Python Job Trends in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 305 393 563
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.10% 9.20% 12.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.78% 28.33% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 192 236 357
10th Percentile £28,350 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,444 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 748 1,387 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.96% 32.46% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 555 755 1,460
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,425 £71,875 £70,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Python job vacancy trend in the South West

Python
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the South West

Python
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Bristol -5 118 £55,000 -18.52% 95
Gloucestershire +16 82 £67,500 +3.85% 131
Devon -5 38 £45,000 -34.55% 95
Wiltshire -10 18 £36,000 -10.00% 52
Somerset -11 18 £73,750 +34.09% 53
Dorset -6 17 £101,250 +113.16% 46
Cornwall -18 6 £55,000 -8.33% 37
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.26%) Apache
2 10 (3.28%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (15.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.33%) Weka
3 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 137 (44.92%) Azure
2 114 (37.38%) AWS
3 56 (18.36%) Power Platform
4 51 (16.72%) GitHub
5 35 (11.48%) Azure AI
6 21 (6.89%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.56%) Serverless
8 18 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.25%) GCP
10 15 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.26%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.31%) SaaS
15 3 (0.98%) Google Workspace
15 3 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.54%) Internet
2 15 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.93%) DNS
4 11 (3.61%) WAN
5 10 (3.28%) Firewall
6 8 (2.62%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.30%) 5G
8 6 (1.97%) HTTP
8 6 (1.97%) LAN
9 5 (1.64%) DHCP
9 5 (1.64%) Network Security
9 5 (1.64%) VPN
9 5 (1.64%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.31%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.31%) SMTP
10 4 (1.31%) VSAN
10 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.98%) BGP
11 3 (0.98%) MPLS
11 3 (0.98%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.36%) Power BI
2 47 (15.41%) Tableau
3 14 (4.59%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.93%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.28%) MySQL
8 8 (2.62%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.30%) Neo4j
10 6 (1.97%) Big Data
11 4 (1.31%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.31%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.98%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.98%) Metadata
12 3 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (23.61%) Git
2 33 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.56%) GitLab
4 14 (4.59%) JUnit
5 11 (3.61%) JIRA
6 9 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.95%) LabVIEW
7 7 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.30%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.30%) Selenium
8 4 (1.31%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.31%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.31%) Postman
8 4 (1.31%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.31%) TestNG
8 4 (1.31%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.98%) Balsamiq
9 3 (0.98%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.98%) Subversion
10 2 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 85 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (15.08%) Finance
4 23 (7.54%) Electronics
5 21 (6.89%) Multimedia
6 17 (5.57%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.92%) Marketing
8 12 (3.93%) Aerospace
9 10 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.62%) Law
10 8 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Avionics
11 5 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.31%) Military
12 4 (1.31%) Retail
13 3 (0.98%) Aeronautics
13 3 (0.98%) Aviation
13 3 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (19.34%) Analyst
2 49 (16.07%) Data Analyst
3 38 (12.46%) Software Engineer
4 37 (12.13%) Junior
5 35 (11.48%) Junior Analyst
5 35 (11.48%) Junior Data Analyst
6 29 (9.51%) Trainee
7 28 (9.18%) Developer
7 28 (9.18%) Senior
8 18 (5.90%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.92%) Test Engineer
10 13 (4.26%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.93%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.61%) Lead
13 10 (3.28%) Product Engineer
13 10 (3.28%) Python Software Engineer
13 10 (3.28%) Security Engineer
14 9 (2.95%) Data Scientist
14 9 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (2.95%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.18%) HTML
2 27 (8.85%) CSS
2 27 (8.85%) React
3 13 (4.26%) AngularJS
4 12 (3.93%) pytest
5 11 (3.61%) PySpark
6 10 (3.28%) Spring
6 10 (3.28%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.95%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (2.95%) REST
8 7 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.97%) MERN Stack
10 5 (1.64%) Hibernate
10 5 (1.64%) JSF
10 5 (1.64%) Kafka
10 5 (1.64%) Pandas
10 5 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.31%) PrimeFaces
11 4 (1.31%) PyTorch
11 4 (1.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.26%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.93%) Algorithms
2 12 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.28%) IoT
5 8 (2.62%) GNSS
5 8 (2.62%) Satnav
6 7 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.64%) Self-Driving Car
9 4 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.98%) Analogue Electronics
10 3 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 62 (20.33%) Linux
2 29 (9.51%) Windows
3 15 (4.92%) Unix
4 11 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.97%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.64%) CentOS
7 5 (1.64%) Debian
8 3 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.66%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.66%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (24.59%) AI
2 69 (22.62%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (20.66%) Software Engineering
5 62 (20.33%) DevOps
6 61 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 59 (19.34%) Agile
8 49 (16.07%) Analytics
9 40 (13.11%) Mentoring
10 35 (11.48%) Cybersecurity
10 35 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (10.82%) Test Automation
12 32 (10.49%) Containerisation
12 32 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (10.16%) Machine Learning
14 28 (9.18%) Data Science
15 27 (8.85%) Data Analysis
16 24 (7.87%) Data Analytics
16 24 (7.87%) Project Management
17 23 (7.54%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 100 (32.79%) SQL
2 66 (21.64%) JavaScript
3 65 (21.31%) Java
4 52 (17.05%) Bash
5 35 (11.48%) PowerShell
6 33 (10.82%) C++
7 32 (10.49%) C
8 27 (8.85%) R
9 21 (6.89%) TypeScript
10 19 (6.23%) C#
11 14 (4.59%) MATLAB
12 12 (3.93%) Go
13 6 (1.97%) Bicep
14 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.98%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.98%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.98%) Tcl
15 3 (0.98%) VBA
15 3 (0.98%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 82 (26.89%) Security Cleared
2 59 (19.34%) Azure Certification
3 49 (16.07%) Degree
3 49 (16.07%) DV Cleared
4 45 (14.75%) SC Cleared
5 25 (8.20%) AWS Certification
6 21 (6.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 21 (6.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.61%) CREST Certified
8 9 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.95%) HND
9 8 (2.62%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.97%) CISSP
10 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.97%) SANS
11 5 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.98%) CCNP
12 3 (0.98%) CITP
13 2 (0.66%) CCNA
13 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.95%) QA
3 7 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (15.08%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.64%) Firmware
3 5 (1.64%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Ceph
6 1 (0.33%) iptables
6 1 (0.33%) KVM
6 1 (0.33%) Lustre
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (17.70%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.46%) Terraform
3 32 (10.49%) Ansible
4 13 (4.26%) Grafana
5 10 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.30%) Kibana
7 5 (1.64%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.31%) Argo
9 3 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.98%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.98%) Puppet
9 3 (0.98%) Rancher
9 3 (0.98%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.98%) yum
10 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.66%) Nagios
10 2 (0.66%) Nmap
11 1 (0.33%) Control-M
11 1 (0.33%) Nessus
11 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 80 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.90%) Oracle
3 15 (4.92%) Google
4 11 (3.61%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.28%) Databricks
6 8 (2.62%) SAP
7 7 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.30%) Splunk
8 6 (1.97%) Cisco
8 6 (1.97%) VMware
9 4 (1.31%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.31%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.98%) EMC
10 3 (0.98%) McAfee
11 2 (0.66%) Palantir
11 2 (0.66%) Talend
12 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.33%) Foundry
12 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.33%) Zoho