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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 616 229 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.75% 6.59% 7.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.77% 29.59% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 335 145 435
10th Percentile £34,050 £36,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,272 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £93,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,150 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% -0.67% -

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 1,511 774 2,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.55% 22.26% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 523 1,477
10th Percentile £33,375 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,350
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 18 August 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 18 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
Gloucestershire -1 212 £62,500 +8.70% 155
Bristol +8 158 £62,500 - 122
Devon +19 92 £62,500 +31.58% 25
Somerset +23 88 £37,500 -28.57% 26
Dorset -6 27 £40,000 -17.95% 19
Wiltshire -10 27 £57,500 +53.33% 13
Cornwall +11 9 £52,246 -16.41%
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 36 (5.84%) Apache
2 23 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.25%) Confluence
4 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.81%) nginx
6 4 (0.65%) JBoss
6 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 88 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Simulink
4 3 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Revit
5 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 253 (41.07%) Azure
2 155 (25.16%) AWS
3 119 (19.32%) Azure AI
3 119 (19.32%) Power Platform
4 52 (8.44%) GCP
5 37 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.55%) Serverless
7 24 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.73%) GitHub
8 23 (3.73%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.11%) SaaS
15 11 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (1.46%) Snowflake
17 6 (0.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.06%) Firewall
2 22 (3.57%) WAN
3 17 (2.76%) LAN
4 12 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.95%) VLAN
5 11 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.62%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.46%) DNS
7 9 (1.46%) Unified Communications
7 9 (1.46%) WebEx
8 8 (1.30%) Broadband
8 8 (1.30%) Network Security
8 8 (1.30%) VPN
9 7 (1.14%) DHCP
10 6 (0.97%) Wireless
11 5 (0.81%) 5G
11 5 (0.81%) BGP
11 5 (0.81%) OSPF
11 5 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (14.94%) Power BI
2 89 (14.45%) Tableau
3 24 (3.90%) Big Data
3 24 (3.90%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
5 22 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.44%) Hadoop
9 14 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.62%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.62%) MySQL
11 8 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.30%) SQL Server
12 6 (0.97%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 123 (19.97%) Git
2 51 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 47 (7.63%) GitLab
4 33 (5.36%) JIRA
4 33 (5.36%) Subversion
5 26 (4.22%) Eclipse
6 21 (3.41%) JUnit
7 16 (2.60%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.44%) Selenium
9 12 (1.95%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.30%) LabVIEW
10 8 (1.30%) TestRail
11 7 (1.14%) MSI
11 7 (1.14%) Robot Framework
12 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (0.65%) Postman
14 3 (0.49%) MLflow
14 3 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 193 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 72 (11.69%) Finance
3 67 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.66%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 28 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (3.08%) Retail
7 16 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.44%) Marketing
9 14 (2.27%) Electronics
10 10 (1.62%) Banking
11 9 (1.46%) Games
12 8 (1.30%) Aviation
12 8 (1.30%) Law
12 8 (1.30%) Military
12 8 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Legal
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 103 (16.72%) Junior
2 100 (16.23%) Analyst
3 98 (15.91%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.61%) Developer
5 88 (14.29%) Data Analyst
6 84 (13.64%) Senior
7 77 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
8 76 (12.34%) Junior Data Analyst
9 59 (9.58%) Data Engineer
10 49 (7.95%) Python Engineer
11 43 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 39 (6.33%) Lead
13 33 (5.36%) Java Developer
14 32 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (4.38%) Architect
15 27 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (3.90%) Python Developer
17 24 (3.90%) Test Engineer
18 22 (3.57%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.79%) React
2 45 (7.31%) RESTful
3 36 (5.84%) Spring
3 36 (5.84%) Spring Boot
4 29 (4.71%) Node.js
5 26 (4.22%) REST
6 24 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (3.90%) Jakarta EE
6 24 (3.90%) Struts
6 24 (3.90%) Web Services
7 23 (3.73%) CSS
8 22 (3.57%) .NET
8 22 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
8 22 (3.57%) Kafka
9 20 (3.25%) Vue
10 18 (2.92%) HTML
11 14 (2.27%) pytest
12 13 (2.11%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.11%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 17 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 11 (1.79%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (1.46%) FlexPod
9 9 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (1.30%) IoT
11 7 (1.14%) CUDA
11 7 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (0.97%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.97%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (0.97%) Replication
12 6 (0.97%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.23%) Linux
2 67 (10.88%) Windows
3 17 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.60%) Unix
5 12 (1.95%) CentOS
6 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.81%) Debian
7 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.49%) Android
8 3 (0.49%) VMS
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.32%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (39.12%) AI
2 167 (27.11%) Software Engineering
3 162 (26.30%) CI/CD
4 143 (23.21%) DevOps
5 142 (23.05%) Agile
6 123 (19.97%) Business Intelligence
7 122 (19.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 114 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (14.94%) Containerisation
10 87 (14.12%) Test Automation
11 80 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
12 68 (11.04%) Analytics
13 64 (10.39%) Machine Learning
14 63 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (10.06%) Data Pipeline
16 55 (8.93%) Data Science
17 52 (8.44%) Mentoring
18 49 (7.95%) ETL
19 45 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 45 (7.31%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 181 (29.38%) SQL
2 148 (24.03%) Java
3 141 (22.89%) JavaScript
4 92 (14.94%) C++
5 73 (11.85%) Bash
6 59 (9.58%) C#
7 42 (6.82%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.33%) Go
9 33 (5.36%) TypeScript
10 25 (4.06%) Perl
11 23 (3.73%) C
12 17 (2.76%) PHP
13 15 (2.44%) Rust
14 13 (2.11%) MATLAB
14 13 (2.11%) Scala
15 9 (1.46%) R
16 8 (1.30%) Groovy
17 7 (1.14%) Bicep
17 7 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 184 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 130 (21.10%) Azure Certification
3 103 (16.72%) DV Cleared
4 80 (12.99%) Degree
5 76 (12.34%) SC Cleared
6 37 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.30%) PhD
11 7 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.14%) HND
12 6 (0.97%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.65%) CCNA
13 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.65%) OSCP
13 4 (0.65%) RHCE
14 3 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.87%) QA
2 29 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.38%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.79%) WCAG
5 10 (1.62%) NCSC
6 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.97%) GDPR
8 5 (0.81%) NIST
8 5 (0.81%) PMO
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 104 (16.88%) Docker
2 24 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.08%) Firmware
4 12 (1.95%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.62%) vSphere
6 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.65%) Squid
10 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.16%) iptables
12 1 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 114 (18.51%) Kubernetes
2 113 (18.34%) Terraform
3 100 (16.23%) Ansible
4 38 (6.17%) Grafana
5 20 (3.25%) Puppet
6 15 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.27%) Kibana
7 14 (2.27%) logstash
8 9 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (1.46%) Packer
9 7 (1.14%) Argo
9 7 (1.14%) Rancher
9 7 (1.14%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.14%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.81%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.81%) Nagios
10 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.81%) yum
11 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 153 (24.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.06%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.90%) Splunk
3 24 (3.90%) VMware
4 20 (3.25%) Cisco
5 19 (3.08%) Databricks
6 14 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.95%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.30%) Oracle
9 7 (1.14%) Google
10 6 (0.97%) NetApp
10 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.81%) Intel
11 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.65%) Cognos
12 4 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.65%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.49%) New Relic
13 3 (0.49%) SaltStack