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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 217 64 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.09% 11.72% 12.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.43% 39.02% 37.02%
Number of salaries quoted 105 37 79
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -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 439 164 362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.39% 30.04% 32.97%
Number of salaries quoted 310 93 210
10th Percentile £43,750 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -8.70% -3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,125
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 September 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 17 September 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 +4 100 £60,000 +14.29% 66
Cheltenham -5 73 £71,250 +18.75% 70
Cirencester +2 6 £85,000 +54.55% 11
Filton +6 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -15 3 £62,500 -10.71% 2
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 35 (16.13%) Apache
2 12 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.30%) Confluence
3 5 (2.30%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.84%) JBoss
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) Kinematics
Applications
1 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.94%) AWS
2 59 (27.19%) Azure
3 23 (10.60%) OpenShift
4 22 (10.14%) GCP
5 13 (5.99%) Azure AI
5 13 (5.99%) Serverless
6 12 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (5.07%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (4.61%) Power Platform
9 8 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.84%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.84%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.38%) Azure AKS
13 3 (1.38%) Datadog
13 3 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.99%) LAN
1 13 (5.99%) WAN
2 9 (4.15%) Firewall
3 8 (3.69%) DNS
4 7 (3.23%) VLAN
5 6 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (2.76%) Unified Communications
5 6 (2.76%) WebEx
6 5 (2.30%) BGP
6 5 (2.30%) OSPF
6 5 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.30%) VPN
6 5 (2.30%) Wireless
7 4 (1.84%) AMQP
7 4 (1.84%) DHCP
7 4 (1.84%) IPv4
7 4 (1.84%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.84%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.98%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (8.76%) MongoDB
3 15 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.53%) Big Data
5 12 (5.53%) Hadoop
6 10 (4.61%) Power BI
7 7 (3.23%) Tableau
8 6 (2.76%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.76%) MySQL
9 5 (2.30%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 43 (19.82%) Git
2 35 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 32 (14.75%) GitLab
4 13 (5.99%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.61%) JIRA
5 10 (4.61%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.15%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.15%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.15%) Subversion
7 8 (3.69%) TestRail
8 7 (3.23%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.23%) Selenium
9 6 (2.76%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.92%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.92%) MLflow
10 2 (0.92%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.46%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.46%) Mocha
11 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (20.28%) Finance
2 36 (16.59%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.91%) Aerospace
5 10 (4.61%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.15%) Electronics
7 8 (3.69%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.76%) Banking
9 6 (2.76%) Marketing
9 6 (2.76%) Retail
10 4 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.38%) Games
12 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (24.88%) Software Engineer
2 29 (13.36%) Python Engineer
3 28 (12.90%) Data Engineer
3 28 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 24 (11.06%) Senior
5 19 (8.76%) Lead
6 17 (7.83%) Test Engineer
7 16 (7.37%) Developer
8 13 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Azure Data Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Kafka Engineer
9 11 (5.07%) Python Data Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Analyst
10 10 (4.61%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (4.61%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.61%) Python Software Engineer
11 9 (4.15%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (35.94%) Terraform
2 22 (10.14%) Spring
2 22 (10.14%) Spring Boot
3 21 (9.68%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (8.76%) Apache NiFi
5 18 (8.29%) Kafka
6 14 (6.45%) Keycloak
7 11 (5.07%) React
8 8 (3.69%) Node.js
8 8 (3.69%) Playwright
8 8 (3.69%) Vue
9 7 (3.23%) pytest
9 7 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (3.23%) REST
10 6 (2.76%) OpenAPI
10 6 (2.76%) XMPP
11 5 (2.30%) RESTful
11 5 (2.30%) Swagger
12 4 (1.84%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.84%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.06%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.15%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.76%) FlexPod
5 6 (2.76%) FPGA
5 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.76%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.30%) Social Media
7 4 (1.84%) 3D Printing
7 4 (1.84%) Arduino
7 4 (1.84%) CMDB
7 4 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.84%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.84%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.84%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 70 (32.26%) Linux
2 33 (15.21%) Windows
3 13 (5.99%) CentOS
4 12 (5.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.30%) Unix
7 4 (1.84%) Debian
7 4 (1.84%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.38%) Android
9 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.92%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.92%) Rocky
9 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (41.47%) DevOps
2 88 (40.55%) CI/CD
3 83 (38.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (35.94%) Software Engineering
5 67 (30.88%) Agile
6 61 (28.11%) Containerisation
7 51 (23.50%) AI
8 42 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (18.89%) Test Automation
10 33 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
10 33 (15.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 31 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (13.36%) Analytics
13 28 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (11.98%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (11.52%) Scrum
16 24 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (11.06%) ETL
17 23 (10.60%) Decision-Making
17 23 (10.60%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 94 (43.32%) Java
2 49 (22.58%) Bash
2 49 (22.58%) C++
3 36 (16.59%) JavaScript
4 30 (13.82%) Go
5 27 (12.44%) SQL
6 20 (9.22%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.29%) C
7 18 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.45%) Rust
9 7 (3.23%) C#
9 7 (3.23%) Groovy
9 7 (3.23%) Scala
10 3 (1.38%) GLSL
10 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.92%) VB
12 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 149 (68.66%) Security Cleared
2 91 (41.94%) DV Cleared
3 47 (21.66%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.06%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.69%) Degree
6 6 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.84%) CCNA
8 4 (1.84%) CCNP
8 4 (1.84%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.84%) OSCP
8 4 (1.84%) RHCE
8 4 (1.84%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.92%) HNC
9 2 (0.92%) HND
10 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.83%) QA
2 11 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (23.96%) Docker
2 17 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.61%) Firmware
4 7 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.23%) vSphere
5 6 (2.76%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.30%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.84%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.84%) Squid
8 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.46%) KVM
Systems Management
1 88 (40.55%) Ansible
2 73 (33.64%) Kubernetes
3 30 (13.82%) Grafana
4 20 (9.22%) Puppet
5 15 (6.91%) Kibana
5 15 (6.91%) logstash
6 11 (5.07%) Argo
7 10 (4.61%) Rancher
8 9 (4.15%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.69%) Packer
10 7 (3.23%) vCenter Server
10 7 (3.23%) yum
11 6 (2.76%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (2.30%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.84%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.84%) Istio
13 4 (1.84%) linkerd
13 4 (1.84%) Mesos
14 3 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.76%) Splunk
4 17 (7.83%) VMware
5 12 (5.53%) Cisco
6 11 (5.07%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.61%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.30%) Google
9 5 (2.30%) Oracle
9 5 (2.30%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.84%) Avaya
10 4 (1.84%) EMC
10 4 (1.84%) F5
10 4 (1.84%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.84%) Meraki
10 4 (1.84%) Netskope
10 4 (1.84%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.38%) New Relic