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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 518 243 813
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.69% 8.96% 8.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.32% 29.00% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 229 166 594
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,143 838 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.76% 30.91% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 715 597 2,395
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,943
90th Percentile £79,700 £82,751 £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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +2 150 £60,000 - 59
Bristol +3 143 £60,000 -11.11% 128
Devon +31 103 £50,000 +8.11% 22
Somerset +11 59 £47,500 -17.39% 20
Dorset +2 37 £50,000 +8.11% 11
Cornwall - 11 £52,246 - 2
Wiltshire -23 10 £75,000 +45.35% 32
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 17 (3.28%) Apache
2 14 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.16%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 145 (27.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 282 (54.44%) Azure
2 179 (34.56%) Azure AI
3 171 (33.01%) Power Platform
4 138 (26.64%) AWS
5 44 (8.49%) GCP
6 40 (7.72%) GitHub
7 29 (5.60%) Amazon S3
8 28 (5.41%) Serverless
9 26 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (2.32%) OpenShift
13 11 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.54%) dbt
14 8 (1.54%) SaaS
14 8 (1.54%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.25%) WAN
2 18 (3.47%) Firewall
3 13 (2.51%) LAN
4 12 (2.32%) Broadband
4 12 (2.32%) Internet
5 11 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (2.12%) SD-WAN
5 11 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.93%) 5G
6 10 (1.93%) DNS
6 10 (1.93%) VLAN
7 9 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.74%) Unified Communications
7 9 (1.74%) WebEx
8 8 (1.54%) DHCP
9 7 (1.35%) Network Security
10 3 (0.58%) BGP
10 3 (0.58%) MPLS
10 3 (0.58%) VPN
11 2 (0.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (31.47%) Power BI
2 148 (28.57%) Tableau
3 21 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.51%) Big Data
7 13 (2.51%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.32%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.12%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.74%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.35%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.35%) MySQL
12 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.16%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.16%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.97%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 67 (12.93%) Git
2 48 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.41%) GitLab
4 13 (2.51%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.12%) Cucumber
5 11 (2.12%) JIRA
6 9 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.74%) JUnit
6 9 (1.74%) LabVIEW
6 9 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.35%) Selenium
8 7 (1.35%) Subversion
9 6 (1.16%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.77%) TestNG
10 4 (0.77%) TestRail
11 2 (0.39%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.39%) Mockito
11 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 233 (44.98%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (9.07%) Finance
4 31 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.44%) Aerospace
6 18 (3.47%) Electronics
6 18 (3.47%) Marketing
6 18 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.90%) Retail
8 13 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.32%) Banking
9 12 (2.32%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.32%) Multimedia
10 11 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.74%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.77%) Aviation
12 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 154 (29.73%) Analyst
2 145 (27.99%) Data Analyst
3 137 (26.45%) Junior
3 137 (26.45%) Junior Analyst
3 137 (26.45%) Junior Data Analyst
4 52 (10.04%) Software Engineer
5 51 (9.85%) Developer
6 42 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 38 (7.34%) Senior
8 36 (6.95%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (4.63%) Python Developer
10 23 (4.44%) Trainee
11 20 (3.86%) Data Scientist
12 19 (3.67%) Lead
13 17 (3.28%) Test Engineer
14 16 (3.09%) Python Engineer
15 15 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 11 (2.12%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.05%) CSS
2 20 (3.86%) React
3 19 (3.67%) Node.js
4 18 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.28%) HTML
5 17 (3.28%) Vue
6 15 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 15 (2.90%) pytest
7 13 (2.51%) REST
8 11 (2.12%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.12%) Pandas
9 10 (1.93%) Django
9 10 (1.93%) NumPy
10 9 (1.74%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.74%) Spring
10 9 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.74%) XMPP
11 8 (1.54%) OAuth
11 8 (1.54%) PySpark
12 7 (1.35%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.63%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.74%) FlexPod
6 9 (1.74%) Self-Driving Car
6 9 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.35%) Replication
9 6 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.16%) Over-the-Top Content
9 6 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.77%) CUDA
10 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.44%) Linux
2 43 (8.30%) Windows
3 15 (2.90%) Unix
3 15 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.54%) CentOS
5 7 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.39%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.39%) Debian
6 2 (0.39%) Solaris
6 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.39%) VMS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (47.68%) AI
2 190 (36.68%) Business Intelligence
3 94 (18.15%) CI/CD
4 88 (16.99%) DevOps
5 83 (16.02%) Software Engineering
6 79 (15.25%) Agile
7 65 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 65 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (10.62%) Analytics
9 53 (10.23%) Containerisation
10 52 (10.04%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 48 (9.27%) Data Science
12 45 (8.69%) Machine Learning
13 43 (8.30%) Mentoring
14 42 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 31 (5.98%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (5.79%) Data Engineering
17 30 (5.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 201 (38.80%) SQL
2 79 (15.25%) JavaScript
3 78 (15.06%) Bash
4 76 (14.67%) Java
5 46 (8.88%) PowerShell
6 37 (7.14%) C++
7 28 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 27 (5.21%) C#
9 25 (4.83%) Go
10 24 (4.63%) R
11 18 (3.47%) C
12 12 (2.32%) PHP
13 10 (1.93%) MATLAB
13 10 (1.93%) Scala
14 7 (1.35%) Rust
15 6 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.77%) Groovy
17 3 (0.58%) Elixir
17 3 (0.58%) Erlang
17 3 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (36.87%) Azure Certification
2 95 (18.34%) Security Cleared
3 63 (12.16%) DV Cleared
4 39 (7.53%) Degree
5 28 (5.41%) SC Cleared
6 25 (4.83%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 14 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.74%) HND
10 6 (1.16%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.77%) CISSP
11 4 (0.77%) PhD
11 4 (0.77%) SANS
12 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.39%) CCNA
13 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.39%) RHCE
13 2 (0.39%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.28%) QA
3 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.97%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.97%) GDPR
5 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (13.51%) Docker
2 18 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.93%) Firmware
4 8 (1.54%) vSphere
5 7 (1.35%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.77%) iptables
9 2 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.39%) Squid
9 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 70 (13.51%) Terraform
3 61 (11.78%) Ansible
4 42 (8.11%) Grafana
5 18 (3.47%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.51%) Puppet
7 11 (2.12%) Kibana
8 10 (1.93%) logstash
9 9 (1.74%) Argo
9 9 (1.74%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (1.54%) Rancher
11 7 (1.35%) yum
12 6 (1.16%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.77%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.58%) Packer
14 3 (0.58%) SCCM
14 3 (0.58%) SCOM
14 3 (0.58%) SCOrch
14 3 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 198 (38.22%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.25%) Splunk
3 19 (3.67%) VMware
4 17 (3.28%) Cisco
5 15 (2.90%) Databricks
6 13 (2.51%) Oracle
6 13 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 11 (2.12%) Fortinet
7 11 (2.12%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.54%) Google
9 7 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.16%) Cognos
10 6 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.16%) NetApp
11 5 (0.97%) SAP
12 4 (0.77%) Typelevel
13 3 (0.58%) Dell
13 3 (0.58%) HP
13 3 (0.58%) Juniper
13 3 (0.58%) Veeam