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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 121 94 326
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 13.50% 19.07% 21.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.68% 38.52% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 64 54 193
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,825 £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% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,813 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,125 £80,875 £82,300
South West median annual salary £58,497 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -10.01% +12.07% -2.56%

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 190 244 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.21% 49.49% 47.81%
Number of salaries quoted 112 81 545
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 62 £57,500 -11.54% 30
Gloucester -1 34 £75,000 +15.38% 25
Tewkesbury -2 5 £52,500 +5.00% 7
Filton +4 3 - - 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 14 (11.57%) Apache
2 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.28%) AWS
2 44 (36.36%) Azure
3 14 (11.57%) Power Platform
4 13 (10.74%) Azure AI
5 9 (7.44%) GCP
6 7 (5.79%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.96%) Serverless
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (2.48%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.48%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.83%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.61%) DNS
1 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.79%) DHCP
3 5 (4.13%) Firewall
3 5 (4.13%) LAN
3 5 (4.13%) WAN
4 4 (3.31%) VLAN
5 3 (2.48%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (2.48%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (2.48%) Unified Communications
5 3 (2.48%) VSAN
5 3 (2.48%) WebEx
6 1 (0.83%) AMQP
6 1 (0.83%) HTTP
6 1 (0.83%) ICMP
6 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (11.57%) Power BI
2 14 (11.57%) Tableau
3 11 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.61%) Neo4j
5 7 (5.79%) Big Data
6 4 (3.31%) MySQL
6 4 (3.31%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.65%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.83%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (15.70%) Git
2 13 (10.74%) GitLab
3 10 (8.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.79%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.79%) JUnit
5 6 (4.96%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.96%) Subversion
6 5 (4.13%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.48%) Balsamiq
7 3 (2.48%) JIRA
7 3 (2.48%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.65%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.83%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.83%) Selenium
9 1 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 28 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Aerospace
2 13 (10.74%) Finance
3 11 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.44%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.61%) Marketing
6 7 (5.79%) Electronics
6 7 (5.79%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.31%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.31%) Military
9 3 (2.48%) Avionics
9 3 (2.48%) Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Software Engineer
2 15 (12.40%) Senior
3 14 (11.57%) Analyst
3 14 (11.57%) Data Analyst
4 13 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (10.74%) Junior
4 13 (10.74%) Junior Analyst
4 13 (10.74%) Junior Data Analyst
5 8 (6.61%) Data Scientist
6 7 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Python Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Developer
8 5 (4.13%) Administrator
8 5 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.22%) React
2 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
2 10 (8.26%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (6.61%) MERN Stack
4 6 (4.96%) Node.js
5 5 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.13%) Middleware
6 4 (3.31%) HTML
6 4 (3.31%) Vue
6 4 (3.31%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (2.48%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.48%) JSF
7 3 (2.48%) Kafka
7 3 (2.48%) PrimeFaces
7 3 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.48%) XMPP
8 2 (1.65%) Flask
8 2 (1.65%) OAuth
8 2 (1.65%) OpenID
8 2 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
1 5 (4.13%) Replication
2 4 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.48%) FlexPod
3 3 (2.48%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
4 2 (1.65%) Clustering
4 2 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Arduino
5 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) PKI
5 1 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 46 (38.02%) Linux
2 11 (9.09%) Windows
3 8 (6.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.13%) CentOS
6 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.83%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.83%) Debian
7 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.54%) Software Engineering
2 35 (28.93%) AI
3 30 (24.79%) Agile
4 27 (22.31%) CI/CD
5 25 (20.66%) DevOps
6 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
8 21 (17.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (15.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (14.05%) Containerisation
11 16 (13.22%) Scrum
12 15 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (12.40%) Data Science
13 13 (10.74%) Machine Learning
14 11 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
14 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (8.26%) DevSecOps
16 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Automation
16 9 (7.44%) SDLC
16 9 (7.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (38.02%) Java
2 35 (28.93%) Bash
3 30 (24.79%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.05%) C
4 17 (14.05%) SQL
5 16 (13.22%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.40%) C++
6 15 (12.40%) PowerShell
7 12 (9.92%) Go
8 6 (4.96%) C#
8 6 (4.96%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.48%) Elixir
9 3 (2.48%) Erlang
9 3 (2.48%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (2.48%) Groovy
9 3 (2.48%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.48%) Rust
9 3 (2.48%) Tcl
9 3 (2.48%) VBScript
10 2 (1.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (61.98%) Security Cleared
2 51 (42.15%) DV Cleared
3 19 (15.70%) Degree
4 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
5 13 (10.74%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.31%) PhD
7 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.48%) CITP
7 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.48%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (20.66%) Docker
2 7 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.31%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.31%) vSphere
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (33.06%) Kubernetes
2 26 (21.49%) Ansible
3 21 (17.36%) Terraform
4 13 (10.74%) Grafana
5 7 (5.79%) Argo
5 7 (5.79%) Kibana
6 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.96%) Rancher
6 6 (4.96%) yum
7 4 (3.31%) logstash
8 3 (2.48%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (2.48%) Puppet
9 2 (1.65%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.65%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.65%) Nagios
9 2 (1.65%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.65%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.65%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.83%) Mesos
10 1 (0.83%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.79%) Atlassian
2 7 (5.79%) VMware
3 6 (4.96%) Cisco
3 6 (4.96%) Google
3 6 (4.96%) Oracle
4 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.13%) Splunk
5 4 (3.31%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.31%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.31%) SAP
6 3 (2.48%) NetApp
7 2 (1.65%) Dell
7 2 (1.65%) HP
7 2 (1.65%) Juniper
7 2 (1.65%) McAfee
7 2 (1.65%) Veeam
8 1 (0.83%) SaltStack