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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 540 256 842
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.81% 8.79% 8.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.12% 30.37% 28.44%
Number of salaries quoted 272 151 613
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,688 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £76,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 1,282 843 2,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.16% 28.93% 29.12%
Number of salaries quoted 867 562 2,341
10th Percentile £34,300 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,725 £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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +2 165 £60,000 - 59
Bristol +6 141 £60,000 -11.11% 53
Devon +19 94 £52,500 - 16
Somerset +12 75 £31,500 -45.22% 24
Dorset -3 29 £40,000 -17.95% 13
Wiltshire -17 21 £60,000 +44.98% 23
Cornwall +8 11 £52,246 -16.41% 1
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 22 (4.07%) Apache
2 17 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.85%) Confluence
4 8 (1.48%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (22.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.30%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 259 (47.96%) Azure
2 151 (27.96%) Azure AI
3 146 (27.04%) AWS
4 143 (26.48%) Power Platform
5 55 (10.19%) GCP
6 34 (6.30%) GitHub
7 33 (6.11%) Serverless
8 29 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (5.19%) Amazon S3
10 23 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.96%) OpenShift
13 14 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (1.67%) SaaS
16 9 (1.67%) Snowflake
17 8 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.89%) WAN
2 20 (3.70%) Firewall
3 13 (2.41%) LAN
4 12 (2.22%) Broadband
5 11 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 10 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.67%) 5G
7 9 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.67%) Unified Communications
7 9 (1.67%) VLAN
7 9 (1.67%) WebEx
8 7 (1.30%) Network Security
9 6 (1.11%) DHCP
9 6 (1.11%) DNS
9 6 (1.11%) Internet
10 4 (0.74%) IPv4
10 4 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.56%) AMQP
11 3 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (23.89%) Power BI
2 124 (22.96%) Tableau
3 21 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.96%) Big Data
5 16 (2.96%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.85%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.30%) MySQL
10 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.11%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.11%) InfluxDB
11 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.74%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 85 (15.74%) Git
2 51 (9.44%) Jenkins
3 37 (6.85%) GitLab
4 20 (3.70%) Subversion
5 16 (2.96%) JIRA
6 15 (2.78%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.78%) Eclipse
7 11 (2.04%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.67%) JUnit
10 8 (1.48%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.48%) LabVIEW
10 8 (1.48%) Selenium
11 6 (1.11%) Robot Framework
11 6 (1.11%) TestRail
12 4 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.56%) MLflow
13 3 (0.56%) MSI
14 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
General
1 206 (38.15%) Social Skills
2 54 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.52%) Finance
4 34 (6.30%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.44%) Aerospace
6 22 (4.07%) Retail
7 19 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.78%) Electronics
9 14 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.41%) Marketing
11 12 (2.22%) Banking
12 9 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.67%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.11%) Games
14 6 (1.11%) Multimedia
15 4 (0.74%) Aviation
15 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (24.63%) Analyst
2 123 (22.78%) Data Analyst
2 123 (22.78%) Junior
3 109 (20.19%) Junior Analyst
3 109 (20.19%) Junior Data Analyst
4 73 (13.52%) Developer
5 61 (11.30%) Software Engineer
6 52 (9.63%) Senior
7 42 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 40 (7.41%) Data Engineer
9 27 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (5.00%) Python Engineer
10 25 (4.63%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.26%) Java Developer
12 21 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.89%) Lead
13 17 (3.15%) Data Scientist
13 17 (3.15%) Test Engineer
13 17 (3.15%) Trainee
14 15 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.11%) React
2 28 (5.19%) Node.js
3 27 (5.00%) RESTful
4 21 (3.89%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (3.89%) Vue
5 20 (3.70%) REST
6 18 (3.33%) CSS
7 15 (2.78%) pytest
7 15 (2.78%) Spring
7 15 (2.78%) Spring Boot
8 14 (2.59%) Apache NiFi
8 14 (2.59%) HTML
8 14 (2.59%) J2EE
8 14 (2.59%) Struts
8 14 (2.59%) Web Services
9 12 (2.22%) .NET
9 12 (2.22%) AngularJS
9 12 (2.22%) FastAPI
10 11 (2.04%) Pandas
11 10 (1.85%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.85%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.67%) FlexPod
6 9 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
7 8 (1.48%) Self-Driving Car
8 6 (1.11%) CUDA
8 6 (1.11%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.11%) Over-the-Top Content
8 6 (1.11%) Replication
9 5 (0.93%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 89 (16.48%) Linux
2 53 (9.81%) Windows
3 20 (3.70%) Unix
4 17 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.04%) CentOS
6 6 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.93%) Debian
7 5 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.56%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.19%) Rocky
10 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (43.70%) AI
2 157 (29.07%) Business Intelligence
3 115 (21.30%) CI/CD
4 107 (19.81%) Software Engineering
5 104 (19.26%) DevOps
6 96 (17.78%) Agile
7 81 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 81 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (12.22%) Containerisation
9 57 (10.56%) Test Automation
10 54 (10.00%) Analytics
10 54 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 50 (9.26%) Data Science
12 48 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 45 (8.33%) Machine Learning
14 44 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (7.59%) Mentoring
16 40 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 37 (6.85%) Data Pipeline
18 31 (5.74%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (34.26%) SQL
2 94 (17.41%) Java
2 94 (17.41%) JavaScript
3 81 (15.00%) Bash
4 58 (10.74%) C++
5 49 (9.07%) PowerShell
6 32 (5.93%) C#
7 30 (5.56%) Go
8 28 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 17 (3.15%) C
10 16 (2.96%) PHP
11 14 (2.59%) Perl
11 14 (2.59%) R
12 13 (2.41%) MATLAB
13 9 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (1.67%) Rust
14 8 (1.48%) Scala
15 5 (0.93%) VBA
16 4 (0.74%) Groovy
16 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (29.44%) Azure Certification
2 124 (22.96%) Security Cleared
3 75 (13.89%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.81%) Degree
5 44 (8.15%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.70%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 10 (1.85%) HND
9 10 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.93%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.93%) PhD
10 5 (0.93%) RHCSA
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.74%) CCNA
11 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.74%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) OSCP
11 4 (0.74%) RHCE
11 4 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.07%) Data Quality
2 16 (2.96%) QA
3 11 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.93%) GDPR
4 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.93%) WCAG
5 3 (0.56%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.56%) NCSC
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (14.81%) Docker
2 21 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.22%) Firmware
4 10 (1.85%) vSphere
5 9 (1.67%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.74%) iptables
8 4 (0.74%) Squid
8 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 92 (17.04%) Kubernetes
2 85 (15.74%) Terraform
3 78 (14.44%) Ansible
4 45 (8.33%) Grafana
5 17 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.96%) Puppet
7 15 (2.78%) Kibana
7 15 (2.78%) logstash
8 9 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.48%) Rancher
10 7 (1.30%) Argo
10 7 (1.30%) Packer
11 6 (1.11%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.11%) yum
11 6 (1.11%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.93%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.93%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.56%) SCCM
13 3 (0.56%) SCOM
13 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 176 (32.59%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.26%) Splunk
3 21 (3.89%) VMware
4 18 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.15%) Cisco
5 17 (3.15%) Databricks
6 11 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.04%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.67%) Oracle
8 8 (1.48%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.30%) Google
10 6 (1.11%) Cognos
10 6 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.11%) NetApp
11 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.74%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.56%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.56%) SAP
13 2 (0.37%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.37%) Veeam