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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 601 216 624
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.27% 6.32% 8.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.44% 30.04% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 334 135 413
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £45,761 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 1,524 719 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.91% 21.03% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 486 1,341
10th Percentile £33,825 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -1 212 £65,000 +18.18% 176
Bristol +7 151 £62,500 +4.17% 155
Devon +17 88 £62,500 +31.58% 41
Somerset +17 87 £37,500 -31.82% 44
Wiltshire -10 26 £56,250 +53.48% 22
Dorset -9 25 £40,000 -44.83% 39
Cornwall +12 8 £52,246 -16.41% 1
Avon - 1 - - 47
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 38 (6.32%) Apache
2 21 (3.49%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.49%) Confluence
3 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.83%) nginx
4 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.67%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 74 (12.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.16%) Simulink
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.17%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 246 (40.93%) Azure
2 149 (24.79%) AWS
3 110 (18.30%) Power Platform
4 106 (17.64%) Azure AI
5 54 (8.99%) GCP
6 35 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (4.16%) OpenShift
8 24 (3.99%) GitHub
8 24 (3.99%) Serverless
9 22 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.83%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (1.83%) SaaS
13 11 (1.83%) Snowflake
14 9 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.66%) Firewall
1 22 (3.66%) WAN
2 17 (2.83%) LAN
3 12 (2.00%) SD-WAN
4 10 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (1.66%) DNS
4 10 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.66%) VLAN
5 9 (1.50%) VPN
6 8 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.33%) Wireless
7 7 (1.16%) BGP
7 7 (1.16%) Broadband
7 7 (1.16%) OSPF
7 7 (1.16%) Unified Communications
7 7 (1.16%) WebEx
8 6 (1.00%) DHCP
8 6 (1.00%) Network Security
9 5 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (13.81%) Power BI
2 75 (12.48%) Tableau
3 24 (3.99%) MongoDB
3 24 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (3.83%) Big Data
4 23 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.83%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 10 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (1.66%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.66%) MySQL
8 10 (1.66%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (1.33%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.16%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (21.13%) Git
2 52 (8.65%) Jenkins
3 48 (7.99%) GitLab
4 36 (5.99%) Subversion
5 34 (5.66%) JIRA
6 28 (4.66%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.66%) JUnit
8 16 (2.66%) Selenium
9 14 (2.33%) Bitbucket
10 13 (2.16%) Cypress.io
11 12 (2.00%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.83%) LabVIEW
13 9 (1.50%) TestRail
14 8 (1.33%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.33%) Robot Framework
15 7 (1.16%) MSI
16 4 (0.67%) Postman
16 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
17 3 (0.50%) MLflow
17 3 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 182 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 74 (12.31%) Finance
3 73 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.16%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.66%) Aerospace
6 24 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.83%) Retail
8 16 (2.66%) Electronics
8 16 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.16%) Marketing
10 9 (1.50%) Games
11 8 (1.33%) Aviation
11 8 (1.33%) Banking
11 8 (1.33%) Law
11 8 (1.33%) Military
11 8 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Legal
12 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 96 (15.97%) Software Engineer
2 91 (15.14%) Junior
3 90 (14.98%) Analyst
4 88 (14.64%) Developer
5 82 (13.64%) Senior
6 77 (12.81%) Data Analyst
7 64 (10.65%) Junior Analyst
8 63 (10.48%) Junior Data Analyst
9 60 (9.98%) Data Engineer
10 51 (8.49%) Python Engineer
11 43 (7.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 40 (6.66%) Lead
13 33 (5.49%) Java Developer
14 32 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (4.83%) Test Engineer
16 27 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 26 (4.33%) Architect
17 26 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
18 24 (3.99%) Python Software Engineer
19 23 (3.83%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (19.30%) Terraform
2 49 (8.15%) React
3 47 (7.82%) RESTful
4 36 (5.99%) Spring
4 36 (5.99%) Spring Boot
5 26 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.33%) Jakarta EE
5 26 (4.33%) Node.js
5 26 (4.33%) Struts
5 26 (4.33%) Web Services
6 25 (4.16%) REST
7 24 (3.99%) Kafka
8 22 (3.66%) Apache NiFi
8 22 (3.66%) CSS
9 20 (3.33%) .NET
10 19 (3.16%) Vue
11 17 (2.83%) HTML
12 15 (2.50%) Keycloak
12 15 (2.50%) pytest
13 13 (2.16%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.83%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.16%) CUDA
9 7 (1.16%) FlexPod
9 7 (1.16%) Raspberry Pi
9 7 (1.16%) Robotics
9 7 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.00%) IoT
10 6 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.64%) Linux
2 65 (10.82%) Windows
3 18 (3.00%) Unix
4 15 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.16%) CentOS
6 8 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) 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 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (36.77%) AI
2 164 (27.29%) CI/CD
2 164 (27.29%) Software Engineering
3 147 (24.46%) DevOps
4 142 (23.63%) Agile
5 125 (20.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 121 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
8 91 (15.14%) Test Automation
9 88 (14.64%) Containerisation
10 80 (13.31%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (11.48%) Analytics
12 68 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 65 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
14 58 (9.65%) Machine Learning
15 53 (8.82%) ETL
16 52 (8.65%) Data Science
17 51 (8.49%) Mentoring
18 48 (7.99%) Computer Science
18 48 (7.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 173 (28.79%) SQL
2 151 (25.12%) Java
3 140 (23.29%) JavaScript
4 95 (15.81%) C++
5 74 (12.31%) Bash
6 59 (9.82%) C#
7 41 (6.82%) Go
8 40 (6.66%) PowerShell
9 31 (5.16%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.49%) Perl
11 24 (3.99%) C
12 15 (2.50%) MATLAB
13 14 (2.33%) PHP
13 14 (2.33%) Rust
14 11 (1.83%) Scala
15 9 (1.50%) R
16 8 (1.33%) Groovy
17 7 (1.16%) Bicep
17 7 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 186 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 120 (19.97%) Azure Certification
3 101 (16.81%) DV Cleared
4 81 (13.48%) Degree
5 77 (12.81%) SC Cleared
6 38 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.33%) HND
11 6 (1.00%) PhD
11 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.83%) CCNP
13 4 (0.67%) CCNA
13 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.67%) OSCP
13 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.16%) QA
2 30 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.83%) WCAG
5 10 (1.66%) NCSC
6 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.83%) GDPR
7 5 (0.83%) PMO
8 4 (0.67%) NIST
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 99 (16.47%) Docker
2 23 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.49%) Firmware
4 12 (2.00%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.33%) vSphere
7 6 (1.00%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.67%) Squid
9 4 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 114 (18.97%) Kubernetes
2 101 (16.81%) Ansible
3 38 (6.32%) Grafana
4 20 (3.33%) Puppet
5 16 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.50%) Kibana
6 15 (2.50%) logstash
7 9 (1.50%) Argo
7 9 (1.50%) Packer
8 8 (1.33%) Rancher
8 8 (1.33%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.00%) yum
11 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.83%) Nagios
11 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.50%) Istio
12 3 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 138 (22.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.33%) Red Hat
3 23 (3.83%) Splunk
3 23 (3.83%) VMware
4 21 (3.49%) Cisco
5 19 (3.16%) Databricks
6 14 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 13 (2.16%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.66%) Google
8 10 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.33%) Oracle
10 7 (1.16%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.16%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.83%) Intel
12 4 (0.67%) Avaya
12 4 (0.67%) F5
12 4 (0.67%) Infoblox
12 4 (0.67%) NetApp
12 4 (0.67%) Netskope
12 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow