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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 18 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 450 250 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.74% 9.10% 9.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.92% 26.40% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 233 177 569
10th Percentile £30,332 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 980 947 2,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.68% 34.49% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 646 636 2,450
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £66,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,125 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.31% +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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +3 142 £55,000 -18.52% 80
Gloucestershire +14 134 £60,000 -7.69% 82
Devon +30 74 £44,550 -31.46% 36
Somerset 0 35 £45,142 -27.77% 35
Dorset +1 29 £100,000 +122.22% 16
Wiltshire -17 17 £55,000 +5.16% 27
Cornwall - 11 £55,000 - 2
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 17 (3.78%) Apache
2 11 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.33%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.11%) Confluence
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.44%) WordPress
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 120 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.33%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Weka
4 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 226 (50.22%) Azure
2 149 (33.11%) AWS
3 130 (28.89%) Power Platform
4 116 (25.78%) Azure AI
5 56 (12.44%) GitHub
6 39 (8.67%) GCP
7 29 (6.44%) Amazon S3
8 28 (6.22%) Serverless
9 25 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.22%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.56%) Datadog
14 6 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.67%) Internet
2 18 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.00%) WAN
3 15 (3.33%) DNS
4 14 (3.11%) Firewall
5 11 (2.44%) SD-WAN
6 10 (2.22%) 5G
6 10 (2.22%) LAN
7 9 (2.00%) Network Security
8 8 (1.78%) Broadband
8 8 (1.78%) DHCP
8 8 (1.78%) VLAN
9 7 (1.56%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.33%) HTTP
11 5 (1.11%) BGP
11 5 (1.11%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (1.11%) MPLS
11 5 (1.11%) Unified Communications
11 5 (1.11%) VPN
11 5 (1.11%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (28.89%) Power BI
2 123 (27.33%) Tableau
3 21 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.56%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.89%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.67%) SQL Server
9 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.00%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.78%) Big Data
11 8 (1.78%) Neo4j
12 7 (1.56%) MySQL
13 4 (0.89%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.67%) Data Vault
14 3 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.67%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (15.78%) Git
2 43 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.89%) GitLab
4 12 (2.67%) JUnit
5 11 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.44%) LabVIEW
6 10 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.00%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.56%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.33%) JIRA
9 6 (1.33%) Selenium
9 6 (1.33%) Subversion
9 6 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.89%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.89%) TestNG
12 3 (0.67%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.67%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.67%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 173 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.56%) Finance
3 55 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.67%) Multimedia
6 20 (4.44%) Electronics
7 19 (4.22%) Manufacturing
8 18 (4.00%) Aerospace
8 18 (4.00%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.78%) Marketing
10 13 (2.89%) Retail
11 12 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.00%) Banking
13 9 (2.00%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.33%) Military
15 5 (1.11%) Law
16 4 (0.89%) Avionics
16 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (28.89%) Analyst
2 123 (27.33%) Data Analyst
3 111 (24.67%) Junior
4 109 (24.22%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (24.22%) Junior Data Analyst
5 54 (12.00%) Software Engineer
6 47 (10.44%) Developer
7 42 (9.33%) Senior
8 36 (8.00%) Trainee
9 24 (5.33%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (4.22%) Python Engineer
12 18 (4.00%) Data Scientist
13 17 (3.78%) Lead
13 17 (3.78%) Test Engineer
14 15 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.33%) Python Developer
15 13 (2.89%) Security Engineer
16 12 (2.67%) Product Engineer
17 11 (2.44%) Product Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.11%) CSS
2 29 (6.44%) HTML
3 27 (6.00%) React
4 17 (3.78%) AngularJS
4 17 (3.78%) Node.js
5 16 (3.56%) pytest
6 13 (2.89%) Vue
7 12 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.44%) REST
8 11 (2.44%) Spring
8 11 (2.44%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.22%) NumPy
9 10 (2.22%) Pandas
10 9 (2.00%) Django
11 8 (1.78%) MERN Stack
11 8 (1.78%) PySpark
11 8 (1.78%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.56%) Hugging Face
12 7 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.78%) IoT
4 8 (1.78%) Mobile App
4 8 (1.78%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.78%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.56%) GNSS
5 7 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (1.56%) Replication
5 7 (1.56%) Satnav
6 6 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.11%) FlexPod
7 5 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (0.89%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (17.78%) Linux
2 39 (8.67%) Windows
3 15 (3.33%) Unix
4 12 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.33%) CentOS
7 2 (0.44%) Solaris
7 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.22%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.22%) Debian
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (38.44%) AI
2 148 (32.89%) Business Intelligence
3 80 (17.78%) CI/CD
3 80 (17.78%) DevOps
4 78 (17.33%) Agile
5 77 (17.11%) Software Engineering
6 72 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (11.56%) Analytics
7 52 (11.56%) Containerisation
8 51 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 50 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 47 (10.44%) Data Science
11 46 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
13 41 (9.11%) Test Automation
14 29 (6.44%) Visualisation
15 28 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 22 (4.89%) Full-Stack Development
17 21 (4.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 164 (36.44%) SQL
2 85 (18.89%) JavaScript
3 79 (17.56%) Bash
4 75 (16.67%) Java
5 49 (10.89%) PowerShell
6 36 (8.00%) C++
7 29 (6.44%) R
8 28 (6.22%) C
9 26 (5.78%) TypeScript
10 21 (4.67%) Go
11 20 (4.44%) C#
12 13 (2.89%) MATLAB
13 10 (2.22%) PHP
13 10 (2.22%) Scala
14 6 (1.33%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.89%) Groovy
16 3 (0.67%) Erlang
16 3 (0.67%) VBA
16 3 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 138 (30.67%) Azure Certification
2 94 (20.89%) Security Cleared
3 66 (14.67%) DV Cleared
4 50 (11.11%) Degree
5 33 (7.33%) AWS Certification
6 29 (6.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 28 (6.22%) SC Cleared
8 21 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.33%) CREST Certified
10 11 (2.44%) HND
11 10 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.00%) CISSP
12 9 (2.00%) SANS
13 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.89%) PhD
15 3 (0.67%) CCNP
15 3 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.67%) CITP
16 2 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.11%) QA
3 11 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.67%) NIST
6 2 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.44%) GDPR
7 1 (0.22%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.22%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (15.33%) Docker
2 13 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.78%) Firmware
4 6 (1.33%) vSphere
5 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.89%) iptables
7 3 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.22%) Ceph
9 1 (0.22%) Lustre
9 1 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.11%) Terraform
3 47 (10.44%) Ansible
4 30 (6.67%) Grafana
5 14 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.78%) Argo
6 8 (1.78%) Kibana
6 8 (1.78%) Puppet
7 6 (1.33%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.33%) Rancher
7 6 (1.33%) yum
8 5 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.11%) logstash
9 3 (0.67%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.67%) Nmap
9 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.44%) Istio
10 2 (0.44%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.44%) Podman
10 2 (0.44%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 166 (36.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.78%) Oracle
3 15 (3.33%) Splunk
4 14 (3.11%) Cisco
4 14 (3.11%) VMware
5 9 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 9 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.78%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.78%) Databricks
6 8 (1.78%) Google
6 8 (1.78%) SAP
7 7 (1.56%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.11%) NetApp
9 4 (0.89%) Typelevel
10 3 (0.67%) Cognos
10 3 (0.67%) Dell
10 3 (0.67%) HP
10 3 (0.67%) Juniper
10 3 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.67%) Veeam