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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 21 3
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 132 86 313
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 13.41% 18.98% 20.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.35% 38.22% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 71 52 203
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,225 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,845 £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 £75,313 £73,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £89,125 £81,450
South West median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -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 202 225 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.53% 49.67% 46.53%
Number of salaries quoted 121 81 567
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +1 72 £57,998 -14.08% 27
Gloucester -1 37 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Tewkesbury -4 5 £52,500 +5.00% 6
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 (11.36%) Apache
2 5 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (47.73%) AWS
2 50 (37.88%) Azure
3 17 (12.88%) Power Platform
4 16 (12.12%) Azure AI
5 12 (9.09%) GCP
6 8 (6.06%) Amazon S3
6 8 (6.06%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (4.55%) Serverless
8 4 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.76%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.76%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) DNS
1 9 (6.82%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.06%) DHCP
3 6 (4.55%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) LAN
3 6 (4.55%) WAN
4 5 (3.79%) VLAN
5 4 (3.03%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (3.03%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (3.03%) Unified Communications
5 4 (3.03%) WebEx
6 3 (2.27%) VSAN
7 1 (0.76%) AMQP
7 1 (0.76%) HTTP
7 1 (0.76%) ICMP
7 1 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (12.88%) Power BI
2 17 (12.88%) Tableau
3 12 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.06%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.79%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.03%) Big Data
6 4 (3.03%) MySQL
6 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.27%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.76%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (15.15%) Git
2 16 (12.12%) GitLab
3 11 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.30%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.30%) JUnit
5 6 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.55%) Subversion
6 3 (2.27%) Balsamiq
6 3 (2.27%) JIRA
6 3 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.52%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (1.52%) MLflow
7 2 (1.52%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.52%) Selenium
7 2 (1.52%) TestRail
General
1 28 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.85%) Aerospace
2 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.85%) Finance
3 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.82%) Marketing
5 8 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.03%) Banking
6 4 (3.03%) Electronics
6 4 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.03%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.03%) Military
6 4 (3.03%) Retail
7 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (28.79%) Software Engineer
2 17 (12.88%) Analyst
2 17 (12.88%) Data Analyst
3 16 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (12.12%) Junior
3 16 (12.12%) Junior Analyst
3 16 (12.12%) Junior Data Analyst
3 16 (12.12%) Senior
4 10 (7.58%) Data Scientist
5 9 (6.82%) Python Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) Developer
6 7 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (4.55%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Administrator
8 5 (3.79%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Python Software Engineer
8 5 (3.79%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.03%) Collaboration Engineer
9 4 (3.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.12%) React
2 11 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (7.58%) AngularJS
4 8 (6.06%) MERN Stack
4 8 (6.06%) Node.js
5 6 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.79%) Middleware
7 4 (3.03%) HTML
7 4 (3.03%) Kafka
7 4 (3.03%) OAuth
7 4 (3.03%) OpenID
7 4 (3.03%) Vue
7 4 (3.03%) XMPP
7 4 (3.03%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (2.27%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.27%) JSF
8 3 (2.27%) PrimeFaces
8 3 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.52%) CSS
9 2 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.55%) Replication
2 5 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.03%) FlexPod
3 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.52%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.52%) Clustering
5 2 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.76%) Arduino
6 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.76%) PKI
6 1 (0.76%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 51 (38.64%) Linux
2 16 (12.12%) Windows
3 9 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.55%) CentOS
4 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.76%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.76%) Debian
6 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) Software Engineering
2 42 (31.82%) AI
3 32 (24.24%) Agile
4 30 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 29 (21.97%) DevOps
6 28 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (13.64%) Containerisation
10 18 (13.64%) Data Science
11 16 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (12.12%) Machine Learning
11 16 (12.12%) Scrum
12 12 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
13 11 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
13 11 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (8.33%) SDLC
14 10 (7.58%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.61%) Java
2 37 (28.03%) Bash
3 31 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.91%) SQL
5 17 (12.88%) C++
5 17 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 16 (12.12%) C
6 16 (12.12%) TypeScript
7 12 (9.09%) Go
8 6 (4.55%) C#
8 6 (4.55%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.03%) Groovy
9 4 (3.03%) Scala
10 3 (2.27%) Elixir
10 3 (2.27%) Erlang
10 3 (2.27%) Rust
10 3 (2.27%) VBScript
11 2 (1.52%) R
12 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 56 (42.42%) DV Cleared
3 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 16 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 16 (12.12%) Degree
5 4 (3.03%) PhD
6 3 (2.27%) CITP
6 3 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.55%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (21.21%) Docker
2 10 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.79%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.79%) vSphere
4 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (3.03%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (32.58%) Kubernetes
2 29 (21.97%) Ansible
3 23 (17.42%) Terraform
4 15 (11.36%) Grafana
5 8 (6.06%) Kibana
6 7 (5.30%) Argo
7 6 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 6 (4.55%) Rancher
7 6 (4.55%) yum
8 5 (3.79%) logstash
9 4 (3.03%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (2.27%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.27%) Puppet
10 3 (2.27%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.52%) Data Guard
11 2 (1.52%) Kubeflow
11 2 (1.52%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (1.52%) Nagios
11 2 (1.52%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) VMware
3 8 (6.06%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.06%) Cisco
4 7 (5.30%) Splunk
5 6 (4.55%) Oracle
5 6 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.79%) Fortinet
6 5 (3.79%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.03%) NetApp
7 4 (3.03%) SAP
8 3 (2.27%) Dell
8 3 (2.27%) Google
8 3 (2.27%) HP
8 3 (2.27%) Juniper
8 3 (2.27%) Veeam
9 2 (1.52%) McAfee
10 1 (0.76%) SaltStack