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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 592 249 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.95% 7.31% 7.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.51% 29.68% 29.70%
Number of salaries quoted 312 146 473
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,075 £41,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,221 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -8.45% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% -0.17% -

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 1,426 839 2,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.75% 24.64% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 565 1,742
10th Percentile £32,800 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -2 188 £60,500 +2.98% 70
Bristol +7 160 £62,500 - 51
Devon +23 92 £55,000 +10.00% 19
Somerset +14 82 £31,500 -40.00% 30
Dorset -7 32 £40,000 -20.00% 12
Wiltshire -9 24 £55,000 +21.49% 17
Cornwall +13 10 £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 33 (5.57%) Apache
2 20 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.03%) Confluence
4 9 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.35%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.68%) JBoss
7 3 (0.51%) nginx
7 3 (0.51%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 114 (19.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Simulink
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 263 (44.43%) Azure
2 151 (25.51%) AWS
3 144 (24.32%) Azure AI
4 139 (23.48%) Power Platform
5 53 (8.95%) GCP
6 29 (4.90%) Serverless
7 28 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (4.22%) Amazon S3
8 25 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (3.89%) GitHub
10 20 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (3.04%) OpenShift
12 15 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (2.03%) SaaS
15 10 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.55%) Firewall
2 19 (3.21%) WAN
3 14 (2.36%) LAN
4 11 (1.86%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (1.69%) Broadband
5 10 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (1.69%) VLAN
6 9 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.52%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.52%) WebEx
7 8 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.18%) Network Security
9 6 (1.01%) DNS
10 5 (0.84%) 5G
10 5 (0.84%) DHCP
11 4 (0.68%) Internet
11 4 (0.68%) IPv4
11 4 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.68%) VPN
12 3 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (20.27%) Power BI
2 119 (20.10%) Tableau
3 25 (4.22%) MongoDB
4 22 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
4 22 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 21 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.38%) Big Data
7 16 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.52%) MySQL
10 9 (1.52%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.18%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.01%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 102 (17.23%) Git
2 49 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.09%) GitLab
4 27 (4.56%) Subversion
5 22 (3.72%) JIRA
6 20 (3.38%) Eclipse
7 15 (2.53%) Bitbucket
8 13 (2.20%) JUnit
8 13 (2.20%) Selenium
9 10 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.18%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.01%) MSI
12 6 (1.01%) TestRail
13 5 (0.84%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.51%) MLflow
15 2 (0.34%) CircleCI
15 2 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 210 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.47%) Finance
3 60 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 26 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (4.05%) Aerospace
7 23 (3.89%) Retail
8 14 (2.36%) Marketing
8 14 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.03%) Banking
10 10 (1.69%) Electronics
11 9 (1.52%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.35%) Aviation
12 8 (1.35%) Games
12 8 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.01%) Law
13 6 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Military
15 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.68%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 130 (21.96%) Analyst
2 122 (20.61%) Junior
3 118 (19.93%) Data Analyst
4 102 (17.23%) Junior Analyst
4 102 (17.23%) Junior Data Analyst
5 88 (14.86%) Software Engineer
6 80 (13.51%) Developer
6 80 (13.51%) Senior
7 55 (9.29%) Data Engineer
8 42 (7.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 42 (7.09%) Python Engineer
9 32 (5.41%) Lead
10 28 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 26 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 25 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (4.22%) Python Developer
13 22 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.21%) Architect
15 18 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (3.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (6.08%) React
2 35 (5.91%) RESTful
3 26 (4.39%) Node.js
4 25 (4.22%) Spring
4 25 (4.22%) Spring Boot
5 23 (3.89%) REST
6 22 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (3.55%) CSS
8 20 (3.38%) Apache NiFi
9 19 (3.21%) Kafka
9 19 (3.21%) Vue
10 18 (3.04%) Jakarta EE
10 18 (3.04%) Struts
10 18 (3.04%) Web Services
11 17 (2.87%) .NET
11 17 (2.87%) HTML
12 14 (2.36%) FastAPI
13 13 (2.20%) Django
14 12 (2.03%) pytest
15 11 (1.86%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 22 (3.72%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.38%) Algorithms
4 19 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.86%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.52%) FlexPod
8 9 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
9 8 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (1.18%) CUDA
10 7 (1.18%) IoT
11 6 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.01%) Over-the-Top Content
11 6 (1.01%) Replication
12 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (16.55%) Linux
2 63 (10.64%) Windows
3 17 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.70%) Unix
5 11 (1.86%) CentOS
6 7 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.68%) Debian
7 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.51%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (42.74%) AI
2 151 (25.51%) Business Intelligence
3 144 (24.32%) Software Engineering
4 139 (23.48%) CI/CD
5 123 (20.78%) DevOps
6 120 (20.27%) Agile
7 102 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 94 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (13.51%) Containerisation
10 72 (12.16%) Test Automation
11 67 (11.32%) Full-Stack Development
12 65 (10.98%) Analytics
13 59 (9.97%) Machine Learning
14 57 (9.63%) Data Science
15 56 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
16 54 (9.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
18 43 (7.26%) ETL
19 42 (7.09%) Mentoring
19 42 (7.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 197 (33.28%) SQL
2 119 (20.10%) Java
3 112 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 71 (11.99%) Bash
5 70 (11.82%) C++
6 44 (7.43%) C#
7 42 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.25%) Go
9 27 (4.56%) TypeScript
10 18 (3.04%) C
10 18 (3.04%) Perl
11 15 (2.53%) PHP
12 12 (2.03%) Rust
13 11 (1.86%) R
13 11 (1.86%) Scala
14 10 (1.69%) MATLAB
15 9 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (1.35%) Groovy
17 6 (1.01%) Bicep
18 5 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 154 (26.01%) Azure Certification
2 153 (25.84%) Security Cleared
3 93 (15.71%) DV Cleared
4 68 (11.49%) Degree
5 60 (10.14%) SC Cleared
6 28 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.52%) PhD
10 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.01%) HND
12 6 (1.01%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.68%) CCNA
13 4 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.68%) OSCP
13 4 (0.68%) RHCE
14 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.22%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.05%) QA
3 19 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.52%) WCAG
5 7 (1.18%) NCSC
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
6 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 93 (15.71%) Docker
2 20 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.53%) Firmware
4 10 (1.69%) vSphere
5 9 (1.52%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.68%) Squid
8 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.51%) iptables
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 103 (17.40%) Kubernetes
2 94 (15.88%) Terraform
3 84 (14.19%) Ansible
4 41 (6.93%) Grafana
5 17 (2.87%) Puppet
6 16 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.36%) Kibana
7 14 (2.36%) logstash
8 9 (1.52%) Argo
8 9 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (1.52%) Packer
9 8 (1.35%) Rancher
10 6 (1.01%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.01%) yum
10 6 (1.01%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.84%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.84%) Nagios
11 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 174 (29.39%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.22%) Splunk
3 20 (3.38%) Red Hat
3 20 (3.38%) VMware
4 19 (3.21%) Databricks
5 16 (2.70%) Cisco
6 12 (2.03%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.86%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.69%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.35%) Oracle
10 6 (1.01%) Cognos
10 6 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.01%) NetApp
11 5 (0.84%) Google
11 5 (0.84%) Intel
11 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.68%) Typelevel
13 3 (0.51%) New Relic
13 3 (0.51%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.51%) SolarWinds