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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 195 90 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.87% 15.08% 13.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.72% 47.87% 40.92%
Number of salaries quoted 88 41 128
10th Percentile £43,675 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £47,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,375 £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 363 188 435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.38% 31.49% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 241 94 306
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,325 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £71,875 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,000
South West median annual salary £55,500 £52,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -4.36% -

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 2 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 2 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
Cheltenham -3 88 £60,000 - 21
Gloucester +3 69 £67,500 +22.73% 37
Filton +3 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -9 3 £44,000 -28.16% 1
Cirencester -2 1 £62,500 +13.64% 3
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 30 (15.38%) Apache
2 10 (5.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.56%) Confluence
4 4 (2.05%) JBoss
5 3 (1.54%) nginx
5 3 (1.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (37.95%) AWS
2 53 (27.18%) Azure
3 20 (10.26%) Azure AI
4 19 (9.74%) GCP
5 16 (8.21%) OpenShift
5 16 (8.21%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.15%) Serverless
7 11 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.05%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.05%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (1.54%) Datadog
15 2 (1.03%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.18%) LAN
1 14 (7.18%) WAN
2 13 (6.67%) Firewall
3 11 (5.64%) VLAN
4 10 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (5.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (5.13%) Unified Communications
4 10 (5.13%) WebEx
5 7 (3.59%) DNS
6 6 (3.08%) DHCP
6 6 (3.08%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (2.05%) IPv4
9 3 (1.54%) SSL
10 2 (1.03%) AMQP
10 2 (1.03%) BGP
10 2 (1.03%) OSPF
10 2 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
10 2 (1.03%) VPN
10 2 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
1 20 (10.26%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.21%) Power BI
3 15 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 15 (7.69%) Tableau
4 9 (4.62%) Big Data
4 9 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.10%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.08%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.56%) MySQL
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.54%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.03%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.51%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.51%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 39 (20.00%) Git
2 31 (15.90%) Jenkins
3 30 (15.38%) GitLab
4 11 (5.64%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.62%) JIRA
5 9 (4.62%) SonarQube
6 8 (4.10%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.10%) Subversion
7 7 (3.59%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.59%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.59%) Selenium
7 7 (3.59%) TestRail
8 3 (1.54%) MLflow
9 2 (1.03%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.51%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.51%) Maven
10 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.36%) Finance
3 21 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.18%) Aerospace
4 14 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.64%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.13%) Banking
6 10 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.13%) Marketing
6 10 (5.13%) Retail
7 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.54%) Games
10 2 (1.03%) Electronics
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (22.56%) Software Engineer
2 24 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (11.28%) Data Engineer
4 21 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (10.77%) Senior
5 19 (9.74%) Python Engineer
6 18 (9.23%) Lead
7 16 (8.21%) Analyst
7 16 (8.21%) Data Analyst
8 14 (7.18%) Developer
8 14 (7.18%) Junior
8 14 (7.18%) Junior Analyst
8 14 (7.18%) Junior Data Analyst
9 11 (5.64%) Data Scientist
10 9 (4.62%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (4.10%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (3.59%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.08%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.74%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.23%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (7.69%) Spring
3 15 (7.69%) Spring Boot
4 13 (6.67%) Kafka
5 10 (5.13%) XMPP
6 8 (4.10%) Keycloak
6 8 (4.10%) Node.js
6 8 (4.10%) React
6 8 (4.10%) Vue
7 7 (3.59%) OAuth
7 7 (3.59%) OpenID
7 7 (3.59%) Playwright
7 7 (3.59%) pytest
8 5 (2.56%) HTML
9 4 (2.05%) boto
9 4 (2.05%) CSS
9 4 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.05%) REST
9 4 (2.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.64%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.13%) FlexPod
4 10 (5.13%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.59%) Replication
6 6 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.56%) Social Media
8 4 (2.05%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.05%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.54%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.54%) CUDA
9 3 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.54%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.54%) Thin Client
10 2 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 66 (33.85%) Linux
2 37 (18.97%) Windows
3 16 (8.21%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.64%) CentOS
5 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.05%) Unix
7 2 (1.03%) Android
7 2 (1.03%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.03%) Debian
7 2 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.51%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.51%) Rocky
8 1 (0.51%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (37.44%) CI/CD
2 70 (35.90%) DevOps
3 67 (34.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (31.28%) Software Engineering
5 59 (30.26%) Agile
5 59 (30.26%) AI
6 48 (24.62%) Containerisation
7 39 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (15.90%) Business Intelligence
8 31 (15.90%) Test Automation
9 29 (14.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 27 (13.85%) Data Science
11 26 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
12 25 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
13 24 (12.31%) Analytics
14 23 (11.79%) Scrum
15 18 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (9.23%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (39.49%) Java
2 43 (22.05%) Bash
3 41 (21.03%) C++
4 31 (15.90%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.87%) SQL
6 21 (10.77%) Go
6 21 (10.77%) PowerShell
7 14 (7.18%) TypeScript
8 12 (6.15%) C
8 12 (6.15%) Rust
9 8 (4.10%) Groovy
10 7 (3.59%) Scala
11 5 (2.56%) C#
12 3 (1.54%) GLSL
12 3 (1.54%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.51%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 128 (65.64%) Security Cleared
2 86 (44.10%) DV Cleared
3 35 (17.95%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.82%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.67%) Degree
6 6 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.05%) CCNA
8 4 (2.05%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.05%) OSCP
8 4 (2.05%) PhD
8 4 (2.05%) RHCE
8 4 (2.05%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.51%) CCNP
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) QA
2 9 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (24.10%) Docker
2 21 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.64%) vSphere
4 7 (3.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 7 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.59%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (3.08%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.56%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.05%) Squid
7 4 (2.05%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.54%) Firmware
8 3 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.51%) KVM
9 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (37.44%) Ansible
2 62 (31.79%) Terraform
3 59 (30.26%) Kubernetes
4 31 (15.90%) Grafana
5 14 (7.18%) Kibana
5 14 (7.18%) logstash
6 13 (6.67%) Puppet
7 10 (5.13%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (4.62%) Argo
9 8 (4.10%) Packer
9 8 (4.10%) Rancher
10 7 (3.59%) Prometheus
11 6 (3.08%) vCenter Server
11 6 (3.08%) yum
12 5 (2.56%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.54%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (1.54%) linkerd
13 3 (1.54%) Nagios
13 3 (1.54%) SCCM
13 3 (1.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.79%) Splunk
3 21 (10.77%) VMware
4 18 (9.23%) Red Hat
5 14 (7.18%) Cisco
6 12 (6.15%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.13%) Atlassian
7 10 (5.13%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.59%) NetApp
9 6 (3.08%) Oracle
10 3 (1.54%) Google
10 3 (1.54%) Juniper
10 3 (1.54%) New Relic
11 2 (1.03%) Dell
11 2 (1.03%) HP
11 2 (1.03%) McAfee
11 2 (1.03%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.03%) Veeam
12 1 (0.51%) F5