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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 211 67 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.61% 11.94% 13.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.48% 39.88% 39.29%
Number of salaries quoted 103 40 116
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,025 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £48,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,813
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 418 168 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.03% 29.95% 33.79%
Number of salaries quoted 293 95 285
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,350 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,400
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 August 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 27 August 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
Gloucester +3 85 £60,000 +11.63% 29
Cheltenham -4 84 £66,250 +10.42% 23
Filton +3 4 £40,000 -
Cirencester +1 4 £85,000 +54.55%
Tewkesbury -13 4 £53,250 -21.11% 1
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 31 (14.69%) Apache
2 13 (6.16%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.37%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.90%) JBoss
5 3 (1.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) Kinematics
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.02%) AWS
2 53 (25.12%) Azure
3 21 (9.95%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.53%) GCP
5 16 (7.58%) Azure AI
6 12 (5.69%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.69%) Serverless
7 11 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.27%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.42%) Datadog
12 2 (0.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.16%) LAN
1 13 (6.16%) WAN
2 11 (5.21%) Firewall
3 9 (4.27%) VLAN
4 8 (3.79%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (3.79%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (3.79%) Unified Communications
4 8 (3.79%) WebEx
5 7 (3.32%) DNS
6 5 (2.37%) DHCP
6 5 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.90%) IPv4
8 3 (1.42%) AMQP
8 3 (1.42%) BGP
8 3 (1.42%) OSPF
8 3 (1.42%) SSL
8 3 (1.42%) VPN
8 3 (1.42%) Wireless
9 2 (0.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.37%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (9.00%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.64%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.69%) Power BI
5 11 (5.21%) Big Data
5 11 (5.21%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.74%) Tableau
7 6 (2.84%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.37%) MySQL
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.47%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (18.01%) Git
2 33 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.69%) GitLab
4 12 (5.69%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.74%) JIRA
6 9 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.27%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.79%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.79%) TestRail
8 7 (3.32%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.32%) Selenium
8 7 (3.32%) Subversion
9 5 (2.37%) LabVIEW
10 3 (1.42%) MLflow
11 2 (0.95%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.95%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.47%) GoogleTest
12 1 (0.47%) Maven
12 1 (0.47%) Mocha
12 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (17.54%) Finance
2 35 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 26 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.64%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.21%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.74%) Telecoms
7 8 (3.79%) Banking
7 8 (3.79%) Electronics
7 8 (3.79%) Marketing
7 8 (3.79%) Retail
8 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.42%) Games
10 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (24.17%) Software Engineer
2 27 (12.80%) Python Engineer
3 26 (12.32%) Data Engineer
4 25 (11.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (10.90%) Senior
6 20 (9.48%) Lead
7 16 (7.58%) Developer
8 15 (7.11%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.69%) Analyst
10 11 (5.21%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.21%) Junior
10 11 (5.21%) Junior Analyst
11 10 (4.74%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (4.74%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Azure Data Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Elasticsearch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (33.65%) Terraform
2 20 (9.48%) Spring
2 20 (9.48%) Spring Boot
3 19 (9.00%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (8.53%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (7.58%) Kafka
6 11 (5.21%) Keycloak
7 10 (4.74%) Node.js
7 10 (4.74%) React
8 8 (3.79%) Playwright
8 8 (3.79%) XMPP
9 7 (3.32%) OAuth
9 7 (3.32%) OpenID
9 7 (3.32%) pytest
9 7 (3.32%) Vue
10 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.84%) REST
11 5 (2.37%) HTML
11 5 (2.37%) OpenAPI
12 4 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.79%) FlexPod
4 8 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.32%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.37%) FPGA
7 5 (2.37%) Replication
7 5 (2.37%) Social Media
8 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.90%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.42%) Arduino
9 3 (1.42%) CUDA
9 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.42%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.42%) PKI
9 3 (1.42%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 67 (31.75%) Linux
2 36 (17.06%) Windows
3 14 (6.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.69%) CentOS
5 7 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.90%) Unix
7 3 (1.42%) Android
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
7 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.95%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
9 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.86%) CI/CD
2 81 (38.39%) DevOps
3 74 (35.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 74 (35.07%) Software Engineering
4 62 (29.38%) Agile
5 55 (26.07%) AI
6 54 (25.59%) Containerisation
7 39 (18.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (18.01%) Test Automation
9 32 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (13.74%) Analytics
10 29 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (11.85%) Collaborative Culture
13 22 (10.43%) Data Science
13 22 (10.43%) ETL
13 22 (10.43%) Scrum
14 20 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.18%) Java
2 48 (22.75%) C++
3 45 (21.33%) Bash
4 35 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.74%) SQL
6 23 (10.90%) Go
7 21 (9.95%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.53%) C
8 18 (8.53%) TypeScript
9 14 (6.64%) Rust
10 9 (4.27%) Scala
11 8 (3.79%) Groovy
12 7 (3.32%) C#
13 3 (1.42%) GLSL
13 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.95%) VB
15 1 (0.47%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 139 (65.88%) Security Cleared
2 86 (40.76%) DV Cleared
3 41 (19.43%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.37%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.74%) Degree
6 6 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.90%) CCNA
8 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.90%) OSCP
8 4 (1.90%) RHCE
8 4 (1.90%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.95%) CCNP
9 2 (0.95%) HNC
9 2 (0.95%) HND
9 2 (0.95%) PhD
10 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.16%) QA
2 11 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (23.70%) Docker
2 20 (9.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.27%) vSphere
4 7 (3.32%) Firmware
4 7 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.84%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.37%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.37%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.90%) Squid
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 81 (38.39%) Ansible
2 66 (31.28%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.27%) Grafana
4 16 (7.58%) Puppet
5 14 (6.64%) Kibana
5 14 (6.64%) logstash
6 8 (3.79%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (3.79%) Packer
7 7 (3.32%) Argo
7 7 (3.32%) Rancher
7 7 (3.32%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.37%) yum
9 5 (2.37%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.42%) Kubeflow
10 3 (1.42%) Nagios
10 3 (1.42%) SCCM
10 3 (1.42%) SCOM
10 3 (1.42%) SCOrch
10 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.95%) Splunk
3 20 (9.48%) VMware
4 19 (9.00%) Red Hat
5 13 (6.16%) Cisco
6 11 (5.21%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.74%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.79%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.37%) NetApp
9 5 (2.37%) Oracle
10 4 (1.90%) Google
11 3 (1.42%) EMC
11 3 (1.42%) Juniper
11 3 (1.42%) New Relic
11 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.42%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.95%) F5
12 2 (0.95%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.95%) Meraki
12 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow