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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 14 31
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -24
Permanent jobs citing Python 239 289 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.15% 10.26% 6.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.83% 32.08% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 131 172 301
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +8.70% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £104,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +14.41% -4.38%

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 667 901 1,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.37% 31.97% 31.52%
Number of salaries quoted 486 591 1,562
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,563 £76,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -8 105 £47,500 -24.30% 63
Oxfordshire -4 70 £68,750 +10.00% 61
Buckinghamshire -1 64 £60,000 - 33
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 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.84%) WordPress
3 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.42%) Camunda
3 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.42%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (25.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.02%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (48.12%) Azure
2 89 (37.24%) Power Platform
3 61 (25.52%) AWS
4 41 (17.15%) Azure AI
5 25 (10.46%) GCP
6 23 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.28%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (4.60%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.60%) SaaS
10 10 (4.18%) Serverless
11 9 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.77%) GitHub
11 9 (3.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 8 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (3.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (2.51%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (2.09%) dbt
14 5 (2.09%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.44%) Firewall
2 5 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (1.67%) DNS
4 3 (1.26%) MQTT
4 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.84%) Internet
5 2 (0.84%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.84%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.42%) 5G
6 1 (0.42%) HTTP
6 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.42%) Intranet
6 1 (0.42%) MIMO
6 1 (0.42%) Modbus
6 1 (0.42%) NGN
6 1 (0.42%) SMTP
6 1 (0.42%) SSL
6 1 (0.42%) VLAN
6 1 (0.42%) VPN
6 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.71%) Power BI
2 50 (20.92%) Tableau
3 13 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.44%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.77%) Metadata
6 8 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.93%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.51%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.26%) Spark SQL
10 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.84%) Airbyte
11 2 (0.84%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.84%) SAP BW
11 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.42%) Data Hub
12 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.42%) MySQL
12 1 (0.42%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 30 (12.55%) Git
2 17 (7.11%) GitLab
3 13 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.51%) JMeter
4 6 (2.51%) JUnit
4 6 (2.51%) MLflow
4 6 (2.51%) Mockito
5 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.26%) JIRA
5 3 (1.26%) Postman
5 3 (1.26%) Selenium
5 3 (1.26%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.84%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.42%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.42%) Subversion
7 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 119 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.78%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (19.67%) Finance
4 17 (7.11%) Manufacturing
5 15 (6.28%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.86%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.02%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (5.02%) Law
8 8 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Aviation
10 3 (1.26%) Games
10 3 (1.26%) Marketing
10 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.84%) Automotive
11 2 (0.84%) Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Electronics
11 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 73 (30.54%) Analyst
2 58 (24.27%) Data Analyst
3 43 (17.99%) Developer
4 41 (17.15%) Junior
5 39 (16.32%) Junior Analyst
5 39 (16.32%) Junior Data Analyst
6 33 (13.81%) Software Engineer
7 26 (10.88%) Senior
8 17 (7.11%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (6.69%) Data Engineer
9 16 (6.69%) Python Engineer
10 15 (6.28%) Power Platform Developer
11 13 (5.44%) Python Software Engineer
12 12 (5.02%) Financial Analyst
13 11 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (4.18%) Network Engineer
14 10 (4.18%) Telecoms Engineer
15 9 (3.77%) Associate Director
15 9 (3.77%) Lead
16 8 (3.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.55%) REST
2 17 (7.11%) JSON
3 16 (6.69%) SOAP
4 14 (5.86%) .NET
5 13 (5.44%) Middleware
6 12 (5.02%) XML
7 10 (4.18%) HTML
7 10 (4.18%) Jinja
7 10 (4.18%) Web Services
7 10 (4.18%) YAML
8 9 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (3.77%) Visualforce
9 8 (3.35%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.93%) React
10 7 (2.93%) Spring
11 6 (2.51%) ActiveMQ
11 6 (2.51%) Apache Camel
11 6 (2.51%) Hibernate
11 6 (2.51%) jQuery
11 6 (2.51%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.88%) Low-Code
2 20 (8.37%) Life Science
3 18 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.60%) Client/Server
5 10 (4.18%) Algorithms
5 10 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.77%) Hackathon
7 8 (3.35%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.67%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.26%) Animation
9 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.26%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.26%) LIMS
9 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.26%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.26%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.74%) Linux
2 10 (4.18%) Unix
3 5 (2.09%) Windows
4 3 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.84%) VxWorks
6 1 (0.42%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.42%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.42%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (34.31%) AI
2 78 (32.64%) CI/CD
3 74 (30.96%) Business Intelligence
4 69 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (25.52%) Agile
6 51 (21.34%) DevOps
7 49 (20.50%) Software Engineering
8 45 (18.83%) Computer Science
9 39 (16.32%) Analytics
10 37 (15.48%) Decision-Making
11 35 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (14.23%) Data Modelling
13 33 (13.81%) ETL
14 32 (13.39%) Machine Learning
15 31 (12.97%) Data Governance
16 28 (11.72%) Containerisation
17 25 (10.46%) Data Pipeline
17 25 (10.46%) Deployment Automation
18 21 (8.79%) Data Science
18 21 (8.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.19%) SQL
2 48 (20.08%) JavaScript
3 37 (15.48%) C++
4 30 (12.55%) C#
4 30 (12.55%) Java
5 18 (7.53%) C
6 14 (5.86%) VBA
7 11 (4.60%) Rust
8 10 (4.18%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.77%) Apex Code
9 9 (3.77%) TypeScript
10 7 (2.93%) R
11 5 (2.09%) Bash
11 5 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (2.09%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (1.67%) Go
13 3 (1.26%) PHP
13 3 (1.26%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.84%) Fortran
15 1 (0.42%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 68 (28.45%) Degree
2 41 (17.15%) Azure Certification
3 26 (10.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (10.04%) Master's Degree
5 21 (8.79%) Security Cleared
6 12 (5.02%) ACCA
6 12 (5.02%) CIMA
6 12 (5.02%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.51%) PhD
8 3 (1.26%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.79%) QA
2 19 (7.95%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.67%) ECSS
5 3 (1.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 3 (1.26%) GxP
6 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) MISRA
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (10.46%) Docker
2 13 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.02%) Hyper-V
3 12 (5.02%) KVM
4 3 (1.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.60%) Terraform
3 7 (2.93%) Ansible
3 7 (2.93%) Kibana
4 3 (1.26%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.84%) Argo
6 1 (0.42%) Control-M
6 1 (0.42%) Grafana
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 68 (28.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.11%) SAP
3 13 (5.44%) VMware
4 12 (5.02%) Red Hat
5 11 (4.60%) Databricks
6 10 (4.18%) Cisco
7 9 (3.77%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.77%) Oracle
7 9 (3.77%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.51%) Splunk
10 5 (2.09%) F5
10 5 (2.09%) Google
10 5 (2.09%) Juniper
10 5 (2.09%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.26%) Agilent
13 2 (0.84%) IBM
13 2 (0.84%) Informatica
13 2 (0.84%) NVIDIA