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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 544 256 839
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.84% 8.58% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.11% 30.19% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 272 152 610
10th Percentile £33,825 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £76,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,935 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.32% +5.62% -6.67%

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 1,292 848 2,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.24% 28.42% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 873 570 2,343
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,694 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,525 £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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +1 168 £60,000 - 80
Bristol +5 141 £60,000 -11.11% 56
Devon +20 94 £52,500 - 15
Somerset +12 75 £31,500 -45.22% 24
Dorset -2 29 £40,000 -17.95% 13
Wiltshire -24 22 £60,000 +44.98% 23
Cornwall +9 11 £52,246 -16.41% 1
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 22 (4.04%) Apache
2 17 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.84%) Confluence
4 8 (1.47%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (22.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.29%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 260 (47.79%) Azure
2 151 (27.76%) Azure AI
3 147 (27.02%) AWS
4 143 (26.29%) Power Platform
5 56 (10.29%) GCP
6 33 (6.07%) GitHub
6 33 (6.07%) Serverless
7 29 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (5.15%) Amazon S3
9 23 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.94%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (1.65%) SaaS
14 9 (1.65%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.86%) Firewall
1 21 (3.86%) WAN
2 13 (2.39%) LAN
3 12 (2.21%) Broadband
4 11 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (1.84%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.84%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.65%) 5G
6 9 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.65%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.65%) VLAN
6 9 (1.65%) WebEx
7 7 (1.29%) Network Security
8 6 (1.10%) DHCP
8 6 (1.10%) DNS
9 5 (0.92%) Internet
10 4 (0.74%) IPv4
10 4 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.55%) AMQP
11 3 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (23.71%) Power BI
2 125 (22.98%) Tableau
3 21 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
4 19 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 16 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (2.94%) Big Data
5 16 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.84%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.84%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (1.29%) MySQL
10 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.10%) Data Vault
11 6 (1.10%) InfluxDB
11 6 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (15.63%) Git
2 52 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 39 (7.17%) GitLab
4 21 (3.86%) Subversion
5 16 (2.94%) JIRA
6 15 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 15 (2.76%) Eclipse
7 11 (2.02%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.84%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.65%) JUnit
10 8 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 8 (1.47%) LabVIEW
10 8 (1.47%) Selenium
11 6 (1.10%) Robot Framework
11 6 (1.10%) TestRail
12 4 (0.74%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.55%) MLflow
13 3 (0.55%) MSI
14 2 (0.37%) DBeaver
General
1 206 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 54 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (9.01%) Finance
4 34 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.41%) Aerospace
6 22 (4.04%) Retail
7 19 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.76%) Electronics
9 14 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.39%) Marketing
11 12 (2.21%) Banking
12 9 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.65%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.10%) Games
15 5 (0.92%) Multimedia
16 4 (0.74%) Aviation
16 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (24.63%) Analyst
2 124 (22.79%) Data Analyst
3 123 (22.61%) Junior
4 109 (20.04%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (20.04%) Junior Data Analyst
5 72 (13.24%) Developer
6 62 (11.40%) Software Engineer
7 53 (9.74%) Senior
8 42 (7.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 40 (7.35%) Data Engineer
10 27 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.96%) Python Engineer
11 25 (4.60%) Python Developer
12 23 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (4.23%) Java Developer
13 21 (3.86%) Lead
14 17 (3.13%) Data Scientist
14 17 (3.13%) Test Engineer
15 16 (2.94%) Trainee
16 15 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.07%) React
2 28 (5.15%) Node.js
3 27 (4.96%) RESTful
4 23 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (3.86%) Vue
6 20 (3.68%) REST
7 17 (3.13%) CSS
8 15 (2.76%) pytest
8 15 (2.76%) Spring
8 15 (2.76%) Spring Boot
9 14 (2.57%) Apache NiFi
9 14 (2.57%) J2EE
9 14 (2.57%) Struts
9 14 (2.57%) Web Services
10 13 (2.39%) HTML
11 12 (2.21%) .NET
11 12 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.21%) FastAPI
12 11 (2.02%) Pandas
13 10 (1.84%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.68%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
4 14 (2.57%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.84%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.65%) FlexPod
6 9 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
7 8 (1.47%) Self-Driving Car
8 6 (1.10%) CUDA
8 6 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.10%) Over-the-Top Content
8 6 (1.10%) Replication
9 5 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 92 (16.91%) Linux
2 53 (9.74%) Windows
3 21 (3.86%) Unix
4 17 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 11 (2.02%) CentOS
6 6 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.92%) Debian
7 5 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.55%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.18%) Rocky
10 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (43.38%) AI
2 157 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
3 118 (21.69%) CI/CD
4 108 (19.85%) Software Engineering
5 107 (19.67%) DevOps
6 97 (17.83%) Agile
7 84 (15.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 82 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (12.32%) Containerisation
10 58 (10.66%) Test Automation
11 54 (9.93%) Analytics
11 54 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 50 (9.19%) Data Science
13 48 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 46 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 45 (8.27%) Machine Learning
16 42 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 40 (7.35%) Mentoring
18 37 (6.80%) Data Pipeline
19 32 (5.88%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 185 (34.01%) SQL
2 96 (17.65%) Java
3 93 (17.10%) JavaScript
4 83 (15.26%) Bash
5 58 (10.66%) C++
6 49 (9.01%) PowerShell
7 32 (5.88%) C#
8 31 (5.70%) Go
9 28 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 17 (3.13%) C
11 16 (2.94%) PHP
12 14 (2.57%) Perl
12 14 (2.57%) R
13 13 (2.39%) MATLAB
14 9 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 9 (1.65%) Rust
15 8 (1.47%) Scala
16 5 (0.92%) VBA
17 4 (0.74%) Groovy
17 4 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (29.04%) Azure Certification
2 127 (23.35%) Security Cleared
3 76 (13.97%) DV Cleared
4 53 (9.74%) Degree
5 44 (8.09%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.49%) AWS Certification
8 17 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 10 (1.84%) HND
10 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.10%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.92%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.92%) PhD
13 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.74%) CCNA
13 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.74%) CISSP
13 4 (0.74%) OSCP
13 4 (0.74%) RHCE
13 4 (0.74%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.04%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.13%) QA
3 11 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.92%) GDPR
4 5 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.92%) WCAG
5 3 (0.55%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (14.89%) Docker
2 21 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.21%) Firmware
4 10 (1.84%) vSphere
5 9 (1.65%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.74%) iptables
8 4 (0.74%) Squid
8 4 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 87 (15.99%) Terraform
3 79 (14.52%) Ansible
4 46 (8.46%) Grafana
5 18 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.31%) Puppet
6 15 (2.76%) Kibana
6 15 (2.76%) logstash
7 9 (1.65%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (1.65%) Rancher
8 8 (1.47%) Argo
9 7 (1.29%) Packer
9 7 (1.29%) yum
10 6 (1.10%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.10%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.92%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.92%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.55%) SCCM
12 3 (0.55%) SCOM
12 3 (0.55%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 175 (32.17%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.23%) Splunk
3 21 (3.86%) VMware
4 18 (3.31%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.13%) Cisco
5 17 (3.13%) Databricks
6 11 (2.02%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.65%) Oracle
8 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.29%) Google
10 6 (1.10%) Cognos
10 6 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.10%) NetApp
11 4 (0.74%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.74%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.55%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.55%) SAP
13 2 (0.37%) Dell
13 2 (0.37%) HP