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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 600 220 604
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 5.80% 6.27% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.97% 30.51% 31.57%
Number of salaries quoted 340 136 362
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £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 1,580 721 1,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.26% 20.55% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 491 1,159
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £83,116
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -3 220 £71,250 +29.55% 154
Bristol -4 150 £63,500 +5.83% 122
Devon +16 89 £62,500 +19.05% 39
Somerset +20 81 £37,500 -31.82% 57
Wiltshire -16 26 £57,500 +56.89% 48
Dorset -5 22 £40,000 -44.83% 41
Cornwall +14 7 £52,246 -16.41% 2
Avon - 1 - - 49
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 40 (6.67%) Apache
2 22 (3.67%) Confluence
3 21 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.83%) nginx
5 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.67%) JBoss
7 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 55 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.67%) Simulink
3 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.33%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.33%) MicroStation
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.33%) Revit
4 2 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 235 (39.17%) Azure
2 154 (25.67%) AWS
3 93 (15.50%) Power Platform
4 86 (14.33%) Azure AI
5 54 (9.00%) GCP
6 36 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.33%) OpenShift
7 26 (4.33%) Serverless
8 23 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (3.67%) GitHub
10 20 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (2.67%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.00%) SaaS
15 11 (1.83%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.67%) Firewall
2 21 (3.50%) WAN
3 16 (2.67%) LAN
4 12 (2.00%) SD-WAN
5 9 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
5 9 (1.50%) DNS
5 9 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.50%) VLAN
5 9 (1.50%) VPN
5 9 (1.50%) Wireless
6 7 (1.17%) BGP
6 7 (1.17%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (1.17%) OSPF
7 6 (1.00%) Broadband
7 6 (1.00%) Network Security
7 6 (1.00%) Unified Communications
7 6 (1.00%) WebEx
8 5 (0.83%) DHCP
8 5 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.83%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.00%) Power BI
2 54 (9.00%) Tableau
3 28 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.00%) Big Data
5 24 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 20 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 18 (3.00%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.67%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.83%) MySQL
11 10 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 10 (1.67%) SQL Server
12 9 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (1.50%) Geospatial Data
13 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 6 (1.00%) Relational Database
14 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 130 (21.67%) Git
2 57 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 51 (8.50%) GitLab
4 39 (6.50%) Subversion
5 35 (5.83%) JIRA
6 28 (4.67%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.67%) JUnit
8 16 (2.67%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.50%) Selenium
10 13 (2.17%) LabVIEW
10 13 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 12 (2.00%) Cypress.io
12 9 (1.50%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.33%) TestRail
14 7 (1.17%) MSI
14 7 (1.17%) Robot Framework
15 4 (0.67%) Postman
15 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
16 3 (0.50%) NUnit
16 3 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 167 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.17%) Finance
3 75 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 33 (5.50%) Aerospace
6 24 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.33%) Electronics
8 16 (2.67%) Retail
9 15 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.00%) Marketing
11 10 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.50%) Games
13 8 (1.33%) Aviation
13 8 (1.33%) Law
14 7 (1.17%) Banking
14 7 (1.17%) Legal
14 7 (1.17%) Military
15 6 (1.00%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 98 (16.33%) Software Engineer
2 86 (14.33%) Senior
3 83 (13.83%) Developer
4 71 (11.83%) Analyst
5 70 (11.67%) Junior
6 64 (10.67%) Data Engineer
7 58 (9.67%) Data Analyst
7 58 (9.67%) Python Engineer
8 43 (7.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 43 (7.17%) Junior Analyst
9 42 (7.00%) Junior Data Analyst
9 42 (7.00%) Lead
10 39 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 33 (5.50%) Java Developer
12 30 (5.00%) Test Engineer
13 28 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.33%) Architect
14 26 (4.33%) Python Software Engineer
14 26 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
15 23 (3.83%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (20.83%) Terraform
2 52 (8.67%) React
3 48 (8.00%) RESTful
4 41 (6.83%) Spring
4 41 (6.83%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (4.33%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (4.33%) Struts
6 26 (4.33%) Web Services
7 25 (4.17%) Kafka
7 25 (4.17%) Node.js
8 24 (4.00%) REST
9 22 (3.67%) Apache NiFi
10 20 (3.33%) .NET
10 20 (3.33%) CSS
11 19 (3.17%) Vue
12 18 (3.00%) Keycloak
13 17 (2.83%) HTML
14 14 (2.33%) AngularJS
14 14 (2.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 27 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
8 12 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (2.00%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.50%) Robotics
10 8 (1.33%) FPGA
11 7 (1.17%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.00%) FlexPod
12 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (0.83%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 103 (17.17%) Linux
2 62 (10.33%) Windows
3 19 (3.17%) Unix
4 14 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.17%) CentOS
6 9 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.00%) Debian
7 6 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.33%) Rocky
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (34.33%) AI
2 178 (29.67%) CI/CD
3 167 (27.83%) Software Engineering
4 161 (26.83%) DevOps
5 149 (24.83%) Agile
6 134 (22.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 129 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (16.50%) Containerisation
9 96 (16.00%) Test Automation
10 92 (15.33%) Business Intelligence
11 80 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
12 76 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 70 (11.67%) Analytics
14 67 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
15 58 (9.67%) Machine Learning
16 56 (9.33%) ETL
16 56 (9.33%) Validation
17 54 (9.00%) Mentoring
18 52 (8.67%) Computer Science
19 51 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 161 (26.83%) Java
2 158 (26.33%) SQL
3 136 (22.67%) JavaScript
4 100 (16.67%) C++
5 80 (13.33%) Bash
6 61 (10.17%) C#
7 46 (7.67%) Go
8 40 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 33 (5.50%) TypeScript
10 28 (4.67%) Perl
11 27 (4.50%) C
12 18 (3.00%) MATLAB
13 15 (2.50%) Rust
14 11 (1.83%) PHP
15 9 (1.50%) Scala
16 7 (1.17%) Bicep
16 7 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 6 (1.00%) Groovy
17 6 (1.00%) R
18 5 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 202 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 108 (18.00%) DV Cleared
3 98 (16.33%) Azure Certification
4 87 (14.50%) Degree
5 85 (14.17%) SC Cleared
6 38 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.33%) HND
11 6 (1.00%) PhD
11 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.83%) CCNP
12 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.67%) CCNA
13 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.67%) OSCP
13 4 (0.67%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.67%) QA
2 31 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.83%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.83%) WCAG
5 10 (1.67%) NCSC
6 5 (0.83%) GDPR
6 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.83%) PMO
7 4 (0.67%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.17%) DO-254
8 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 103 (17.17%) Docker
2 21 (3.50%) Firmware
2 21 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.17%) vSphere
6 6 (1.00%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Squid
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 125 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 110 (18.33%) Ansible
3 39 (6.50%) Grafana
4 26 (4.33%) Puppet
5 18 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.50%) Kibana
6 15 (2.50%) logstash
7 12 (2.00%) Argo
8 11 (1.83%) Rancher
9 9 (1.50%) Packer
10 8 (1.33%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.33%) yum
11 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.83%) Nagios
13 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.67%) linkerd
14 4 (0.67%) Mesos
Vendors
1 120 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.50%) Red Hat
3 21 (3.50%) Splunk
3 21 (3.50%) VMware
4 19 (3.17%) Cisco
5 18 (3.00%) Databricks
6 13 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 12 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.00%) Google
8 11 (1.83%) OpenAI
9 9 (1.50%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.17%) Oracle
10 7 (1.17%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.00%) Intel
12 5 (0.83%) EMC
13 4 (0.67%) F5
13 4 (0.67%) Meraki
13 4 (0.67%) Netskope
13 4 (0.67%) OneLogin
13 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow