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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 554 254 840
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.84% 8.24% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.97% 29.88% 28.58%
Number of salaries quoted 283 151 610
10th Percentile £33,900 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

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 1,320 850 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.30% 27.56% 28.98%
Number of salaries quoted 903 571 2,321
10th Percentile £34,600 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,319 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +2 170 £60,000 - 100
Bristol +9 147 £62,500 -7.41% 62
Devon +20 95 £52,500 - 20
Somerset +13 77 £31,500 -45.22% 32
Dorset -3 28 £40,000 -17.95% 18
Wiltshire -16 22 £60,000 +32.53% 24
Cornwall +8 11 £52,246 -16.41% 1
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 22 (3.97%) Apache
2 17 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.81%) Confluence
4 8 (1.44%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (21.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.26%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Simulink
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 265 (47.83%) Azure
2 151 (27.26%) Azure AI
3 148 (26.71%) AWS
4 145 (26.17%) Power Platform
5 56 (10.11%) GCP
6 33 (5.96%) Serverless
7 31 (5.60%) GitHub
8 29 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.89%) OpenShift
13 15 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (1.81%) SaaS
17 9 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
17 9 (1.62%) Snowflake
18 8 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 8 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.79%) Firewall
2 20 (3.61%) WAN
3 13 (2.35%) LAN
4 12 (2.17%) Broadband
5 11 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.62%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.62%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.62%) Unified Communications
7 9 (1.62%) VLAN
7 9 (1.62%) WebEx
8 8 (1.44%) 5G
9 7 (1.26%) Network Security
10 6 (1.08%) DHCP
10 6 (1.08%) DNS
11 5 (0.90%) Internet
12 4 (0.72%) IPv4
12 4 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
13 3 (0.54%) AMQP
13 3 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (23.29%) Power BI
2 124 (22.38%) Tableau
3 23 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (2.89%) Big Data
6 16 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.81%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.81%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (1.26%) MySQL
11 7 (1.26%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.08%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.08%) InfluxDB
12 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 87 (15.70%) Git
2 50 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 39 (7.04%) GitLab
4 22 (3.97%) Subversion
5 17 (3.07%) JIRA
6 16 (2.89%) Eclipse
7 15 (2.71%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.81%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.62%) JUnit
10 8 (1.44%) LabVIEW
11 7 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.26%) Selenium
12 6 (1.08%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.08%) TestRail
13 4 (0.72%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.72%) MSI
14 3 (0.54%) MLflow
15 2 (0.36%) DBeaver
General
1 206 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 52 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (8.48%) Finance
4 34 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.33%) Aerospace
6 23 (4.15%) Retail
7 20 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.35%) Electronics
8 13 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.17%) Banking
9 12 (2.17%) Marketing
10 9 (1.62%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.26%) Games
13 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.90%) Multimedia
15 4 (0.72%) Aviation
15 4 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (24.01%) Analyst
2 124 (22.38%) Junior
3 123 (22.20%) Data Analyst
4 109 (19.68%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (19.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 73 (13.18%) Developer
6 69 (12.45%) Software Engineer
7 59 (10.65%) Senior
8 42 (7.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 41 (7.40%) Data Engineer
10 31 (5.60%) Python Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 25 (4.51%) Python Developer
13 24 (4.33%) Java Developer
14 23 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (3.97%) Lead
16 17 (3.07%) Data Scientist
16 17 (3.07%) Test Engineer
17 16 (2.89%) Architect
17 16 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (6.14%) React
2 28 (5.05%) Node.js
2 28 (5.05%) RESTful
3 23 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (3.97%) Vue
5 20 (3.61%) REST
6 18 (3.25%) CSS
7 15 (2.71%) J2EE
7 15 (2.71%) Spring
7 15 (2.71%) Spring Boot
7 15 (2.71%) Struts
7 15 (2.71%) Web Services
8 14 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
8 14 (2.53%) pytest
9 13 (2.35%) .NET
9 13 (2.35%) FastAPI
9 13 (2.35%) HTML
10 12 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.99%) Django
11 11 (1.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.86%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.61%) Algorithms
3 16 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.71%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.81%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.62%) FlexPod
8 9 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (1.62%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (1.26%) CUDA
9 7 (1.26%) Self-Driving Car
10 6 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.08%) Over-the-Top Content
10 6 (1.08%) Replication
11 5 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (17.15%) Linux
2 55 (9.93%) Windows
3 20 (3.61%) Unix
4 17 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.99%) CentOS
6 6 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.90%) Debian
7 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.54%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.18%) Rocky
10 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (43.32%) AI
2 156 (28.16%) Business Intelligence
3 121 (21.84%) CI/CD
4 115 (20.76%) Software Engineering
5 109 (19.68%) DevOps
6 101 (18.23%) Agile
7 86 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 84 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
9 66 (11.91%) Containerisation
10 60 (10.83%) Test Automation
11 56 (10.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 54 (9.75%) Analytics
13 50 (9.03%) Data Science
14 49 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
16 47 (8.48%) Machine Learning
17 42 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 41 (7.40%) Mentoring
19 40 (7.22%) Data Pipeline
20 34 (6.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 186 (33.57%) SQL
2 99 (17.87%) Java
2 99 (17.87%) JavaScript
3 81 (14.62%) Bash
4 60 (10.83%) C++
5 49 (8.84%) PowerShell
6 35 (6.32%) C#
7 32 (5.78%) Go
8 30 (5.42%) TypeScript
9 18 (3.25%) C
10 16 (2.89%) PHP
11 15 (2.71%) Perl
12 14 (2.53%) R
13 13 (2.35%) MATLAB
14 9 (1.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.62%) Rust
15 8 (1.44%) Scala
16 5 (0.90%) VBA
17 4 (0.72%) Groovy
17 4 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (28.70%) Azure Certification
2 130 (23.47%) Security Cleared
3 77 (13.90%) DV Cleared
4 54 (9.75%) Degree
5 46 (8.30%) SC Cleared
6 22 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.43%) AWS Certification
8 17 (3.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.62%) HND
9 9 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.08%) PhD
10 6 (1.08%) RHCSA
11 5 (0.90%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.72%) CCNA
12 4 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.72%) CISSP
12 4 (0.72%) RHCE
12 4 (0.72%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.07%) QA
3 12 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.08%) WCAG
5 5 (0.90%) GDPR
5 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.72%) NCSC
7 3 (0.54%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (14.80%) Docker
2 21 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.35%) Firmware
4 10 (1.81%) vSphere
5 9 (1.62%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.72%) iptables
8 4 (0.72%) Squid
8 4 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 96 (17.33%) Kubernetes
2 87 (15.70%) Terraform
3 78 (14.08%) Ansible
4 44 (7.94%) Grafana
5 18 (3.25%) Puppet
6 16 (2.89%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.71%) Kibana
7 15 (2.71%) logstash
8 9 (1.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (1.62%) Rancher
9 8 (1.44%) Argo
10 7 (1.26%) Packer
10 7 (1.26%) yum
11 6 (1.08%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.08%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.90%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.90%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.54%) SCCM
13 3 (0.54%) SCOM
13 3 (0.54%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 177 (31.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.97%) Splunk
3 21 (3.79%) VMware
4 18 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.07%) Cisco
5 17 (3.07%) Databricks
6 11 (1.99%) Fortinet
6 11 (1.99%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.44%) Oracle
8 6 (1.08%) Cognos
8 6 (1.08%) Google
8 6 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (1.08%) NetApp
9 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.72%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.54%) Intel
11 3 (0.54%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.36%) BMC
12 2 (0.36%) Juniper