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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 155 86 314
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 13.00% 21.45% 18.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.79% 62.77% 43.37%
Number of salaries quoted 72 48 220
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,625 £81,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 243 137 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.39% 34.16% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 142 76 588
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 April 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 April 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 87 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Gloucester -3 45 £75,000 +15.38% 17
Tewkesbury -5 4 £48,250 -3.50%
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 16 (10.32%) Apache
2 5 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.81%) AWS
2 60 (38.71%) Azure
3 25 (16.13%) Azure AI
4 21 (13.55%) Power Platform
5 14 (9.03%) GCP
6 10 (6.45%) OpenShift
7 8 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (3.87%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.58%) Serverless
10 3 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.29%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Fargate
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.65%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.65%) Dagster
12 1 (0.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) Firewall
1 10 (6.45%) LAN
1 10 (6.45%) WAN
2 9 (5.81%) DNS
2 9 (5.81%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.16%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (5.16%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (5.16%) DHCP
3 8 (5.16%) Unified Communications
3 8 (5.16%) VLAN
3 8 (5.16%) WebEx
4 2 (1.29%) VSAN
5 1 (0.65%) AMQP
5 1 (0.65%) HTTP
5 1 (0.65%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.84%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (13.55%) Power BI
2 21 (13.55%) Tableau
3 12 (7.74%) MongoDB
4 8 (5.16%) Neo4j
5 6 (3.87%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.23%) Big Data
6 5 (3.23%) InfluxDB
6 5 (3.23%) MySQL
6 5 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.65%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.65%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (16.13%) Git
2 20 (12.90%) GitLab
3 18 (11.61%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.45%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.16%) Cypress.io
6 7 (4.52%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.52%) Subversion
7 6 (3.87%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.23%) JUnit
9 4 (2.58%) JIRA
9 4 (2.58%) Robot Framework
9 4 (2.58%) Selenium
9 4 (2.58%) TestRail
10 3 (1.94%) Balsamiq
11 2 (1.29%) IDA Disassembler
11 2 (1.29%) MLflow
12 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.65%) GoogleTest
12 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
3 15 (9.68%) Aerospace
4 14 (9.03%) Finance
5 13 (8.39%) Marketing
6 12 (7.74%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.16%) Banking
7 8 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (5.16%) Retail
8 5 (3.23%) Electronics
9 4 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.58%) Military
10 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (27.10%) Software Engineer
2 21 (13.55%) Analyst
2 21 (13.55%) Data Analyst
3 20 (12.90%) Junior
3 20 (12.90%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (12.90%) Junior Data Analyst
4 18 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (10.97%) Senior
6 11 (7.10%) Developer
7 10 (6.45%) Data Scientist
8 9 (5.81%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Collaboration Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.03%) React
2 12 (7.74%) Apache NiFi
2 12 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.16%) MERN Stack
4 8 (5.16%) Node.js
4 8 (5.16%) XMPP
5 7 (4.52%) Vue
6 5 (3.23%) HTML
6 5 (3.23%) Middleware
7 4 (2.58%) Kafka
7 4 (2.58%) OAuth
7 4 (2.58%) OpenID
7 4 (2.58%) Playwright
7 4 (2.58%) pytest
7 4 (2.58%) RESTful
7 4 (2.58%) ZeroMQ
8 3 (1.94%) Bootstrap
8 3 (1.94%) Flask
8 3 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (5.16%) FlexPod
2 8 (5.16%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.16%) Video Conferencing
3 7 (4.52%) Replication
4 5 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.94%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.29%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.29%) Clustering
6 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.29%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.29%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) Arduino
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 55 (35.48%) Linux
2 20 (12.90%) Windows
3 11 (7.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.52%) CentOS
5 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.29%) Unix
6 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.65%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.65%) Debian
7 1 (0.65%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.65%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.19%) Software Engineering
2 50 (32.26%) AI
3 38 (24.52%) CI/CD
3 38 (24.52%) DevOps
4 36 (23.23%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (22.58%) Agile
6 29 (18.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (17.42%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (16.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
9 20 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 20 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (11.61%) Data Science
11 15 (9.68%) Machine Learning
11 15 (9.68%) Scrum
12 13 (8.39%) Software Testing
13 12 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.74%) Data Management
13 12 (7.74%) SDLC
13 12 (7.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (34.19%) Java
2 42 (27.10%) Bash
3 35 (22.58%) JavaScript
4 26 (16.77%) SQL
5 24 (15.48%) C++
6 20 (12.90%) PowerShell
7 17 (10.97%) C
7 17 (10.97%) TypeScript
8 16 (10.32%) Go
9 6 (3.87%) C#
9 6 (3.87%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.87%) Rust
10 4 (2.58%) Groovy
10 4 (2.58%) Scala
11 3 (1.94%) Elixir
11 3 (1.94%) Erlang
11 3 (1.94%) VBScript
12 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 89 (57.42%) Security Cleared
2 60 (38.71%) DV Cleared
3 25 (16.13%) Azure Certification
4 20 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.32%) Degree
6 4 (2.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.58%) PhD
7 3 (1.94%) CITP
7 3 (1.94%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) 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 (20.00%) Docker
2 12 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (3.23%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (3.23%) vSphere
4 4 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.94%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.65%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 47 (30.32%) Kubernetes
2 40 (25.81%) Ansible
3 30 (19.35%) Terraform
4 25 (16.13%) Grafana
5 11 (7.10%) Kibana
6 10 (6.45%) logstash
7 8 (5.16%) Argo
7 8 (5.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (5.16%) Rancher
8 7 (4.52%) Prometheus
8 7 (4.52%) yum
9 5 (3.23%) Puppet
10 4 (2.58%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.94%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.29%) Data Guard
12 2 (1.29%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (1.29%) Nagios
12 2 (1.29%) SCCM
12 2 (1.29%) SCOM
12 2 (1.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 34 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.39%) Splunk
3 12 (7.74%) VMware
4 11 (7.10%) Cisco
5 8 (5.16%) Atlassian
5 8 (5.16%) Fortinet
5 8 (5.16%) Palo Alto
5 8 (5.16%) Red Hat
6 5 (3.23%) NetApp
7 4 (2.58%) Google
7 4 (2.58%) Oracle
7 4 (2.58%) SAP
8 3 (1.94%) Dell
8 3 (1.94%) HP
8 3 (1.94%) Juniper
8 3 (1.94%) Veeam
9 2 (1.29%) McAfee
10 1 (0.65%) SaltStack