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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 151 79 293
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.67% 18.85% 17.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.45% 54.86% 41.44%
Number of salaries quoted 66 38 220
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,125 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £81,250
South West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +1.77% -5.83%

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 238 144 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.39% 34.37% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 136 72 584
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,998 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,625 £78,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.25% +4.44% -

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 86 £57,500 -4.17% 19
Gloucester -3 44 £75,000 +15.38% 11
Tewkesbury -6 4 £48,250 -3.50%
Filton +6 1 £61,500 +25.72% 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 (9.27%) Apache
2 5 (3.31%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.32%) Confluence
3 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.06%) AWS
2 57 (37.75%) Azure
3 27 (17.88%) Azure AI
4 22 (14.57%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.27%) GCP
6 9 (5.96%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.65%) Serverless
10 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.66%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.66%) Dagster
12 1 (0.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.62%) Firewall
2 9 (5.96%) LAN
2 9 (5.96%) WAN
3 8 (5.30%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (5.30%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (5.30%) Unified Communications
3 8 (5.30%) VLAN
3 8 (5.30%) WebEx
4 7 (4.64%) DHCP
4 7 (4.64%) DNS
4 7 (4.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.66%) AMQP
5 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.57%) Power BI
1 22 (14.57%) Tableau
2 21 (13.91%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (7.28%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.97%) Neo4j
4 6 (3.97%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.31%) Big Data
5 5 (3.31%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.65%) MySQL
6 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.66%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (16.56%) Git
2 21 (13.91%) GitLab
3 19 (12.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.96%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.64%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.64%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.64%) Subversion
6 6 (3.97%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.31%) JIRA
7 5 (3.31%) JUnit
8 4 (2.65%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.65%) Selenium
8 4 (2.65%) TestRail
9 2 (1.32%) MLflow
10 1 (0.66%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.66%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.60%) Finance
3 15 (9.93%) Aerospace
3 15 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.61%) Marketing
5 12 (7.95%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.30%) Banking
6 8 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.30%) Retail
7 6 (3.97%) Electronics
8 4 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (25.17%) Software Engineer
2 22 (14.57%) Analyst
2 22 (14.57%) Data Analyst
3 21 (13.91%) Junior
3 21 (13.91%) Junior Analyst
3 21 (13.91%) Junior Data Analyst
4 20 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (9.93%) Senior
6 14 (9.27%) Developer
7 10 (6.62%) Data Scientist
8 8 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Python Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Lead
10 6 (3.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.97%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.97%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.31%) Collaboration Engineer
11 5 (3.31%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.61%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.95%) React
3 11 (7.28%) Apache NiFi
4 8 (5.30%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.30%) Node.js
4 8 (5.30%) XMPP
5 7 (4.64%) Vue
6 6 (3.97%) MERN Stack
7 5 (3.31%) HTML
7 5 (3.31%) Middleware
8 4 (2.65%) Kafka
8 4 (2.65%) OAuth
8 4 (2.65%) OpenID
8 4 (2.65%) Playwright
8 4 (2.65%) pytest
8 4 (2.65%) RESTful
8 4 (2.65%) ZeroMQ
9 3 (1.99%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.99%) Flask
9 3 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.30%) FlexPod
2 8 (5.30%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.30%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (3.97%) Replication
4 5 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.65%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.99%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.99%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.32%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.66%) Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.66%) FPGA
8 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.66%) PKI
8 1 (0.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 50 (33.11%) Linux
2 19 (12.58%) Windows
3 10 (6.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.97%) CentOS
5 3 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.99%) Unix
6 1 (0.66%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.66%) Debian
6 1 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.66%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (34.44%) AI
2 50 (33.11%) Software Engineering
3 40 (26.49%) CI/CD
4 39 (25.83%) DevOps
5 37 (24.50%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (21.85%) Agile
7 31 (20.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (13.91%) Collaborative Culture
9 21 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (13.25%) Containerisation
11 18 (11.92%) Data Science
12 17 (11.26%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (10.60%) Scrum
14 15 (9.93%) Test Automation
15 14 (9.27%) Machine Learning
16 13 (8.61%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (7.95%) Data Management
17 12 (7.95%) Infrastructure Automation
17 12 (7.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.10%) Java
2 41 (27.15%) Bash
3 32 (21.19%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.88%) SQL
5 26 (17.22%) C++
6 17 (11.26%) PowerShell
7 15 (9.93%) TypeScript
8 14 (9.27%) Go
9 13 (8.61%) C
10 6 (3.97%) Rust
11 5 (3.31%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.65%) C#
12 4 (2.65%) Groovy
12 4 (2.65%) Scala
13 3 (1.99%) Elixir
13 3 (1.99%) Erlang
14 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.66%) R
15 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (56.95%) Security Cleared
2 57 (37.75%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.88%) Azure Certification
4 22 (14.57%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.27%) Degree
6 4 (2.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.65%) PhD
7 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) CITP
8 1 (0.66%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.30%) QA
2 4 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (19.87%) Docker
2 12 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (3.31%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (3.31%) vSphere
4 4 (2.65%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.32%) Firmware
7 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (29.80%) Kubernetes
2 42 (27.81%) Ansible
3 31 (20.53%) Terraform
4 26 (17.22%) Grafana
5 11 (7.28%) Kibana
6 10 (6.62%) logstash
7 8 (5.30%) Argo
7 8 (5.30%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (5.30%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.30%) Rancher
8 7 (4.64%) Puppet
8 7 (4.64%) yum
9 4 (2.65%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.99%) NetBackup
10 3 (1.99%) SCCM
10 3 (1.99%) SCOM
10 3 (1.99%) SCOrch
11 2 (1.32%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.66%) linkerd
12 1 (0.66%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.95%) Splunk
2 12 (7.95%) VMware
3 11 (7.28%) Cisco
4 8 (5.30%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.30%) Fortinet
4 8 (5.30%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.64%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.31%) NetApp
7 4 (2.65%) SAP
8 3 (1.99%) Dell
8 3 (1.99%) Google
8 3 (1.99%) HP
8 3 (1.99%) Juniper
8 3 (1.99%) Oracle
8 3 (1.99%) Veeam
9 1 (0.66%) McAfee
9 1 (0.66%) SaltStack