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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 152 79 285
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.25% 18.85% 17.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.55% 51.97% 41.01%
Number of salaries quoted 66 37 217
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,422 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £80,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year - +1.77% -5.83%

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 243 152 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.99% 36.28% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 143 72 577
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,313 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -2 85 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Gloucester -2 45 £75,000 +15.38% 20
Tewkesbury -5 4 £48,250 -3.50%
Filton +3 1 £61,500 +25.72% 3
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 15 (9.87%) Apache
2 6 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.63%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (13.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 61 (40.13%) AWS
2 56 (36.84%) Azure
3 27 (17.76%) Azure AI
4 22 (14.47%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.21%) GCP
6 11 (7.24%) OpenShift
7 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (4.61%) Serverless
10 6 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.97%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
14 1 (0.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
14 1 (0.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.24%) Firewall
1 11 (7.24%) LAN
1 11 (7.24%) WAN
2 9 (5.92%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (5.92%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (5.92%) Unified Communications
2 9 (5.92%) VLAN
2 9 (5.92%) WebEx
3 8 (5.26%) DHCP
3 8 (5.26%) DNS
3 8 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.32%) AMQP
4 2 (1.32%) IPv4
4 2 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (1.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.47%) Power BI
1 22 (14.47%) Tableau
2 21 (13.82%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (7.24%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.95%) Big Data
4 6 (3.95%) Neo4j
4 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.29%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.63%) MySQL
6 4 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.66%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (18.42%) Git
2 23 (15.13%) GitLab
3 21 (13.82%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.92%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.26%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.61%) Cypress.io
6 7 (4.61%) JIRA
6 7 (4.61%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.61%) Subversion
7 5 (3.29%) JUnit
8 4 (2.63%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.63%) Selenium
8 4 (2.63%) TestRail
9 2 (1.32%) MLflow
10 1 (0.66%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.66%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.84%) Aerospace
3 16 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.87%) Finance
5 14 (9.21%) Marketing
6 13 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (8.55%) Telecoms
7 9 (5.92%) Banking
7 9 (5.92%) Retail
8 8 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.95%) Electronics
10 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 22 (14.47%) Analyst
2 22 (14.47%) Data Analyst
3 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (13.82%) Junior
3 21 (13.82%) Junior Analyst
3 21 (13.82%) Junior Data Analyst
4 14 (9.21%) Senior
5 13 (8.55%) Developer
6 10 (6.58%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Test Engineer
8 7 (4.61%) Lead
8 7 (4.61%) Python Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Collaboration Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.29%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.55%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.89%) React
3 11 (7.24%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (5.92%) AngularJS
4 9 (5.92%) Node.js
4 9 (5.92%) XMPP
5 7 (4.61%) Vue
6 6 (3.95%) MERN Stack
7 5 (3.29%) HTML
7 5 (3.29%) Middleware
8 4 (2.63%) Kafka
8 4 (2.63%) OAuth
8 4 (2.63%) OpenID
8 4 (2.63%) Playwright
8 4 (2.63%) pytest
8 4 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.63%) RESTful
8 4 (2.63%) ZeroMQ
9 3 (1.97%) Bootstrap
9 3 (1.97%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.92%) FlexPod
2 9 (5.92%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.92%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.61%) Replication
4 5 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Fat Client
5 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.97%) Thin Client
6 2 (1.32%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Analogue Electronics
7 1 (0.66%) Clustering
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.66%) FPGA
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.66%) PKI
7 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 54 (35.53%) Linux
2 24 (15.79%) Windows
3 14 (9.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.26%) CentOS
5 5 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.97%) Unix
7 2 (1.32%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.32%) Debian
7 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.66%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (34.21%) AI
2 48 (31.58%) Software Engineering
3 42 (27.63%) CI/CD
4 39 (25.66%) DevOps
5 38 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (23.03%) Agile
6 35 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (14.47%) Containerisation
9 21 (13.82%) Collaborative Culture
9 21 (13.82%) Scrum
10 20 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (11.84%) Data Science
12 17 (11.18%) Test Automation
13 14 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (8.55%) Data Management
14 13 (8.55%) Infrastructure Automation
14 13 (8.55%) Machine Learning
15 12 (7.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.18%) Java
2 42 (27.63%) Bash
3 30 (19.74%) C++
3 30 (19.74%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.76%) SQL
5 18 (11.84%) PowerShell
6 15 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 14 (9.21%) C
8 13 (8.55%) Go
9 7 (4.61%) Rust
10 4 (2.63%) Groovy
10 4 (2.63%) Scala
11 3 (1.97%) C#
11 3 (1.97%) Elixir
11 3 (1.97%) Erlang
11 3 (1.97%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.66%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (56.58%) Security Cleared
2 58 (38.16%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.76%) Azure Certification
4 22 (14.47%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.55%) Degree
6 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.63%) PhD
7 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) CCNA
7 2 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.32%) OSCP
7 2 (1.32%) RHCE
7 2 (1.32%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) QA
2 4 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (21.05%) Docker
2 16 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.26%) vSphere
4 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (3.95%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (3.29%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) Firmware
7 2 (1.32%) Squid
7 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.32%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (29.61%) Kubernetes
2 44 (28.95%) Ansible
3 34 (22.37%) Terraform
4 27 (17.76%) Grafana
5 11 (7.24%) Kibana
6 10 (6.58%) logstash
7 9 (5.92%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (5.26%) Argo
8 8 (5.26%) Prometheus
8 8 (5.26%) Puppet
8 8 (5.26%) Rancher
9 7 (4.61%) yum
10 4 (2.63%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.97%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.97%) SCCM
11 3 (1.97%) SCOM
11 3 (1.97%) SCOrch
12 2 (1.32%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.32%) SCVMM
12 2 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.53%) VMware
3 15 (9.87%) Splunk
4 12 (7.89%) Cisco
5 11 (7.24%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.92%) Fortinet
6 9 (5.92%) Palo Alto
7 7 (4.61%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.95%) NetApp
9 5 (3.29%) Oracle
10 4 (2.63%) SAP
11 3 (1.97%) Dell
11 3 (1.97%) Google
11 3 (1.97%) HP
11 3 (1.97%) Juniper
11 3 (1.97%) Veeam
12 2 (1.32%) McAfee
12 2 (1.32%) SaltStack