.01%) GitHub
9 12 (3.70%) Cloudflare
10 11 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.47%) SaaS
13 7 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 29 (8.95%) Firewall
2 20 (6.17%) DNS
3 10 (3.09%) VPN
4 7 (2.16%) SSL
4 7 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.85%) HTTP
6 5 (1.54%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (0.93%) DHCP
8 2 (0.62%) Internet
9 1 (0.31%) Broadband
9 1 (0.31%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.31%) MQTT
9 1 (0.31%) Network Security
9 1 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.31%) SMTP
9 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Radio
9 1 (0.31%) SpaceWire
9 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (20.99%) Power BI
2 53 (16.36%) Tableau
3 23 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (3.40%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.78%) Data Lake
5 9 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.85%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.54%) Airbyte
7 5 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.93%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.93%) MySQL
8 3 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.62%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.62%) Redis
9 2 (0.62%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.31%) Big Data
10 1 (0.31%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.31%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (12.65%) Git
2 25 (7.72%) GitLab
3 17 (5.25%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.63%) JIRA
5 7 (2.16%) JMeter
5 7 (2.16%) JUnit
5 7 (2.16%) Mockito
6 6 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.93%) Polyspace
9 3 (0.93%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.62%) Mocha
10 2 (0.62%) Selenium
11 1 (0.31%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.31%) MLflow
11 1 (0.31%) Subversion
11 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 146 (45.06%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (10.80%) Finance
4 28 (8.64%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.94%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.85%) Retail
10 5 (1.54%) Automotive
10 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.54%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.54%) Law
11 4 (1.23%) Games
11 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.93%) Marketing
13 2 (0.62%) Banking
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 82 (25.31%) Analyst
2 69 (21.30%) Software Engineer
3 64 (19.75%) Data Analyst
4 58 (17.90%) Python Engineer
5 52 (16.05%) Junior
6 51 (15.74%) Junior Analyst
6 51 (15.74%) Junior Data Analyst
7 48 (14.81%) Python Software Engineer
8 39 (12.04%) Developer
9 32 (9.88%) C++ Software Engineer
10 26 (8.02%) Senior
11 25 (7.72%) C# Software Engineer
12 23 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 21 (6.48%) Data Engineer
14 18 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (5.56%) Network Engineer
15 16 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (4.63%) AWS Software Engineer
17 13 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
18 12 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.02%) REST
2 21 (6.48%) JSON
3 14 (4.32%) YAML
4 13 (4.01%) HTML
4 13 (4.01%) NumPy
4 13 (4.01%) Pandas
5 12 (3.70%) React
6 11 (3.40%) Django
7 10 (3.09%) Jinja
7 10 (3.09%) Web Services
7 10 (3.09%) XML
8 8 (2.47%) .NET
8 8 (2.47%) Spring
9 7 (2.16%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (2.16%) Apache Camel
9 7 (2.16%) Hibernate
9 7 (2.16%) jQuery
9 7 (2.16%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.16%) WireMock
10 6 (1.85%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (6.79%) Low-Code
3 18 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.94%) Algorithms
5 15 (4.63%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.63%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (4.63%) Life Science
6 14 (4.32%) Client/Server
7 11 (3.40%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
8 9 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (2.47%) PKI
10 7 (2.16%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.85%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.68%) Linux
2 22 (6.79%) Windows
3 6 (1.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.93%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.31%) Debian
5 1 (0.31%) FreeBSD
5 1 (0.31%) Gentoo
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.31%) OpenBSD
5 1 (0.31%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (36.42%) AI
2 81 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 78 (24.07%) Software Engineering
4 75 (23.15%) Business Intelligence
5 74 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
6 66 (20.37%) Agile
7 55 (16.98%) DevOps
8 43 (13.27%) Computer Science
8 43 (13.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (12.96%) Analytics
10 39 (12.04%) Containerisation
11 36 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 34 (10.49%) Machine Learning
13 31 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
14 30 (9.26%) Data Modelling
15 28 (8.64%) Data Governance
16 25 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
16 25 (7.72%) Infrastructure as Code
17 23 (7.10%) ETL
17 23 (7.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (31.79%) SQL
2 58 (17.90%) C++
3 48 (14.81%) C#
4 47 (14.51%) JavaScript
5 32 (9.88%) Java
6 26 (8.02%) PowerShell
7 23 (7.10%) Bash
8 19 (5.86%) C
9 18 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 14 (4.32%) Rust
11 12 (3.70%) VBA
12 11 (3.40%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.85%) Groovy
14 4 (1.23%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.23%) Go
14 4 (1.23%) Perl
14 4 (1.23%) R
15 2 (0.62%) Ruby
16 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.31%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 78 (24.07%) Degree
2 73 (22.53%) Azure Certification
3 47 (14.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (9.88%) Security Cleared
5 26 (8.02%) SC Cleared
6 20 (6.17%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.78%) ACCA
7 9 (2.78%) CIMA
8 8 (2.47%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 7 (2.16%) PhD
10 4 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.31%) GCIA
13 1 (0.31%) GIAC
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.31%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.80%) QA
2 15 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.93%) IEC 61508
4 3 (0.93%) ISO 26262
4 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.62%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.31%) ECSS
6 1 (0.31%) MISRA
6 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (9.88%) Docker
2 26 (8.02%) Hyper-V
2 26 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.10%) KVM
4 10 (3.09%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.94%) Terraform
3 13 (4.01%) Graylog
4 11 (3.40%) Ansible
5 9 (2.78%) Proxmox
6 8 (2.47%) Kibana
6 8 (2.47%) ZABBIX
7 7 (2.16%) Grafana
7 7 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.54%) Argo
9 4 (1.23%) Kustomize
9 4 (1.23%) Packer
10 3 (0.93%) Istio
11 1 (0.31%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.31%) Podman
11 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 98 (30.25%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.02%) VMware
3 14 (4.32%) Red Hat
3 14 (4.32%) SAP
4 10 (3.09%) Cisco
4 10 (3.09%) Databricks
4 10 (3.09%) Oracle
4 10 (3.09%) Splunk
5 8 (2.47%) IBM
5 8 (2.47%) Veeam
6 7 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.54%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
7 5 (1.54%) F5
7 5 (1.54%) Google
7 5 (1.54%) Juniper
7 5 (1.54%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.23%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.23%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.93%) MuleSoft