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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 149 74 284
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.80% 18.27% 17.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.82% 49.01% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 66 32 211
10th Percentile £44,375 £42,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,401 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £57,443 £56,500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +1.67% -5.83%

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 245 151 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.75% 37.28% 41.77%
Number of salaries quoted 147 68 568
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £74,500 £80,000
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 May 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 May 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 0 80 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Gloucester -3 43 £75,000 +15.38% 8
Tewkesbury -3 4 £48,250 -3.50%
Filton +2 1 £61,500 +25.72% 7
Cirencester -8 1 £62,500 +13.64% 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 14 (9.40%) Apache
2 6 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 2 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (12.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.27%) AWS
2 53 (35.57%) Azure
3 25 (16.78%) Azure AI
4 20 (13.42%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.41%) GCP
6 10 (6.71%) OpenShift
7 9 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.70%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.03%) Serverless
10 4 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.01%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (2.01%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.67%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.38%) Firewall
1 11 (7.38%) LAN
1 11 (7.38%) WAN
2 9 (6.04%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (6.04%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (6.04%) Unified Communications
2 9 (6.04%) VLAN
2 9 (6.04%) WebEx
3 8 (5.37%) DHCP
3 8 (5.37%) DNS
3 8 (5.37%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.01%) IPv4
4 3 (2.01%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.34%) AMQP
5 2 (1.34%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.42%) Power BI
1 20 (13.42%) Tableau
2 18 (12.08%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (6.71%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.03%) Big Data
4 6 (4.03%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.68%) InfluxDB
5 4 (2.68%) MySQL
5 4 (2.68%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.34%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.67%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (18.79%) Git
2 23 (15.44%) GitLab
3 21 (14.09%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.37%) Bitbucket
4 8 (5.37%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.70%) JIRA
5 7 (4.70%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.70%) Subversion
6 6 (4.03%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.68%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.68%) Selenium
7 4 (2.68%) TestRail
8 3 (2.01%) JUnit
8 3 (2.01%) MLflow
9 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.67%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.75%) Aerospace
3 17 (11.41%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.07%) Finance
5 14 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.40%) Marketing
6 13 (8.72%) Telecoms
7 9 (6.04%) Banking
7 9 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.04%) Retail
8 6 (4.03%) Electronics
9 4 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) Software Engineer
2 21 (14.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (13.42%) Analyst
3 20 (13.42%) Data Analyst
4 19 (12.75%) Junior
4 19 (12.75%) Junior Analyst
4 19 (12.75%) Junior Data Analyst
5 15 (10.07%) Developer
6 14 (9.40%) Senior
7 11 (7.38%) Data Scientist
8 10 (6.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Lead
10 7 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Test Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Java Developer
11 6 (4.03%) Software Developer
12 5 (3.36%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (6.71%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (6.71%) Node.js
3 9 (6.04%) React
3 9 (6.04%) XMPP
4 7 (4.70%) AngularJS
4 7 (4.70%) Vue
5 5 (3.36%) HTML
5 5 (3.36%) Middleware
6 4 (2.68%) Kafka
6 4 (2.68%) MERN Stack
6 4 (2.68%) OAuth
6 4 (2.68%) OpenID
6 4 (2.68%) Playwright
6 4 (2.68%) pytest
6 4 (2.68%) RESTful
6 4 (2.68%) Spring
6 4 (2.68%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.68%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (2.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.04%) FlexPod
2 9 (6.04%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.04%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.70%) Replication
4 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.01%) Fat Client
6 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.34%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.67%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.67%) FPGA
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.67%) PKI
8 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 52 (34.90%) Linux
2 25 (16.78%) Windows
3 15 (10.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.37%) CentOS
5 5 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.01%) Unix
7 2 (1.34%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.34%) Debian
7 2 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.67%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.23%) AI
2 44 (29.53%) CI/CD
3 43 (28.86%) Software Engineering
4 40 (26.85%) DevOps
5 37 (24.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (24.16%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (23.49%) Agile
8 31 (20.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (16.78%) Containerisation
10 22 (14.77%) Scrum
11 21 (14.09%) Collaborative Culture
11 21 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (12.75%) Data Science
13 18 (12.08%) Test Automation
14 16 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (9.40%) Platform Engineering
16 13 (8.72%) Data Management
16 13 (8.72%) Infrastructure Automation
17 12 (8.05%) Machine Learning
17 12 (8.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.57%) Java
2 43 (28.86%) Bash
3 31 (20.81%) C++
4 27 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 25 (16.78%) SQL
6 19 (12.75%) PowerShell
7 13 (8.72%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.05%) C
8 12 (8.05%) Go
9 7 (4.70%) Rust
10 4 (2.68%) Groovy
10 4 (2.68%) Scala
11 3 (2.01%) C#
11 3 (2.01%) Elixir
11 3 (2.01%) Erlang
12 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (57.72%) Security Cleared
2 58 (38.93%) DV Cleared
3 25 (16.78%) Azure Certification
4 22 (14.77%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.72%) Degree
6 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.68%) PhD
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.01%) CCNA
7 3 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.01%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.01%) OSCP
7 3 (2.01%) RHCE
7 3 (2.01%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.37%) QA
2 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (21.48%) Docker
2 17 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.04%) vSphere
4 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (4.03%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (3.36%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.01%) Squid
7 3 (2.01%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.34%) Firmware
8 2 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 46 (30.87%) Ansible
2 44 (29.53%) Kubernetes
3 36 (24.16%) Terraform
4 26 (17.45%) Grafana
5 10 (6.71%) Kibana
5 10 (6.71%) logstash
6 9 (6.04%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (5.37%) Argo
7 8 (5.37%) Puppet
7 8 (5.37%) Rancher
8 7 (4.70%) Prometheus
8 7 (4.70%) yum
9 4 (2.68%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.01%) Kubeflow
10 3 (2.01%) NetBackup
10 3 (2.01%) Packer
10 3 (2.01%) SCCM
10 3 (2.01%) SCOM
10 3 (2.01%) SCOrch
10 3 (2.01%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.41%) VMware
3 16 (10.74%) Splunk
4 12 (8.05%) Cisco
4 12 (8.05%) Red Hat
5 9 (6.04%) Fortinet
5 9 (6.04%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.03%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.03%) NetApp
7 5 (3.36%) Oracle
8 4 (2.68%) SAP
9 3 (2.01%) Dell
9 3 (2.01%) Google
9 3 (2.01%) HP
9 3 (2.01%) Juniper
9 3 (2.01%) Veeam
10 2 (1.34%) McAfee
10 2 (1.34%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.67%) OpenAI