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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -10
Permanent jobs citing Python 219 59 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.93% 10.75% 12.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.34% 37.82% 37.18%
Number of salaries quoted 106 37 68
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,375 £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 453 156 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.47% 28.42% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 320 91 187
10th Percentile £45,000 £27,500 £35,450
25th Percentile £58,438 £41,625 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,125 £71,875
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £81,500
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 26 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 26 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 +2 103 £62,500 +19.05% 66
Cheltenham -2 71 £75,000 +25.00% 76
Cirencester +3 7 £85,000 +54.55% 1
Filton +6 4 £40,000 - 3
Tewkesbury -17 3 £62,500 -10.71% 1
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 34 (15.53%) Apache
2 11 (5.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.28%) Confluence
3 5 (2.28%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.83%) JBoss
5 3 (1.37%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) Kinematics
Applications
1 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 76 (34.70%) AWS
2 56 (25.57%) Azure
3 23 (10.50%) OpenShift
4 21 (9.59%) GCP
5 13 (5.94%) Serverless
6 12 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (5.02%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (4.57%) Azure AI
9 8 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.65%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (1.37%) Azure AKS
12 3 (1.37%) Datadog
12 3 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.94%) LAN
1 13 (5.94%) WAN
2 10 (4.57%) Firewall
3 8 (3.65%) DNS
4 7 (3.20%) VLAN
5 6 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.74%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (2.74%) Unified Communications
5 6 (2.74%) WebEx
6 5 (2.28%) BGP
6 5 (2.28%) OSPF
6 5 (2.28%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.28%) VPN
6 5 (2.28%) Wireless
7 4 (1.83%) AMQP
7 4 (1.83%) DHCP
7 4 (1.83%) IPv4
7 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.83%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.87%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (8.22%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.94%) NoSQL
5 12 (5.48%) Big Data
5 12 (5.48%) Hadoop
6 8 (3.65%) Power BI
7 7 (3.20%) MySQL
8 6 (2.74%) InfluxDB
9 5 (2.28%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.28%) Tableau
10 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.83%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.46%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.46%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 46 (21.00%) Git
2 37 (16.89%) Jenkins
3 32 (14.61%) GitLab
4 14 (6.39%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.57%) JIRA
5 10 (4.57%) SonarQube
5 10 (4.57%) Subversion
6 9 (4.11%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.11%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.65%) TestRail
8 7 (3.20%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.20%) Selenium
9 6 (2.74%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.91%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.91%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.46%) GoogleTest
11 1 (0.46%) Maven
11 1 (0.46%) MLflow
11 1 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (21.92%) Finance
2 33 (15.07%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.85%) Aerospace
5 10 (4.57%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.11%) Electronics
7 7 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.74%) Banking
8 6 (2.74%) Marketing
8 6 (2.74%) Retail
9 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.37%) Games
11 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (23.74%) Software Engineer
2 32 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (13.70%) Python Engineer
4 28 (12.79%) Data Engineer
5 27 (12.33%) Senior
6 26 (11.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (8.68%) Lead
8 18 (8.22%) Test Engineer
9 16 (7.31%) Developer
10 14 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Azure Data Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Elasticsearch Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Kafka Engineer
11 12 (5.48%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (5.02%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (5.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.57%) Python Software Engineer
14 9 (4.11%) Network Engineer
14 9 (4.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (38.36%) Terraform
2 24 (10.96%) Spring
2 24 (10.96%) Spring Boot
3 22 (10.05%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (8.22%) Apache NiFi
4 18 (8.22%) Kafka
5 15 (6.85%) Keycloak
6 11 (5.02%) React
7 8 (3.65%) Playwright
7 8 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (3.65%) Vue
8 7 (3.20%) Node.js
8 7 (3.20%) pytest
8 7 (3.20%) REST
9 6 (2.74%) OpenAPI
9 6 (2.74%) XMPP
10 5 (2.28%) RESTful
10 5 (2.28%) Swagger
11 4 (1.83%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.83%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.74%) FlexPod
5 6 (2.74%) FPGA
5 6 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.28%) Social Media
7 4 (1.83%) 3D Printing
7 4 (1.83%) Arduino
7 4 (1.83%) CMDB
7 4 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.83%) PKI
7 4 (1.83%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.83%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (1.37%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 73 (33.33%) Linux
2 32 (14.61%) Windows
3 13 (5.94%) CentOS
4 12 (5.48%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.74%) Unix
7 4 (1.83%) Debian
7 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.37%) Android
9 2 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.91%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.91%) Rocky
9 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.46%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.47%) CI/CD
1 93 (42.47%) DevOps
2 88 (40.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 77 (35.16%) Software Engineering
4 66 (30.14%) Agile
4 66 (30.14%) Containerisation
5 47 (21.46%) AI
5 47 (21.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (19.63%) Test Automation
7 33 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 31 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
9 29 (13.24%) Collaborative Culture
10 28 (12.79%) Analytics
11 27 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (12.33%) Scrum
12 25 (11.42%) Validation
13 24 (10.96%) Decision-Making
13 24 (10.96%) ETL
13 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (45.21%) Java
2 53 (24.20%) Bash
3 49 (22.37%) C++
4 36 (16.44%) JavaScript
5 32 (14.61%) Go
6 24 (10.96%) SQL
7 21 (9.59%) PowerShell
8 18 (8.22%) TypeScript
9 16 (7.31%) C
10 14 (6.39%) Rust
11 8 (3.65%) C#
12 6 (2.74%) Groovy
12 6 (2.74%) Scala
13 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.37%) GLSL
15 2 (0.91%) VB
16 1 (0.46%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 155 (70.78%) Security Cleared
2 95 (43.38%) DV Cleared
3 47 (21.46%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.05%) Azure Certification
5 8 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.65%) Degree
6 6 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.28%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.83%) CCNA
8 4 (1.83%) CCNP
8 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.83%) OSCP
8 4 (1.83%) RHCE
8 4 (1.83%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.91%) HNC
9 2 (0.91%) HND
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.22%) QA
2 10 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (25.11%) Docker
2 18 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.57%) Firmware
4 7 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.20%) vSphere
5 6 (2.74%) Active Directory
5 6 (2.74%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.83%) Squid
7 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.46%) KVM
Systems Management
1 94 (42.92%) Ansible
2 79 (36.07%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.16%) Grafana
4 24 (10.96%) Puppet
5 15 (6.85%) Kibana
5 15 (6.85%) logstash
6 12 (5.48%) Argo
7 11 (5.02%) Rancher
8 10 (4.57%) Prometheus
9 8 (3.65%) Packer
9 8 (3.65%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.65%) yum
10 6 (2.74%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (2.28%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.83%) Istio
12 4 (1.83%) linkerd
12 4 (1.83%) Mesos
13 3 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (11.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.59%) Red Hat
3 19 (8.68%) Splunk
4 18 (8.22%) VMware
5 12 (5.48%) Cisco
6 11 (5.02%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.57%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.74%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.28%) Google
9 5 (2.28%) Oracle
9 5 (2.28%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.83%) Avaya
10 4 (1.83%) EMC
10 4 (1.83%) F5
10 4 (1.83%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.83%) Meraki
10 4 (1.83%) Netskope
10 4 (1.83%) SaltStack
10 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.37%) New Relic