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 3 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 219 118 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.10% 9.48% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.10% 29.57% 25.75%
Number of salaries quoted 117 95 260
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £93,267 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.58% +10.00% -3.45%

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 465 399 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.96% 32.05% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 299 304 1,122
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,400 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 3 months to 23 January 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 3 months to 23 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire +2 71 £65,000 -3.70% 117
Bristol -6 68 £60,000 -11.11% 102
Devon +16 34 £52,500 -12.50% 75
Dorset -7 15 - - 59
Somerset -8 12 - - 62
Wiltshire -12 10 £71,250 +106.52% 63
Cornwall - 4 £40,000 - 24
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 16 (4.73%) Apache
2 9 (2.66%) Confluence
3 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.30%) JBoss
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (16.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.30%) Weka
3 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 156 (46.15%) Azure
2 131 (38.76%) AWS
3 65 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 60 (17.75%) GitHub
5 42 (12.43%) Azure AI
6 26 (7.69%) GCP
7 23 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
7 23 (6.80%) Serverless
8 21 (6.21%) Amazon S3
9 20 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.44%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.48%) Amazon SageMaker
14 5 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (1.18%) dbt
15 4 (1.18%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.80%) Internet
2 17 (5.03%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.44%) WAN
4 14 (4.14%) DNS
5 11 (3.25%) Firewall
5 11 (3.25%) SD-WAN
6 10 (2.96%) 5G
7 7 (2.07%) DHCP
7 7 (2.07%) LAN
8 6 (1.78%) HTTP
8 6 (1.78%) Network Security
9 5 (1.48%) BGP
9 5 (1.48%) MPLS
9 5 (1.48%) VPN
9 5 (1.48%) VSAN
9 5 (1.48%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.18%) 4G
10 4 (1.18%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.18%) SMTP
10 4 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.23%) Power BI
2 54 (15.98%) Tableau
3 15 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 13 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.96%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.66%) Big Data
6 9 (2.66%) MySQL
6 9 (2.66%) Neo4j
7 8 (2.37%) Data Mining
8 4 (1.18%) CockroachDB
8 4 (1.18%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.89%) Metadata
10 2 (0.59%) DB2
10 2 (0.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 77 (22.78%) Git
2 45 (13.31%) Jenkins
3 23 (6.80%) GitLab
4 13 (3.85%) JUnit
5 12 (3.55%) LabVIEW
6 11 (3.25%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.96%) Cucumber
7 10 (2.96%) JIRA
8 9 (2.66%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.37%) Selenium
10 6 (1.78%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.48%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.48%) Subversion
12 4 (1.18%) IDA Disassembler
12 4 (1.18%) Postman
12 4 (1.18%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.18%) TestNG
12 4 (1.18%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.89%) Balsamiq
13 3 (0.89%) Metasploit
General
1 98 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.27%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (15.68%) Finance
4 24 (7.10%) Electronics
5 21 (6.21%) Multimedia
6 18 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.73%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.44%) Marketing
9 13 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 11 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.07%) Law
12 6 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.48%) Avionics
14 4 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.18%) Military
15 3 (0.89%) Aeronautics
15 3 (0.89%) Aviation
15 3 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (19.23%) Analyst
2 56 (16.57%) Data Analyst
3 44 (13.02%) Junior
4 42 (12.43%) Junior Analyst
4 42 (12.43%) Junior Data Analyst
5 39 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 32 (9.47%) Developer
7 29 (8.58%) Senior
7 29 (8.58%) Trainee
8 20 (5.92%) Test Engineer
9 19 (5.62%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.44%) Lead
11 14 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.85%) Product Engineer
12 13 (3.85%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.55%) Product Test Engineer
13 12 (3.55%) Security Engineer
13 12 (3.55%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.55%) Verification Engineer
14 10 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.76%) React
2 28 (8.28%) CSS
2 28 (8.28%) HTML
3 18 (5.33%) AngularJS
4 16 (4.73%) pytest
5 12 (3.55%) Spring
5 12 (3.55%) Spring Boot
6 11 (3.25%) Apache NiFi
6 11 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.66%) PySpark
7 9 (2.66%) REST
8 8 (2.37%) MERN Stack
8 8 (2.37%) Vue
9 6 (1.78%) Node.js
9 6 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.48%) Kafka
11 4 (1.18%) OpenAPI
11 4 (1.18%) Pandas
11 4 (1.18%) PrimeFaces
11 4 (1.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.73%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 10 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.37%) GNSS
5 8 (2.37%) Satnav
5 8 (2.37%) Self-Driving Car
6 7 (2.07%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.78%) IoT
7 6 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.78%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.89%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 72 (21.30%) Linux
2 35 (10.36%) Windows
3 18 (5.33%) Unix
4 12 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 10 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.37%) CentOS
7 7 (2.07%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.78%) Debian
9 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.89%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.59%) Solaris
12 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (25.44%) AI
2 80 (23.67%) DevOps
3 79 (23.37%) Business Intelligence
4 75 (22.19%) CI/CD
4 75 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (21.89%) Agile
6 66 (19.53%) Software Engineering
7 50 (14.79%) Analytics
8 47 (13.91%) Mentoring
9 44 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (12.43%) Test Automation
11 41 (12.13%) Containerisation
12 40 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (9.47%) Machine Learning
15 30 (8.88%) Data Science
16 26 (7.69%) Validation
17 25 (7.40%) Data Analysis
18 24 (7.10%) Data Analytics
18 24 (7.10%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 103 (30.47%) SQL
2 77 (22.78%) Java
3 76 (22.49%) JavaScript
4 70 (20.71%) Bash
5 43 (12.72%) PowerShell
6 35 (10.36%) C++
7 30 (8.88%) C
8 27 (7.99%) R
9 26 (7.69%) TypeScript
10 21 (6.21%) C#
11 17 (5.03%) MATLAB
12 14 (4.14%) Go
13 6 (1.78%) Bicep
13 6 (1.78%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.89%) Elixir
14 3 (0.89%) Erlang
14 3 (0.89%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.89%) Groovy
14 3 (0.89%) VBA
14 3 (0.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 66 (19.53%) Azure Certification
3 56 (16.57%) DV Cleared
4 48 (14.20%) Degree
5 43 (12.72%) SC Cleared
6 25 (7.40%) AWS Certification
7 22 (6.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 21 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (4.14%) CREST Certified
10 12 (3.55%) HND
11 9 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (2.37%) CISSP
12 8 (2.37%) SANS
13 7 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.07%) Master's Degree
14 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.89%) CCNP
15 3 (0.89%) CITP
16 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.14%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.25%) QA
3 9 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) NCSC
5 2 (0.59%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.30%) GDPR
6 1 (0.30%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (16.27%) Docker
2 6 (1.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.78%) Hyper-V
2 6 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.89%) Firmware
3 3 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.59%) iptables
5 1 (0.30%) Ceph
5 1 (0.30%) Lustre
5 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (20.41%) Kubernetes
2 49 (14.50%) Terraform
3 42 (12.43%) Ansible
4 20 (5.92%) Grafana
5 12 (3.55%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.37%) Kibana
7 7 (2.07%) Puppet
8 6 (1.78%) Argo
9 5 (1.48%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.48%) Rancher
9 5 (1.48%) yum
10 4 (1.18%) logstash
10 4 (1.18%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (1.18%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.89%) Nmap
12 2 (0.59%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.59%) Nagios
12 2 (0.59%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 86 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.33%) Oracle
3 16 (4.73%) Google
4 15 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.37%) Atlassian
5 8 (2.37%) Cisco
5 8 (2.37%) Databricks
5 8 (2.37%) SAP
5 8 (2.37%) Splunk
6 7 (2.07%) VMware
7 4 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.18%) McAfee
7 4 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.59%) Dell
8 2 (0.59%) HP
8 2 (0.59%) Juniper
8 2 (0.59%) Palantir
8 2 (0.59%) Talend
8 2 (0.59%) Veeam
9 1 (0.30%) EMC