Python Jobs in the South West

Python
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 908 1,007 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.09% 15.23% 15.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.53% 40.67% 31.15%
Number of salaries quoted 600 558 669
10th Percentile £36,925 £37,765 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £41,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +9.02%

All Programming Languages
South West

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,075 2,476 4,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 30.78% 37.45% 50.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 1,634 2,756
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,386
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Salary trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Gloucestershire -3 332 £55,000 -15.38% 61
Bristol -11 309 £65,000 +4.00% 77
Dorset +30 74 £47,500 -11.63% 18
Wiltshire -7 71 £50,000 -1.96% 13
Devon +7 65 £45,000 +17.56% 19
Somerset -20 29 £52,500 -8.05% 17
Cornwall -21 6 - - 2
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 66 (7.27%) Apache
2 51 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.19%) ArcGIS
3 29 (3.19%) GeoServer
4 23 (2.53%) Jupyter
5 20 (2.20%) nginx
6 14 (1.54%) SAS
7 8 (0.88%) Confluence
8 6 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.66%) Luigi
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.65%) Simulink
4 11 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.66%) Trello
7 4 (0.44%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.22%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.22%) LaTeX
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.22%) iTrent
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 317 (34.91%) AWS
2 218 (24.01%) Azure
3 107 (11.78%) OpenShift
4 69 (7.60%) GCP
5 53 (5.84%) SaaS
6 45 (4.96%) Power Platform
7 32 (3.52%) Amazon S3
8 29 (3.19%) Serverless
9 25 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (2.53%) GitHub
12 22 (2.42%) PaaS
13 19 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (1.76%) IaaS
14 16 (1.76%) MinIO
15 13 (1.43%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (0.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.84%) TCP/IP
2 52 (5.73%) DNS
3 48 (5.29%) HTTP
4 44 (4.85%) DHCP
5 30 (3.30%) Firewall
6 24 (2.64%) AMQP
7 21 (2.31%) VSAN
8 17 (1.87%) Internet
9 14 (1.54%) Network Security
10 13 (1.43%) VPN
11 11 (1.21%) Wireless
12 8 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (0.88%) SMTP
13 5 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.55%) Cisco Wireless
13 5 (0.55%) IPv4
13 5 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (0.55%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.44%) IPsec
14 4 (0.44%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (8.37%) Big Data
2 64 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.18%) Hadoop
4 45 (4.96%) Power BI
5 44 (4.85%) Tableau
6 37 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 31 (3.41%) GIS
9 30 (3.30%) SQL Server
10 27 (2.97%) QGIS
11 23 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (2.20%) Data Lake
13 18 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
14 16 (1.76%) Presto
15 14 (1.54%) MongoDB
16 12 (1.32%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.21%) Data Mining
17 11 (1.21%) SQLite
18 10 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (1.10%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 97 (10.68%) Git
2 64 (7.05%) Jenkins
3 28 (3.08%) JIRA
4 26 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 22 (2.42%) Subversion
6 20 (2.20%) LabVIEW
7 16 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (1.32%) Selenium
9 11 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (1.10%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.88%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.88%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.66%) GitLab
13 6 (0.66%) NetBeans
14 5 (0.55%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.44%) Gradle
15 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.44%) Toad
General
1 151 (16.63%) Social Skills
2 122 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
3 103 (11.34%) Aerospace
4 102 (11.23%) Finance
5 61 (6.72%) Marketing
6 47 (5.18%) Telecoms
7 45 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (4.19%) Public Sector
9 36 (3.96%) Banking
10 34 (3.74%) Law
11 29 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 26 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.31%) Retail
14 18 (1.98%) Military
15 17 (1.87%) Legal
16 14 (1.54%) Games
17 11 (1.21%) Advertising
17 11 (1.21%) Automotive
18 10 (1.10%) Electronics
18 10 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 264 (29.07%) Software Engineer
2 220 (24.23%) Senior
3 93 (10.24%) Developer
4 86 (9.47%) Senior Software Engineer
5 62 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 58 (6.39%) Data Engineer
7 58 (6.39%) Embedded Engineer
7 58 (6.39%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 53 (5.84%) Data Scientist
9 51 (5.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 51 (5.62%) Lead
10 46 (5.07%) Analyst
11 43 (4.74%) Architect
12 40 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 39 (4.30%) Python Engineer
14 35 (3.85%) Consultant
15 34 (3.74%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.52%) Systems Engineer
17 31 (3.41%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (12.78%) React
2 54 (5.95%) AngularJS
3 52 (5.73%) Node.js
4 49 (5.40%) .NET
5 43 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
6 41 (4.52%) Spring
7 40 (4.41%) CSS
8 37 (4.07%) REST
9 32 (3.52%) Pandas
9 32 (3.52%) Vue
10 30 (3.30%) .NET Core
11 29 (3.19%) Django
12 28 (3.08%) TensorFlow
13 27 (2.97%) HTML
13 27 (2.97%) Leaflet
13 27 (2.97%) OpenLayers
13 27 (2.97%) PostGIS
14 25 (2.75%) Spring Boot
15 24 (2.64%) Apache NiFi
15 24 (2.64%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.39%) Algorithms
2 48 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 39 (4.30%) Public Cloud
4 27 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.64%) Linux Command Line
6 22 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (2.20%) GNSS
8 19 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 19 (2.09%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.98%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.98%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.76%) Enterprise Cloud
11 14 (1.54%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.43%) Verilog
13 12 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.32%) Reinsurance
14 11 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.21%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.10%) Fibre Optics
15 10 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 359 (39.54%) Linux
2 136 (14.98%) Windows
3 100 (11.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (5.62%) Embedded Linux
5 37 (4.07%) CentOS
6 35 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 33 (3.63%) Debian
8 32 (3.52%) Unix
9 19 (2.09%) CoreOS
10 17 (1.87%) Windows Server
11 15 (1.65%) Android
12 4 (0.44%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.44%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.33%) SUSE
13 3 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.33%) VMS
14 2 (0.22%) AIX
14 2 (0.22%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.11%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (37.00%) Software Engineering
2 278 (30.62%) Agile
3 229 (25.22%) DevOps
4 196 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
5 138 (15.20%) Cybersecurity
6 125 (13.77%) Actionable Insight
7 117 (12.89%) Machine Learning
8 102 (11.23%) Collaborative Working
9 97 (10.68%) Containerisation
10 96 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
11 93 (10.24%) CI/CD
11 93 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 90 (9.91%) Artificial Intelligence
12 90 (9.91%) Configuration Management
12 90 (9.91%) Data Science
13 86 (9.47%) Analytics
14 85 (9.36%) Computer Science
15 80 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 68 (7.49%) SDLC
17 66 (7.27%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 278 (30.62%) Java
2 250 (27.53%) Bash
3 182 (20.04%) JavaScript
4 172 (18.94%) SQL
5 152 (16.74%) C
6 106 (11.67%) C#
7 91 (10.02%) C++
8 87 (9.58%) PowerShell
9 58 (6.39%) Rust
10 57 (6.28%) Embedded C
11 53 (5.84%) MATLAB
12 40 (4.41%) TypeScript
13 35 (3.85%) R
14 31 (3.41%) Go
14 31 (3.41%) Shell Script
15 30 (3.30%) Perl
16 29 (3.19%) Scala
17 22 (2.42%) PHP
18 16 (1.76%) VBA
19 13 (1.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 432 (47.58%) Security Cleared
2 214 (23.57%) DV Cleared
3 170 (18.72%) Degree
4 134 (14.76%) SC Cleared
5 41 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.76%) PhD
9 15 (1.65%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.54%) ISTQB
11 13 (1.43%) HNC
12 9 (0.99%) CCNP
12 9 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.88%) HND
14 7 (0.77%) CCNA
15 6 (0.66%) IIBA
15 6 (0.66%) SANS
16 5 (0.55%) CISSP
16 5 (0.55%) CRISC
16 5 (0.55%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.86%) QA
2 22 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.20%) PMO
4 12 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.10%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.66%) NIST
6 6 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.55%) GRC
7 5 (0.55%) TickIT
8 3 (0.33%) IEC 61508
9 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 157 (17.29%) Docker
2 79 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (4.96%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.98%) vSphere
5 17 (1.87%) Active Directory
5 17 (1.87%) Firmware
6 15 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 9 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.44%) KVM
9 4 (0.44%) NFS
9 4 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.33%) Ceph
10 3 (0.33%) Gluster
10 3 (0.33%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 188 (20.70%) Ansible
2 183 (20.15%) Kubernetes
3 128 (14.10%) Puppet
4 102 (11.23%) Terraform
5 29 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.97%) Grafana
7 26 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 17 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.76%) HAProxy
10 8 (0.88%) Nagios
11 7 (0.77%) Kibana
12 5 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.55%) Opsview
13 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.44%) Podman
13 4 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.44%) vRealize
14 3 (0.33%) Observium
14 3 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (11.45%) Red Hat
2 95 (10.46%) VMware
3 82 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 46 (5.07%) Google
5 37 (4.07%) Oracle
6 32 (3.52%) Cisco
7 28 (3.08%) ESRI
8 25 (2.75%) Databricks
9 22 (2.42%) SaltStack
10 17 (1.87%) Alteryx
11 14 (1.54%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.32%) SAP
13 8 (0.88%) Teradata
14 7 (0.77%) IBM
14 7 (0.77%) Pega
14 7 (0.77%) UiPath
15 6 (0.66%) Dataiku
15 6 (0.66%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.55%) ServiceNow
17 4 (0.44%) New Relic