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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -11 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Python 230 615 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.56% 8.16% 14.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.25% 31.28% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 143 384 488
10th Percentile £36,330 £40,375 £37,765
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £89,750 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 736 1,966 1,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.99% 26.10% 38.17%
Number of salaries quoted 499 1,237 1,447
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £33,957
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -12 71 £60,000 -18.64% 89
Gloucestershire +2 64 £55,000 -4.35% 86
Dorset -4 29 £72,500 +20.83% 17
Devon -17 27 £50,000 -13.79% 33
Wiltshire +6 20 £36,650 -45.70% 24
Somerset -1 14 £57,500 +4.55% 22
Cornwall -17 1 £62,500 +16.82% 1
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 6 (2.61%) Apache
2 5 (2.17%) Confluence
3 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.74%) SAS
4 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.74%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (32.17%) AWS
2 56 (24.35%) Azure
3 23 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.70%) GitHub
5 17 (7.39%) Amazon S3
5 17 (7.39%) Serverless
6 16 (6.96%) GCP
7 15 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.04%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (2.61%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (1.74%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (1.74%) Google Workspace
14 4 (1.74%) SaaS
15 3 (1.30%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) WAN
2 10 (4.35%) Internet
3 8 (3.48%) SD-WAN
3 8 (3.48%) VPN
4 7 (3.04%) 5G
5 6 (2.61%) Firewall
6 4 (1.74%) DNS
6 4 (1.74%) LAN
6 4 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.74%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.30%) AMQP
7 3 (1.30%) Network Security
8 2 (0.87%) Broadband
8 2 (0.87%) DHCP
8 2 (0.87%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.87%) IPv4
8 2 (0.87%) OSPF
8 2 (0.87%) VLAN
8 2 (0.87%) VSAN
8 2 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.00%) Power BI
2 14 (6.09%) Tableau
3 12 (5.22%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.48%) MySQL
6 8 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.61%) Big Data
8 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.74%) ClickHouse
10 4 (1.74%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (1.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (19.13%) Git
2 23 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.96%) GitLab
4 10 (4.35%) Selenium
5 7 (3.04%) Locust
6 6 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.61%) JIRA
6 6 (2.61%) Subversion
7 5 (2.17%) JUnit
7 5 (2.17%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.74%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.74%) ER Studio
8 4 (1.74%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.30%) Appium
9 3 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.30%) Gatling
9 3 (1.30%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.30%) Postman
9 3 (1.30%) TestRail
10 2 (0.87%) Maven
General
1 53 (23.04%) Finance
2 51 (22.17%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (19.57%) Social Skills
4 31 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (10.00%) Marketing
6 22 (9.57%) Retail
7 21 (9.13%) Law
8 19 (8.26%) Manufacturing
9 18 (7.83%) Electronics
10 14 (6.09%) Aerospace
11 10 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (3.91%) Military
13 6 (2.61%) Banking
13 6 (2.61%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 5 (2.17%) Automotive
14 5 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.17%) Legal
14 5 (2.17%) Tech for Good
15 4 (1.74%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 37 (16.09%) Software Engineer
2 36 (15.65%) Senior
3 25 (10.87%) Lead
4 24 (10.43%) Analyst
5 21 (9.13%) Developer
6 17 (7.39%) Python Engineer
6 17 (7.39%) Test Engineer
7 16 (6.96%) Data Engineer
7 16 (6.96%) Python Software Engineer
8 12 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (5.22%) Software Developer
9 10 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Test Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.48%) Data Analyst
12 7 (3.04%) Administrator
12 7 (3.04%) Electronics Engineer
12 7 (3.04%) Java Engineer
12 7 (3.04%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (3.04%) Professional Services Engineer
13 6 (2.61%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.13%) React
2 9 (3.91%) HTML
2 9 (3.91%) Playwright
3 8 (3.48%) .NET
4 7 (3.04%) Hibernate
4 7 (3.04%) Pandas
4 7 (3.04%) PySpark
5 6 (2.61%) CSS
6 5 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.17%) Kafka
6 5 (2.17%) pytest
6 5 (2.17%) PyTorch
6 5 (2.17%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (1.74%) Django
7 4 (1.74%) JSF
7 4 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.74%) REST
7 4 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.13%) Algorithms
2 12 (5.22%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (4.78%) Analogue Electronics
3 11 (4.78%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.04%) IoT
6 7 (3.04%) Self-Driving Car
7 6 (2.61%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.61%) Reinsurance
8 5 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.17%) e-Learning
8 5 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.17%) FPGA
8 5 (2.17%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.74%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.74%) Verilog
9 4 (1.74%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.48%) Linux
2 19 (8.26%) Windows
3 12 (5.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.04%) Unix
5 6 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.17%) Debian
6 5 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.74%) Android
7 4 (1.74%) CentOS
8 3 (1.30%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.87%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.96%) CI/CD
2 59 (25.65%) Software Engineering
3 51 (22.17%) Agile
4 47 (20.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 46 (20.00%) DevOps
6 45 (19.57%) Analytics
7 42 (18.26%) Machine Learning
8 40 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (16.52%) Test Automation
10 34 (14.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (14.35%) Business Intelligence
11 33 (14.35%) Data Science
12 28 (12.17%) Containerisation
13 26 (11.30%) Mentoring
14 25 (10.87%) Visualisation
15 24 (10.43%) Computer Science
16 22 (9.57%) ETL
17 21 (9.13%) Data Analytics
18 20 (8.70%) Data Modelling
19 19 (8.26%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.35%) SQL
2 56 (24.35%) Java
3 43 (18.70%) JavaScript
4 32 (13.91%) C++
5 29 (12.61%) R
6 27 (11.74%) C
7 26 (11.30%) Bash
8 22 (9.57%) PowerShell
9 15 (6.52%) TypeScript
10 14 (6.09%) Go
11 12 (5.22%) C#
11 12 (5.22%) Embedded C
12 11 (4.78%) MATLAB
13 6 (2.61%) Julia
13 6 (2.61%) PHP
14 5 (2.17%) Perl
14 5 (2.17%) Rust
15 4 (1.74%) Bicep
15 4 (1.74%) Tcl
15 4 (1.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.74%) Degree
3 31 (13.48%) SC Cleared
4 26 (11.30%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.91%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.74%) PhD
8 3 (1.30%) CCNA
8 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.30%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.87%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.43%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.48%) QA
2 7 (3.04%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.61%) GDPR
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.87%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.43%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.43%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Firmware
3 5 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.74%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.30%) vSphere
6 1 (0.43%) iptables
6 1 (0.43%) KVM
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 31 (13.48%) Ansible
2 31 (13.48%) Terraform
3 7 (3.04%) Kibana
4 6 (2.61%) Puppet
5 5 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.74%) Grafana
6 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.87%) Istio
8 2 (0.87%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.87%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.43%) Argo
9 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.43%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.43%) Nmap
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (9.13%) Databricks
2 20 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.96%) Google
4 11 (4.78%) Oracle
4 11 (4.78%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.04%) Atlassian
5 7 (3.04%) EMC
6 6 (2.61%) VMware
7 5 (2.17%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.74%) Cisco
9 3 (1.30%) SAP
9 3 (1.30%) Talend
10 2 (0.87%) Juniper
10 2 (0.87%) McAfee
10 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.43%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.43%) Genesys
11 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.43%) Veeam
11 1 (0.43%) Xilinx