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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 89 22 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 10.30% 16.18% 15.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.45% 40.74% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 36 16 35
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £51,110 £47,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.05%
75th Percentile £96,250 £86,563 £81,375
90th Percentile - £91,250 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.38% +6.82% -15.38%

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 173 54 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 20.02% 39.71% 49.37%
Number of salaries quoted 120 33 112
10th Percentile £45,000 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% -8.33%

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 17 August 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 4 (4.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) AWS
2 26 (29.21%) Azure
3 18 (20.22%) Azure AI
4 12 (13.48%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.62%) GCP
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.37%) Serverless
9 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) LAN
1 11 (12.36%) WAN
2 10 (11.24%) Firewall
2 10 (11.24%) VLAN
3 9 (10.11%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (10.11%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (10.11%) Unified Communications
3 9 (10.11%) WebEx
4 5 (5.62%) DHCP
4 5 (5.62%) DNS
4 5 (5.62%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.25%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.12%) BGP
6 1 (1.12%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.12%) MPLS
6 1 (1.12%) Network Security
6 1 (1.12%) OSPF
6 1 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.12%) VPN
6 1 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) Power BI
1 12 (13.48%) Tableau
2 8 (8.99%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) GitLab
3 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.37%) MLflow
5 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.25%) JIRA
5 2 (2.25%) TestRail
5 2 (2.25%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Banking
4 9 (10.11%) Marketing
4 9 (10.11%) Retail
4 9 (10.11%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (19.10%) Software Engineer
2 12 (13.48%) Analyst
2 12 (13.48%) Data Analyst
2 12 (13.48%) Junior
2 12 (13.48%) Junior Analyst
2 12 (13.48%) Junior Data Analyst
3 9 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (10.11%) Lead
3 9 (10.11%) Lead DevOps
3 9 (10.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Developer
5 7 (7.87%) Data Scientist
5 7 (7.87%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) Principal Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.62%) Collaboration Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Spring
1 9 (10.11%) Spring Boot
1 9 (10.11%) XMPP
2 6 (6.74%) Node.js
3 4 (4.49%) OAuth
3 4 (4.49%) OpenID
4 3 (3.37%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.37%) React
4 3 (3.37%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.25%) Backbone.js
5 2 (2.25%) Next.js
5 2 (2.25%) Playwright
6 1 (1.12%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.12%) Bootstrap
6 1 (1.12%) CSS
6 1 (1.12%) Flask
6 1 (1.12%) HTML
6 1 (1.12%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (1.12%) REST
6 1 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) FlexPod
1 9 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (10.11%) Onboarding
1 9 (10.11%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (6.74%) Replication
3 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.25%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.72%) Linux
2 14 (15.73%) Windows
3 7 (7.87%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) Android
5 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.12%) CentOS
6 1 (1.12%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.96%) AI
2 26 (29.21%) Software Engineering
3 22 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (23.60%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (22.47%) DevOps
6 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.98%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (16.85%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.61%) Data Management
10 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (12.36%) Containerisation
11 11 (12.36%) Data Science
12 10 (11.24%) Agile
13 9 (10.11%) Analytics
13 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (10.11%) Machine Learning
13 9 (10.11%) Performance Management
13 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.99%) Code Quality
14 8 (8.99%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.83%) Java
2 21 (23.60%) C++
3 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.48%) SQL
4 7 (7.87%) Bash
4 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.87%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.74%) Rust
6 4 (4.49%) C
6 4 (4.49%) Scala
7 2 (2.25%) C#
8 1 (1.12%) Go
8 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.12%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 46 (51.69%) Security Cleared
2 35 (39.33%) DV Cleared
3 18 (20.22%) Azure Certification
4 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.87%) Degree
6 2 (2.25%) PhD
7 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) Docker
2 11 (12.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (6.74%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (6.74%) vSphere
4 4 (4.49%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.12%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.12%) KVM
6 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (30.34%) Ansible
2 20 (22.47%) Terraform
3 15 (16.85%) Kubernetes
4 9 (10.11%) Cisco CUCM
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
5 3 (3.37%) Kubeflow
5 3 (3.37%) Packer
6 2 (2.25%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (1.12%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.12%) Puppet
7 1 (1.12%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (28.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.48%) Cisco
3 11 (12.36%) VMware
4 10 (11.24%) Fortinet
5 9 (10.11%) Palo Alto
5 9 (10.11%) Splunk
6 6 (6.74%) NetApp
7 3 (3.37%) Juniper
8 2 (2.25%) Dell
8 2 (2.25%) HP
8 2 (2.25%) Veeam
9 1 (1.12%) Arista
9 1 (1.12%) McAfee
9 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds