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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 9 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 209 89 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.02% 14.66% 13.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.32% 47.34% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 95 41 119
10th Percentile £42,900 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £48,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 392 188 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.79% 30.97% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 262 94 293
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,325 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,550 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.69% -4.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £84,063 £71,875 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,375 £82,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -6 90 £62,500 +4.17% 33
Gloucester +5 80 £65,000 +20.93% 37
Filton +4 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -9 4 £53,250 -18.08% 1
Cirencester 0 2 £73,750 +34.09% 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 32 (15.31%) Apache
2 13 (6.22%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.39%) Confluence
4 4 (1.91%) JBoss
4 4 (1.91%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.44%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.48%) Kinematics
Applications
1 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 80 (38.28%) AWS
2 54 (25.84%) Azure
3 20 (9.57%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.61%) Azure AI
4 18 (8.61%) GCP
5 14 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.22%) Serverless
7 12 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.31%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.91%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.91%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
13 3 (1.44%) Datadog
14 2 (0.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.18%) LAN
1 15 (7.18%) WAN
2 13 (6.22%) Firewall
3 11 (5.26%) VLAN
4 10 (4.78%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (4.78%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (4.78%) Unified Communications
4 10 (4.78%) WebEx
5 8 (3.83%) DNS
6 6 (2.87%) DHCP
6 6 (2.87%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.39%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.91%) IPv4
9 3 (1.44%) AMQP
9 3 (1.44%) BGP
9 3 (1.44%) OSPF
9 3 (1.44%) SSL
9 3 (1.44%) VPN
9 3 (1.44%) Wireless
10 2 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.00%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.70%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.70%) Power BI
4 13 (6.22%) Tableau
5 11 (5.26%) Big Data
5 11 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.87%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.39%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.39%) MySQL
8 4 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (19.14%) Git
2 33 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 30 (14.35%) GitLab
4 12 (5.74%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.78%) JIRA
6 9 (4.31%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.31%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.83%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.83%) TestRail
8 7 (3.35%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.35%) Selenium
8 7 (3.35%) Subversion
9 3 (1.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.96%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.96%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.48%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.48%) Maven
11 1 (0.48%) Mocha
11 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (18.66%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.22%) Finance
3 25 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.70%) Aerospace
4 14 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.74%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.78%) Banking
6 10 (4.78%) Marketing
6 10 (4.78%) Retail
7 8 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.39%) Electronics
8 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Games
9 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (23.92%) Software Engineer
2 26 (12.44%) Data Engineer
3 25 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (11.00%) Python Engineer
5 22 (10.53%) Senior
6 21 (10.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (8.61%) Lead
8 14 (6.70%) Analyst
8 14 (6.70%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.70%) Developer
9 12 (5.74%) Junior
9 12 (5.74%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (5.74%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (5.74%) Test Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Data Scientist
12 8 (3.83%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (3.83%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
13 7 (3.35%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (8.61%) Apache NiFi
3 17 (8.13%) Spring
3 17 (8.13%) Spring Boot
4 15 (7.18%) Kafka
5 10 (4.78%) Keycloak
5 10 (4.78%) Node.js
5 10 (4.78%) React
5 10 (4.78%) XMPP
6 8 (3.83%) Playwright
7 7 (3.35%) OAuth
7 7 (3.35%) OpenID
7 7 (3.35%) pytest
7 7 (3.35%) Vue
8 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.87%) REST
9 5 (2.39%) HTML
9 5 (2.39%) OpenAPI
10 4 (1.91%) boto
10 4 (1.91%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (9.57%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.78%) FlexPod
4 10 (4.78%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.35%) Replication
7 5 (2.39%) Social Media
8 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.91%) FPGA
8 4 (1.91%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.44%) CUDA
9 3 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.44%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.44%) PKI
9 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.44%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 70 (33.49%) Linux
2 38 (18.18%) Windows
3 16 (7.66%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.74%) CentOS
5 7 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.91%) Unix
7 3 (1.44%) Android
7 3 (1.44%) Debian
7 3 (1.44%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.96%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.48%) Rocky
9 1 (0.48%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (37.80%) CI/CD
2 75 (35.89%) DevOps
3 73 (34.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (33.97%) Software Engineering
5 62 (29.67%) Agile
6 58 (27.75%) AI
7 53 (25.36%) Containerisation
8 40 (19.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 29 (13.88%) Analytics
10 29 (13.88%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (13.88%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (13.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 27 (12.92%) Data Science
12 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (11.96%) Collaborative Culture
14 22 (10.53%) Scrum
15 21 (10.05%) ETL
16 19 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 85 (40.67%) Java
2 47 (22.49%) C++
3 44 (21.05%) Bash
4 37 (17.70%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.88%) SQL
6 22 (10.53%) Go
7 21 (10.05%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.61%) TypeScript
9 17 (8.13%) C
10 14 (6.70%) Rust
11 9 (4.31%) Scala
12 8 (3.83%) Groovy
13 7 (3.35%) C#
14 3 (1.44%) GLSL
14 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.48%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 139 (66.51%) Security Cleared
2 88 (42.11%) DV Cleared
3 40 (19.14%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.96%) Azure Certification
5 12 (5.74%) Degree
6 6 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.91%) CCNA
8 4 (1.91%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.91%) OSCP
8 4 (1.91%) PhD
8 4 (1.91%) RHCE
8 4 (1.91%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.96%) CCNP
10 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.74%) QA
2 11 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 50 (23.92%) Docker
2 22 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.26%) vSphere
4 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 7 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.35%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.87%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.87%) Firmware
6 5 (2.39%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.39%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.91%) Squid
8 3 (1.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.48%) KVM
Systems Management
1 79 (37.80%) Ansible
2 68 (32.54%) Terraform
3 65 (31.10%) Kubernetes
4 30 (14.35%) Grafana
5 16 (7.66%) Puppet
6 14 (6.70%) Kibana
6 14 (6.70%) logstash
7 10 (4.78%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (3.83%) Packer
9 7 (3.35%) Argo
9 7 (3.35%) Rancher
9 7 (3.35%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.39%) yum
11 5 (2.39%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.44%) Kubeflow
12 3 (1.44%) Nagios
12 3 (1.44%) SCCM
12 3 (1.44%) SCOM
12 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.00%) Splunk
3 22 (10.53%) VMware
4 19 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.18%) Cisco
6 13 (6.22%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.78%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.78%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.35%) NetApp
9 6 (2.87%) Oracle
10 4 (1.91%) Google
11 3 (1.44%) Juniper
11 3 (1.44%) New Relic
11 3 (1.44%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.96%) Avaya
12 2 (0.96%) HP
12 2 (0.96%) Meraki
12 2 (0.96%) Netskope
12 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow