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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 20 2
Rank change year-on-year +15 -18 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 99 90 296
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 14.18% 15.23% 24.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.26% 31.69% 49.58%
Number of salaries quoted 58 52 153
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,375 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,125 £84,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% +0.87%

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 159 284 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.78% 48.05% 48.58%
Number of salaries quoted 96 94 421
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.25% +6.38% +1.41%

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 January 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 January 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 +1 45 £57,500 -14.81% 46
Gloucester +2 32 £75,000 +15.38% 28
Tewkesbury +1 7 £63,750 -15.00% 4
Filton +5 3 - - 2
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 13 (13.13%) Apache
2 5 (5.05%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (55.56%) AWS
2 40 (40.40%) Azure
3 12 (12.12%) OpenShift
4 7 (7.07%) GCP
5 6 (6.06%) Azure AI
5 6 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (5.05%) Serverless
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.03%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) DNS
1 9 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 8 (8.08%) DHCP
3 5 (5.05%) VSAN
4 4 (4.04%) LAN
4 4 (4.04%) WAN
5 3 (3.03%) Firewall
6 1 (1.01%) AMQP
6 1 (1.01%) HTTP
6 1 (1.01%) ICMP
6 1 (1.01%) Internet
6 1 (1.01%) VLAN
6 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.17%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.08%) Neo4j
4 6 (6.06%) Big Data
4 6 (6.06%) Power BI
4 6 (6.06%) Tableau
5 3 (3.03%) MySQL
5 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.02%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.01%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (19.19%) Git
2 14 (14.14%) GitLab
3 11 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.08%) JUnit
5 7 (7.07%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.07%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.05%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.05%) JIRA
6 5 (5.05%) Subversion
7 3 (3.03%) Balsamiq
7 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.02%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.01%) Selenium
9 1 (1.01%) TestRail
General
1 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.12%) Finance
3 10 (10.10%) Aerospace
4 9 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Electronics
6 5 (5.05%) Marketing
6 5 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.04%) Military
7 4 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.03%) Avionics
8 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Games
9 1 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) Software Engineer
2 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (9.09%) Senior
3 7 (7.07%) Administrator
3 7 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.06%) Analyst
4 6 (6.06%) Data Analyst
4 6 (6.06%) Developer
4 6 (6.06%) Junior
4 6 (6.06%) Junior Analyst
4 6 (6.06%) Junior Data Analyst
4 6 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (5.05%) Python Engineer
5 5 (5.05%) Python Software Engineer
5 5 (5.05%) Test Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (4.04%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (4.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (4.04%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) React
2 11 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 8 (8.08%) MERN Stack
5 5 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (5.05%) Middleware
6 4 (4.04%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.04%) JSF
6 4 (4.04%) PrimeFaces
6 4 (4.04%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (3.03%) HTML
7 3 (3.03%) Kafka
7 3 (3.03%) Node.js
7 3 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.03%) Vue
8 2 (2.02%) Bootstrap
8 2 (2.02%) CSS
8 2 (2.02%) Flask
8 2 (2.02%) RESTful
9 1 (1.01%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
1 5 (5.05%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (2.02%) Blockchain
2 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.02%) Clustering
2 2 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
2 2 (2.02%) Replication
3 1 (1.01%) Arduino
3 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.01%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.01%) PKI
3 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.01%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (49.49%) Linux
2 13 (13.13%) Windows
3 10 (10.10%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (8.08%) CentOS
6 4 (4.04%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (3.03%) CoreOS
7 3 (3.03%) Debian
8 2 (2.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.38%) Software Engineering
2 28 (28.28%) Agile
3 26 (26.26%) DevOps
4 25 (25.25%) CI/CD
5 23 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (18.18%) AI
7 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (14.14%) Scrum
9 12 (12.12%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
10 11 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (10.10%) DevSecOps
12 8 (8.08%) Validation
13 7 (7.07%) Machine Learning
13 7 (7.07%) Unit Testing
14 6 (6.06%) Analytics
14 6 (6.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.42%) Java
2 37 (37.37%) Bash
3 26 (26.26%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.16%) PowerShell
5 15 (15.15%) C
5 15 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.10%) C++
6 10 (10.10%) Go
7 9 (9.09%) SQL
8 6 (6.06%) Kotlin
9 4 (4.04%) C#
10 3 (3.03%) Elixir
10 3 (3.03%) Erlang
10 3 (3.03%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (3.03%) Groovy
10 3 (3.03%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.03%) Tcl
10 3 (3.03%) VBScript
11 2 (2.02%) R
12 1 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 64 (64.65%) Security Cleared
2 43 (43.43%) DV Cleared
3 17 (17.17%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.09%) Degree
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.03%) CITP
6 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.03%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) QA
2 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.01%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Docker
2 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 25 (25.25%) Ansible
3 18 (18.18%) Terraform
4 9 (9.09%) Grafana
5 8 (8.08%) Kibana
6 5 (5.05%) Argo
6 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.05%) Rancher
6 5 (5.05%) yum
7 4 (4.04%) logstash
7 4 (4.04%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (4.04%) Puppet
7 4 (4.04%) SCVMM
8 2 (2.02%) Data Guard
8 2 (2.02%) Nagios
8 2 (2.02%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.02%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.01%) Nessus
9 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (10.10%) Red Hat
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.06%) Google
4 6 (6.06%) Oracle
5 4 (4.04%) McAfee
5 4 (4.04%) SAP
5 4 (4.04%) VMware
6 3 (3.03%) Cisco
7 2 (2.02%) Dell
7 2 (2.02%) HP
7 2 (2.02%) Juniper
7 2 (2.02%) Splunk
7 2 (2.02%) Veeam
8 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.01%) SaltStack