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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 527 257 846
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.71% 8.97% 8.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.43% 30.78% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 262 152 614
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £44,063 £46,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,443 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -0.96% -3.33%
75th Percentile £73,625 £74,164 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,250 £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 1,242 835 3,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.81% 29.14% 29.09%
Number of salaries quoted 841 555 2,406
10th Percentile £35,000 £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 £66,250 £68,750 £67,500
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 20 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 20 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 +1 156 £60,000 - 46
Bristol +3 140 £60,000 - 50
Devon +18 94 £51,250 -2.38% 12
Somerset +14 71 £31,500 -45.22% 17
Dorset -1 30 £40,000 -17.95% 7
Wiltshire -21 20 £67,500 +49.10% 22
Cornwall +7 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 21 (3.98%) Apache
2 17 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.09%) Confluence
4 10 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.52%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) SAS
8 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 121 (22.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.33%) 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 (48.77%) Azure
2 151 (28.65%) Azure AI
3 145 (27.51%) Power Platform
4 144 (27.32%) AWS
5 53 (10.06%) GCP
6 37 (7.02%) GitHub
7 32 (6.07%) Serverless
8 29 (5.50%) Amazon S3
8 29 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (2.85%) OpenShift
12 14 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.71%) SaaS
15 9 (1.71%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.17%) WAN
2 20 (3.80%) Firewall
3 13 (2.47%) Broadband
3 13 (2.47%) LAN
4 11 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (2.09%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.90%) 5G
5 10 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.71%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.71%) VLAN
6 9 (1.71%) WebEx
7 7 (1.33%) Internet
7 7 (1.33%) Network Security
8 6 (1.14%) DHCP
8 6 (1.14%) DNS
9 4 (0.76%) IPv4
9 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.57%) AMQP
10 3 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (24.86%) Power BI
2 124 (23.53%) Tableau
3 19 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 16 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (3.04%) Big Data
4 16 (3.04%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.28%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.90%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.90%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.14%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.14%) MySQL
10 6 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.95%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.76%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 82 (15.56%) Git
2 48 (9.11%) Jenkins
3 33 (6.26%) GitLab
4 17 (3.23%) Subversion
5 16 (3.04%) JIRA
6 14 (2.66%) Bitbucket
7 13 (2.47%) Eclipse
8 11 (2.09%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.90%) JUnit
9 10 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.71%) LabVIEW
11 8 (1.52%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.52%) Selenium
12 5 (0.95%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.95%) TestRail
13 4 (0.76%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.57%) MLflow
14 3 (0.57%) MSI
15 2 (0.38%) Maven
General
1 204 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (8.16%) Finance
4 33 (6.26%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.36%) Aerospace
6 21 (3.98%) Retail
7 19 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.23%) Electronics
9 14 (2.66%) Marketing
9 14 (2.66%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.28%) Banking
11 10 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.71%) Tech for Good
13 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.33%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.95%) Games
16 4 (0.76%) Aviation
16 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 132 (25.05%) Analyst
2 122 (23.15%) Data Analyst
3 121 (22.96%) Junior
4 109 (20.68%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (20.68%) Junior Data Analyst
5 69 (13.09%) Developer
6 59 (11.20%) Software Engineer
7 49 (9.30%) Senior
8 42 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 38 (7.21%) Data Engineer
10 25 (4.74%) Python Developer
11 24 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (4.55%) Python Engineer
12 21 (3.98%) Java Developer
12 21 (3.98%) Lead
13 18 (3.42%) Data Scientist
13 18 (3.42%) Trainee
14 17 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.04%) Test Engineer
16 14 (2.66%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (5.50%) React
2 25 (4.74%) Node.js
2 25 (4.74%) RESTful
3 20 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (3.61%) CSS
4 19 (3.61%) REST
5 18 (3.42%) Vue
6 15 (2.85%) HTML
6 15 (2.85%) pytest
7 12 (2.28%) Apache NiFi
7 12 (2.28%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.28%) J2EE
7 12 (2.28%) Spring
7 12 (2.28%) Spring Boot
7 12 (2.28%) Struts
7 12 (2.28%) Web Services
8 11 (2.09%) .NET
8 11 (2.09%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.09%) Pandas
9 10 (1.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 20 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (2.66%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (1.71%) FlexPod
5 9 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (1.71%) Self-Driving Car
5 9 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 8 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.14%) Over-the-Top Content
7 6 (1.14%) Replication
8 5 (0.95%) CUDA
8 5 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.37%) Linux
2 50 (9.49%) Windows
3 20 (3.80%) Unix
4 17 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.90%) CentOS
6 6 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.95%) Debian
7 5 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.57%) VMS
9 2 (0.38%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (44.59%) AI
2 159 (30.17%) Business Intelligence
3 106 (20.11%) CI/CD
4 102 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 97 (18.41%) DevOps
6 88 (16.70%) Agile
7 78 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
8 74 (14.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 64 (12.14%) Containerisation
10 54 (10.25%) Test Automation
11 52 (9.87%) Analytics
12 50 (9.49%) Data Science
13 49 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
14 48 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 45 (8.54%) Machine Learning
16 41 (7.78%) Mentoring
17 39 (7.40%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 34 (6.45%) Data Pipeline
20 31 (5.88%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 185 (35.10%) SQL
2 91 (17.27%) JavaScript
3 88 (16.70%) Java
4 78 (14.80%) Bash
5 53 (10.06%) C++
6 46 (8.73%) PowerShell
7 31 (5.88%) C#
8 26 (4.93%) TypeScript
9 25 (4.74%) Go
10 17 (3.23%) C
11 16 (3.04%) R
12 15 (2.85%) PHP
13 14 (2.66%) MATLAB
14 12 (2.28%) Perl
15 8 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.52%) Rust
15 8 (1.52%) Scala
16 5 (0.95%) VBA
17 4 (0.76%) Groovy
18 3 (0.57%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 158 (29.98%) Azure Certification
2 110 (20.87%) Security Cleared
3 71 (13.47%) DV Cleared
4 52 (9.87%) Degree
5 39 (7.40%) SC Cleared
6 22 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 19 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (3.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (2.09%) HND
9 11 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.95%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.95%) PhD
10 5 (0.95%) RHCSA
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.76%) CCNA
11 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.76%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) OSCP
11 4 (0.76%) RHCE
11 4 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.98%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.66%) QA
3 9 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.95%) GDPR
4 5 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.76%) WCAG
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.19%) NIST
System Software
1 77 (14.61%) Docker
2 20 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.28%) Firmware
4 10 (1.90%) vSphere
5 9 (1.71%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.76%) iptables
7 4 (0.76%) Squid
7 4 (0.76%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 85 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 81 (15.37%) Terraform
3 72 (13.66%) Ansible
4 44 (8.35%) Grafana
5 19 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.66%) Puppet
7 13 (2.47%) Kibana
7 13 (2.47%) logstash
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.33%) Argo
9 7 (1.33%) Rancher
10 6 (1.14%) Packer
10 6 (1.14%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.95%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.95%) yum
12 3 (0.57%) SCCM
12 3 (0.57%) SCOM
12 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 175 (33.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.36%) Splunk
3 20 (3.80%) VMware
4 17 (3.23%) Cisco
4 17 (3.23%) Databricks
5 16 (3.04%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.09%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.09%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.90%) Oracle
8 9 (1.71%) Google
9 7 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.14%) Cognos
10 6 (1.14%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.14%) NetApp
11 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.57%) SaltStack
12 3 (0.57%) SAP
13 2 (0.38%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.38%) Veeam