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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 178 89 238
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.88% 15.81% 15.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.78% 47.34% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 83 40 181
10th Percentile £43,550 £43,850 £44,000
25th Percentile £46,939 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% +2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,313 £76,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,250 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

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 331 188 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.37% 33.39% 38.36%
Number of salaries quoted 224 94 476
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,325 £31,875
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -7.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,375 £69,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,375 £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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -4 80 £60,000 - 15
Gloucester 0 58 £75,000 +25.00% 21
Filton +4 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -7 2 £44,000 -12.00%
Cirencester -4 1 £62,500 +13.64%
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 20 (11.24%) Apache
2 7 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.81%) Confluence
4 3 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.08%) AWS
2 52 (29.21%) Azure
3 21 (11.80%) Azure AI
4 18 (10.11%) GCP
5 17 (9.55%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.30%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.74%) Serverless
8 11 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.06%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (2.25%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.69%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (1.12%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) Firewall
1 11 (6.18%) LAN
1 11 (6.18%) WAN
2 9 (5.06%) Cisco ASA
2 9 (5.06%) Cisco Firepower
2 9 (5.06%) Unified Communications
2 9 (5.06%) VLAN
2 9 (5.06%) WebEx
3 5 (2.81%) DHCP
3 5 (2.81%) DNS
3 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.25%) IPv4
4 4 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.12%) AMQP
5 2 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.48%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (10.11%) MongoDB
3 17 (9.55%) Power BI
4 16 (8.99%) Tableau
5 13 (7.30%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.37%) Big Data
7 6 (3.37%) InfluxDB
8 5 (2.81%) Hadoop
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.25%) MySQL
10 2 (1.12%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.12%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (17.98%) Git
2 29 (16.29%) GitLab
2 29 (16.29%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.06%) Cucumber
3 9 (5.06%) SonarQube
4 8 (4.49%) Bitbucket
4 8 (4.49%) JIRA
5 7 (3.93%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.37%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.37%) Selenium
6 6 (3.37%) Subversion
6 6 (3.37%) TestRail
7 3 (1.69%) MLflow
8 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.56%) GoogleTest
8 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (17.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.36%) Finance
3 16 (8.99%) Aerospace
3 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.06%) Banking
6 9 (5.06%) Marketing
6 9 (5.06%) Retail
6 9 (5.06%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.69%) Games
9 2 (1.12%) Electronics
9 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (23.60%) Software Engineer
2 23 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (12.36%) Senior
4 17 (9.55%) Analyst
4 17 (9.55%) Data Analyst
4 17 (9.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (8.99%) Data Engineer
5 16 (8.99%) Python Engineer
6 15 (8.43%) Junior
6 15 (8.43%) Junior Analyst
6 15 (8.43%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (8.43%) Lead
7 13 (7.30%) Developer
8 11 (6.18%) Data Scientist
9 9 (5.06%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (3.37%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.67%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (8.43%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (6.18%) Spring
3 11 (6.18%) Spring Boot
4 10 (5.62%) Kafka
4 10 (5.62%) Node.js
5 9 (5.06%) XMPP
6 8 (4.49%) React
6 8 (4.49%) Vue
7 7 (3.93%) pytest
8 6 (3.37%) Playwright
9 5 (2.81%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.25%) boto
10 4 (2.25%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.25%) OAuth
10 4 (2.25%) OpenID
10 4 (2.25%) RESTful
11 3 (1.69%) PyTorch
11 3 (1.69%) TensorFlow
11 3 (1.69%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.06%) FlexPod
3 9 (5.06%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.06%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.37%) Replication
6 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.69%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.69%) CUDA
7 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.69%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Analogue Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 59 (33.15%) Linux
2 33 (18.54%) Windows
3 15 (8.43%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.62%) CentOS
5 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.25%) Unix
6 2 (1.12%) CoreOS
6 2 (1.12%) Debian
6 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.56%) Rocky
7 1 (0.56%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (34.83%) CI/CD
2 58 (32.58%) DevOps
3 57 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (31.46%) AI
5 55 (30.90%) Software Engineering
6 50 (28.09%) Agile
7 38 (21.35%) Containerisation
8 36 (20.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 30 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (14.61%) Collaborative Culture
11 25 (14.04%) Test Automation
12 24 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 23 (12.92%) Data Science
13 23 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (12.92%) Scrum
14 21 (11.80%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (10.67%) Data Pipeline
16 18 (10.11%) Analytics
17 16 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (8.99%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.76%) Java
2 42 (23.60%) Bash
3 37 (20.79%) C++
4 28 (15.73%) JavaScript
5 26 (14.61%) SQL
6 20 (11.24%) PowerShell
7 19 (10.67%) Go
8 14 (7.87%) C
9 13 (7.30%) TypeScript
10 9 (5.06%) Rust
11 6 (3.37%) Groovy
12 5 (2.81%) Scala
13 3 (1.69%) C#
13 3 (1.69%) GLSL
14 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 117 (65.73%) Security Cleared
2 78 (43.82%) DV Cleared
3 36 (20.22%) SC Cleared
4 25 (14.04%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.30%) Degree
6 6 (3.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.25%) CCNA
7 4 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.25%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.25%) OSCP
7 4 (2.25%) PhD
7 4 (2.25%) RHCE
7 4 (2.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 6 (3.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 40 (22.47%) Docker
2 18 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.62%) vSphere
4 6 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.37%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (2.25%) Squid
5 4 (2.25%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.12%) Firmware
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 63 (35.39%) Ansible
2 56 (31.46%) Kubernetes
3 55 (30.90%) Terraform
4 29 (16.29%) Grafana
5 14 (7.87%) Kibana
5 14 (7.87%) logstash
6 12 (6.74%) Puppet
7 9 (5.06%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (4.49%) Argo
8 8 (4.49%) Packer
8 8 (4.49%) Rancher
9 6 (3.37%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.37%) vCenter Server
9 6 (3.37%) yum
10 4 (2.25%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.69%) Kubeflow
11 3 (1.69%) SCCM
11 3 (1.69%) SCOM
11 3 (1.69%) SCOrch
12 2 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 34 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.67%) Splunk
3 18 (10.11%) VMware
4 15 (8.43%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.62%) Cisco
6 9 (5.06%) Fortinet
6 9 (5.06%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.49%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.37%) NetApp
9 5 (2.81%) Oracle
10 3 (1.69%) Google
11 2 (1.12%) McAfee
11 2 (1.12%) SaltStack
12 1 (0.56%) Dell
12 1 (0.56%) HP
12 1 (0.56%) Juniper
12 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.56%) Veeam