Python Job Trends in Cheltenham

Python
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 3 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 39 47 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 21.20% 30.92% 32.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.00% 63.51% 67.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 21 55
10th Percentile £44,750 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £56,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £80,000 £77,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +12.07% +0.87%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 74 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 32.61% 48.68% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51 31 102
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,875 £78,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,500 £80,675
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Python job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Python
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Cheltenham

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (5.13%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (69.23%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 5 (12.82%) Azure AI
4 5 (12.82%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DHCP
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
1 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.69%) VSAN
3 2 (5.13%) LAN
3 2 (5.13%) WAN
4 1 (2.56%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) VLAN
4 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (15.38%) Neo4j
2 5 (12.82%) Power BI
2 5 (12.82%) Tableau
3 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
4 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Marketing
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.26%) Electronics
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Software Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Administrator
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Data Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Junior
3 5 (12.82%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Junior Data Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) C Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Python Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) AngularJS
1 6 (15.38%) MERN Stack
1 6 (15.38%) React
2 2 (5.13%) Bootstrap
2 2 (5.13%) CSS
2 2 (5.13%) Flask
2 2 (5.13%) HTML
2 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.56%) Blazor
3 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Clustering
1 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
1 2 (5.13%) Replication
2 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (41.03%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (10.26%) CentOS
6 2 (5.13%) CoreOS
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
2 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (20.51%) AI
3 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (17.95%) DevOps
5 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.26%) Digital Marketing
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.26%) ITIL
7 4 (10.26%) Programme Management
8 3 (7.69%) Code Quality
8 3 (7.69%) Collaborative Engineering
8 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (7.69%) Machine Learning
8 3 (7.69%) Time Management
9 2 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 12 (30.77%) Java
3 11 (28.21%) Bash
4 7 (17.95%) C
4 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
5 6 (15.38%) SQL
5 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 4 (10.26%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.56%) C#
7 1 (2.56%) Elixir
7 1 (2.56%) Erlang
7 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 20 (51.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (48.72%) DV Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
4 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (2.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (28.21%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.21%) Ansible
3 5 (12.82%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Data Guard
4 2 (5.13%) Grafana
4 2 (5.13%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (5.13%) Nagios
4 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.13%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.56%) Nessus
5 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
5 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) SAP
3 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) McAfee
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.56%) HP
5 1 (2.56%) Juniper
5 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Veeam