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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 210 65 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.88% 11.82% 12.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.84% 39.63% 37.16%
Number of salaries quoted 101 37 81
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.65% -13.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +12.50%

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 430 164 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.19% 29.82% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 304 92 217
10th Percentile £42,875 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £39,821 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.08% -5.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 94 £60,000 +14.29% 62
Cheltenham -5 74 £71,250 +18.75% 48
Cirencester +1 5 £85,000 +54.55% 5
Filton +5 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -15 3 £62,500 -10.71% 2
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 33 (15.71%) Apache
2 11 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.38%) Confluence
3 5 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.90%) JBoss
5 3 (1.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.48%) Kinematics
Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.19%) AWS
2 56 (26.67%) Azure
3 21 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 19 (9.05%) GCP
5 14 (6.67%) Azure AI
6 12 (5.71%) Serverless
7 11 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.76%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (1.43%) Datadog
15 2 (0.95%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.67%) LAN
1 14 (6.67%) WAN
2 10 (4.76%) Firewall
3 8 (3.81%) DNS
3 8 (3.81%) VLAN
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 7 (3.33%) Unified Communications
4 7 (3.33%) WebEx
5 5 (2.38%) BGP
5 5 (2.38%) OSPF
5 5 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (2.38%) VPN
5 5 (2.38%) Wireless
6 4 (1.90%) DHCP
6 4 (1.90%) IPv4
6 4 (1.90%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.90%) WLAN
7 3 (1.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 13 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.24%) Big Data
4 11 (5.24%) Hadoop
5 10 (4.76%) Power BI
6 8 (3.81%) Tableau
7 6 (2.86%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.38%) MySQL
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.48%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.48%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (19.52%) Git
2 35 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.76%) GitLab
4 12 (5.71%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.76%) JIRA
5 10 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.29%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.29%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.29%) Subversion
7 8 (3.81%) TestRail
8 7 (3.33%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.33%) Selenium
9 5 (2.38%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.95%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.95%) MLflow
10 2 (0.95%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.48%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.48%) Maven
11 1 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (20.00%) Finance
2 34 (16.19%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.19%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.24%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.81%) Electronics
8 7 (3.33%) Banking
8 7 (3.33%) Marketing
8 7 (3.33%) Retail
9 6 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.43%) Games
10 3 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (24.76%) Software Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) Data Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (12.86%) Python Engineer
3 23 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (10.95%) Senior
4 19 (9.05%) Lead
5 16 (7.62%) Developer
5 16 (7.62%) Test Engineer
6 12 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Analyst
7 10 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Kafka Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
7 10 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.76%) Python Data Engineer
8 9 (4.29%) Junior Analyst
8 9 (4.29%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (35.71%) Terraform
2 21 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (9.52%) Spring
3 20 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.57%) Apache NiFi
5 17 (8.10%) Kafka
6 13 (6.19%) Keycloak
7 10 (4.76%) React
8 8 (3.81%) Playwright
8 8 (3.81%) Vue
9 7 (3.33%) Node.js
9 7 (3.33%) pytest
9 7 (3.33%) XMPP
10 6 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (2.86%) REST
11 5 (2.38%) OpenAPI
12 4 (1.90%) boto
12 4 (1.90%) OAuth
12 4 (1.90%) RESTful
12 4 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.48%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.33%) FlexPod
5 7 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.38%) FPGA
7 5 (2.38%) Social Media
8 4 (1.90%) CMDB
8 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.90%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.90%) Replication
9 3 (1.43%) Arduino
9 3 (1.43%) CUDA
9 3 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.43%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.43%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 68 (32.38%) Linux
2 34 (16.19%) Windows
3 13 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.71%) CentOS
5 7 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.38%) Unix
7 3 (1.43%) Android
7 3 (1.43%) Debian
7 3 (1.43%) 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 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.48%) Rocky
9 1 (0.48%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (41.43%) DevOps
2 85 (40.48%) CI/CD
3 79 (37.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 63 (30.00%) Agile
6 56 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 48 (22.86%) AI
8 40 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 39 (18.57%) Test Automation
10 32 (15.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (13.33%) Analytics
13 27 (12.86%) Collaborative Culture
14 25 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (11.43%) Scrum
16 23 (10.95%) ETL
16 23 (10.95%) Validation
17 22 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 91 (43.33%) Java
2 48 (22.86%) Bash
2 48 (22.86%) C++
3 35 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 28 (13.33%) Go
5 26 (12.38%) SQL
6 20 (9.52%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.57%) TypeScript
8 17 (8.10%) C
9 14 (6.67%) Rust
10 7 (3.33%) C#
10 7 (3.33%) Groovy
10 7 (3.33%) Scala
11 3 (1.43%) GLSL
11 3 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.95%) VB
13 1 (0.48%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.48%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 143 (68.10%) Security Cleared
2 87 (41.43%) DV Cleared
3 44 (20.95%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.43%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (3.33%) Degree
7 6 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.38%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.90%) CCNA
9 4 (1.90%) CCNP
9 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.90%) OSCP
9 4 (1.90%) RHCE
9 4 (1.90%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.95%) HNC
10 2 (0.95%) HND
11 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.62%) QA
2 10 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (23.81%) Docker
2 18 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.29%) Firmware
4 8 (3.81%) vSphere
5 7 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.86%) Active Directory
7 5 (2.38%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.90%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.90%) Squid
8 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.48%) KVM
Systems Management
1 84 (40.00%) Ansible
2 68 (32.38%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.29%) Grafana
4 19 (9.05%) Puppet
5 15 (7.14%) Kibana
5 15 (7.14%) logstash
6 10 (4.76%) Argo
7 9 (4.29%) Rancher
8 8 (3.81%) Packer
8 8 (3.81%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (3.33%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.33%) yum
10 5 (2.38%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.43%) Istio
11 3 (1.43%) linkerd
11 3 (1.43%) Mesos
11 3 (1.43%) SCOrch
11 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.52%) Splunk
3 19 (9.05%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.57%) VMware
5 13 (6.19%) Cisco
6 12 (5.71%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.76%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.33%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.38%) Oracle
9 5 (2.38%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.90%) Avaya
10 4 (1.90%) F5
10 4 (1.90%) Google
10 4 (1.90%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.90%) Meraki
10 4 (1.90%) NetApp
10 4 (1.90%) Netskope
10 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.43%) New Relic
11 3 (1.43%) SaltStack