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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 528 249 800
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.12% 9.33% 9.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.27% 29.09% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 233 174 586
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £77,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 1,117 856 2,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.06% 32.07% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 687 630 2,444
10th Percentile £34,600 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +6.38% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,188 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,550 £82,850 £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 22 April 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 April 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 +1 154 £60,000 -7.69% 52
Bristol 0 151 £55,000 -18.52% 69
Devon +35 101 £50,000 +5.26% 25
Somerset +8 55 £45,142 -24.76% 21
Dorset +2 39 £50,000 +8.11% 13
Wiltshire -18 13 £67,500 +39.36% 31
Cornwall - 8 £40,000 - 10
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 (3.03%) Apache
2 10 (1.89%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.14%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.76%) Confluence
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 155 (29.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
4 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 288 (54.55%) Azure
2 186 (35.23%) Azure AI
3 168 (31.82%) Power Platform
4 148 (28.03%) AWS
5 48 (9.09%) GitHub
6 41 (7.77%) GCP
7 26 (4.92%) Amazon S3
7 26 (4.92%) Serverless
8 23 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.08%) OpenShift
12 10 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (1.33%) Datadog
14 7 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.79%) WAN
2 18 (3.41%) Internet
3 15 (2.84%) Firewall
4 14 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.27%) LAN
6 11 (2.08%) DNS
6 11 (2.08%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.89%) VLAN
8 8 (1.52%) 5G
8 8 (1.52%) Broadband
8 8 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (1.52%) Network Security
8 8 (1.52%) Unified Communications
8 8 (1.52%) WebEx
9 7 (1.33%) DHCP
10 5 (0.95%) BGP
10 5 (0.95%) MPLS
11 4 (0.76%) HTTP
11 4 (0.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (31.63%) Power BI
2 157 (29.73%) Tableau
3 23 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 13 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.70%) Big Data
10 8 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.52%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.52%) MySQL
10 8 (1.52%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.95%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.76%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (13.26%) Git
2 49 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.92%) GitLab
4 13 (2.46%) Cucumber
5 11 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.89%) JUnit
7 9 (1.70%) JIRA
7 9 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.52%) LabVIEW
8 8 (1.52%) Selenium
9 7 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.33%) Subversion
9 7 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.95%) TestRail
11 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.76%) TestNG
12 3 (0.57%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.57%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.57%) Metasploit
General
1 240 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 59 (11.17%) Finance
3 53 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.30%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.41%) Marketing
7 18 (3.41%) Multimedia
8 17 (3.22%) Electronics
9 16 (3.03%) Retail
10 15 (2.84%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.27%) Banking
13 11 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.70%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.95%) Law
15 5 (0.95%) Military
16 4 (0.76%) Avionics
16 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (31.06%) Analyst
2 156 (29.55%) Data Analyst
3 146 (27.65%) Junior
4 144 (27.27%) Junior Analyst
4 144 (27.27%) Junior Data Analyst
5 61 (11.55%) Software Engineer
6 56 (10.61%) Developer
7 42 (7.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 38 (7.20%) Senior
9 33 (6.25%) Trainee
10 29 (5.49%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.73%) Python Developer
12 21 (3.98%) Python Engineer
13 20 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (3.41%) Data Scientist
15 17 (3.22%) Lead
16 16 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.03%) Test Engineer
17 12 (2.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 11 (2.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.30%) CSS
2 25 (4.73%) HTML
3 23 (4.36%) React
4 18 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.22%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.03%) Node.js
6 16 (3.03%) Vue
7 15 (2.84%) pytest
8 13 (2.46%) REST
9 12 (2.27%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (2.08%) Django
10 11 (2.08%) NumPy
10 11 (2.08%) Pandas
10 11 (2.08%) Spring
10 11 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 8 (1.52%) FastAPI
11 8 (1.52%) Flask
11 8 (1.52%) OAuth
11 8 (1.52%) PySpark
11 8 (1.52%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 14 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.70%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.52%) FlexPod
7 8 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.52%) Self-Driving Car
7 8 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
8 7 (1.33%) Replication
8 7 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.95%) IoT
10 5 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
11 4 (0.76%) CUDA
11 4 (0.76%) Over-the-Top Content
11 4 (0.76%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 79 (14.96%) Linux
2 38 (7.20%) Windows
3 13 (2.46%) Unix
4 11 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.14%) CentOS
5 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.19%) VMS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (45.45%) AI
2 186 (35.23%) Business Intelligence
3 93 (17.61%) Software Engineering
4 91 (17.23%) CI/CD
5 87 (16.48%) DevOps
6 79 (14.96%) Agile
7 69 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 54 (10.23%) Analytics
10 53 (10.04%) Containerisation
11 49 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (9.28%) Test Automation
12 48 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 45 (8.52%) Mentoring
14 44 (8.33%) Machine Learning
15 43 (8.14%) Data Science
16 42 (7.95%) Cybersecurity
17 31 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 28 (5.30%) Full-Stack Development
19 27 (5.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 200 (37.88%) SQL
2 89 (16.86%) JavaScript
3 80 (15.15%) Java
4 79 (14.96%) Bash
5 49 (9.28%) PowerShell
6 34 (6.44%) C++
7 30 (5.68%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.11%) Go
9 26 (4.92%) R
10 25 (4.73%) C#
11 22 (4.17%) C
12 11 (2.08%) MATLAB
12 11 (2.08%) PHP
13 10 (1.89%) Scala
14 6 (1.14%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.14%) Rust
15 4 (0.76%) Groovy
16 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.57%) Elixir
16 3 (0.57%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 204 (38.64%) Azure Certification
2 94 (17.80%) Security Cleared
3 61 (11.55%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.90%) Degree
5 29 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 28 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 27 (5.11%) SC Cleared
8 18 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (2.27%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.52%) HND
11 7 (1.33%) CISSP
11 7 (1.33%) SANS
12 6 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.76%) PhD
14 3 (0.57%) CCNP
14 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.38%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.41%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.22%) QA
3 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.57%) GDPR
4 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (13.45%) Docker
2 13 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.89%) Firmware
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.95%) vSphere
5 4 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.76%) iptables
6 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (15.72%) Kubernetes
2 67 (12.69%) Terraform
3 56 (10.61%) Ansible
4 39 (7.39%) Grafana
5 15 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.08%) Kibana
7 10 (1.89%) logstash
7 10 (1.89%) Puppet
8 9 (1.70%) Argo
9 8 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.52%) Rancher
10 7 (1.33%) yum
11 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.57%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.57%) Nmap
13 3 (0.57%) SCCM
13 3 (0.57%) SCOM
13 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 201 (38.07%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.98%) Splunk
3 16 (3.03%) Cisco
4 14 (2.65%) Oracle
4 14 (2.65%) VMware
5 13 (2.46%) Databricks
6 11 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.08%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.52%) Google
9 6 (1.14%) SAP
10 5 (0.95%) NetApp
11 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.57%) Cognos
12 3 (0.57%) Dell
12 3 (0.57%) HP
12 3 (0.57%) Juniper
12 3 (0.57%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.57%) Veeam