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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 202 90 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.80% 14.88% 13.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.88% 47.87% 39.72%
Number of salaries quoted 92 41 118
10th Percentile £42,600 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,188
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 382 188 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.53% 31.07% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 256 93 291
10th Percentile £41,875 £27,300 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 11 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 11 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
Cheltenham -2 90 £62,500 +4.17% 33
Gloucester +4 74 £60,000 +11.63% 40
Filton +3 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -10 3 £44,000 -32.31% 1
Cirencester 0 2 £73,750 +34.09% 4
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 (15.35%) Apache
2 12 (5.94%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.48%) Confluence
4 4 (1.98%) JBoss
5 3 (1.49%) nginx
5 3 (1.49%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (38.12%) AWS
2 52 (25.74%) Azure
3 19 (9.41%) Azure AI
4 17 (8.42%) GCP
5 16 (7.92%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.43%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.94%) Serverless
8 11 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (1.49%) Datadog
15 2 (0.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.43%) LAN
1 15 (7.43%) WAN
2 13 (6.44%) Firewall
3 11 (5.45%) VLAN
4 10 (4.95%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (4.95%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (4.95%) Unified Communications
4 10 (4.95%) WebEx
5 8 (3.96%) DNS
6 6 (2.97%) DHCP
6 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.98%) IPv4
9 3 (1.49%) BGP
9 3 (1.49%) OSPF
9 3 (1.49%) SSL
9 3 (1.49%) VPN
9 3 (1.49%) Wireless
10 2 (0.99%) AMQP
10 2 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.40%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (9.41%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.43%) Power BI
4 14 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.93%) Tableau
5 10 (4.95%) Big Data
5 10 (4.95%) Hadoop
6 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.97%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.98%) MySQL
10 2 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.50%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 38 (18.81%) Git
2 32 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 30 (14.85%) GitLab
4 11 (5.45%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.46%) JIRA
5 9 (4.46%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.96%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.47%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.47%) Selenium
7 7 (3.47%) Subversion
7 7 (3.47%) TestRail
8 3 (1.49%) MLflow
9 2 (0.99%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.99%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.50%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.34%) Finance
3 24 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.44%) Aerospace
6 12 (5.94%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.95%) Banking
7 10 (4.95%) Marketing
7 10 (4.95%) Retail
8 8 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.98%) Electronics
11 3 (1.49%) Games
11 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (23.76%) Software Engineer
2 25 (12.38%) Data Engineer
3 24 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (10.89%) Python Engineer
5 21 (10.40%) Senior
6 20 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (8.91%) Lead
8 15 (7.43%) Analyst
8 15 (7.43%) Data Analyst
9 14 (6.93%) Developer
10 13 (6.44%) Junior
10 13 (6.44%) Junior Analyst
10 13 (6.44%) Junior Data Analyst
11 11 (5.45%) Test Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Data Scientist
12 9 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (3.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.41%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (8.91%) Apache NiFi
3 16 (7.92%) Spring
3 16 (7.92%) Spring Boot
4 14 (6.93%) Kafka
5 10 (4.95%) XMPP
6 9 (4.46%) Keycloak
6 9 (4.46%) Node.js
7 8 (3.96%) React
8 7 (3.47%) OAuth
8 7 (3.47%) OpenID
8 7 (3.47%) Playwright
8 7 (3.47%) pytest
8 7 (3.47%) Vue
9 5 (2.48%) HTML
10 4 (1.98%) boto
10 4 (1.98%) CSS
10 4 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.98%) REST
10 4 (1.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (8.42%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.95%) FlexPod
4 10 (4.95%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.47%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.47%) Replication
7 5 (2.48%) Social Media
8 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.98%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.49%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.49%) CUDA
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.49%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.49%) FPGA
9 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.49%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 68 (33.66%) Linux
2 38 (18.81%) Windows
3 16 (7.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.45%) CentOS
5 6 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.98%) Unix
7 3 (1.49%) Android
8 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.99%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.99%) Debian
8 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.50%) Rocky
9 1 (0.50%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.12%) CI/CD
2 72 (35.64%) DevOps
3 69 (34.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (33.66%) Software Engineering
5 60 (29.70%) Agile
6 58 (28.71%) AI
7 49 (24.26%) Containerisation
8 38 (18.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 36 (17.82%) Test Automation
10 30 (14.85%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (14.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 28 (13.86%) Analytics
12 28 (13.86%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (13.37%) Data Science
14 26 (12.87%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (12.38%) Collaborative Culture
16 24 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (10.40%) Scrum
18 20 (9.90%) ETL
19 18 (8.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 82 (40.59%) Java
2 46 (22.77%) C++
3 42 (20.79%) Bash
4 34 (16.83%) JavaScript
5 30 (14.85%) SQL
6 21 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 20 (9.90%) Go
8 16 (7.92%) C
8 16 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 14 (6.93%) Rust
10 9 (4.46%) Scala
11 8 (3.96%) Groovy
12 6 (2.97%) C#
13 3 (1.49%) GLSL
13 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.50%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 132 (65.35%) Security Cleared
2 85 (42.08%) DV Cleared
3 35 (17.33%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.38%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.45%) Degree
6 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.98%) CCNA
7 4 (1.98%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.98%) OSCP
7 4 (1.98%) RHCE
7 4 (1.98%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.49%) PhD
9 2 (0.99%) CCNP
10 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.45%) Data Quality
1 11 (5.45%) QA
2 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (23.76%) Docker
2 22 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.45%) vSphere
4 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 7 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.47%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.97%) Firmware
6 5 (2.48%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.48%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.98%) Squid
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.50%) KVM
Systems Management
1 74 (36.63%) Ansible
2 63 (31.19%) Terraform
3 60 (29.70%) Kubernetes
4 30 (14.85%) Grafana
5 14 (6.93%) Kibana
5 14 (6.93%) logstash
5 14 (6.93%) Puppet
6 10 (4.95%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (3.96%) Packer
8 7 (3.47%) Argo
8 7 (3.47%) Rancher
8 7 (3.47%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.97%) Prometheus
10 5 (2.48%) yum
10 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.49%) Kubeflow
11 3 (1.49%) Nagios
11 3 (1.49%) SCCM
11 3 (1.49%) SCOM
11 3 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.39%) Splunk
3 22 (10.89%) VMware
4 18 (8.91%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.43%) Cisco
6 13 (6.44%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.95%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.95%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.47%) NetApp
9 6 (2.97%) Oracle
10 3 (1.49%) Google
10 3 (1.49%) Juniper
10 3 (1.49%) New Relic
10 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.99%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.99%) Meraki
11 2 (0.99%) Netskope
11 2 (0.99%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.99%) Veeam