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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 163 88 268
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.44% 18.18% 15.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.63% 48.89% 39.07%
Number of salaries quoted 73 40 206
10th Percentile £43,550 £43,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -16.03%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £57,998 £57,443 £58,000
% change year-on-year +0.97% -0.96% -3.33%

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 278 180 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.81% 37.19% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 174 87 548
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £65,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -3 78 £58,497 -2.51% 19
Gloucester -4 49 £75,000 +15.38% 16
Tewkesbury -8 4 £48,250 -3.50%
Filton +4 3 £40,000 - 3
Cirencester -4 1 £62,500 +13.64%
Tetbury - 1 £37,500 - 1
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 18 (11.04%) Apache
2 7 (4.29%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.07%) Confluence
4 3 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (10.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 67 (41.10%) AWS
2 52 (31.90%) Azure
3 22 (13.50%) Azure AI
4 21 (12.88%) GCP
5 18 (11.04%) Power Platform
6 15 (9.20%) OpenShift
7 10 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (6.13%) Serverless
8 9 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.68%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.45%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (2.45%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.84%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 1 (0.61%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.75%) Firewall
1 11 (6.75%) LAN
1 11 (6.75%) WAN
2 9 (5.52%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (5.52%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (5.52%) Unified Communications
2 9 (5.52%) VLAN
2 9 (5.52%) WebEx
3 6 (3.68%) DHCP
3 6 (3.68%) DNS
3 6 (3.68%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.45%) IPv4
4 4 (2.45%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.84%) AMQP
6 2 (1.23%) VSAN
7 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.88%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (11.04%) Power BI
3 17 (10.43%) Tableau
4 15 (9.20%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.91%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.29%) Big Data
7 6 (3.68%) InfluxDB
8 5 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.45%) MySQL
10 3 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.23%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.61%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (19.02%) Git
2 30 (18.40%) GitLab
3 29 (17.79%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.13%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.13%) SonarQube
5 9 (5.52%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.91%) JIRA
7 7 (4.29%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.68%) Robot Framework
8 6 (3.68%) Selenium
8 6 (3.68%) Subversion
8 6 (3.68%) TestRail
9 3 (1.84%) MLflow
10 1 (0.61%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.61%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.66%) Aerospace
3 16 (9.82%) Finance
4 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.75%) Marketing
5 11 (6.75%) Telecoms
6 10 (6.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (5.52%) Banking
7 9 (5.52%) Retail
8 4 (2.45%) Electronics
8 4 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Games
9 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (21.47%) Software Engineer
2 24 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (11.04%) Analyst
3 18 (11.04%) Data Analyst
4 16 (9.82%) Developer
4 16 (9.82%) Junior
4 16 (9.82%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (9.82%) Junior Data Analyst
5 13 (7.98%) Senior
6 12 (7.36%) Python Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Data Scientist
8 9 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Lead
8 9 (5.52%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (3.68%) Collaboration Engineer
10 6 (3.68%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.68%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.66%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (8.59%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (6.75%) Node.js
4 9 (5.52%) React
4 9 (5.52%) Vue
4 9 (5.52%) XMPP
5 7 (4.29%) pytest
6 6 (3.68%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.68%) Playwright
6 6 (3.68%) RESTful
7 5 (3.07%) HTML
7 5 (3.07%) Kafka
7 5 (3.07%) Spring
7 5 (3.07%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.45%) boto
8 4 (2.45%) Flask
8 4 (2.45%) Middleware
8 4 (2.45%) OAuth
8 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.52%) FlexPod
2 9 (5.52%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.52%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (4.91%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.68%) Replication
6 3 (1.84%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.84%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.23%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.23%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.23%) CUDA
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.61%) FPGA
8 1 (0.61%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 54 (33.13%) Linux
2 29 (17.79%) Windows
3 15 (9.20%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.75%) CentOS
5 5 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.45%) Unix
7 3 (1.84%) Debian
7 3 (1.84%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.23%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.61%) Rocky
9 1 (0.61%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.13%) CI/CD
2 52 (31.90%) AI
3 49 (30.06%) DevOps
3 49 (30.06%) Software Engineering
4 44 (26.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (26.38%) Agile
6 34 (20.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 33 (20.25%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (19.63%) Containerisation
9 27 (16.56%) Collaborative Culture
10 24 (14.72%) Test Automation
11 23 (14.11%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.50%) Scrum
13 20 (12.27%) Data Science
14 17 (10.43%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (9.20%) Infrastructure Automation
15 15 (9.20%) Software Testing
16 14 (8.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 13 (7.98%) Data Management
17 13 (7.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 57 (34.97%) Java
2 47 (28.83%) Bash
3 36 (22.09%) C++
4 31 (19.02%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.72%) SQL
6 20 (12.27%) PowerShell
7 15 (9.20%) Go
8 14 (8.59%) C
9 13 (7.98%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.52%) Rust
11 4 (2.45%) Groovy
11 4 (2.45%) Scala
12 3 (1.84%) C#
12 3 (1.84%) Elixir
12 3 (1.84%) Erlang
13 2 (1.23%) GLSL
13 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.61%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 103 (63.19%) Security Cleared
2 66 (40.49%) DV Cleared
3 33 (20.25%) SC Cleared
4 23 (14.11%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.98%) Degree
6 6 (3.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.45%) CCNA
7 4 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.45%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.45%) OSCP
7 4 (2.45%) PhD
7 4 (2.45%) RHCE
7 4 (2.45%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.52%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (21.47%) Docker
2 19 (11.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.13%) vSphere
4 6 (3.68%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.68%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.45%) Squid
5 4 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.23%) Firmware
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 57 (34.97%) Ansible
2 50 (30.67%) Kubernetes
3 47 (28.83%) Terraform
4 32 (19.63%) Grafana
5 15 (9.20%) Kibana
5 15 (9.20%) logstash
6 11 (6.75%) Puppet
7 9 (5.52%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (4.91%) Prometheus
8 8 (4.91%) Rancher
9 7 (4.29%) Argo
10 6 (3.68%) vCenter Server
10 6 (3.68%) yum
11 5 (3.07%) Packer
12 4 (2.45%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.84%) Kubeflow
13 3 (1.84%) SCCM
13 3 (1.84%) SCOM
13 3 (1.84%) SCOrch
14 2 (1.23%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.66%) Splunk
2 19 (11.66%) VMware
3 17 (10.43%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.75%) Cisco
5 9 (5.52%) Fortinet
5 9 (5.52%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.91%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.68%) NetApp
8 5 (3.07%) Oracle
9 4 (2.45%) Google
10 3 (1.84%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.23%) Dell
11 2 (1.23%) HP
11 2 (1.23%) Juniper
11 2 (1.23%) McAfee
11 2 (1.23%) SAP
11 2 (1.23%) Veeam
12 1 (0.61%) OpenAI