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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 566 228 549
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.39% 6.33% 8.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.10% 31.36% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 341 142 324
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -

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 1,568 727 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.94% 20.19% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 497 1,037
10th Percentile £36,077 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,650 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -2 223 £72,500 +20.83% 139
Bristol -6 142 £65,000 +11.11% 109
Devon +9 76 £67,500 +25.58% 37
Somerset +22 70 £37,500 -40.00% 50
Wiltshire -19 27 £57,500 +56.89% 42
Dorset -17 16 £40,000 -44.83% 45
Cornwall +12 6 £52,246 -5.01% 4
Avon - 1 - - 30
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 43 (7.60%) Apache
2 24 (4.24%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.89%) Confluence
4 6 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.06%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.88%) nginx
6 4 (0.71%) JBoss
7 2 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (6.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.59%) Simulink
3 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.35%) MicroStation
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.35%) Revit
4 2 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 193 (34.10%) Azure
2 162 (28.62%) AWS
3 70 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 52 (9.19%) GCP
5 44 (7.77%) Azure AI
6 35 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
7 29 (5.12%) Serverless
8 28 (4.95%) OpenShift
9 26 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (3.89%) GitHub
12 21 (3.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (3.36%) Amazon S3
13 19 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (2.30%) SaaS
17 9 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.59%) Snowflake
18 6 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.71%) Firewall
2 19 (3.36%) WAN
3 14 (2.47%) LAN
4 12 (2.12%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.77%) Wireless
6 9 (1.59%) DNS
6 9 (1.59%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.59%) VPN
7 7 (1.24%) BGP
7 7 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (1.24%) OSPF
7 7 (1.24%) VLAN
8 6 (1.06%) Network Security
9 5 (0.88%) 5G
9 5 (0.88%) AMQP
9 5 (0.88%) Broadband
9 5 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (0.88%) DHCP
9 5 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.60%) Power BI
2 33 (5.83%) Tableau
3 30 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (4.59%) Big Data
5 25 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.71%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.71%) NoSQL
8 17 (3.00%) Hadoop
9 15 (2.65%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.94%) MySQL
12 10 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
13 9 (1.59%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.06%) InfluxDB
14 6 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 5 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 126 (22.26%) Git
2 59 (10.42%) Jenkins
3 54 (9.54%) GitLab
4 40 (7.07%) Subversion
5 32 (5.65%) JIRA
6 28 (4.95%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.89%) JUnit
8 16 (2.83%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.65%) Selenium
10 14 (2.47%) LabVIEW
10 14 (2.47%) SonarQube
11 12 (2.12%) Cypress.io
12 10 (1.77%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.41%) TestRail
14 7 (1.24%) MSI
14 7 (1.24%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.71%) Postman
15 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
16 3 (0.53%) NUnit
16 3 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 128 (22.61%) Social Skills
2 81 (14.31%) Finance
3 75 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.48%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.71%) Electronics
8 14 (2.47%) Retail
9 13 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.77%) Marketing
11 9 (1.59%) Games
11 9 (1.59%) Law
11 9 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.24%) Aviation
13 6 (1.06%) Banking
13 6 (1.06%) Legal
13 6 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.06%) Military
13 6 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.88%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 102 (18.02%) Software Engineer
2 88 (15.55%) Senior
3 77 (13.60%) Developer
4 62 (10.95%) Python Engineer
5 59 (10.42%) Data Engineer
6 50 (8.83%) Analyst
7 49 (8.66%) Junior
8 42 (7.42%) Lead
9 40 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 38 (6.71%) Data Analyst
11 32 (5.65%) Java Developer
12 30 (5.30%) Test Engineer
13 29 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (4.95%) Python Software Engineer
15 27 (4.77%) Architect
15 27 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
16 25 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
17 23 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 23 (4.06%) Junior Developer
17 23 (4.06%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (22.26%) Terraform
2 54 (9.54%) React
3 47 (8.30%) RESTful
4 44 (7.77%) Spring
4 44 (7.77%) Spring Boot
5 29 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (4.59%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (4.59%) Kafka
6 26 (4.59%) Struts
6 26 (4.59%) Web Services
7 25 (4.42%) Node.js
8 24 (4.24%) REST
9 23 (4.06%) Apache NiFi
10 19 (3.36%) .NET
10 19 (3.36%) Keycloak
11 18 (3.18%) CSS
11 18 (3.18%) Vue
12 16 (2.83%) HTML
12 16 (2.83%) pytest
13 15 (2.65%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.30%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.12%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.59%) FPGA
10 9 (1.59%) Robotics
11 8 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.06%) Raspberry Pi
14 5 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (0.88%) IoT
14 5 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 106 (18.73%) Linux
2 61 (10.78%) Windows
3 20 (3.53%) Unix
4 14 (2.47%) CentOS
5 11 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.24%) Debian
7 7 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.53%) Android
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.35%) Rocky
9 2 (0.35%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (31.98%) CI/CD
2 174 (30.74%) AI
3 165 (29.15%) DevOps
3 165 (29.15%) Software Engineering
4 153 (27.03%) Agile
5 138 (24.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (18.55%) Containerisation
8 100 (17.67%) Test Automation
9 80 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 77 (13.60%) Full-Stack Development
11 71 (12.54%) Analytics
12 67 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
12 67 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
13 63 (11.13%) Machine Learning
14 56 (9.89%) Validation
15 54 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 53 (9.36%) ETL
17 52 (9.19%) Mentoring
18 50 (8.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 166 (29.33%) Java
2 135 (23.85%) SQL
3 134 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 99 (17.49%) C++
5 85 (15.02%) Bash
6 59 (10.42%) C#
7 49 (8.66%) Go
8 37 (6.54%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.83%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.95%) Perl
11 26 (4.59%) C
12 17 (3.00%) MATLAB
13 16 (2.83%) Rust
14 10 (1.77%) PHP
15 8 (1.41%) Scala
16 7 (1.24%) Bicep
16 7 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (1.24%) R
17 6 (1.06%) Groovy
17 6 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (38.52%) Security Cleared
2 113 (19.96%) DV Cleared
3 92 (16.25%) SC Cleared
4 86 (15.19%) Degree
5 58 (10.25%) Azure Certification
6 37 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.77%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.41%) HND
11 6 (1.06%) PhD
11 6 (1.06%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.88%) CCNP
12 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.71%) CCNA
13 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.71%) OSCP
13 4 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.01%) QA
2 30 (5.30%) Accessibility
2 30 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.94%) WCAG
4 10 (1.77%) NCSC
5 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.88%) PMO
6 4 (0.71%) NIST
7 3 (0.53%) GDPR
8 2 (0.35%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.18%) DO-254
9 1 (0.18%) JTAG
System Software
1 109 (19.26%) Docker
2 22 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.36%) Firmware
4 11 (1.94%) Active Directory
5 7 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.24%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.06%) vSphere
7 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.71%) Squid
8 4 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.18%) KVM
Systems Management
1 134 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 114 (20.14%) Ansible
3 39 (6.89%) Grafana
4 30 (5.30%) Puppet
5 18 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.83%) Kibana
6 16 (2.83%) logstash
7 14 (2.47%) Argo
8 12 (2.12%) Rancher
9 9 (1.59%) Packer
9 9 (1.59%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.59%) yum
10 7 (1.24%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.88%) Nagios
11 5 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.71%) Istio
12 4 (0.71%) linkerd
12 4 (0.71%) Mesos
Vendors
1 97 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.77%) Red Hat
3 22 (3.89%) VMware
4 18 (3.18%) Splunk
5 17 (3.00%) Cisco
6 15 (2.65%) Databricks
7 14 (2.47%) Google
8 12 (2.12%) Atlassian
9 11 (1.94%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.24%) Oracle
10 7 (1.24%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.24%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.06%) EMC
11 6 (1.06%) Intel
12 5 (0.88%) SaltStack
13 4 (0.71%) F5
13 4 (0.71%) Meraki
13 4 (0.71%) Netskope
13 4 (0.71%) ServiceNow