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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 614 253 643
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.85% 7.19% 8.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.46% 31.35% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 330 148 438
10th Percentile £34,425 £36,650 £42,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,006 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,375 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,039 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.61% - -

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 1,481 807 2,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.53% 22.95% 25.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 532 1,505
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +1 205 £62,500 +8.70% 172
Bristol +12 160 £62,500 - 156
Devon +23 94 £62,500 +31.58% 28
Somerset +20 88 £37,500 -28.57% 29
Dorset -4 28 £40,000 -17.95% 32
Wiltshire -6 27 £57,500 +53.33% 22
Cornwall +14 9 £52,246 -16.41%
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 37 (6.03%) Apache
2 24 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.09%) Confluence
4 8 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.81%) nginx
6 4 (0.65%) JBoss
6 4 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 93 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.65%) Simulink
4 3 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) Revit
5 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 257 (41.86%) Azure
2 155 (25.24%) AWS
3 125 (20.36%) Azure AI
3 125 (20.36%) Power Platform
4 52 (8.47%) GCP
5 37 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.72%) Serverless
7 25 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.75%) GitHub
8 23 (3.75%) OpenShift
9 22 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 20 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.12%) SaaS
15 11 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (1.47%) Snowflake
17 6 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.07%) Firewall
2 23 (3.75%) WAN
3 18 (2.93%) LAN
4 13 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (2.12%) VLAN
5 11 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (1.63%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.63%) Unified Communications
6 10 (1.63%) WebEx
7 8 (1.30%) Broadband
7 8 (1.30%) DNS
7 8 (1.30%) Network Security
7 8 (1.30%) VPN
8 6 (0.98%) DHCP
8 6 (0.98%) Wireless
9 5 (0.81%) 5G
9 5 (0.81%) BGP
9 5 (0.81%) OSPF
9 5 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (15.96%) Power BI
2 96 (15.64%) Tableau
3 24 (3.91%) Big Data
3 24 (3.91%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (3.42%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.93%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.44%) Hadoop
8 14 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.63%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.63%) MySQL
10 8 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
10 8 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.98%) InfluxDB
11 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 121 (19.71%) Git
2 51 (8.31%) Jenkins
3 47 (7.65%) GitLab
4 33 (5.37%) Subversion
5 31 (5.05%) JIRA
6 26 (4.23%) Eclipse
7 21 (3.42%) JUnit
8 16 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.44%) Selenium
10 12 (1.95%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.63%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.14%) LabVIEW
13 7 (1.14%) MSI
13 7 (1.14%) Robot Framework
13 7 (1.14%) TestRail
14 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.65%) Postman
16 3 (0.49%) MLflow
16 3 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 199 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 70 (11.40%) Finance
3 66 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (6.68%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.40%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.26%) Retail
8 17 (2.77%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.61%) Marketing
10 12 (1.95%) Electronics
11 11 (1.79%) Banking
12 9 (1.47%) Games
12 9 (1.47%) Law
13 8 (1.30%) Aviation
13 8 (1.30%) Military
14 7 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Legal
15 6 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.81%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (17.59%) Junior
2 106 (17.26%) Analyst
3 97 (15.80%) Software Engineer
4 95 (15.47%) Data Analyst
5 88 (14.33%) Developer
6 82 (13.36%) Junior Analyst
6 82 (13.36%) Junior Data Analyst
6 82 (13.36%) Senior
7 60 (9.77%) Data Engineer
8 47 (7.65%) Python Engineer
9 43 (7.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 38 (6.19%) Lead
11 33 (5.37%) Java Developer
12 29 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (4.40%) Architect
13 27 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (3.58%) Junior Developer
15 22 (3.58%) Python Developer
15 22 (3.58%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.65%) React
2 45 (7.33%) RESTful
3 33 (5.37%) Spring
3 33 (5.37%) Spring Boot
4 29 (4.72%) Node.js
5 25 (4.07%) REST
6 24 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
6 24 (3.91%) Jakarta EE
6 24 (3.91%) Struts
6 24 (3.91%) Web Services
7 23 (3.75%) CSS
8 22 (3.58%) .NET
8 22 (3.58%) Apache NiFi
9 21 (3.42%) Kafka
10 20 (3.26%) Vue
11 18 (2.93%) HTML
12 14 (2.28%) pytest
13 13 (2.12%) AngularJS
13 13 (2.12%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.95%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (2.77%) Algorithms
4 17 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.63%) FlexPod
8 10 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.30%) IoT
11 7 (1.14%) CUDA
11 7 (1.14%) Replication
11 7 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.98%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 101 (16.45%) Linux
2 67 (10.91%) Windows
3 18 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.61%) Unix
5 12 (1.95%) CentOS
6 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.81%) Debian
7 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.49%) Android
8 3 (0.49%) 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 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (40.07%) AI
2 163 (26.55%) Software Engineering
3 157 (25.57%) CI/CD
4 139 (22.64%) Agile
4 139 (22.64%) DevOps
5 130 (21.17%) Business Intelligence
6 117 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
7 111 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (14.50%) Containerisation
9 85 (13.84%) Test Automation
10 79 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 68 (11.07%) Analytics
12 66 (10.75%) Machine Learning
13 62 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
14 60 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 58 (9.45%) Data Science
16 48 (7.82%) ETL
16 48 (7.82%) Mentoring
17 47 (7.65%) Microservices
18 46 (7.49%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (30.46%) SQL
2 144 (23.45%) Java
3 140 (22.80%) JavaScript
4 90 (14.66%) C++
5 71 (11.56%) Bash
6 58 (9.45%) C#
7 40 (6.51%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.35%) Go
9 31 (5.05%) TypeScript
10 25 (4.07%) Perl
11 22 (3.58%) C
12 17 (2.77%) PHP
13 15 (2.44%) Rust
14 13 (2.12%) Scala
15 12 (1.95%) MATLAB
16 9 (1.47%) R
17 8 (1.30%) Groovy
18 7 (1.14%) Bicep
18 7 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 179 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 135 (21.99%) Azure Certification
3 101 (16.45%) DV Cleared
4 81 (13.19%) Degree
5 73 (11.89%) SC Cleared
6 37 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.77%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.30%) PhD
11 7 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.98%) HND
12 6 (0.98%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.65%) CCNA
13 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.65%) OSCP
13 4 (0.65%) RHCE
14 3 (0.49%) OCP
14 3 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.56%) QA
3 26 (4.23%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.79%) WCAG
5 10 (1.63%) NCSC
6 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.98%) GDPR
8 5 (0.81%) NIST
9 4 (0.65%) PMO
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
11 1 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 101 (16.45%) Docker
2 24 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.09%) Firmware
4 11 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.79%) vSphere
5 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.65%) Squid
9 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.16%) iptables
11 1 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 112 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 109 (17.75%) Terraform
3 95 (15.47%) Ansible
4 39 (6.35%) Grafana
5 20 (3.26%) Puppet
6 15 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.28%) Kibana
7 14 (2.28%) logstash
8 10 (1.63%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (1.47%) Packer
10 7 (1.14%) Argo
10 7 (1.14%) Rancher
10 7 (1.14%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.14%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.81%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.81%) Nagios
11 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.81%) yum
12 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 158 (25.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.07%) Red Hat
2 25 (4.07%) Splunk
3 24 (3.91%) VMware
4 21 (3.42%) Cisco
5 20 (3.26%) Databricks
6 15 (2.44%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.95%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.47%) Oracle
10 7 (1.14%) Google
10 7 (1.14%) NetApp
10 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.81%) Intel
11 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.65%) Cognos
12 4 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.65%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.49%) New Relic
13 3 (0.49%) SaltStack