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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 529 254 842
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.90% 9.05% 8.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.45% 30.13% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 261 151 607
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,740 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,443 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -0.10% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,250 £74,443 £76,250
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 1,190 843 2,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.52% 30.02% 29.85%
Number of salaries quoted 790 563 2,394
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,290 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 9 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 9 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
Bristol +6 149 £60,000 - 64
Gloucestershire 0 149 £60,000 - 52
Devon +23 100 £51,250 -2.38% 9
Somerset +16 65 £31,500 -45.22% 19
Dorset -3 30 £50,000 +2.56% 8
Wiltshire -13 20 £75,000 +45.35% 29
Cornwall - 12 £52,246 - 1
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 19 (3.59%) Apache
2 15 (2.84%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.51%) Confluence
4 8 (1.51%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 126 (23.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 267 (50.47%) Azure
2 158 (29.87%) Azure AI
3 157 (29.68%) Power Platform
4 142 (26.84%) AWS
5 50 (9.45%) GCP
6 38 (7.18%) GitHub
7 30 (5.67%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.48%) Serverless
9 26 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.08%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.70%) dbt
15 9 (1.70%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.54%) WAN
2 21 (3.97%) Firewall
3 13 (2.46%) Broadband
3 13 (2.46%) LAN
3 13 (2.46%) SD-WAN
4 12 (2.27%) 5G
5 11 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (1.89%) Internet
7 9 (1.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.70%) Unified Communications
7 9 (1.70%) VLAN
7 9 (1.70%) WebEx
8 8 (1.51%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.32%) Network Security
10 6 (1.13%) DHCP
10 6 (1.13%) DNS
11 4 (0.76%) IPv4
11 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.57%) VPN
13 2 (0.38%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (27.03%) Power BI
2 130 (24.57%) Tableau
3 19 (3.59%) MongoDB
4 18 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (3.02%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (2.65%) Big Data
8 13 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.46%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.89%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.51%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (1.13%) Data Vault
12 6 (1.13%) MySQL
13 5 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.76%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.76%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 75 (14.18%) Git
2 44 (8.32%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.91%) GitLab
4 14 (2.65%) Subversion
5 13 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.27%) JIRA
7 11 (2.08%) LabVIEW
8 10 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.70%) Eclipse
9 9 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.51%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.51%) JUnit
11 7 (1.32%) Selenium
12 4 (0.76%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.76%) TestRail
13 3 (0.57%) MLflow
14 2 (0.38%) DBeaver
14 2 (0.38%) ESLint
General
1 212 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (8.32%) Finance
4 33 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.54%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.59%) Electronics
6 19 (3.59%) Retail
7 15 (2.84%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.65%) Marketing
9 12 (2.27%) Banking
10 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.89%) Multimedia
10 10 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.70%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.76%) Aviation
12 4 (0.76%) Games
12 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 138 (26.09%) Analyst
2 127 (24.01%) Data Analyst
3 124 (23.44%) Junior
4 116 (21.93%) Junior Analyst
4 116 (21.93%) Junior Data Analyst
5 61 (11.53%) Developer
6 56 (10.59%) Software Engineer
7 46 (8.70%) Senior
8 43 (8.13%) Data Engineer
9 42 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 24 (4.54%) Python Developer
11 22 (4.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 21 (3.97%) Data Scientist
12 21 (3.97%) Lead
12 21 (3.97%) Trainee
13 20 (3.78%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.40%) Test Engineer
15 17 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.21%) Java Developer
16 14 (2.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.91%) React
2 24 (4.54%) Node.js
3 19 (3.59%) CSS
4 17 (3.21%) Vue
5 16 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (2.84%) HTML
6 15 (2.84%) pytest
6 15 (2.84%) REST
6 15 (2.84%) RESTful
7 12 (2.27%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.08%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.08%) Pandas
9 10 (1.89%) NumPy
9 10 (1.89%) Spring
9 10 (1.89%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.70%) Django
10 9 (1.70%) PySpark
10 9 (1.70%) XMPP
11 8 (1.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.48%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.78%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.08%) Self-Driving Car
6 10 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.70%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (1.70%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (1.32%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.32%) Replication
9 6 (1.13%) Over-the-Top Content
10 5 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
10 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.95%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 73 (13.80%) Linux
2 46 (8.70%) Windows
3 21 (3.97%) Unix
4 18 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.51%) CentOS
6 7 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.57%) VMS
8 2 (0.38%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.38%) Debian
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) Solaris
9 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (45.56%) AI
2 172 (32.51%) Business Intelligence
3 96 (18.15%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.58%) DevOps
4 93 (17.58%) Software Engineering
5 81 (15.31%) Agile
6 77 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 58 (10.96%) Analytics
9 56 (10.59%) Containerisation
10 52 (9.83%) Data Science
10 52 (9.83%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 48 (9.07%) Machine Learning
12 45 (8.51%) Mentoring
13 40 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (7.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 37 (6.99%) Data Engineering
15 34 (6.43%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 195 (36.86%) SQL
2 87 (16.45%) JavaScript
3 83 (15.69%) Java
4 75 (14.18%) Bash
5 46 (8.70%) C++
5 46 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 30 (5.67%) C#
7 25 (4.73%) TypeScript
8 24 (4.54%) Go
9 21 (3.97%) R
10 17 (3.21%) C
11 16 (3.02%) MATLAB
12 13 (2.46%) PHP
13 10 (1.89%) Scala
14 8 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.51%) Perl
15 7 (1.32%) Rust
16 5 (0.95%) Groovy
17 4 (0.76%) VBA
18 3 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 168 (31.76%) Azure Certification
2 101 (19.09%) Security Cleared
3 68 (12.85%) DV Cleared
4 49 (9.26%) Degree
5 32 (6.05%) SC Cleared
6 25 (4.73%) AWS Certification
7 20 (3.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (2.46%) HND
11 6 (1.13%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.95%) PhD
13 4 (0.76%) CCNA
13 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.76%) CISSP
13 4 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.76%) OSCP
13 4 (0.76%) RHCE
13 4 (0.76%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.84%) QA
3 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.95%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (13.99%) Docker
2 19 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.27%) Firmware
4 10 (1.89%) vSphere
5 9 (1.70%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.13%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.76%) iptables
8 4 (0.76%) Squid
8 4 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 72 (13.61%) Terraform
3 64 (12.10%) Ansible
4 41 (7.75%) Grafana
5 19 (3.59%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.46%) Puppet
7 10 (1.89%) Kibana
7 10 (1.89%) logstash
8 9 (1.70%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.51%) Argo
10 7 (1.32%) Rancher
11 6 (1.13%) yum
11 6 (1.13%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.95%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.95%) Packer
12 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.57%) SCCM
14 3 (0.57%) SCOM
14 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 186 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.16%) Splunk
3 20 (3.78%) VMware
4 18 (3.40%) Databricks
5 17 (3.21%) Cisco
6 15 (2.84%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.08%) Oracle
7 11 (2.08%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.51%) Google
9 6 (1.13%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.13%) Cognos
9 6 (1.13%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.13%) NetApp
10 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.57%) BMC
11 3 (0.57%) SAP
12 2 (0.38%) Juniper
12 2 (0.38%) McAfee