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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 188 91 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.88% 15.53% 13.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.56% 47.64% 39.18%
Number of salaries quoted 84 42 138
10th Percentile £43,500 £47,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,221 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.86% -8.45% +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 351 191 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.44% 32.59% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 233 97 360
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
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 27 July 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 July 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 -5 82 £60,000 - 20
Gloucester +2 67 £75,000 +30.43% 28
Filton +3 4 £40,000 - 1
Tewkesbury -9 4 £44,000 -23.48%
Cirencester -2 1 £62,500 +13.64%
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 29 (15.43%) Apache
2 9 (4.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.66%) Confluence
4 4 (2.13%) JBoss
5 3 (1.60%) nginx
5 3 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 71 (37.77%) AWS
2 54 (28.72%) Azure
3 21 (11.17%) Azure AI
4 19 (10.11%) GCP
5 17 (9.04%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.51%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.38%) Serverless
8 11 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.79%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (2.13%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.60%) Azure Machine Learning
14 3 (1.60%) Datadog
15 2 (1.06%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.38%) LAN
1 12 (6.38%) WAN
2 11 (5.85%) Firewall
3 9 (4.79%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (4.79%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (4.79%) Unified Communications
3 9 (4.79%) VLAN
3 9 (4.79%) WebEx
4 6 (3.19%) DNS
5 5 (2.66%) DHCP
5 5 (2.66%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.13%) IPv4
6 4 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.60%) SSL
8 2 (1.06%) AMQP
8 2 (1.06%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.06%) VSAN
9 1 (0.53%) BGP
9 1 (0.53%) OSPF
9 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.17%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (10.64%) MongoDB
3 17 (9.04%) Power BI
4 16 (8.51%) Tableau
5 15 (7.98%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.26%) Big Data
8 7 (3.72%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.19%) InfluxDB
10 5 (2.66%) MySQL
11 4 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.53%) Pinecone
13 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 37 (19.68%) Git
2 31 (16.49%) Jenkins
3 29 (15.43%) GitLab
4 11 (5.85%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.79%) SonarQube
6 8 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.26%) JIRA
6 8 (4.26%) Subversion
7 7 (3.72%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.72%) Selenium
8 6 (3.19%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.19%) TestRail
9 3 (1.60%) MLflow
10 2 (1.06%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.53%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.53%) Maven
11 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.30%) Finance
3 18 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.98%) Aerospace
5 13 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.32%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.79%) Banking
7 9 (4.79%) Marketing
7 9 (4.79%) Retail
8 5 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Games
11 2 (1.06%) Electronics
11 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (22.87%) Software Engineer
2 24 (12.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (11.17%) Data Engineer
3 21 (11.17%) Senior
4 18 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.57%) Python Engineer
5 17 (9.04%) Analyst
5 17 (9.04%) Data Analyst
6 16 (8.51%) Lead
7 15 (7.98%) Junior
7 15 (7.98%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (7.98%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (7.45%) Developer
9 11 (5.85%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.19%) Collaboration Engineer
12 6 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
12 6 (3.19%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (9.57%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (6.91%) Kafka
3 13 (6.91%) Spring
3 13 (6.91%) Spring Boot
4 9 (4.79%) Node.js
4 9 (4.79%) XMPP
5 8 (4.26%) Keycloak
5 8 (4.26%) React
5 8 (4.26%) Vue
6 7 (3.72%) OAuth
6 7 (3.72%) OpenID
6 7 (3.72%) pytest
7 6 (3.19%) HTML
7 6 (3.19%) Playwright
8 4 (2.13%) boto
8 4 (2.13%) CSS
8 4 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (2.13%) REST
8 4 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.32%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.79%) FlexPod
4 9 (4.79%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.19%) Replication
7 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.66%) Social Media
8 4 (2.13%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.60%) CUDA
9 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.60%) Fat Client
9 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Thin Client
10 2 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 63 (33.51%) Linux
2 36 (19.15%) Windows
3 15 (7.98%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.85%) CentOS
5 6 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.13%) Unix
7 2 (1.06%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.06%) Debian
7 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.53%) Android
8 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.53%) Rocky
8 1 (0.53%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 65 (34.57%) DevOps
3 61 (32.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (31.38%) AI
5 58 (30.85%) Software Engineering
6 57 (30.32%) Agile
7 44 (23.40%) Containerisation
8 37 (19.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (16.49%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (15.43%) Test Automation
11 27 (14.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 26 (13.83%) Data Science
13 25 (13.30%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (12.23%) Analytics
15 23 (12.23%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (12.23%) Scrum
16 17 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (9.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (39.36%) Java
2 42 (22.34%) Bash
3 41 (21.81%) C++
4 30 (15.96%) JavaScript
5 29 (15.43%) SQL
6 20 (10.64%) Go
6 20 (10.64%) PowerShell
7 13 (6.91%) C
7 13 (6.91%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.85%) Rust
9 8 (4.26%) Groovy
10 6 (3.19%) Scala
11 5 (2.66%) C#
12 3 (1.60%) GLSL
12 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 121 (64.36%) Security Cleared
2 83 (44.15%) DV Cleared
3 34 (18.09%) SC Cleared
4 26 (13.83%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.91%) Degree
6 6 (3.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.13%) CCNA
8 4 (2.13%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.13%) OSCP
8 4 (2.13%) PhD
8 4 (2.13%) RHCE
8 4 (2.13%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.53%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (22.87%) Docker
2 19 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.32%) vSphere
4 7 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.19%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (3.19%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.13%) Squid
6 4 (2.13%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.60%) Firmware
7 3 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 68 (36.17%) Ansible
2 58 (30.85%) Terraform
3 57 (30.32%) Kubernetes
4 30 (15.96%) Grafana
5 14 (7.45%) Kibana
5 14 (7.45%) logstash
6 13 (6.91%) Puppet
7 9 (4.79%) Argo
7 9 (4.79%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (4.26%) Packer
8 8 (4.26%) Rancher
9 7 (3.72%) Prometheus
10 6 (3.19%) vCenter Server
10 6 (3.19%) yum
11 4 (2.13%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.60%) linkerd
12 3 (1.60%) Nagios
12 3 (1.60%) SCCM
12 3 (1.60%) SCOM
12 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (17.55%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.70%) Splunk
3 19 (10.11%) VMware
4 18 (9.57%) Red Hat
5 12 (6.38%) Cisco
6 10 (5.32%) Atlassian
6 10 (5.32%) Fortinet
7 9 (4.79%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.19%) NetApp
8 6 (3.19%) Oracle
9 3 (1.60%) Google
9 3 (1.60%) New Relic
10 2 (1.06%) Dell
10 2 (1.06%) HP
10 2 (1.06%) Juniper
10 2 (1.06%) McAfee
10 2 (1.06%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.06%) Veeam
11 1 (0.53%) Infoblox
11 1 (0.53%) SolarWinds