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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 519 248 819
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.07% 9.33% 9.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.10% 29.14% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 236 174 588
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £87,500
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 1,102 851 2,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.01% 32.03% 34.12%
Number of salaries quoted 685 626 2,465
10th Percentile £33,850 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +2 154 £60,000 -7.69% 61
Bristol 0 151 £55,000 -18.52% 65
Devon +36 97 £50,000 +5.26% 29
Somerset +6 51 £45,142 -24.76% 22
Dorset +6 38 £70,000 +51.35% 10
Wiltshire -25 13 £67,500 +29.06% 33
Cornwall - 8 £40,000 - 2
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 (3.08%) Apache
2 10 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.16%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.77%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 148 (28.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
4 1 (0.19%) Weka
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 277 (53.37%) Azure
2 172 (33.14%) Azure AI
3 160 (30.83%) Power Platform
4 151 (29.09%) AWS
5 48 (9.25%) GitHub
6 41 (7.90%) GCP
7 26 (5.01%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.01%) Serverless
8 23 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.31%) OpenShift
12 10 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.35%) Datadog
14 7 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.05%) WAN
2 18 (3.47%) Internet
3 16 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 15 (2.89%) Firewall
5 13 (2.50%) DNS
5 13 (2.50%) LAN
6 11 (2.12%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.93%) 5G
7 10 (1.93%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.93%) VLAN
8 8 (1.54%) Broadband
8 8 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (1.54%) DHCP
8 8 (1.54%) Network Security
8 8 (1.54%) Unified Communications
8 8 (1.54%) WebEx
9 5 (0.96%) BGP
9 5 (0.96%) HTTP
9 5 (0.96%) MPLS
10 4 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (30.64%) Power BI
2 150 (28.90%) Tableau
3 23 (4.43%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (3.47%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.70%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.12%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.73%) Big Data
10 8 (1.54%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.54%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.54%) MySQL
10 8 (1.54%) Neo4j
11 6 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.96%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.77%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (13.68%) Git
2 49 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.01%) GitLab
4 13 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 11 (2.12%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.12%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.93%) JUnit
7 9 (1.73%) JIRA
7 9 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.54%) LabVIEW
8 8 (1.54%) Selenium
9 7 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.35%) Subversion
9 7 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.96%) TestRail
11 4 (0.77%) Balsamiq
11 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.77%) TestNG
12 3 (0.58%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.58%) Metasploit
General
1 227 (43.74%) Social Skills
2 60 (11.56%) Finance
3 55 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (5.59%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.24%) Aerospace
6 20 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.47%) Electronics
7 18 (3.47%) Marketing
7 18 (3.47%) Multimedia
8 16 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 16 (3.08%) Retail
9 14 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.31%) Banking
11 11 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.73%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.16%) Military
14 5 (0.96%) Law
14 5 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (30.06%) Analyst
2 148 (28.52%) Data Analyst
3 139 (26.78%) Junior
4 137 (26.40%) Junior Analyst
4 137 (26.40%) Junior Data Analyst
5 61 (11.75%) Software Engineer
6 56 (10.79%) Developer
7 39 (7.51%) Senior
8 36 (6.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 33 (6.36%) Trainee
10 29 (5.59%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.82%) Python Developer
12 21 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (4.05%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.47%) Data Scientist
13 18 (3.47%) Lead
14 16 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.08%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.31%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (2.12%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.39%) CSS
2 25 (4.82%) HTML
3 23 (4.43%) React
4 18 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.28%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.08%) Node.js
6 16 (3.08%) Vue
7 15 (2.89%) pytest
8 12 (2.31%) Apache NiFi
8 12 (2.31%) REST
9 11 (2.12%) Django
9 11 (2.12%) NumPy
9 11 (2.12%) Pandas
9 11 (2.12%) Spring
9 11 (2.12%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.54%) FastAPI
10 8 (1.54%) MERN Stack
10 8 (1.54%) PySpark
10 8 (1.54%) scikit-learn
10 8 (1.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.24%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 14 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.73%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.54%) FlexPod
7 8 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.54%) Self-Driving Car
7 8 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.35%) Replication
8 7 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.96%) IoT
9 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (0.77%) CUDA
10 4 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (0.77%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 83 (15.99%) Linux
2 39 (7.51%) Windows
3 13 (2.50%) Unix
4 12 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.35%) CentOS
5 7 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Solaris
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (43.93%) AI
2 179 (34.49%) Business Intelligence
3 95 (18.30%) Software Engineering
4 91 (17.53%) CI/CD
5 88 (16.96%) DevOps
6 80 (15.41%) Agile
7 72 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 54 (10.40%) Analytics
9 54 (10.40%) Containerisation
10 50 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (9.44%) Test Automation
12 47 (9.06%) Mentoring
13 46 (8.86%) Machine Learning
14 44 (8.48%) Data Science
15 42 (8.09%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (7.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 32 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 28 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
19 27 (5.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 192 (36.99%) SQL
2 89 (17.15%) JavaScript
3 82 (15.80%) Bash
4 80 (15.41%) Java
5 51 (9.83%) PowerShell
6 36 (6.94%) C++
7 30 (5.78%) TypeScript
8 28 (5.39%) Go
9 26 (5.01%) C#
9 26 (5.01%) R
10 24 (4.62%) C
11 11 (2.12%) MATLAB
11 11 (2.12%) PHP
12 10 (1.93%) Scala
13 6 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.16%) Rust
14 4 (0.77%) Groovy
15 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.58%) Erlang
15 3 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 190 (36.61%) Azure Certification
2 98 (18.88%) Security Cleared
3 64 (12.33%) DV Cleared
4 48 (9.25%) Degree
5 29 (5.59%) AWS Certification
6 28 (5.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 28 (5.39%) SC Cleared
7 18 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 13 (2.50%) CREST Certified
9 12 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.54%) HND
11 7 (1.35%) CISSP
11 7 (1.35%) SANS
12 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.77%) PhD
14 3 (0.58%) CCNP
14 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.58%) CITP
15 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.47%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.28%) QA
3 8 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.58%) GDPR
4 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (14.07%) Docker
2 13 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.93%) Firmware
4 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.96%) vSphere
5 4 (0.77%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.77%) iptables
6 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Ceph
8 1 (0.19%) Lustre
8 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 84 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 68 (13.10%) Terraform
3 57 (10.98%) Ansible
4 39 (7.51%) Grafana
5 15 (2.89%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.12%) Kibana
7 10 (1.93%) logstash
7 10 (1.93%) Puppet
8 9 (1.73%) Argo
9 8 (1.54%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.54%) Rancher
10 7 (1.35%) yum
11 6 (1.16%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.58%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.58%) Nmap
13 3 (0.58%) SCCM
13 3 (0.58%) SCOM
13 3 (0.58%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 194 (37.38%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.05%) Splunk
3 16 (3.08%) Cisco
4 14 (2.70%) Oracle
4 14 (2.70%) VMware
5 13 (2.50%) Databricks
6 11 (2.12%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.12%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.54%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.54%) Google
9 7 (1.35%) SAP
10 5 (0.96%) NetApp
11 4 (0.77%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.58%) Cognos
12 3 (0.58%) Dell
12 3 (0.58%) HP
12 3 (0.58%) Juniper
12 3 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.58%) Veeam