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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 29 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 598 220 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.05% 6.34% 8.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.63% 30.56% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 335 140 393
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,875 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,625 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,548 720 1,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.65% 20.74% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 489 1,272
10th Percentile £32,750 £29,200 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 10 September 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 September 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 -3 214 £65,000 +18.18% 89
Bristol +2 150 £62,500 +4.17% 70
Devon +17 88 £62,500 +31.58% 31
Somerset +24 84 £37,500 -31.82% 26
Wiltshire -13 26 £56,250 +53.48% 19
Dorset -7 24 £40,000 -44.83% 27
Cornwall +12 8 £52,246 -16.41% 1
Avon - 1 - - 46
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 39 (6.52%) Apache
2 21 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.51%) Confluence
3 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.84%) nginx
4 5 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.67%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.17%) Simulink
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.17%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 241 (40.30%) Azure
2 152 (25.42%) AWS
3 104 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 99 (16.56%) Azure AI
5 53 (8.86%) GCP
6 35 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.18%) OpenShift
7 25 (4.18%) Serverless
8 24 (4.01%) GitHub
9 22 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.01%) Amazon S3
12 17 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (2.51%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.84%) SaaS
14 11 (1.84%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.68%) Firewall
1 22 (3.68%) WAN
2 17 (2.84%) LAN
3 12 (2.01%) SD-WAN
4 10 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (1.67%) DNS
4 10 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.67%) VLAN
5 9 (1.51%) VPN
6 8 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.34%) Wireless
7 7 (1.17%) BGP
7 7 (1.17%) Broadband
7 7 (1.17%) OSPF
7 7 (1.17%) Unified Communications
7 7 (1.17%) WebEx
8 6 (1.00%) DHCP
8 6 (1.00%) Network Security
9 5 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.88%) Power BI
2 68 (11.37%) Tableau
3 25 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
4 24 (4.01%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.85%) Big Data
5 23 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.34%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.51%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.84%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.67%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.67%) MySQL
11 8 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.17%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 128 (21.40%) Git
2 53 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 49 (8.19%) GitLab
4 37 (6.19%) Subversion
5 34 (5.69%) JIRA
6 28 (4.68%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.68%) JUnit
8 16 (2.68%) Selenium
9 14 (2.34%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.17%) Cypress.io
10 13 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.84%) LabVIEW
12 9 (1.51%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.51%) TestRail
13 8 (1.34%) Robot Framework
14 7 (1.17%) MSI
15 4 (0.67%) Postman
15 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
16 3 (0.50%) MLflow
16 3 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 175 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (12.37%) Finance
4 37 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.68%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.84%) Retail
8 16 (2.68%) Electronics
8 16 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.17%) Marketing
10 9 (1.51%) Games
11 8 (1.34%) Aviation
11 8 (1.34%) Banking
11 8 (1.34%) Law
11 8 (1.34%) Military
11 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Legal
12 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 97 (16.22%) Software Engineer
2 87 (14.55%) Developer
3 84 (14.05%) Analyst
3 84 (14.05%) Junior
4 83 (13.88%) Senior
5 71 (11.87%) Data Analyst
6 62 (10.37%) Data Engineer
7 57 (9.53%) Junior Analyst
8 56 (9.36%) Junior Data Analyst
9 51 (8.53%) Python Engineer
10 43 (7.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 40 (6.69%) Lead
12 33 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (5.52%) Java Developer
13 29 (4.85%) Test Engineer
14 27 (4.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.35%) Architect
15 26 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (4.01%) Python Software Engineer
17 23 (3.85%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (19.40%) Terraform
2 49 (8.19%) React
3 47 (7.86%) RESTful
4 36 (6.02%) Spring
4 36 (6.02%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (4.35%) Node.js
6 26 (4.35%) Struts
6 26 (4.35%) Web Services
7 25 (4.18%) Kafka
8 24 (4.01%) REST
9 23 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
10 22 (3.68%) CSS
11 20 (3.34%) .NET
11 20 (3.34%) Vue
12 17 (2.84%) HTML
13 16 (2.68%) Keycloak
14 15 (2.51%) pytest
15 13 (2.17%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.53%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (2.84%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.17%) FlexPod
9 7 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
9 7 (1.17%) Robotics
9 7 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.00%) CUDA
10 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.00%) IoT
10 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.89%) Linux
2 65 (10.87%) Windows
3 18 (3.01%) Unix
4 15 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.17%) CentOS
6 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.84%) Debian
7 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (35.95%) AI
2 166 (27.76%) CI/CD
3 165 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 152 (25.42%) DevOps
5 144 (24.08%) Agile
6 125 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 124 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
8 106 (17.73%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 89 (14.88%) Containerisation
11 81 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
12 71 (11.87%) Analytics
13 70 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (9.70%) Machine Learning
16 55 (9.20%) ETL
17 52 (8.70%) Data Science
17 52 (8.70%) Mentoring
18 50 (8.36%) Validation
19 48 (8.03%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 168 (28.09%) SQL
2 153 (25.59%) Java
3 140 (23.41%) JavaScript
4 96 (16.05%) C++
5 76 (12.71%) Bash
6 58 (9.70%) C#
7 43 (7.19%) Go
8 40 (6.69%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.35%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.52%) Perl
11 24 (4.01%) C
12 15 (2.51%) MATLAB
12 15 (2.51%) Rust
13 13 (2.17%) PHP
14 11 (1.84%) Scala
15 9 (1.51%) R
16 8 (1.34%) Groovy
17 7 (1.17%) Bicep
17 7 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 190 (31.77%) Security Cleared
2 114 (19.06%) Azure Certification
3 103 (17.22%) DV Cleared
4 81 (13.55%) Degree
5 79 (13.21%) SC Cleared
6 37 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.34%) HND
11 6 (1.00%) PhD
11 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.84%) CCNP
13 4 (0.67%) CCNA
13 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.67%) OSCP
13 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.35%) QA
2 31 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.68%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.84%) WCAG
5 10 (1.67%) NCSC
6 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.84%) GDPR
7 5 (0.84%) PMO
8 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 99 (16.56%) Docker
2 23 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.51%) Firmware
4 12 (2.01%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.34%) vSphere
7 6 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.67%) Squid
9 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 114 (19.06%) Kubernetes
2 102 (17.06%) Ansible
3 39 (6.52%) Grafana
4 21 (3.51%) Puppet
5 16 (2.68%) Kibana
5 16 (2.68%) logstash
5 16 (2.68%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.67%) Argo
7 9 (1.51%) Packer
7 9 (1.51%) Rancher
8 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.17%) yum
9 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.84%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.84%) Nagios
10 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.50%) Istio
11 3 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 132 (22.07%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 23 (3.85%) Splunk
3 23 (3.85%) VMware
4 21 (3.51%) Cisco
5 19 (3.18%) Databricks
6 14 (2.34%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.17%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.84%) Google
9 10 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.34%) Oracle
11 7 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.17%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.84%) Intel
13 4 (0.67%) Avaya
13 4 (0.67%) F5
13 4 (0.67%) Infoblox
13 4 (0.67%) NetApp
13 4 (0.67%) Netskope
13 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow