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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 344 372 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.37% 9.55% 11.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.36% 27.84% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 207 217 470
10th Percentile £29,999 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,763
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.61% +2.20%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £88,875
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 812 1,336 2,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.04% 34.28% 39.84%
Number of salaries quoted 579 710 2,027
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +8.90% -1.08%
75th Percentile £68,575 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 30 January 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 30 January 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
Bristol -3 128 £60,000 -14.29% 70
Gloucestershire +14 100 £67,500 +3.85% 91
Devon +3 43 £52,500 -22.22% 48
Dorset -5 20 £100,000 +150.00% 31
Somerset -17 19 £75,000 +34.83% 37
Wiltshire -14 17 £40,000 - 34
Cornwall -9 7 £55,000 -8.33% 17
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 (4.65%) Apache
2 9 (2.62%) Confluence
3 6 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (16.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.29%) Weka
3 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 159 (46.22%) Azure
2 135 (39.24%) AWS
3 65 (18.90%) Power Platform
4 59 (17.15%) GitHub
5 42 (12.21%) Azure AI
6 28 (8.14%) GCP
7 24 (6.98%) Serverless
8 22 (6.40%) Amazon S3
8 22 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.36%) OpenShift
12 14 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (1.45%) Datadog
16 4 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.69%) Internet
2 18 (5.23%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.36%) DNS
3 15 (4.36%) WAN
4 11 (3.20%) Firewall
4 11 (3.20%) SD-WAN
5 10 (2.91%) 5G
6 8 (2.33%) DHCP
7 7 (2.03%) LAN
8 6 (1.74%) HTTP
8 6 (1.74%) Network Security
9 5 (1.45%) BGP
9 5 (1.45%) MPLS
9 5 (1.45%) VPN
9 5 (1.45%) VSAN
9 5 (1.45%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.16%) 4G
10 4 (1.16%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.16%) SMTP
10 4 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (18.90%) Power BI
2 55 (15.99%) Tableau
3 18 (5.23%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.78%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (3.49%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.20%) Big Data
8 10 (2.91%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.62%) Data Mining
9 9 (2.62%) Neo4j
10 8 (2.33%) MySQL
11 4 (1.16%) CockroachDB
11 4 (1.16%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.87%) Metadata
12 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.58%) DB2
Development Applications
1 75 (21.80%) Git
2 44 (12.79%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.40%) GitLab
4 13 (3.78%) JUnit
5 12 (3.49%) LabVIEW
6 10 (2.91%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.91%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.91%) JIRA
7 9 (2.62%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.03%) Selenium
9 6 (1.74%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.45%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.45%) Subversion
11 4 (1.16%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (1.16%) Postman
11 4 (1.16%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.16%) TestNG
12 3 (0.87%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.87%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.87%) Metasploit
General
1 99 (28.78%) Social Skills
2 59 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (16.28%) Finance
4 23 (6.69%) Electronics
5 21 (6.10%) Multimedia
6 19 (5.52%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.23%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.36%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.78%) Marketing
9 13 (3.78%) Telecoms
10 12 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.03%) Law
12 6 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.45%) Avionics
14 4 (1.16%) Banking
14 4 (1.16%) Military
15 3 (0.87%) Billing
15 3 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (18.60%) Analyst
2 57 (16.57%) Data Analyst
3 44 (12.79%) Junior
3 44 (12.79%) Software Engineer
4 42 (12.21%) Junior Analyst
4 42 (12.21%) Junior Data Analyst
5 34 (9.88%) Developer
6 33 (9.59%) Senior
7 31 (9.01%) Trainee
8 21 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.81%) Test Engineer
10 13 (3.78%) Lead
10 13 (3.78%) Product Engineer
10 13 (3.78%) Python Engineer
11 12 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.49%) Product Test Engineer
11 12 (3.49%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.49%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.49%) Verification Engineer
12 11 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.30%) React
2 29 (8.43%) HTML
3 28 (8.14%) CSS
4 18 (5.23%) AngularJS
5 16 (4.65%) pytest
6 13 (3.78%) Spring
6 13 (3.78%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
7 11 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.62%) Node.js
8 9 (2.62%) PySpark
8 9 (2.62%) REST
9 8 (2.33%) MERN Stack
9 8 (2.33%) Vue
10 6 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (1.45%) Kafka
11 5 (1.45%) Middleware
12 4 (1.16%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.16%) JSF
12 4 (1.16%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.65%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (2.62%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.33%) GNSS
4 8 (2.33%) Satnav
4 8 (2.33%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (2.03%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.74%) IoT
6 6 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.74%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 74 (21.51%) Linux
2 34 (9.88%) Windows
3 18 (5.23%) Unix
4 11 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.33%) CentOS
7 6 (1.74%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.45%) Debian
9 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.87%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.87%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.58%) Solaris
12 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (25.00%) AI
2 79 (22.97%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (22.38%) DevOps
3 77 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (21.80%) Agile
4 75 (21.80%) CI/CD
5 70 (20.35%) Software Engineering
6 52 (15.12%) Analytics
7 46 (13.37%) Mentoring
8 43 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 42 (12.21%) Containerisation
9 42 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 42 (12.21%) Test Automation
10 39 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (9.88%) Machine Learning
12 32 (9.30%) Data Science
13 25 (7.27%) Data Analysis
13 25 (7.27%) Project Management
13 25 (7.27%) Validation
14 24 (6.98%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 103 (29.94%) SQL
2 79 (22.97%) Java
3 78 (22.67%) JavaScript
4 73 (21.22%) Bash
5 44 (12.79%) PowerShell
6 36 (10.47%) C++
7 29 (8.43%) C
8 28 (8.14%) R
9 26 (7.56%) TypeScript
10 20 (5.81%) C#
11 17 (4.94%) MATLAB
12 14 (4.07%) Go
13 6 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.45%) Bicep
15 3 (0.87%) Elixir
15 3 (0.87%) Erlang
15 3 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.87%) Groovy
15 3 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.87%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 99 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 65 (18.90%) Azure Certification
3 55 (15.99%) DV Cleared
4 47 (13.66%) Degree
4 47 (13.66%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.56%) AWS Certification
6 23 (6.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 21 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (4.07%) CREST Certified
9 12 (3.49%) HND
10 9 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.33%) CISSP
11 8 (2.33%) SANS
12 7 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.03%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.87%) CCNP
14 3 (0.87%) CITP
15 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.58%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.91%) QA
3 9 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.58%) NCSC
5 2 (0.58%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (16.28%) Docker
2 6 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.74%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.58%) Firmware
4 2 (0.58%) iptables
4 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) Ceph
5 1 (0.29%) Lustre
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 51 (14.83%) Terraform
3 44 (12.79%) Ansible
4 21 (6.10%) Grafana
5 12 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.33%) Kibana
7 7 (2.03%) Puppet
8 6 (1.74%) Argo
9 5 (1.45%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.45%) Rancher
9 5 (1.45%) yum
10 4 (1.16%) logstash
10 4 (1.16%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (1.16%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.87%) Nmap
12 2 (0.58%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.58%) Nagios
12 2 (0.58%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (26.16%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.23%) Oracle
3 15 (4.36%) Google
4 14 (4.07%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.62%) Databricks
6 8 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.33%) Cisco
6 8 (2.33%) SAP
6 8 (2.33%) Splunk
7 7 (2.03%) VMware
8 4 (1.16%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.16%) McAfee
8 4 (1.16%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.58%) Dell
9 2 (0.58%) HP
9 2 (0.58%) Juniper
9 2 (0.58%) Palantir
9 2 (0.58%) Veeam
10 1 (0.29%) Foundry
10 1 (0.29%) Talend