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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 212 71 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 10.02% 12.41% 13.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.00% 41.76% 39.95%
Number of salaries quoted 99 42 119
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £51,250 £48,177
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +6.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,688 £78,125
90th Percentile £93,250 £87,375 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 400 170 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.91% 29.72% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 271 95 287
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,350 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 August 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 August 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 89 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Gloucester +4 81 £60,000 +9.09% 33
Filton +3 4 £40,000 -
Cirencester +2 4 £85,000 +54.55% 1
Tewkesbury -9 4 £53,250 -18.08%
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 32 (15.09%) Apache
2 13 (6.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.36%) Confluence
4 4 (1.89%) JBoss
4 4 (1.89%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.42%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) Kinematics
Applications
1 13 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 79 (37.26%) AWS
2 54 (25.47%) Azure
3 20 (9.43%) OpenShift
4 18 (8.49%) Azure AI
4 18 (8.49%) GCP
5 14 (6.60%) Power Platform
6 13 (6.13%) Serverless
7 12 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.25%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.25%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.89%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
12 3 (1.42%) Datadog
13 2 (0.94%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.60%) LAN
1 14 (6.60%) WAN
2 12 (5.66%) Firewall
3 10 (4.72%) VLAN
4 9 (4.25%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (4.25%) Cisco Firepower
4 9 (4.25%) Unified Communications
4 9 (4.25%) WebEx
5 8 (3.77%) DNS
6 6 (2.83%) DHCP
6 6 (2.83%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.89%) IPv4
9 3 (1.42%) AMQP
9 3 (1.42%) BGP
9 3 (1.42%) OSPF
9 3 (1.42%) SSL
9 3 (1.42%) VPN
9 3 (1.42%) Wireless
10 2 (0.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.85%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (8.96%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 14 (6.60%) Power BI
4 13 (6.13%) Tableau
5 11 (5.19%) Big Data
5 11 (5.19%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.83%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.36%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.36%) MySQL
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.94%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.47%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (18.87%) Git
2 33 (15.57%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.62%) GitLab
4 12 (5.66%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.72%) JIRA
6 9 (4.25%) Cypress.io
6 9 (4.25%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.77%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.77%) TestRail
8 7 (3.30%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.30%) Selenium
8 7 (3.30%) Subversion
9 3 (1.42%) MLflow
10 2 (0.94%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.94%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.94%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.47%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.47%) Maven
11 1 (0.47%) Mocha
11 1 (0.47%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (18.40%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.98%) Finance
3 25 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.60%) Aerospace
5 13 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.19%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.25%) Banking
7 9 (4.25%) Marketing
7 9 (4.25%) Retail
8 6 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.36%) Electronics
9 5 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.42%) Games
11 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (24.06%) Software Engineer
2 26 (12.26%) Data Engineer
3 24 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (11.32%) Python Engineer
4 21 (9.91%) Senior
5 20 (9.43%) Lead
6 16 (7.55%) Developer
7 14 (6.60%) Analyst
7 14 (6.60%) Data Analyst
8 12 (5.66%) Junior
8 12 (5.66%) Junior Analyst
8 12 (5.66%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (5.66%) Test Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (4.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.72%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (3.30%) Data Scientist
11 7 (3.30%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (8.96%) Spring
1 19 (8.96%) Spring Boot
2 18 (8.49%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (7.08%) Kafka
4 10 (4.72%) Keycloak
4 10 (4.72%) Node.js
4 10 (4.72%) React
5 9 (4.25%) XMPP
6 8 (3.77%) Playwright
7 7 (3.30%) OAuth
7 7 (3.30%) OpenID
7 7 (3.30%) pytest
7 7 (3.30%) Vue
8 6 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.83%) REST
9 5 (2.36%) HTML
9 5 (2.36%) OpenAPI
10 4 (1.89%) CSS
10 4 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.91%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.25%) FlexPod
4 9 (4.25%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.30%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.83%) Replication
8 5 (2.36%) Social Media
9 4 (1.89%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.89%) FPGA
9 4 (1.89%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) 3D Graphics
10 3 (1.42%) CUDA
10 3 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.42%) Fat Client
10 3 (1.42%) PKI
10 3 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 70 (33.02%) Linux
2 37 (17.45%) Windows
3 15 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.66%) CentOS
5 7 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.89%) Unix
7 3 (1.42%) Android
7 3 (1.42%) Debian
7 3 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.94%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
9 1 (0.47%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.68%) CI/CD
2 78 (36.79%) DevOps
3 75 (35.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (34.91%) Software Engineering
5 62 (29.25%) Agile
6 58 (27.36%) AI
7 55 (25.94%) Containerisation
8 40 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (17.92%) Test Automation
10 31 (14.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 29 (13.68%) Analytics
11 29 (13.68%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (11.79%) Collaborative Culture
14 25 (11.79%) Data Science
15 22 (10.38%) Scrum
16 21 (9.91%) ETL
17 19 (8.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 88 (41.51%) Java
2 47 (22.17%) C++
3 45 (21.23%) Bash
4 37 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.68%) SQL
6 22 (10.38%) Go
6 22 (10.38%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.49%) TypeScript
8 17 (8.02%) C
9 14 (6.60%) Rust
10 9 (4.25%) Scala
11 8 (3.77%) Groovy
12 7 (3.30%) C#
13 3 (1.42%) GLSL
13 3 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.47%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 141 (66.51%) Security Cleared
2 89 (41.98%) DV Cleared
3 41 (19.34%) SC Cleared
4 25 (11.79%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.72%) Degree
6 6 (2.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.89%) CCNA
8 4 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.89%) OSCP
8 4 (1.89%) RHCE
8 4 (1.89%) RHCSA
9 3 (1.42%) PhD
10 2 (0.94%) CCNP
11 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.66%) QA
2 11 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 52 (24.53%) Docker
2 21 (9.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.72%) vSphere
4 7 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.83%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.83%) Firmware
5 6 (2.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (2.83%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (2.36%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.36%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.89%) Squid
8 3 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 81 (38.21%) Ansible
2 70 (33.02%) Terraform
3 67 (31.60%) Kubernetes
4 29 (13.68%) Grafana
5 16 (7.55%) Puppet
6 14 (6.60%) Kibana
6 14 (6.60%) logstash
7 9 (4.25%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (3.77%) Packer
9 7 (3.30%) Argo
9 7 (3.30%) Rancher
9 7 (3.30%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.83%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.36%) yum
11 5 (2.36%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.42%) Kubeflow
12 3 (1.42%) Nagios
12 3 (1.42%) SCCM
12 3 (1.42%) SCOM
12 3 (1.42%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 33 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.38%) Splunk
3 21 (9.91%) VMware
4 19 (8.96%) Red Hat
5 14 (6.60%) Cisco
6 12 (5.66%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.72%) Atlassian
8 9 (4.25%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.83%) NetApp
9 6 (2.83%) Oracle
10 4 (1.89%) Google
11 3 (1.42%) Juniper
11 3 (1.42%) New Relic
11 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.42%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.94%) F5
12 2 (0.94%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.94%) Meraki
12 2 (0.94%) Netskope
12 2 (0.94%) ServiceNow