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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 271 480 613
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.24% 8.19% 13.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.19% 28.76% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 173 293 394
10th Percentile £30,165 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,800 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,150 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.85% +3.66% +3.57%

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 770 1,669 1,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.73% 28.48% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 566 914 1,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £44,192
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 £80,000 £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 19 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 19 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 -10 97 £56,000 -22.76% 94
Gloucestershire +8 72 £67,500 - 105
Devon -16 29 £52,500 -25.00% 32
Dorset -13 28 £77,500 +29.17% 24
Wiltshire -1 21 £36,650 -45.70% 29
Somerset -15 11 £72,500 +31.82% 27
Cornwall -17 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
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 12 (4.43%) Apache
2 7 (2.58%) Confluence
3 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.37%) JBoss
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Weka
2 1 (0.37%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 105 (38.75%) AWS
2 82 (30.26%) Azure
3 34 (12.55%) GitHub
4 26 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.12%) Amazon S3
5 22 (8.12%) Serverless
6 18 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.90%) GCP
8 14 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.80%) OpenShift
10 9 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.58%) Azure AI
12 6 (2.21%) Amazon SageMaker
13 5 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.48%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.64%) Internet
2 10 (3.69%) TCP/IP
2 10 (3.69%) WAN
3 9 (3.32%) Firewall
4 8 (2.95%) DNS
5 7 (2.58%) 5G
5 7 (2.58%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.21%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (1.85%) LAN
7 5 (1.85%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.48%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.48%) HTTP
8 4 (1.48%) Network Security
8 4 (1.48%) VPN
8 4 (1.48%) VSAN
8 4 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.11%) AMQP
9 3 (1.11%) DHCP
10 2 (0.74%) 2G
10 2 (0.74%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.59%) Power BI
2 23 (8.49%) Tableau
3 12 (4.43%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.43%) Relational Database
4 11 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.69%) MySQL
5 10 (3.69%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.95%) Big Data
7 7 (2.58%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.58%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.85%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.48%) ClickHouse
10 4 (1.48%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.11%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.11%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 56 (20.66%) Git
2 27 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.38%) GitLab
4 9 (3.32%) Selenium
5 8 (2.95%) JIRA
6 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.21%) JUnit
6 6 (2.21%) Locust
7 5 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.48%) ER Studio
8 4 (1.48%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.48%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.48%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.11%) Balsamiq
9 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.11%) Postman
10 2 (0.74%) Gatling
10 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 66 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.51%) Finance
3 54 (19.93%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.96%) Marketing
5 24 (8.86%) Law
6 23 (8.49%) Electronics
7 22 (8.12%) Manufacturing
8 19 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.54%) Aerospace
9 15 (5.54%) Retail
10 13 (4.80%) Multimedia
11 12 (4.43%) Public Sector
12 9 (3.32%) Military
13 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.21%) Automotive
15 5 (1.85%) Banking
15 5 (1.85%) Telecoms
16 4 (1.48%) Avionics
16 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
16 4 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (15.13%) Software Engineer
2 36 (13.28%) Analyst
3 30 (11.07%) Developer
3 30 (11.07%) Senior
4 24 (8.86%) Python Engineer
5 23 (8.49%) Data Analyst
6 21 (7.75%) Python Software Engineer
7 20 (7.38%) Trainee
8 19 (7.01%) Lead
9 15 (5.54%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.43%) Test Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Junior
13 8 (2.95%) Administrator
13 8 (2.95%) Junior Analyst
13 8 (2.95%) Junior Data Analyst
13 8 (2.95%) Security Engineer
14 7 (2.58%) Electronics Engineer
14 7 (2.58%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.86%) React
2 19 (7.01%) HTML
3 18 (6.64%) CSS
4 9 (3.32%) PySpark
4 9 (3.32%) pytest
5 8 (2.95%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.95%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (2.95%) PyTorch
5 8 (2.95%) TensorFlow
6 7 (2.58%) Pandas
6 7 (2.58%) Spring
6 7 (2.58%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.21%) Hibernate
7 6 (2.21%) Playwright
7 6 (2.21%) REST
8 5 (1.85%) JSF
8 5 (1.85%) Kafka
9 4 (1.48%) .NET
9 4 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (1.48%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.59%) Algorithms
2 15 (5.54%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (4.43%) IoT
5 9 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.32%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.58%) Analogue Electronics
6 7 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.21%) GNSS
7 6 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.21%) Satnav
8 5 (1.85%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Self-Driving Car
9 4 (1.48%) FPGA
9 4 (1.48%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.48%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.56%) Linux
2 19 (7.01%) Windows
3 10 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.95%) Unix
5 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.21%) CentOS
7 5 (1.85%) Debian
8 3 (1.11%) CoreOS
8 3 (1.11%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.46%) Software Engineering
2 66 (24.35%) CI/CD
3 60 (22.14%) Agile
3 60 (22.14%) AI
4 57 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (18.45%) Analytics
6 49 (18.08%) DevOps
7 47 (17.34%) Machine Learning
8 39 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (12.18%) Mentoring
10 30 (11.07%) Containerisation
10 30 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (10.70%) Data Analysis
11 29 (10.70%) Data Science
11 29 (10.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (10.70%) Test Automation
12 28 (10.33%) Data Analytics
13 27 (9.96%) Computer Science
14 26 (9.59%) Visualisation
15 22 (8.12%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 82 (30.26%) SQL
2 58 (21.40%) Java
3 52 (19.19%) JavaScript
4 41 (15.13%) C++
5 35 (12.92%) C
6 34 (12.55%) Bash
7 27 (9.96%) PowerShell
8 26 (9.59%) R
9 17 (6.27%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.54%) C#
11 14 (5.17%) MATLAB
12 11 (4.06%) Go
13 7 (2.58%) Bicep
13 7 (2.58%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.48%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.48%) VBA
15 3 (1.11%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.11%) Tcl
15 3 (1.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.40%) Degree
3 40 (14.76%) DV Cleared
4 39 (14.39%) SC Cleared
5 25 (9.23%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.90%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.69%) CREST Certified
9 9 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.58%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.21%) CISSP
11 6 (2.21%) SANS
12 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.48%) HND
14 3 (1.11%) CITP
14 3 (1.11%) PhD
15 2 (0.74%) CCNP
15 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.95%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.58%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.58%) QA
3 6 (2.21%) GDPR
4 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.37%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (14.76%) Docker
2 8 (2.95%) Firmware
3 5 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.74%) vSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Ceph
7 1 (0.37%) iptables
7 1 (0.37%) KVM
7 1 (0.37%) Lustre
7 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (19.19%) Kubernetes
2 32 (11.81%) Terraform
3 26 (9.59%) Ansible
4 9 (3.32%) Kibana
5 6 (2.21%) Grafana
6 4 (1.48%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.48%) Puppet
7 3 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.11%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.11%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.37%) Argo
8 1 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.37%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.37%) QRadar
8 1 (0.37%) Rancher
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.37%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.27%) Databricks
3 16 (5.90%) Google
4 15 (5.54%) Oracle
5 12 (4.43%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.95%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.58%) EMC
8 5 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.85%) SAP
9 4 (1.48%) Cisco
10 3 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.11%) McAfee
10 3 (1.11%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.11%) Splunk
10 3 (1.11%) VMware
11 1 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.37%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.37%) Talend
11 1 (0.37%) Zoho