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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 28 16
Rank change year-on-year +13 -12 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 615 228 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.69% 6.60% 8.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.84% 29.92% 31.31%
Number of salaries quoted 333 145 438
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £42,125
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £93,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -

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 1,506 762 2,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.38% 22.05% 25.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,080 517 1,479
10th Percentile £32,975 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,713 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -2 210 £65,000 +13.04% 159
Bristol +4 156 £62,500 - 121
Devon +19 93 £62,500 +31.58% 26
Somerset +20 89 £37,500 -31.82% 30
Dorset -8 27 £40,000 -20.00% 25
Wiltshire -15 27 £57,500 +55.09% 19
Cornwall +11 9 £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 36 (5.85%) Apache
2 22 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.41%) Confluence
4 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.81%) nginx
6 4 (0.65%) JBoss
6 4 (0.65%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 87 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Simulink
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.16%) Revit
5 1 (0.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 254 (41.30%) Azure
2 154 (25.04%) AWS
3 120 (19.51%) Power Platform
4 119 (19.35%) Azure AI
5 53 (8.62%) GCP
6 37 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (4.55%) Serverless
8 24 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (3.74%) GitHub
9 23 (3.74%) OpenShift
10 22 (3.58%) Amazon S3
11 20 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (2.11%) SaaS
16 11 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (1.46%) Snowflake
18 6 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.07%) Firewall
2 22 (3.58%) WAN
3 17 (2.76%) LAN
4 12 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.95%) VLAN
5 10 (1.63%) Cisco Firepower
5 10 (1.63%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.46%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.46%) WebEx
7 8 (1.30%) Broadband
7 8 (1.30%) DNS
7 8 (1.30%) Network Security
7 8 (1.30%) VPN
8 6 (0.98%) DHCP
8 6 (0.98%) Wireless
9 5 (0.81%) 5G
9 5 (0.81%) BGP
9 5 (0.81%) OSPF
9 5 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (15.12%) Power BI
2 88 (14.31%) Tableau
3 24 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (3.90%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.74%) Big Data
4 23 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.93%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.44%) Hadoop
8 14 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.63%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.63%) MySQL
10 9 (1.46%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
11 8 (1.30%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.98%) InfluxDB
12 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 125 (20.33%) Git
2 51 (8.29%) Jenkins
3 47 (7.64%) GitLab
4 35 (5.69%) Subversion
5 34 (5.53%) JIRA
6 28 (4.55%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.58%) JUnit
8 16 (2.60%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.44%) Selenium
10 12 (1.95%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.95%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.30%) LabVIEW
11 8 (1.30%) TestRail
12 7 (1.14%) MSI
12 7 (1.14%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.65%) Postman
13 4 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.49%) MLflow
14 3 (0.49%) Snyk
General
1 195 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.22%) Finance
3 67 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.55%) Aerospace
6 26 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.93%) Retail
8 16 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.44%) Marketing
10 14 (2.28%) Electronics
11 10 (1.63%) Banking
12 9 (1.46%) Games
13 8 (1.30%) Aviation
13 8 (1.30%) Law
13 8 (1.30%) Military
13 8 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Legal
16 5 (0.81%) Tech for Good
17 4 (0.65%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 104 (16.91%) Junior
2 101 (16.42%) Analyst
3 99 (16.10%) Software Engineer
4 90 (14.63%) Developer
5 88 (14.31%) Data Analyst
6 85 (13.82%) Senior
7 77 (12.52%) Junior Analyst
8 76 (12.36%) Junior Data Analyst
9 59 (9.59%) Data Engineer
10 50 (8.13%) Python Engineer
11 43 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 39 (6.34%) Lead
13 34 (5.53%) Java Developer
14 32 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
15 26 (4.23%) Architect
15 26 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (3.90%) Test Engineer
17 23 (3.74%) Junior Developer
17 23 (3.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (18.37%) Terraform
2 49 (7.97%) React
3 47 (7.64%) RESTful
4 37 (6.02%) Spring
4 37 (6.02%) Spring Boot
5 28 (4.55%) Node.js
6 26 (4.23%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (4.23%) REST
6 26 (4.23%) Struts
6 26 (4.23%) Web Services
7 24 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
8 23 (3.74%) Kafka
9 22 (3.58%) .NET
9 22 (3.58%) Apache NiFi
9 22 (3.58%) CSS
10 19 (3.09%) Vue
11 18 (2.93%) HTML
12 14 (2.28%) Keycloak
12 14 (2.28%) pytest
13 13 (2.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.79%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
9 9 (1.46%) FlexPod
9 9 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (1.30%) IoT
11 7 (1.14%) CUDA
11 7 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
12 6 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.98%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (0.98%) Replication
12 6 (0.98%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.26%) Linux
2 67 (10.89%) Windows
3 17 (2.76%) Unix
3 17 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.95%) CentOS
5 8 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.81%) Debian
6 5 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.49%) Android
7 3 (0.49%) VMS
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.16%) Rocky
9 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (38.70%) AI
2 169 (27.48%) Software Engineering
3 163 (26.50%) CI/CD
4 145 (23.58%) DevOps
5 142 (23.09%) Agile
6 124 (20.16%) Business Intelligence
7 121 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 118 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (14.96%) Containerisation
10 88 (14.31%) Test Automation
11 83 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 69 (11.22%) Analytics
13 65 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (10.24%) Data Pipeline
15 61 (9.92%) Machine Learning
16 54 (8.78%) Data Science
17 52 (8.46%) Mentoring
18 50 (8.13%) ETL
19 46 (7.48%) Computer Science
20 44 (7.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 182 (29.59%) SQL
2 151 (24.55%) Java
3 144 (23.41%) JavaScript
4 95 (15.45%) C++
5 72 (11.71%) Bash
6 60 (9.76%) C#
7 41 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 40 (6.50%) Go
9 32 (5.20%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.39%) Perl
11 23 (3.74%) C
12 16 (2.60%) PHP
13 15 (2.44%) Rust
14 13 (2.11%) MATLAB
14 13 (2.11%) Scala
15 9 (1.46%) R
16 8 (1.30%) Groovy
17 7 (1.14%) Bicep
17 7 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 182 (29.59%) Security Cleared
2 131 (21.30%) Azure Certification
3 102 (16.59%) DV Cleared
4 81 (13.17%) Degree
5 76 (12.36%) SC Cleared
6 38 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.14%) HND
11 7 (1.14%) PhD
12 6 (0.98%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.65%) CCNA
13 4 (0.65%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.65%) OSCP
13 4 (0.65%) RHCE
14 3 (0.49%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.04%) QA
2 29 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.79%) WCAG
5 10 (1.63%) NCSC
6 7 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.98%) GDPR
8 5 (0.81%) NIST
8 5 (0.81%) PMO
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 105 (17.07%) Docker
2 24 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.09%) Firmware
4 12 (1.95%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.63%) vSphere
6 8 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.81%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.65%) Squid
10 3 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.16%) iptables
12 1 (0.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 116 (18.86%) Kubernetes
2 99 (16.10%) Ansible
3 38 (6.18%) Grafana
4 20 (3.25%) Puppet
5 15 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.28%) Kibana
6 14 (2.28%) logstash
7 9 (1.46%) Cisco CUCM
7 9 (1.46%) Packer
8 7 (1.14%) Argo
8 7 (1.14%) Rancher
8 7 (1.14%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.14%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.81%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.81%) Nagios
9 5 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.81%) yum
10 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.49%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 151 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.07%) Red Hat
3 24 (3.90%) Splunk
3 24 (3.90%) VMware
4 21 (3.41%) Cisco
5 18 (2.93%) Databricks
6 14 (2.28%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.95%) Atlassian
7 12 (1.95%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.46%) Google
9 8 (1.30%) Oracle
10 6 (0.98%) NetApp
10 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.81%) Intel
11 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds
12 4 (0.65%) Cognos
12 4 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.65%) OneLogin
13 3 (0.49%) New Relic
13 3 (0.49%) SaltStack