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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 2
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 107 104 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 13.54% 18.57% 22.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.78% 37.55% 46.17%
Number of salaries quoted 61 50 167
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,125 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% +0.73%

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 179 277 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.66% 49.46% 49.06%
Number of salaries quoted 112 87 487
10th Percentile £36,600 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,250 £47,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,250 £78,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -1.90%

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 February 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 February 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 52 £57,500 -14.81% 20
Gloucester 0 33 £75,000 +15.38% 22
Tewkesbury +2 5 £62,500 - 4
Filton +4 3 - - 4
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 13 (12.15%) Apache
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.47%) AWS
2 43 (40.19%) Azure
3 10 (9.35%) OpenShift
4 9 (8.41%) Azure AI
4 9 (8.41%) GCP
4 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.67%) Serverless
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.80%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) DNS
1 9 (8.41%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.48%) DHCP
3 5 (4.67%) LAN
3 5 (4.67%) VSAN
3 5 (4.67%) WAN
4 4 (3.74%) Firewall
5 2 (1.87%) VLAN
6 1 (0.93%) AMQP
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.93%) ICMP
6 1 (0.93%) Internet
6 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.93%) VPN
6 1 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (10.28%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.41%) Power BI
3 9 (8.41%) Tableau
4 8 (7.48%) Neo4j
5 7 (6.54%) Big Data
6 4 (3.74%) MySQL
6 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.87%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (17.76%) Git
2 11 (10.28%) GitLab
3 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.54%) Cucumber
4 7 (6.54%) JUnit
5 6 (5.61%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.61%) Subversion
6 5 (4.67%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.80%) Balsamiq
7 3 (2.80%) JIRA
7 3 (2.80%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.87%) IDA Disassembler
9 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.93%) Selenium
9 1 (0.93%) TestRail
General
1 22 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.15%) Finance
3 12 (11.21%) Aerospace
4 9 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Electronics
6 6 (5.61%) Marketing
6 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.74%) Military
8 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Avionics
10 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (30.84%) Software Engineer
2 12 (11.21%) Senior
3 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Data Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Junior
4 9 (8.41%) Junior Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Junior Data Analyst
5 7 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Administrator
6 6 (5.61%) Developer
7 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Python Software Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Test Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Software Developer
9 3 (2.80%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.95%) React
2 10 (9.35%) AngularJS
2 10 (9.35%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (7.48%) MERN Stack
4 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (4.67%) Middleware
5 4 (3.74%) Node.js
5 4 (3.74%) Vue
5 4 (3.74%) ZeroMQ
6 3 (2.80%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.80%) HTML
6 3 (2.80%) JSF
6 3 (2.80%) Kafka
6 3 (2.80%) PrimeFaces
6 3 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.87%) Bootstrap
7 2 (1.87%) CSS
7 2 (1.87%) Flask
7 2 (1.87%) RESTful
8 1 (0.93%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.67%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (2.80%) Replication
3 2 (1.87%) Blockchain
3 2 (1.87%) Clustering
3 2 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.93%) Arduino
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.93%) FlexPod
4 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.93%) PKI
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Raspberry Pi
4 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 46 (42.99%) Linux
2 12 (11.21%) Windows
3 9 (8.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (6.54%) CentOS
6 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.80%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.87%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.87%) Debian
9 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.38%) Software Engineering
2 30 (28.04%) Agile
3 26 (24.30%) AI
3 26 (24.30%) DevOps
4 24 (22.43%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (21.50%) CI/CD
6 18 (16.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.95%) Scrum
8 15 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (13.08%) Containerisation
10 13 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.28%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (9.35%) DevSecOps
14 9 (8.41%) Machine Learning
14 9 (8.41%) Validation
15 8 (7.48%) Data Science
16 7 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
16 7 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.12%) Java
2 37 (34.58%) Bash
3 27 (25.23%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.95%) C
4 16 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 15 (14.02%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.21%) C++
6 12 (11.21%) Go
6 12 (11.21%) SQL
7 6 (5.61%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.74%) C#
9 3 (2.80%) Elixir
9 3 (2.80%) Erlang
9 3 (2.80%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (2.80%) Groovy
9 3 (2.80%) MATLAB
9 3 (2.80%) Tcl
9 3 (2.80%) VBScript
10 2 (1.87%) R
10 2 (1.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (63.55%) Security Cleared
2 46 (42.99%) DV Cleared
3 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
4 14 (13.08%) Degree
5 9 (8.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.80%) CITP
6 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.80%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.87%) PhD
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (18.69%) Docker
2 6 (5.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.61%) Hyper-V
3 5 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.87%) vSphere
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (32.71%) Kubernetes
2 25 (23.36%) Ansible
3 20 (18.69%) Terraform
4 11 (10.28%) Grafana
5 7 (6.54%) Argo
5 7 (6.54%) Kibana
6 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.61%) Rancher
6 6 (5.61%) yum
7 4 (3.74%) logstash
7 4 (3.74%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (3.74%) SCVMM
8 3 (2.80%) Puppet
9 2 (1.87%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.87%) Nagios
9 2 (1.87%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.87%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.93%) linkerd
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Red Hat
3 7 (6.54%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.61%) Google
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
5 5 (4.67%) VMware
6 4 (3.74%) Cisco
6 4 (3.74%) McAfee
6 4 (3.74%) SAP
7 3 (2.80%) Splunk
8 2 (1.87%) Dell
8 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.87%) HP
8 2 (1.87%) Juniper
8 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.87%) Veeam
9 1 (0.93%) NetApp
9 1 (0.93%) SaltStack