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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 16
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 432 273 767
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.61% 9.63% 9.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.00% 27.19% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 228 184 551
10th Percentile £30,165 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -3.40%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,600
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +7.14% -3.45%

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 960 1,004 2,857
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.68% 35.43% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 637 647 2,401
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 22 March 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 22 March 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
Bristol +2 141 £55,000 -18.52% 80
Gloucestershire +12 129 £60,000 -7.69% 71
Devon +27 68 £50,000 -23.08% 36
Somerset -4 30 £42,784 -23.94% 34
Dorset -4 27 £100,000 +122.22% 16
Wiltshire -11 18 £55,000 +6.59% 26
Cornwall -4 10 £55,000 -8.33% 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 16 (3.70%) Apache
2 11 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.39%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.46%) WordPress
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
6 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 113 (26.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.39%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Weka
4 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 210 (48.61%) Azure
2 148 (34.26%) AWS
3 123 (28.47%) Power Platform
4 102 (23.61%) Azure AI
5 57 (13.19%) GitHub
6 36 (8.33%) GCP
7 30 (6.94%) Amazon S3
8 29 (6.71%) Serverless
9 26 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.31%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.39%) Datadog
15 6 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.86%) Internet
2 18 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 17 (3.94%) WAN
4 15 (3.47%) DNS
5 14 (3.24%) Firewall
6 11 (2.55%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.31%) 5G
8 9 (2.08%) LAN
8 9 (2.08%) Network Security
9 8 (1.85%) DHCP
10 7 (1.62%) Broadband
10 7 (1.62%) VLAN
11 6 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.39%) HTTP
12 5 (1.16%) BGP
12 5 (1.16%) MPLS
12 5 (1.16%) VPN
12 5 (1.16%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.93%) Ethernet
13 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (28.47%) Power BI
2 116 (26.85%) Tableau
3 21 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (3.47%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.08%) Big Data
9 9 (2.08%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.85%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.62%) MySQL
12 4 (0.93%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.93%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.69%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.69%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (16.67%) Git
2 43 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.09%) GitLab
4 12 (2.78%) JUnit
4 12 (2.78%) LabVIEW
5 11 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.62%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.39%) JIRA
9 6 (1.39%) Selenium
9 6 (1.39%) Subversion
9 6 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.16%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.93%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.93%) TestNG
12 3 (0.69%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.69%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.69%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 161 (37.27%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.89%) Finance
3 55 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.86%) Multimedia
6 20 (4.63%) Electronics
6 20 (4.63%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.17%) Aerospace
8 17 (3.94%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.70%) Marketing
10 12 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.78%) Retail
11 10 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.08%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.85%) Banking
14 5 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.16%) Law
14 5 (1.16%) Military
15 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (28.70%) Analyst
2 117 (27.08%) Data Analyst
3 104 (24.07%) Junior
4 102 (23.61%) Junior Analyst
4 102 (23.61%) Junior Data Analyst
5 52 (12.04%) Software Engineer
6 46 (10.65%) Developer
7 44 (10.19%) Senior
8 36 (8.33%) Trainee
9 22 (5.09%) Data Engineer
10 19 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 18 (4.17%) Test Engineer
12 17 (3.94%) Data Scientist
12 17 (3.94%) Lead
13 15 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.01%) Product Engineer
14 13 (3.01%) Python Developer
14 13 (3.01%) Security Engineer
15 12 (2.78%) Product Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.94%) CSS
2 29 (6.71%) HTML
3 27 (6.25%) React
4 17 (3.94%) AngularJS
4 17 (3.94%) pytest
5 15 (3.47%) Node.js
6 13 (3.01%) Spring
6 13 (3.01%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (2.55%) Vue
9 10 (2.31%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (2.31%) NumPy
9 10 (2.31%) Pandas
9 10 (2.31%) REST
10 8 (1.85%) Django
10 8 (1.85%) MERN Stack
10 8 (1.85%) PySpark
10 8 (1.85%) scikit-learn
11 7 (1.62%) Hugging Face
11 7 (1.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.85%) GNSS
4 8 (1.85%) IoT
4 8 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.85%) Satnav
4 8 (1.85%) Self-Driving Car
5 6 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.39%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.39%) Replication
5 6 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.06%) Linux
2 39 (9.03%) Windows
3 16 (3.70%) Unix
4 11 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.39%) CentOS
7 2 (0.46%) Solaris
7 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.23%) Debian
8 1 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (36.34%) AI
2 139 (32.18%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (18.29%) DevOps
4 78 (18.06%) Agile
4 78 (18.06%) CI/CD
5 76 (17.59%) Software Engineering
6 71 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (12.04%) Containerisation
8 51 (11.81%) Analytics
9 50 (11.57%) Mentoring
10 49 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (11.34%) Machine Learning
11 47 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (9.95%) Data Science
12 43 (9.95%) Test Automation
13 41 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (6.48%) Visualisation
15 27 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (5.09%) Data Analysis
17 21 (4.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 156 (36.11%) SQL
2 84 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 78 (18.06%) Bash
4 76 (17.59%) Java
5 48 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 38 (8.80%) C++
7 29 (6.71%) R
8 28 (6.48%) C
9 24 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.63%) C#
10 20 (4.63%) Go
11 14 (3.24%) MATLAB
12 9 (2.08%) Scala
13 8 (1.85%) PHP
14 6 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.69%) Erlang
16 3 (0.69%) Groovy
16 3 (0.69%) Rust
16 3 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 124 (28.70%) Azure Certification
2 94 (21.76%) Security Cleared
3 65 (15.05%) DV Cleared
4 51 (11.81%) Degree
5 33 (7.64%) AWS Certification
6 29 (6.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 29 (6.71%) SC Cleared
7 21 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (3.47%) CREST Certified
9 12 (2.78%) HND
10 9 (2.08%) CISSP
10 9 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.08%) SANS
11 6 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.93%) PhD
13 3 (0.69%) CCNP
13 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.69%) CITP
14 2 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.47%) QA
3 11 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.69%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.69%) NIST
6 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (15.97%) Docker
2 12 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.39%) Firmware
4 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.16%) vSphere
5 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.93%) iptables
5 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 4 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Ceph
8 1 (0.23%) Lustre
8 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 81 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 56 (12.96%) Terraform
3 46 (10.65%) Ansible
4 28 (6.48%) Grafana
5 13 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.85%) Argo
6 8 (1.85%) Kibana
6 8 (1.85%) Puppet
7 6 (1.39%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.39%) Rancher
7 6 (1.39%) yum
8 5 (1.16%) logstash
9 4 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.69%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.69%) Nmap
10 3 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.46%) Istio
11 2 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.46%) Nagios
11 2 (0.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 158 (36.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.94%) Oracle
3 14 (3.24%) Splunk
4 13 (3.01%) Cisco
4 13 (3.01%) VMware
5 8 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.85%) Databricks
5 8 (1.85%) Fortinet
5 8 (1.85%) Google
5 8 (1.85%) Palo Alto
5 8 (1.85%) SAP
6 7 (1.62%) Red Hat
7 4 (0.93%) NetApp
8 3 (0.69%) Cognos
8 3 (0.69%) Dell
8 3 (0.69%) HP
8 3 (0.69%) Juniper
8 3 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (0.69%) Typelevel
8 3 (0.69%) Veeam