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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 16 25
Rank change year-on-year -24 +9 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 179 337 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.27% 9.96% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.03% 30.61% 21.75%
Number of salaries quoted 104 175 261
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,691
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +19.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,563 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.40% +13.91% -4.17%

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 596 1,101 1,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.22% 32.55% 33.72%
Number of salaries quoted 454 639 1,311
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,527 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.56% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 26 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 26 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 -31 70 £45,000 -35.71% 347
Oxfordshire -5 56 £67,500 -3.57% 78
Buckinghamshire -12 53 £60,000 - 62
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 34 (18.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.99%) Azure
2 66 (36.87%) Power Platform
3 45 (25.14%) AWS
4 23 (12.85%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (10.06%) Azure AI
6 15 (8.38%) GCP
7 14 (7.82%) Serverless
8 13 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (6.15%) SaaS
11 10 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (5.03%) GitHub
13 8 (4.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (3.91%) dbt
14 7 (3.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 6 (3.35%) Snowflake
16 5 (2.79%) Azure Machine Learning
16 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
3 2 (1.12%) SpaceWire
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%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (29.05%) Power BI
2 31 (17.32%) Tableau
3 17 (9.50%) Relational Database
4 14 (7.82%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.59%) Metadata
6 10 (5.59%) RDBMS
7 6 (3.35%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.79%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (2.23%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.68%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.68%) Looker
10 3 (1.68%) MySQL
10 3 (1.68%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.12%) Airbyte
11 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Git
2 16 (8.94%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.59%) JMeter
3 10 (5.59%) JUnit
3 10 (5.59%) Mockito
4 7 (3.91%) MLflow
5 6 (3.35%) GitLab
6 4 (2.23%) Selenium
7 3 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.68%) Postman
7 3 (1.68%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.56%) Appium
8 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.56%) LabVIEW
General
1 71 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (20.67%) Finance
4 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.82%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.15%) Law
7 8 (4.47%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.23%) Marketing
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%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (24.58%) Analyst
2 41 (22.91%) Developer
3 30 (16.76%) Data Analyst
4 24 (13.41%) Senior
5 21 (11.73%) Software Engineer
6 19 (10.61%) Junior
7 18 (10.06%) Junior Analyst
7 18 (10.06%) Junior Data Analyst
8 13 (7.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (6.15%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.15%) Lead
9 11 (6.15%) Power Platform Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (5.59%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 9 (5.03%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 8 (4.47%) Financial Analyst
13 7 (3.91%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Salesforce Developer
14 6 (3.35%) Associate Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) REST
2 15 (8.38%) SOAP
3 13 (7.26%) .NET
4 12 (6.70%) HTML
4 12 (6.70%) Middleware
4 12 (6.70%) Spring Boot
5 11 (6.15%) JSON
5 11 (6.15%) Spring
5 11 (6.15%) Web Services
5 11 (6.15%) XML
6 10 (5.59%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (5.59%) Apache Camel
6 10 (5.59%) Hibernate
6 10 (5.59%) jQuery
6 10 (5.59%) WireMock
7 8 (4.47%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (4.47%) Visualforce
8 6 (3.35%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.79%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Low-Code
2 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (8.38%) Life Science
3 7 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.79%) Hackathon
6 4 (2.23%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.23%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.23%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.68%) Animation
7 3 (1.68%) LIMS
8 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.56%) PCIe
9 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.56%) Smart City
9 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.97%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Unix
3 4 (2.23%) Windows
4 2 (1.12%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.20%) CI/CD
2 54 (30.17%) Agile
3 51 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (26.82%) AI
6 38 (21.23%) DevOps
7 35 (19.55%) Computer Science
8 34 (18.99%) Software Engineering
9 32 (17.88%) ETL
10 30 (16.76%) Decision-Making
11 29 (16.20%) Analytics
12 27 (15.08%) Machine Learning
13 26 (14.53%) Data Governance
13 26 (14.53%) Data Modelling
14 20 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
15 19 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (10.61%) SDLC
16 18 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
16 18 (10.06%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 74 (41.34%) SQL
2 37 (20.67%) JavaScript
3 30 (16.76%) Java
4 25 (13.97%) C++
5 21 (11.73%) C#
6 14 (7.82%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.15%) Bash
7 11 (6.15%) C
8 8 (4.47%) Apex Code
8 8 (4.47%) VBA
9 7 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.35%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.79%) Go
11 5 (2.79%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.23%) Fortran
12 4 (2.23%) Rust
13 3 (1.68%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.68%) PHP
13 3 (1.68%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (27.93%) Degree
2 25 (13.97%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.29%) Azure Certification
4 21 (11.73%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.59%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.47%) ACCA
7 8 (4.47%) CIMA
8 7 (3.91%) PhD
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.38%) QA
3 4 (2.23%) ECSS
4 3 (1.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.68%) GDPR
4 3 (1.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 23 (12.85%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.23%) KVM
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.70%) Terraform
3 11 (6.15%) Kibana
4 6 (3.35%) Ansible
5 4 (2.23%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.68%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Control-M
7 1 (0.56%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Dynatrace
3 10 (5.59%) Databricks
3 10 (5.59%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.59%) SAP
3 10 (5.59%) Splunk
4 8 (4.47%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.79%) Google
5 5 (2.79%) VMware
6 3 (1.68%) Agilent
6 3 (1.68%) Talend
7 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.12%) Cognos
7 2 (1.12%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.12%) IBM
7 2 (1.12%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.12%) Zoho