Python Jobs in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 22 12
Rank change year-on-year -9 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 275 521 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.71% 7.14% 12.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.21% 26.49% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 121 344 268
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,598 £41,250 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,125 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +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 739 1,967 2,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.73% 26.96% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 457 1,542 1,351
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -14.06% +8.02%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 -20 104 £50,000 -16.67% 764
Oxfordshire +2 98 £62,500 +15.40% 200
Buckinghamshire +10 73 £65,000 +27.45% 200
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (6.18%) IBM Domino
2 7 (2.55%) CMS
3 6 (2.18%) Apache
4 5 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (1.45%) IIS
6 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) Appian
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.09%) MadCap Flare
4 2 (0.73%) Simulink
5 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 86 (31.27%) AWS
2 72 (26.18%) Azure
3 34 (12.36%) Serverless
4 32 (11.64%) GCP
5 28 (10.18%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 22 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (6.18%) Power Platform
9 13 (4.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.36%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.27%) GitHub
12 6 (2.18%) AWS KMS
13 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.82%) PaaS
14 4 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.91%) VPN
2 38 (13.82%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.09%) Firewall
4 13 (4.73%) DNS
5 8 (2.91%) WAN
6 6 (2.18%) LAN
7 4 (1.45%) Broadband
7 4 (1.45%) DHCP
7 4 (1.45%) SSL
8 3 (1.09%) InfiniBand
9 2 (0.73%) FTP
9 2 (0.73%) HTTP
9 2 (0.73%) Internet
9 2 (0.73%) MQTT
9 2 (0.73%) SMTP
9 2 (0.73%) SSH
10 1 (0.36%) DVB
10 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.36%) Network Security
10 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (11.64%) Relational Database
3 31 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (9.45%) Data Lake
4 26 (9.45%) Metadata
5 20 (7.27%) RDBMS
6 16 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (5.09%) Power BI
8 11 (4.00%) MySQL
9 8 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.91%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.45%) Metabase
12 3 (1.09%) Data Mining
12 3 (1.09%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.09%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.73%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (12.73%) Cucumber
2 34 (12.36%) Robot Framework
3 33 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 31 (11.27%) Git
5 18 (6.55%) JMeter
5 18 (6.55%) JUnit
5 18 (6.55%) Mockito
6 9 (3.27%) JIRA
7 5 (1.82%) GitLab
8 4 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (1.45%) MLflow
9 3 (1.09%) Selenium
9 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.73%) Mocha
10 2 (0.73%) Moq
10 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.73%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.73%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.36%) CMake
11 1 (0.36%) MSBuild
General
1 92 (33.45%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (14.18%) Telecoms
4 30 (10.91%) Law
5 23 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 22 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.45%) Aerospace
7 15 (5.45%) Finance
8 10 (3.64%) Retail
9 8 (2.91%) Marketing
10 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.55%) Tech for Good
11 5 (1.82%) Electronics
11 5 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.45%) Back Office
12 4 (1.45%) Legal
12 4 (1.45%) Local Government
12 4 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Retail Finance
13 3 (1.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 48 (17.45%) Senior
2 40 (14.55%) Lead
3 38 (13.82%) Developer
4 35 (12.73%) Test Engineer
5 34 (12.36%) Software Engineer
5 34 (12.36%) Test Automation Engineer
6 19 (6.91%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.09%) Analyst
9 12 (4.36%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.91%) Junior
12 8 (2.91%) Python Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Administrator
13 7 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Ruby Engineer
13 7 (2.55%) Support Engineer
14 6 (2.18%) Data Analyst
15 5 (1.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.36%) HTML
2 29 (10.55%) REST
3 20 (7.27%) jQuery
4 18 (6.55%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (6.55%) Apache Camel
4 18 (6.55%) Hibernate
4 18 (6.55%) Spring
4 18 (6.55%) Spring Boot
4 18 (6.55%) Web Services
4 18 (6.55%) WireMock
5 14 (5.09%) JSON
5 14 (5.09%) React
6 13 (4.73%) Qt
7 12 (4.36%) .NET
7 12 (4.36%) XML
8 10 (3.64%) Node.js
9 9 (3.27%) Ruby on Rails
10 8 (2.91%) CSS
11 5 (1.82%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.82%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.18%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.55%) Algorithms
4 14 (5.09%) Embedded Systems
5 10 (3.64%) IoT
6 7 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.82%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.45%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.45%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.45%) Replication
10 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.09%) Robotics
11 2 (0.73%) Acoustics
11 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 87 (31.64%) Linux
2 43 (15.64%) Windows
3 13 (4.73%) Unix
4 5 (1.82%) SUSE
4 5 (1.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 4 (1.45%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
6 2 (0.73%) Android
6 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.73%) VMS
7 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (25.45%) DevOps
3 55 (20.00%) Agile
3 55 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 47 (17.09%) Data Engineering
4 47 (17.09%) Mentoring
5 46 (16.73%) Software Engineering
6 45 (16.36%) CI/CD
6 45 (16.36%) Validation
7 44 (16.00%) Analytics
8 42 (15.27%) Computer Science
9 34 (12.36%) Coaching
9 34 (12.36%) System Testing
9 34 (12.36%) Test Management
10 33 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (11.27%) Data Management
11 31 (11.27%) Microservices
12 30 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (10.55%) Data Modelling
14 28 (10.18%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.73%) SQL
2 84 (30.55%) JavaScript
3 65 (23.64%) Bash
4 54 (19.64%) C++
4 54 (19.64%) PowerShell
5 48 (17.45%) Java
6 33 (12.00%) C
7 28 (10.18%) C#
8 25 (9.09%) Shell Script
9 22 (8.00%) MATLAB
10 18 (6.55%) Ruby
11 17 (6.18%) TypeScript
12 16 (5.82%) T-SQL
13 15 (5.45%) R
14 12 (4.36%) PHP
15 11 (4.00%) Rust
16 9 (3.27%) Dart
16 9 (3.27%) Fortran
17 7 (2.55%) Perl
18 6 (2.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 119 (43.27%) Degree
2 33 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 26 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (8.36%) Master's Degree
6 13 (4.73%) PhD
7 8 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.45%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.45%) Dell Certification
8 4 (1.45%) MCP
8 4 (1.45%) MCSE
9 3 (1.09%) LPIC
9 3 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.09%) RHCE
10 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.36%) OSCP
11 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (22.91%) QA
2 26 (9.45%) Accessibility
2 26 (9.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.73%) GDPR
3 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.36%) CDISC
4 1 (0.36%) ECSS
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (18.55%) Docker
2 12 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.91%) NFS
5 7 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.09%) GPFS
7 3 (1.09%) HDFS
7 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.09%) Lustre
8 2 (0.73%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.73%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 43 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.91%) Terraform
3 23 (8.36%) Ansible
4 18 (6.55%) Kibana
5 5 (1.82%) Grafana
5 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.45%) Nessus
6 4 (1.45%) Proxmox
6 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.09%) Kubeflow
7 3 (1.09%) SCCM
8 2 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.73%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.36%) Nmap
9 1 (0.36%) Packer
9 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (6.55%) Dynatrace
1 18 (6.55%) Splunk
2 16 (5.82%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.45%) VMware
4 9 (3.27%) SAP
5 7 (2.55%) NVIDIA
6 6 (2.18%) Aruba
6 6 (2.18%) Cisco
6 6 (2.18%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.18%) Mellanox
6 6 (2.18%) Oracle
6 6 (2.18%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.82%) Databricks
8 4 (1.45%) Dell
8 4 (1.45%) Juniper
9 3 (1.09%) Citrix
9 3 (1.09%) Google
9 3 (1.09%) Siemens
9 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.73%) Allen-Bradley