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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 419 291 763
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.56% 9.87% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.24% 27.79% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 231 188 532
10th Percentile £30,165 £38,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,963 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -3.40%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,625 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +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 947 1,047 2,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.82% 35.52% 36.92%
Number of salaries quoted 641 652 2,347
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £66,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +4 145 £55,000 -20.00% 77
Gloucestershire +13 122 £60,000 -7.69% 76
Devon +29 64 £52,500 -25.00% 27
Somerset -10 26 £42,784 -22.21% 23
Dorset -3 25 £100,000 +142.42% 18
Wiltshire -15 18 £55,000 +33.33% 38
Cornwall -4 10 £55,000 -8.33% 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 16 (3.82%) Apache
2 10 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.43%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.19%) Confluence
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 100 (23.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Weka
4 1 (0.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 200 (47.73%) Azure
2 150 (35.80%) AWS
3 109 (26.01%) Power Platform
4 88 (21.00%) Azure AI
5 60 (14.32%) GitHub
6 35 (8.35%) GCP
7 29 (6.92%) Amazon S3
7 29 (6.92%) Serverless
8 26 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.25%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (5.01%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (2.39%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.43%) Datadog
15 6 (1.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.73%) Internet
2 18 (4.30%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.82%) WAN
4 15 (3.58%) DNS
5 13 (3.10%) Firewall
6 11 (2.63%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.39%) 5G
8 9 (2.15%) Network Security
9 8 (1.91%) DHCP
9 8 (1.91%) LAN
10 7 (1.67%) Broadband
11 6 (1.43%) HTTP
11 6 (1.43%) VLAN
12 5 (1.19%) BGP
12 5 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.19%) MPLS
12 5 (1.19%) VPN
12 5 (1.19%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.95%) 4G
13 4 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (26.01%) Power BI
2 103 (24.58%) Tableau
3 20 (4.77%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (3.58%) NoSQL
6 13 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.86%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.39%) Data Mining
9 9 (2.15%) Big Data
9 9 (2.15%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.91%) Neo4j
11 7 (1.67%) MySQL
12 4 (0.95%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.72%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.72%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (17.66%) Git
2 45 (10.74%) Jenkins
3 21 (5.01%) GitLab
4 12 (2.86%) JUnit
4 12 (2.86%) LabVIEW
5 11 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 10 (2.39%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.15%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.67%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.43%) JIRA
9 6 (1.43%) Selenium
9 6 (1.43%) Subversion
9 6 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
10 5 (1.19%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.95%) IDA Disassembler
11 4 (0.95%) TestNG
12 3 (0.72%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.72%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.72%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 147 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 62 (14.80%) Finance
3 56 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.49%) Multimedia
6 20 (4.77%) Electronics
6 20 (4.77%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.30%) Aerospace
8 16 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.58%) Marketing
10 12 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.63%) Retail
12 10 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.91%) Tech for Good
14 7 (1.67%) Banking
15 5 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.19%) Law
15 5 (1.19%) Military
16 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (26.49%) Analyst
2 104 (24.82%) Data Analyst
3 90 (21.48%) Junior
4 88 (21.00%) Junior Analyst
4 88 (21.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 51 (12.17%) Software Engineer
6 46 (10.98%) Senior
7 44 (10.50%) Developer
8 39 (9.31%) Trainee
9 22 (5.25%) Data Engineer
10 18 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (4.30%) Test Engineer
11 17 (4.06%) Data Scientist
11 17 (4.06%) Lead
11 17 (4.06%) Python Engineer
12 16 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.34%) Security Engineer
14 13 (3.10%) Product Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) Product Test Engineer
15 12 (2.86%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.64%) CSS
2 31 (7.40%) HTML
3 29 (6.92%) React
4 18 (4.30%) AngularJS
5 17 (4.06%) pytest
6 14 (3.34%) Node.js
7 13 (3.10%) Spring
7 13 (3.10%) Spring Boot
8 12 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (2.63%) Vue
10 10 (2.39%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (2.39%) NumPy
10 10 (2.39%) Pandas
10 10 (2.39%) REST
11 8 (1.91%) MERN Stack
11 8 (1.91%) PySpark
11 8 (1.91%) scikit-learn
12 7 (1.67%) Django
12 7 (1.67%) Hugging Face
13 6 (1.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.01%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.30%) Algorithms
3 17 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.91%) GNSS
4 8 (1.91%) IoT
4 8 (1.91%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.91%) Satnav
4 8 (1.91%) Self-Driving Car
5 6 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.43%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 6 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.19%) Replication
7 4 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 75 (17.90%) Linux
2 37 (8.83%) Windows
3 16 (3.82%) Unix
4 10 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.43%) CentOS
7 2 (0.48%) Solaris
7 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.24%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (33.65%) AI
2 126 (30.07%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (18.85%) Agile
4 78 (18.62%) CI/CD
4 78 (18.62%) DevOps
5 76 (18.14%) Software Engineering
6 71 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (12.89%) Containerisation
8 53 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 51 (12.17%) Analytics
10 48 (11.46%) Machine Learning
11 47 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (10.50%) Test Automation
13 42 (10.02%) Cybersecurity
13 42 (10.02%) Data Science
14 29 (6.92%) Visualisation
15 26 (6.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (5.49%) Data Analysis
16 23 (5.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 143 (34.13%) SQL
2 87 (20.76%) JavaScript
3 80 (19.09%) Bash
4 78 (18.62%) Java
5 50 (11.93%) PowerShell
6 36 (8.59%) C++
7 30 (7.16%) R
8 26 (6.21%) C
9 25 (5.97%) TypeScript
10 20 (4.77%) C#
10 20 (4.77%) Go
11 14 (3.34%) MATLAB
12 8 (1.91%) PHP
12 8 (1.91%) Scala
13 6 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.72%) Erlang
15 3 (0.72%) Groovy
15 3 (0.72%) Rust
15 3 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (26.73%) Azure Certification
2 96 (22.91%) Security Cleared
3 64 (15.27%) DV Cleared
4 50 (11.93%) Degree
5 35 (8.35%) AWS Certification
6 31 (7.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 31 (7.40%) SC Cleared
7 23 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.82%) CREST Certified
9 12 (2.86%) HND
10 10 (2.39%) CISSP
10 10 (2.39%) SANS
11 8 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.95%) PhD
14 3 (0.72%) CCNP
14 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.72%) CITP
15 2 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.58%) QA
3 12 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.72%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.48%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (16.71%) Docker
2 11 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.43%) Firmware
4 5 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.95%) iptables
5 4 (0.95%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) Ceph
8 1 (0.24%) Lustre
8 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 55 (13.13%) Terraform
3 46 (10.98%) Ansible
4 27 (6.44%) Grafana
5 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.15%) Puppet
7 8 (1.91%) Argo
7 8 (1.91%) Kibana
8 6 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.43%) Rancher
8 6 (1.43%) yum
9 5 (1.19%) logstash
10 3 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.72%) NetBackup
10 3 (0.72%) Nmap
10 3 (0.72%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.48%) Istio
11 2 (0.48%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (0.48%) Nagios
11 2 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 146 (34.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.06%) Oracle
3 13 (3.10%) Splunk
4 12 (2.86%) Cisco
4 12 (2.86%) VMware
5 9 (2.15%) Google
6 8 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.91%) Databricks
6 8 (1.91%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.91%) SAP
7 7 (1.67%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.72%) Cognos
8 3 (0.72%) Dell
8 3 (0.72%) HP
8 3 (0.72%) Juniper
8 3 (0.72%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (0.72%) NetApp
8 3 (0.72%) Typelevel
8 3 (0.72%) Veeam