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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 527 245 817
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.84% 9.08% 9.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.99% 28.96% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 234 168 598
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,063 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £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% -4.42%

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 1,146 846 2,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.88% 31.37% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 714 607 2,402
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,938 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,600 £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 12 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 12 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 +1 151 £59,248 -1.25% 52
Bristol +3 147 £60,000 -11.11% 80
Devon +30 103 £50,000 +8.11% 22
Somerset +12 59 £47,500 -17.39% 25
Dorset +6 39 £50,000 +8.11% 13
Wiltshire -22 12 £75,000 +45.35% 28
Cornwall - 10 £46,123 - 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 15 (2.85%) Apache
2 13 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.33%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.95%) Confluence
6 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 153 (29.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.14%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 289 (54.84%) Azure
2 186 (35.29%) Azure AI
3 174 (33.02%) Power Platform
4 141 (26.76%) AWS
5 44 (8.35%) GCP
6 42 (7.97%) GitHub
7 28 (5.31%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.12%) Serverless
9 24 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.90%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.52%) dbt
15 8 (1.52%) Snowflake
16 7 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 7 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.17%) WAN
2 19 (3.61%) Firewall
3 14 (2.66%) Internet
3 14 (2.66%) LAN
4 13 (2.47%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (2.28%) SD-WAN
6 11 (2.09%) VLAN
7 10 (1.90%) Broadband
7 10 (1.90%) DNS
8 9 (1.71%) 5G
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco Firepower
8 9 (1.71%) Network Security
8 9 (1.71%) Unified Communications
8 9 (1.71%) WebEx
9 7 (1.33%) DHCP
10 5 (0.95%) BGP
10 5 (0.95%) MPLS
10 5 (0.95%) VPN
11 3 (0.57%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (32.07%) Power BI
2 155 (29.41%) Tableau
3 20 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (2.47%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.28%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.09%) Big Data
9 10 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.90%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.52%) MySQL
12 6 (1.14%) Neo4j
12 6 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.95%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.95%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.95%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 68 (12.90%) Git
2 48 (9.11%) Jenkins
3 26 (4.93%) GitLab
4 12 (2.28%) Bitbucket
5 10 (1.90%) Cucumber
5 10 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.90%) JIRA
6 9 (1.71%) JUnit
7 8 (1.52%) LabVIEW
7 8 (1.52%) Selenium
7 8 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (1.33%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.33%) Subversion
9 5 (0.95%) TestRail
10 4 (0.76%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.76%) TestNG
11 2 (0.38%) Maven
11 2 (0.38%) Mockito
11 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 240 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (9.68%) Finance
3 31 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.98%) Aerospace
5 19 (3.61%) Marketing
5 19 (3.61%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.42%) Electronics
7 15 (2.85%) Retail
8 14 (2.66%) Multimedia
9 13 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.47%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.28%) Banking
11 11 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.71%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.76%) Aviation
13 4 (0.76%) Avionics
13 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Law
13 4 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (30.74%) Analyst
2 153 (29.03%) Data Analyst
3 145 (27.51%) Junior
4 144 (27.32%) Junior Analyst
4 144 (27.32%) Junior Data Analyst
5 54 (10.25%) Developer
5 54 (10.25%) Software Engineer
6 42 (7.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 36 (6.83%) Senior
8 34 (6.45%) Data Engineer
9 26 (4.93%) Trainee
10 25 (4.74%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (3.61%) Data Scientist
12 19 (3.61%) Python Engineer
13 18 (3.42%) Lead
14 16 (3.04%) Test Engineer
15 15 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
17 11 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.36%) CSS
2 21 (3.98%) React
3 19 (3.61%) HTML
4 17 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (3.23%) Node.js
5 16 (3.04%) Vue
6 15 (2.85%) AngularJS
7 14 (2.66%) pytest
8 13 (2.47%) REST
9 11 (2.09%) Django
10 10 (1.90%) Apache NiFi
10 10 (1.90%) NumPy
10 10 (1.90%) Pandas
11 9 (1.71%) FastAPI
11 9 (1.71%) Spring
11 9 (1.71%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.71%) XMPP
12 8 (1.52%) OAuth
12 8 (1.52%) PySpark
13 7 (1.33%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.36%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.42%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.71%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.52%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.33%) Replication
10 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.14%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (0.95%) Over-the-Top Content
12 4 (0.76%) CUDA
13 3 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (0.57%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.18%) Linux
2 41 (7.78%) Windows
3 14 (2.66%) Unix
4 13 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.14%) CentOS
6 5 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 2 (0.38%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.19%) Debian
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (47.25%) AI
2 195 (37.00%) Business Intelligence
3 92 (17.46%) CI/CD
4 87 (16.51%) DevOps
5 85 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 79 (14.99%) Agile
7 63 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 55 (10.44%) Analytics
10 52 (9.87%) Containerisation
10 52 (9.87%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 45 (8.54%) Data Science
13 43 (8.16%) Machine Learning
13 43 (8.16%) Mentoring
14 42 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
15 35 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 34 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
17 29 (5.50%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (5.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 208 (39.47%) SQL
2 80 (15.18%) JavaScript
3 79 (14.99%) Bash
4 75 (14.23%) Java
5 46 (8.73%) PowerShell
6 37 (7.02%) C++
7 27 (5.12%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.74%) Go
9 24 (4.55%) C#
9 24 (4.55%) R
10 20 (3.80%) C
11 12 (2.28%) PHP
12 10 (1.90%) MATLAB
12 10 (1.90%) Scala
13 6 (1.14%) Rust
14 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.76%) Groovy
16 3 (0.57%) Elixir
16 3 (0.57%) Erlang
16 3 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 200 (37.95%) Azure Certification
2 93 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 61 (11.57%) DV Cleared
4 41 (7.78%) Degree
5 28 (5.31%) SC Cleared
6 26 (4.93%) AWS Certification
7 24 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.52%) HND
11 7 (1.33%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.95%) CISSP
12 5 (0.95%) SANS
13 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.76%) PhD
14 3 (0.57%) CCNP
14 3 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
16 1 (0.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.42%) QA
3 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.95%) GDPR
6 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (13.28%) Docker
2 16 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.09%) Firmware
4 7 (1.33%) vSphere
5 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.95%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.76%) iptables
8 3 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.19%) Squid
10 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (14.99%) Kubernetes
2 69 (13.09%) Terraform
3 61 (11.57%) Ansible
4 40 (7.59%) Grafana
5 17 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 12 (2.28%) Puppet
7 10 (1.90%) Kibana
8 9 (1.71%) Argo
8 9 (1.71%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (1.71%) logstash
9 8 (1.52%) Rancher
10 7 (1.33%) yum
11 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.76%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.57%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.57%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.57%) SCCM
13 3 (0.57%) SCOM
13 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 202 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.98%) Splunk
3 19 (3.61%) Cisco
4 17 (3.23%) VMware
5 15 (2.85%) Databricks
6 13 (2.47%) Fortinet
6 13 (2.47%) Oracle
6 13 (2.47%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.52%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.52%) Google
9 6 (1.14%) NetApp
9 6 (1.14%) SAP
10 5 (0.95%) Cognos
10 5 (0.95%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (0.76%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.57%) Dell
12 3 (0.57%) HP
12 3 (0.57%) Juniper
12 3 (0.57%) Veeam