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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 15 14
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Python 249 414 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.47% 8.49% 11.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.11% 30.46% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 100 209 264
10th Percentile £40,218 £38,396 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -16.30% +8.00%
75th Percentile £79,063 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £89,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +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 671 1,359 1,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.42% 27.88% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 396 842 1,144
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,765 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -33 105 £47,520 -23.97% 182
Buckinghamshire -12 77 £55,000 - 42
Oxfordshire +4 67 £65,000 +32.19% 59
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 6 (2.41%) CMS
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) Appian
Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.81%) MadCap Flare
3 2 (0.80%) Simulink
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.33%) AWS
2 61 (24.50%) Azure
3 50 (20.08%) GCP
4 29 (11.65%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (11.65%) Serverless
5 26 (10.44%) Amazon EKS
6 25 (10.04%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (9.24%) Power Platform
8 20 (8.03%) Snowflake
9 14 (5.62%) GitHub
10 8 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.81%) Google Analytics
11 7 (2.81%) Google Docs
12 6 (2.41%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.61%) PaaS
14 4 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.26%) VPN
2 37 (14.86%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.82%) DNS
3 12 (4.82%) Firewall
4 8 (3.21%) WAN
5 6 (2.41%) LAN
6 4 (1.61%) Broadband
6 4 (1.61%) DHCP
7 3 (1.20%) HTTP
7 3 (1.20%) InfiniBand
7 3 (1.20%) Internet
7 3 (1.20%) Wireless
8 2 (0.80%) FTP
8 2 (0.80%) MQTT
8 2 (0.80%) SMTP
8 2 (0.80%) SSH
9 1 (0.40%) 4G
9 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.40%) Network Security
9 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.87%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (12.45%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.45%) Relational Database
3 26 (10.44%) BigQuery
3 26 (10.44%) RDBMS
4 22 (8.84%) Metadata
5 20 (8.03%) Data Lake
5 20 (8.03%) Power BI
6 16 (6.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.41%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.01%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.61%) MySQL
9 4 (1.61%) Tableau
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.80%) Looker
10 2 (0.80%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (14.06%) Cucumber
2 34 (13.65%) Robot Framework
3 32 (12.85%) Jenkins
4 24 (9.64%) JMeter
4 24 (9.64%) JUnit
4 24 (9.64%) Mockito
5 22 (8.84%) Git
6 9 (3.61%) JIRA
7 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.20%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.20%) GitLab
8 3 (1.20%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.20%) MLflow
8 3 (1.20%) Selenium
9 2 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.80%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.40%) Appium
10 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.40%) Postman
10 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
General
1 89 (35.74%) Social Skills
2 43 (17.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 42 (16.87%) Telecoms
4 41 (16.47%) Law
5 30 (12.05%) Marketing
6 25 (10.04%) Public Sector
7 20 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.82%) Finance
9 11 (4.42%) Retail
10 9 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.81%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.41%) Tech for Good
13 5 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.61%) Legal
14 4 (1.61%) Retail Finance
15 2 (0.80%) Advertising
15 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.80%) Multimedia
16 1 (0.40%) Games
16 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 37 (14.86%) Developer
2 36 (14.46%) Senior
3 34 (13.65%) Test Automation Engineer
3 34 (13.65%) Test Engineer
4 33 (13.25%) Lead
5 25 (10.04%) Java Developer
6 23 (9.24%) Architect
7 20 (8.03%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (8.03%) GCP Architect
7 20 (8.03%) Platform Architect
8 18 (7.23%) Software Engineer
9 16 (6.43%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (6.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (3.61%) Analyst
11 9 (3.61%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 7 (2.81%) Author
12 7 (2.81%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.81%) Technical Author
13 6 (2.41%) Ruby Engineer
13 6 (2.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) HTML
2 29 (11.65%) REST
3 25 (10.04%) Spring
3 25 (10.04%) Spring Boot
4 24 (9.64%) ActiveMQ
4 24 (9.64%) Apache Camel
4 24 (9.64%) Hibernate
4 24 (9.64%) jQuery
4 24 (9.64%) Web Services
4 24 (9.64%) WireMock
5 19 (7.63%) JSON
6 18 (7.23%) XML
7 10 (4.02%) React
8 9 (3.61%) .NET
9 8 (3.21%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (2.81%) Qt
11 5 (2.01%) CSS
11 5 (2.01%) Pandas
12 4 (1.61%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.06%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.24%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.61%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.81%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (2.81%) IoT
6 6 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.01%) SCADA
8 4 (1.61%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.61%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 3 (1.20%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.80%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.80%) PCIe
10 2 (0.80%) Replication
11 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.40%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.31%) Linux
2 44 (17.67%) Windows
3 13 (5.22%) Unix
4 3 (1.20%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.80%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (26.51%) Mentoring
2 63 (25.30%) Analytics
3 57 (22.89%) Agile
4 56 (22.49%) DevOps
4 56 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (18.07%) Test Automation
6 41 (16.47%) CI/CD
7 39 (15.66%) Data Engineering
8 38 (15.26%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (13.65%) Coaching
9 34 (13.65%) Roadmaps
9 34 (13.65%) System Testing
9 34 (13.65%) TDD
9 34 (13.65%) Test Management
10 33 (13.25%) Architectural Design
11 31 (12.45%) Validation
12 30 (12.05%) ETL
12 30 (12.05%) Strategic Roadmap
13 28 (11.24%) Computer Science
13 28 (11.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 89 (35.74%) SQL
2 88 (35.34%) JavaScript
3 64 (25.70%) Java
4 59 (23.69%) Bash
5 51 (20.48%) PowerShell
6 30 (12.05%) C++
7 26 (10.44%) Shell Script
8 24 (9.64%) Go
9 21 (8.43%) C
10 18 (7.23%) T-SQL
11 17 (6.83%) C#
11 17 (6.83%) Ruby
12 16 (6.43%) MATLAB
13 12 (4.82%) TypeScript
14 11 (4.42%) PHP
14 11 (4.42%) R
14 11 (4.42%) Rust
15 9 (3.61%) Dart
16 7 (2.81%) Perl
17 5 (2.01%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 91 (36.55%) Degree
2 30 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.02%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.41%) PhD
8 5 (2.01%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.61%) MCSE
9 4 (1.61%) RHCE
10 3 (1.20%) LPIC
10 3 (1.20%) OSCP
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.40%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
12 1 (0.40%) GPEN
12 1 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (23.29%) QA
2 22 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 20 (8.03%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.61%) GDPR
5 3 (1.20%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (17.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) vCloud
4 3 (1.20%) GPFS
4 3 (1.20%) Lustre
4 3 (1.20%) NFS
5 2 (0.80%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) HDFS
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (22.89%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.64%) Kibana
3 20 (8.03%) Terraform
4 18 (7.23%) Ansible
5 4 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (1.61%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.20%) Nmap
7 2 (0.80%) Grafana
7 2 (0.80%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.80%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Argo
8 1 (0.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (12.45%) Google
2 24 (9.64%) Dynatrace
2 24 (9.64%) Splunk
3 8 (3.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.41%) Aruba
4 6 (2.41%) Cisco
4 6 (2.41%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.41%) Mellanox
4 6 (2.41%) NVIDIA
4 6 (2.41%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.41%) Siemens
4 6 (2.41%) VMware
5 5 (2.01%) Allen-Bradley
5 5 (2.01%) Databricks
6 2 (0.80%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.80%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.80%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.80%) Talend
6 2 (0.80%) Zoho