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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 15 30
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 185 338 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.52% 10.04% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.25% 30.48% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 104 177 215
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,500
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 £73,125
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 592 1,109 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.45% 32.95% 33.43%
Number of salaries quoted 445 649 1,141
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £36,500
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% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £56,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.42% +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 20 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 20 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 77 £47,520 -32.11% 310
Oxfordshire -2 57 £67,500 -3.57% 75
Buckinghamshire -11 51 £60,000 +1.69% 51
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 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.54%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (17.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (37.30%) Azure
2 65 (35.14%) Power Platform
3 47 (25.41%) AWS
4 23 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (11.35%) GCP
6 18 (9.73%) Azure AI
7 15 (8.11%) Serverless
8 14 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (5.41%) SaaS
12 9 (4.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (4.86%) GitHub
13 7 (3.78%) dbt
13 7 (3.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (3.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (3.24%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
15 5 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) DNS
1 6 (3.24%) Firewall
1 6 (3.24%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.62%) Internet
2 3 (1.62%) MQTT
3 2 (1.08%) 5G
3 2 (1.08%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.54%) 4G
4 1 (0.54%) Intranet
4 1 (0.54%) MIMO
4 1 (0.54%) Modbus
4 1 (0.54%) NGN
4 1 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.57%) Power BI
2 31 (16.76%) Tableau
3 19 (10.27%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.95%) RDBMS
7 10 (5.41%) BigQuery
7 10 (5.41%) Metadata
8 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.70%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.62%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.62%) Looker
10 3 (1.62%) MySQL
10 3 (1.62%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.08%) Airbyte
11 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (12.97%) Git
2 18 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (5.95%) JMeter
3 11 (5.95%) JUnit
3 11 (5.95%) Mockito
4 7 (3.78%) MLflow
5 6 (3.24%) GitLab
6 5 (2.70%) Selenium
7 4 (2.16%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.16%) Postman
7 4 (2.16%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.54%) Appium
8 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.54%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 70 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (19.46%) Finance
4 17 (9.19%) Law
4 17 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.57%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.86%) Marketing
7 7 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.62%) Retail
11 2 (1.08%) Automotive
11 2 (1.08%) Aviation
11 2 (1.08%) Banking
11 2 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.54%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.54%) Electronics
12 1 (0.54%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (23.24%) Analyst
2 40 (21.62%) Developer
3 29 (15.68%) Data Analyst
4 25 (13.51%) Senior
5 21 (11.35%) Software Engineer
6 19 (10.27%) Junior
7 18 (9.73%) Junior Analyst
7 18 (9.73%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (7.57%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.49%) Java Developer
10 11 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 11 (5.95%) Lead
10 11 (5.95%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (5.41%) Architect
11 10 (5.41%) Power Platform Developer
12 9 (4.86%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (3.78%) Financial Analyst
14 7 (3.78%) Python Engineer
15 6 (3.24%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.51%) REST
2 15 (8.11%) SOAP
3 13 (7.03%) .NET
3 13 (7.03%) HTML
3 13 (7.03%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.49%) JSON
4 12 (6.49%) Spring
4 12 (6.49%) Web Services
4 12 (6.49%) XML
5 11 (5.95%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (5.95%) Apache Camel
5 11 (5.95%) Hibernate
5 11 (5.95%) jQuery
5 11 (5.95%) Middleware
5 11 (5.95%) WireMock
6 7 (3.78%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (3.78%) Visualforce
7 6 (3.24%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.70%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
1 16 (8.65%) Low-Code
2 15 (8.11%) Life Science
3 11 (5.95%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.78%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.70%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.16%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.16%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.62%) Animation
8 3 (1.62%) LIMS
9 2 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.54%) Smart City
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.05%) Linux
2 10 (5.41%) Unix
3 5 (2.70%) Windows
4 2 (1.08%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.54%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.05%) CI/CD
2 55 (29.73%) Agile
3 51 (27.57%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (25.41%) AI
6 37 (20.00%) DevOps
7 35 (18.92%) Analytics
7 35 (18.92%) Computer Science
8 34 (18.38%) Software Engineering
9 31 (16.76%) ETL
10 28 (15.14%) Decision-Making
11 27 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (14.59%) Machine Learning
12 25 (13.51%) Data Governance
12 25 (13.51%) Data Modelling
13 22 (11.89%) Data Science
14 20 (10.81%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (10.81%) SDLC
15 19 (10.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.54%) SQL
2 37 (20.00%) Java
2 37 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 25 (13.51%) C++
4 21 (11.35%) C#
5 15 (8.11%) Shell Script
6 12 (6.49%) Go
7 11 (5.95%) Bash
7 11 (5.95%) C
8 7 (3.78%) Apex Code
8 7 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (3.78%) VBA
9 6 (3.24%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.24%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.16%) Fortran
11 4 (2.16%) PHP
11 4 (2.16%) Rust
12 3 (1.62%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.62%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (25.95%) Degree
2 25 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.89%) Azure Certification
4 21 (11.35%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.86%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.78%) ACCA
7 7 (3.78%) CIMA
7 7 (3.78%) PhD
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.65%) QA
2 15 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.16%) ECSS
4 3 (1.62%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.62%) GDPR
4 3 (1.62%) GxP
5 1 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 25 (13.51%) Docker
2 5 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.16%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.16%) KVM
4 1 (0.54%) vCloud
4 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.49%) Kibana
2 12 (6.49%) Terraform
3 7 (3.78%) Ansible
4 4 (2.16%) Kubeflow
5 3 (1.62%) Argo
6 1 (0.54%) Control-M
6 1 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.54%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.49%) Dynatrace
3 11 (5.95%) Google
3 11 (5.95%) Splunk
4 10 (5.41%) Databricks
5 9 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.32%) SAP
7 7 (3.78%) MuleSoft
8 6 (3.24%) VMware
9 3 (1.62%) Agilent
9 3 (1.62%) Talend
10 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
10 2 (1.08%) Cognos
10 2 (1.08%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.08%) IBM
10 2 (1.08%) Informatica
10 2 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle
10 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.08%) Zoho