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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 212 63 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.24% 11.52% 12.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.77% 39.13% 37.73%
Number of salaries quoted 102 37 92
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -1.35% -14.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 426 161 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.57% 29.43% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 299 91 237
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +5 93 £60,000 +14.29% 40
Cheltenham -4 78 £68,750 +14.58% 41
Cirencester +1 4 £85,000 +54.55% 5
Filton +1 4 £40,000 - 1
Tewkesbury -14 3 £62,500 -10.71% 1
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 33 (15.57%) Apache
2 12 (5.66%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.36%) Confluence
3 5 (2.36%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.89%) JBoss
5 3 (1.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) Kinematics
Applications
1 11 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.79%) AWS
2 57 (26.89%) Azure
3 22 (10.38%) OpenShift
4 20 (9.43%) GCP
5 15 (7.08%) Azure AI
6 12 (5.66%) Serverless
7 11 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.89%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.42%) Datadog
13 2 (0.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.60%) LAN
1 14 (6.60%) WAN
2 10 (4.72%) Firewall
3 9 (4.25%) DNS
4 8 (3.77%) VLAN
5 7 (3.30%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (3.30%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (3.30%) Unified Communications
5 7 (3.30%) WebEx
6 5 (2.36%) BGP
6 5 (2.36%) DHCP
6 5 (2.36%) OSPF
6 5 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.36%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.36%) VPN
6 5 (2.36%) Wireless
7 4 (1.89%) IPv4
7 4 (1.89%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.89%) WLAN
8 3 (1.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.85%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (8.96%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.60%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.19%) Big Data
5 11 (5.19%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.19%) Power BI
6 9 (4.25%) Tableau
7 7 (3.30%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.36%) MySQL
9 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.47%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (19.34%) Git
2 35 (16.51%) Jenkins
3 32 (15.09%) GitLab
4 12 (5.66%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.72%) Cypress.io
5 10 (4.72%) JIRA
6 9 (4.25%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.25%) TestRail
7 8 (3.77%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.77%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.77%) Selenium
7 8 (3.77%) Subversion
8 5 (2.36%) LabVIEW
9 3 (1.42%) MLflow
10 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.94%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.47%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.47%) Maven
11 1 (0.47%) Mocha
11 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (19.34%) Finance
2 35 (16.51%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.13%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.77%) Electronics
8 7 (3.30%) Banking
8 7 (3.30%) Marketing
8 7 (3.30%) Retail
9 6 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Games
10 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (23.58%) Software Engineer
2 27 (12.74%) Data Engineer
3 26 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (12.26%) Python Engineer
4 25 (11.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (10.85%) Senior
6 20 (9.43%) Lead
7 17 (8.02%) Test Engineer
8 16 (7.55%) Developer
9 11 (5.19%) Analyst
9 11 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (4.72%) Data Analyst
10 10 (4.72%) Junior
10 10 (4.72%) Junior Analyst
10 10 (4.72%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (4.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.25%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 9 (4.25%) Junior Data Analyst
11 9 (4.25%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (35.38%) Terraform
2 21 (9.91%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (9.43%) Spring
3 20 (9.43%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.49%) Apache NiFi
5 17 (8.02%) Kafka
6 12 (5.66%) Keycloak
7 10 (4.72%) React
8 9 (4.25%) Playwright
9 8 (3.77%) Node.js
9 8 (3.77%) pytest
10 7 (3.30%) Vue
10 7 (3.30%) XMPP
11 6 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.83%) REST
12 5 (2.36%) OAuth
12 5 (2.36%) OpenAPI
12 5 (2.36%) OpenID
13 4 (1.89%) boto
13 4 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.38%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.25%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.30%) FlexPod
5 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.30%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.36%) FPGA
7 5 (2.36%) Social Media
8 4 (1.89%) CMDB
8 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.89%) Replication
9 3 (1.42%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.42%) Arduino
9 3 (1.42%) CUDA
9 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.42%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.42%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 69 (32.55%) Linux
2 36 (16.98%) Windows
3 13 (6.13%) CentOS
3 13 (6.13%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.36%) Unix
6 3 (1.42%) Android
6 3 (1.42%) Debian
6 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.94%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.47%) Rocky
8 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (40.09%) CI/CD
1 85 (40.09%) DevOps
2 79 (37.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (34.43%) Software Engineering
4 64 (30.19%) Agile
5 56 (26.42%) Containerisation
6 50 (23.58%) AI
7 41 (19.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 40 (18.87%) Test Automation
9 33 (15.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (14.15%) Data Pipeline
10 30 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (13.68%) Analytics
12 27 (12.74%) Collaborative Culture
12 27 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (10.85%) ETL
13 23 (10.85%) Scrum
14 22 (10.38%) Validation
15 21 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (42.45%) Java
2 48 (22.64%) Bash
3 47 (22.17%) C++
4 35 (16.51%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.21%) SQL
6 25 (11.79%) Go
7 22 (10.38%) PowerShell
8 17 (8.02%) C
8 17 (8.02%) TypeScript
9 13 (6.13%) Rust
10 8 (3.77%) Groovy
10 8 (3.77%) Scala
11 7 (3.30%) C#
12 3 (1.42%) GLSL
12 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.94%) VB
14 1 (0.47%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 143 (67.45%) Security Cleared
2 87 (41.04%) DV Cleared
3 43 (20.28%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.32%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (3.30%) Degree
7 5 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.89%) CCNA
8 4 (1.89%) CCNP
8 4 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.89%) OSCP
8 4 (1.89%) RHCE
8 4 (1.89%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.94%) HNC
9 2 (0.94%) HND
10 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.08%) QA
2 11 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (24.53%) Docker
2 20 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.25%) Firmware
4 8 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.77%) vSphere
5 6 (2.83%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.36%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.36%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (1.89%) Squid
7 4 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 85 (40.09%) Ansible
2 69 (32.55%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.15%) Grafana
4 18 (8.49%) Puppet
5 15 (7.08%) Kibana
5 15 (7.08%) logstash
6 9 (4.25%) Argo
7 8 (3.77%) Packer
7 8 (3.77%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.77%) Rancher
7 8 (3.77%) vCenter Server
8 7 (3.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (2.83%) yum
10 5 (2.36%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.42%) linkerd
11 3 (1.42%) Mesos
11 3 (1.42%) SCCM
11 3 (1.42%) SCOM
11 3 (1.42%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 28 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.91%) Splunk
3 20 (9.43%) Red Hat
3 20 (9.43%) VMware
4 14 (6.60%) Cisco
5 12 (5.66%) Fortinet
6 11 (5.19%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.30%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.36%) Oracle
8 5 (2.36%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.89%) Avaya
9 4 (1.89%) F5
9 4 (1.89%) Google
9 4 (1.89%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.89%) Meraki
9 4 (1.89%) NetApp
9 4 (1.89%) Netskope
9 4 (1.89%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.42%) New Relic
10 3 (1.42%) SaltStack