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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 24 8
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 296 484 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.80% 7.19% 13.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.71% 24.71% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 159 346 306
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -12.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £88,125
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +18.18% -11.65% +8.26%

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 785 1,959 2,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.98% 29.09% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 534 1,598 1,428
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,425 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +3 116 £57,783 -2.06% 128
Oxfordshire +5 109 £55,000 - 108
Buckinghamshire +18 71 £60,000 +14.29% 101
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 8 (2.70%) Confluence
2 6 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.35%) IIS
4 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) CMS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.68%) Simulink
4 2 (0.68%) Zemax
5 1 (0.34%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 87 (29.39%) AWS
2 71 (23.99%) Azure
3 33 (11.15%) Serverless
4 28 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (9.12%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (8.11%) GCP
7 22 (7.43%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (7.09%) Power Platform
8 21 (7.09%) Snowflake
9 13 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (2.36%) GitHub
11 7 (2.36%) PaaS
12 6 (2.03%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.84%) TCP/IP
1 38 (12.84%) VPN
2 9 (3.04%) 5G
2 9 (3.04%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.04%) Firewall
2 9 (3.04%) LTE
2 9 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.36%) DNS
4 6 (2.03%) SSL
4 6 (2.03%) WAN
5 5 (1.69%) Internet
6 4 (1.35%) LAN
7 3 (1.01%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.68%) DWDM
8 2 (0.68%) GPON
8 2 (0.68%) IPv4
8 2 (0.68%) IPv6
8 2 (0.68%) MPLS
8 2 (0.68%) MQTT
9 1 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (11.82%) PostgreSQL
1 35 (11.82%) Relational Database
2 23 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (6.76%) Metadata
3 20 (6.76%) RDBMS
4 19 (6.42%) Data Lake
4 19 (6.42%) Power BI
5 16 (5.41%) MySQL
6 13 (4.39%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.04%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.70%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.03%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.03%) Tableau
10 4 (1.35%) Metabase
11 3 (1.01%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.01%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.01%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.68%) Big Data
12 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (12.50%) Git
2 35 (11.82%) Cucumber
3 34 (11.49%) Robot Framework
4 28 (9.46%) Jenkins
5 18 (6.08%) JMeter
5 18 (6.08%) JUnit
5 18 (6.08%) Mockito
6 11 (3.72%) JIRA
7 9 (3.04%) GitLab
8 4 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.01%) MLflow
10 2 (0.68%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.68%) Mocha
10 2 (0.68%) Moq
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.34%) CMake
11 1 (0.34%) ERwin
11 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 87 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 31 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.78%) Electronics
6 23 (7.77%) Law
7 17 (5.74%) Manufacturing
8 15 (5.07%) Aerospace
9 12 (4.05%) Finance
10 6 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Advertising
11 4 (1.35%) Back Office
11 4 (1.35%) Local Government
11 4 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.35%) Retail
12 3 (1.01%) Automotive
12 3 (1.01%) Games
12 3 (1.01%) Legal
12 3 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (18.58%) Senior
1 55 (18.58%) Software Engineer
2 46 (15.54%) Developer
3 42 (14.19%) Lead
4 35 (11.82%) Test Engineer
5 34 (11.49%) Test Automation Engineer
6 20 (6.76%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.42%) Analyst
8 18 (6.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 13 (4.39%) Python Engineer
10 12 (4.05%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 10 (3.38%) Data Scientist
12 10 (3.38%) Junior
12 10 (3.38%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.04%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.70%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.80%) HTML
2 27 (9.12%) REST
3 23 (7.77%) React
4 22 (7.43%) jQuery
5 18 (6.08%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (6.08%) Apache Camel
5 18 (6.08%) Hibernate
5 18 (6.08%) Spring
5 18 (6.08%) Spring Boot
5 18 (6.08%) Web Services
5 18 (6.08%) WireMock
6 15 (5.07%) .NET
7 14 (4.73%) Node.js
8 13 (4.39%) Qt
9 12 (4.05%) CSS
9 12 (4.05%) Django
10 8 (2.70%) Flask
11 7 (2.36%) Flutter
11 7 (2.36%) XML
12 6 (2.03%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.22%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (11.15%) Algorithms
3 22 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.08%) IoT
5 14 (4.73%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (3.72%) Molecular Biology
7 9 (3.04%) NB-IoT
8 7 (2.36%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.03%) Client/Server
9 6 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.01%) Clustering
11 3 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.01%) Robotics
11 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 108 (36.49%) Linux
2 52 (17.57%) Windows
3 14 (4.73%) Unix
4 13 (4.39%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.69%) Debian
5 5 (1.69%) SUSE
5 5 (1.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.35%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.35%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (24.66%) DevOps
2 72 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (22.64%) Software Engineering
4 57 (19.26%) Test Automation
5 51 (17.23%) Agile
5 51 (17.23%) Mentoring
6 50 (16.89%) CI/CD
7 49 (16.55%) Analytics
8 39 (13.18%) Machine Learning
8 39 (13.18%) Microservices
8 39 (13.18%) Validation
9 38 (12.84%) Coaching
10 37 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
10 37 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 37 (12.50%) Workflow
11 36 (12.16%) Computer Science
11 36 (12.16%) System Testing
12 34 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (11.49%) Test Management
13 29 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.72%) JavaScript
2 70 (23.65%) SQL
3 69 (23.31%) Bash
4 63 (21.28%) C++
5 62 (20.95%) PowerShell
6 41 (13.85%) Java
7 36 (12.16%) C
8 25 (8.45%) Shell Script
9 23 (7.77%) C#
10 17 (5.74%) TypeScript
11 16 (5.41%) MATLAB
12 15 (5.07%) Go
13 12 (4.05%) Ruby
14 11 (3.72%) Fortran
15 10 (3.38%) Rust
16 9 (3.04%) Perl
17 7 (2.36%) R
18 3 (1.01%) VB
19 2 (0.68%) VBA
19 2 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (40.54%) Degree
2 47 (15.88%) Security Cleared
3 43 (14.53%) SC Cleared
4 33 (11.15%) Master's Degree
5 22 (7.43%) PhD
6 15 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.73%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.04%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.35%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.35%) Dell Certification
11 4 (1.35%) MCP
11 4 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (1.01%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.34%) HND
14 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (18.58%) QA
2 24 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 24 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.01%) ECSS
4 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.34%) CDISC
4 1 (0.34%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (19.26%) Docker
2 21 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.04%) vSphere
5 7 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.69%) NFS
7 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.01%) HDFS
8 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 41 (13.85%) Terraform
3 28 (9.46%) Ansible
4 18 (6.08%) Kibana
5 9 (3.04%) Puppet
6 6 (2.03%) Kustomize
7 5 (1.69%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.35%) Nessus
8 4 (1.35%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.01%) Grafana
9 3 (1.01%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.01%) SCCM
10 2 (0.68%) Graylog
11 1 (0.34%) Argo
11 1 (0.34%) Packer
11 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.14%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.43%) VMware
3 20 (6.76%) Splunk
4 18 (6.08%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.05%) SAP
6 7 (2.36%) Databricks
7 6 (2.03%) Oracle
7 6 (2.03%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco
8 5 (1.69%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.69%) NVIDIA
8 5 (1.69%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.35%) Aruba
9 4 (1.35%) Dell
9 4 (1.35%) Juniper
9 4 (1.35%) Mellanox
10 3 (1.01%) Citrix
10 3 (1.01%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.68%) F5
11 2 (0.68%) Nokia