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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 168 88 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.35% 17.50% 15.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.33% 48.62% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 74 40 204
10th Percentile £43,575 £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% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - £95,000 £81,425
South West median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% -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 288 181 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.74% 35.98% 39.23%
Number of salaries quoted 180 88 538
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,938 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,625 £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 30 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 30 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 -4 79 £58,497 -2.51% 21
Gloucester -5 52 £75,000 +15.38% 20
Tewkesbury -7 4 £48,250 -3.50%
Filton +5 3 £40,000 - 2
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 (10.71%) Apache
2 7 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.98%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 67 (39.88%) AWS
2 52 (30.95%) Azure
3 22 (13.10%) Azure AI
4 21 (12.50%) GCP
5 18 (10.71%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.93%) OpenShift
7 11 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.55%) Serverless
8 9 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (5.36%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.19%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 1 (0.60%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.14%) Firewall
2 11 (6.55%) LAN
2 11 (6.55%) WAN
3 9 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (5.36%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (5.36%) Unified Communications
3 9 (5.36%) VLAN
3 9 (5.36%) WebEx
4 6 (3.57%) DHCP
4 6 (3.57%) DNS
4 6 (3.57%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.38%) IPv4
5 4 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.79%) AMQP
7 2 (1.19%) VSAN
8 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (10.71%) Power BI
3 17 (10.12%) Tableau
4 15 (8.93%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 7 (4.17%) Big Data
7 6 (3.57%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.98%) MySQL
8 5 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.19%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.60%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.60%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Git
2 31 (18.45%) GitLab
2 31 (18.45%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.95%) Bitbucket
3 10 (5.95%) Cucumber
3 10 (5.95%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.76%) JIRA
5 7 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.17%) Subversion
6 6 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.57%) Selenium
6 6 (3.57%) TestRail
7 3 (1.79%) MLflow
8 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.60%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (11.31%) Aerospace
3 18 (10.71%) Finance
4 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.95%) Marketing
6 10 (5.95%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.36%) Banking
7 9 (5.36%) Retail
8 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Electronics
10 2 (1.19%) Games
10 2 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 36 (21.43%) Software Engineer
2 24 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (10.71%) Analyst
3 18 (10.71%) Data Analyst
4 16 (9.52%) Junior
4 16 (9.52%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (9.52%) Junior Data Analyst
5 15 (8.93%) Developer
6 14 (8.33%) Senior
7 13 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Python Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Data Scientist
10 10 (5.95%) Lead
11 9 (5.36%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Collaboration Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (6.55%) Node.js
4 9 (5.36%) React
4 9 (5.36%) Vue
4 9 (5.36%) XMPP
5 7 (4.17%) pytest
5 7 (4.17%) Spring
5 7 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.57%) Playwright
7 5 (2.98%) Kafka
7 5 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (2.98%) RESTful
8 4 (2.38%) boto
8 4 (2.38%) HTML
8 4 (2.38%) Middleware
8 4 (2.38%) OAuth
8 4 (2.38%) OpenID
8 4 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.36%) FlexPod
2 9 (5.36%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.36%) Video Conferencing
3 8 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.57%) Replication
6 3 (1.79%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.79%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.19%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.19%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.19%) CUDA
7 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.19%) PKI
7 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.60%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 58 (34.52%) Linux
2 30 (17.86%) Windows
3 15 (8.93%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.55%) CentOS
5 5 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.98%) Unix
6 3 (1.79%) Debian
6 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.19%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.60%) Rocky
8 1 (0.60%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (33.93%) CI/CD
2 53 (31.55%) AI
2 53 (31.55%) DevOps
3 50 (29.76%) Software Engineering
4 49 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (26.79%) Agile
6 37 (22.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 34 (20.24%) Containerisation
8 32 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
10 25 (14.88%) Test Automation
11 23 (13.69%) Scrum
12 22 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (11.90%) Data Science
14 19 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (10.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 15 (8.93%) Software Testing
17 14 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
18 13 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
18 13 (7.74%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (36.90%) Java
2 48 (28.57%) Bash
3 37 (22.02%) C++
4 30 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.29%) SQL
6 20 (11.90%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.52%) Go
8 13 (7.74%) C
8 13 (7.74%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.36%) Rust
10 4 (2.38%) C#
10 4 (2.38%) Groovy
10 4 (2.38%) Scala
11 3 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.19%) Elixir
12 2 (1.19%) Erlang
12 2 (1.19%) GLSL
12 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.60%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 69 (41.07%) DV Cleared
3 32 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 23 (13.69%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.74%) Degree
6 6 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.38%) CCNA
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.38%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.38%) OSCP
7 4 (2.38%) PhD
7 4 (2.38%) RHCE
7 4 (2.38%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) QA
2 5 (2.98%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 37 (22.02%) Docker
2 19 (11.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.95%) vSphere
4 6 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.38%) Squid
5 4 (2.38%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.19%) Firmware
6 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 61 (36.31%) Ansible
2 54 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 51 (30.36%) Terraform
4 32 (19.05%) Grafana
5 15 (8.93%) Kibana
5 15 (8.93%) logstash
6 13 (7.74%) Puppet
7 9 (5.36%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (5.36%) Rancher
8 8 (4.76%) Argo
8 8 (4.76%) Prometheus
9 7 (4.17%) yum
10 6 (3.57%) Packer
10 6 (3.57%) vCenter Server
11 4 (2.38%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.79%) Kubeflow
12 3 (1.79%) SCCM
12 3 (1.79%) SCOM
12 3 (1.79%) SCOrch
13 2 (1.19%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.31%) Splunk
2 19 (11.31%) VMware
3 17 (10.12%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.55%) Cisco
5 9 (5.36%) Fortinet
5 9 (5.36%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.76%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.57%) NetApp
8 5 (2.98%) Oracle
9 4 (2.38%) Google
10 3 (1.79%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.19%) Dell
11 2 (1.19%) HP
11 2 (1.19%) Juniper
11 2 (1.19%) McAfee
11 2 (1.19%) Veeam
12 1 (0.60%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.60%) SAP