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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 335 379 687
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.26% 9.54% 11.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.24% 28.05% 29.22%
Number of salaries quoted 199 224 467
10th Percentile £29,450 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% +3.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,375 £89,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 793 1,351 2,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.83% 34.01% 39.74%
Number of salaries quoted 562 718 1,950
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +4.44% +3.29%
75th Percentile £68,663 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 26 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 26 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 -1 125 £60,000 -14.29% 89
Gloucestershire +15 97 £66,250 +1.92% 103
Devon +2 42 £48,750 -30.36% 64
Somerset -16 19 £75,000 +36.36% 52
Dorset -6 18 £130,000 +188.89% 46
Wiltshire -18 18 £47,500 +18.75% 50
Cornwall -12 7 £55,000 -8.33% 25
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 16 (4.78%) Apache
2 9 (2.69%) Confluence
3 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (16.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.30%) Weka
3 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 155 (46.27%) Azure
2 129 (38.51%) AWS
3 65 (19.40%) Power Platform
4 59 (17.61%) GitHub
5 42 (12.54%) Azure AI
6 26 (7.76%) GCP
7 22 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (6.57%) Serverless
8 20 (5.97%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (4.48%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.19%) Datadog
14 4 (1.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.87%) Internet
2 17 (5.07%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.48%) WAN
4 14 (4.18%) DNS
5 11 (3.28%) Firewall
5 11 (3.28%) SD-WAN
6 10 (2.99%) 5G
7 7 (2.09%) DHCP
7 7 (2.09%) LAN
8 6 (1.79%) HTTP
9 5 (1.49%) BGP
9 5 (1.49%) MPLS
9 5 (1.49%) Network Security
9 5 (1.49%) VPN
9 5 (1.49%) VSAN
9 5 (1.49%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.19%) 4G
10 4 (1.19%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.19%) SMTP
10 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.40%) Power BI
2 54 (16.12%) Tableau
3 16 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.88%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.88%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.69%) Big Data
7 9 (2.69%) Neo4j
8 8 (2.39%) Data Mining
8 8 (2.39%) MySQL
9 4 (1.19%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.19%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.90%) Metadata
11 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (22.69%) Git
2 43 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.87%) GitLab
4 13 (3.88%) JUnit
5 12 (3.58%) LabVIEW
6 10 (2.99%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.99%) JIRA
7 8 (2.39%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.09%) Selenium
9 5 (1.49%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.49%) Subversion
10 4 (1.19%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (1.19%) Postman
10 4 (1.19%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.19%) TestNG
11 3 (0.90%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.90%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.90%) Metasploit
General
1 97 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (15.82%) Finance
4 23 (6.87%) Electronics
5 21 (6.27%) Multimedia
6 17 (5.07%) Aerospace
6 17 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.48%) Marketing
8 14 (4.18%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.88%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.09%) Law
12 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.49%) Avionics
14 4 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.19%) Military
15 3 (0.90%) Aeronautics
15 3 (0.90%) Aviation
15 3 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (19.10%) Analyst
2 56 (16.72%) Data Analyst
3 44 (13.13%) Junior
4 42 (12.54%) Junior Analyst
4 42 (12.54%) Junior Data Analyst
5 41 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 33 (9.85%) Developer
7 29 (8.66%) Senior
7 29 (8.66%) Trainee
8 20 (5.97%) Test Engineer
9 19 (5.67%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.88%) Lead
10 13 (3.88%) Product Engineer
10 13 (3.88%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) Product Test Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.58%) Verification Engineer
12 10 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.55%) React
2 28 (8.36%) CSS
2 28 (8.36%) HTML
3 18 (5.37%) AngularJS
4 16 (4.78%) pytest
5 12 (3.58%) Spring
5 12 (3.58%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
6 11 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.69%) PySpark
7 9 (2.69%) REST
8 8 (2.39%) MERN Stack
8 8 (2.39%) Vue
9 7 (2.09%) Node.js
10 6 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.49%) Kafka
11 5 (1.49%) Middleware
12 4 (1.19%) Pandas
12 4 (1.19%) PrimeFaces
12 4 (1.19%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.78%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.88%) Algorithms
4 10 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.39%) GNSS
5 8 (2.39%) Satnav
5 8 (2.39%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (2.09%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.79%) IoT
7 6 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.49%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 72 (21.49%) Linux
2 34 (10.15%) Windows
3 18 (5.37%) Unix
4 12 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.39%) CentOS
7 7 (2.09%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.79%) Debian
9 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.90%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.90%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.60%) Solaris
12 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (25.67%) AI
2 79 (23.58%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (22.99%) DevOps
4 75 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (21.79%) Agile
5 73 (21.79%) CI/CD
6 67 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 50 (14.93%) Analytics
8 45 (13.43%) Mentoring
9 41 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (12.24%) Test Automation
10 40 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (11.64%) Containerisation
12 38 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
13 32 (9.55%) Machine Learning
14 30 (8.96%) Data Science
15 25 (7.46%) Data Analysis
15 25 (7.46%) Validation
16 24 (7.16%) Data Analytics
16 24 (7.16%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (30.15%) SQL
2 76 (22.69%) Java
2 76 (22.69%) JavaScript
3 70 (20.90%) Bash
4 41 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 35 (10.45%) C++
6 28 (8.36%) C
7 27 (8.06%) R
8 25 (7.46%) TypeScript
9 20 (5.97%) C#
10 17 (5.07%) MATLAB
11 14 (4.18%) Go
12 6 (1.79%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.49%) Bicep
14 3 (0.90%) Elixir
14 3 (0.90%) Erlang
14 3 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.90%) Groovy
14 3 (0.90%) VBA
14 3 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 97 (28.96%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.40%) Azure Certification
3 56 (16.72%) DV Cleared
4 46 (13.73%) Degree
5 44 (13.13%) SC Cleared
6 24 (7.16%) AWS Certification
7 22 (6.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 21 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (4.18%) CREST Certified
10 12 (3.58%) HND
11 9 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (2.39%) CISSP
12 8 (2.39%) SANS
13 7 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.09%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.90%) CCNP
15 3 (0.90%) CITP
16 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.99%) QA
3 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.60%) NCSC
5 2 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 53 (15.82%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.79%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.60%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) Ceph
5 1 (0.30%) iptables
5 1 (0.30%) Lustre
5 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 48 (14.33%) Terraform
3 41 (12.24%) Ansible
4 19 (5.67%) Grafana
5 11 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.39%) Kibana
7 6 (1.79%) Argo
7 6 (1.79%) Puppet
8 5 (1.49%) Rancher
8 5 (1.49%) yum
9 4 (1.19%) logstash
9 4 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.19%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.90%) Nmap
11 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.60%) Nagios
11 2 (0.60%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (25.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.37%) Oracle
3 16 (4.78%) Google
4 15 (4.48%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.39%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.39%) Cisco
5 8 (2.39%) Databricks
5 8 (2.39%) SAP
5 8 (2.39%) Splunk
6 7 (2.09%) VMware
7 4 (1.19%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.19%) McAfee
7 4 (1.19%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.60%) Dell
8 2 (0.60%) HP
8 2 (0.60%) Juniper
8 2 (0.60%) Palantir
8 2 (0.60%) Talend
8 2 (0.60%) Veeam
9 1 (0.30%) Alteryx