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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +10 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 598 227 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.93% 6.49% 8.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.56% 31.18% 31.27%
Number of salaries quoted 337 140 383
10th Percentile £36,178 £36,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
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 £89,375 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.67% -

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 1,551 728 1,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.37% 20.83% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 492 1,231
10th Percentile £34,775 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -2 217 £65,000 +18.18% 240
Bristol -3 148 £62,500 +4.17% 177
Devon +17 91 £62,500 +25.00% 49
Somerset +17 82 £37,500 -34.78% 56
Wiltshire -12 26 £57,500 +56.89% 46
Dorset -8 23 £40,000 -44.83% 53
Cornwall +13 7 £52,246 -16.41% 1
Avon - 1 - - 49
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 40 (6.69%) Apache
2 22 (3.68%) Confluence
3 21 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.84%) nginx
5 5 (0.84%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.67%) JBoss
7 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 62 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.34%) Simulink
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.17%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 239 (39.97%) Azure
2 154 (25.75%) AWS
3 100 (16.72%) Power Platform
4 92 (15.38%) Azure AI
5 56 (9.36%) GCP
6 36 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 25 (4.18%) Serverless
9 22 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.68%) GitHub
10 21 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (2.68%) Amazon S3
14 14 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.84%) SaaS
16 11 (1.84%) Snowflake
17 9 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.51%) Firewall
1 21 (3.51%) WAN
2 16 (2.68%) LAN
3 12 (2.01%) SD-WAN
4 9 (1.51%) Cisco ASA
4 9 (1.51%) DNS
4 9 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.51%) VLAN
4 9 (1.51%) VPN
5 8 (1.34%) Wireless
6 7 (1.17%) BGP
6 7 (1.17%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (1.17%) OSPF
7 6 (1.00%) Broadband
7 6 (1.00%) Network Security
7 6 (1.00%) Unified Communications
7 6 (1.00%) WebEx
8 5 (0.84%) DHCP
8 5 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.84%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.21%) Power BI
2 61 (10.20%) Tableau
3 28 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.01%) Big Data
5 24 (4.01%) MongoDB
6 23 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (3.51%) NoSQL
8 18 (3.01%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.68%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.67%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.67%) MySQL
10 10 (1.67%) SQL Server
11 9 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.51%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
13 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (21.24%) Git
2 55 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 51 (8.53%) GitLab
4 38 (6.35%) Subversion
5 35 (5.85%) JIRA
6 28 (4.68%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.68%) JUnit
8 15 (2.51%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.51%) Selenium
9 13 (2.17%) LabVIEW
9 13 (2.17%) SonarQube
10 12 (2.01%) Cypress.io
11 9 (1.51%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.34%) TestRail
13 7 (1.17%) MSI
13 7 (1.17%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.67%) Postman
14 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
15 3 (0.50%) NUnit
15 3 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 174 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (12.54%) Finance
4 36 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 31 (5.18%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.18%) Electronics
8 16 (2.68%) Retail
9 15 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.01%) Marketing
11 9 (1.51%) Games
11 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.34%) Law
13 7 (1.17%) Aviation
13 7 (1.17%) Banking
13 7 (1.17%) Legal
13 7 (1.17%) Military
14 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 99 (16.56%) Software Engineer
2 85 (14.21%) Developer
3 82 (13.71%) Senior
4 78 (13.04%) Analyst
5 77 (12.88%) Junior
6 65 (10.87%) Data Analyst
7 63 (10.54%) Data Engineer
8 56 (9.36%) Python Engineer
9 50 (8.36%) Junior Analyst
10 49 (8.19%) Junior Data Analyst
11 43 (7.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 40 (6.69%) Lead
13 35 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (5.52%) Java Developer
15 29 (4.85%) Test Engineer
16 26 (4.35%) Architect
16 26 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (4.35%) Python Software Engineer
16 26 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (3.85%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (20.07%) Terraform
2 52 (8.70%) React
3 48 (8.03%) RESTful
4 39 (6.52%) Spring
4 39 (6.52%) Spring Boot
5 26 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (4.35%) Jakarta EE
5 26 (4.35%) Node.js
5 26 (4.35%) Struts
5 26 (4.35%) Web Services
6 25 (4.18%) Kafka
6 25 (4.18%) REST
7 23 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
8 21 (3.51%) CSS
9 20 (3.34%) Vue
10 19 (3.18%) .NET
11 17 (2.84%) HTML
11 17 (2.84%) Keycloak
12 14 (2.34%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.34%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.87%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.52%) Onboarding
3 21 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.51%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.34%) FPGA
8 8 (1.34%) Robotics
9 7 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
10 6 (1.00%) CUDA
10 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.00%) FlexPod
10 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.56%) Linux
2 63 (10.54%) Windows
3 18 (3.01%) Unix
4 14 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.17%) CentOS
6 9 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.00%) Debian
7 6 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.33%) Rocky
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (35.45%) AI
2 173 (28.93%) CI/CD
3 167 (27.93%) Software Engineering
4 157 (26.25%) DevOps
5 148 (24.75%) Agile
6 129 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 129 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (16.72%) Business Intelligence
8 95 (15.89%) Test Automation
9 92 (15.38%) Containerisation
10 82 (13.71%) Full-Stack Development
11 73 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 71 (11.87%) Analytics
13 66 (11.04%) Data Pipeline
14 58 (9.70%) Machine Learning
15 56 (9.36%) ETL
16 52 (8.70%) Mentoring
17 51 (8.53%) Computer Science
17 51 (8.53%) Validation
18 49 (8.19%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 165 (27.59%) SQL
2 155 (25.92%) Java
3 138 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 97 (16.22%) C++
5 76 (12.71%) Bash
6 59 (9.87%) C#
7 43 (7.19%) Go
8 39 (6.52%) PowerShell
9 34 (5.69%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.52%) C
10 27 (4.52%) Perl
11 16 (2.68%) MATLAB
12 15 (2.51%) Rust
13 12 (2.01%) PHP
14 10 (1.67%) Scala
15 7 (1.17%) Bicep
15 7 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (1.17%) Groovy
16 6 (1.00%) R
17 5 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (32.78%) Security Cleared
2 105 (17.56%) DV Cleared
3 104 (17.39%) Azure Certification
4 85 (14.21%) SC Cleared
5 84 (14.05%) Degree
6 39 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.34%) HND
11 6 (1.00%) PhD
11 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.84%) CCNP
12 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.67%) CCNA
13 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.67%) OSCP
13 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.52%) QA
2 32 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.85%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.84%) WCAG
5 10 (1.67%) NCSC
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
6 5 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.84%) PMO
7 4 (0.67%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.17%) DO-254
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 99 (16.56%) Docker
2 20 (3.34%) Firmware
2 20 (3.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.01%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.17%) vSphere
6 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.67%) Squid
8 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 118 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 104 (17.39%) Ansible
3 38 (6.35%) Grafana
4 22 (3.68%) Puppet
5 17 (2.84%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.51%) Kibana
6 15 (2.51%) logstash
7 11 (1.84%) Argo
8 10 (1.67%) Rancher
9 9 (1.51%) Packer
10 7 (1.17%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.17%) yum
10 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.84%) Nagios
12 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.67%) Istio
13 4 (0.67%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 123 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.52%) Red Hat
3 21 (3.51%) Splunk
4 20 (3.34%) VMware
5 19 (3.18%) Cisco
6 18 (3.01%) Databricks
7 13 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.01%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.01%) Google
9 9 (1.51%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.51%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.17%) Oracle
10 7 (1.17%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.00%) Intel
12 5 (0.84%) EMC
13 4 (0.67%) Avaya
13 4 (0.67%) F5
13 4 (0.67%) Infoblox
13 4 (0.67%) Netskope
13 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow