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 21 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 23 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 284 521 671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.20% 6.87% 12.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.80% 25.84% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 121 345 261
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,565 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £79,500 £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 732 2,016 2,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.14% 26.57% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 440 1,583 1,338
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,688 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £74,063 £68,750 £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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -15 101 £50,000 -13.79% 829
Oxfordshire +1 99 £62,500 +14.68% 245
Buckinghamshire +17 84 £65,000 +25.60% 214
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 (5.99%) IBM Domino
2 7 (2.46%) CMS
3 6 (2.11%) Apache
4 5 (1.76%) Confluence
5 4 (1.41%) IIS
6 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Appian
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (0.70%) Simulink
4 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 84 (29.58%) AWS
2 69 (24.30%) Azure
3 33 (11.62%) Serverless
4 31 (10.92%) GCP
5 27 (9.51%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (8.80%) Snowflake
7 21 (7.39%) Amazon ECS
7 21 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (5.63%) Power Platform
9 13 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.11%) AWS KMS
12 6 (2.11%) GitHub
13 5 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.76%) PaaS
14 4 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (14.44%) VPN
2 38 (13.38%) TCP/IP
3 14 (4.93%) Firewall
4 13 (4.58%) DNS
5 9 (3.17%) 5G
5 9 (3.17%) Bluetooth
5 9 (3.17%) LTE
5 9 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.82%) WAN
7 6 (2.11%) LAN
8 4 (1.41%) DHCP
8 4 (1.41%) SSL
9 3 (1.06%) Broadband
9 3 (1.06%) InfiniBand
10 2 (0.70%) FTP
10 2 (0.70%) HTTP
10 2 (0.70%) Internet
10 2 (0.70%) MQTT
10 2 (0.70%) SMTP
10 2 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.49%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (11.97%) Relational Database
3 30 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (9.15%) Data Lake
4 26 (9.15%) Metadata
5 19 (6.69%) RDBMS
6 16 (5.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (4.58%) Power BI
8 11 (3.87%) MySQL
9 8 (2.82%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.82%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.76%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.41%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.41%) Metabase
12 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.06%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.06%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (12.32%) Cucumber
2 34 (11.97%) Robot Framework
3 32 (11.27%) Git
3 32 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 17 (5.99%) JMeter
4 17 (5.99%) JUnit
4 17 (5.99%) Mockito
5 6 (2.11%) JIRA
6 5 (1.76%) GitLab
7 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (1.41%) MLflow
8 3 (1.06%) Selenium
8 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.70%) Mocha
9 2 (0.70%) Moq
9 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.70%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.35%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.35%) MSBuild
General
1 102 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (13.38%) Telecoms
4 30 (10.56%) Law
5 23 (8.10%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.28%) Aerospace
8 14 (4.93%) Electronics
8 14 (4.93%) Finance
9 9 (3.17%) Retail
10 7 (2.46%) Marketing
10 7 (2.46%) Tech for Good
11 6 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.41%) Back Office
13 4 (1.41%) Local Government
13 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.06%) Advertising
14 3 (1.06%) Legal
14 3 (1.06%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 49 (17.25%) Lead
1 49 (17.25%) Senior
2 38 (13.38%) Software Engineer
3 37 (13.03%) Developer
4 35 (12.32%) Test Engineer
5 34 (11.97%) Test Automation Engineer
6 18 (6.34%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.28%) Analyst
7 15 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (3.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (3.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.17%) Python Engineer
11 8 (2.82%) Junior
12 7 (2.46%) Administrator
12 7 (2.46%) Data Analyst
12 7 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (2.46%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.97%) HTML
2 28 (9.86%) REST
3 20 (7.04%) jQuery
4 17 (5.99%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (5.99%) Apache Camel
4 17 (5.99%) Hibernate
4 17 (5.99%) Spring
4 17 (5.99%) Spring Boot
4 17 (5.99%) Web Services
4 17 (5.99%) WireMock
5 16 (5.63%) React
6 13 (4.58%) Qt
7 12 (4.23%) .NET
7 12 (4.23%) JSON
8 10 (3.52%) Node.js
8 10 (3.52%) XML
9 9 (3.17%) CSS
9 9 (3.17%) Ruby on Rails
10 6 (2.11%) Django
11 5 (1.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.73%) Linux Command Line
2 21 (7.39%) Algorithms
2 21 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.69%) IoT
4 14 (4.93%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (3.17%) NB-IoT
6 7 (2.46%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.41%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.41%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.41%) Replication
10 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.06%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Robotics
11 2 (0.70%) Acoustics
Operating Systems
1 98 (34.51%) Linux
2 52 (18.31%) Windows
3 15 (5.28%) Unix
4 13 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.76%) SUSE
5 5 (1.76%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.70%) Android
7 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (25.35%) DevOps
3 56 (19.72%) Test Automation
4 54 (19.01%) Agile
5 51 (17.96%) Software Engineering
6 48 (16.90%) Mentoring
7 47 (16.55%) Data Engineering
8 46 (16.20%) Computer Science
9 45 (15.85%) CI/CD
9 45 (15.85%) Validation
10 41 (14.44%) Analytics
11 35 (12.32%) Software Testing
12 34 (11.97%) Coaching
12 34 (11.97%) System Testing
12 34 (11.97%) Test Management
13 33 (11.62%) Asset Management
13 33 (11.62%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (10.92%) Data Management
16 30 (10.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 99 (34.86%) SQL
2 83 (29.23%) JavaScript
3 75 (26.41%) Bash
4 62 (21.83%) PowerShell
5 56 (19.72%) C++
6 49 (17.25%) Java
7 35 (12.32%) C
8 28 (9.86%) C#
9 24 (8.45%) Shell Script
10 22 (7.75%) MATLAB
11 18 (6.34%) Ruby
11 18 (6.34%) TypeScript
12 16 (5.63%) T-SQL
13 15 (5.28%) R
14 12 (4.23%) PHP
15 11 (3.87%) Fortran
15 11 (3.87%) Rust
16 9 (3.17%) Dart
17 7 (2.46%) Perl
18 6 (2.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 131 (46.13%) Degree
2 36 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.15%) Master's Degree
5 24 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.28%) PhD
7 10 (3.52%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (3.17%) Network+ Certification
9 8 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.41%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.41%) Dell Certification
10 4 (1.41%) MCP
10 4 (1.41%) MCSE
10 4 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (1.06%) LPIC
11 3 (1.06%) RHCE
12 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (22.18%) QA
2 26 (9.15%) Accessibility
2 26 (9.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.70%) GDPR
3 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.35%) CDISC
4 1 (0.35%) ECSS
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (18.31%) Docker
2 21 (7.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.52%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.17%) vSphere
5 8 (2.82%) NFS
6 7 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.06%) GPFS
8 3 (1.06%) HDFS
8 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.06%) Lustre
9 2 (0.70%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.70%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 42 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 39 (13.73%) Terraform
3 32 (11.27%) Ansible
4 17 (5.99%) Kibana
5 9 (3.17%) Puppet
6 5 (1.76%) Grafana
6 5 (1.76%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.41%) Nessus
7 4 (1.41%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.41%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.06%) Kubeflow
8 3 (1.06%) SCCM
9 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.70%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.35%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.35%) Packer
10 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.45%) VMware
3 17 (5.99%) Dynatrace
3 17 (5.99%) Splunk
4 10 (3.52%) SAP
5 7 (2.46%) NVIDIA
6 6 (2.11%) Aruba
6 6 (2.11%) Cisco
6 6 (2.11%) Databricks
6 6 (2.11%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.11%) Mellanox
6 6 (2.11%) Oracle
6 6 (2.11%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.41%) Dell
7 4 (1.41%) Juniper
8 3 (1.06%) Citrix
8 3 (1.06%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.70%) Siemens
10 1 (0.35%) Informatica