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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 523 229 820
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.77% 8.72% 8.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.93% 28.95% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 243 146 595
10th Percentile £33,900 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,625 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,443 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +1.67% -5.83%
75th Percentile £73,250 £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 1,164 791 2,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.07% 30.12% 31.44%
Number of salaries quoted 750 546 2,393
10th Percentile £33,975 £32,500 £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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 27 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 27 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 +1 149 £60,000 +2.13% 39
Bristol +3 148 £60,000 -11.11% 90
Devon +28 101 £50,000 +5.26% 18
Somerset +16 63 £41,250 -28.26% 22
Dorset +1 34 £50,000 +5.26% 13
Wiltshire -24 12 £75,000 +45.35% 22
Cornwall - 11 £52,246 - 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 18 (3.44%) Apache
2 14 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.34%) Confluence
4 7 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.38%) WordPress
6 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 139 (26.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.34%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 276 (52.77%) Azure
2 172 (32.89%) Azure AI
3 167 (31.93%) Power Platform
4 141 (26.96%) AWS
5 49 (9.37%) GCP
6 41 (7.84%) GitHub
7 29 (5.54%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.16%) Serverless
9 25 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.10%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (1.72%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.53%) dbt
16 7 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.34%) Datadog
16 7 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.21%) WAN
2 19 (3.63%) Firewall
3 12 (2.29%) Broadband
3 12 (2.29%) Internet
3 12 (2.29%) LAN
4 11 (2.10%) 5G
4 11 (2.10%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.91%) Cisco ASA
5 10 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.72%) DNS
6 9 (1.72%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.72%) VLAN
6 9 (1.72%) WebEx
7 8 (1.53%) DHCP
8 6 (1.15%) Network Security
9 3 (0.57%) IPv4
9 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.38%) BGP
10 2 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (30.02%) Power BI
2 143 (27.34%) Tableau
3 18 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (3.06%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (2.49%) Big Data
6 13 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.15%) Data Vault
10 6 (1.15%) MySQL
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.76%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.76%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 72 (13.77%) Git
2 47 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.35%) GitLab
4 13 (2.49%) Bitbucket
5 12 (2.29%) JIRA
6 11 (2.10%) Subversion
7 10 (1.91%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.91%) JUnit
7 10 (1.91%) LabVIEW
8 9 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 9 (1.72%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.34%) Selenium
11 6 (1.15%) CircleCI
12 5 (0.96%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.76%) TestNG
13 4 (0.76%) TestRail
14 3 (0.57%) MLflow
15 2 (0.38%) ESLint
General
1 228 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.80%) Finance
4 33 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 25 (4.78%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.63%) Electronics
7 17 (3.25%) Marketing
7 17 (3.25%) Retail
7 17 (3.25%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.29%) Banking
9 12 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.29%) Multimedia
10 11 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.72%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.76%) Aviation
12 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 151 (28.87%) Analyst
2 140 (26.77%) Data Analyst
3 134 (25.62%) Junior
4 130 (24.86%) Junior Analyst
4 130 (24.86%) Junior Data Analyst
5 56 (10.71%) Developer
6 48 (9.18%) Software Engineer
7 42 (8.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 41 (7.84%) Senior
9 38 (7.27%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 23 (4.40%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.40%) Trainee
12 21 (4.02%) Data Scientist
13 20 (3.82%) Lead
14 18 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.25%) Test Engineer
16 15 (2.87%) Python Engineer
17 14 (2.68%) Java Developer
18 12 (2.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.21%) Node.js
2 21 (4.02%) CSS
2 21 (4.02%) React
3 18 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (3.25%) HTML
4 17 (3.25%) Vue
5 16 (3.06%) pytest
6 14 (2.68%) REST
7 12 (2.29%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.10%) FastAPI
8 11 (2.10%) Pandas
8 11 (2.10%) Spring
8 11 (2.10%) Spring Boot
9 10 (1.91%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (1.91%) NumPy
9 10 (1.91%) RESTful
10 9 (1.72%) Django
10 9 (1.72%) XMPP
11 8 (1.53%) OAuth
11 8 (1.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.35%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.63%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.91%) Self-Driving Car
7 9 (1.72%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
9 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.34%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.34%) Replication
10 6 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
11 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.96%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.76%) CUDA
12 4 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.11%) Linux
2 45 (8.60%) Windows
3 18 (3.44%) Unix
4 17 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.53%) CentOS
6 7 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.57%) VMS
8 2 (0.38%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.38%) Debian
8 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (47.04%) AI
2 185 (35.37%) Business Intelligence
3 97 (18.55%) CI/CD
4 93 (17.78%) DevOps
5 81 (15.49%) Agile
5 81 (15.49%) Software Engineering
6 72 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (10.90%) Containerisation
9 55 (10.52%) Analytics
10 51 (9.75%) Data Science
10 51 (9.75%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 44 (8.41%) Machine Learning
13 43 (8.22%) Mentoring
14 42 (8.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 34 (6.50%) Full-Stack Development
17 33 (6.31%) Data Engineering
18 32 (6.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 201 (38.43%) SQL
2 82 (15.68%) JavaScript
3 79 (15.11%) Bash
4 78 (14.91%) Java
5 47 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 39 (7.46%) C++
7 28 (5.35%) C#
8 25 (4.78%) TypeScript
9 24 (4.59%) Go
9 24 (4.59%) R
10 15 (2.87%) C
11 13 (2.49%) PHP
12 12 (2.29%) MATLAB
13 10 (1.91%) Scala
14 7 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.34%) Rust
15 4 (0.76%) Groovy
15 4 (0.76%) Perl
16 3 (0.57%) Erlang
16 3 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 184 (35.18%) Azure Certification
2 97 (18.55%) Security Cleared
3 63 (12.05%) DV Cleared
4 44 (8.41%) Degree
5 29 (5.54%) SC Cleared
6 26 (4.97%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (2.10%) HND
11 6 (1.15%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.76%) CISSP
12 4 (0.76%) PhD
12 4 (0.76%) SANS
13 3 (0.57%) CCNA
13 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.57%) RHCE
13 3 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.25%) QA
3 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (13.77%) Docker
2 20 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.72%) Firmware
3 9 (1.72%) vSphere
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.76%) iptables
7 3 (0.57%) Squid
7 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 78 (14.91%) Kubernetes
2 72 (13.77%) Terraform
3 64 (12.24%) Ansible
4 42 (8.03%) Grafana
5 18 (3.44%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.49%) Puppet
7 10 (1.91%) Kibana
7 10 (1.91%) logstash
8 9 (1.72%) Argo
8 9 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (1.53%) Rancher
10 7 (1.34%) yum
11 5 (0.96%) Kubeflow
11 5 (0.96%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.76%) Packer
12 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.76%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.57%) SCCM
13 3 (0.57%) SCOM
13 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 196 (37.48%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.40%) Splunk
3 21 (4.02%) VMware
4 17 (3.25%) Cisco
4 17 (3.25%) Databricks
5 14 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.29%) Oracle
7 10 (1.91%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.91%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.53%) Google
9 6 (1.15%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.15%) Cognos
9 6 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
9 6 (1.15%) NetApp
10 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.76%) SAP
10 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.57%) Dell
11 3 (0.57%) HP
11 3 (0.57%) Juniper