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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 19 2
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 103 87 307
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 14.07% 15.85% 23.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.23% 32.10% 47.16%
Number of salaries quoted 60 54 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £73,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,375 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% +0.87%

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 171 271 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 23.36% 49.36% 49.62%
Number of salaries quoted 107 96 474
10th Percentile £35,250 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £79,375 £77,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -1.40%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 47 £57,500 -14.81% 29
Gloucester +1 32 £75,000 +15.38% 24
Tewkesbury +2 7 £62,500 -16.67% 5
Filton +4 3 - - 5
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 13 (12.62%) Apache
2 5 (4.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.40%) AWS
2 43 (41.75%) Azure
3 12 (11.65%) OpenShift
4 8 (7.77%) Azure AI
4 8 (7.77%) GCP
4 8 (7.77%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.85%) Serverless
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.91%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.91%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.74%) DNS
1 9 (8.74%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.77%) DHCP
3 5 (4.85%) VSAN
4 4 (3.88%) LAN
4 4 (3.88%) WAN
5 3 (2.91%) Firewall
6 1 (0.97%) AMQP
6 1 (0.97%) HTTP
6 1 (0.97%) ICMP
6 1 (0.97%) Internet
6 1 (0.97%) VLAN
6 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.48%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (11.65%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.77%) Neo4j
3 8 (7.77%) Power BI
3 8 (7.77%) Tableau
4 7 (6.80%) Big Data
5 4 (3.88%) MySQL
5 4 (3.88%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.94%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (18.45%) Git
2 13 (12.62%) GitLab
3 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.77%) JUnit
5 7 (6.80%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.80%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.85%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.85%) JIRA
6 5 (4.85%) Subversion
7 3 (2.91%) Balsamiq
7 3 (2.91%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.94%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.97%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.97%) Selenium
9 1 (0.97%) TestRail
General
1 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.65%) Finance
3 11 (10.68%) Aerospace
4 9 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Electronics
6 5 (4.85%) Marketing
6 5 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.88%) Military
7 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.91%) Avionics
9 1 (0.97%) Games
9 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (33.01%) Software Engineer
2 10 (9.71%) Senior
3 9 (8.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (7.77%) Analyst
4 8 (7.77%) Data Analyst
4 8 (7.77%) Junior
4 8 (7.77%) Junior Analyst
4 8 (7.77%) Junior Data Analyst
5 7 (6.80%) Administrator
5 7 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Developer
6 6 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Python Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (3.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (3.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.50%) React
2 11 (10.68%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (9.71%) AngularJS
4 8 (7.77%) MERN Stack
5 5 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (4.85%) Middleware
6 4 (3.88%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.88%) HTML
6 4 (3.88%) JSF
6 4 (3.88%) Node.js
6 4 (3.88%) PrimeFaces
6 4 (3.88%) Vue
6 4 (3.88%) ZeroMQ
7 3 (2.91%) Kafka
7 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.94%) Bootstrap
8 2 (1.94%) CSS
8 2 (1.94%) Flask
8 2 (1.94%) RESTful
9 1 (0.97%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.85%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.94%) Blockchain
3 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.94%) Clustering
3 2 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.94%) Replication
3 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.97%) Arduino
4 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.97%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.97%) PKI
4 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 48 (46.60%) Linux
2 12 (11.65%) Windows
3 9 (8.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (8.74%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.77%) CentOS
5 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.91%) CoreOS
6 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.94%) Debian
7 2 (1.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Software Engineering
2 29 (28.16%) Agile
3 26 (25.24%) DevOps
4 24 (23.30%) CI/CD
5 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (20.39%) AI
7 15 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (14.56%) Scrum
8 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (12.62%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
10 12 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (10.68%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.71%) DevSecOps
13 8 (7.77%) Validation
14 7 (6.80%) Machine Learning
14 7 (6.80%) Unit Testing
15 6 (5.83%) Kanban
15 6 (5.83%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (42.72%) Java
2 38 (36.89%) Bash
3 28 (27.18%) JavaScript
4 17 (16.50%) PowerShell
5 16 (15.53%) C
5 16 (15.53%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.65%) C++
7 11 (10.68%) Go
7 11 (10.68%) SQL
8 6 (5.83%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.88%) C#
10 3 (2.91%) Elixir
10 3 (2.91%) Erlang
10 3 (2.91%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (2.91%) Groovy
10 3 (2.91%) MATLAB
10 3 (2.91%) Tcl
10 3 (2.91%) VBScript
11 2 (1.94%) R
11 2 (1.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 65 (63.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (41.75%) DV Cleared
3 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.71%) Degree
5 8 (7.77%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.91%) CITP
6 3 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.91%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (18.45%) Docker
2 6 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.83%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (33.01%) Kubernetes
2 25 (24.27%) Ansible
3 18 (17.48%) Terraform
4 9 (8.74%) Grafana
5 8 (7.77%) Kibana
6 5 (4.85%) Argo
6 5 (4.85%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.85%) Rancher
6 5 (4.85%) yum
7 4 (3.88%) logstash
7 4 (3.88%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (3.88%) Puppet
7 4 (3.88%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.94%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.94%) Nagios
8 2 (1.94%) NetBackup
8 2 (1.94%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.97%) Nessus
9 1 (0.97%) Podman
9 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) Red Hat
3 8 (7.77%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.83%) Google
4 6 (5.83%) Oracle
5 4 (3.88%) McAfee
5 4 (3.88%) SAP
5 4 (3.88%) VMware
6 3 (2.91%) Cisco
7 2 (1.94%) Dell
7 2 (1.94%) HP
7 2 (1.94%) Juniper
7 2 (1.94%) Splunk
7 2 (1.94%) Veeam
8 1 (0.97%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.97%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.97%) SaltStack