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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 221 52 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.70% 10.10% 10.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.62% 37.68% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 113 33 53
10th Percentile £42,750 - £47,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -7.69% +4.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £64,250 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.82% -18.52% +12.50%

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 474 138 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.67% 26.80% 39.86%
Number of salaries quoted 331 85 150
10th Percentile £47,250 £29,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +5 111 £67,500 +3.85% 37
Cheltenham -11 63 £80,000 +25.49% 61
Cirencester +2 7 £85,000 +54.55%
Filton +4 5 £40,000 - 1
Tewkesbury -19 3 £62,500 -10.71% 3
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 36 (16.29%) Apache
2 13 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.71%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.81%) Confluence
4 4 (1.81%) JBoss
5 3 (1.36%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.84%) AWS
2 50 (22.62%) Azure
3 24 (10.86%) OpenShift
4 22 (9.95%) GCP
5 16 (7.24%) Serverless
6 15 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.81%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (1.81%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (1.81%) Power Platform
14 3 (1.36%) Datadog
15 2 (0.90%) Azure AKS
15 2 (0.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.98%) LAN
1 11 (4.98%) WAN
2 9 (4.07%) Firewall
3 8 (3.62%) DNS
4 5 (2.26%) AMQP
4 5 (2.26%) BGP
4 5 (2.26%) OSPF
4 5 (2.26%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (2.26%) VLAN
4 5 (2.26%) VPN
4 5 (2.26%) Wireless
5 4 (1.81%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.81%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.81%) DHCP
5 4 (1.81%) IPv4
5 4 (1.81%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.81%) Unified Communications
5 4 (1.81%) WebEx
5 4 (1.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.22%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (7.24%) MongoDB
2 16 (7.24%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.88%) Big Data
3 13 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 13 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.71%) InfluxDB
4 6 (2.71%) MySQL
5 5 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.81%) Power BI
7 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.45%) Redis
8 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau
8 1 (0.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 43 (19.46%) Git
2 39 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 34 (15.38%) GitLab
4 12 (5.43%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.52%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.52%) SonarQube
5 10 (4.52%) Subversion
6 9 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.62%) TestRail
8 7 (3.17%) JIRA
8 7 (3.17%) LabVIEW
8 7 (3.17%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.17%) Selenium
9 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.45%) Maven
10 1 (0.45%) MLflow
10 1 (0.45%) Mocha
10 1 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (23.98%) Finance
2 29 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (10.86%) Social Skills
4 14 (6.33%) Aerospace
5 9 (4.07%) Electronics
6 8 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.71%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.81%) Banking
9 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.81%) Marketing
9 4 (1.81%) Retail
10 3 (1.36%) Games
10 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (23.98%) Software Engineer
2 35 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (14.48%) Python Engineer
4 30 (13.57%) Data Engineer
5 29 (13.12%) Senior
6 28 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (9.05%) Lead
8 19 (8.60%) Test Engineer
9 15 (6.79%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Developer
10 13 (5.88%) Elasticsearch Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (5.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.98%) Python Software Engineer
13 9 (4.07%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (42.08%) Terraform
2 28 (12.67%) Spring
2 28 (12.67%) Spring Boot
3 24 (10.86%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (9.05%) Kafka
5 19 (8.60%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (7.24%) Keycloak
7 13 (5.88%) React
8 10 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
9 9 (4.07%) pytest
9 9 (4.07%) REST
10 8 (3.62%) Node.js
10 8 (3.62%) Playwright
10 8 (3.62%) Vue
11 7 (3.17%) OpenAPI
12 6 (2.71%) Swagger
13 5 (2.26%) AngularJS
13 5 (2.26%) FastAPI
13 5 (2.26%) gRPC
13 5 (2.26%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.67%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.07%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.62%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.17%) FPGA
6 6 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.26%) 3D Printing
7 5 (2.26%) Arduino
7 5 (2.26%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.26%) Raspberry Pi
7 5 (2.26%) Social Media
8 4 (1.81%) CMDB
8 4 (1.81%) FlexPod
8 4 (1.81%) PKI
8 4 (1.81%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.81%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.36%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (1.36%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 77 (34.84%) Linux
2 33 (14.93%) Windows
3 14 (6.33%) CentOS
4 9 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.17%) Unix
6 5 (2.26%) Debian
6 5 (2.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.36%) Android
8 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.90%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.90%) Rocky
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (44.80%) CI/CD
2 98 (44.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 96 (43.44%) DevOps
4 75 (33.94%) Software Engineering
5 73 (33.03%) Containerisation
6 69 (31.22%) Agile
7 51 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 47 (21.27%) AI
9 45 (20.36%) Test Automation
10 37 (16.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 35 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
13 32 (14.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (13.57%) Analytics
14 30 (13.57%) Collaborative Culture
15 29 (13.12%) Scrum
16 26 (11.76%) Decision-Making
16 26 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (11.76%) Validation
17 25 (11.31%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.06%) Java
2 59 (26.70%) Bash
3 47 (21.27%) C++
4 36 (16.29%) JavaScript
5 33 (14.93%) Go
6 22 (9.95%) PowerShell
7 19 (8.60%) SQL
8 18 (8.14%) TypeScript
9 16 (7.24%) C
10 14 (6.33%) Rust
11 8 (3.62%) C#
12 6 (2.71%) Groovy
12 6 (2.71%) Scala
13 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.36%) GLSL
15 2 (0.90%) VB
16 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.45%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 168 (76.02%) Security Cleared
2 103 (46.61%) DV Cleared
3 50 (22.62%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.79%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.07%) Degree
6 8 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.81%) CCNA
9 4 (1.81%) CCNP
9 4 (1.81%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.81%) OSCP
9 4 (1.81%) RHCE
9 4 (1.81%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.90%) HNC
10 2 (0.90%) HND
11 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.14%) QA
2 10 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 62 (28.05%) Docker
2 20 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.52%) Firmware
4 8 (3.62%) VMware NSX
5 7 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (2.71%) Active Directory
6 6 (2.71%) vSphere
7 5 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.81%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.81%) Squid
9 3 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 100 (45.25%) Ansible
2 89 (40.27%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.03%) Grafana
4 28 (12.67%) Puppet
5 16 (7.24%) Kibana
5 16 (7.24%) logstash
6 12 (5.43%) Argo
7 11 (4.98%) Prometheus
8 10 (4.52%) Rancher
8 10 (4.52%) vCenter Server
9 9 (4.07%) Packer
10 8 (3.62%) yum
11 5 (2.26%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.81%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.81%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.81%) Istio
12 4 (1.81%) linkerd
12 4 (1.81%) Mesos
13 3 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.95%) Red Hat
2 20 (9.05%) VMware
3 19 (8.60%) Microsoft
4 17 (7.69%) Splunk
5 10 (4.52%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.52%) Cisco
6 9 (4.07%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.26%) EMC
7 5 (2.26%) Google
7 5 (2.26%) Oracle
7 5 (2.26%) SaltStack
7 5 (2.26%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.81%) Avaya
8 4 (1.81%) F5
8 4 (1.81%) Infoblox
8 4 (1.81%) Meraki
8 4 (1.81%) Netskope
8 4 (1.81%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.36%) New Relic