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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 18 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 244 491 642
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.16% 8.07% 14.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.84% 29.04% 35.53%
Number of salaries quoted 152 297 418
10th Percentile £30,165 £40,750 £36,950
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,563 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £71,346 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% +3.45% +2.84%

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 743 1,691 1,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.75% 27.79% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 531 939 1,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 -8 91 £58,500 -22.00% 102
Gloucestershire +11 64 £65,000 -1.89% 134
Dorset -8 27 £77,500 +29.17% 18
Devon -18 25 £48,750 -30.36% 30
Wiltshire +2 18 £36,000 -46.67% 34
Somerset -16 10 £62,500 +13.64% 43
Cornwall -14 4 £55,000 -8.33% 15
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 11 (4.51%) Apache
2 7 (2.87%) Confluence
3 4 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.64%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Weka
2 1 (0.41%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (38.52%) AWS
2 67 (27.46%) Azure
3 29 (11.89%) GitHub
4 22 (9.02%) Amazon S3
5 20 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 20 (8.20%) Serverless
6 17 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (5.74%) GCP
8 12 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.92%) OpenShift
9 9 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.87%) Amazon SageMaker
11 5 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.05%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.64%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.15%) Internet
2 10 (4.10%) WAN
3 9 (3.69%) 5G
4 7 (2.87%) Firewall
4 7 (2.87%) SD-WAN
5 6 (2.46%) DNS
5 6 (2.46%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.05%) Wireshark
7 4 (1.64%) Ethernet
7 4 (1.64%) VSAN
7 4 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.23%) AMQP
8 3 (1.23%) DHCP
8 3 (1.23%) LAN
8 3 (1.23%) VPN
9 2 (0.82%) 2G
9 2 (0.82%) 4G
9 2 (0.82%) HTTP
9 2 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.20%) Power BI
2 13 (5.33%) Tableau
3 12 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.51%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.69%) MySQL
7 8 (3.28%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.87%) Big Data
9 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.46%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.05%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.64%) ClickHouse
11 4 (1.64%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.64%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.23%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 51 (20.90%) Git
2 23 (9.43%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.38%) GitLab
4 8 (3.28%) JIRA
4 8 (3.28%) Selenium
5 6 (2.46%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.46%) Locust
6 5 (2.05%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.05%) JUnit
7 4 (1.64%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.64%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (1.64%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.64%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.23%) Postman
9 2 (0.82%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.82%) Gatling
9 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.82%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.82%) Subversion
9 2 (0.82%) TestRail
General
1 56 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.13%) Finance
3 51 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.25%) Marketing
5 23 (9.43%) Law
6 22 (9.02%) Electronics
6 22 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (8.61%) Manufacturing
8 19 (7.79%) Retail
9 14 (5.74%) Aerospace
10 11 (4.51%) Public Sector
11 10 (4.10%) Military
11 10 (4.10%) Multimedia
11 10 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.05%) Automotive
12 5 (2.05%) Banking
13 4 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.64%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.23%) Aeronautics
14 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (13.52%) Software Engineer
2 31 (12.70%) Senior
3 28 (11.48%) Analyst
4 27 (11.07%) Developer
5 22 (9.02%) Lead
6 20 (8.20%) Python Engineer
7 17 (6.97%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.97%) Python Software Engineer
8 14 (5.74%) Data Analyst
8 14 (5.74%) Trainee
9 12 (4.92%) Software Developer
9 12 (4.92%) Test Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.87%) Administrator
12 7 (2.87%) Electronics Engineer
12 7 (2.87%) Professional Services Engineer
13 6 (2.46%) Architect
13 6 (2.46%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.46%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.02%) React
2 16 (6.56%) HTML
3 15 (6.15%) CSS
4 9 (3.69%) PySpark
5 8 (3.28%) Pandas
5 8 (3.28%) pytest
6 7 (2.87%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.87%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (2.87%) Playwright
6 7 (2.87%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.87%) TensorFlow
7 6 (2.46%) Hibernate
8 5 (2.05%) .NET
8 5 (2.05%) JSF
8 5 (2.05%) Kafka
8 5 (2.05%) REST
8 5 (2.05%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.64%) NumPy
9 4 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.66%) Algorithms
2 14 (5.74%) Linux Command Line
3 12 (4.92%) IoT
4 11 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.87%) Analogue Electronics
6 7 (2.87%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (2.87%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.87%) Self-Driving Car
7 6 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.64%) GNSS
9 4 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.64%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.64%) Satnav
9 4 (1.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.90%) Linux
2 19 (7.79%) Windows
3 11 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.69%) Unix
5 7 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.87%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.46%) CentOS
7 5 (2.05%) Debian
8 3 (1.23%) CoreOS
8 3 (1.23%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.41%) Android
9 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (25.41%) CI/CD
2 60 (24.59%) Software Engineering
3 58 (23.77%) Agile
4 52 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (20.49%) AI
6 48 (19.67%) Analytics
7 47 (19.26%) DevOps
8 45 (18.44%) Machine Learning
9 32 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (12.70%) Data Science
11 30 (12.30%) Mentoring
12 29 (11.89%) Test Automation
13 28 (11.48%) Computer Science
13 28 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (11.07%) Containerisation
15 26 (10.66%) Visualisation
16 25 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (10.25%) Data Analysis
17 24 (9.84%) Data Analytics
18 23 (9.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.33%) SQL
2 54 (22.13%) Java
3 45 (18.44%) JavaScript
4 38 (15.57%) C++
5 32 (13.11%) C
6 26 (10.66%) Bash
7 25 (10.25%) R
8 24 (9.84%) PowerShell
9 16 (6.56%) TypeScript
10 14 (5.74%) MATLAB
11 13 (5.33%) C#
12 11 (4.51%) Go
13 7 (2.87%) Embedded C
14 5 (2.05%) Bicep
15 4 (1.64%) VBA
16 3 (1.23%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (1.23%) Rust
16 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.23%) Tcl
17 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 67 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 59 (24.18%) Degree
3 36 (14.75%) SC Cleared
4 35 (14.34%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.56%) Azure Certification
6 14 (5.74%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 10 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.46%) CREST Certified
9 5 (2.05%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.64%) CISSP
10 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.64%) HND
10 4 (1.64%) SANS
11 3 (1.23%) PhD
12 2 (0.82%) CCNA
12 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.28%) QA
3 6 (2.46%) GDPR
4 5 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (16.39%) Docker
2 7 (2.87%) Firmware
3 5 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.05%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.64%) vSphere
5 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.41%) Ceph
7 1 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.41%) Lustre
7 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.48%) Terraform
3 24 (9.84%) Ansible
4 8 (3.28%) Kibana
5 5 (2.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.64%) Grafana
6 4 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.64%) Puppet
7 3 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.23%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.23%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.82%) Argo
8 2 (0.82%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.41%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.41%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.41%) QRadar
9 1 (0.41%) Rancher
9 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (11.89%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.38%) Databricks
3 17 (6.97%) Google
4 14 (5.74%) Oracle
5 12 (4.92%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.87%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.87%) EMC
7 5 (2.05%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.64%) SAP
8 4 (1.64%) Splunk
8 4 (1.64%) VMware
9 3 (1.23%) Cisco
9 3 (1.23%) McAfee
10 2 (0.82%) Talend
11 1 (0.41%) 3PAR
11 1 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.41%) Veeam
11 1 (0.41%) Zoho