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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 28 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 583 223 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.59% 6.31% 8.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.81% 30.93% 31.57%
Number of salaries quoted 346 139 345
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,761 £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 £89,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -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 1,584 721 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.18% 20.40% 26.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 494 1,095
10th Percentile £36,070 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,750
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 1 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 1 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 -2 221 £70,000 +27.27% 186
Bristol -2 150 £64,750 +7.92% 145
Devon +15 82 £62,500 +19.05% 47
Somerset +19 73 £37,500 -31.82% 60
Wiltshire -19 27 £57,500 +56.89% 42
Dorset -13 18 £40,000 -44.83% 65
Cornwall +9 6 £52,246 -11.07% 3
Avon - 1 - - 51
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 41 (7.03%) Apache
2 23 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 22 (3.77%) Confluence
4 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.86%) nginx
7 4 (0.69%) JBoss
8 2 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.34%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.72%) Simulink
3 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.34%) MicroStation
4 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.34%) Revit
4 2 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 209 (35.85%) Azure
2 158 (27.10%) AWS
3 79 (13.55%) Power Platform
4 58 (9.95%) Azure AI
5 53 (9.09%) GCP
6 36 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.63%) OpenShift
7 27 (4.63%) Serverless
8 23 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.95%) GitHub
9 22 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.09%) Amazon S3
13 16 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.06%) SaaS
16 11 (1.89%) Snowflake
17 10 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.60%) Firewall
2 20 (3.43%) WAN
3 15 (2.57%) LAN
4 12 (2.06%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.54%) DNS
5 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.54%) VPN
5 9 (1.54%) Wireless
6 8 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (1.37%) VLAN
7 7 (1.20%) BGP
7 7 (1.20%) OSPF
8 6 (1.03%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (1.03%) Network Security
9 5 (0.86%) 5G
9 5 (0.86%) Broadband
9 5 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.86%) Unified Communications
9 5 (0.86%) WebEx
9 5 (0.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.75%) Power BI
2 40 (6.86%) Tableau
3 29 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (4.12%) Big Data
7 23 (3.95%) MongoDB
8 21 (3.60%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.92%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.74%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.89%) MySQL
12 10 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.72%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.72%) SQL Server
13 9 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.03%) InfluxDB
15 6 (1.03%) Relational Database
15 6 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 130 (22.30%) Git
2 57 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 51 (8.75%) GitLab
4 39 (6.69%) Subversion
5 35 (6.00%) JIRA
6 28 (4.80%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.77%) JUnit
8 16 (2.74%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.57%) Selenium
10 14 (2.40%) LabVIEW
11 13 (2.23%) SonarQube
12 12 (2.06%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.54%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.37%) TestRail
15 7 (1.20%) MSI
15 7 (1.20%) Robot Framework
16 4 (0.69%) Postman
16 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
17 3 (0.51%) NUnit
17 3 (0.51%) Snyk
General
1 141 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 81 (13.89%) Finance
3 77 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 32 (5.49%) Aerospace
6 25 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.43%) Electronics
8 15 (2.57%) Retail
9 14 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.89%) Marketing
11 10 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.54%) Games
12 9 (1.54%) Law
13 7 (1.20%) Aviation
13 7 (1.20%) Banking
13 7 (1.20%) Legal
14 6 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.03%) Military
14 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.69%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 100 (17.15%) Software Engineer
2 87 (14.92%) Senior
3 83 (14.24%) Developer
4 63 (10.81%) Data Engineer
5 62 (10.63%) Python Engineer
6 57 (9.78%) Analyst
7 56 (9.61%) Junior
8 44 (7.55%) Data Analyst
9 43 (7.38%) Lead
10 39 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 34 (5.83%) Java Developer
12 30 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 30 (5.15%) Test Engineer
13 29 (4.97%) Junior Analyst
14 28 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (4.80%) Junior Data Analyst
14 28 (4.80%) Python Software Engineer
15 27 (4.63%) Architect
15 27 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
16 23 (3.95%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (21.44%) Terraform
2 53 (9.09%) React
3 48 (8.23%) RESTful
4 43 (7.38%) Spring
4 43 (7.38%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
5 27 (4.63%) Kafka
6 26 (4.46%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (4.46%) Struts
6 26 (4.46%) Web Services
7 24 (4.12%) Node.js
7 24 (4.12%) REST
8 22 (3.77%) Apache NiFi
9 20 (3.43%) .NET
10 19 (3.26%) CSS
10 19 (3.26%) Keycloak
10 19 (3.26%) Vue
11 17 (2.92%) HTML
12 15 (2.57%) AngularJS
13 14 (2.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.06%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.89%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.54%) FPGA
10 9 (1.54%) Robotics
11 6 (1.03%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.03%) Raspberry Pi
11 6 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.86%) FlexPod
12 5 (0.86%) IoT
12 5 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (17.32%) Linux
2 61 (10.46%) Windows
3 19 (3.26%) Unix
4 13 (2.23%) CentOS
4 13 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.03%) Debian
6 6 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.51%) Android
8 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.34%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.34%) Rocky
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (31.39%) AI
1 183 (31.39%) CI/CD
2 169 (28.99%) Software Engineering
3 165 (28.30%) DevOps
4 150 (25.73%) Agile
5 134 (22.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 130 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (17.32%) Containerisation
8 100 (17.15%) Test Automation
9 80 (13.72%) Full-Stack Development
10 79 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
12 73 (12.52%) Analytics
13 68 (11.66%) Data Pipeline
14 63 (10.81%) Machine Learning
15 56 (9.61%) ETL
15 56 (9.61%) Validation
16 54 (9.26%) Mentoring
17 51 (8.75%) Computer Science
17 51 (8.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 165 (28.30%) Java
2 145 (24.87%) SQL
3 138 (23.67%) JavaScript
4 100 (17.15%) C++
5 81 (13.89%) Bash
6 61 (10.46%) C#
7 47 (8.06%) Go
8 38 (6.52%) PowerShell
9 34 (5.83%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.80%) Perl
11 25 (4.29%) C
12 18 (3.09%) MATLAB
13 16 (2.74%) Rust
14 10 (1.72%) PHP
15 8 (1.37%) Scala
16 7 (1.20%) Bicep
16 7 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.03%) Groovy
17 6 (1.03%) R
18 5 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 212 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 111 (19.04%) DV Cleared
3 92 (15.78%) SC Cleared
4 87 (14.92%) Degree
5 72 (12.35%) Azure Certification
6 38 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.37%) HND
11 6 (1.03%) PhD
11 6 (1.03%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.86%) CCNP
12 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.69%) CCNA
13 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.69%) OSCP
13 4 (0.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.83%) QA
2 32 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.89%) WCAG
5 10 (1.72%) NCSC
6 5 (0.86%) GDPR
6 5 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.86%) PMO
7 4 (0.69%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) DO-254
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 108 (18.52%) Docker
2 20 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.26%) Firmware
4 11 (1.89%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.03%) vSphere
7 5 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.69%) Squid
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 129 (22.13%) Kubernetes
2 111 (19.04%) Ansible
3 38 (6.52%) Grafana
4 26 (4.46%) Puppet
5 17 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.57%) Kibana
6 15 (2.57%) logstash
7 13 (2.23%) Argo
8 11 (1.89%) Rancher
9 9 (1.54%) Packer
10 8 (1.37%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.37%) yum
11 7 (1.20%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.86%) Nagios
12 5 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (0.69%) Istio
13 4 (0.69%) linkerd
Vendors
1 106 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.63%) Red Hat
3 20 (3.43%) Splunk
3 20 (3.43%) VMware
4 18 (3.09%) Cisco
4 18 (3.09%) Databricks
5 14 (2.40%) Google
6 12 (2.06%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.20%) Oracle
9 7 (1.20%) SolarWinds
10 6 (1.03%) EMC
10 6 (1.03%) Intel
11 4 (0.69%) Avaya
11 4 (0.69%) Infoblox
11 4 (0.69%) Netskope
11 4 (0.69%) OneLogin
11 4 (0.69%) ServiceNow