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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 16 2
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 69 112 264
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.98% 12.25% 28.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.64% 30.27% 58.15%
Number of salaries quoted 45 61 114
10th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year - +8.09% +13.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £88,450
South West median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +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 139 370 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 24.13% 40.48% 49.24%
Number of salaries quoted 93 136 259
10th Percentile £29,700 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,563 £72,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £82,500 £80,150
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -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 17 November 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 17 November 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 27 £62,500 -7.41% 29
Gloucester -3 12 £87,500 +34.62% 33
Tewkesbury +9 6 £70,000 -6.67% 2
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 (13.04%) Apache
2 5 (7.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (49.28%) AWS
2 18 (26.09%) Azure
3 9 (13.04%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.35%) GCP
5 3 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.90%) Serverless
7 1 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) DNS
1 4 (5.80%) Internet
1 4 (5.80%) Software-Defined Radio
1 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.80%) VSAN
2 3 (4.35%) DHCP
2 3 (4.35%) LAN
2 3 (4.35%) WAN
3 2 (2.90%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) HTTP
4 1 (1.45%) ICMP
4 1 (1.45%) VLAN
4 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.80%) Big Data
4 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (21.74%) GitLab
2 14 (20.29%) Git
3 5 (7.25%) JIRA
3 5 (7.25%) JUnit
4 4 (5.80%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.35%) Balsamiq
5 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.90%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 15 (21.74%) Electronics
2 12 (17.39%) Manufacturing
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.49%) Aerospace
4 8 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Automotive
6 4 (5.80%) Military
6 4 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.35%) Avionics
7 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Finance
9 1 (1.45%) Games
9 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Software Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Administrator
3 7 (10.14%) Developer
3 7 (10.14%) Electronics Engineer
4 6 (8.70%) Senior
4 6 (8.70%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Linux Administrator
6 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) DSP Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.80%) Process Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) DevSecOps Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.90%) Lead
8 2 (2.90%) Python Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) React
2 8 (11.59%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (8.70%) Hibernate
4 5 (7.25%) JSF
5 3 (4.35%) PrimeFaces
6 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.90%) MERN Stack
6 2 (2.90%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.90%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.45%) Blazor
7 1 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.45%) Flash
7 1 (1.45%) HTML
7 1 (1.45%) Kafka
7 1 (1.45%) OpenCV
7 1 (1.45%) Pandas
7 1 (1.45%) REST
7 1 (1.45%) Vue
7 1 (1.45%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 7 (10.14%) Analogue Electronics
2 7 (10.14%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (7.25%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.80%) FPGA
4 4 (5.80%) Verilog
4 4 (5.80%) VHDL
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.45%) Arduino
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.45%) Life Science
6 1 (1.45%) Omics
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (52.17%) Linux
2 8 (11.59%) Windows
2 8 (11.59%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (8.70%) CentOS
5 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
6 3 (4.35%) CoreOS
6 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.90%) Debian
7 2 (2.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 18 (26.09%) Agile
3 15 (21.74%) DevOps
3 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.39%) CI/CD
5 10 (14.49%) AI
6 9 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.04%) Scrum
7 7 (10.14%) Data Analysis
7 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.14%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.14%) Reverse Engineering
7 7 (10.14%) Time Management
8 6 (8.70%) Analytics
8 6 (8.70%) Computer Science
8 6 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (8.70%) Data Science
8 6 (8.70%) ITIL
8 6 (8.70%) Machine Learning
8 6 (8.70%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) C
1 20 (28.99%) Java
2 17 (24.64%) JavaScript
3 15 (21.74%) Bash
4 12 (17.39%) C++
5 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
5 11 (15.94%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.14%) Embedded C
6 7 (10.14%) Go
7 4 (5.80%) C#
8 3 (4.35%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 3 (4.35%) MATLAB
8 3 (4.35%) Rust
8 3 (4.35%) Tcl
8 3 (4.35%) VBScript
9 2 (2.90%) R
9 2 (2.90%) SQL
10 1 (1.45%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (59.42%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.68%) DV Cleared
3 18 (26.09%) Degree
4 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.35%) CITP
5 3 (4.35%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) CCNA
6 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) PhD
6 1 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 7 (10.14%) Firmware
3 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.80%) Hyper-V
5 3 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.90%) vSphere
7 1 (1.45%) KVM
7 1 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.29%) Ansible
3 9 (13.04%) Terraform
4 8 (11.59%) Kibana
5 3 (4.35%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (4.35%) SCVMM
6 2 (2.90%) Puppet
7 1 (1.45%) Argo
7 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.45%) Grafana
7 1 (1.45%) logstash
7 1 (1.45%) Nagios
7 1 (1.45%) Rancher
7 1 (1.45%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.45%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Atlassian
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle
1 8 (11.59%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.14%) EMC
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 3 (4.35%) McAfee
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.90%) VMware
6 1 (1.45%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk