Python Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Python
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire citing Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	14	8	19
Rank change year-on-year	-6	+11	-17
Permanent jobs citing Python	216	58	111
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire	8.32%	11.51%	11.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category	45.00%	43.94%	28.39%
Number of salaries quoted	115	39	55
10^th Percentile	£42,500	-	£47,250
25^th Percentile	£52,500	£51,250	£48,177
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£72,500	£62,500	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+16.00%	-3.85%	+4.08%
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£80,625	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£96,250	£90,000	£82,500
South West median annual salary	£65,000	£60,000	£67,500
% change year-on-year	+8.33%	-11.11%	+12.50%

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 citing coding skills in Gloucestershire.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing coding skills	480	132	391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire	18.49%	26.19%	40.39%
Number of salaries quoted	337	88	146
10^th Percentile	£47,400	£29,000	£37,000
25^th Percentile	£60,000	£47,188	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£75,000	£57,500	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+30.43%	-4.17%	+4.35%
75^th Percentile	£85,000	£75,000	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£96,250	£86,625	£81,500
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 Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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 October 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 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Gloucester	+4	107	£72,500	-12.12%	34
Cheltenham	-12	61	£75,000	+25.00%	70
Cirencester	0	7	£85,000	+54.55%
Filton	+6	5	£40,000	-	3
Tewkesbury	-18	4	£62,500	-10.71%	3
Tetbury	-	1	£37,500	-
Python South West

Python Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, job vacancies citing Python also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucestershire region citing Python.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	75.9%	164
2	Java	47.7%	103
3	DV Cleared	46.3%	100
4	Infrastructure as Code	44.4%	96
5	CI/CD	44.0%	95
6	Ansible	43.1%	93
7	DevOps	42.6%	92
8	Terraform	41.2%	89
9	Kubernetes	40.3%	87
10	Linux	36.1%	78
11	Software Engineering	34.3%	74
12	AWS	33.3%	72
12	Containerisation	33.3%	72
14	Agile	31.5%	68
15	Docker	27.8%	60
16	Bash	25.5%	55
17	Infrastructure Engineering	22.7%	49
17	SC Cleared	22.7%	49
19	Azure	22.2%	48
20	C++	21.8%	47
21	AI	21.3%	46
22	Test Automation	19.9%	43
23	Git	19.0%	41
24	Site Reliability Engineering	16.7%	36
25	Data Pipeline	16.2%	35
25	Jenkins	16.2%	35
27	Apache	15.7%	34
27	JavaScript	15.7%	34
29	Go	15.3%	33
29	Problem-Solving	15.3%	33

Python Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Java	47.7%	103
2	Bash	25.5%	55
3	C++	21.8%	47
4	JavaScript	15.7%	34
5	Go	15.3%	33
6	PowerShell	9.3%	20
7	SQL	8.8%	19
8	C	8.3%	18
9	TypeScript	7.4%	16
10	Rust	6.5%	14
11	C#	4.2%	9
12	Groovy	2.8%	6
12	Scala	2.8%	6
14	Shell Script	1.9%	4
15	GLSL	1.4%	3
16	VB	0.9%	2
17	Kotlin	0.5%	1
17	MATLAB	0.5%	1
17	Objective-C	0.5%	1
17	Ruby	0.5%	1