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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 26 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 558 229 556
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.33% 6.38% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.61% 31.50% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 343 143 329
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,746 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.33% -

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 1,567 727 1,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.96% 20.25% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,169 498 1,049
10th Percentile £36,227 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -4 216 £72,500 +31.82% 133
Bristol -3 142 £65,000 +11.11% 106
Devon +12 76 £67,500 +25.58% 43
Somerset +24 69 £37,500 -40.00% 53
Wiltshire -18 27 £57,500 +56.89% 46
Dorset -17 16 £40,000 -44.83% 39
Cornwall +13 6 £52,246 -11.07% 4
Avon - 1 - - 47
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 40 (7.17%) Apache
2 23 (4.12%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.94%) Confluence
4 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.90%) nginx
6 4 (0.72%) JBoss
7 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.36%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.61%) Simulink
3 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.36%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.36%) MicroStation
4 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.36%) Revit
4 2 (0.36%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 192 (34.41%) Azure
2 158 (28.32%) AWS
3 70 (12.54%) Power Platform
4 50 (8.96%) GCP
5 44 (7.89%) Azure AI
6 35 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.84%) Serverless
8 26 (4.66%) OpenShift
9 24 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (3.94%) GitHub
11 20 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (3.23%) Amazon S3
14 17 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (2.15%) SaaS
17 10 (1.79%) Snowflake
18 9 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
19 6 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.58%) Firewall
2 19 (3.41%) WAN
3 14 (2.51%) LAN
4 12 (2.15%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.61%) DNS
5 9 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.61%) VPN
5 9 (1.61%) Wireless
6 7 (1.25%) BGP
6 7 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (1.25%) OSPF
6 7 (1.25%) VLAN
7 6 (1.08%) Network Security
8 5 (0.90%) 5G
8 5 (0.90%) Broadband
8 5 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (0.90%) DHCP
8 5 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.90%) WLAN
9 4 (0.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.71%) Power BI
2 33 (5.91%) Tableau
3 28 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.30%) Big Data
5 24 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 21 (3.76%) NoSQL
7 16 (2.87%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.87%) Hadoop
8 11 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.97%) MySQL
9 10 (1.79%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (1.61%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.90%) InfluxDB
12 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 125 (22.40%) Git
2 55 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.78%) GitLab
4 39 (6.99%) Subversion
5 33 (5.91%) JIRA
6 28 (5.02%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.94%) JUnit
8 16 (2.87%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.51%) LabVIEW
9 14 (2.51%) Selenium
10 12 (2.15%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.97%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.43%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.25%) MSI
13 7 (1.25%) TestRail
14 6 (1.08%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.72%) Postman
15 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
16 3 (0.54%) NUnit
16 3 (0.54%) Snyk
General
1 126 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.98%) Finance
3 73 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 30 (5.38%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.58%) Electronics
8 14 (2.51%) Retail
9 13 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.79%) Marketing
11 9 (1.61%) Games
11 9 (1.61%) Law
11 9 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.08%) Aviation
12 6 (1.08%) Banking
12 6 (1.08%) Legal
12 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.08%) Military
12 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.72%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 98 (17.56%) Software Engineer
2 87 (15.59%) Senior
3 76 (13.62%) Developer
4 62 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 61 (10.93%) Data Engineer
6 49 (8.78%) Analyst
6 49 (8.78%) Junior
7 43 (7.71%) Lead
8 39 (6.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 37 (6.63%) Data Analyst
10 32 (5.73%) Java Developer
11 29 (5.20%) Test Engineer
12 28 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (5.02%) Python Software Engineer
13 27 (4.84%) Architect
13 27 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 23 (4.12%) Junior Developer
15 23 (4.12%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (21.86%) Terraform
2 52 (9.32%) React
3 46 (8.24%) RESTful
4 43 (7.71%) Spring
4 43 (7.71%) Spring Boot
5 26 (4.66%) Jakarta EE
5 26 (4.66%) Kafka
5 26 (4.66%) Struts
5 26 (4.66%) Web Services
6 25 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (4.30%) Node.js
8 22 (3.94%) REST
9 21 (3.76%) Apache NiFi
10 19 (3.41%) .NET
10 19 (3.41%) Keycloak
11 18 (3.23%) CSS
12 17 (3.05%) Vue
13 16 (2.87%) HTML
14 14 (2.51%) AngularJS
15 13 (2.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.05%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.79%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.61%) FPGA
10 9 (1.61%) Robotics
11 8 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.25%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
14 5 (0.90%) PKI
14 5 (0.90%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 101 (18.10%) Linux
2 61 (10.93%) Windows
3 19 (3.41%) Unix
4 12 (2.15%) CentOS
4 12 (2.15%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.08%) Debian
6 6 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.54%) Android
8 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.36%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.36%) Rocky
8 2 (0.36%) VMS
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (31.72%) CI/CD
2 167 (29.93%) AI
3 162 (29.03%) DevOps
4 161 (28.85%) Software Engineering
5 148 (26.52%) Agile
6 132 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 126 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (17.92%) Containerisation
9 96 (17.20%) Test Automation
10 77 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (13.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 71 (12.72%) Analytics
13 67 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
13 67 (12.01%) Data Pipeline
14 63 (11.29%) Machine Learning
15 54 (9.68%) ETL
16 53 (9.50%) Validation
17 52 (9.32%) Mentoring
18 51 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 49 (8.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 162 (29.03%) Java
2 135 (24.19%) SQL
3 131 (23.48%) JavaScript
4 97 (17.38%) C++
5 80 (14.34%) Bash
6 59 (10.57%) C#
7 46 (8.24%) Go
8 37 (6.63%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.73%) TypeScript
10 28 (5.02%) Perl
11 25 (4.48%) C
12 17 (3.05%) MATLAB
13 15 (2.69%) Rust
14 10 (1.79%) PHP
15 8 (1.43%) Scala
16 7 (1.25%) Bicep
16 7 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.08%) Groovy
17 6 (1.08%) R
18 5 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 211 (37.81%) Security Cleared
2 110 (19.71%) DV Cleared
3 91 (16.31%) SC Cleared
4 85 (15.23%) Degree
5 58 (10.39%) Azure Certification
6 37 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.43%) HND
11 6 (1.08%) PhD
11 6 (1.08%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.90%) CCNP
12 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.72%) CCNA
13 4 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.72%) OSCP
13 4 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.91%) QA
2 29 (5.20%) Accessibility
2 29 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.97%) WCAG
4 10 (1.79%) NCSC
5 5 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.90%) PMO
6 4 (0.72%) GDPR
6 4 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) DO-254
8 1 (0.18%) JTAG
System Software
1 106 (19.00%) Docker
2 21 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.41%) Firmware
4 11 (1.97%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.25%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.08%) vSphere
7 5 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.72%) Squid
8 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 128 (22.94%) Kubernetes
2 110 (19.71%) Ansible
3 35 (6.27%) Grafana
4 27 (4.84%) Puppet
5 17 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.33%) Argo
6 13 (2.33%) Kibana
6 13 (2.33%) logstash
7 11 (1.97%) Rancher
8 9 (1.61%) Packer
9 8 (1.43%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.43%) yum
10 7 (1.25%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.90%) Nagios
11 5 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.72%) Istio
12 4 (0.72%) linkerd
12 4 (0.72%) Mesos
Vendors
1 98 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.48%) Red Hat
3 21 (3.76%) VMware
4 18 (3.23%) Splunk
5 17 (3.05%) Cisco
5 17 (3.05%) Databricks
6 13 (2.33%) Google
7 11 (1.97%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.97%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.25%) Oracle
8 7 (1.25%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.25%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.08%) EMC
9 6 (1.08%) Intel
10 4 (0.72%) Avaya
10 4 (0.72%) F5
10 4 (0.72%) Infoblox
10 4 (0.72%) Meraki
10 4 (0.72%) ServiceNow