Python Job Trends in Bristol

Python
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 30 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 153 64 264
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 5.69% 5.89% 8.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.54% 22.94% 27.22%
Number of salaries quoted 122 55 227
10th Percentile £33,875 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +12.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,221 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.63% -

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 279 970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.75% 25.67% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 323 211 800
10th Percentile £35,250 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -3.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £73,784
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Python job vacancy trend in Bristol

Python
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Bristol over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Bristol

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (3.92%) Jupyter
2 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.96%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.92%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.31%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.25%) Azure
2 35 (22.88%) Power Platform
3 29 (18.95%) AWS
4 21 (13.73%) Azure AI
5 13 (8.50%) GitHub
6 11 (7.19%) GCP
7 8 (5.23%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (5.23%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.92%) SaaS
9 5 (3.27%) dbt
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (2.61%) Datadog
10 4 (2.61%) Serverless
11 3 (1.96%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.96%) IaaS
12 2 (1.31%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.96%) Firewall
1 3 (1.96%) Internet
2 2 (1.31%) MQTT
2 2 (1.31%) SNMP
2 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.65%) Network Security
3 1 (0.65%) UWB
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (19.61%) Tableau
2 26 (16.99%) Power BI
3 10 (6.54%) Data Lake
4 8 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (3.92%) Data Vault
6 6 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.61%) Big Data
9 3 (1.96%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.65%) Redis
11 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.65%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Git
2 7 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 7 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (3.92%) JIRA
4 5 (3.27%) GitLab
5 3 (1.96%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.65%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.65%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.03%) Finance
3 21 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Retail
4 8 (5.23%) Tech for Good
5 6 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.27%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.61%) Law
7 4 (2.61%) Marketing
8 3 (1.96%) Multimedia
8 3 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.31%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.31%) Games
9 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.65%) Automotive
10 1 (0.65%) Aviation
10 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (23.53%) Analyst
2 35 (22.88%) Senior
3 27 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 23 (15.03%) Python Engineer
4 23 (15.03%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.11%) Developer
6 16 (10.46%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (9.80%) Junior
7 15 (9.80%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (9.80%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (9.15%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (7.84%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.84%) Python Developer
9 12 (7.84%) Trainee
10 9 (5.88%) Architect
11 8 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 6 (3.92%) Programmer
13 6 (3.92%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) Django
1 12 (7.84%) FastAPI
2 11 (7.19%) Pandas
3 10 (6.54%) NumPy
4 9 (5.88%) REST
5 6 (3.92%) Hugging Face
5 6 (3.92%) Matplotlib
5 6 (3.92%) React
5 6 (3.92%) scikit-learn
5 6 (3.92%) Streamlit
6 5 (3.27%) CSS
7 4 (2.61%) .NET
7 4 (2.61%) Flask
7 4 (2.61%) Kafka
7 4 (2.61%) PySpark
7 4 (2.61%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.61%) Vue
8 3 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.96%) HTML
8 3 (1.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.54%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.61%) CUDA
3 4 (2.61%) Robotics
4 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Educational Technology
5 2 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.31%) IoT
5 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.31%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.65%) ARM Cortex
6 1 (0.65%) Blog
6 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.65%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.73%) Linux
2 10 (6.54%) Windows
3 3 (1.96%) VMS
4 2 (1.31%) Debian
4 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (36.60%) AI
2 43 (28.10%) Software Engineering
3 34 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (18.95%) Analytics
5 28 (18.30%) CI/CD
6 25 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (14.38%) DevOps
7 22 (14.38%) Machine Learning
8 20 (13.07%) Agile
9 17 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (9.80%) LLM
11 14 (9.15%) Data Engineering
11 14 (9.15%) Visualisation
12 13 (8.50%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (8.50%) Data Science
12 13 (8.50%) Mentoring
13 12 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 12 (7.84%) Data Modelling
13 12 (7.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 59 (38.56%) SQL
2 18 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 18 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 17 (11.11%) Bash
4 13 (8.50%) C#
5 9 (5.88%) R
6 7 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (3.92%) Go
8 5 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.61%) Java
10 3 (1.96%) PHP
11 2 (1.31%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.31%) Ruby
11 2 (1.31%) VBA
12 1 (0.65%) C
12 1 (0.65%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (16.34%) Azure Certification
2 16 (10.46%) Degree
3 9 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 9 (5.88%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.27%) PhD
6 3 (1.96%) CISSP
6 3 (1.96%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.92%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) GDPR
3 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) JTAG
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 16 (10.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (11.11%) Terraform
2 14 (9.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.27%) Ansible
4 4 (2.61%) Grafana
5 2 (1.31%) Nagios
5 2 (1.31%) Netcool
5 2 (1.31%) Tivoli
5 2 (1.31%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.65%) Packer
6 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.84%) Databricks
3 6 (3.92%) Cognos
3 6 (3.92%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (3.27%) Intel
5 4 (2.61%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.96%) Splunk
7 2 (1.31%) BMC
7 2 (1.31%) Cisco
7 2 (1.31%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.31%) VMware
8 1 (0.65%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) Google
8 1 (0.65%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.65%) Sophos
8 1 (0.65%) Yahoo!