Python Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Python
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 21 2
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 83 94 246
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 12.63% 14.44% 26.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.87% 31.44% 55.28%
Number of salaries quoted 54 55 104
10th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £41,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +12.07% +0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,550
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £87,750
South West median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 141 299 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.46% 45.93% 48.79%
Number of salaries quoted 96 101 275
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -1.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £79,500
South West median annual salary £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Python job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Python
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Gloucestershire

Python
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Cheltenham +1 40 £57,500 -14.81% 13
Gloucester +1 21 £76,250 +17.31% 21
Tewkesbury +2 6 £70,000 -6.67% 3
Filton +9 3 - - 4
Berkeley - 1 - -
Python
South West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 10 (12.05%) Apache
2 6 (7.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (51.81%) AWS
2 31 (37.35%) Azure
3 9 (10.84%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.02%) Azure AI
4 5 (6.02%) GCP
4 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.82%) Serverless
6 3 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.61%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.61%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) DNS
1 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.02%) DHCP
3 4 (4.82%) VSAN
4 3 (3.61%) LAN
4 3 (3.61%) WAN
5 2 (2.41%) Firewall
6 1 (1.20%) HTTP
6 1 (1.20%) ICMP
6 1 (1.20%) Internet
6 1 (1.20%) VLAN
6 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (14.46%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.23%) Neo4j
4 5 (6.02%) Power BI
4 5 (6.02%) Tableau
5 4 (4.82%) Big Data
6 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.41%) MySQL
7 2 (2.41%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.20%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 17 (20.48%) Git
2 11 (13.25%) GitLab
3 9 (10.84%) JUnit
4 6 (7.23%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.23%) JIRA
5 4 (4.82%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.61%) Balsamiq
6 3 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.61%) Subversion
7 2 (2.41%) IDA Disassembler
8 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.25%) Electronics
3 8 (9.64%) Manufacturing
4 7 (8.43%) Finance
5 6 (7.23%) Aerospace
5 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Marketing
6 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Military
7 4 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.61%) Avionics
8 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.41%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (31.33%) Software Engineer
2 8 (9.64%) Administrator
2 8 (9.64%) Senior
3 5 (6.02%) Analyst
3 5 (6.02%) Data Analyst
3 5 (6.02%) Junior
3 5 (6.02%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (6.02%) Junior Data Analyst
3 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
3 5 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Developer
4 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Electronics Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (4.82%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Software Developer
5 3 (3.61%) DevSecOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) React
2 9 (10.84%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
3 6 (7.23%) MERN Stack
4 5 (6.02%) Hibernate
4 5 (6.02%) JSF
5 4 (4.82%) PrimeFaces
6 3 (3.61%) HTML
7 2 (2.41%) Bootstrap
7 2 (2.41%) CSS
7 2 (2.41%) Flask
7 2 (2.41%) Kafka
7 2 (2.41%) Middleware
7 2 (2.41%) RESTful
7 2 (2.41%) ZeroMQ
8 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.20%) Flash
8 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.20%) REST
8 1 (1.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (4.82%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.82%) Analogue Electronics
3 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Clustering
4 2 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.41%) Replication
5 1 (1.20%) Arduino
5 1 (1.20%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.20%) Life Science
5 1 (1.20%) Omics
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 39 (46.99%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Windows
3 9 (10.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.02%) CentOS
6 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.41%) CoreOS
7 2 (2.41%) Debian
7 2 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) Software Engineering
2 22 (26.51%) Agile
3 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (20.48%) CI/CD
4 17 (20.48%) DevOps
5 15 (18.07%) AI
6 10 (12.05%) DevSecOps
6 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (12.05%) Scrum
7 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (10.84%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (8.43%) Computer Science
9 7 (8.43%) Containerisation
9 7 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (8.43%) Unit Testing
10 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis
10 6 (7.23%) Machine Learning
10 6 (7.23%) Time Management
10 6 (7.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (37.35%) Java
2 23 (27.71%) Bash
3 21 (25.30%) JavaScript
4 18 (21.69%) C
5 14 (16.87%) TypeScript
6 13 (15.66%) PowerShell
7 8 (9.64%) SQL
8 7 (8.43%) Go
9 6 (7.23%) C++
10 5 (6.02%) Kotlin
11 4 (4.82%) C#
11 4 (4.82%) Embedded C
12 3 (3.61%) Google Apps Script
12 3 (3.61%) MATLAB
12 3 (3.61%) Tcl
12 3 (3.61%) VBScript
13 2 (2.41%) Elixir
13 2 (2.41%) Erlang
13 2 (2.41%) Groovy
13 2 (2.41%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (55.42%) Security Cleared
2 35 (42.17%) DV Cleared
3 15 (18.07%) Degree
3 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.61%) CITP
5 3 (3.61%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) CCNA
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.20%) PhD
7 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Docker
2 6 (7.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.02%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.82%) Firmware
5 3 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.41%) vSphere
7 1 (1.20%) KVM
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (25.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (19.28%) Ansible
3 10 (12.05%) Terraform
4 7 (8.43%) Kibana
5 4 (4.82%) Grafana
6 3 (3.61%) Argo
6 3 (3.61%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.61%) Rancher
6 3 (3.61%) SCVMM
6 3 (3.61%) yum
7 2 (2.41%) Data Guard
7 2 (2.41%) Nagios
8 1 (1.20%) logstash
8 1 (1.20%) Nessus
8 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.20%) Puppet
8 1 (1.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
1 8 (9.64%) Oracle
2 7 (8.43%) Atlassian
3 6 (7.23%) Google
3 6 (7.23%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.82%) EMC
4 4 (4.82%) SAP
5 3 (3.61%) Cisco
5 3 (3.61%) McAfee
5 3 (3.61%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) Dell
6 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.20%) HP
6 1 (1.20%) Juniper
6 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.20%) Splunk
6 1 (1.20%) Veeam