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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 17 2
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 101 85 308
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 13.58% 15.68% 23.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.41% 31.95% 47.17%
Number of salaries quoted 58 52 167
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,375 £41,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,125 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% +0.87%

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 170 266 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.85% 49.08% 49.13%
Number of salaries quoted 106 93 479
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +17.65% -7.27%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £78,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 0 46 £57,500 -14.81% 24
Gloucester +2 32 £75,000 +15.38% 19
Tewkesbury +1 6 £62,500 -16.67% 4
Filton +5 3 - - 4
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 13 (12.87%) Apache
2 5 (4.95%) Confluence
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 53 (52.48%) AWS
2 42 (41.58%) Azure
3 10 (9.90%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.92%) Azure AI
4 8 (7.92%) GCP
4 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.95%) Serverless
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.97%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.97%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) DNS
1 9 (8.91%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.92%) DHCP
3 5 (4.95%) VSAN
4 4 (3.96%) LAN
4 4 (3.96%) WAN
5 3 (2.97%) Firewall
6 1 (0.99%) AMQP
6 1 (0.99%) HTTP
6 1 (0.99%) ICMP
6 1 (0.99%) Internet
6 1 (0.99%) VLAN
6 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.82%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (11.88%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.92%) Neo4j
3 8 (7.92%) Power BI
3 8 (7.92%) Tableau
4 7 (6.93%) Big Data
5 4 (3.96%) MySQL
5 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.98%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 18 (17.82%) Git
2 13 (12.87%) GitLab
3 10 (9.90%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.92%) JUnit
5 7 (6.93%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.93%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.95%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.95%) JIRA
6 5 (4.95%) Subversion
7 3 (2.97%) Balsamiq
7 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.98%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.99%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.99%) Selenium
9 1 (0.99%) TestRail
General
1 20 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.88%) Finance
3 11 (10.89%) Aerospace
4 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.93%) Electronics
6 5 (4.95%) Marketing
6 5 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.96%) Military
7 4 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.97%) Avionics
9 1 (0.99%) Games
9 1 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (33.66%) Software Engineer
2 10 (9.90%) Senior
3 8 (7.92%) Analyst
3 8 (7.92%) Data Analyst
3 8 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (7.92%) Junior
3 8 (7.92%) Junior Analyst
3 8 (7.92%) Junior Data Analyst
4 7 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) Administrator
5 6 (5.94%) Developer
5 6 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Python Software Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (3.96%) Software Developer
8 3 (2.97%) Consultant
8 3 (2.97%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) React
2 11 (10.89%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (9.90%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.92%) MERN Stack
5 5 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.95%) Middleware
6 4 (3.96%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.96%) HTML
6 4 (3.96%) JSF
6 4 (3.96%) Node.js
6 4 (3.96%) PrimeFaces
6 4 (3.96%) Vue
6 4 (3.96%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (2.97%) Kafka
7 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.98%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.98%) CSS
8 2 (1.98%) Flask
8 2 (1.98%) RESTful
9 1 (0.99%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.95%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.98%) Blockchain
3 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.98%) Clustering
3 2 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.98%) Replication
3 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.99%) Arduino
4 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.99%) PKI
4 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.99%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 46 (45.54%) Linux
2 11 (10.89%) Windows
3 8 (7.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.92%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.93%) CentOS
5 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.97%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.98%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.98%) Debian
8 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.59%) Software Engineering
2 29 (28.71%) Agile
3 25 (24.75%) DevOps
4 24 (23.76%) CI/CD
5 23 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (20.79%) AI
7 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (14.85%) Scrum
8 13 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (12.87%) Containerisation
8 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (11.88%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.89%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (9.90%) DevSecOps
12 8 (7.92%) Validation
13 7 (6.93%) Machine Learning
13 7 (6.93%) Unit Testing
14 6 (5.94%) Analytics
14 6 (5.94%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 44 (43.56%) Java
2 36 (35.64%) Bash
3 28 (27.72%) JavaScript
4 16 (15.84%) C
4 16 (15.84%) PowerShell
4 16 (15.84%) TypeScript
5 12 (11.88%) C++
6 11 (10.89%) Go
6 11 (10.89%) SQL
7 6 (5.94%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.96%) C#
9 3 (2.97%) Elixir
9 3 (2.97%) Erlang
9 3 (2.97%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (2.97%) Groovy
9 3 (2.97%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.97%) Tcl
9 3 (2.97%) VBScript
10 2 (1.98%) R
10 2 (1.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 63 (62.38%) Security Cleared
2 41 (40.59%) DV Cleared
3 17 (16.83%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.90%) Degree
5 8 (7.92%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.97%) CITP
6 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.97%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.95%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (18.81%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (32.67%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.77%) Ansible
3 18 (17.82%) Terraform
4 9 (8.91%) Grafana
5 8 (7.92%) Kibana
6 5 (4.95%) Argo
6 5 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.95%) Rancher
6 5 (4.95%) yum
7 4 (3.96%) logstash
7 4 (3.96%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (3.96%) SCVMM
8 3 (2.97%) Puppet
9 2 (1.98%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.98%) Nagios
9 2 (1.98%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.98%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.99%) Nessus
10 1 (0.99%) Podman
10 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.92%) Atlassian
2 8 (7.92%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.94%) Google
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle
4 4 (3.96%) McAfee
4 4 (3.96%) SAP
4 4 (3.96%) VMware
5 3 (2.97%) Cisco
6 2 (1.98%) Dell
6 2 (1.98%) HP
6 2 (1.98%) Juniper
6 2 (1.98%) Splunk
6 2 (1.98%) Veeam
7 1 (0.99%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.99%) SaltStack