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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 617 255 638
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.90% 7.26% 7.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.35% 31.21% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 331 151 435
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 1,492 817 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.67% 23.27% 25.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 540 1,500
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,375 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +2.36% +4.10% -6.15%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 0 202 £61,000 +8.44% 176
Bristol +4 165 £62,500 +4.17% 153
Devon +24 95 £60,000 +26.32% 28
Somerset +21 86 £37,500 -28.57% 41
Dorset -6 29 £40,000 -17.95% 33
Wiltshire -11 27 £57,500 +38.94% 23
Cornwall +14 10 £52,246 -16.41%
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 36 (5.83%) Apache
2 22 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.92%) Confluence
4 8 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.97%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.81%) nginx
7 4 (0.65%) JBoss
8 3 (0.49%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.32%) SAS
10 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 99 (16.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.65%) Simulink
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Revit
5 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 258 (41.82%) Azure
2 155 (25.12%) AWS
3 130 (21.07%) Azure AI
4 129 (20.91%) Power Platform
5 52 (8.43%) GCP
6 35 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (4.70%) Serverless
8 25 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (3.89%) GitHub
10 23 (3.73%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.24%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.11%) SaaS
14 10 (1.62%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.46%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.97%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.89%) Firewall
2 22 (3.57%) WAN
3 17 (2.76%) LAN
4 12 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.94%) VLAN
5 11 (1.78%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (1.62%) Broadband
6 10 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.62%) Unified Communications
6 10 (1.62%) WebEx
7 9 (1.46%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.30%) DNS
8 8 (1.30%) Network Security
9 7 (1.13%) VPN
10 6 (0.97%) DHCP
11 5 (0.81%) 5G
11 5 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.81%) Wireless
12 4 (0.65%) Internet
12 4 (0.65%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (16.86%) Power BI
2 102 (16.53%) Tableau
3 24 (3.89%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.57%) Big Data
4 22 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (2.76%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.11%) Hadoop
9 10 (1.62%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (1.30%) MySQL
10 8 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.13%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.97%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 118 (19.12%) Git
2 51 (8.27%) Jenkins
3 46 (7.46%) GitLab
4 32 (5.19%) Subversion
5 30 (4.86%) JIRA
6 25 (4.05%) Eclipse
7 20 (3.24%) JUnit
8 16 (2.59%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.43%) Selenium
10 12 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
13 7 (1.13%) MSI
13 7 (1.13%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.13%) TestRail
14 6 (0.97%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.65%) Postman
16 3 (0.49%) MLflow
16 3 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 206 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.18%) Finance
3 65 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.65%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.38%) Aerospace
7 22 (3.57%) Retail
8 17 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.59%) Marketing
10 11 (1.78%) Banking
10 11 (1.78%) Electronics
11 9 (1.46%) Games
11 9 (1.46%) Law
12 8 (1.30%) Aviation
12 8 (1.30%) Military
12 8 (1.30%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.81%) Legal
15 5 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (18.31%) Analyst
1 113 (18.31%) Junior
2 102 (16.53%) Data Analyst
3 95 (15.40%) Software Engineer
4 89 (14.42%) Developer
5 88 (14.26%) Junior Analyst
5 88 (14.26%) Junior Data Analyst
6 83 (13.45%) Senior
7 60 (9.72%) Data Engineer
8 46 (7.46%) Python Engineer
9 42 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 37 (6.00%) Lead
11 32 (5.19%) Java Developer
12 30 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.05%) Architect
14 25 (4.05%) Python Developer
15 24 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
16 21 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
16 21 (3.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.13%) RESTful
2 43 (6.97%) React
3 31 (5.02%) Spring
3 31 (5.02%) Spring Boot
4 27 (4.38%) Node.js
5 24 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (3.89%) REST
6 23 (3.73%) CSS
6 23 (3.73%) Jakarta EE
6 23 (3.73%) Struts
6 23 (3.73%) Web Services
7 22 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
8 21 (3.40%) .NET
8 21 (3.40%) Kafka
9 20 (3.24%) Vue
10 18 (2.92%) HTML
11 14 (2.27%) FastAPI
11 14 (2.27%) pytest
12 13 (2.11%) Django
13 12 (1.94%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.62%) FlexPod
9 10 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.30%) IoT
12 7 (1.13%) CUDA
12 7 (1.13%) Replication
13 6 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.97%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.37%) Linux
2 68 (11.02%) Windows
3 18 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.59%) Unix
5 11 (1.78%) CentOS
6 7 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.65%) Debian
7 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.49%) Android
8 3 (0.49%) VMS
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.32%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (40.52%) AI
2 161 (26.09%) Software Engineering
3 154 (24.96%) CI/CD
4 136 (22.04%) Business Intelligence
4 136 (22.04%) DevOps
5 135 (21.88%) Agile
6 115 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 110 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
8 87 (14.10%) Containerisation
9 81 (13.13%) Test Automation
10 78 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 67 (10.86%) Analytics
11 67 (10.86%) Machine Learning
12 61 (9.89%) Data Pipeline
12 61 (9.89%) Data Science
13 60 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 48 (7.78%) Mentoring
15 47 (7.62%) ETL
15 47 (7.62%) Microservices
16 46 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
Programming Languages
1 191 (30.96%) SQL
2 139 (22.53%) Java
3 133 (21.56%) JavaScript
4 85 (13.78%) C++
5 72 (11.67%) Bash
6 53 (8.59%) C#
7 42 (6.81%) PowerShell
8 41 (6.65%) Go
9 30 (4.86%) TypeScript
10 24 (3.89%) Perl
11 21 (3.40%) C
12 16 (2.59%) PHP
13 15 (2.43%) Rust
14 14 (2.27%) Scala
15 12 (1.94%) MATLAB
16 9 (1.46%) R
17 8 (1.30%) Groovy
18 7 (1.13%) Bicep
18 7 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 176 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 141 (22.85%) Azure Certification
3 103 (16.69%) DV Cleared
4 82 (13.29%) Degree
5 69 (11.18%) SC Cleared
6 35 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.92%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.46%) PhD
11 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.97%) HND
13 6 (0.97%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.65%) CCNA
14 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.65%) OSCP
14 4 (0.65%) RHCE
15 3 (0.49%) CCNP
15 3 (0.49%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (4.54%) Data Quality
1 28 (4.54%) QA
2 24 (3.89%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.78%) WCAG
4 9 (1.46%) NCSC
5 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.97%) GDPR
7 5 (0.81%) NIST
8 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.49%) PMO
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 103 (16.69%) Docker
2 24 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.92%) Firmware
4 11 (1.78%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.78%) vSphere
5 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.65%) Squid
9 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.32%) iptables
10 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 109 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 105 (17.02%) Terraform
3 92 (14.91%) Ansible
4 41 (6.65%) Grafana
5 19 (3.08%) Puppet
6 17 (2.76%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.27%) Kibana
7 14 (2.27%) logstash
8 10 (1.62%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (1.46%) Argo
9 9 (1.46%) Packer
10 8 (1.30%) Rancher
11 7 (1.13%) vCenter Server
11 7 (1.13%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.97%) yum
13 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.81%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.81%) Nagios
13 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 164 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.21%) Splunk
3 24 (3.89%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.89%) VMware
4 20 (3.24%) Cisco
4 20 (3.24%) Databricks
5 15 (2.43%) Fortinet
6 12 (1.94%) Atlassian
6 12 (1.94%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.46%) Oracle
8 7 (1.13%) NetApp
9 6 (0.97%) Google
9 6 (0.97%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.81%) Intel
10 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.65%) Cognos
11 4 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.65%) OneLogin
11 4 (0.65%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.49%) New Relic