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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 11
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 189 91 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.79% 15.37% 13.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.54% 47.89% 39.70%
Number of salaries quoted 84 42 135
10th Percentile £43,575 £47,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,547 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,875 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +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 353 190 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.28% 32.09% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 233 96 339
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,375 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,800 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.82% -2.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,625 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £83,750 £81,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -

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 July 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 July 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 -5 84 £60,000 - 23
Gloucester +2 67 £75,000 +36.36% 38
Filton +3 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -10 3 £44,000 -28.16% 1
Cirencester -3 1 £62,500 +13.64%
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 29 (15.34%) Apache
2 9 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.65%) Confluence
4 4 (2.12%) JBoss
5 3 (1.59%) nginx
5 3 (1.59%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 72 (38.10%) AWS
2 53 (28.04%) Azure
3 21 (11.11%) Azure AI
4 19 (10.05%) GCP
5 17 (8.99%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.47%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.35%) Serverless
8 11 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.76%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.12%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (2.12%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
15 3 (1.59%) Datadog
16 2 (1.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.88%) LAN
1 13 (6.88%) WAN
2 12 (6.35%) Firewall
3 10 (5.29%) Cisco ASA
3 10 (5.29%) Cisco Firepower
3 10 (5.29%) Unified Communications
3 10 (5.29%) VLAN
3 10 (5.29%) WebEx
4 6 (3.17%) DNS
5 5 (2.65%) DHCP
5 5 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.12%) IPv4
6 4 (2.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.59%) SSL
8 2 (1.06%) AMQP
8 2 (1.06%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.06%) VSAN
9 1 (0.53%) BGP
9 1 (0.53%) OSPF
9 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) Elasticsearch
1 20 (10.58%) MongoDB
2 17 (8.99%) Power BI
3 16 (8.47%) Tableau
4 15 (7.94%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (4.23%) Big Data
7 7 (3.70%) Hadoop
8 6 (3.17%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.65%) MySQL
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.53%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (19.58%) Git
2 31 (16.40%) Jenkins
3 29 (15.34%) GitLab
4 11 (5.82%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 8 (4.23%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.23%) JIRA
6 8 (4.23%) Subversion
7 7 (3.70%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.70%) Selenium
8 6 (3.17%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.17%) TestRail
9 3 (1.59%) MLflow
10 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.53%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.53%) Maven
11 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (19.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.23%) Finance
3 18 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.41%) Aerospace
4 14 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.82%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.29%) Banking
6 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.29%) Marketing
6 10 (5.29%) Retail
7 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.59%) Games
10 2 (1.06%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (21.69%) Software Engineer
2 24 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 21 (11.11%) Senior
4 20 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 17 (8.99%) Analyst
6 17 (8.99%) Data Analyst
6 17 (8.99%) Lead
7 15 (7.94%) Junior
7 15 (7.94%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (7.94%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (7.41%) Developer
9 11 (5.82%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.17%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.05%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (7.94%) Spring
3 15 (7.94%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.88%) Kafka
5 10 (5.29%) XMPP
6 8 (4.23%) Keycloak
6 8 (4.23%) Node.js
6 8 (4.23%) React
6 8 (4.23%) Vue
7 7 (3.70%) OAuth
7 7 (3.70%) OpenID
7 7 (3.70%) pytest
8 6 (3.17%) Playwright
9 5 (2.65%) HTML
10 4 (2.12%) boto
10 4 (2.12%) CSS
10 4 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.12%) REST
10 4 (2.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.29%) FlexPod
4 10 (5.29%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.70%) Replication
6 5 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.65%) Social Media
7 4 (2.12%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.59%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.59%) CUDA
8 3 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.59%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.59%) Thin Client
9 2 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (33.86%) Linux
2 37 (19.58%) Windows
3 16 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.82%) CentOS
5 6 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.12%) Unix
7 2 (1.06%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.06%) Debian
7 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.53%) Android
8 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.53%) Rocky
8 1 (0.53%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.04%) CI/CD
2 67 (35.45%) DevOps
3 64 (33.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (31.22%) AI
5 57 (30.16%) Agile
6 56 (29.63%) Software Engineering
7 46 (24.34%) Containerisation
8 37 (19.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 32 (16.93%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (15.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (15.34%) Test Automation
11 26 (13.76%) Data Science
12 25 (13.23%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (12.70%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (12.17%) Analytics
14 23 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (12.17%) Scrum
15 17 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 17 (8.99%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.68%) Java
2 42 (22.22%) Bash
3 40 (21.16%) C++
4 29 (15.34%) JavaScript
4 29 (15.34%) SQL
5 20 (10.58%) Go
5 20 (10.58%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.35%) C
6 12 (6.35%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.29%) Rust
8 8 (4.23%) Groovy
9 6 (3.17%) Scala
10 5 (2.65%) C#
11 3 (1.59%) GLSL
11 3 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 122 (64.55%) Security Cleared
2 85 (44.97%) DV Cleared
3 33 (17.46%) SC Cleared
4 26 (13.76%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.35%) Degree
6 6 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.12%) CCNA
8 4 (2.12%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.12%) OSCP
8 4 (2.12%) PhD
8 4 (2.12%) RHCE
8 4 (2.12%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) QA
2 8 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 45 (23.81%) Docker
2 20 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.82%) vSphere
4 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 7 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (3.17%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.12%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.12%) Squid
6 4 (2.12%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.59%) Firmware
7 3 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 71 (37.57%) Ansible
2 60 (31.75%) Terraform
3 58 (30.69%) Kubernetes
4 31 (16.40%) Grafana
5 14 (7.41%) Kibana
5 14 (7.41%) logstash
6 13 (6.88%) Puppet
7 10 (5.29%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (4.76%) Argo
9 8 (4.23%) Packer
9 8 (4.23%) Rancher
10 7 (3.70%) Prometheus
11 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
11 6 (3.17%) yum
12 4 (2.12%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.59%) Istio
13 3 (1.59%) linkerd
13 3 (1.59%) Nagios
13 3 (1.59%) SCCM
13 3 (1.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.17%) Splunk
3 20 (10.58%) VMware
4 18 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.88%) Cisco
6 11 (5.82%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.29%) Atlassian
7 10 (5.29%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.70%) NetApp
9 6 (3.17%) Oracle
10 3 (1.59%) Google
10 3 (1.59%) New Relic
11 2 (1.06%) Dell
11 2 (1.06%) HP
11 2 (1.06%) Juniper
11 2 (1.06%) McAfee
11 2 (1.06%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.06%) Veeam
12 1 (0.53%) Infoblox
12 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds