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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 209 68 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.75% 12.10% 13.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.60% 40.96% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 98 41 117
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £51,250 £47,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,625 £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 405 166 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.89% 29.54% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 278 93 287
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,300 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
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 21 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 21 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 -2 86 £66,250 +10.42% 22
Gloucester +2 81 £60,000 +11.63% 29
Filton +3 4 £40,000 - 2
Cirencester +2 4 £85,000 +54.55% 1
Tewkesbury -9 4 £53,250 -21.11%
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 31 (14.83%) 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%) 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 77 (36.84%) AWS
2 53 (25.36%) Azure
3 20 (9.57%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.61%) GCP
5 17 (8.13%) Azure AI
6 13 (6.22%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.74%) Serverless
8 11 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.91%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.91%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (1.44%) Datadog
15 2 (0.96%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.70%) LAN
1 14 (6.70%) WAN
2 12 (5.74%) Firewall
3 10 (4.78%) VLAN
4 9 (4.31%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (4.31%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (4.31%) Unified Communications
4 9 (4.31%) WebEx
5 7 (3.35%) DNS
6 5 (2.39%) DHCP
6 5 (2.39%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.39%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.91%) IPv4
8 3 (1.44%) AMQP
8 3 (1.44%) BGP
8 3 (1.44%) OSPF
8 3 (1.44%) SSL
8 3 (1.44%) VPN
8 3 (1.44%) Wireless
9 2 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.00%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.70%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.22%) Power BI
5 11 (5.26%) Big Data
5 11 (5.26%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.26%) Tableau
6 10 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.87%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.39%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.39%) MySQL
9 4 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (19.14%) Git
2 33 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.83%) 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%) LabVIEW
9 3 (1.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.96%) Eclipse
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 38 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.22%) Finance
3 25 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.70%) Aerospace
5 13 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.26%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.31%) Banking
7 9 (4.31%) Marketing
7 9 (4.31%) Retail
8 6 (2.87%) Electronics
8 6 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Games
11 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (24.40%) Software Engineer
2 25 (11.96%) Data Engineer
2 25 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.48%) Python Engineer
4 23 (11.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (10.05%) Senior
6 20 (9.57%) Lead
7 16 (7.66%) Developer
8 13 (6.22%) Analyst
8 13 (6.22%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.74%) Data Analyst
9 12 (5.74%) Junior
9 12 (5.74%) Junior Analyst
10 11 (5.26%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (4.78%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.78%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.31%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (3.83%) Principal Engineer
14 7 (3.35%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (33.97%) Terraform
2 20 (9.57%) Spring
2 20 (9.57%) Spring Boot
3 19 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (8.61%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (7.18%) Kafka
6 10 (4.78%) Keycloak
6 10 (4.78%) Node.js
6 10 (4.78%) React
7 9 (4.31%) XMPP
8 8 (3.83%) Playwright
9 7 (3.35%) OAuth
9 7 (3.35%) OpenID
9 7 (3.35%) pytest
9 7 (3.35%) Vue
10 6 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.87%) REST
11 5 (2.39%) HTML
11 5 (2.39%) OpenAPI
12 4 (1.91%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (9.57%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.31%) FlexPod
4 9 (4.31%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.87%) Replication
8 5 (2.39%) Social Media
9 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.91%) FPGA
9 4 (1.91%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.44%) CUDA
10 3 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.44%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.44%) PKI
10 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.44%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 68 (32.54%) Linux
2 37 (17.70%) Windows
3 15 (7.18%) 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 83 (39.71%) CI/CD
2 79 (37.80%) DevOps
3 75 (35.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (35.41%) Software Engineering
5 62 (29.67%) Agile
6 56 (26.79%) AI
7 55 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 39 (18.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (18.18%) Test Automation
10 32 (15.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 28 (13.40%) Analytics
11 28 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (11.96%) Collaborative Culture
15 22 (10.53%) Data Science
15 22 (10.53%) Scrum
16 21 (10.05%) ETL
17 19 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.58%) Java
2 48 (22.97%) 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%) C#
12 8 (3.83%) Groovy
13 3 (1.44%) GLSL
13 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.48%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 137 (65.55%) Security Cleared
2 86 (41.15%) DV Cleared
3 40 (19.14%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.48%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.31%) 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%) RHCE
8 4 (1.91%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.96%) CCNP
9 2 (0.96%) PhD
10 1 (0.48%) HNC
10 1 (0.48%) HND
10 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.22%) QA
2 11 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (24.88%) Docker
2 21 (10.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.78%) vSphere
4 7 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.87%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.87%) Firmware
5 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (2.87%) Virtual Servers
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 81 (38.76%) Ansible
2 67 (32.06%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.88%) Grafana
4 16 (7.66%) Puppet
5 14 (6.70%) Kibana
5 14 (6.70%) logstash
6 9 (4.31%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (3.83%) Packer
8 7 (3.35%) Argo
8 7 (3.35%) Rancher
8 7 (3.35%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
10 5 (2.39%) yum
10 5 (2.39%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.44%) Kubeflow
11 3 (1.44%) Nagios
11 3 (1.44%) SCCM
11 3 (1.44%) SCOM
11 3 (1.44%) SCOrch
11 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.53%) Splunk
3 21 (10.05%) VMware
4 19 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.70%) Cisco
6 12 (5.74%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.78%) Atlassian
8 9 (4.31%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.87%) NetApp
10 5 (2.39%) Oracle
11 4 (1.91%) Google
12 3 (1.44%) Juniper
12 3 (1.44%) New Relic
12 3 (1.44%) SaltStack
12 3 (1.44%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.96%) F5
13 2 (0.96%) Infoblox
13 2 (0.96%) Meraki
13 2 (0.96%) Netskope
13 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow