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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 571 240 814
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.85% 7.23% 8.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.32% 28.47% 29.18%
Number of salaries quoted 299 139 590
10th Percentile £34,350 £37,330 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,443 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -4.26% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £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 1,382 843 2,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.58% 25.38% 28.52%
Number of salaries quoted 966 567 2,189
10th Percentile £33,375 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,875 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -1 179 £60,000 +2.13% 132
Bristol +6 151 £62,500 - 84
Devon +22 95 £52,500 - 58
Somerset +17 81 £31,500 -40.00% 41
Dorset -5 30 £40,000 -17.95% 50
Wiltshire -13 22 £57,500 +11.43% 18
Cornwall +15 10 £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 24 (4.20%) Apache
2 17 (2.98%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.93%) Confluence
4 10 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.40%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.53%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (21.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.23%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Simulink
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 262 (45.88%) Azure
2 151 (26.44%) Azure AI
3 144 (25.22%) AWS
3 144 (25.22%) Power Platform
4 53 (9.28%) GCP
5 31 (5.43%) Serverless
6 27 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (4.55%) GitHub
8 25 (4.38%) Amazon S3
9 20 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (2.80%) OpenShift
11 13 (2.28%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.93%) SaaS
14 8 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (1.40%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.50%) Firewall
2 18 (3.15%) WAN
3 13 (2.28%) LAN
4 11 (1.93%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (1.75%) Broadband
5 10 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.58%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.58%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.58%) VLAN
6 9 (1.58%) WebEx
7 7 (1.23%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.05%) 5G
8 6 (1.05%) DHCP
8 6 (1.05%) DNS
8 6 (1.05%) Network Security
9 4 (0.70%) Internet
9 4 (0.70%) IPv4
9 4 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.53%) AMQP
10 3 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (22.07%) Power BI
2 125 (21.89%) Tableau
3 24 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
4 23 (4.03%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 18 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (2.80%) Big Data
8 15 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.28%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.75%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.40%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.23%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.23%) MySQL
12 7 (1.23%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.05%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.05%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 90 (15.76%) Git
2 50 (8.76%) Jenkins
3 41 (7.18%) GitLab
4 23 (4.03%) Subversion
5 19 (3.33%) JIRA
6 18 (3.15%) Eclipse
7 13 (2.28%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.93%) JUnit
9 10 (1.75%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.75%) Selenium
9 10 (1.75%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
10 8 (1.40%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.23%) Robot Framework
11 7 (1.23%) TestRail
12 6 (1.05%) LabVIEW
13 5 (0.88%) MSI
14 3 (0.53%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.53%) MLflow
15 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
General
1 202 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 54 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (8.93%) Finance
4 35 (6.13%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.03%) Retail
6 21 (3.68%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.10%) Banking
8 12 (2.10%) Marketing
9 11 (1.93%) Electronics
10 10 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.58%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.23%) Games
14 6 (1.05%) Aviation
15 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.70%) Law
15 4 (0.70%) Multimedia
15 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (23.64%) Analyst
2 126 (22.07%) Junior
3 124 (21.72%) Data Analyst
4 109 (19.09%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (19.09%) Junior Data Analyst
5 83 (14.54%) Software Engineer
6 76 (13.31%) Developer
7 73 (12.78%) Senior
8 46 (8.06%) Data Engineer
9 42 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 37 (6.48%) Python Engineer
11 27 (4.73%) Lead
12 26 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 26 (4.55%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.38%) Python Developer
14 24 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 18 (3.15%) Architect
16 18 (3.15%) Test Engineer
17 17 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.13%) React
2 32 (5.60%) RESTful
3 28 (4.90%) Node.js
4 23 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (4.03%) Spring
4 23 (4.03%) Spring Boot
5 22 (3.85%) REST
5 22 (3.85%) Vue
6 18 (3.15%) CSS
7 17 (2.98%) J2EE
7 17 (2.98%) Struts
7 17 (2.98%) Web Services
8 16 (2.80%) Apache NiFi
9 14 (2.45%) .NET
9 14 (2.45%) FastAPI
9 14 (2.45%) Kafka
10 13 (2.28%) Django
10 13 (2.28%) HTML
10 13 (2.28%) pytest
11 12 (2.10%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.01%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 17 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (2.98%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.58%) FlexPod
8 9 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (1.23%) CUDA
9 7 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
9 7 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.05%) IoT
10 6 (1.05%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
10 6 (1.05%) Replication
11 5 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 97 (16.99%) Linux
2 59 (10.33%) Windows
3 17 (2.98%) Unix
3 17 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.10%) CentOS
5 6 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.88%) Debian
6 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.53%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.18%) Rocky
9 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (43.61%) AI
2 155 (27.15%) Business Intelligence
3 130 (22.77%) Software Engineering
4 126 (22.07%) CI/CD
5 109 (19.09%) DevOps
6 103 (18.04%) Agile
7 94 (16.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 87 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (12.61%) Containerisation
10 64 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
11 61 (10.68%) Test Automation
12 56 (9.81%) Analytics
13 50 (8.76%) Machine Learning
14 49 (8.58%) Data Science
15 48 (8.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 48 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (8.23%) Data Pipeline
17 40 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 39 (6.83%) Microservices
19 38 (6.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 192 (33.63%) SQL
2 110 (19.26%) Java
3 104 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 75 (13.13%) Bash
5 63 (11.03%) C++
6 46 (8.06%) PowerShell
7 36 (6.30%) C#
8 34 (5.95%) Go
9 29 (5.08%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.33%) C
11 17 (2.98%) Perl
12 16 (2.80%) PHP
13 11 (1.93%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.93%) Rust
14 10 (1.75%) R
15 9 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (1.40%) Scala
17 6 (1.05%) Groovy
18 5 (0.88%) Bicep
18 5 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 159 (27.85%) Azure Certification
2 137 (23.99%) Security Cleared
3 82 (14.36%) DV Cleared
4 58 (10.16%) Degree
5 50 (8.76%) SC Cleared
6 24 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.40%) PhD
9 7 (1.23%) HND
10 6 (1.05%) RHCSA
11 4 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.70%) CCNA
11 4 (0.70%) CISSP
11 4 (0.70%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.70%) OSCP
11 4 (0.70%) RHCE
11 4 (0.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 17 (2.98%) QA
3 14 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.40%) WCAG
5 5 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.88%) NCSC
6 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) JTAG
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (14.89%) Docker
2 22 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.28%) Firmware
4 10 (1.75%) vSphere
5 9 (1.58%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.70%) Squid
8 4 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.53%) iptables
10 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (17.34%) Kubernetes
2 91 (15.94%) Terraform
3 80 (14.01%) Ansible
4 41 (7.18%) Grafana
5 17 (2.98%) Puppet
6 16 (2.80%) Kibana
6 16 (2.80%) logstash
7 13 (2.28%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.58%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (1.58%) Packer
9 8 (1.40%) Rancher
10 7 (1.23%) Argo
10 7 (1.23%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.05%) yum
11 6 (1.05%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.88%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.70%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.53%) SCCM
14 3 (0.53%) SCOM
14 3 (0.53%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 178 (31.17%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.03%) Splunk
3 22 (3.85%) VMware
4 18 (3.15%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.98%) Databricks
6 15 (2.63%) Cisco
7 11 (1.93%) Fortinet
7 11 (1.93%) Palo Alto
8 9 (1.58%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.05%) Cognos
9 6 (1.05%) Google
9 6 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.05%) NetApp
9 6 (1.05%) Oracle
10 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.70%) Intel
11 4 (0.70%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.53%) OneLogin
12 3 (0.53%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.35%) MuleSoft