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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 575 227 568
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.49% 6.38% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.51% 31.18% 31.23%
Number of salaries quoted 343 142 336
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,272 £51,250
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 £89,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% -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 1,575 728 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.03% 20.45% 26.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 499 1,083
10th Percentile £36,070 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £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 3 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 3 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 -3 218 £70,000 +27.27% 204
Bristol -3 147 £65,000 +8.33% 155
Devon +15 80 £65,600 +24.95% 59
Somerset +17 73 £37,500 -28.57% 92
Wiltshire -15 27 £57,500 +56.89% 63
Dorset -18 18 £40,000 -44.83% 68
Cornwall +10 6 £52,246 -11.07% 11
Avon - 1 - - 62
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 (6.96%) Apache
2 23 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.83%) Confluence
4 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.04%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.87%) nginx
7 4 (0.70%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.35%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.57%) Simulink
3 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.35%) MicroStation
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Revit
4 2 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 206 (35.83%) Azure
2 154 (26.78%) AWS
3 77 (13.39%) Power Platform
4 58 (10.09%) Azure AI
5 51 (8.87%) GCP
6 35 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.52%) OpenShift
7 26 (4.52%) Serverless
8 23 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (4.00%) GitHub
9 22 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 16 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.09%) SaaS
16 11 (1.91%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
18 6 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.48%) Firewall
2 19 (3.30%) WAN
3 14 (2.43%) LAN
4 12 (2.09%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.57%) DNS
5 9 (1.57%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.57%) VPN
5 9 (1.57%) Wireless
6 7 (1.22%) BGP
6 7 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (1.22%) OSPF
6 7 (1.22%) VLAN
7 6 (1.04%) Network Security
8 5 (0.87%) 5G
8 5 (0.87%) Broadband
8 5 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (0.87%) DHCP
8 5 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.87%) WLAN
9 4 (0.70%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.70%) Power BI
2 40 (6.96%) Tableau
3 28 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.17%) Big Data
6 21 (3.65%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.78%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.91%) MySQL
10 10 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.74%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.57%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (1.57%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.87%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 127 (22.09%) Git
2 54 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.52%) GitLab
4 39 (6.78%) Subversion
5 35 (6.09%) JIRA
6 28 (4.87%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.83%) JUnit
8 16 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 14 (2.43%) LabVIEW
9 14 (2.43%) Selenium
10 12 (2.09%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.91%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.39%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.22%) MSI
13 7 (1.22%) TestRail
14 6 (1.04%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.70%) Postman
15 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
16 3 (0.52%) NUnit
16 3 (0.52%) Snyk
General
1 139 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 78 (13.57%) Finance
3 74 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.39%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.48%) Electronics
8 14 (2.43%) Retail
9 13 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.74%) Marketing
11 9 (1.57%) Games
11 9 (1.57%) Law
11 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.04%) Aviation
12 6 (1.04%) Banking
12 6 (1.04%) Legal
12 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.04%) Military
12 6 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.70%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 99 (17.22%) Software Engineer
2 87 (15.13%) Senior
3 81 (14.09%) Developer
4 61 (10.61%) Data Engineer
4 61 (10.61%) Python Engineer
5 57 (9.91%) Analyst
6 56 (9.74%) Junior
7 44 (7.65%) Data Analyst
8 43 (7.48%) Lead
9 39 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 34 (5.91%) Java Developer
11 30 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 29 (5.04%) Junior Analyst
12 29 (5.04%) Test Engineer
13 28 (4.87%) Junior Data Analyst
13 28 (4.87%) Python Software Engineer
14 27 (4.70%) Architect
14 27 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (4.00%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (21.04%) Terraform
2 52 (9.04%) React
3 46 (8.00%) RESTful
4 43 (7.48%) Spring
4 43 (7.48%) Spring Boot
5 26 (4.52%) Jakarta EE
5 26 (4.52%) Kafka
5 26 (4.52%) Struts
5 26 (4.52%) Web Services
6 25 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
7 24 (4.17%) Node.js
8 22 (3.83%) REST
9 21 (3.65%) Apache NiFi
10 19 (3.30%) .NET
10 19 (3.30%) Keycloak
11 18 (3.13%) CSS
12 17 (2.96%) Vue
13 16 (2.78%) HTML
14 14 (2.43%) AngularJS
15 13 (2.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.78%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (2.96%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.09%) Embedded Systems
9 10 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.57%) FPGA
10 9 (1.57%) Robotics
11 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
12 5 (0.87%) IoT
12 5 (0.87%) PKI
12 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (17.39%) Linux
2 60 (10.43%) Windows
3 19 (3.30%) Unix
4 13 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.09%) CentOS
6 9 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.04%) Debian
7 6 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.52%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.35%) Rocky
9 2 (0.35%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (31.65%) AI
2 177 (30.78%) CI/CD
3 166 (28.87%) Software Engineering
4 162 (28.17%) DevOps
5 148 (25.74%) Agile
6 131 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 127 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (17.39%) Containerisation
9 97 (16.87%) Test Automation
10 77 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (13.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 74 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
12 71 (12.35%) Analytics
13 67 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
14 63 (10.96%) Machine Learning
15 54 (9.39%) ETL
15 54 (9.39%) Mentoring
15 54 (9.39%) Validation
16 50 (8.70%) Computer Science
16 50 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 164 (28.52%) Java
2 143 (24.87%) SQL
3 133 (23.13%) JavaScript
4 99 (17.22%) C++
5 79 (13.74%) Bash
6 60 (10.43%) C#
7 46 (8.00%) Go
8 37 (6.43%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.57%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.87%) Perl
11 25 (4.35%) C
12 17 (2.96%) MATLAB
13 15 (2.61%) Rust
14 10 (1.74%) PHP
15 8 (1.39%) Scala
16 7 (1.22%) Bicep
16 7 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.04%) Groovy
17 6 (1.04%) R
18 5 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 211 (36.70%) Security Cleared
2 111 (19.30%) DV Cleared
3 92 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 85 (14.78%) Degree
5 72 (12.52%) Azure Certification
6 38 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.74%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.39%) HND
11 6 (1.04%) PhD
11 6 (1.04%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.87%) CCNP
12 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.70%) CCNA
13 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.70%) OSCP
13 4 (0.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.91%) QA
2 30 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 29 (5.04%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.91%) WCAG
5 10 (1.74%) NCSC
6 5 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.87%) PMO
7 4 (0.70%) GDPR
7 4 (0.70%) NIST
8 2 (0.35%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) DO-254
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 105 (18.26%) Docker
2 19 (3.30%) Firmware
2 19 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.04%) vSphere
6 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.70%) Squid
8 3 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 126 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 108 (18.78%) Ansible
3 35 (6.09%) Grafana
4 26 (4.52%) Puppet
5 17 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.26%) Argo
6 13 (2.26%) Kibana
6 13 (2.26%) logstash
7 11 (1.91%) Rancher
8 9 (1.57%) Packer
9 8 (1.39%) yum
10 7 (1.22%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.22%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.87%) Nagios
11 5 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.70%) linkerd
12 4 (0.70%) Mesos
Vendors
1 105 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.52%) Red Hat
3 19 (3.30%) VMware
4 18 (3.13%) Databricks
4 18 (3.13%) Splunk
5 17 (2.96%) Cisco
6 14 (2.43%) Google
7 11 (1.91%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.91%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.22%) Oracle
8 7 (1.22%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.22%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.04%) EMC
9 6 (1.04%) Intel
10 4 (0.70%) Avaya
10 4 (0.70%) Infoblox
10 4 (0.70%) Netskope
10 4 (0.70%) OneLogin
10 4 (0.70%) ServiceNow