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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 15 30
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 179 344 283
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.39% 10.18% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.60% 30.58% 21.04%
Number of salaries quoted 103 181 189
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,908
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +19.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,625 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -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 585 1,125 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.36% 33.28% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 442 663 1,024
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -6.78%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,875 £87,500 £85,875
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -33 75 £51,975 -25.75% 277
Oxfordshire -7 53 £67,500 -1.82% 77
Buckinghamshire -11 51 £60,000 +1.69% 46
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 6 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.91%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (34.64%) Azure
2 61 (34.08%) Power Platform
3 47 (26.26%) AWS
4 21 (11.73%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (10.61%) GCP
6 15 (8.38%) Azure AI
6 15 (8.38%) Serverless
7 14 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (5.59%) GitHub
11 9 (5.03%) SaaS
12 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (3.91%) dbt
13 7 (3.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (3.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (3.35%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.79%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.35%) DNS
1 6 (3.35%) Firewall
1 6 (3.35%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.68%) Internet
2 3 (1.68%) MQTT
3 2 (1.12%) 5G
4 1 (0.56%) 4G
4 1 (0.56%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) MIMO
4 1 (0.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.56%) NGN
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (27.37%) Power BI
2 28 (15.64%) Tableau
3 20 (11.17%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.70%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.15%) RDBMS
7 10 (5.59%) BigQuery
7 10 (5.59%) Metadata
8 5 (2.79%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.68%) Data Hub
9 3 (1.68%) Looker
9 3 (1.68%) MySQL
10 2 (1.12%) Airbyte
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
10 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Git
2 19 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.15%) JMeter
3 11 (6.15%) JUnit
3 11 (6.15%) Mockito
4 7 (3.91%) MLflow
5 6 (3.35%) GitLab
6 5 (2.79%) Selenium
7 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.23%) Postman
7 4 (2.23%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.56%) Appium
9 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.56%) LabVIEW
General
1 68 (37.99%) Social Skills
2 38 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.44%) Finance
4 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.94%) Law
6 14 (7.82%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.03%) Marketing
8 7 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.68%) Retail
12 2 (1.12%) Automotive
12 2 (1.12%) Aviation
12 2 (1.12%) Banking
12 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.56%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.56%) Electronics
13 1 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 40 (22.35%) Analyst
2 38 (21.23%) Developer
3 26 (14.53%) Data Analyst
3 26 (14.53%) Senior
4 20 (11.17%) Software Engineer
5 16 (8.94%) Junior
6 15 (8.38%) Junior Analyst
6 15 (8.38%) Junior Data Analyst
7 14 (7.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.70%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 11 (6.15%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Architect
11 9 (5.03%) Lead
12 8 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Power Platform Developer
13 7 (3.91%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (3.91%) Python Engineer
14 6 (3.35%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) REST
2 15 (8.38%) SOAP
3 13 (7.26%) HTML
3 13 (7.26%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.70%) .NET
4 12 (6.70%) JSON
4 12 (6.70%) Spring
4 12 (6.70%) Web Services
4 12 (6.70%) XML
5 11 (6.15%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (6.15%) Apache Camel
5 11 (6.15%) Hibernate
5 11 (6.15%) jQuery
5 11 (6.15%) Middleware
5 11 (6.15%) WireMock
6 7 (3.91%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (3.91%) Visualforce
7 6 (3.35%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.79%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.82%) Life Science
2 14 (7.82%) Low-Code
3 11 (6.15%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.91%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.79%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.23%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.23%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.68%) Animation
8 3 (1.68%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.68%) LIMS
9 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.12%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 2 (1.12%) SCADA
10 1 (0.56%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.56%) PCIe
10 1 (0.56%) Smart City
10 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.97%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Unix
3 6 (3.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.56%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (32.96%) CI/CD
2 54 (30.17%) Agile
3 49 (27.37%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (24.02%) AI
6 37 (20.67%) Analytics
7 35 (19.55%) DevOps
8 33 (18.44%) Computer Science
9 32 (17.88%) ETL
9 32 (17.88%) Software Engineering
10 29 (16.20%) Decision-Making
11 28 (15.64%) Machine Learning
12 27 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (13.97%) Data Modelling
14 23 (12.85%) Data Governance
15 22 (12.29%) Data Science
16 20 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (11.17%) SDLC
17 19 (10.61%) Data Pipeline
17 19 (10.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 73 (40.78%) SQL
2 36 (20.11%) Java
3 35 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 23 (12.85%) C++
5 18 (10.06%) C#
6 14 (7.82%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.70%) Go
8 11 (6.15%) Bash
9 9 (5.03%) C
10 7 (3.91%) Apex Code
10 7 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (3.91%) VBA
11 6 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.35%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (2.23%) Fortran
13 4 (2.23%) PHP
13 4 (2.23%) R
14 3 (1.68%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 47 (26.26%) Degree
2 26 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 21 (11.73%) Master's Degree
4 19 (10.61%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.91%) ACCA
7 7 (3.91%) CIMA
7 7 (3.91%) PhD
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.82%) QA
3 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.68%) ECSS
4 3 (1.68%) GDPR
4 3 (1.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 26 (14.53%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.68%) KVM
4 2 (1.12%) vCloud
5 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (18.99%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.70%) Kibana
3 11 (6.15%) Terraform
4 8 (4.47%) Ansible
5 4 (2.23%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.68%) Argo
7 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.12%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.56%) Control-M
8 1 (0.56%) Grafana
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.70%) Dynatrace
3 11 (6.15%) Splunk
4 10 (5.59%) Google
5 9 (5.03%) Databricks
5 9 (5.03%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.47%) SAP
7 7 (3.91%) MuleSoft
8 6 (3.35%) VMware
9 3 (1.68%) Agilent
9 3 (1.68%) Talend
10 2 (1.12%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.12%) Cognos
10 2 (1.12%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.12%) IBM
10 2 (1.12%) Informatica
10 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.12%) Siemens
10 2 (1.12%) Zoho