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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 7 3
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 147 85 328
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 12.83% 22.14% 19.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.19% 68.00% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 74 47 217
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,392 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,750 £81,350
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 229 125 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.98% 32.55% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 138 74 587
10th Percentile £39,250 £31,625 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 0 82 £57,500 -4.17% 29
Gloucester -3 42 £75,000 +15.38% 19
Tewkesbury -4 5 £52,500 +5.00% 5
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 (10.20%) Apache
2 5 (3.40%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (46.26%) AWS
2 56 (38.10%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 19 (12.93%) Power Platform
5 13 (8.84%) GCP
6 10 (6.80%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.40%) Serverless
10 4 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.36%) AWS Fargate
12 2 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.36%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (0.68%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (0.68%) Azure AKS
13 1 (0.68%) Dagster
13 1 (0.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.12%) DNS
1 9 (6.12%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.44%) DHCP
2 8 (5.44%) Firewall
2 8 (5.44%) LAN
2 8 (5.44%) WAN
3 7 (4.76%) VLAN
4 6 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (4.08%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (4.08%) Unified Communications
4 6 (4.08%) WebEx
5 3 (2.04%) VSAN
6 1 (0.68%) AMQP
6 1 (0.68%) HTTP
6 1 (0.68%) ICMP
6 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.97%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (12.93%) Power BI
2 19 (12.93%) Tableau
3 13 (8.84%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.44%) Neo4j
5 6 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.40%) MySQL
6 5 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.72%) Big Data
7 4 (2.72%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (17.01%) Git
2 18 (12.24%) GitLab
3 14 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.44%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.76%) Subversion
6 6 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.08%) JUnit
7 4 (2.72%) JIRA
7 4 (2.72%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.04%) Balsamiq
8 3 (2.04%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.04%) Selenium
8 3 (2.04%) TestRail
9 2 (1.36%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (1.36%) MLflow
General
1 34 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.20%) Aerospace
3 14 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.84%) Finance
5 11 (7.48%) Marketing
6 10 (6.80%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.08%) Banking
8 6 (4.08%) Retail
9 4 (2.72%) Electronics
9 4 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.72%) Military
10 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (27.21%) Software Engineer
2 19 (12.93%) Analyst
2 19 (12.93%) Data Analyst
3 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (12.24%) Junior
3 18 (12.24%) Junior Analyst
3 18 (12.24%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (10.88%) Senior
5 10 (6.80%) Data Scientist
5 10 (6.80%) Developer
6 9 (6.12%) Python Engineer
7 8 (5.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Test Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.40%) Administrator
10 5 (3.40%) Collaboration Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.40%) Lead
10 5 (3.40%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.20%) React
2 11 (7.48%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.44%) MERN Stack
4 8 (5.44%) Node.js
5 6 (4.08%) XMPP
6 5 (3.40%) HTML
6 5 (3.40%) Middleware
6 5 (3.40%) Vue
7 4 (2.72%) Kafka
7 4 (2.72%) OAuth
7 4 (2.72%) OpenID
7 4 (2.72%) RESTful
7 4 (2.72%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (2.04%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.04%) CSS
8 3 (2.04%) Flask
8 3 (2.04%) pytest
8 3 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (4.76%) Replication
2 6 (4.08%) FlexPod
2 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.08%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.36%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.36%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.36%) Clustering
5 2 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.36%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.36%) Thin Client
6 1 (0.68%) Arduino
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.10%) Linux
2 20 (13.61%) Windows
3 12 (8.16%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.76%) CentOS
5 6 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.68%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.68%) Debian
7 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (34.01%) Software Engineering
2 47 (31.97%) AI
3 35 (23.81%) Agile
3 35 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 35 (23.81%) DevOps
4 32 (21.77%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (17.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (13.61%) Containerisation
8 18 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (12.24%) Data Science
9 16 (10.88%) Collaborative Culture
9 16 (10.88%) Machine Learning
9 16 (10.88%) Scrum
10 12 (8.16%) Infrastructure Automation
10 12 (8.16%) SDLC
10 12 (8.16%) Software Testing
11 11 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (7.48%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.69%) Java
2 40 (27.21%) Bash
3 33 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.33%) SQL
5 20 (13.61%) C++
5 20 (13.61%) PowerShell
6 16 (10.88%) C
6 16 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 15 (10.20%) Go
8 6 (4.08%) C#
8 6 (4.08%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.72%) Groovy
9 4 (2.72%) Rust
9 4 (2.72%) Scala
10 3 (2.04%) Elixir
10 3 (2.04%) Erlang
10 3 (2.04%) VBScript
11 2 (1.36%) R
12 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (58.50%) Security Cleared
2 60 (40.82%) DV Cleared
3 21 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 19 (12.93%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.88%) Degree
6 4 (2.72%) PhD
7 3 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.04%) CITP
7 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.04%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.76%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (20.41%) Docker
2 12 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.08%) vSphere
4 5 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (3.40%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.72%) Active Directory
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (31.29%) Kubernetes
2 36 (24.49%) Ansible
3 27 (18.37%) Terraform
4 19 (12.93%) Grafana
5 9 (6.12%) Kibana
6 8 (5.44%) Argo
6 8 (5.44%) Rancher
7 7 (4.76%) logstash
7 7 (4.76%) yum
8 6 (4.08%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.72%) Puppet
9 4 (2.72%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.04%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.36%) Data Guard
11 2 (1.36%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.36%) Nagios
11 2 (1.36%) SCCM
11 2 (1.36%) SCOM
11 2 (1.36%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 30 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.16%) VMware
3 10 (6.80%) Cisco
3 10 (6.80%) Splunk
4 8 (5.44%) Atlassian
5 7 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 7 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 7 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.40%) NetApp
6 5 (3.40%) Oracle
7 4 (2.72%) SAP
8 3 (2.04%) Dell
8 3 (2.04%) Google
8 3 (2.04%) HP
8 3 (2.04%) Juniper
8 3 (2.04%) Veeam
9 2 (1.36%) McAfee
10 1 (0.68%) SaltStack