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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 536 260 847
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.77% 9.06% 8.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.24% 30.88% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 267 155 616
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,375 £46,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,443 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -0.96% -3.33%
75th Percentile £73,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 1,269 842 3,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.03% 29.35% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 857 561 2,391
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,875
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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +2 162 £60,000 - 48
Bristol +3 141 £60,000 - 49
Devon +18 94 £51,250 -2.38% 17
Somerset +13 73 £31,500 -45.22% 17
Dorset 0 29 £40,000 -17.95% 12
Wiltshire -17 21 £60,000 +32.53% 25
Cornwall +7 12 £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 22 (4.10%) Apache
2 17 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.87%) Confluence
4 8 (1.49%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (22.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.31%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 260 (48.51%) Azure
2 151 (28.17%) Azure AI
3 148 (27.61%) AWS
4 144 (26.87%) Power Platform
5 55 (10.26%) GCP
6 36 (6.72%) GitHub
7 32 (5.97%) Serverless
8 29 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.99%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (1.87%) SaaS
15 9 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.68%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.10%) WAN
2 20 (3.73%) Firewall
3 13 (2.43%) Broadband
3 13 (2.43%) LAN
4 11 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (2.05%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.87%) 5G
5 10 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.68%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.68%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.68%) VLAN
6 9 (1.68%) WebEx
7 7 (1.31%) Internet
7 7 (1.31%) Network Security
8 6 (1.12%) DHCP
8 6 (1.12%) DNS
9 4 (0.75%) IPv4
9 4 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.56%) AMQP
10 3 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (24.25%) Power BI
2 124 (23.13%) Tableau
3 21 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (3.54%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.99%) Big Data
5 16 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 11 (2.05%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.87%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.12%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.12%) InfluxDB
11 6 (1.12%) MySQL
11 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 86 (16.04%) Git
2 50 (9.33%) Jenkins
3 36 (6.72%) GitLab
4 19 (3.54%) Subversion
5 16 (2.99%) JIRA
6 14 (2.61%) Bitbucket
6 14 (2.61%) Eclipse
7 11 (2.05%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.87%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.68%) LabVIEW
10 8 (1.49%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.49%) JUnit
10 8 (1.49%) Selenium
11 6 (1.12%) Robot Framework
11 6 (1.12%) TestRail
12 4 (0.75%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.56%) MLflow
13 3 (0.56%) MSI
14 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
General
1 204 (38.06%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (8.40%) Finance
4 33 (6.16%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.48%) Aerospace
6 22 (4.10%) Retail
7 19 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.17%) Electronics
9 14 (2.61%) Marketing
9 14 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.24%) Banking
11 10 (1.87%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.68%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.31%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.93%) Games
16 4 (0.75%) Aviation
16 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (24.81%) Analyst
2 123 (22.95%) Data Analyst
3 122 (22.76%) Junior
4 109 (20.34%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (20.34%) Junior Data Analyst
5 71 (13.25%) Developer
6 60 (11.19%) Software Engineer
7 51 (9.51%) Senior
8 42 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 39 (7.28%) Data Engineer
10 27 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (5.04%) Python Engineer
11 25 (4.66%) Python Developer
12 22 (4.10%) Java Developer
13 21 (3.92%) Lead
14 18 (3.36%) Data Scientist
14 18 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.36%) Test Engineer
14 18 (3.36%) Trainee
15 14 (2.61%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.60%) React
2 26 (4.85%) Node.js
2 26 (4.85%) RESTful
3 22 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (3.73%) CSS
4 20 (3.73%) Vue
5 19 (3.54%) REST
6 16 (2.99%) HTML
6 16 (2.99%) pytest
7 14 (2.61%) Apache NiFi
8 13 (2.43%) J2EE
8 13 (2.43%) Struts
8 13 (2.43%) Web Services
9 12 (2.24%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.05%) .NET
10 11 (2.05%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.05%) Pandas
10 11 (2.05%) Spring
10 11 (2.05%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.87%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.34%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.73%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.68%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.68%) Self-Driving Car
7 9 (1.68%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 6 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
8 6 (1.12%) Replication
9 5 (0.93%) CUDA
9 5 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 86 (16.04%) Linux
2 52 (9.70%) Windows
3 22 (4.10%) Unix
4 17 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.05%) CentOS
6 6 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.93%) Debian
7 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.56%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.19%) Rocky
10 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (44.03%) AI
2 159 (29.66%) Business Intelligence
3 110 (20.52%) CI/CD
4 104 (19.40%) Software Engineering
5 100 (18.66%) DevOps
6 92 (17.16%) Agile
7 81 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 65 (12.13%) Containerisation
10 56 (10.45%) Test Automation
11 53 (9.89%) Analytics
12 51 (9.51%) Data Science
12 51 (9.51%) Full-Stack Development
13 48 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 46 (8.58%) Machine Learning
15 43 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (7.84%) Mentoring
17 39 (7.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 36 (6.72%) Data Pipeline
19 31 (5.78%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 185 (34.51%) SQL
2 95 (17.72%) JavaScript
3 89 (16.60%) Java
4 82 (15.30%) Bash
5 55 (10.26%) C++
6 48 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 31 (5.78%) C#
8 28 (5.22%) Go
9 27 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 17 (3.17%) C
11 16 (2.99%) PHP
11 16 (2.99%) R
12 14 (2.61%) MATLAB
13 13 (2.43%) Perl
14 9 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.68%) Rust
15 8 (1.49%) Scala
16 5 (0.93%) VBA
17 4 (0.75%) Groovy
17 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (29.66%) Azure Certification
2 117 (21.83%) Security Cleared
3 73 (13.62%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.89%) Degree
5 43 (8.02%) SC Cleared
6 22 (4.10%) AWS Certification
7 20 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (2.05%) HND
9 11 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.93%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.93%) PhD
10 5 (0.93%) RHCSA
11 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.75%) CCNA
11 4 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.75%) CISSP
11 4 (0.75%) OSCP
11 4 (0.75%) RHCE
11 4 (0.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.99%) QA
3 10 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.93%) GDPR
4 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.75%) WCAG
6 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.56%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 79 (14.74%) Docker
2 21 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.24%) Firmware
4 10 (1.87%) vSphere
5 9 (1.68%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.75%) iptables
8 4 (0.75%) Squid
8 4 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 89 (16.60%) Kubernetes
2 84 (15.67%) Terraform
3 76 (14.18%) Ansible
4 46 (8.58%) Grafana
5 19 (3.54%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.99%) Puppet
7 15 (2.80%) Kibana
7 15 (2.80%) logstash
8 9 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.49%) Argo
9 8 (1.49%) Rancher
10 6 (1.12%) Packer
10 6 (1.12%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.12%) yum
10 6 (1.12%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.93%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.56%) SCCM
12 3 (0.56%) SCOM
12 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 175 (32.65%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.29%) Splunk
3 21 (3.92%) VMware
4 18 (3.36%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.17%) Cisco
5 17 (3.17%) Databricks
6 11 (2.05%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.05%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.68%) Oracle
8 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.49%) Google
9 6 (1.12%) Cognos
9 6 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.12%) NetApp
10 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.75%) SAP
10 4 (0.75%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.56%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.37%) Veeam