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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 181 88 255
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.57% 16.27% 15.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.39% 47.31% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 81 40 197
10th Percentile £43,500 £43,850 £43,400
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £81,350
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

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 321 186 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.75% 34.38% 39.09%
Number of salaries quoted 208 93 521
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,360 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -11.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,775 £85,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -4 79 £60,000 - 54
Gloucester -2 61 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Filton +4 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -10 3 £44,000 -12.00% 4
Cirencester -4 1 £62,500 +13.64%
Tetbury - 1 £37,500 -
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 22 (12.15%) Apache
2 7 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.76%) Confluence
4 4 (2.21%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.12%) AWS
2 54 (29.83%) Azure
3 22 (12.15%) Azure AI
4 20 (11.05%) GCP
5 18 (9.94%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.84%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.63%) Serverless
8 11 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.97%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.21%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.21%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (1.66%) Azure Machine Learning
15 2 (1.10%) Azure AKS
15 2 (1.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.63%) Firewall
2 11 (6.08%) LAN
2 11 (6.08%) WAN
3 9 (4.97%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (4.97%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (4.97%) Unified Communications
3 9 (4.97%) VLAN
3 9 (4.97%) WebEx
4 6 (3.31%) DHCP
4 6 (3.31%) DNS
4 6 (3.31%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.21%) IPv4
5 4 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.66%) AMQP
7 2 (1.10%) VSAN
8 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.81%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (10.50%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.94%) Power BI
4 17 (9.39%) Tableau
5 13 (7.18%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.87%) Big Data
6 7 (3.87%) InfluxDB
6 7 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.76%) MySQL
8 4 (2.21%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.66%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.10%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.55%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (18.23%) Git
1 33 (18.23%) GitLab
1 33 (18.23%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.08%) Cucumber
2 11 (6.08%) SonarQube
3 10 (5.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (4.42%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.42%) JIRA
5 7 (3.87%) Robot Framework
5 7 (3.87%) Selenium
5 7 (3.87%) Subversion
5 7 (3.87%) TestRail
6 3 (1.66%) MLflow
7 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.55%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (17.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.50%) Aerospace
3 18 (9.94%) Finance
4 16 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.97%) Banking
7 9 (4.97%) Marketing
7 9 (4.97%) Retail
7 9 (4.97%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.66%) Games
10 2 (1.10%) Electronics
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (22.65%) Software Engineer
2 25 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (10.50%) Senior
4 18 (9.94%) Analyst
4 18 (9.94%) Data Analyst
5 17 (9.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.84%) Junior
6 16 (8.84%) Junior Analyst
6 16 (8.84%) Junior Data Analyst
7 14 (7.73%) Data Engineer
7 14 (7.73%) Developer
7 14 (7.73%) Lead
7 14 (7.73%) Python Engineer
8 11 (6.08%) Data Scientist
9 10 (5.52%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.31%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.71%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.94%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (6.08%) Node.js
3 11 (6.08%) Spring
3 11 (6.08%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.52%) Kafka
4 10 (5.52%) Vue
5 9 (4.97%) React
5 9 (4.97%) XMPP
6 8 (4.42%) pytest
7 7 (3.87%) Playwright
8 6 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.21%) boto
10 4 (2.21%) Middleware
10 4 (2.21%) OAuth
10 4 (2.21%) OpenID
10 4 (2.21%) REST
10 4 (2.21%) RESTful
11 3 (1.66%) OpenGL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.97%) FlexPod
3 9 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.97%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.31%) Replication
6 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.66%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.66%) CUDA
7 3 (1.66%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.66%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 63 (34.81%) Linux
2 33 (18.23%) Windows
3 15 (8.29%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.63%) CentOS
5 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.76%) Unix
6 3 (1.66%) Debian
6 3 (1.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.10%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.55%) Rocky
8 1 (0.55%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.36%) CI/CD
2 63 (34.81%) DevOps
3 56 (30.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (30.39%) AI
4 55 (30.39%) Software Engineering
5 51 (28.18%) Agile
6 38 (20.99%) Containerisation
6 38 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 32 (17.68%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (17.68%) Collaborative Culture
8 26 (14.36%) Test Automation
9 25 (13.81%) Scrum
9 25 (13.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 24 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (12.71%) Data Science
12 22 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (9.39%) Software Testing
14 16 (8.84%) Analytics
14 16 (8.84%) Data Pipeline
15 15 (8.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 72 (39.78%) Java
2 49 (27.07%) Bash
3 38 (20.99%) C++
4 32 (17.68%) JavaScript
5 27 (14.92%) SQL
6 21 (11.60%) PowerShell
7 20 (11.05%) Go
8 15 (8.29%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.73%) C
10 10 (5.52%) Rust
11 7 (3.87%) Groovy
12 4 (2.21%) C#
12 4 (2.21%) Scala
13 3 (1.66%) GLSL
13 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.55%) Elixir
14 1 (0.55%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.55%) Erlang
14 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 119 (65.75%) Security Cleared
2 77 (42.54%) DV Cleared
3 34 (18.78%) SC Cleared
4 25 (13.81%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.63%) Degree
6 7 (3.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.21%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.21%) CCNA
7 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.21%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.21%) OSCP
7 4 (2.21%) PhD
7 4 (2.21%) RHCE
7 4 (2.21%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.52%) QA
2 6 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 41 (22.65%) Docker
2 20 (11.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.52%) vSphere
4 7 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.31%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (3.31%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.21%) Squid
6 4 (2.21%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.10%) Firmware
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (37.02%) Ansible
2 59 (32.60%) Kubernetes
3 57 (31.49%) Terraform
4 33 (18.23%) Grafana
5 17 (9.39%) Kibana
5 17 (9.39%) logstash
6 13 (7.18%) Puppet
7 9 (4.97%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (4.97%) Rancher
8 8 (4.42%) Argo
9 7 (3.87%) Packer
9 7 (3.87%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.87%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.87%) yum
10 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.66%) Kubeflow
11 3 (1.66%) SCCM
11 3 (1.66%) SCOM
11 3 (1.66%) SCOrch
12 2 (1.10%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (19.34%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.05%) Splunk
2 20 (11.05%) VMware
3 18 (9.94%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.08%) Cisco
5 9 (4.97%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.97%) Fortinet
5 9 (4.97%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.31%) NetApp
7 5 (2.76%) Oracle
8 4 (2.21%) Google
9 3 (1.66%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.10%) Dell
10 2 (1.10%) HP
10 2 (1.10%) Juniper
10 2 (1.10%) McAfee
10 2 (1.10%) Veeam
11 1 (0.55%) OpenAI