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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 153 80 289
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.46% 19.00% 17.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.70% 53.69% 40.93%
Number of salaries quoted 67 38 219
10th Percentile £44,500 £43,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,595 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,500 £80,250
South West median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year - +2.22% -6.25%

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 244 149 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.28% 35.39% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 142 75 585
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,750 £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 10 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 10 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 -3 87 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Gloucester -2 44 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Tewkesbury -6 4 £48,250 -3.50%
Filton +5 1 £61,500 +25.72% 3
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 (9.15%) Apache
2 5 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.96%) Confluence
4 2 (1.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.52%) AWS
2 56 (36.60%) Azure
3 27 (17.65%) Azure AI
4 22 (14.38%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.15%) GCP
6 9 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.58%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.27%) Serverless
9 4 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.31%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudTrail
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.65%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.19%) Firewall
2 10 (6.54%) LAN
2 10 (6.54%) WAN
3 9 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
3 9 (5.88%) Unified Communications
3 9 (5.88%) VLAN
3 9 (5.88%) WebEx
4 7 (4.58%) DHCP
4 7 (4.58%) DNS
4 7 (4.58%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.65%) AMQP
5 1 (0.65%) IPv4
5 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.38%) Power BI
1 22 (14.38%) Tableau
2 21 (13.73%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (7.19%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.92%) Neo4j
4 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.27%) Big Data
5 5 (3.27%) InfluxDB
6 4 (2.61%) MySQL
6 4 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.65%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (16.99%) Git
2 22 (14.38%) GitLab
3 20 (13.07%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.58%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.58%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.58%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.58%) Subversion
6 6 (3.92%) JIRA
7 5 (3.27%) JUnit
8 4 (2.61%) Robot Framework
8 4 (2.61%) Selenium
8 4 (2.61%) TestRail
9 2 (1.31%) MLflow
10 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.65%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.46%) Aerospace
2 16 (10.46%) Finance
2 16 (10.46%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.15%) Marketing
4 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.50%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.88%) Banking
5 9 (5.88%) Retail
6 8 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.92%) Electronics
8 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (24.84%) Software Engineer
2 22 (14.38%) Analyst
2 22 (14.38%) Data Analyst
3 21 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (13.73%) Junior
3 21 (13.73%) Junior Analyst
3 21 (13.73%) Junior Data Analyst
4 14 (9.15%) Developer
4 14 (9.15%) Senior
5 10 (6.54%) Data Scientist
6 8 (5.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Python Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (5.23%) Test Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Lead
8 6 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.92%) Software Developer
9 5 (3.27%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.50%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (7.84%) React
3 11 (7.19%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (5.88%) XMPP
5 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
5 8 (5.23%) Node.js
6 7 (4.58%) Vue
7 6 (3.92%) MERN Stack
8 5 (3.27%) HTML
8 5 (3.27%) Middleware
9 4 (2.61%) Kafka
9 4 (2.61%) OAuth
9 4 (2.61%) OpenID
9 4 (2.61%) Playwright
9 4 (2.61%) pytest
9 4 (2.61%) RESTful
9 4 (2.61%) ZeroMQ
10 3 (1.96%) Bootstrap
10 3 (1.96%) Flask
10 3 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.88%) FlexPod
2 9 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 9 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.58%) Replication
4 5 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.61%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.96%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.96%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.31%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.65%) Analogue Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Clustering
8 1 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.65%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 53 (34.64%) Linux
2 22 (14.38%) Windows
3 12 (7.84%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.92%) CentOS
5 3 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.96%) Unix
6 1 (0.65%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.65%) Debian
6 1 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.65%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.64%) AI
2 49 (32.03%) Software Engineering
3 41 (26.80%) CI/CD
4 39 (25.49%) DevOps
5 38 (24.84%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (22.22%) Agile
7 33 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (13.73%) Collaborative Culture
9 21 (13.73%) Containerisation
10 20 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (11.76%) Data Science
11 18 (11.76%) Scrum
12 16 (10.46%) Test Automation
13 14 (9.15%) Machine Learning
13 14 (9.15%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (8.50%) Data Management
14 13 (8.50%) Infrastructure Automation
15 12 (7.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 54 (35.29%) Java
2 41 (26.80%) Bash
3 31 (20.26%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.30%) C++
5 27 (17.65%) SQL
6 17 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 15 (9.80%) TypeScript
8 14 (9.15%) C
9 13 (8.50%) Go
10 6 (3.92%) Rust
11 4 (2.61%) Groovy
11 4 (2.61%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.61%) Scala
12 3 (1.96%) C#
12 3 (1.96%) Elixir
12 3 (1.96%) Erlang
13 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (56.21%) Security Cleared
2 58 (37.91%) DV Cleared
3 27 (17.65%) Azure Certification
4 21 (13.73%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.50%) Degree
6 4 (2.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.61%) PhD
7 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) CCNA
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) OSCP
8 1 (0.65%) RHCE
8 1 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (20.26%) Docker
2 14 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.58%) vSphere
4 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.61%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.31%) Firmware
8 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.65%) Squid
8 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 44 (28.76%) Ansible
3 33 (21.57%) Terraform
4 27 (17.65%) Grafana
5 11 (7.19%) Kibana
6 10 (6.54%) logstash
7 9 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (5.23%) Argo
8 8 (5.23%) Prometheus
8 8 (5.23%) Rancher
9 7 (4.58%) Puppet
9 7 (4.58%) yum
10 4 (2.61%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.96%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.96%) SCCM
11 3 (1.96%) SCOM
11 3 (1.96%) SCOrch
12 2 (1.31%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.65%) Podman
Vendors
1 38 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.15%) Splunk
2 14 (9.15%) VMware
3 12 (7.84%) Cisco
4 9 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 9 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 8 (5.23%) Atlassian
5 8 (5.23%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.92%) NetApp
7 4 (2.61%) Oracle
7 4 (2.61%) SAP
8 3 (1.96%) Dell
8 3 (1.96%) Google
8 3 (1.96%) HP
8 3 (1.96%) Juniper
8 3 (1.96%) Veeam
9 1 (0.65%) McAfee
9 1 (0.65%) SaltStack