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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 216 66 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.52% 11.96% 12.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.59% 40.00% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 104 39 103
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £51,250 £48,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
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 427 165 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.83% 29.89% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 298 94 260
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,325 £33,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £41,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.83% -7.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,500
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 2 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 2 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 93 £60,000 +11.63% 43
Cheltenham -2 82 £66,250 +10.42% 51
Cirencester +2 4 £85,000 +54.55% 4
Filton +2 4 £40,000 - 1
Tewkesbury -14 3 £62,500 -10.71% 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 33 (15.28%) Apache
2 13 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.31%) Confluence
3 5 (2.31%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.85%) JBoss
5 3 (1.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) Kinematics
Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.04%) AWS
2 57 (26.39%) Azure
3 22 (10.19%) OpenShift
4 20 (9.26%) GCP
5 15 (6.94%) Azure AI
6 12 (5.56%) Serverless
7 11 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.09%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.85%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.39%) Datadog
13 2 (0.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.94%) LAN
1 15 (6.94%) WAN
2 11 (5.09%) Firewall
3 9 (4.17%) DNS
3 9 (4.17%) VLAN
4 8 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (3.70%) Unified Communications
4 8 (3.70%) WebEx
5 5 (2.31%) BGP
5 5 (2.31%) DHCP
5 5 (2.31%) OSPF
5 5 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.31%) VPN
5 5 (2.31%) Wireless
6 4 (1.85%) IPv4
6 4 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.85%) WLAN
7 3 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (8.80%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.48%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.09%) Big Data
5 11 (5.09%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.09%) Power BI
6 9 (4.17%) Tableau
7 7 (3.24%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.31%) MySQL
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.39%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 41 (18.98%) Git
2 35 (16.20%) Jenkins
3 33 (15.28%) GitLab
4 12 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.63%) Cypress.io
5 10 (4.63%) JIRA
6 9 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.17%) TestRail
7 8 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.70%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.70%) Selenium
7 8 (3.70%) Subversion
8 5 (2.31%) LabVIEW
9 3 (1.39%) MLflow
10 2 (0.93%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.46%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.46%) Mocha
11 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (18.98%) Finance
2 35 (16.20%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.02%) Aerospace
5 12 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.09%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.70%) Banking
7 8 (3.70%) Electronics
7 8 (3.70%) Marketing
7 8 (3.70%) Retail
8 6 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.39%) Games
10 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (23.15%) Software Engineer
2 27 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 27 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 26 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (12.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (11.11%) Senior
5 20 (9.26%) Lead
6 17 (7.87%) Test Engineer
7 16 (7.41%) Developer
8 11 (5.09%) Analyst
8 11 (5.09%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Data Analyst
9 10 (4.63%) Junior
9 10 (4.63%) Junior Analyst
9 10 (4.63%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (4.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Junior Data Analyst
10 9 (4.17%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (35.19%) Terraform
2 21 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (9.26%) Spring
3 20 (9.26%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
5 17 (7.87%) Kafka
6 12 (5.56%) Keycloak
7 10 (4.63%) React
8 9 (4.17%) Node.js
8 9 (4.17%) Playwright
9 8 (3.70%) pytest
9 8 (3.70%) XMPP
10 7 (3.24%) Vue
11 6 (2.78%) OAuth
11 6 (2.78%) OpenID
11 6 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.78%) REST
12 5 (2.31%) OpenAPI
13 4 (1.85%) boto
13 4 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.70%) FlexPod
5 8 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.31%) FPGA
8 5 (2.31%) Replication
8 5 (2.31%) Social Media
9 4 (1.85%) CMDB
9 4 (1.85%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.85%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) CUDA
10 3 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.39%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.39%) PKI
10 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.39%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 70 (32.41%) Linux
2 37 (17.13%) Windows
3 14 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.02%) CentOS
5 7 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.31%) Unix
7 3 (1.39%) Android
7 3 (1.39%) Debian
7 3 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.93%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.46%) Rocky
9 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (39.81%) CI/CD
2 85 (39.35%) DevOps
3 80 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (33.80%) Software Engineering
5 64 (29.63%) Agile
6 56 (25.93%) Containerisation
7 53 (24.54%) AI
8 42 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (18.52%) Test Automation
10 33 (15.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 30 (13.89%) Analytics
11 30 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (12.96%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (10.65%) ETL
15 23 (10.65%) Scrum
16 22 (10.19%) Data Science
16 22 (10.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 90 (41.67%) Java
2 48 (22.22%) Bash
3 47 (21.76%) C++
4 35 (16.20%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.96%) SQL
6 25 (11.57%) Go
7 22 (10.19%) PowerShell
8 17 (7.87%) C
8 17 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 13 (6.02%) Rust
10 9 (4.17%) Scala
11 8 (3.70%) Groovy
12 7 (3.24%) C#
13 3 (1.39%) GLSL
13 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.93%) VB
15 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 145 (67.13%) Security Cleared
2 89 (41.20%) DV Cleared
3 43 (19.91%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.17%) Degree
6 8 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.31%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.85%) CCNA
9 4 (1.85%) CCNP
9 4 (1.85%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.85%) OSCP
9 4 (1.85%) RHCE
9 4 (1.85%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.93%) HNC
10 2 (0.93%) HND
10 2 (0.93%) PhD
11 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.94%) QA
2 11 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 53 (24.54%) Docker
2 21 (9.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.17%) Firmware
3 9 (4.17%) vSphere
4 8 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.78%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.31%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.85%) Squid
8 3 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.46%) KVM
Systems Management
1 86 (39.81%) Ansible
2 70 (32.41%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.35%) Grafana
4 18 (8.33%) Puppet
5 15 (6.94%) Kibana
5 15 (6.94%) logstash
6 9 (4.17%) Argo
7 8 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (3.70%) Packer
7 8 (3.70%) Prometheus
7 8 (3.70%) Rancher
7 8 (3.70%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.78%) yum
9 5 (2.31%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.39%) linkerd
10 3 (1.39%) Mesos
10 3 (1.39%) Nagios
10 3 (1.39%) SCCM
10 3 (1.39%) SCOM
10 3 (1.39%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 29 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.19%) Splunk
3 21 (9.72%) VMware
4 20 (9.26%) Red Hat
5 15 (6.94%) Cisco
6 13 (6.02%) Fortinet
7 11 (5.09%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.70%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.31%) NetApp
9 5 (2.31%) Oracle
9 5 (2.31%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.85%) Avaya
10 4 (1.85%) F5
10 4 (1.85%) Google
10 4 (1.85%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.85%) Meraki
10 4 (1.85%) Netskope
10 4 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.39%) New Relic
11 3 (1.39%) SaltStack