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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 21 2
Rank change year-on-year +16 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 96 93 260
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 14.12% 14.72% 25.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.58% 31.21% 53.72%
Number of salaries quoted 57 54 117
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +16.07% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,450 £86,100
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 151 298 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.21% 47.15% 47.17%
Number of salaries quoted 92 101 307
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,563 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £78,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.29%

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 17 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 17 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 42 £57,500 -16.36% 34
Gloucester +3 32 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Tewkesbury +2 8 £65,000 -13.33% 3
Filton +8 3 - - 3
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 14 (14.58%) Apache
2 6 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) AWS
2 34 (35.42%) Azure
3 12 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 8 (8.33%) GCP
5 6 (6.25%) Azure AI
5 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.21%) Serverless
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.13%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) DNS
1 7 (7.29%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.25%) DHCP
3 4 (4.17%) VSAN
4 3 (3.13%) Firewall
4 3 (3.13%) LAN
4 3 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.04%) AMQP
5 1 (1.04%) HTTP
5 1 (1.04%) ICMP
5 1 (1.04%) Internet
5 1 (1.04%) VLAN
5 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (13.54%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.25%) Big Data
3 6 (6.25%) Neo4j
3 6 (6.25%) Power BI
3 6 (6.25%) Tableau
4 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.13%) MySQL
6 2 (2.08%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (20.83%) Git
2 16 (16.67%) GitLab
3 11 (11.46%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.38%) JUnit
5 8 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.25%) JIRA
7 5 (5.21%) Subversion
8 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.13%) Balsamiq
9 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.08%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
11 1 (1.04%) Selenium
11 1 (1.04%) TestRail
General
1 19 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.42%) Aerospace
3 9 (9.38%) Electronics
3 9 (9.38%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.21%) Marketing
6 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.17%) Military
7 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.13%) Avionics
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Games
9 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (30.21%) Software Engineer
2 8 (8.33%) Administrator
2 8 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (7.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (7.29%) Senior
4 6 (6.25%) Analyst
4 6 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 6 (6.25%) Junior
4 6 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
4 6 (6.25%) Junior Data Analyst
5 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
5 5 (5.21%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Developer
6 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (4.17%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (4.17%) Software Developer
6 4 (4.17%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.63%) React
2 12 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (7.29%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.25%) MERN Stack
5 5 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.21%) Hibernate
5 5 (5.21%) JSF
6 4 (4.17%) Middleware
6 4 (4.17%) PrimeFaces
7 3 (3.13%) HTML
7 3 (3.13%) Kafka
7 3 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.13%) Vue
7 3 (3.13%) ZeroMQ
8 2 (2.08%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.08%) CSS
8 2 (2.08%) Flask
8 2 (2.08%) RESTful
9 1 (1.04%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
1 5 (5.21%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.08%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (2.08%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.08%) Clustering
3 2 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (2.08%) Replication
4 1 (1.04%) Arduino
4 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.04%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.04%) PKI
4 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (12.50%) Windows
3 9 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (7.29%) CentOS
6 4 (4.17%) Ubuntu
7 3 (3.13%) Debian
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (2.08%) CoreOS
8 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) Software Engineering
2 28 (29.17%) Agile
3 26 (27.08%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.08%) DevOps
4 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.75%) AI
6 16 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (15.63%) Scrum
8 13 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.46%) DevSecOps
11 10 (10.42%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 8 (8.33%) Unit Testing
13 8 (8.33%) Validation
14 7 (7.29%) Kanban
14 7 (7.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 40 (41.67%) Java
2 34 (35.42%) Bash
3 24 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.67%) C
4 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 15 (15.63%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.42%) C++
6 10 (10.42%) Go
7 9 (9.38%) SQL
8 6 (6.25%) Kotlin
9 4 (4.17%) C#
10 3 (3.13%) Elixir
10 3 (3.13%) Erlang
10 3 (3.13%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (3.13%) Groovy
10 3 (3.13%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.13%) Tcl
10 3 (3.13%) VBScript
11 2 (2.08%) Embedded C
11 2 (2.08%) R
Qualifications
1 60 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 43 (44.79%) DV Cleared
3 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 13 (13.54%) Degree
5 6 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.13%) CITP
6 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.13%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.04%) CCNA
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.08%) Firmware
5 2 (2.08%) vSphere
6 1 (1.04%) KVM
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 25 (26.04%) Ansible
3 17 (17.71%) Terraform
4 10 (10.42%) Kibana
5 9 (9.38%) Grafana
6 5 (5.21%) Argo
6 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.21%) Rancher
6 5 (5.21%) yum
7 4 (4.17%) logstash
7 4 (4.17%) Puppet
8 3 (3.13%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (3.13%) SCVMM
9 2 (2.08%) Data Guard
9 2 (2.08%) Nagios
9 2 (2.08%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.08%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.04%) Nessus
10 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
1 9 (9.38%) Red Hat
2 8 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 8 (8.33%) Oracle
3 7 (7.29%) Google
4 5 (5.21%) VMware
5 4 (4.17%) Cisco
5 4 (4.17%) SAP
6 3 (3.13%) McAfee
7 2 (2.08%) Dell
7 2 (2.08%) EMC
7 2 (2.08%) HP
7 2 (2.08%) Juniper
7 2 (2.08%) Splunk
7 2 (2.08%) Veeam
8 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.04%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.04%) SaltStack