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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 25 17
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 565 242 740
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.70% 7.18% 8.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.76% 28.81% 29.59%
Number of salaries quoted 305 141 527
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,443 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -4.26% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 1,386 840 2,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.43% 24.93% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 985 566 1,936
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £68,250 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £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 21 July 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 21 July 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 0 176 £60,500 +7.56% 61
Bristol +6 152 £62,500 - 46
Devon +26 93 £52,500 +5.00% 19
Somerset +17 79 £31,500 -40.00% 27
Dorset -7 30 £40,000 -20.00% 12
Wiltshire -16 22 £55,000 +21.49% 12
Cornwall +14 10 £52,246 -16.41%
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 24 (4.25%) Apache
2 16 (2.83%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.95%) Confluence
4 9 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.42%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.35%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Simulink
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 254 (44.96%) Azure
2 144 (25.49%) Azure AI
3 139 (24.60%) AWS
4 138 (24.42%) Power Platform
5 51 (9.03%) GCP
6 29 (5.13%) Serverless
7 28 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (4.42%) Amazon S3
8 25 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (4.07%) GitHub
10 20 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (2.48%) OpenShift
12 13 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.95%) SaaS
15 10 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.42%) Snowflake
17 6 (1.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.54%) Firewall
2 16 (2.83%) WAN
3 12 (2.12%) LAN
4 11 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (1.77%) Broadband
6 9 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.59%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.59%) VLAN
6 9 (1.59%) WebEx
7 8 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.06%) Network Security
8 6 (1.06%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.88%) 5G
10 4 (0.71%) DHCP
10 4 (0.71%) DNS
10 4 (0.71%) Internet
10 4 (0.71%) IPv4
10 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.53%) VPN
12 2 (0.35%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (21.06%) Power BI
2 118 (20.88%) Tableau
3 24 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.07%) MongoDB
5 20 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.36%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.65%) Big Data
8 14 (2.48%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.77%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.42%) MySQL
11 8 (1.42%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.06%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.06%) Geospatial Data
13 6 (1.06%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 90 (15.93%) Git
2 46 (8.14%) Jenkins
3 40 (7.08%) GitLab
4 23 (4.07%) Subversion
5 20 (3.54%) JIRA
6 18 (3.19%) Eclipse
7 12 (2.12%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.95%) JUnit
9 10 (1.77%) Selenium
9 10 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.59%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.24%) Cypress.io
12 6 (1.06%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.06%) TestRail
13 5 (0.88%) LabVIEW
13 5 (0.88%) MSI
14 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.53%) MLflow
15 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
General
1 196 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 53 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (9.03%) Finance
4 35 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.07%) Retail
6 21 (3.72%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.30%) Marketing
9 12 (2.12%) Banking
9 12 (2.12%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.77%) Electronics
11 9 (1.59%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.24%) Aviation
13 7 (1.24%) Games
14 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Law
14 4 (0.71%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (22.83%) Analyst
2 119 (21.06%) Junior
3 117 (20.71%) Data Analyst
4 102 (18.05%) Junior Analyst
4 102 (18.05%) Junior Data Analyst
5 83 (14.69%) Software Engineer
6 76 (13.45%) Developer
6 76 (13.45%) Senior
7 47 (8.32%) Data Engineer
8 42 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 39 (6.90%) Python Engineer
10 29 (5.13%) Lead
11 26 (4.60%) Java Developer
12 25 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
12 25 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 25 (4.42%) Python Developer
13 22 (3.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (3.36%) Architect
15 18 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (3.01%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.66%) React
1 32 (5.66%) RESTful
2 26 (4.60%) Node.js
3 24 (4.25%) Spring
3 24 (4.25%) Spring Boot
4 21 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (3.72%) REST
5 20 (3.54%) Vue
6 18 (3.19%) CSS
7 17 (3.01%) Jakarta EE
7 17 (3.01%) Struts
7 17 (3.01%) Web Services
8 15 (2.65%) Apache NiFi
8 15 (2.65%) Kafka
9 14 (2.48%) .NET
9 14 (2.48%) FastAPI
10 13 (2.30%) Django
10 13 (2.30%) HTML
11 11 (1.95%) Pandas
11 11 (1.95%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.19%) Algorithms
2 18 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.95%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.59%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (1.24%) CUDA
8 7 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.06%) IoT
9 6 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
9 6 (1.06%) Replication
10 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 94 (16.64%) Linux
2 58 (10.27%) Windows
3 16 (2.83%) Unix
3 16 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.59%) CentOS
5 4 (0.71%) Debian
5 4 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.71%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.53%) VMS
7 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.18%) Rocky
7 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (43.19%) AI
2 149 (26.37%) Business Intelligence
3 132 (23.36%) Software Engineering
4 125 (22.12%) CI/CD
5 110 (19.47%) DevOps
6 104 (18.41%) Agile
7 95 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 88 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (12.92%) Containerisation
10 63 (11.15%) Full-Stack Development
11 62 (10.97%) Test Automation
12 58 (10.27%) Analytics
13 52 (9.20%) Machine Learning
14 49 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (8.67%) Data Science
15 48 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 48 (8.50%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (7.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 39 (6.90%) Microservices
18 37 (6.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 188 (33.27%) SQL
2 109 (19.29%) Java
3 102 (18.05%) JavaScript
4 70 (12.39%) Bash
5 62 (10.97%) C++
6 43 (7.61%) PowerShell
7 38 (6.73%) C#
8 34 (6.02%) Go
9 27 (4.78%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.36%) C
11 17 (3.01%) Perl
12 16 (2.83%) PHP
13 10 (1.77%) MATLAB
13 10 (1.77%) R
13 10 (1.77%) Rust
14 9 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.59%) Scala
15 6 (1.06%) Groovy
16 5 (0.88%) Bicep
16 5 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 153 (27.08%) Azure Certification
2 139 (24.60%) Security Cleared
3 86 (15.22%) DV Cleared
4 59 (10.44%) Degree
5 52 (9.20%) SC Cleared
6 24 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.59%) PhD
10 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.06%) HND
11 6 (1.06%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.71%) CCNA
12 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.71%) OSCP
12 4 (0.71%) RHCE
13 3 (0.53%) CISSP
13 3 (0.53%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.89%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.01%) QA
3 14 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.42%) WCAG
5 5 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.88%) NCSC
6 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) JTAG
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (15.58%) Docker
2 20 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.30%) Firmware
4 10 (1.77%) vSphere
5 8 (1.42%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.71%) Squid
8 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.53%) iptables
10 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 88 (15.58%) Terraform
3 79 (13.98%) Ansible
4 40 (7.08%) Grafana
5 16 (2.83%) Puppet
6 14 (2.48%) Kibana
6 14 (2.48%) logstash
6 14 (2.48%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.59%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (1.59%) Packer
8 8 (1.42%) Argo
8 8 (1.42%) Rancher
9 6 (1.06%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.06%) yum
9 6 (1.06%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.88%) Kubeflow
11 4 (0.71%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.53%) SCCM
12 3 (0.53%) SCOM
12 3 (0.53%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 172 (30.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.89%) Splunk
3 20 (3.54%) VMware
4 17 (3.01%) Databricks
5 15 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.48%) Cisco
7 11 (1.95%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 7 (1.24%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.06%) Cognos
9 6 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.06%) NetApp
9 6 (1.06%) Oracle
10 5 (0.88%) Intel
10 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.71%) Google
11 4 (0.71%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.53%) OneLogin
13 2 (0.35%) BMC
13 2 (0.35%) SolarWinds