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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 525 241 820
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.87% 8.86% 8.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.68% 29.11% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 251 150 593
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,375 £36,400
25th Percentile £43,625 £46,495 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,443 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +2.58% -6.67%
75th Percentile £71,875 £74,721 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,175 828 2,941
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.37% 30.44% 31.09%
Number of salaries quoted 771 563 2,392
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +1 149 £60,000 - 33
Bristol +9 147 £60,000 -5.88% 76
Devon +26 101 £50,000 +5.26% 15
Somerset +17 64 £36,250 -36.96% 18
Dorset -2 33 £50,000 +2.56% 13
Wiltshire -24 16 £75,000 +45.35% 21
Cornwall - 11 £52,246 - 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 19 (3.62%) Apache
2 15 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.52%) Confluence
4 8 (1.52%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 133 (25.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.33%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 275 (52.38%) Azure
2 165 (31.43%) Azure AI
3 162 (30.86%) Power Platform
4 143 (27.24%) AWS
5 51 (9.71%) GCP
6 40 (7.62%) GitHub
7 29 (5.52%) Amazon S3
8 28 (5.33%) Serverless
9 25 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.10%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.71%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.52%) dbt
17 7 (1.33%) Datadog
17 7 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.38%) WAN
2 20 (3.81%) Firewall
3 13 (2.48%) LAN
4 12 (2.29%) Broadband
4 12 (2.29%) SD-WAN
5 11 (2.10%) 5G
5 11 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (2.10%) Internet
5 11 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.71%) DNS
6 9 (1.71%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.71%) VLAN
6 9 (1.71%) WebEx
7 8 (1.52%) DHCP
8 7 (1.33%) Network Security
9 4 (0.76%) IPv4
9 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.57%) VPN
11 2 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (28.57%) Power BI
2 136 (25.90%) Tableau
3 18 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (3.05%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 14 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (2.67%) Big Data
7 13 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 12 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.29%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.71%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.52%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.14%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.14%) MySQL
12 5 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.76%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.76%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 77 (14.67%) Git
2 48 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.52%) GitLab
4 14 (2.67%) Bitbucket
5 13 (2.48%) JIRA
6 12 (2.29%) Subversion
7 10 (1.90%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.90%) JUnit
7 10 (1.90%) LabVIEW
7 10 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (1.71%) SonarQube
9 8 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.33%) Eclipse
10 7 (1.33%) Selenium
11 6 (1.14%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.76%) TestNG
12 4 (0.76%) TestRail
13 3 (0.57%) MLflow
14 2 (0.38%) ESLint
General
1 223 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 57 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.76%) Finance
4 34 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.57%) Aerospace
6 20 (3.81%) Electronics
7 18 (3.43%) Retail
8 17 (3.24%) Marketing
8 17 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.29%) Banking
10 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.10%) Multimedia
11 11 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.71%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.76%) Aviation
13 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 144 (27.43%) Analyst
2 133 (25.33%) Data Analyst
3 129 (24.57%) Junior
4 123 (23.43%) Junior Analyst
4 123 (23.43%) Junior Data Analyst
5 58 (11.05%) Developer
6 50 (9.52%) Software Engineer
7 42 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 40 (7.62%) Data Engineer
8 40 (7.62%) Senior
9 24 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (4.38%) Python Developer
11 22 (4.19%) Data Scientist
11 22 (4.19%) Trainee
12 21 (4.00%) Lead
13 17 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (3.24%) Test Engineer
14 15 (2.86%) Java Developer
15 13 (2.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 13 (2.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (4.57%) React
2 22 (4.19%) Node.js
3 20 (3.81%) CSS
4 18 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.24%) Vue
6 16 (3.05%) HTML
6 16 (3.05%) pytest
7 14 (2.67%) REST
8 12 (2.29%) AngularJS
8 12 (2.29%) RESTful
9 11 (2.10%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (2.10%) FastAPI
9 11 (2.10%) Pandas
10 10 (1.90%) NumPy
10 10 (1.90%) Spring
10 10 (1.90%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.71%) Django
11 9 (1.71%) PySpark
11 9 (1.71%) XMPP
12 8 (1.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.81%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.90%) Self-Driving Car
7 9 (1.71%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.33%) Replication
10 6 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
11 5 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.95%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.24%) Linux
2 48 (9.14%) Windows
3 20 (3.81%) Unix
4 18 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.52%) CentOS
6 7 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.57%) VMS
8 2 (0.38%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.38%) Debian
8 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (46.48%) AI
2 180 (34.29%) Business Intelligence
3 98 (18.67%) CI/CD
4 96 (18.29%) DevOps
5 85 (16.19%) Software Engineering
6 83 (15.81%) Agile
7 77 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
8 67 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 58 (11.05%) Analytics
9 58 (11.05%) Containerisation
10 53 (10.10%) Data Science
10 53 (10.10%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 46 (8.76%) Machine Learning
13 44 (8.38%) Mentoring
14 41 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (7.05%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 35 (6.67%) Data Engineering
17 32 (6.10%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 199 (37.90%) SQL
2 86 (16.38%) JavaScript
3 81 (15.43%) Java
4 80 (15.24%) Bash
5 49 (9.33%) PowerShell
6 44 (8.38%) C++
7 30 (5.71%) C#
8 25 (4.76%) TypeScript
9 23 (4.38%) Go
9 23 (4.38%) R
10 17 (3.24%) C
11 14 (2.67%) MATLAB
12 13 (2.48%) PHP
13 10 (1.90%) Scala
14 7 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.33%) Rust
15 6 (1.14%) Perl
16 5 (0.95%) Groovy
17 4 (0.76%) VBA
18 3 (0.57%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 176 (33.52%) Azure Certification
2 99 (18.86%) Security Cleared
3 65 (12.38%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.95%) Degree
5 30 (5.71%) SC Cleared
6 26 (4.95%) AWS Certification
7 21 (4.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.29%) HND
11 6 (1.14%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.76%) CCNA
12 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.76%) CISSP
12 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.76%) PhD
12 4 (0.76%) RHCE
12 4 (0.76%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.24%) QA
3 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.95%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (14.29%) Docker
2 21 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.10%) Firmware
4 10 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.90%) vSphere
5 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.95%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.76%) iptables
7 4 (0.76%) Squid
7 4 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 73 (13.90%) Terraform
3 67 (12.76%) Ansible
4 42 (8.00%) Grafana
5 18 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.48%) Puppet
7 10 (1.90%) Kibana
7 10 (1.90%) logstash
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.52%) Argo
10 7 (1.33%) Rancher
11 6 (1.14%) yum
11 6 (1.14%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.95%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.95%) Packer
12 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.57%) Nagios
14 3 (0.57%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 191 (36.38%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.57%) Splunk
3 22 (4.19%) VMware
4 18 (3.43%) Cisco
4 18 (3.43%) Databricks
5 15 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.48%) Oracle
7 11 (2.10%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.52%) Google
9 6 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.14%) Cognos
9 6 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.14%) NetApp
10 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.76%) SAP
10 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.57%) Dell
11 3 (0.57%) HP
11 3 (0.57%) Veeam