Python Jobs in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 285 921 951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.93% 8.54% 14.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.91% 29.25% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 163 617 552
10th Percentile £36,330 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,375
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +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 1,021 3,149 2,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 28.41% 29.20% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 695 2,408 1,618
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,520 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,150
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Salary trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 22 June 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 22 June 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
Gloucestershire +1 94 £60,000 +9.09% 349
Bristol -13 84 £60,000 -7.69% 353
Dorset +3 35 £50,000 +5.26% 99
Devon -5 29 £52,500 +16.67% 166
Wiltshire +8 26 £45,272 -9.46% 105
Somerset +6 13 £57,500 +9.52% 153
Cornwall +7 1 £62,500 - 8
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.02%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.46%) SAS
3 5 (1.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.40%) Confluence
4 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.70%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Drupal
7 1 (0.35%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.35%) Luigi
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.40%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.35%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (32.98%) AWS
2 61 (21.40%) Azure
3 39 (13.68%) GCP
4 28 (9.82%) Serverless
5 25 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (6.67%) GitHub
7 18 (6.32%) Power Platform
8 16 (5.61%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (2.46%) Pulumi
11 6 (2.11%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (2.11%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.40%) SaaS
12 4 (1.40%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.32%) Broadband
2 12 (4.21%) WAN
3 10 (3.51%) SD-WAN
3 10 (3.51%) VPN
4 9 (3.16%) 5G
5 6 (2.11%) Internet
6 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.40%) Firewall
7 4 (1.40%) IPv4
7 4 (1.40%) OSPF
8 3 (1.05%) DNS
8 3 (1.05%) LAN
8 3 (1.05%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (1.05%) SSL
8 3 (1.05%) VLAN
8 3 (1.05%) Wireless
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.70%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.70%) Network Security
9 2 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.72%) Big Data
2 18 (6.32%) Power BI
2 18 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 14 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.51%) MongoDB
5 10 (3.51%) Tableau
6 8 (2.81%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.81%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.46%) MySQL
8 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.11%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.40%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.40%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.05%) Redis
10 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 41 (14.39%) Git
2 19 (6.67%) GitLab
3 15 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.86%) JIRA
5 7 (2.46%) LabVIEW
5 7 (2.46%) Selenium
6 6 (2.11%) Jaeger
6 6 (2.11%) Locust
6 6 (2.11%) Subversion
7 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.40%) ER Studio
8 4 (1.40%) JUnit
9 3 (1.05%) Appium
9 3 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.05%) Eclipse RCP
10 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.70%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.70%) Gatling
10 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (30.53%) Finance
2 64 (22.46%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (21.75%) Social Skills
4 57 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (9.47%) Banking
6 26 (9.12%) Marketing
7 24 (8.42%) Retail
8 18 (6.32%) Manufacturing
9 17 (5.96%) Law
10 16 (5.61%) Electronics
11 15 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (4.56%) Aerospace
12 13 (4.56%) Public Sector
12 13 (4.56%) Telecoms
13 9 (3.16%) Military
14 5 (1.75%) Automotive
14 5 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.75%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.75%) Legal
15 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 80 (28.07%) Senior
2 67 (23.51%) Software Engineer
3 42 (14.74%) Lead
4 35 (12.28%) Developer
5 31 (10.88%) Data Scientist
6 27 (9.47%) Senior Data Scientist
7 24 (8.42%) Test Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Analyst
8 16 (5.61%) Python Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
10 14 (4.91%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.21%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.86%) Software Test Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.81%) Junior
14 8 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.23%) React
2 18 (6.32%) HTML
3 16 (5.61%) Node.js
4 12 (4.21%) CSS
4 12 (4.21%) RESTful
5 10 (3.51%) pytest
6 9 (3.16%) Django
7 8 (2.81%) .NET
7 8 (2.81%) AngularJS
7 8 (2.81%) GraphQL
8 7 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.46%) Hibernate
8 7 (2.46%) Pandas
8 7 (2.46%) Playwright
8 7 (2.46%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.11%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.75%) Flask
10 5 (1.75%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.75%) TensorFlow
10 5 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.98%) Algorithms
2 26 (9.12%) Cyberattack
3 18 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.56%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.16%) Reinsurance
6 9 (3.16%) Self-Driving Car
7 8 (2.81%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.46%) Analogue Electronics
8 7 (2.46%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.75%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.40%) CUDA
11 4 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 71 (24.91%) Linux
2 30 (10.53%) Windows
3 10 (3.51%) Unix
4 8 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.75%) Android
6 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
7 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (38.60%) Software Engineering
2 84 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (29.12%) Agile
4 81 (28.42%) DevOps
5 79 (27.72%) Mentoring
6 76 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 73 (25.61%) Artificial Intelligence
7 73 (25.61%) CI/CD
8 64 (22.46%) Data Science
9 51 (17.89%) Computer Science
10 50 (17.54%) Mathematics
11 49 (17.19%) Test Automation
12 40 (14.04%) Analytics
13 38 (13.33%) Visualisation
14 35 (12.28%) Decision-Making
15 34 (11.93%) Business Intelligence
16 33 (11.58%) Containerisation
17 32 (11.23%) Statistics
18 31 (10.88%) Software Testing
19 30 (10.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 104 (36.49%) Java
2 80 (28.07%) JavaScript
3 66 (23.16%) SQL
4 40 (14.04%) Bash
5 36 (12.63%) C++
6 26 (9.12%) R
7 25 (8.77%) TypeScript
8 24 (8.42%) C
9 21 (7.37%) Go
10 20 (7.02%) PowerShell
11 16 (5.61%) Rust
12 15 (5.26%) C#
13 12 (4.21%) PHP
14 11 (3.86%) MATLAB
15 8 (2.81%) Embedded C
16 6 (2.11%) Julia
17 5 (1.75%) Perl
18 4 (1.40%) VBA
19 3 (1.05%) Ada
19 3 (1.05%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 91 (31.93%) Degree
2 81 (28.42%) Security Cleared
3 53 (18.60%) DV Cleared
4 26 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.91%) PhD
6 14 (4.91%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.51%) ISTQB
8 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.70%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.70%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.70%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.70%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.70%) HND
9 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.16%) QA
2 8 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.75%) GDPR
4 4 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.70%) NIST
7 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (24.91%) Docker
2 7 (2.46%) Firmware
3 6 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.70%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.28%) Terraform
3 33 (11.58%) Ansible
4 12 (4.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.11%) Argo
5 6 (2.11%) Grafana
5 6 (2.11%) Kustomize
5 6 (2.11%) Puppet
6 5 (1.75%) Kibana
7 4 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.70%) Istio
8 2 (0.70%) Nmap
9 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.35%) Nagios
9 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (7.72%) Google
2 19 (6.67%) Databricks
2 19 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.51%) Oracle
4 7 (2.46%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.46%) SAP
4 7 (2.46%) VMware
5 6 (2.11%) F5
6 5 (1.75%) EMC
7 4 (1.40%) Cisco
8 3 (1.05%) Graphcore
8 3 (1.05%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.70%) Adobe
9 2 (0.70%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.70%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.70%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.70%) Juniper
9 2 (0.70%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.70%) Talend
9 2 (0.70%) Thales