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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 519 253 846
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.72% 8.95% 8.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.11% 30.34% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 260 150 611
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,495 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,375 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

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 1,204 834 3,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.59% 29.51% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 810 555 2,404
10th Percentile £34,450 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,125 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,650 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 0 149 £60,000 - 45
Bristol +5 143 £60,000 - 53
Devon +24 97 £51,250 -2.38% 8
Somerset +16 65 £31,500 -45.22% 19
Dorset -3 29 £50,000 +2.56% 6
Wiltshire -16 20 £75,000 +54.84% 21
Cornwall +6 12 £52,246 -16.41%
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 19 (3.66%) Apache
2 16 (3.08%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.73%) Confluence
5 8 (1.54%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (23.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 257 (49.52%) Azure
2 151 (29.09%) Azure AI
3 147 (28.32%) Power Platform
4 141 (27.17%) AWS
5 49 (9.44%) GCP
6 38 (7.32%) GitHub
7 30 (5.78%) Amazon S3
7 30 (5.78%) Serverless
8 27 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (2.31%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.73%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.54%) dbt
15 8 (1.54%) SaaS
16 7 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.43%) WAN
2 21 (4.05%) Firewall
3 13 (2.50%) Broadband
3 13 (2.50%) LAN
4 12 (2.31%) SD-WAN
5 11 (2.12%) 5G
5 11 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (1.73%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.73%) Internet
6 9 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.73%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.73%) VLAN
6 9 (1.73%) WebEx
7 7 (1.35%) Network Security
8 6 (1.16%) DHCP
8 6 (1.16%) DNS
9 4 (0.77%) IPv4
9 4 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.58%) VPN
11 2 (0.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (25.63%) Power BI
2 123 (23.70%) Tableau
3 18 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
3 18 (3.47%) MongoDB
4 17 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.89%) Big Data
6 14 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.31%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.12%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.93%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.16%) Data Vault
14 5 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.96%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.96%) MySQL
15 4 (0.77%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 78 (15.03%) Git
2 46 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.20%) GitLab
4 15 (2.89%) Subversion
5 13 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 13 (2.50%) JIRA
6 10 (1.93%) Eclipse
6 10 (1.93%) LabVIEW
6 10 (1.93%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (1.73%) Cypress.io
7 9 (1.73%) JUnit
7 9 (1.73%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.54%) Selenium
9 5 (0.96%) Robot Framework
9 5 (0.96%) TestRail
10 4 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.58%) MLflow
12 2 (0.39%) DBeaver
12 2 (0.39%) ESLint
General
1 203 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 52 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (7.90%) Finance
4 33 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.24%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.66%) Retail
7 18 (3.47%) Electronics
8 15 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.70%) Marketing
9 14 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.31%) Banking
11 10 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.73%) Multimedia
12 9 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.73%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.77%) Aviation
13 4 (0.77%) Games
13 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 131 (25.24%) Analyst
2 120 (23.12%) Data Analyst
3 118 (22.74%) Junior
4 109 (21.00%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (21.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 63 (12.14%) Developer
6 55 (10.60%) Software Engineer
7 47 (9.06%) Senior
8 43 (8.29%) Data Engineer
9 42 (8.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 24 (4.62%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (4.24%) Lead
13 21 (4.05%) Python Engineer
14 20 (3.85%) Trainee
15 19 (3.66%) Data Scientist
16 18 (3.47%) Java Developer
16 18 (3.47%) Test Engineer
17 17 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
18 14 (2.70%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.20%) React
2 24 (4.62%) Node.js
3 19 (3.66%) CSS
4 17 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (3.28%) RESTful
4 17 (3.28%) Vue
5 16 (3.08%) REST
6 15 (2.89%) HTML
6 15 (2.89%) pytest
7 12 (2.31%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.12%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.12%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.12%) Pandas
9 10 (1.93%) NumPy
9 10 (1.93%) Spring
9 10 (1.93%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.73%) .NET
10 9 (1.73%) J2EE
10 9 (1.73%) Struts
10 9 (1.73%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.31%) Onboarding
4 12 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.93%) Self-Driving Car
6 9 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.73%) FlexPod
6 9 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
6 9 (1.73%) Video\Live Streaming
7 8 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.16%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
8 6 (1.16%) Replication
9 5 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.96%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.07%) Linux
2 47 (9.06%) Windows
3 19 (3.66%) Unix
4 17 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.73%) CentOS
6 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.58%) Debian
7 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.58%) VMS
8 2 (0.39%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (45.09%) AI
2 162 (31.21%) Business Intelligence
3 97 (18.69%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.92%) DevOps
4 93 (17.92%) Software Engineering
5 83 (15.99%) Agile
6 72 (13.87%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 58 (11.18%) Containerisation
9 57 (10.98%) Analytics
10 51 (9.83%) Data Science
10 51 (9.83%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 46 (8.86%) Machine Learning
13 43 (8.29%) Mentoring
14 42 (8.09%) Full-Stack Development
15 37 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (6.74%) Data Engineering
16 35 (6.74%) Data Pipeline
16 35 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (36.03%) SQL
2 89 (17.15%) JavaScript
3 84 (16.18%) Java
4 74 (14.26%) Bash
5 47 (9.06%) PowerShell
6 46 (8.86%) C++
7 30 (5.78%) C#
8 26 (5.01%) TypeScript
9 24 (4.62%) Go
10 18 (3.47%) R
11 17 (3.28%) C
12 15 (2.89%) MATLAB
13 14 (2.70%) PHP
14 10 (1.93%) Scala
15 9 (1.73%) Perl
16 8 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (1.35%) Rust
18 5 (0.96%) Groovy
18 5 (0.96%) VBA
19 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (30.83%) Azure Certification
2 103 (19.85%) Security Cleared
3 70 (13.49%) DV Cleared
4 50 (9.63%) Degree
5 33 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 24 (4.62%) AWS Certification
7 20 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 16 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (2.31%) HND
11 5 (0.96%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.96%) PhD
12 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.77%) CCNA
12 4 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.77%) CISSP
12 4 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.77%) RHCE
12 4 (0.77%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.89%) QA
3 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.96%) GDPR
4 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
6 1 (0.19%) NCSC
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (14.45%) Docker
2 20 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.31%) Firmware
4 10 (1.93%) vSphere
5 9 (1.73%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.77%) iptables
7 4 (0.77%) Squid
7 4 (0.77%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (15.41%) Kubernetes
2 75 (14.45%) Terraform
3 66 (12.72%) Ansible
4 42 (8.09%) Grafana
5 19 (3.66%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.50%) Puppet
7 11 (2.12%) Kibana
7 11 (2.12%) logstash
8 9 (1.73%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.54%) Argo
10 7 (1.35%) Rancher
11 6 (1.16%) Packer
11 6 (1.16%) yum
11 6 (1.16%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.96%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.96%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.96%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.58%) SCCM
13 3 (0.58%) SCOM
13 3 (0.58%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 178 (34.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.43%) Splunk
3 20 (3.85%) VMware
4 18 (3.47%) Databricks
5 17 (3.28%) Cisco
6 15 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.12%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.93%) Oracle
9 8 (1.54%) Google
10 7 (1.35%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.16%) Cognos
11 6 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
11 6 (1.16%) NetApp
12 4 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.77%) Typelevel
13 3 (0.58%) BMC
13 3 (0.58%) SAP
14 2 (0.39%) HP
14 2 (0.39%) Juniper