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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 331 297 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 6.11% 10.38% 6.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.26% 37.17% 23.63%
Number of salaries quoted 171 163 351
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,625 £77,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -10.86%

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 843 799 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.56% 27.93% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 608 544 1,620
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,250 £71,250
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% -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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +7 132 £55,000 -4.82% 48
Oxfordshire -4 118 £63,125 +14.77% 61
Buckinghamshire -14 81 £56,000 -6.67% 25
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 8 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.60%) WordPress
3 1 (0.30%) Apache
3 1 (0.30%) Camunda
3 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.30%) Kinematics
Applications
1 82 (24.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.63%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 172 (51.96%) Azure
2 110 (33.23%) Power Platform
3 85 (25.68%) AWS
4 83 (25.08%) Azure AI
5 32 (9.67%) GCP
6 23 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (4.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.63%) GitHub
9 12 (3.63%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.32%) SaaS
10 11 (3.32%) Serverless
11 10 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.42%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.42%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (2.11%) dbt
14 7 (2.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.44%) Firewall
2 11 (3.32%) DNS
3 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.21%) HTTP
6 2 (0.60%) Internet
6 2 (0.60%) MQTT
6 2 (0.60%) SpaceWire
6 2 (0.60%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) Broadband
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.30%) Intranet
7 1 (0.30%) Modbus
7 1 (0.30%) Network Security
7 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.30%) SMTP
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (27.79%) Power BI
2 69 (20.85%) Tableau
3 14 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.72%) Data Lake
4 9 (2.72%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.42%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.51%) Metadata
7 4 (1.21%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.91%) Spark SQL
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.60%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.60%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.30%) Looker
10 1 (0.30%) MySQL
10 1 (0.30%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 44 (13.29%) Git
2 25 (7.55%) GitLab
3 15 (4.53%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.72%) JIRA
5 6 (1.81%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.81%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.21%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.21%) MLflow
7 3 (0.91%) JMeter
7 3 (0.91%) JUnit
7 3 (0.91%) Mockito
7 3 (0.91%) Polyspace
7 3 (0.91%) VectorCAST
8 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.30%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 168 (50.76%) Social Skills
2 65 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (14.20%) Finance
4 20 (6.04%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.83%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.32%) Law
7 11 (3.32%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Automotive
11 4 (1.21%) Games
12 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.91%) Aviation
12 3 (0.91%) Marketing
13 2 (0.60%) Aeronautics
13 2 (0.60%) Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 98 (29.61%) Analyst
2 80 (24.17%) Data Analyst
3 65 (19.64%) Junior
4 63 (19.03%) Junior Analyst
4 63 (19.03%) Junior Data Analyst
5 58 (17.52%) Software Engineer
6 47 (14.20%) Developer
7 44 (13.29%) Python Engineer
8 38 (11.48%) Python Software Engineer
9 32 (9.67%) Senior
10 24 (7.25%) C++ Software Engineer
11 23 (6.95%) Data Engineer
12 21 (6.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 19 (5.74%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (5.44%) C# Software Engineer
15 15 (4.53%) Power Platform Developer
16 13 (3.93%) Python Developer
17 12 (3.63%) Financial Analyst
18 11 (3.32%) Associate Director
18 11 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.37%) REST
2 18 (5.44%) JSON
3 14 (4.23%) YAML
4 13 (3.93%) .NET
4 13 (3.93%) NumPy
4 13 (3.93%) Pandas
5 11 (3.32%) Middleware
5 11 (3.32%) SOAP
6 10 (3.02%) Jinja
6 10 (3.02%) React
7 8 (2.42%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (2.42%) Visualforce
7 8 (2.42%) Web Services
7 8 (2.42%) XML
8 7 (2.11%) Django
8 7 (2.11%) HTML
9 6 (1.81%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.51%) scikit-learn
10 5 (1.51%) Twisted
10 5 (1.51%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.46%) Low-Code
2 23 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.04%) Life Science
4 17 (5.14%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.93%) Client/Server
5 13 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.63%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.32%) Hackathon
8 9 (2.72%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (1.81%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.91%) Robotics
12 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.41%) Linux
2 8 (2.42%) Windows
3 7 (2.11%) Unix
4 3 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.60%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.30%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.30%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.30%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (40.48%) AI
2 96 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
3 92 (27.79%) CI/CD
4 78 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (22.36%) Software Engineering
6 72 (21.75%) Agile
7 59 (17.82%) DevOps
8 48 (14.50%) Computer Science
9 46 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (12.69%) Analytics
11 40 (12.08%) Machine Learning
12 36 (10.88%) Deployment Automation
13 35 (10.57%) Data Modelling
14 34 (10.27%) Containerisation
14 34 (10.27%) Decision-Making
14 34 (10.27%) Test Automation
15 32 (9.67%) Data Governance
16 31 (9.37%) ETL
17 30 (9.06%) Data Pipeline
18 27 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 130 (39.27%) SQL
2 51 (15.41%) C++
3 47 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 43 (12.99%) C#
5 30 (9.06%) Java
6 18 (5.44%) C
7 15 (4.53%) VBA
8 13 (3.93%) Rust
8 13 (3.93%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.72%) Bash
9 9 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 8 (2.42%) Apex Code
10 8 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.81%) Groovy
11 6 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.81%) R
12 5 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.21%) Perl
14 3 (0.91%) Go
15 2 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 83 (25.08%) Azure Certification
2 81 (24.47%) Degree
3 45 (13.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (7.85%) Security Cleared
5 22 (6.65%) Master's Degree
6 19 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 12 (3.63%) ACCA
7 12 (3.63%) CIMA
8 5 (1.51%) PhD
9 4 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.30%) GCIA
12 1 (0.30%) GIAC
12 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.57%) QA
2 18 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.21%) ECSS
5 3 (0.91%) IEC 61508
5 3 (0.91%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.60%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.60%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.60%) GxP
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) MISRA
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (7.55%) Docker
2 15 (4.53%) Hyper-V
2 15 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.23%) KVM
4 5 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.74%) Terraform
3 10 (3.02%) Ansible
4 5 (1.51%) Kibana
5 4 (1.21%) Grafana
5 4 (1.21%) Packer
5 4 (1.21%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.91%) Argo
7 2 (0.60%) Istio
7 2 (0.60%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.30%) Control-M
8 1 (0.30%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.30%) Graylog
8 1 (0.30%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 100 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.14%) SAP
3 15 (4.53%) Databricks
3 15 (4.53%) VMware
4 13 (3.93%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.02%) Cisco
6 9 (2.72%) Oracle
7 8 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.11%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.51%) F5
9 5 (1.51%) Google
9 5 (1.51%) Juniper
9 5 (1.51%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.51%) Splunk
10 4 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.21%) IBM
10 4 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.60%) NVIDIA