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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 211 66 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.45% 11.89% 12.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.24% 39.76% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 103 39 103
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,800 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £48,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -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 420 166 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.81% 29.91% 33.44%
Number of salaries quoted 295 95 263
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,350 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,450
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 30 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 30 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
Gloucester +2 86 £60,000 +11.63% 33
Cheltenham -3 83 £66,250 +10.42% 31
Filton +3 4 £40,000 -
Cirencester +1 4 £85,000 +54.55% 1
Tewkesbury -12 4 £53,250 -23.93% 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 31 (14.69%) Apache
2 12 (5.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.37%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.90%) JBoss
5 3 (1.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) Kinematics
Applications
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.02%) AWS
2 54 (25.59%) Azure
3 21 (9.95%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.53%) GCP
5 16 (7.58%) Azure AI
6 12 (5.69%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.69%) Serverless
7 11 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.79%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (1.42%) Datadog
12 2 (0.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.64%) LAN
1 14 (6.64%) WAN
2 11 (5.21%) Firewall
3 9 (4.27%) VLAN
4 8 (3.79%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (3.79%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (3.79%) DNS
4 8 (3.79%) Unified Communications
4 8 (3.79%) WebEx
5 5 (2.37%) DHCP
5 5 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
5 5 (2.37%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.90%) BGP
6 4 (1.90%) IPv4
6 4 (1.90%) OSPF
6 4 (1.90%) VPN
6 4 (1.90%) Wireless
7 3 (1.42%) AMQP
7 3 (1.42%) SSL
7 3 (1.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.90%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (9.00%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.64%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.69%) Power BI
5 11 (5.21%) Big Data
5 11 (5.21%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.74%) Tableau
7 6 (2.84%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.37%) MySQL
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.47%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (18.01%) Git
2 33 (15.64%) Jenkins
3 30 (14.22%) GitLab
4 12 (5.69%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.74%) JIRA
6 9 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.27%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.79%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.79%) TestRail
8 7 (3.32%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.32%) Selenium
8 7 (3.32%) Subversion
9 5 (2.37%) LabVIEW
10 3 (1.42%) MLflow
11 2 (0.95%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.95%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.47%) GoogleTest
12 1 (0.47%) Maven
12 1 (0.47%) Mocha
12 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (18.01%) Finance
2 35 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 27 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.64%) Aerospace
5 11 (5.21%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.21%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.79%) Banking
6 8 (3.79%) Electronics
6 8 (3.79%) Marketing
6 8 (3.79%) Retail
7 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.42%) Games
9 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (24.17%) Software Engineer
2 26 (12.32%) Data Engineer
2 26 (12.32%) Python Engineer
3 25 (11.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (10.90%) Senior
5 20 (9.48%) Lead
6 16 (7.58%) Developer
7 15 (7.11%) Test Engineer
8 12 (5.69%) Analyst
9 11 (5.21%) Data Analyst
9 11 (5.21%) Junior
9 11 (5.21%) Junior Analyst
10 10 (4.74%) Junior Data Analyst
10 10 (4.74%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (4.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (34.12%) Terraform
2 20 (9.48%) Spring
2 20 (9.48%) Spring Boot
3 19 (9.00%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (8.53%) Apache NiFi
5 16 (7.58%) Kafka
6 11 (5.21%) Keycloak
7 10 (4.74%) React
8 9 (4.27%) Node.js
9 8 (3.79%) Playwright
9 8 (3.79%) XMPP
10 7 (3.32%) pytest
10 7 (3.32%) Vue
11 6 (2.84%) OAuth
11 6 (2.84%) OpenID
11 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (2.84%) REST
12 5 (2.37%) HTML
12 5 (2.37%) OpenAPI
13 4 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.95%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.79%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.79%) FlexPod
4 8 (3.79%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.37%) FPGA
6 5 (2.37%) Replication
6 5 (2.37%) Social Media
7 4 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.90%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.42%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.42%) 3D Printing
8 3 (1.42%) CUDA
8 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.42%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.42%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 67 (31.75%) Linux
2 36 (17.06%) Windows
3 14 (6.64%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.69%) CentOS
5 7 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.90%) Unix
7 3 (1.42%) Android
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
7 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.95%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
9 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.86%) CI/CD
2 81 (38.39%) DevOps
3 75 (35.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (35.07%) Software Engineering
5 62 (29.38%) Agile
6 54 (25.59%) AI
6 54 (25.59%) Containerisation
7 39 (18.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (18.01%) Test Automation
9 32 (15.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (13.74%) Data Pipeline
10 29 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (13.27%) Analytics
12 26 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (11.85%) Collaborative Culture
14 22 (10.43%) ETL
14 22 (10.43%) Scrum
15 21 (9.95%) Data Science
16 20 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.18%) Java
2 48 (22.75%) C++
3 45 (21.33%) Bash
4 35 (16.59%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.74%) SQL
6 23 (10.90%) Go
7 21 (9.95%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.53%) C
8 18 (8.53%) TypeScript
9 14 (6.64%) Rust
10 8 (3.79%) Groovy
10 8 (3.79%) Scala
11 7 (3.32%) C#
12 3 (1.42%) GLSL
12 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.95%) VB
14 1 (0.47%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 139 (65.88%) Security Cleared
2 86 (40.76%) DV Cleared
3 41 (19.43%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.37%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.74%) Degree
6 7 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.90%) CCNA
9 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.90%) OSCP
9 4 (1.90%) RHCE
9 4 (1.90%) RHCSA
10 3 (1.42%) CCNP
11 2 (0.95%) HNC
11 2 (0.95%) HND
11 2 (0.95%) PhD
12 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.16%) QA
2 11 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (23.22%) Docker
2 20 (9.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.27%) vSphere
4 8 (3.79%) Firmware
5 7 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.84%) Active Directory
7 5 (2.37%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.37%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.90%) Squid
9 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 82 (38.86%) Ansible
2 65 (30.81%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.27%) Grafana
4 16 (7.58%) Puppet
5 14 (6.64%) Kibana
5 14 (6.64%) logstash
6 8 (3.79%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (3.79%) Packer
7 7 (3.32%) Argo
7 7 (3.32%) Rancher
7 7 (3.32%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.37%) yum
9 5 (2.37%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.42%) Kubeflow
10 3 (1.42%) Nagios
10 3 (1.42%) SCCM
10 3 (1.42%) SCOM
10 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.95%) Splunk
3 20 (9.48%) VMware
4 19 (9.00%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.64%) Cisco
6 12 (5.69%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.74%) Atlassian
8 8 (3.79%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.37%) NetApp
9 5 (2.37%) Oracle
10 4 (1.90%) Google
10 4 (1.90%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.42%) Avaya
11 3 (1.42%) EMC
11 3 (1.42%) F5
11 3 (1.42%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.42%) Juniper
11 3 (1.42%) New Relic
11 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.42%) ServiceNow