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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 30 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 599 221 619
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.02% 6.35% 8.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.60% 30.65% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 336 138 395
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,125 £46,250 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,552 721 1,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.59% 20.72% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,137 486 1,276
10th Percentile £32,900 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -1 214 £65,000 +13.04% 90
Bristol +5 151 £62,500 +4.17% 71
Devon +15 88 £62,500 +31.58% 33
Somerset +20 84 £37,500 -31.82% 29
Wiltshire -11 26 £56,250 +53.48% 19
Dorset -9 24 £40,000 -44.83% 27
Cornwall +15 8 £52,246 -16.41% 1
Avon - 1 - - 47
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 39 (6.51%) Apache
2 21 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.51%) Confluence
3 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.83%) nginx
4 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.67%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (11.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.34%) Simulink
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.17%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 241 (40.23%) Azure
2 151 (25.21%) AWS
3 104 (17.36%) Power Platform
4 99 (16.53%) Azure AI
5 53 (8.85%) GCP
6 35 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.17%) Serverless
8 24 (4.01%) GitHub
8 24 (4.01%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (3.01%) Amazon S3
12 17 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.84%) SaaS
14 11 (1.84%) Snowflake
15 9 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.67%) Firewall
1 22 (3.67%) WAN
2 17 (2.84%) LAN
3 12 (2.00%) SD-WAN
4 10 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (1.67%) DNS
4 10 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.67%) VLAN
5 9 (1.50%) VPN
6 8 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.34%) Wireless
7 7 (1.17%) BGP
7 7 (1.17%) Broadband
7 7 (1.17%) OSPF
7 7 (1.17%) Unified Communications
7 7 (1.17%) WebEx
8 6 (1.00%) DHCP
8 6 (1.00%) Network Security
9 5 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.85%) Power BI
2 68 (11.35%) Tableau
3 25 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 24 (4.01%) MongoDB
4 24 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (3.84%) Big Data
5 23 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.34%) NoSQL
7 18 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.50%) Hadoop
9 11 (1.84%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.67%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.67%) MySQL
11 8 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (21.20%) Git
2 52 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 48 (8.01%) GitLab
4 37 (6.18%) Subversion
5 34 (5.68%) JIRA
6 28 (4.67%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.67%) JUnit
8 15 (2.50%) Selenium
9 14 (2.34%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 12 (2.00%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.84%) LabVIEW
13 9 (1.50%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.34%) TestRail
15 7 (1.17%) MSI
15 7 (1.17%) Robot Framework
16 4 (0.67%) Postman
16 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
17 3 (0.50%) MLflow
17 3 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 175 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (12.35%) Finance
4 37 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.84%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.84%) Retail
8 16 (2.67%) Electronics
8 16 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.17%) Marketing
10 9 (1.50%) Games
11 8 (1.34%) Aviation
11 8 (1.34%) Banking
11 8 (1.34%) Law
11 8 (1.34%) Military
11 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Legal
12 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 98 (16.36%) Software Engineer
2 87 (14.52%) Developer
3 84 (14.02%) Analyst
3 84 (14.02%) Junior
4 83 (13.86%) Senior
5 71 (11.85%) Data Analyst
6 62 (10.35%) Data Engineer
7 57 (9.52%) Junior Analyst
8 56 (9.35%) Junior Data Analyst
9 52 (8.68%) Python Engineer
10 43 (7.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 40 (6.68%) Lead
12 33 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (5.51%) Java Developer
13 28 (4.67%) Test Engineer
14 26 (4.34%) Architect
14 26 (4.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (4.17%) Python Software Engineer
16 23 (3.84%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (19.20%) Terraform
2 49 (8.18%) React
3 47 (7.85%) RESTful
4 36 (6.01%) Spring
4 36 (6.01%) Spring Boot
5 26 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.34%) Jakarta EE
5 26 (4.34%) Node.js
5 26 (4.34%) Struts
5 26 (4.34%) Web Services
6 25 (4.17%) Kafka
7 24 (4.01%) REST
8 23 (3.84%) Apache NiFi
9 22 (3.67%) CSS
10 20 (3.34%) .NET
10 20 (3.34%) Vue
11 17 (2.84%) HTML
12 16 (2.67%) Keycloak
13 14 (2.34%) pytest
13 14 (2.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.34%) Robotics
9 7 (1.17%) FlexPod
9 7 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
9 7 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.00%) CUDA
10 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.00%) IoT
10 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.69%) Linux
2 64 (10.68%) Windows
3 18 (3.01%) Unix
4 15 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.00%) CentOS
6 8 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (36.06%) AI
2 166 (27.71%) Software Engineering
3 165 (27.55%) CI/CD
4 152 (25.38%) DevOps
5 143 (23.87%) Agile
6 124 (20.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (17.70%) Business Intelligence
8 91 (15.19%) Test Automation
9 88 (14.69%) Containerisation
10 81 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 71 (11.85%) Analytics
12 70 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 67 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (9.85%) Machine Learning
15 55 (9.18%) ETL
16 52 (8.68%) Data Science
16 52 (8.68%) Mentoring
17 51 (8.51%) Validation
18 49 (8.18%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 168 (28.05%) SQL
2 153 (25.54%) Java
3 139 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 97 (16.19%) C++
5 75 (12.52%) Bash
6 58 (9.68%) C#
7 43 (7.18%) Go
8 39 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.34%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.51%) Perl
11 25 (4.17%) C
12 16 (2.67%) MATLAB
13 15 (2.50%) Rust
14 13 (2.17%) PHP
15 11 (1.84%) Scala
16 9 (1.50%) R
17 8 (1.34%) Groovy
18 7 (1.17%) Bicep
18 7 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 189 (31.55%) Security Cleared
2 114 (19.03%) Azure Certification
3 103 (17.20%) DV Cleared
4 82 (13.69%) Degree
5 79 (13.19%) SC Cleared
6 37 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.34%) HND
12 6 (1.00%) PhD
12 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.83%) CCNP
14 4 (0.67%) CCNA
14 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.67%) OSCP
14 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.34%) QA
2 31 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 28 (4.67%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.84%) WCAG
5 10 (1.67%) NCSC
6 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.83%) GDPR
7 5 (0.83%) PMO
8 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 98 (16.36%) Docker
2 22 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.51%) Firmware
4 12 (2.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) vSphere
6 6 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.67%) Squid
8 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 113 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 101 (16.86%) Ansible
3 38 (6.34%) Grafana
4 21 (3.51%) Puppet
5 16 (2.67%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.50%) Kibana
6 15 (2.50%) logstash
7 10 (1.67%) Argo
8 9 (1.50%) Packer
8 9 (1.50%) Rancher
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.17%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.17%) yum
9 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.83%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.83%) Nagios
10 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.50%) Istio
11 3 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 132 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 22 (3.67%) Splunk
3 22 (3.67%) VMware
4 21 (3.51%) Cisco
5 19 (3.17%) Databricks
6 14 (2.34%) Fortinet
7 12 (2.00%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.84%) Google
9 10 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.34%) OpenAI
10 8 (1.34%) Oracle
11 7 (1.17%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.83%) Intel
13 4 (0.67%) Avaya
13 4 (0.67%) F5
13 4 (0.67%) Infoblox
13 4 (0.67%) NetApp
13 4 (0.67%) Netskope
13 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow