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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 350 346 719
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.23% 9.43% 10.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.12% 27.07% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 200 202 502
10th Percentile £29,600 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,356 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% +0.87%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,188 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,625 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 831 1,278 2,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.79% 34.81% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 581 682 2,187
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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
Bristol -1 128 £57,500 -17.86% 62
Gloucestershire +13 101 £65,000 - 71
Devon +5 45 £52,500 -19.23% 24
Somerset -15 23 £75,000 +36.36% 22
Dorset -3 22 £100,000 +122.22% 15
Wiltshire -20 15 £55,000 +37.50% 25
Cornwall -9 7 £55,000 -8.33% 14
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 15 (4.29%) Apache
2 9 (2.57%) Confluence
3 5 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.29%) JBoss
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (19.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Doxygen
4 1 (0.29%) Weka
4 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 171 (48.86%) Azure
2 131 (37.43%) AWS
3 77 (22.00%) Power Platform
4 59 (16.86%) GitHub
5 56 (16.00%) Azure AI
6 29 (8.29%) GCP
7 22 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (6.29%) Serverless
8 20 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 19 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.71%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (3.14%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (1.71%) Datadog
15 5 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
16 4 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.57%) Internet
2 18 (5.14%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.29%) DNS
3 15 (4.29%) WAN
4 11 (3.14%) Firewall
4 11 (3.14%) SD-WAN
5 10 (2.86%) 5G
6 8 (2.29%) DHCP
7 7 (2.00%) LAN
8 6 (1.71%) HTTP
8 6 (1.71%) Network Security
9 5 (1.43%) BGP
9 5 (1.43%) MPLS
9 5 (1.43%) VPN
9 5 (1.43%) VSAN
9 5 (1.43%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.14%) 4G
10 4 (1.14%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.14%) SMTP
10 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (22.00%) Power BI
2 70 (20.00%) Tableau
3 18 (5.14%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.43%) Big Data
6 12 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (2.86%) Data Mining
9 9 (2.57%) Neo4j
10 7 (2.00%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.71%) MySQL
12 4 (1.14%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.57%) DB2
14 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (20.57%) Git
2 44 (12.57%) Jenkins
3 22 (6.29%) GitLab
4 13 (3.71%) JUnit
5 12 (3.43%) LabVIEW
6 10 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.86%) JIRA
7 9 (2.57%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.00%) CircleCI
8 7 (2.00%) Selenium
9 5 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.43%) Subversion
10 4 (1.14%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (1.14%) Postman
10 4 (1.14%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.14%) TestNG
11 3 (0.86%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.86%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.86%) Metasploit
General
1 113 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (16.00%) Finance
4 23 (6.57%) Electronics
5 21 (6.00%) Multimedia
6 18 (5.14%) Aerospace
6 18 (5.14%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.57%) Manufacturing
8 13 (3.71%) Marketing
8 13 (3.71%) Telecoms
9 12 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.00%) Law
11 6 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.43%) Avionics
13 4 (1.14%) Banking
13 4 (1.14%) Military
13 4 (1.14%) Retail
14 3 (0.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 77 (22.00%) Analyst
2 71 (20.29%) Data Analyst
3 58 (16.57%) Junior
4 56 (16.00%) Junior Analyst
4 56 (16.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 45 (12.86%) Software Engineer
6 34 (9.71%) Senior
7 33 (9.43%) Developer
7 33 (9.43%) Trainee
8 20 (5.71%) Test Engineer
9 19 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 13 (3.71%) Lead
10 13 (3.71%) Product Engineer
10 13 (3.71%) Python Engineer
10 13 (3.71%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (3.43%) Product Test Engineer
11 12 (3.43%) Software Developer
11 12 (3.43%) Verification Engineer
12 10 (2.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.43%) React
2 29 (8.29%) HTML
3 28 (8.00%) CSS
4 19 (5.43%) AngularJS
5 16 (4.57%) pytest
6 13 (3.71%) Spring
6 13 (3.71%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.14%) Apache NiFi
7 11 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.57%) Node.js
8 9 (2.57%) REST
8 9 (2.57%) Vue
9 8 (2.29%) MERN Stack
10 7 (2.00%) PySpark
11 5 (1.43%) Middleware
12 4 (1.14%) Hibernate
12 4 (1.14%) JSF
12 4 (1.14%) NumPy
12 4 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.86%) Algorithms
1 17 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 16 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.29%) GNSS
3 8 (2.29%) Satnav
3 8 (2.29%) Self-Driving Car
4 7 (2.00%) Private Cloud
5 6 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (1.71%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
6 5 (1.43%) IoT
6 5 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
8 3 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 71 (20.29%) Linux
2 33 (9.43%) Windows
3 17 (4.86%) Unix
4 10 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.00%) CentOS
7 6 (1.71%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.43%) Debian
9 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.86%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.57%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.57%) Solaris
12 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (28.86%) AI
2 91 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (22.00%) Agile
4 75 (21.43%) DevOps
4 75 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (20.29%) CI/CD
6 67 (19.14%) Software Engineering
7 52 (14.86%) Analytics
8 46 (13.14%) Mentoring
9 44 (12.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (12.29%) Test Automation
11 41 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (11.43%) Containerisation
13 39 (11.14%) Cybersecurity
14 35 (10.00%) Machine Learning
15 31 (8.86%) Data Science
16 26 (7.43%) Data Analysis
17 25 (7.14%) Data Analytics
17 25 (7.14%) Project Management
18 22 (6.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.86%) SQL
2 79 (22.57%) JavaScript
3 78 (22.29%) Java
4 74 (21.14%) Bash
5 45 (12.86%) PowerShell
6 37 (10.57%) C++
7 29 (8.29%) C
8 28 (8.00%) R
9 25 (7.14%) TypeScript
10 18 (5.14%) C#
11 17 (4.86%) MATLAB
12 13 (3.71%) Go
13 6 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.14%) Bicep
15 3 (0.86%) Elixir
15 3 (0.86%) Erlang
15 3 (0.86%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.86%) Groovy
15 3 (0.86%) Tcl
15 3 (0.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 78 (22.29%) Azure Certification
3 52 (14.86%) DV Cleared
4 46 (13.14%) Degree
5 43 (12.29%) SC Cleared
6 27 (7.71%) AWS Certification
7 24 (6.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 21 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (4.29%) CREST Certified
10 12 (3.43%) HND
11 9 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.57%) CISSP
11 9 (2.57%) SANS
12 7 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (2.00%) Master's Degree
13 4 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.86%) CCNP
14 3 (0.86%) CITP
15 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.86%) QA
3 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.57%) NCSC
4 2 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.29%) IEC 62304
5 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (15.43%) Docker
2 6 (1.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.71%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.57%) iptables
4 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) Ceph
5 1 (0.29%) Lustre
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (19.71%) Kubernetes
2 49 (14.00%) Terraform
3 41 (11.71%) Ansible
4 20 (5.71%) Grafana
5 10 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.29%) Kibana
7 6 (1.71%) Argo
7 6 (1.71%) Puppet
8 5 (1.43%) Rancher
8 5 (1.43%) yum
9 4 (1.14%) logstash
9 4 (1.14%) McAfee ePO
9 4 (1.14%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.86%) Nmap
10 3 (0.86%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.57%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.57%) Nagios
11 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.57%) Podman
11 2 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.86%) Oracle
3 15 (4.29%) Google
4 13 (3.71%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.29%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.29%) Cisco
5 8 (2.29%) SAP
5 8 (2.29%) Splunk
6 7 (2.00%) VMware
7 6 (1.71%) Databricks
8 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.14%) McAfee
8 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.57%) Dell
9 2 (0.57%) HP
9 2 (0.57%) Juniper
9 2 (0.57%) Palantir
9 2 (0.57%) Veeam
10 1 (0.29%) Foundry
10 1 (0.29%) Talend