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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 202 90 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 9.93% 14.95% 13.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.72% 48.13% 40.09%
Number of salaries quoted 92 41 118
10th Percentile £43,525 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £78,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £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 376 187 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.48% 31.06% 33.78%
Number of salaries quoted 251 92 291
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,275 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,625 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,625 £82,500
South West median annual salary £57,423 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.38% -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 8 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 8 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 -5 91 £61,250 +2.08% 32
Gloucester +4 74 £60,000 +11.63% 41
Filton +3 4 £40,000 - 2
Tewkesbury -9 3 £44,000 -28.16% 1
Cirencester -1 1 £62,500 +13.64% 5
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 31 (15.35%) Apache
2 11 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.48%) Confluence
4 4 (1.98%) JBoss
5 3 (1.49%) nginx
5 3 (1.49%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 14 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 76 (37.62%) AWS
2 53 (26.24%) Azure
3 19 (9.41%) Azure AI
4 18 (8.91%) GCP
5 16 (7.92%) OpenShift
6 15 (7.43%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.94%) Serverless
8 11 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.46%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
15 3 (1.49%) Datadog
16 2 (0.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.43%) LAN
1 15 (7.43%) WAN
2 13 (6.44%) Firewall
3 11 (5.45%) VLAN
4 10 (4.95%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (4.95%) Cisco Firepower
4 10 (4.95%) Unified Communications
4 10 (4.95%) WebEx
5 8 (3.96%) DNS
6 6 (2.97%) DHCP
6 6 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.48%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.98%) IPv4
9 3 (1.49%) BGP
9 3 (1.49%) OSPF
9 3 (1.49%) SSL
9 3 (1.49%) VPN
9 3 (1.49%) Wireless
10 2 (0.99%) AMQP
10 2 (0.99%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.40%) Elasticsearch
2 19 (9.41%) MongoDB
3 15 (7.43%) Power BI
4 14 (6.93%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.93%) Tableau
5 9 (4.46%) Big Data
5 9 (4.46%) Hadoop
5 9 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.97%) InfluxDB
7 4 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.98%) MySQL
8 2 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.50%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.50%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 40 (19.80%) Git
2 32 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 30 (14.85%) GitLab
4 11 (5.45%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.46%) JIRA
5 9 (4.46%) SonarQube
6 8 (3.96%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.96%) Subversion
7 7 (3.47%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.47%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.47%) Selenium
7 7 (3.47%) TestRail
8 3 (1.49%) MLflow
9 2 (0.99%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.50%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.50%) Maven
10 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.84%) Finance
3 23 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Aerospace
4 14 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.94%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.95%) Banking
6 10 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.95%) Marketing
6 10 (4.95%) Retail
7 5 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Electronics
9 3 (1.49%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (22.77%) Software Engineer
2 25 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (11.88%) Data Engineer
4 22 (10.89%) Senior
5 21 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.40%) Python Engineer
6 18 (8.91%) Lead
7 15 (7.43%) Analyst
7 15 (7.43%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.93%) Developer
9 13 (6.44%) Junior
9 13 (6.44%) Junior Analyst
9 13 (6.44%) Junior Data Analyst
10 11 (5.45%) Data Scientist
11 10 (4.95%) Test Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (3.96%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (3.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.47%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.47%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.41%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (8.91%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (7.43%) Spring
3 15 (7.43%) Spring Boot
4 14 (6.93%) Kafka
5 10 (4.95%) XMPP
6 9 (4.46%) Keycloak
7 8 (3.96%) Node.js
8 7 (3.47%) OAuth
8 7 (3.47%) OpenID
8 7 (3.47%) Playwright
8 7 (3.47%) pytest
8 7 (3.47%) React
8 7 (3.47%) Vue
9 5 (2.48%) HTML
10 4 (1.98%) boto
10 4 (1.98%) CSS
10 4 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.98%) REST
10 4 (1.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.95%) FlexPod
4 10 (4.95%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.47%) Replication
6 5 (2.48%) Social Media
7 4 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.98%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (1.49%) CUDA
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Fat Client
8 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.49%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.99%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 69 (34.16%) Linux
2 38 (18.81%) Windows
3 16 (7.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.45%) CentOS
5 6 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.98%) Unix
7 3 (1.49%) Android
8 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.99%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.99%) Debian
8 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.50%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.50%) Rocky
9 1 (0.50%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.13%) CI/CD
2 71 (35.15%) DevOps
3 70 (34.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (32.18%) Software Engineering
5 60 (29.70%) Agile
6 58 (28.71%) AI
7 48 (23.76%) Containerisation
8 40 (19.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 34 (16.83%) Test Automation
10 30 (14.85%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (14.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 28 (13.86%) Data Science
13 27 (13.37%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (12.87%) Analytics
15 25 (12.38%) Collaborative Culture
15 25 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (10.89%) Scrum
17 19 (9.41%) ETL
18 18 (8.91%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 81 (40.10%) Java
2 44 (21.78%) C++
3 43 (21.29%) Bash
4 33 (16.34%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.36%) SQL
6 21 (10.40%) Go
6 21 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.43%) C
7 15 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.93%) Rust
9 8 (3.96%) Groovy
9 8 (3.96%) Scala
10 6 (2.97%) C#
11 3 (1.49%) GLSL
11 3 (1.49%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 134 (66.34%) Security Cleared
2 89 (44.06%) DV Cleared
3 35 (17.33%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.38%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.44%) Degree
6 6 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.98%) CCNA
7 4 (1.98%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.98%) OSCP
7 4 (1.98%) PhD
7 4 (1.98%) RHCE
7 4 (1.98%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.99%) CCNP
9 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.94%) QA
2 10 (4.95%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 48 (23.76%) Docker
2 22 (10.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.45%) vSphere
4 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 7 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.47%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (2.97%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.48%) Firmware
6 5 (2.48%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.48%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.98%) Squid
8 3 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.50%) KVM
Systems Management
1 75 (37.13%) Ansible
2 64 (31.68%) Terraform
3 61 (30.20%) Kubernetes
4 31 (15.35%) Grafana
5 14 (6.93%) Kibana
5 14 (6.93%) logstash
5 14 (6.93%) Puppet
6 10 (4.95%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (4.46%) Argo
8 8 (3.96%) Packer
8 8 (3.96%) Rancher
9 7 (3.47%) Prometheus
9 7 (3.47%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.97%) yum
11 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.49%) Istio
12 3 (1.49%) Nagios
12 3 (1.49%) SCCM
12 3 (1.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.39%) Splunk
3 22 (10.89%) VMware
4 18 (8.91%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.43%) Cisco
6 13 (6.44%) Fortinet
7 10 (4.95%) Atlassian
7 10 (4.95%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.47%) NetApp
9 6 (2.97%) Oracle
10 3 (1.49%) Google
10 3 (1.49%) Juniper
10 3 (1.49%) New Relic
10 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.99%) Infoblox
11 2 (0.99%) Meraki
11 2 (0.99%) Netskope
11 2 (0.99%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.99%) Veeam