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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 283 463 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.98% 8.87% 13.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.09% 29.08% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 176 289 374
10th Percentile £30,165 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,125 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 763 1,592 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.11% 30.50% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 567 877 1,425
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 6 December 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 6 December 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
Bristol -9 101 £60,000 -16.95% 108
Gloucestershire +13 78 £70,000 +3.70% 129
Devon -13 34 £45,000 -35.71% 69
Wiltshire +1 22 £36,650 -45.70% 54
Dorset -10 17 £101,250 +84.09% 55
Somerset -11 17 £72,500 +31.82% 59
Cornwall -12 6 £55,000 -8.33% 4
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 12 (4.24%) Apache
2 8 (2.83%) Confluence
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.35%) JBoss
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 43 (15.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Weka
3 1 (0.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 108 (38.16%) Azure
2 104 (36.75%) AWS
3 44 (15.55%) Power Platform
4 36 (12.72%) GitHub
5 28 (9.89%) Azure AI
6 22 (7.77%) Serverless
7 21 (7.42%) Amazon S3
8 18 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.65%) GCP
10 15 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.95%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 3 (1.06%) AWS Fargate
16 3 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
16 3 (1.06%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.01%) Internet
2 14 (4.95%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.89%) DNS
4 10 (3.53%) Firewall
4 10 (3.53%) WAN
5 7 (2.47%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.12%) 5G
6 6 (2.12%) HTTP
6 6 (2.12%) LAN
7 5 (1.77%) Network Security
7 5 (1.77%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (1.77%) VPN
7 5 (1.77%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.41%) DHCP
8 4 (1.41%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.41%) SMTP
8 4 (1.41%) VSAN
8 4 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.06%) BGP
9 3 (1.06%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.55%) Power BI
2 43 (15.19%) Tableau
3 13 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.53%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.53%) MySQL
6 10 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.47%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.12%) Big Data
9 5 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.77%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.41%) ClickHouse
10 4 (1.41%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (20.85%) Git
2 26 (9.19%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.71%) GitLab
4 10 (3.53%) JIRA
4 10 (3.53%) JUnit
5 6 (2.12%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.12%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.12%) Selenium
6 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.77%) LabVIEW
7 4 (1.41%) IDA Disassembler
7 4 (1.41%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.06%) Balsamiq
8 3 (1.06%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.06%) Locust
8 3 (1.06%) Postman
8 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.71%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.71%) Subversion
9 2 (0.71%) TestRail
General
1 83 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (16.25%) Finance
4 21 (7.42%) Electronics
5 19 (6.71%) Manufacturing
6 15 (5.30%) Marketing
6 15 (5.30%) Multimedia
7 14 (4.95%) Aerospace
8 13 (4.59%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.59%) Retail
9 11 (3.89%) Law
10 7 (2.47%) Military
10 7 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.77%) Avionics
13 4 (1.41%) Automotive
13 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.41%) Tech for Good
14 3 (1.06%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 57 (20.14%) Analyst
2 44 (15.55%) Data Analyst
3 37 (13.07%) Software Engineer
4 31 (10.95%) Junior
5 30 (10.60%) Senior
6 29 (10.25%) Junior Analyst
6 29 (10.25%) Junior Data Analyst
7 25 (8.83%) Developer
8 22 (7.77%) Trainee
9 17 (6.01%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.59%) Python Software Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Lead
12 11 (3.89%) Test Engineer
13 9 (3.18%) Administrator
13 9 (3.18%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.83%) Software Developer
15 7 (2.47%) Architect
15 7 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.48%) React
2 20 (7.07%) HTML
3 19 (6.71%) CSS
4 10 (3.53%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.83%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (2.83%) PySpark
5 8 (2.83%) pytest
5 8 (2.83%) Spring
5 8 (2.83%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.47%) REST
7 6 (2.12%) Pandas
7 6 (2.12%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.12%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.77%) Hibernate
8 5 (1.77%) JSF
8 5 (1.77%) Kafka
9 4 (1.41%) NumPy
9 4 (1.41%) PrimeFaces
9 4 (1.41%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.36%) Algorithms
2 14 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.89%) IoT
5 8 (2.83%) GNSS
5 8 (2.83%) Satnav
5 8 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.77%) Analogue Electronics
8 5 (1.77%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.41%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 57 (20.14%) Linux
2 22 (7.77%) Windows
3 10 (3.53%) Unix
3 10 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.12%) CentOS
5 6 (2.12%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.77%) Debian
7 3 (1.06%) CoreOS
7 3 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.35%) Solaris
8 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (24.73%) AI
2 63 (22.26%) Software Engineering
3 57 (20.14%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (19.43%) CI/CD
4 55 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (18.73%) Agile
6 50 (17.67%) DevOps
7 43 (15.19%) Analytics
8 35 (12.37%) Machine Learning
9 33 (11.66%) Infrastructure as Code
10 32 (11.31%) Mentoring
11 29 (10.25%) Containerisation
11 29 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (10.25%) Test Automation
12 28 (9.89%) Data Analysis
12 28 (9.89%) Data Science
13 26 (9.19%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (8.13%) Computer Science
14 23 (8.13%) Data Analytics
15 21 (7.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (33.57%) SQL
2 58 (20.49%) Java
3 55 (19.43%) JavaScript
4 41 (14.49%) Bash
5 38 (13.43%) C++
6 34 (12.01%) C
7 30 (10.60%) PowerShell
8 25 (8.83%) R
9 19 (6.71%) TypeScript
10 16 (5.65%) C#
11 13 (4.59%) MATLAB
12 10 (3.53%) Go
13 7 (2.47%) Bicep
14 5 (1.77%) Embedded C
15 4 (1.41%) Kotlin
16 3 (1.06%) Google Apps Script
16 3 (1.06%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.06%) Tcl
16 3 (1.06%) VBA
16 3 (1.06%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 54 (19.08%) Degree
3 48 (16.96%) Azure Certification
4 44 (15.55%) DV Cleared
5 42 (14.84%) SC Cleared
6 18 (6.36%) AWS Certification
7 15 (5.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 15 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.53%) CREST Certified
9 9 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.83%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.12%) CISSP
11 6 (2.12%) SANS
12 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.77%) HND
13 3 (1.06%) CCNP
13 3 (1.06%) CITP
14 2 (0.71%) CCNA
14 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.83%) QA
2 7 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.47%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.77%) GDPR
4 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) NCSC
5 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.35%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (14.13%) Docker
2 7 (2.47%) Firmware
3 5 (1.77%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.71%) vSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Ceph
7 1 (0.35%) iptables
7 1 (0.35%) KVM
7 1 (0.35%) Lustre
7 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (17.67%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.37%) Terraform
3 29 (10.25%) Ansible
4 8 (2.83%) Grafana
4 8 (2.83%) Kibana
5 5 (1.77%) Progress Chef
5 5 (1.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.41%) Puppet
7 3 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.06%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.06%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.71%) Argo
8 2 (0.71%) Rancher
8 2 (0.71%) yum
9 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.35%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.35%) logstash
9 1 (0.35%) Nagios
9 1 (0.35%) Nmap
9 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (22.61%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.65%) Google
3 15 (5.30%) Oracle
4 11 (3.89%) Databricks
4 11 (3.89%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.47%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.12%) SAP
7 5 (1.77%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.77%) Cisco
7 5 (1.77%) EMC
8 4 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.41%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.41%) Splunk
8 4 (1.41%) VMware
9 3 (1.06%) McAfee
10 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.35%) Palantir
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.35%) Talend
10 1 (0.35%) Zoho