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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 18 2
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 79 110 244
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 12.82% 12.33% 28.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.48% 30.39% 57.41%
Number of salaries quoted 52 65 109
10th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +12.50% +8.60%
75th Percentile £84,375 £78,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,500 £88,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%

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 145 362 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.54% 40.58% 49.82%
Number of salaries quoted 100 136 253
10th Percentile £32,150 £40,625 £31,818
25th Percentile £47,188 £47,577 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £79,063 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,375 £82,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £56,875 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.41% +4.76%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 35 £67,500 - 23
Gloucester 0 14 £82,500 +26.92% 20
Tewkesbury +8 6 £70,000 -6.67% 1
Filton +7 3 - - 2
Berkeley - 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 10 (12.66%) Apache
2 6 (7.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (49.37%) AWS
2 23 (29.11%) Azure
3 10 (12.66%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.33%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.06%) Serverless
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.80%) GCP
6 3 (3.80%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.53%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) DNS
1 4 (5.06%) Internet
1 4 (5.06%) Software-Defined Radio
1 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.06%) VSAN
2 3 (3.80%) DHCP
2 3 (3.80%) LAN
2 3 (3.80%) WAN
3 2 (2.53%) Firewall
4 1 (1.27%) HTTP
4 1 (1.27%) ICMP
4 1 (1.27%) VLAN
4 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (12.66%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.06%) Big Data
3 4 (5.06%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) Tableau
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.27%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) GitLab
2 15 (18.99%) Git
3 7 (8.86%) JUnit
4 6 (7.59%) JIRA
5 5 (6.33%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.80%) Balsamiq
7 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.53%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 15 (18.99%) Electronics
2 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.19%) Manufacturing
4 10 (12.66%) Aerospace
5 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Automotive
7 4 (5.06%) Military
7 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.80%) Avionics
8 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.53%) Law
10 1 (1.27%) Finance
10 1 (1.27%) Games
10 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Software Engineer
2 8 (10.13%) Administrator
3 7 (8.86%) Developer
3 7 (8.86%) Electronics Engineer
3 7 (8.86%) Senior
4 6 (7.59%) Software Developer
5 5 (6.33%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) DSP Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.06%) Process Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) React
2 9 (11.39%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (8.86%) Hibernate
4 6 (7.59%) JSF
5 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.06%) MERN Stack
5 4 (5.06%) PrimeFaces
6 2 (2.53%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.53%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.27%) Blazor
7 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.27%) Flash
7 1 (1.27%) HTML
7 1 (1.27%) Kafka
7 1 (1.27%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.27%) Pandas
7 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.27%) REST
7 1 (1.27%) Vue
7 1 (1.27%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Algorithms
2 7 (8.86%) Analogue Electronics
2 7 (8.86%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) FPGA
4 4 (5.06%) Verilog
4 4 (5.06%) VHDL
5 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.27%) Arduino
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.27%) Life Science
6 1 (1.27%) Omics
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.27%) Replication
6 1 (1.27%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (49.37%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Windows
2 8 (10.13%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.59%) CentOS
5 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.80%) CoreOS
6 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.53%) Debian
7 2 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.71%) Software Engineering
2 19 (24.05%) Agile
3 16 (20.25%) DevOps
4 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (17.72%) AI
5 14 (17.72%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.66%) Scrum
7 9 (11.39%) Containerisation
8 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (10.13%) Machine Learning
8 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.86%) Data Analysis
9 7 (8.86%) DevSecOps
9 7 (8.86%) Reverse Engineering
9 7 (8.86%) Time Management
10 6 (7.59%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.59%) Data Science
10 6 (7.59%) ITIL
10 6 (7.59%) Software Testing
10 6 (7.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.91%) Java
2 22 (27.85%) C
3 21 (26.58%) JavaScript
4 15 (18.99%) Bash
5 14 (17.72%) TypeScript
6 12 (15.19%) C++
7 11 (13.92%) PowerShell
8 8 (10.13%) Go
9 7 (8.86%) Embedded C
10 4 (5.06%) C#
10 4 (5.06%) Kotlin
10 4 (5.06%) SQL
11 3 (3.80%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (3.80%) MATLAB
11 3 (3.80%) Rust
11 3 (3.80%) Tcl
11 3 (3.80%) VBScript
12 2 (2.53%) R
13 1 (1.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 45 (56.96%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.97%) DV Cleared
3 18 (22.78%) Degree
4 12 (15.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.80%) CITP
5 3 (3.80%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.27%) CCNA
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) PhD
7 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.92%) Docker
2 7 (8.86%) Firmware
3 5 (6.33%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.53%) vSphere
7 1 (1.27%) KVM
7 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (24.05%) Kubernetes
2 15 (18.99%) Ansible
3 10 (12.66%) Terraform
4 9 (11.39%) Kibana
5 3 (3.80%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (3.80%) SCVMM
6 2 (2.53%) Grafana
6 2 (2.53%) Puppet
7 1 (1.27%) Argo
7 1 (1.27%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.27%) logstash
7 1 (1.27%) Nagios
7 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.27%) Rancher
7 1 (1.27%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.27%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Atlassian
1 9 (11.39%) Oracle
2 8 (10.13%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.86%) EMC
4 6 (7.59%) Google
5 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.80%) McAfee
7 2 (2.53%) Cisco
7 2 (2.53%) VMware
8 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.27%) Splunk