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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 405 312 724
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.53% 9.83% 10.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.97% 27.86% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 221 185 502
10th Percentile £30,165 £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +9.20% +0.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,750 £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 921 1,120 2,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.85% 35.29% 38.19%
Number of salaries quoted 625 636 2,240
10th Percentile £32,600 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £67,500
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 5 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 5 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 +1 144 £55,000 -21.43% 81
Gloucestershire +9 119 £60,000 -7.69% 89
Devon +23 59 £52,500 -25.00% 56
Dorset -8 24 £100,000 +142.42% 19
Somerset -15 23 £72,500 +31.82% 37
Wiltshire -16 17 £55,000 +37.50% 36
Cornwall -6 9 £55,000 -8.33% 20
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 (3.95%) Apache
2 8 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.48%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.25%) JBoss
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 94 (23.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.48%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) Weka
4 1 (0.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 191 (47.16%) Azure
2 142 (35.06%) AWS
3 104 (25.68%) Power Platform
4 81 (20.00%) Azure AI
5 58 (14.32%) GitHub
6 33 (8.15%) GCP
7 27 (6.67%) Serverless
8 25 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 24 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (2.72%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.48%) Datadog
16 5 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.94%) Internet
2 19 (4.69%) TCP/IP
3 17 (4.20%) WAN
4 16 (3.95%) DNS
5 12 (2.96%) Firewall
6 11 (2.72%) SD-WAN
7 10 (2.47%) 5G
8 9 (2.22%) DHCP
8 9 (2.22%) LAN
9 7 (1.73%) Network Security
10 6 (1.48%) Broadband
10 6 (1.48%) HTTP
11 5 (1.23%) BGP
11 5 (1.23%) MPLS
11 5 (1.23%) VLAN
11 5 (1.23%) VPN
11 5 (1.23%) VSAN
11 5 (1.23%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.99%) Ethernet
12 4 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (25.68%) Power BI
2 97 (23.95%) Tableau
3 18 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.96%) Big Data
7 11 (2.72%) MongoDB
7 11 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.72%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.47%) Data Mining
9 8 (1.98%) Neo4j
9 8 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.48%) MySQL
11 4 (0.99%) CockroachDB
11 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.74%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 72 (17.78%) Git
2 43 (10.62%) Jenkins
3 22 (5.43%) GitLab
4 12 (2.96%) JUnit
4 12 (2.96%) LabVIEW
5 10 (2.47%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.47%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.98%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.73%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.48%) JIRA
8 6 (1.48%) Subversion
8 6 (1.48%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.23%) Selenium
9 5 (1.23%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.99%) IDA Disassembler
10 4 (0.99%) TestNG
11 3 (0.74%) Balsamiq
11 3 (0.74%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.74%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 145 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.06%) Finance
3 60 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (5.68%) Electronics
5 22 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.94%) Aerospace
6 20 (4.94%) Manufacturing
7 19 (4.69%) Multimedia
8 15 (3.70%) Marketing
8 15 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.47%) Retail
11 7 (1.73%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.48%) Banking
12 6 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.48%) Law
12 6 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.23%) Avionics
14 4 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 105 (25.93%) Analyst
2 98 (24.20%) Data Analyst
3 83 (20.49%) Junior
4 81 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
4 81 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 51 (12.59%) Software Engineer
6 40 (9.88%) Senior
7 38 (9.38%) Developer
8 35 (8.64%) Trainee
9 22 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.20%) Test Engineer
11 15 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (3.70%) Lead
12 14 (3.46%) Data Scientist
12 14 (3.46%) Python Engineer
12 14 (3.46%) Security Engineer
13 13 (3.21%) Product Engineer
14 12 (2.96%) Product Test Engineer
14 12 (2.96%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.65%) React
2 27 (6.67%) CSS
2 27 (6.67%) HTML
3 19 (4.69%) AngularJS
4 16 (3.95%) pytest
5 13 (3.21%) Spring
5 13 (3.21%) Spring Boot
6 11 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (2.72%) Node.js
7 10 (2.47%) Apache NiFi
7 10 (2.47%) Vue
8 8 (1.98%) MERN Stack
8 8 (1.98%) NumPy
8 8 (1.98%) Pandas
8 8 (1.98%) PySpark
8 8 (1.98%) REST
8 8 (1.98%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.73%) Django
9 7 (1.73%) Hugging Face
10 6 (1.48%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.19%) Algorithms
2 20 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 17 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.98%) GNSS
4 8 (1.98%) Satnav
4 8 (1.98%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (1.73%) IoT
5 7 (1.73%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.48%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.99%) Replication
9 3 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.78%) Linux
2 35 (8.64%) Windows
3 16 (3.95%) Unix
4 11 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.73%) CentOS
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.49%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.49%) Solaris
8 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.25%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (33.83%) AI
2 120 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
3 81 (20.00%) Agile
4 79 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (19.01%) DevOps
6 76 (18.77%) Software Engineering
7 75 (18.52%) CI/CD
8 56 (13.83%) Analytics
9 51 (12.59%) Containerisation
10 48 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (11.85%) Mentoring
11 47 (11.60%) Machine Learning
12 44 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 42 (10.37%) Test Automation
14 41 (10.12%) Data Science
15 39 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
16 29 (7.16%) Visualisation
17 26 (6.42%) Data Analysis
18 25 (6.17%) Data Analytics
18 25 (6.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (33.83%) SQL
2 80 (19.75%) Bash
2 80 (19.75%) JavaScript
3 79 (19.51%) Java
4 48 (11.85%) PowerShell
5 38 (9.38%) C++
6 28 (6.91%) C
6 28 (6.91%) R
7 25 (6.17%) TypeScript
8 18 (4.44%) C#
8 18 (4.44%) Go
9 17 (4.20%) MATLAB
10 6 (1.48%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.48%) Scala
11 4 (0.99%) Bicep
11 4 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.99%) PHP
12 3 (0.74%) Tcl
12 3 (0.74%) VBA
12 3 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 105 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 101 (24.94%) Azure Certification
3 62 (15.31%) DV Cleared
4 54 (13.33%) Degree
5 43 (10.62%) SC Cleared
6 30 (7.41%) AWS Certification
7 26 (6.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (3.95%) CREST Certified
10 12 (2.96%) HND
11 10 (2.47%) CISSP
11 10 (2.47%) SANS
12 9 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.48%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.74%) CCNP
16 3 (0.74%) CITP
16 3 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.21%) QA
3 12 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.49%) NCSC
5 2 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (16.30%) Docker
2 8 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.99%) Firmware
5 3 (0.74%) iptables
5 3 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.74%) vSphere
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.25%) Ceph
7 1 (0.25%) Lustre
7 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 51 (12.59%) Terraform
3 43 (10.62%) Ansible
4 24 (5.93%) Grafana
5 12 (2.96%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.98%) Argo
6 8 (1.98%) Puppet
7 7 (1.73%) Kibana
8 6 (1.48%) Rancher
8 6 (1.48%) yum
9 5 (1.23%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.99%) logstash
10 4 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (0.99%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.74%) Nmap
12 2 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.49%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.49%) Nagios
12 2 (0.49%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 137 (33.83%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.95%) Oracle
3 15 (3.70%) Google
4 11 (2.72%) Splunk
5 10 (2.47%) Cisco
6 9 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.22%) VMware
7 8 (1.98%) SAP
8 7 (1.73%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.73%) Databricks
9 6 (1.48%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.99%) McAfee
11 3 (0.74%) Cognos
11 3 (0.74%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.74%) Typelevel
12 2 (0.49%) Dell
12 2 (0.49%) HP
12 2 (0.49%) Juniper
12 2 (0.49%) NetApp