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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -30 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 187 375 332
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.76% 10.16% 10.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.27% 29.27% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 103 189 204
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £108,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

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 598 1,281 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.21% 34.72% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 436 764 929
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,688 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,100
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.43% -8.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -27 91 £46,000 -34.29% 341
Buckinghamshire -7 49 £60,000 +4.35% 96
Oxfordshire -8 47 £67,500 +1.07% 112
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 (3.21%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.07%) Confluence
3 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (13.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.74%) MadCap Flare
3 3 (1.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (35.83%) Azure
2 56 (29.95%) Power Platform
3 54 (28.88%) AWS
4 33 (17.65%) GCP
5 20 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (10.16%) Serverless
7 16 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (8.56%) GitHub
8 15 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (8.02%) Azure AI
9 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (3.74%) dbt
10 7 (3.74%) Google Analytics
10 7 (3.74%) Google Docs
11 6 (3.21%) Amazon S3
11 6 (3.21%) SaaS
11 6 (3.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (3.21%) Snowflake
12 5 (2.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.28%) DNS
1 8 (4.28%) Firewall
2 6 (3.21%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.14%) Wireless
4 3 (1.60%) HTTP
4 3 (1.60%) Internet
4 3 (1.60%) MQTT
5 2 (1.07%) 5G
5 2 (1.07%) FTP
5 2 (1.07%) SMTP
5 2 (1.07%) SSH
6 1 (0.53%) 4G
6 1 (0.53%) Broadband
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) Intranet
6 1 (0.53%) MIMO
6 1 (0.53%) NGN
6 1 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.53%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.67%) Power BI
2 27 (14.44%) Tableau
3 24 (12.83%) BigQuery
3 24 (12.83%) Relational Database
4 18 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (8.02%) RDBMS
6 13 (6.95%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (5.35%) Metadata
8 6 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.67%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.60%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.60%) Looker
10 3 (1.60%) MySQL
11 2 (1.07%) Airbyte
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (14.44%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.30%) Git
3 15 (8.02%) JMeter
3 15 (8.02%) JUnit
3 15 (8.02%) Mockito
4 9 (4.81%) JIRA
5 7 (3.74%) GitLab
6 6 (3.21%) MLflow
7 5 (2.67%) Selenium
8 4 (2.14%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.14%) Postman
8 4 (2.14%) SoapUI
8 4 (2.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.60%) Metasploit
10 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.07%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.53%) Appium
11 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 68 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.51%) Law
4 24 (12.83%) Finance
4 24 (12.83%) Marketing
5 20 (10.70%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.49%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.14%) Retail
9 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Banking
10 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.07%) Legal
10 2 (1.07%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Aviation
11 1 (0.53%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 35 (18.72%) Analyst
2 34 (18.18%) Developer
3 27 (14.44%) Senior
4 24 (12.83%) Architect
5 21 (11.23%) Data Analyst
6 20 (10.70%) Cloud Architect
6 20 (10.70%) GCP Architect
6 20 (10.70%) Platform Architect
7 17 (9.09%) Java Developer
8 16 (8.56%) Junior
9 15 (8.02%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (8.02%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (7.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (7.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 14 (7.49%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 12 (6.42%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.81%) Lead
13 8 (4.28%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (4.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 8 (4.28%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.51%) REST
2 17 (9.09%) HTML
2 17 (9.09%) Spring
2 17 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 16 (8.56%) JSON
3 16 (8.56%) Web Services
3 16 (8.56%) XML
4 15 (8.02%) ActiveMQ
4 15 (8.02%) Apache Camel
4 15 (8.02%) Hibernate
4 15 (8.02%) jQuery
4 15 (8.02%) WireMock
5 14 (7.49%) SOAP
6 10 (5.35%) .NET
6 10 (5.35%) Middleware
7 6 (3.21%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.21%) Visualforce
8 5 (2.67%) PyTorch
8 5 (2.67%) scikit-learn
9 4 (2.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.35%) Life Science
4 7 (3.74%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.74%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.14%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 4 (2.14%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.14%) SCADA
7 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.60%) Animation
7 3 (1.60%) LIMS
7 3 (1.60%) Replication
8 2 (1.07%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.53%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.53%) PCIe
9 1 (0.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.51%) Linux
2 11 (5.88%) Windows
3 10 (5.35%) Unix
4 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
5 2 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.07%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.53%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.02%) Agile
2 57 (30.48%) Analytics
3 56 (29.95%) CI/CD
4 49 (26.20%) Business Intelligence
5 38 (20.32%) AI
6 36 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 33 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 32 (17.11%) Data Science
9 31 (16.58%) DevOps
10 29 (15.51%) ETL
11 28 (14.97%) Strategic Roadmap
12 27 (14.44%) Cloud Security
13 26 (13.90%) Computer Science
14 25 (13.37%) Machine Learning
15 24 (12.83%) Cost Optimisation
15 24 (12.83%) Data Modelling
15 24 (12.83%) Decision-Making
15 24 (12.83%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.50%) SQL
2 54 (28.88%) Java
3 39 (20.86%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.90%) Go
5 18 (9.63%) Shell Script
6 16 (8.56%) C++
7 14 (7.49%) Bash
7 14 (7.49%) C#
8 12 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (3.21%) Apex Code
11 5 (2.67%) C
11 5 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.14%) Fortran
12 4 (2.14%) PHP
12 4 (2.14%) R
12 4 (2.14%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.60%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.60%) Perl
13 3 (1.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (21.39%) Degree
2 28 (14.97%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.23%) Azure Certification
4 17 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 10 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.21%) PhD
7 4 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.60%) ACCA
8 3 (1.60%) CIMA
8 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.60%) OSCP
9 2 (1.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.53%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.53%) GPEN
10 1 (0.53%) MCSE
10 1 (0.53%) RHCE
10 1 (0.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.35%) QA
3 4 (2.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.60%) ECSS
4 3 (1.60%) GxP
4 3 (1.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (2.14%) vCloud
3 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.07%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (28.34%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.56%) Kibana
3 14 (7.49%) Terraform
4 11 (5.88%) Ansible
5 4 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.14%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.14%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.60%) Argo
6 3 (1.60%) Grafana
6 3 (1.60%) Nmap
6 3 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.53%) Control-M
7 1 (0.53%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.53%) SCCM
7 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (16.58%) Google
2 23 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.56%) Dynatrace
4 15 (8.02%) Splunk
5 10 (5.35%) Databricks
6 8 (4.28%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.21%) MuleSoft
7 6 (3.21%) VMware
8 4 (2.14%) Allen-Bradley
8 4 (2.14%) SAP
8 4 (2.14%) Siemens
9 3 (1.60%) Agilent
9 3 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.60%) Talend
10 2 (1.07%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.07%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.07%) IBM
10 2 (1.07%) Informatica
10 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.07%) Zoho