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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 219 58 130
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.78% 10.86% 12.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.20% 37.66% 38.01%
Number of salaries quoted 108 37 66
10th Percentile £43,375 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £51,250 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,438
90th Percentile £93,625 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +12.50%

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 464 154 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.60% 28.84% 33.24%
Number of salaries quoted 328 90 176
10th Percentile £45,875 £27,500 £36,625
25th Percentile £59,125 £42,125 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £53,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% -8.51% -0.42%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,375 £81,375
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 October 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 October 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
Gloucester +3 107 £62,500 +19.05% 73
Cheltenham -11 67 £75,000 +25.00% 74
Cirencester +3 7 £85,000 +54.55% 1
Filton +5 4 £40,000 - 3
Tewkesbury -17 3 £62,500 -10.71% 2
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 34 (15.53%) Apache
2 12 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.74%) OpenStack
4 5 (2.28%) Confluence
5 4 (1.83%) JBoss
6 3 (1.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.46%) Kinematics
Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 73 (33.33%) AWS
2 55 (25.11%) Azure
3 24 (10.96%) OpenShift
4 21 (9.59%) GCP
5 13 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (5.94%) Serverless
6 12 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.65%) Azure AI
9 7 (3.20%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.37%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.37%) Datadog
12 3 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.02%) LAN
1 11 (5.02%) WAN
2 8 (3.65%) DNS
2 8 (3.65%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) BGP
3 5 (2.28%) OSPF
3 5 (2.28%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.28%) VLAN
3 5 (2.28%) VPN
3 5 (2.28%) Wireless
4 4 (1.83%) AMQP
4 4 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.83%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (1.83%) DHCP
4 4 (1.83%) IPv4
4 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.83%) Unified Communications
4 4 (1.83%) WebEx
4 4 (1.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.33%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (7.76%) MongoDB
2 17 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.94%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.48%) Big Data
4 12 (5.48%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.20%) MySQL
5 7 (3.20%) Power BI
6 6 (2.74%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.28%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.83%) Tableau
9 3 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 45 (20.55%) Git
2 36 (16.44%) Jenkins
3 32 (14.61%) GitLab
4 14 (6.39%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.57%) JIRA
5 10 (4.57%) SonarQube
5 10 (4.57%) Subversion
6 9 (4.11%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.11%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.65%) TestRail
8 7 (3.20%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.20%) Selenium
9 6 (2.74%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.91%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.91%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.46%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.46%) MLflow
11 1 (0.46%) Mocha
11 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (22.37%) Finance
2 31 (14.16%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.85%) Aerospace
5 9 (4.11%) Electronics
6 8 (3.65%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.28%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.83%) Banking
9 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.83%) Marketing
9 4 (1.83%) Retail
10 3 (1.37%) Games
10 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (24.20%) Software Engineer
2 32 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (14.61%) Python Engineer
3 29 (13.24%) Data Engineer
4 28 (12.79%) Senior
5 26 (11.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (8.68%) Lead
7 18 (8.22%) Test Engineer
8 15 (6.85%) Developer
8 15 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Kafka Engineer
9 13 (5.94%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (5.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.02%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (38.36%) Terraform
2 24 (10.96%) Spring
2 24 (10.96%) Spring Boot
3 22 (10.05%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (9.13%) Kafka
5 18 (8.22%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (7.31%) Keycloak
7 11 (5.02%) React
8 8 (3.65%) Playwright
8 8 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (3.65%) Vue
9 7 (3.20%) Node.js
9 7 (3.20%) pytest
9 7 (3.20%) REST
10 6 (2.74%) OpenAPI
11 5 (2.28%) Swagger
12 4 (1.83%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.83%) boto
12 4 (1.83%) gRPC
12 4 (1.83%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.65%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.74%) FPGA
5 6 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.28%) Social Media
7 4 (1.83%) 3D Printing
7 4 (1.83%) Arduino
7 4 (1.83%) CMDB
7 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.83%) FlexPod
7 4 (1.83%) PKI
7 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.37%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 73 (33.33%) Linux
2 31 (14.16%) Windows
3 13 (5.94%) CentOS
4 11 (5.02%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.74%) Unix
7 4 (1.83%) Debian
7 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.37%) Android
9 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.91%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.91%) Rocky
9 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (42.92%) CI/CD
1 94 (42.92%) DevOps
2 88 (40.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (36.07%) Software Engineering
4 67 (30.59%) Containerisation
5 66 (30.14%) Agile
6 47 (21.46%) AI
6 47 (21.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 43 (19.63%) Test Automation
8 33 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (15.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 32 (14.61%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (13.24%) Analytics
10 29 (13.24%) Collaborative Culture
11 27 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (12.33%) Scrum
12 25 (11.42%) Decision-Making
12 25 (11.42%) ETL
12 25 (11.42%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (11.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 100 (45.66%) Java
2 54 (24.66%) Bash
3 49 (22.37%) C++
4 35 (15.98%) JavaScript
5 33 (15.07%) Go
6 23 (10.50%) SQL
7 21 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.22%) TypeScript
9 16 (7.31%) C
10 14 (6.39%) Rust
11 8 (3.65%) C#
12 6 (2.74%) Groovy
12 6 (2.74%) Scala
13 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.37%) GLSL
15 2 (0.91%) VB
16 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 160 (73.06%) Security Cleared
2 97 (44.29%) DV Cleared
3 51 (23.29%) SC Cleared
4 21 (9.59%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.11%) Degree
6 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.28%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.83%) CCNA
9 4 (1.83%) CCNP
9 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.83%) OSCP
9 4 (1.83%) RHCE
9 4 (1.83%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.91%) HNC
10 2 (0.91%) HND
11 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.22%) QA
2 10 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (25.57%) Docker
2 17 (7.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.57%) Firmware
4 7 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.74%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.74%) vSphere
6 4 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.83%) Squid
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.46%) KVM
Systems Management
1 93 (42.47%) Ansible
2 80 (36.53%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.24%) Grafana
4 24 (10.96%) Puppet
5 15 (6.85%) Kibana
5 15 (6.85%) logstash
6 12 (5.48%) Argo
7 11 (5.02%) Rancher
8 10 (4.57%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.65%) Packer
9 8 (3.65%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.65%) yum
10 5 (2.28%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.83%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.83%) Istio
11 4 (1.83%) linkerd
11 4 (1.83%) Mesos
12 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.59%) Red Hat
3 17 (7.76%) Splunk
3 17 (7.76%) VMware
4 10 (4.57%) Atlassian
4 10 (4.57%) Cisco
5 9 (4.11%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.28%) Google
6 5 (2.28%) Oracle
6 5 (2.28%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.83%) Avaya
7 4 (1.83%) EMC
7 4 (1.83%) F5
7 4 (1.83%) Infoblox
7 4 (1.83%) Meraki
7 4 (1.83%) Netskope
7 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.83%) SaltStack
7 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.37%) New Relic