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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 26 16
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 606 225 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.44% 6.45% 8.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.95% 29.68% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 334 143 438
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £42,125
25th Percentile £45,875 £45,272 £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 £84,250 £90,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -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 1,517 758 2,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.12% 21.74% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 517 1,459
10th Percentile £34,200 £30,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 28 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 28 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 -2 211 £62,500 +11.11% 172
Bristol +4 153 £62,500 +4.17% 134
Devon +21 91 £62,500 +31.58% 33
Somerset +22 88 £37,500 -31.82% 38
Dorset -6 26 £40,000 -20.00% 34
Wiltshire -13 26 £56,250 +51.72% 24
Cornwall +11 8 £52,246 -16.41% 1
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 (5.94%) Apache
2 21 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.47%) Confluence
3 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.83%) nginx
4 5 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.66%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.33%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 81 (13.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Simulink
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.17%) Revit
5 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 248 (40.92%) Azure
2 150 (24.75%) AWS
3 113 (18.65%) Azure AI
3 113 (18.65%) Power Platform
4 52 (8.58%) GCP
5 36 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (4.46%) Serverless
7 24 (3.96%) OpenShift
8 23 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.80%) GitHub
9 20 (3.30%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.15%) SaaS
14 11 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (1.49%) Snowflake
16 6 (0.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.96%) Firewall
2 22 (3.63%) WAN
3 17 (2.81%) LAN
4 11 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 11 (1.82%) VLAN
5 10 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.49%) DNS
6 9 (1.49%) VPN
7 8 (1.32%) Network Security
7 8 (1.32%) Unified Communications
7 8 (1.32%) WebEx
8 7 (1.16%) Broadband
8 7 (1.16%) Wireless
9 6 (0.99%) BGP
9 6 (0.99%) DHCP
9 6 (0.99%) OSPF
10 5 (0.83%) 5G
10 5 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (14.19%) Power BI
2 81 (13.37%) Tableau
3 24 (3.96%) MongoDB
4 23 (3.80%) Big Data
4 23 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.30%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.81%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.48%) Hadoop
9 13 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.65%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.65%) MySQL
11 9 (1.49%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
12 8 (1.32%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.99%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 122 (20.13%) Git
2 51 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 46 (7.59%) GitLab
4 35 (5.78%) Subversion
5 34 (5.61%) JIRA
6 28 (4.62%) Eclipse
7 22 (3.63%) JUnit
8 15 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 15 (2.48%) Selenium
9 12 (1.98%) Cypress.io
9 12 (1.98%) SonarQube
10 10 (1.65%) LabVIEW
11 8 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.32%) TestRail
12 7 (1.16%) MSI
12 7 (1.16%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.66%) Postman
13 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
14 3 (0.50%) MLflow
14 3 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 187 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 71 (11.72%) Finance
3 68 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 28 (4.62%) Aerospace
6 26 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.81%) Retail
8 16 (2.64%) Electronics
8 16 (2.64%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.31%) Marketing
10 9 (1.49%) Banking
10 9 (1.49%) Games
11 8 (1.32%) Aviation
11 8 (1.32%) Law
11 8 (1.32%) Military
11 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.99%) Legal
14 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.66%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 98 (16.17%) Junior
1 98 (16.17%) Software Engineer
2 94 (15.51%) Analyst
3 89 (14.69%) Developer
4 85 (14.03%) Senior
5 82 (13.53%) Data Analyst
6 71 (11.72%) Junior Analyst
7 70 (11.55%) Junior Data Analyst
8 59 (9.74%) Data Engineer
9 51 (8.42%) Python Engineer
10 43 (7.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 39 (6.44%) Lead
12 33 (5.45%) Java Developer
13 32 (5.28%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (4.29%) Architect
14 26 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
14 26 (4.29%) Test Engineer
15 25 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.96%) Python Software Engineer
17 23 (3.80%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (18.81%) Terraform
2 49 (8.09%) React
3 47 (7.76%) RESTful
4 36 (5.94%) Spring
4 36 (5.94%) Spring Boot
5 27 (4.46%) Node.js
6 26 (4.29%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (4.29%) Struts
6 26 (4.29%) Web Services
7 25 (4.13%) REST
8 24 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
9 23 (3.80%) Kafka
10 22 (3.63%) Apache NiFi
10 22 (3.63%) CSS
11 21 (3.47%) .NET
12 19 (3.14%) Vue
13 18 (2.97%) HTML
14 14 (2.31%) Keycloak
14 14 (2.31%) pytest
15 13 (2.15%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 28 (4.62%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (2.64%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
9 8 (1.32%) FlexPod
9 8 (1.32%) IoT
9 8 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.16%) CUDA
10 7 (1.16%) Raspberry Pi
11 6 (0.99%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.99%) Robotics
11 6 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.34%) Linux
2 66 (10.89%) Windows
3 17 (2.81%) Unix
4 16 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.98%) CentOS
6 8 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.83%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (38.12%) AI
2 168 (27.72%) Software Engineering
3 160 (26.40%) CI/CD
4 146 (24.09%) DevOps
5 140 (23.10%) Agile
6 121 (19.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 117 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (19.14%) Business Intelligence
9 89 (14.69%) Containerisation
10 88 (14.52%) Test Automation
11 82 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
12 67 (11.06%) Analytics
13 65 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (9.74%) Machine Learning
16 53 (8.75%) Mentoring
17 52 (8.58%) Data Science
18 50 (8.25%) ETL
19 46 (7.59%) Computer Science
20 44 (7.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 176 (29.04%) SQL
2 150 (24.75%) Java
3 141 (23.27%) JavaScript
4 95 (15.68%) C++
5 72 (11.88%) Bash
6 59 (9.74%) C#
7 41 (6.77%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.44%) Go
9 32 (5.28%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.46%) Perl
11 24 (3.96%) C
12 16 (2.64%) PHP
13 15 (2.48%) Rust
14 13 (2.15%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.82%) Scala
16 8 (1.32%) Groovy
16 8 (1.32%) R
17 7 (1.16%) Bicep
18 6 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 5 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 182 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 125 (20.63%) Azure Certification
3 100 (16.50%) DV Cleared
4 82 (13.53%) Degree
5 75 (12.38%) SC Cleared
6 38 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 13 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 12 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.32%) HND
12 7 (1.16%) PhD
13 6 (0.99%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.66%) CCNA
14 4 (0.66%) CCNP
14 4 (0.66%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.66%) OSCP
14 4 (0.66%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.12%) QA
2 29 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.82%) WCAG
5 10 (1.65%) NCSC
6 8 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.99%) GDPR
8 5 (0.83%) NIST
8 5 (0.83%) PMO
9 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 100 (16.50%) Docker
2 23 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.47%) Firmware
4 12 (1.98%) Active Directory
5 9 (1.49%) vSphere
6 8 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.66%) Squid
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.17%) iptables
12 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 113 (18.65%) Kubernetes
2 99 (16.34%) Ansible
3 37 (6.11%) Grafana
4 19 (3.14%) Puppet
5 15 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 14 (2.31%) Kibana
6 14 (2.31%) logstash
7 9 (1.49%) Packer
8 8 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (1.16%) Argo
9 7 (1.16%) Rancher
9 7 (1.16%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.83%) Kubeflow
10 5 (0.83%) Nagios
10 5 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.83%) yum
11 3 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 143 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.13%) Red Hat
3 23 (3.80%) Splunk
3 23 (3.80%) VMware
4 21 (3.47%) Cisco
5 18 (2.97%) Databricks
6 14 (2.31%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.98%) Atlassian
8 11 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.49%) Google
10 8 (1.32%) Oracle
11 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.99%) SolarWinds
12 5 (0.83%) Intel
12 5 (0.83%) NetApp
13 4 (0.66%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.50%) Meraki
14 3 (0.50%) Netskope
14 3 (0.50%) New Relic
14 3 (0.50%) SaltStack