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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 524 255 847
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.71% 8.97% 8.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.60% 30.47% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 262 151 612
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,443 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -0.96% -3.33%
75th Percentile £73,250 £74,443 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 1,230 837 3,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.76% 29.44% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 833 557 2,406
10th Percentile £34,100 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,600 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 0 151 £60,000 - 53
Bristol +2 143 £60,000 - 68
Devon +21 94 £51,250 -2.38% 19
Somerset +14 70 £32,500 -43.48% 19
Dorset -3 30 £40,000 -17.95% 16
Wiltshire -17 20 £67,500 +49.10% 32
Cornwall +8 12 £52,246 -16.41%
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 20 (3.82%) Apache
2 17 (3.24%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.10%) Confluence
4 10 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.53%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (23.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 260 (49.62%) Azure
2 151 (28.82%) Azure AI
3 148 (28.24%) Power Platform
4 143 (27.29%) AWS
5 51 (9.73%) GCP
6 38 (7.25%) GitHub
7 31 (5.92%) Serverless
8 28 (5.34%) Amazon S3
8 28 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.48%) OpenShift
13 12 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.72%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.53%) dbt
15 8 (1.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.20%) WAN
2 20 (3.82%) Firewall
3 13 (2.48%) Broadband
3 13 (2.48%) LAN
4 11 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (2.10%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.91%) 5G
6 9 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.72%) Internet
6 9 (1.72%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.72%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.72%) VLAN
6 9 (1.72%) WebEx
7 7 (1.34%) Network Security
8 6 (1.15%) DHCP
8 6 (1.15%) DNS
9 4 (0.76%) IPv4
9 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.57%) AMQP
10 3 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (25.57%) Power BI
2 123 (23.47%) Tableau
3 18 (3.44%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (3.05%) Big Data
6 15 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 11 (2.10%) SQL Server
11 10 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
12 8 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.15%) Data Vault
15 5 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.95%) InfluxDB
15 5 (0.95%) MySQL
16 4 (0.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 81 (15.46%) Git
2 47 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.92%) GitLab
4 16 (3.05%) JIRA
4 16 (3.05%) Subversion
5 13 (2.48%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.29%) Eclipse
7 10 (1.91%) JUnit
7 10 (1.91%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (1.72%) LabVIEW
9 8 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.53%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.53%) Selenium
10 5 (0.95%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.95%) TestRail
11 4 (0.76%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.57%) MLflow
12 3 (0.57%) MSI
13 2 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 203 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 53 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (8.02%) Finance
4 33 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.39%) Aerospace
6 20 (3.82%) Retail
7 19 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.24%) Electronics
9 14 (2.67%) Marketing
9 14 (2.67%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.29%) Banking
11 10 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.72%) Multimedia
12 9 (1.72%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.95%) Games
15 4 (0.76%) Aviation
15 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (25.00%) Analyst
2 121 (23.09%) Data Analyst
3 120 (22.90%) Junior
4 109 (20.80%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (20.80%) Junior Data Analyst
5 68 (12.98%) Developer
6 59 (11.26%) Software Engineer
7 48 (9.16%) Senior
8 42 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 40 (7.63%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.58%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.20%) Lead
12 22 (4.20%) Python Engineer
13 20 (3.82%) Java Developer
13 20 (3.82%) Trainee
14 19 (3.63%) Data Scientist
15 17 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.05%) Test Engineer
17 14 (2.67%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (5.34%) React
2 25 (4.77%) Node.js
3 22 (4.20%) RESTful
4 21 (4.01%) CSS
5 19 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (3.63%) REST
6 18 (3.44%) Vue
7 17 (3.24%) HTML
8 14 (2.67%) pytest
9 12 (2.29%) Spring
9 12 (2.29%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.10%) .NET
10 11 (2.10%) AngularJS
10 11 (2.10%) Apache NiFi
10 11 (2.10%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.10%) J2EE
10 11 (2.10%) Pandas
10 11 (2.10%) Struts
10 11 (2.10%) Web Services
11 10 (1.91%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.30%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.82%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.72%) FlexPod
5 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.72%) Self-Driving Car
5 9 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.15%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (1.15%) Replication
8 5 (0.95%) CUDA
8 5 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 78 (14.89%) Linux
2 50 (9.54%) Windows
3 19 (3.63%) Unix
4 17 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.91%) CentOS
6 6 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.76%) Debian
7 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.57%) VMS
9 2 (0.38%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (45.04%) AI
2 162 (30.92%) Business Intelligence
3 103 (19.66%) CI/CD
4 99 (18.89%) Software Engineering
5 94 (17.94%) DevOps
6 85 (16.22%) Agile
7 76 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
8 71 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 62 (11.83%) Containerisation
10 54 (10.31%) Analytics
11 52 (9.92%) Test Automation
12 51 (9.73%) Data Science
13 48 (9.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 48 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
14 46 (8.78%) Machine Learning
15 43 (8.21%) Mentoring
16 39 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 33 (6.30%) Data Engineering
18 33 (6.30%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 186 (35.50%) SQL
2 92 (17.56%) JavaScript
3 86 (16.41%) Java
4 75 (14.31%) Bash
5 51 (9.73%) C++
6 46 (8.78%) PowerShell
7 31 (5.92%) C#
8 26 (4.96%) TypeScript
9 24 (4.58%) Go
10 18 (3.44%) R
11 16 (3.05%) C
12 14 (2.67%) MATLAB
12 14 (2.67%) PHP
13 11 (2.10%) Perl
14 8 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.53%) Rust
14 8 (1.53%) Scala
15 5 (0.95%) VBA
16 4 (0.76%) Groovy
17 3 (0.57%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 160 (30.53%) Azure Certification
2 105 (20.04%) Security Cleared
3 68 (12.98%) DV Cleared
4 51 (9.73%) Degree
5 36 (6.87%) SC Cleared
6 24 (4.58%) AWS Certification
7 20 (3.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 18 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (2.10%) HND
11 5 (0.95%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.95%) PhD
11 5 (0.95%) RHCSA
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%) OSCP
12 4 (0.76%) RHCE
12 4 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.67%) QA
3 9 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.95%) GDPR
4 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.76%) WCAG
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 76 (14.50%) Docker
2 20 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.29%) Firmware
4 10 (1.91%) vSphere
5 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.76%) Hyper-V
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 82 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 78 (14.89%) Terraform
3 68 (12.98%) Ansible
4 43 (8.21%) Grafana
5 19 (3.63%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.67%) Puppet
7 12 (2.29%) Kibana
7 12 (2.29%) logstash
8 9 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.34%) Argo
10 6 (1.15%) Packer
10 6 (1.15%) Rancher
10 6 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.95%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.95%) yum
12 3 (0.57%) SCCM
12 3 (0.57%) SCOM
12 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 179 (34.16%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.39%) Splunk
3 20 (3.82%) VMware
4 18 (3.44%) Databricks
5 17 (3.24%) Cisco
6 16 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.10%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.10%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.91%) Oracle
9 9 (1.72%) Google
10 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.15%) Cognos
11 6 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.15%) NetApp
12 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
13 3 (0.57%) SaltStack
13 3 (0.57%) SAP
14 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.38%) Veeam