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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 521 248 805
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.91% 9.24% 9.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.64% 29.11% 27.40%
Number of salaries quoted 232 175 589
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £74,063 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £94,511 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 1,117 852 2,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.81% 31.76% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 690 624 2,428
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +6.38% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,563 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 April 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 April 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 +2 153 £60,000 -7.69% 45
Bristol 0 146 £57,500 -14.81% 47
Devon +35 101 £50,000 +5.26% 20
Somerset +11 55 £45,142 -24.76% 23
Dorset +1 39 £50,000 +8.11% 10
Wiltshire -21 12 £67,500 +39.36% 29
Cornwall - 9 £40,000 - 2
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 16 (3.07%) Apache
2 10 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.15%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.77%) Confluence
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 153 (29.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 287 (55.09%) Azure
2 186 (35.70%) Azure AI
3 168 (32.25%) Power Platform
4 145 (27.83%) AWS
5 48 (9.21%) GitHub
6 41 (7.87%) GCP
7 25 (4.80%) Amazon S3
7 25 (4.80%) Serverless
8 22 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.11%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.34%) Datadog
13 7 (1.34%) dbt
13 7 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.84%) WAN
2 17 (3.26%) Internet
3 15 (2.88%) Firewall
4 14 (2.69%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.30%) LAN
6 11 (2.11%) DNS
6 11 (2.11%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (1.92%) VLAN
8 8 (1.54%) 5G
8 8 (1.54%) Broadband
8 8 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (1.54%) Network Security
8 8 (1.54%) Unified Communications
8 8 (1.54%) WebEx
9 7 (1.34%) DHCP
10 5 (0.96%) BGP
10 5 (0.96%) MPLS
11 4 (0.77%) SMTP
11 4 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (32.05%) Power BI
2 156 (29.94%) Tableau
3 23 (4.41%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.69%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.73%) Big Data
10 8 (1.54%) MySQL
10 8 (1.54%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.34%) Data Mining
11 7 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.96%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (13.24%) Git
2 49 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.99%) GitLab
4 13 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 11 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.11%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.92%) JUnit
7 9 (1.73%) JIRA
7 9 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.54%) LabVIEW
8 8 (1.54%) Selenium
9 7 (1.34%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.34%) Subversion
9 7 (1.34%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (0.96%) TestRail
11 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.77%) TestNG
12 3 (0.58%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.58%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.58%) Metasploit
General
1 240 (46.07%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.75%) Finance
3 50 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.22%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.65%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.45%) Marketing
8 17 (3.26%) Electronics
8 17 (3.26%) Multimedia
9 15 (2.88%) Retail
10 14 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.69%) Manufacturing
11 12 (2.30%) Banking
12 11 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.73%) Tech for Good
14 5 (0.96%) Law
14 5 (0.96%) Military
15 4 (0.77%) Avionics
15 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (31.09%) Analyst
2 155 (29.75%) Data Analyst
3 146 (28.02%) Junior
4 144 (27.64%) Junior Analyst
4 144 (27.64%) Junior Data Analyst
5 62 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 54 (10.36%) Developer
7 42 (8.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 36 (6.91%) Senior
9 31 (5.95%) Trainee
10 28 (5.37%) Data Engineer
11 25 (4.80%) Python Developer
12 20 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 19 (3.65%) Python Engineer
14 18 (3.45%) Data Scientist
15 17 (3.26%) Lead
16 16 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.07%) Test Engineer
17 12 (2.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 11 (2.11%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.18%) CSS
2 24 (4.61%) React
3 23 (4.41%) HTML
4 18 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 18 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.26%) Vue
6 16 (3.07%) Node.js
7 15 (2.88%) pytest
8 13 (2.50%) REST
9 12 (2.30%) Apache NiFi
9 12 (2.30%) Django
10 11 (2.11%) NumPy
10 11 (2.11%) Pandas
11 10 (1.92%) Spring
11 10 (1.92%) Spring Boot
12 9 (1.73%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.54%) .NET
13 8 (1.54%) Flask
13 8 (1.54%) MERN Stack
13 8 (1.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.03%) Cloud Native
2 17 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.07%) Algorithms
4 14 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.73%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.73%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.54%) FlexPod
7 8 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.54%) Self-Driving Car
7 8 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.15%) Replication
8 6 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 5 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (0.77%) CUDA
10 4 (0.77%) GNSS
10 4 (0.77%) IoT
10 4 (0.77%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 76 (14.59%) Linux
2 36 (6.91%) Windows
3 13 (2.50%) Unix
4 10 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.15%) CentOS
6 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (46.26%) AI
2 187 (35.89%) Business Intelligence
3 94 (18.04%) Software Engineering
4 91 (17.47%) CI/CD
5 87 (16.70%) DevOps
6 77 (14.78%) Agile
7 67 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (9.98%) Analytics
9 52 (9.98%) Containerisation
10 50 (9.60%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 47 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (8.64%) Mentoring
14 44 (8.45%) Machine Learning
15 42 (8.06%) Data Science
16 39 (7.49%) Cybersecurity
17 32 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 29 (5.57%) Full-Stack Development
19 27 (5.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 198 (38.00%) SQL
2 86 (16.51%) JavaScript
3 79 (15.16%) Bash
3 79 (15.16%) Java
4 48 (9.21%) PowerShell
5 35 (6.72%) C++
6 30 (5.76%) TypeScript
7 27 (5.18%) Go
8 25 (4.80%) R
9 24 (4.61%) C#
10 22 (4.22%) C
11 12 (2.30%) PHP
12 11 (2.11%) MATLAB
13 10 (1.92%) Scala
14 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.15%) Rust
15 4 (0.77%) Groovy
16 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 3 (0.58%) Elixir
16 3 (0.58%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 203 (38.96%) Azure Certification
2 94 (18.04%) Security Cleared
3 61 (11.71%) DV Cleared
4 46 (8.83%) Degree
5 28 (5.37%) AWS Certification
6 27 (5.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 26 (4.99%) SC Cleared
8 17 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.30%) CREST Certified
10 11 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.54%) HND
12 7 (1.34%) CISSP
12 7 (1.34%) SANS
13 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.77%) PhD
14 3 (0.58%) CCNP
14 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.38%) CITP
16 1 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.26%) Data Quality
1 17 (3.26%) QA
2 8 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.58%) NIST
5 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (13.63%) Docker
2 13 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.92%) Firmware
4 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (0.96%) vSphere
5 4 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.77%) iptables
6 3 (0.58%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 83 (15.93%) Kubernetes
2 66 (12.67%) Terraform
3 56 (10.75%) Ansible
4 39 (7.49%) Grafana
5 15 (2.88%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.11%) Kibana
7 10 (1.92%) logstash
7 10 (1.92%) Puppet
8 9 (1.73%) Argo
9 8 (1.54%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.54%) Rancher
10 7 (1.34%) yum
11 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.58%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.58%) Nmap
13 3 (0.58%) SCCM
13 3 (0.58%) SCOM
13 3 (0.58%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.38%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 200 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.65%) Splunk
3 16 (3.07%) Cisco
4 14 (2.69%) VMware
5 13 (2.50%) Oracle
6 12 (2.30%) Databricks
7 11 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.11%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.73%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.54%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.54%) Google
10 6 (1.15%) SAP
11 5 (0.96%) NetApp
12 4 (0.77%) Typelevel
13 3 (0.58%) Cognos
13 3 (0.58%) Dell
13 3 (0.58%) HP
13 3 (0.58%) Juniper
13 3 (0.58%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.58%) Veeam