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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 179 89 251
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.08% 15.89% 15.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.08% 47.34% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 81 40 194
10th Percentile £43,500 £43,850 £44,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £76,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,250 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,443 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.45% -4.26% -

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 325 188 632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.30% 33.57% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 214 94 503
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,325 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £52,600 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.72% +0.19% -12.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,375 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -5 80 £60,000 - 25
Gloucester -2 59 £67,500 +12.50% 39
Filton +4 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -7 2 £44,000 -12.00%
Cirencester -4 1 £62,500 +13.64%
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 20 (11.17%) Apache
2 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.79%) Confluence
4 3 (1.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 67 (37.43%) AWS
2 52 (29.05%) Azure
3 22 (12.29%) Azure AI
4 18 (10.06%) GCP
4 18 (10.06%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.38%) OpenShift
6 13 (7.26%) Serverless
7 12 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (5.03%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.47%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.23%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (2.23%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (1.12%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) Firewall
1 11 (6.15%) LAN
1 11 (6.15%) WAN
2 9 (5.03%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (5.03%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (5.03%) Unified Communications
2 9 (5.03%) VLAN
2 9 (5.03%) WebEx
3 6 (3.35%) DHCP
3 6 (3.35%) DNS
3 6 (3.35%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.23%) IPv4
4 4 (2.23%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.68%) AMQP
6 2 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.41%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (10.06%) MongoDB
2 18 (10.06%) Power BI
3 17 (9.50%) Tableau
4 13 (7.26%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.91%) InfluxDB
5 7 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.35%) Big Data
7 5 (2.79%) Hadoop
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.23%) MySQL
9 3 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.56%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (17.88%) Git
2 31 (17.32%) GitLab
2 31 (17.32%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.59%) Cucumber
3 10 (5.59%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.03%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.47%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.47%) JIRA
6 7 (3.91%) Robot Framework
6 7 (3.91%) Selenium
6 7 (3.91%) TestRail
7 6 (3.35%) Subversion
8 3 (1.68%) MLflow
9 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.56%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.73%) Finance
3 17 (9.50%) Aerospace
3 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.03%) Banking
6 9 (5.03%) Marketing
6 9 (5.03%) Retail
6 9 (5.03%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Games
9 2 (1.12%) Electronics
9 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (25.14%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (11.73%) Senior
4 18 (10.06%) Analyst
4 18 (10.06%) Data Analyst
5 16 (8.94%) Junior
5 16 (8.94%) Junior Analyst
5 16 (8.94%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (8.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.38%) Python Engineer
7 14 (7.82%) Data Engineer
8 13 (7.26%) Developer
8 13 (7.26%) Lead
9 11 (6.15%) Data Scientist
10 10 (5.59%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Collaboration Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.73%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (8.94%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (6.15%) Node.js
3 11 (6.15%) Spring
3 11 (6.15%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.03%) Kafka
4 9 (5.03%) React
4 9 (5.03%) Vue
4 9 (5.03%) XMPP
5 8 (4.47%) pytest
6 7 (3.91%) Playwright
7 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.23%) boto
8 4 (2.23%) Middleware
8 4 (2.23%) OAuth
8 4 (2.23%) OpenID
8 4 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.23%) REST
8 4 (2.23%) RESTful
8 4 (2.23%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.59%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.03%) FlexPod
3 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.03%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.35%) Replication
6 5 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.68%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.68%) CUDA
7 3 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.68%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.68%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (34.64%) Linux
2 34 (18.99%) Windows
3 15 (8.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.70%) CentOS
5 5 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.23%) Unix
7 3 (1.68%) Debian
7 3 (1.68%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.12%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.56%) Rocky
9 1 (0.56%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.20%) CI/CD
2 57 (31.84%) Software Engineering
3 56 (31.28%) AI
3 56 (31.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (30.73%) DevOps
5 51 (28.49%) Agile
6 37 (20.67%) Containerisation
7 36 (20.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (17.32%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (16.76%) Collaborative Culture
10 26 (14.53%) Test Automation
11 25 (13.97%) Scrum
12 24 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (12.29%) Data Science
15 20 (11.17%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (9.50%) Data Pipeline
16 17 (9.50%) Software Testing
17 16 (8.94%) Analytics
17 16 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.55%) Java
2 45 (25.14%) Bash
3 39 (21.79%) C++
4 31 (17.32%) JavaScript
5 26 (14.53%) SQL
6 21 (11.73%) PowerShell
7 19 (10.61%) Go
8 14 (7.82%) C
8 14 (7.82%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.59%) Rust
10 6 (3.35%) Groovy
11 4 (2.23%) Scala
12 3 (1.68%) C#
12 3 (1.68%) GLSL
13 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 115 (64.25%) Security Cleared
2 74 (41.34%) DV Cleared
3 35 (19.55%) SC Cleared
4 25 (13.97%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.26%) Degree
6 7 (3.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.23%) CCNA
7 4 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.23%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.23%) OSCP
7 4 (2.23%) PhD
7 4 (2.23%) RHCE
7 4 (2.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (21.23%) Docker
2 20 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.59%) vSphere
4 7 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.35%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (3.35%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.23%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.23%) Squid
6 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.12%) Firmware
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 64 (35.75%) Ansible
2 55 (30.73%) Kubernetes
2 55 (30.73%) Terraform
3 30 (16.76%) Grafana
4 16 (8.94%) Kibana
4 16 (8.94%) logstash
5 13 (7.26%) Puppet
6 9 (5.03%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (4.47%) Packer
7 8 (4.47%) Rancher
8 7 (3.91%) Argo
8 7 (3.91%) vCenter Server
9 6 (3.35%) yum
10 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
11 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.68%) Kubeflow
12 3 (1.68%) SCCM
12 3 (1.68%) SCOM
12 3 (1.68%) SCOrch
13 2 (1.12%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 35 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.17%) Splunk
2 20 (11.17%) VMware
3 17 (9.50%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.15%) Cisco
5 9 (5.03%) Atlassian
5 9 (5.03%) Fortinet
5 9 (5.03%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.35%) NetApp
7 5 (2.79%) Oracle
8 4 (2.23%) Google
9 3 (1.68%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.12%) Dell
10 2 (1.12%) HP
10 2 (1.12%) Juniper
10 2 (1.12%) McAfee
10 2 (1.12%) Veeam
11 1 (0.56%) OpenAI