Python Jobs in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 277 910 951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.17% 8.82% 14.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.66% 30.20% 39.25%
Number of salaries quoted 158 608 563
10th Percentile £36,650 £38,750 £36,450
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,938 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +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 1,039 3,013 2,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.88% 29.20% 37.61%
Number of salaries quoted 714 2,297 1,647
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Salary trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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
Gloucestershire +1 94 £60,000 +9.09% 244
Bristol -18 76 £62,500 -8.09% 263
Dorset -3 35 £50,000 +5.26% 65
Devon -10 28 £52,500 +7.08% 111
Wiltshire +6 26 £45,272 -9.46% 68
Somerset +6 14 £55,000 +4.76% 101
Cornwall 0 1 £62,500 - 2
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.22%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.17%) SAS
3 5 (1.81%) Apache
4 4 (1.44%) Confluence
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.08%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.72%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Drupal
7 1 (0.36%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.44%) SOLIDWORKS
3 1 (0.36%) 3ds Max
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.57%) AWS
2 56 (20.22%) Azure
3 34 (12.27%) GCP
4 30 (10.83%) Serverless
5 26 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (6.86%) Amazon S3
6 19 (6.86%) Power Platform
7 18 (6.50%) GitHub
8 9 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.53%) Pulumi
11 6 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (2.17%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.44%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.08%) Datadog
13 3 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.50%) Broadband
2 10 (3.61%) VPN
2 10 (3.61%) WAN
3 8 (2.89%) SD-WAN
4 7 (2.53%) 5G
5 6 (2.17%) Internet
6 5 (1.81%) Firewall
6 5 (1.81%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.44%) IPv4
7 4 (1.44%) OSPF
7 4 (1.44%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (1.08%) DNS
8 3 (1.08%) LAN
8 3 (1.08%) SSL
8 3 (1.08%) VLAN
8 3 (1.08%) Wireless
9 2 (0.72%) BGP
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.72%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.94%) Big Data
2 19 (6.86%) Power BI
3 17 (6.14%) Relational Database
4 16 (5.78%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.33%) Tableau
7 11 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.61%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.89%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.89%) MySQL
9 8 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.17%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.17%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.44%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (1.08%) Redis
12 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (12.64%) Git
2 20 (7.22%) GitLab
3 16 (5.78%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.53%) JIRA
4 7 (2.53%) Selenium
5 6 (2.17%) Jaeger
5 6 (2.17%) Locust
5 6 (2.17%) Subversion
6 5 (1.81%) LabVIEW
6 5 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.44%) ER Studio
7 4 (1.44%) JUnit
8 3 (1.08%) Appium
8 3 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.08%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.08%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.72%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.72%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (28.88%) Finance
2 62 (22.38%) Social Skills
3 59 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (20.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (9.39%) Retail
6 25 (9.03%) Marketing
7 20 (7.22%) Manufacturing
8 18 (6.50%) Banking
9 17 (6.14%) Law
10 16 (5.78%) Electronics
11 14 (5.05%) Aerospace
12 13 (4.69%) Public Sector
12 13 (4.69%) Telecoms
13 12 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (3.25%) Military
15 6 (2.17%) Automotive
16 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.81%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.81%) Legal
17 4 (1.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 81 (29.24%) Senior
2 59 (21.30%) Software Engineer
3 42 (15.16%) Lead
4 35 (12.64%) Developer
5 29 (10.47%) Data Scientist
6 25 (9.03%) Senior Data Scientist
7 20 (7.22%) Test Engineer
8 19 (6.86%) Analyst
9 16 (5.78%) Python Engineer
9 16 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (5.42%) Python Software Engineer
11 14 (5.05%) Software Developer
12 12 (4.33%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.97%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 11 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (3.61%) Lead Software Engineer
14 10 (3.61%) Test Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.25%) Data Engineer
15 9 (3.25%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.75%) React
2 18 (6.50%) HTML
3 12 (4.33%) CSS
3 12 (4.33%) Node.js
3 12 (4.33%) RESTful
4 9 (3.25%) .NET
4 9 (3.25%) Django
5 8 (2.89%) AngularJS
5 8 (2.89%) GraphQL
5 8 (2.89%) pytest
6 7 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (2.53%) Hibernate
6 7 (2.53%) Playwright
6 7 (2.53%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.17%) Pandas
7 6 (2.17%) PyTorch
7 6 (2.17%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.81%) PySpark
8 5 (1.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.72%) Algorithms
2 26 (9.39%) Cyberattack
3 15 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.05%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.69%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.61%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.89%) Analogue Electronics
7 8 (2.89%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.53%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.53%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.53%) Self-Driving Car
9 6 (2.17%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.81%) CUDA
10 5 (1.81%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.81%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.81%) FPGA
10 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 68 (24.55%) Linux
2 26 (9.39%) Windows
3 9 (3.25%) Unix
4 8 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.81%) Android
6 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (36.46%) Software Engineering
2 77 (27.80%) Agile
2 77 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (27.44%) Mentoring
4 75 (27.08%) DevOps
5 73 (26.35%) Machine Learning
6 70 (25.27%) CI/CD
7 69 (24.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 61 (22.02%) Data Science
9 50 (18.05%) Computer Science
10 49 (17.69%) Mathematics
11 45 (16.25%) Test Automation
12 42 (15.16%) Visualisation
13 38 (13.72%) Analytics
14 36 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
14 36 (13.00%) Decision-Making
15 35 (12.64%) Containerisation
16 32 (11.55%) Statistics
17 31 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 30 (10.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 99 (35.74%) Java
2 78 (28.16%) JavaScript
3 71 (25.63%) SQL
4 39 (14.08%) Bash
5 36 (13.00%) C++
6 29 (10.47%) R
7 26 (9.39%) TypeScript
8 25 (9.03%) C
9 21 (7.58%) Go
10 20 (7.22%) PowerShell
11 16 (5.78%) Rust
12 15 (5.42%) C#
13 12 (4.33%) PHP
14 9 (3.25%) Embedded C
14 9 (3.25%) MATLAB
15 6 (2.17%) Julia
16 5 (1.81%) Perl
17 4 (1.44%) VBA
18 3 (1.08%) Ada
19 2 (0.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (32.13%) Degree
2 80 (28.88%) Security Cleared
3 52 (18.77%) DV Cleared
4 26 (9.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (5.42%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.05%) PhD
7 13 (4.69%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.89%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.53%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.72%) CHECK Team Member
12 2 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.72%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CCIE
13 1 (0.36%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.89%) QA
2 7 (2.53%) GDPR
3 6 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.72%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.72%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (26.35%) Docker
2 7 (2.53%) Firmware
3 6 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.72%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.36%) Terraform
3 33 (11.91%) Ansible
4 12 (4.33%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.17%) Argo
5 6 (2.17%) Grafana
5 6 (2.17%) Kibana
5 6 (2.17%) Kustomize
5 6 (2.17%) Puppet
6 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.72%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Nmap
8 1 (0.36%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Nagios
8 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (7.58%) Databricks
2 18 (6.50%) Google
2 18 (6.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (3.61%) Oracle
4 7 (2.53%) Atlassian
4 7 (2.53%) SAP
4 7 (2.53%) VMware
5 6 (2.17%) EMC
5 6 (2.17%) F5
6 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
6 4 (1.44%) Cisco
7 3 (1.08%) Graphcore
7 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.72%) Adobe
8 2 (0.72%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.72%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.72%) Juniper
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.72%) Talend
8 2 (0.72%) Thales