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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 144 80 326
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 12.93% 17.09% 20.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.86% 36.20% 44.60%
Number of salaries quoted 73 45 218
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £81,325
South West median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% -4.17%

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 222 221 731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.93% 47.22% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 133 74 588
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,900 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,938 £64,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% -2.27%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 82 £57,500 -14.81% 29
Gloucester 0 39 £75,000 +15.38% 19
Tewkesbury -5 5 £52,500 +5.00% 5
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 15 (10.42%) Apache
2 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 67 (46.53%) AWS
2 55 (38.19%) Azure
3 21 (14.58%) Azure AI
4 19 (13.19%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.33%) GCP
6 9 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.86%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.47%) Serverless
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.69%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.25%) DNS
1 9 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.56%) DHCP
2 8 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (5.56%) LAN
2 8 (5.56%) WAN
3 7 (4.86%) VLAN
4 6 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (4.17%) Unified Communications
4 6 (4.17%) WebEx
5 3 (2.08%) VSAN
6 1 (0.69%) AMQP
6 1 (0.69%) HTTP
6 1 (0.69%) ICMP
6 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (13.19%) Power BI
2 19 (13.19%) Tableau
3 12 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.56%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.78%) Big Data
6 4 (2.78%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.78%) MySQL
6 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (15.28%) Git
2 17 (11.81%) GitLab
3 14 (9.72%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.86%) Cypress.io
6 6 (4.17%) JUnit
6 6 (4.17%) Subversion
7 5 (3.47%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.78%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.08%) Balsamiq
9 3 (2.08%) JIRA
9 3 (2.08%) Robot Framework
9 3 (2.08%) Selenium
9 3 (2.08%) TestRail
10 2 (1.39%) IDA Disassembler
10 2 (1.39%) MLflow
General
1 33 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.72%) Aerospace
2 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.03%) Finance
4 11 (7.64%) Marketing
5 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.17%) Banking
7 6 (4.17%) Retail
8 4 (2.78%) Electronics
8 4 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.78%) Military
9 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (27.08%) Software Engineer
2 19 (13.19%) Analyst
2 19 (13.19%) Data Analyst
3 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (12.50%) Junior
3 18 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
3 18 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (11.11%) Senior
5 10 (6.94%) Data Scientist
5 10 (6.94%) Developer
6 9 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Test Engineer
8 6 (4.17%) Software Developer
9 5 (3.47%) Administrator
9 5 (3.47%) Collaboration Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.47%) Python Software Engineer
10 4 (2.78%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.42%) React
2 11 (7.64%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (6.94%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.56%) MERN Stack
4 8 (5.56%) Node.js
5 6 (4.17%) XMPP
6 5 (3.47%) HTML
6 5 (3.47%) Middleware
6 5 (3.47%) Vue
7 4 (2.78%) Kafka
7 4 (2.78%) OAuth
7 4 (2.78%) OpenID
7 4 (2.78%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (2.08%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.08%) CSS
8 3 (2.08%) Flask
8 3 (2.08%) pytest
8 3 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (4.86%) Replication
2 6 (4.17%) FlexPod
2 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.39%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.39%) Clustering
5 2 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Arduino
6 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.69%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.69%) PKI
6 1 (0.69%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 53 (36.81%) Linux
2 19 (13.19%) Windows
3 11 (7.64%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.86%) CentOS
5 6 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.69%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.69%) Debian
7 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 47 (32.64%) AI
3 33 (22.92%) Agile
3 33 (22.92%) CI/CD
3 33 (22.92%) DevOps
4 32 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (13.19%) Containerisation
8 18 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (12.50%) Data Science
9 16 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 15 (10.42%) Scrum
11 14 (9.72%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (7.64%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (7.64%) SDLC
14 10 (6.94%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.03%) Java
2 39 (27.08%) Bash
3 33 (22.92%) JavaScript
4 23 (15.97%) SQL
5 20 (13.89%) C++
6 19 (13.19%) PowerShell
7 16 (11.11%) C
7 16 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 13 (9.03%) Go
9 6 (4.17%) C#
9 6 (4.17%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.78%) Groovy
10 4 (2.78%) Rust
10 4 (2.78%) Scala
11 3 (2.08%) Elixir
11 3 (2.08%) Erlang
11 3 (2.08%) VBScript
12 2 (1.39%) R
13 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (57.64%) Security Cleared
2 59 (40.97%) DV Cleared
3 21 (14.58%) Azure Certification
4 19 (13.19%) SC Cleared
5 16 (11.11%) Degree
6 4 (2.78%) PhD
7 3 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.08%) CITP
7 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.08%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (20.83%) Docker
2 12 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.17%) vSphere
4 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (3.47%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.78%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 34 (23.61%) Ansible
3 26 (18.06%) Terraform
4 19 (13.19%) Grafana
5 9 (6.25%) Kibana
6 7 (4.86%) Argo
6 7 (4.86%) logstash
7 6 (4.17%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.17%) Rancher
7 6 (4.17%) yum
8 4 (2.78%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.08%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.08%) Puppet
10 2 (1.39%) Data Guard
10 2 (1.39%) Kubeflow
10 2 (1.39%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (1.39%) Nagios
10 2 (1.39%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.33%) VMware
3 10 (6.94%) Cisco
3 10 (6.94%) Splunk
4 8 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.86%) Fortinet
5 7 (4.86%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.86%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.47%) NetApp
6 5 (3.47%) Oracle
7 4 (2.78%) SAP
8 3 (2.08%) Dell
8 3 (2.08%) Google
8 3 (2.08%) HP
8 3 (2.08%) Juniper
8 3 (2.08%) Veeam
9 2 (1.39%) McAfee
10 1 (0.69%) SaltStack