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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 17 2
Rank change year-on-year +10 -15 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 77 110 241
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 12.60% 12.73% 28.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.89% 30.81% 56.71%
Number of salaries quoted 49 65 109
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,500 £88,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%

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 133 357 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 21.77% 41.32% 49.71%
Number of salaries quoted 90 131 256
10th Percentile £32,150 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £46,563 £47,552 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +3 33 £67,500 - 24
Gloucester -1 18 £80,000 +23.08% 17
Tewkesbury +6 6 £70,000 -6.67% 1
Filton +8 3 - - 2
Berkeley - 1 - -
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 9 (11.69%) Apache
2 6 (7.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (49.35%) AWS
2 24 (31.17%) Azure
3 10 (12.99%) OpenShift
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.19%) Serverless
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.90%) Azure AI
6 3 (3.90%) GCP
6 3 (3.90%) Google Workspace
6 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
1 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.19%) VSAN
2 3 (3.90%) DHCP
2 3 (3.90%) LAN
2 3 (3.90%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (3.90%) WAN
3 2 (2.60%) Firewall
4 1 (1.30%) HTTP
4 1 (1.30%) ICMP
4 1 (1.30%) Internet
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.19%) Big Data
3 4 (5.19%) Neo4j
4 3 (3.90%) Power BI
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) Tableau
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.30%) MySQL
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (19.48%) Git
2 14 (18.18%) GitLab
3 7 (9.09%) JUnit
4 6 (7.79%) JIRA
5 5 (6.49%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.90%) Balsamiq
7 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.60%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (2.60%) Subversion
9 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Electronics
3 10 (12.99%) Aerospace
4 9 (11.69%) Manufacturing
5 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Military
6 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Automotive
7 3 (3.90%) Avionics
7 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Finance
8 2 (2.60%) Law
9 1 (1.30%) Games
9 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Software Engineer
2 8 (10.39%) Administrator
3 6 (7.79%) Electronics Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Senior
4 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (6.49%) Python Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (3.90%) Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Developer
6 3 (3.90%) DSP Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Process Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) React
2 8 (10.39%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (7.79%) Hibernate
3 6 (7.79%) JSF
4 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.19%) MERN Stack
4 4 (5.19%) PrimeFaces
5 1 (1.30%) Blazor
5 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.30%) Flash
5 1 (1.30%) HTML
5 1 (1.30%) Kafka
5 1 (1.30%) Middleware
5 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.30%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.30%) Vue
5 1 (1.30%) WinForms
5 1 (1.30%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Algorithms
2 7 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.79%) Analogue Electronics
4 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) FPGA
5 3 (3.90%) Verilog
5 3 (3.90%) VHDL
6 2 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.30%) Arduino
7 1 (1.30%) Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.30%) Life Science
7 1 (1.30%) Omics
7 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.30%) Replication
7 1 (1.30%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 36 (46.75%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
3 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.79%) CentOS
5 3 (3.90%) CoreOS
5 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.60%) Debian
6 2 (2.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Software Engineering
2 20 (25.97%) Agile
3 16 (20.78%) DevOps
4 14 (18.18%) AI
4 14 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (12.99%) Scrum
6 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (10.39%) Machine Learning
8 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.09%) Time Management
8 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
9 6 (7.79%) Analytics
9 6 (7.79%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.79%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis
9 6 (7.79%) ITIL
9 6 (7.79%) Reverse Engineering
9 6 (7.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Java
2 20 (25.97%) C
2 20 (25.97%) JavaScript
3 17 (22.08%) Bash
4 13 (16.88%) TypeScript
5 11 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 8 (10.39%) C++
7 6 (7.79%) Embedded C
7 6 (7.79%) Go
8 5 (6.49%) SQL
9 4 (5.19%) C#
9 4 (5.19%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.90%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (3.90%) MATLAB
10 3 (3.90%) Tcl
10 3 (3.90%) VBScript
11 2 (2.60%) R
12 1 (1.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 43 (55.84%) Security Cleared
2 30 (38.96%) DV Cleared
3 17 (22.08%) Degree
4 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.90%) CITP
5 3 (3.90%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.30%) CCNA
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) PhD
6 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 6 (7.79%) Firmware
3 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.60%) vSphere
7 1 (1.30%) KVM
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (24.68%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.48%) Ansible
3 10 (12.99%) Terraform
4 8 (10.39%) Kibana
5 3 (3.90%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (3.90%) SCVMM
6 2 (2.60%) Argo
6 2 (2.60%) Grafana
6 2 (2.60%) Puppet
6 2 (2.60%) Rancher
6 2 (2.60%) yum
7 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.30%) logstash
7 1 (1.30%) Nagios
7 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Atlassian
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle
2 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.79%) EMC
3 6 (7.79%) Google
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) McAfee
6 2 (2.60%) Cisco
6 2 (2.60%) VMware
7 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.30%) Splunk