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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 275 480 590
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.08% 8.42% 13.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.48% 28.78% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 176 298 383
10th Percentile £30,165 £40,000 £36,450
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 775 1,668 1,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.13% 29.26% 40.44%
Number of salaries quoted 574 917 1,420
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 -9 97 £60,000 -16.66% 91
Gloucestershire +12 77 £67,500 - 88
Devon -16 30 £50,000 -28.57% 39
Dorset -12 23 £77,500 +29.17% 22
Wiltshire 0 22 £36,650 -45.70% 38
Somerset -18 13 £72,500 +31.82% 36
Cornwall -15 6 £55,000 -8.33% 5
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 12 (4.36%) Apache
2 7 (2.55%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) SAS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Weka
2 1 (0.36%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 106 (38.55%) AWS
2 91 (33.09%) Azure
3 33 (12.00%) GitHub
4 31 (11.27%) Power Platform
5 22 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 22 (8.00%) Serverless
6 18 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.82%) GCP
8 15 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (5.09%) Azure AI
10 13 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (4.73%) OpenShift
11 8 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.82%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.55%) Internet
2 12 (4.36%) TCP/IP
3 10 (3.64%) Firewall
3 10 (3.64%) WAN
4 9 (3.27%) DNS
5 7 (2.55%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.18%) 5G
6 6 (2.18%) LAN
6 6 (2.18%) Software-Defined Radio
7 5 (1.82%) HTTP
7 5 (1.82%) Network Security
7 5 (1.82%) VPN
7 5 (1.82%) Wireshark
8 4 (1.45%) Ethernet
8 4 (1.45%) VSAN
8 4 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.09%) AMQP
9 3 (1.09%) DHCP
9 3 (1.09%) MPLS
9 3 (1.09%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.27%) Power BI
2 29 (10.55%) Tableau
3 13 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.36%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.64%) MySQL
6 10 (3.64%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.55%) Data Mining
8 6 (2.18%) Big Data
8 6 (2.18%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.82%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.82%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.45%) ClickHouse
10 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
11 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 54 (19.64%) Git
2 26 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.27%) GitLab
4 8 (2.91%) JIRA
4 8 (2.91%) Selenium
5 7 (2.55%) JUnit
6 6 (2.18%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.82%) Locust
8 4 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.45%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.45%) LabVIEW
8 4 (1.45%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.09%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.73%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.73%) Gatling
10 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.73%) Postman
10 2 (0.73%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.73%) TestRail
General
1 73 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.64%) Finance
3 53 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.36%) Electronics
5 22 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 22 (8.00%) Marketing
6 19 (6.91%) Law
7 15 (5.45%) Aerospace
8 14 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (5.09%) Retail
9 13 (4.73%) Multimedia
10 12 (4.36%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.91%) Military
12 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (2.18%) Automotive
14 5 (1.82%) Avionics
14 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.45%) Banking
15 4 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (15.64%) Analyst
2 42 (15.27%) Software Engineer
3 30 (10.91%) Data Analyst
3 30 (10.91%) Senior
4 28 (10.18%) Developer
5 22 (8.00%) Python Engineer
6 20 (7.27%) Trainee
7 19 (6.91%) Python Software Engineer
8 17 (6.18%) Junior
9 15 (5.45%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (5.45%) Junior Data Analyst
9 15 (5.45%) Lead
10 14 (5.09%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Software Developer
11 12 (4.36%) Test Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Administrator
15 7 (2.55%) Electronics Engineer
15 7 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.09%) React
2 18 (6.55%) HTML
3 17 (6.18%) CSS
4 10 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.27%) PySpark
6 8 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (2.91%) pytest
7 7 (2.55%) Pandas
7 7 (2.55%) PyTorch
7 7 (2.55%) Spring
7 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.55%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.18%) Hibernate
8 6 (2.18%) REST
9 5 (1.82%) JSF
9 5 (1.82%) Playwright
10 4 (1.45%) Kafka
10 4 (1.45%) MERN Stack
10 4 (1.45%) NumPy
10 4 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.36%) Algorithms
2 14 (5.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.09%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (4.00%) IoT
4 8 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.55%) Analogue Electronics
5 7 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (2.55%) GNSS
5 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.55%) Satnav
6 6 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.45%) Self-Driving Car
8 4 (1.45%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 55 (20.00%) Linux
2 20 (7.27%) Windows
3 10 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.91%) Unix
5 7 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.18%) CentOS
7 5 (1.82%) Debian
8 3 (1.09%) CoreOS
8 3 (1.09%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (25.45%) Software Engineering
2 64 (23.27%) AI
3 62 (22.55%) CI/CD
4 56 (20.36%) Agile
5 55 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (17.45%) DevOps
7 45 (16.36%) Analytics
8 44 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 43 (15.64%) Machine Learning
10 33 (12.00%) Mentoring
11 30 (10.91%) Containerisation
12 29 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (10.55%) Data Analysis
12 29 (10.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (10.55%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.18%) Data Science
14 25 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (9.09%) Data Analytics
15 24 (8.73%) Computer Science
16 23 (8.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 85 (30.91%) SQL
2 58 (21.09%) Java
3 54 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 42 (15.27%) C++
5 37 (13.45%) C
6 36 (13.09%) Bash
7 28 (10.18%) PowerShell
8 23 (8.36%) R
9 20 (7.27%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.45%) C#
11 13 (4.73%) MATLAB
12 11 (4.00%) Go
13 7 (2.55%) Bicep
13 7 (2.55%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 3 (1.09%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (1.09%) Rust
15 3 (1.09%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.09%) Tcl
15 3 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.36%) Degree
3 43 (15.64%) DV Cleared
4 40 (14.55%) SC Cleared
5 32 (11.64%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.82%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 13 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.64%) CREST Certified
9 9 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.91%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.18%) CISSP
11 6 (2.18%) SANS
12 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.45%) HND
14 3 (1.09%) CCNP
14 3 (1.09%) CITP
15 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.55%) Data Quality
1 7 (2.55%) QA
2 5 (1.82%) GDPR
3 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.73%) NCSC
4 2 (0.73%) NIST
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (14.91%) Docker
2 9 (3.27%) Firmware
3 5 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.73%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Ceph
7 1 (0.36%) iptables
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) Lustre
7 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (18.91%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.00%) Terraform
3 26 (9.45%) Ansible
4 9 (3.27%) Kibana
5 6 (2.18%) Grafana
6 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.45%) Puppet
7 3 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.09%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.36%) Argo
8 1 (0.36%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.36%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
8 1 (0.36%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Rancher
8 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.36%) yum
Vendors
1 48 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.82%) Google
3 15 (5.45%) Oracle
4 14 (5.09%) Databricks
5 12 (4.36%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.91%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.55%) EMC
8 5 (1.82%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.82%) Cisco
8 5 (1.82%) SAP
9 4 (1.45%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.09%) McAfee
10 3 (1.09%) Splunk
10 3 (1.09%) VMware
11 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.36%) Palantir
11 1 (0.36%) Talend
11 1 (0.36%) Zoho