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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 334 290 426
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.87% 8.51% 6.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.38% 38.62% 23.41%
Number of salaries quoted 180 133 334
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,565 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% +1.03% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,500 £81,750
South East median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 918 751 1,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.14% 22.05% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 683 473 1,537
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,584 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £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% -5.17%

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 20 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 20 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 +15 136 £55,000 +5.77% 64
Oxfordshire +1 113 £63,750 +15.91% 101
Buckinghamshire +6 85 £55,000 -10.20% 32
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 5 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (0.90%) Confluence
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) Camunda
4 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.30%) Kinematics
Applications
1 77 (23.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.59%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 177 (52.99%) Azure
2 98 (29.34%) Power Platform
3 97 (29.04%) AWS
4 80 (23.95%) Azure AI
5 33 (9.88%) GCP
6 21 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (4.19%) Serverless
9 13 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (3.89%) Azure Sentinel
10 12 (3.59%) OpenShift
11 11 (3.29%) GitHub
12 10 (2.99%) Cloudflare
13 9 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 9 (2.69%) SaaS
14 8 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.10%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.78%) Firewall
2 19 (5.69%) DNS
3 8 (2.40%) VPN
4 7 (2.10%) SSL
4 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.50%) HTTP
6 3 (0.90%) DHCP
7 2 (0.60%) Internet
7 2 (0.60%) 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 80 (23.95%) Power BI
2 63 (18.86%) Tableau
3 19 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.40%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
9 3 (0.90%) Airbyte
9 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.60%) MySQL
10 2 (0.60%) SAP BW
10 2 (0.60%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.30%) Big Data
11 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.30%) Looker
11 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 40 (11.98%) Git
2 24 (7.19%) GitLab
3 18 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.59%) JIRA
5 7 (2.10%) JMeter
5 7 (2.10%) JUnit
5 7 (2.10%) Mockito
6 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.90%) MLflow
9 3 (0.90%) Polyspace
9 3 (0.90%) VectorCAST
10 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.30%) Subversion
11 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 159 (47.60%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.57%) Finance
4 25 (7.49%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.79%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
6 12 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.10%) Law
7 7 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.20%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.20%) Automotive
9 4 (1.20%) Games
10 3 (0.90%) Marketing
10 3 (0.90%) Retail
11 2 (0.60%) Aviation
11 2 (0.60%) Electronics
11 2 (0.60%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 94 (28.14%) Analyst
2 76 (22.75%) Data Analyst
3 65 (19.46%) Software Engineer
4 61 (18.26%) Junior
5 60 (17.96%) Junior Analyst
5 60 (17.96%) Junior Data Analyst
6 54 (16.17%) Python Engineer
7 47 (14.07%) Python Software Engineer
8 46 (13.77%) Developer
9 31 (9.28%) C++ Software Engineer
10 26 (7.78%) Senior
11 23 (6.89%) C# Software Engineer
12 21 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 20 (5.99%) Data Engineer
14 19 (5.69%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (4.79%) Network Engineer
16 15 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (4.49%) Power Platform Developer
17 14 (4.19%) AWS Software Engineer
17 14 (4.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.68%) REST
2 20 (5.99%) JSON
3 14 (4.19%) NumPy
3 14 (4.19%) Pandas
3 14 (4.19%) YAML
4 11 (3.29%) HTML
5 10 (2.99%) Jinja
5 10 (2.99%) React
5 10 (2.99%) Web Services
5 10 (2.99%) XML
6 9 (2.69%) .NET
6 9 (2.69%) Django
7 8 (2.40%) Spring
8 7 (2.10%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (2.10%) Apache Camel
8 7 (2.10%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.10%) jQuery
8 7 (2.10%) Middleware
8 7 (2.10%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.10%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (7.78%) Low-Code
3 19 (5.69%) Life Science
4 16 (4.79%) Algorithms
4 16 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (4.19%) Client/Server
5 14 (4.19%) Distributed Computing
6 13 (3.89%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.69%) Cyber Defence
7 9 (2.69%) Hackathon
8 8 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.80%) PKI
10 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (18.86%) Linux
2 19 (5.69%) Windows
3 7 (2.10%) Unix
4 3 (0.90%) 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
1 125 (37.43%) AI
2 86 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (25.75%) CI/CD
3 77 (23.05%) Software Engineering
4 72 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (20.66%) Agile
6 57 (17.07%) DevOps
7 46 (13.77%) Computer Science
8 43 (12.87%) Analytics
9 42 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (10.78%) Containerisation
11 35 (10.48%) Deployment Automation
11 35 (10.48%) Machine Learning
11 35 (10.48%) Test Automation
12 31 (9.28%) Data Governance
13 30 (8.98%) Data Modelling
13 30 (8.98%) Decision-Making
14 28 (8.38%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (8.38%) ETL
15 26 (7.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 115 (34.43%) SQL
2 55 (16.47%) C++
3 49 (14.67%) JavaScript
4 45 (13.47%) C#
5 27 (8.08%) Java
6 23 (6.89%) PowerShell
7 19 (5.69%) C
8 17 (5.09%) Bash
9 15 (4.49%) VBA
10 14 (4.19%) Rust
10 14 (4.19%) TypeScript
11 11 (3.29%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.80%) Groovy
13 5 (1.50%) R
14 4 (1.20%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.20%) Go
14 4 (1.20%) Perl
15 1 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.30%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 80 (23.95%) Azure Certification
1 80 (23.95%) Degree
2 50 (14.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (8.68%) Security Cleared
4 23 (6.89%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.99%) Master's Degree
6 12 (3.59%) ACCA
6 12 (3.59%) CIMA
7 8 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
8 7 (2.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.80%) PhD
10 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.30%) GCIA
13 1 (0.30%) GIAC
13 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.08%) QA
2 16 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.90%) IEC 61508
4 3 (0.90%) ISO 26262
4 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.60%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.60%) GxP
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) ECSS
6 1 (0.30%) MISRA
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (8.98%) Docker
2 24 (7.19%) Hyper-V
2 24 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.29%) KVM
4 10 (2.99%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (8.68%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.39%) Terraform
3 11 (3.29%) Ansible
4 10 (2.99%) Graylog
5 8 (2.40%) Kibana
6 7 (2.10%) Proxmox
7 6 (1.80%) Grafana
7 6 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.80%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.20%) Packer
9 3 (0.90%) Argo
10 2 (0.60%) Istio
10 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 109 (32.63%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.19%) VMware
3 17 (5.09%) SAP
4 13 (3.89%) Databricks
4 13 (3.89%) Red Hat
5 10 (2.99%) Cisco
5 10 (2.99%) Oracle
6 9 (2.69%) Splunk
7 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.10%) IBM
8 6 (1.80%) Veeam
9 5 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (1.50%) F5
9 5 (1.50%) Google
9 5 (1.50%) Juniper
9 5 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.20%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.20%) ServiceNow