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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 602 250 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.91% 7.23% 8.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.43% 30.27% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 323 147 462
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,650 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.73% +6.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 1,453 826 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.67% 23.87% 25.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 551 1,584
10th Percentile £32,725 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £81,250
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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -1 193 £60,500 +5.22% 117
Bristol +8 163 £62,500 - 66
Devon +23 95 £57,500 +21.05% 20
Somerset +23 84 £35,000 -33.33% 25
Dorset -9 29 £40,000 -20.00% 13
Wiltshire -18 25 £56,250 +24.25% 12
Cornwall +14 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 35 (5.81%) Apache
2 19 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.66%) Confluence
4 8 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.66%) JBoss
6 4 (0.66%) nginx
7 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.33%) SAS
9 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 106 (17.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.50%) Simulink
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 260 (43.19%) Azure
2 149 (24.75%) AWS
3 137 (22.76%) Azure AI
3 137 (22.76%) Power Platform
4 51 (8.47%) GCP
5 35 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.65%) Serverless
7 24 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.82%) Amazon S3
9 22 (3.65%) GitHub
10 19 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (2.99%) OpenShift
12 17 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.16%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.99%) SaaS
15 10 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (1.50%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.82%) Firewall
2 21 (3.49%) WAN
3 16 (2.66%) LAN
4 12 (1.99%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (1.99%) VLAN
5 11 (1.83%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (1.66%) Broadband
6 10 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.66%) Unified Communications
6 10 (1.66%) WebEx
7 8 (1.33%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.16%) DNS
8 7 (1.16%) Network Security
9 6 (1.00%) DHCP
10 5 (0.83%) 5G
10 5 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (0.83%) VPN
11 4 (0.66%) Internet
11 4 (0.66%) IPv4
11 4 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (18.60%) Power BI
2 110 (18.27%) Tableau
3 25 (4.15%) MongoDB
4 21 (3.49%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.32%) Big Data
5 20 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.66%) Data Lake
8 14 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.66%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.66%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.50%) MySQL
10 9 (1.50%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.83%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 111 (18.44%) Git
2 48 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 43 (7.14%) GitLab
4 30 (4.98%) Subversion
5 26 (4.32%) JIRA
6 23 (3.82%) Eclipse
7 16 (2.66%) JUnit
8 15 (2.49%) Bitbucket
9 13 (2.16%) Selenium
10 10 (1.66%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.50%) Visual Studio Code
12 8 (1.33%) Cucumber
13 7 (1.16%) Cypress.io
13 7 (1.16%) MSI
13 7 (1.16%) Robot Framework
14 6 (1.00%) TestRail
15 5 (0.83%) LabVIEW
16 3 (0.50%) MLflow
17 2 (0.33%) Postman
18 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 206 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
2 62 (10.30%) Finance
3 38 (6.31%) Public Sector
4 27 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (4.15%) Aerospace
6 23 (3.82%) Retail
7 16 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.49%) Marketing
9 11 (1.83%) Banking
10 10 (1.66%) Electronics
11 9 (1.50%) Tech for Good
12 8 (1.33%) Aviation
12 8 (1.33%) Games
13 7 (1.16%) Law
13 7 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.83%) Military
16 4 (0.66%) Multimedia
16 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (20.27%) Analyst
2 117 (19.44%) Junior
3 110 (18.27%) Data Analyst
4 95 (15.78%) Junior Analyst
4 95 (15.78%) Junior Data Analyst
5 89 (14.78%) Software Engineer
6 84 (13.95%) Developer
7 78 (12.96%) Senior
8 56 (9.30%) Data Engineer
9 42 (6.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 42 (6.98%) Python Engineer
10 36 (5.98%) Lead
11 30 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 29 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.15%) Architect
14 25 (4.15%) Python Developer
15 24 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (3.32%) Junior Developer
16 20 (3.32%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.48%) React
1 39 (6.48%) RESTful
2 29 (4.82%) Spring
2 29 (4.82%) Spring Boot
3 24 (3.99%) Node.js
3 24 (3.99%) REST
4 22 (3.65%) CSS
4 22 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (3.49%) Jakarta EE
5 21 (3.49%) Struts
5 21 (3.49%) Web Services
6 20 (3.32%) Apache NiFi
6 20 (3.32%) Kafka
7 19 (3.16%) Vue
8 18 (2.99%) .NET
9 17 (2.82%) HTML
10 14 (2.33%) FastAPI
11 13 (2.16%) Django
12 12 (1.99%) pytest
13 11 (1.83%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.99%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (2.99%) Algorithms
5 17 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.66%) FlexPod
9 10 (1.66%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
11 8 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
11 8 (1.33%) IoT
12 7 (1.16%) CUDA
12 7 (1.16%) Replication
13 6 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.45%) Linux
2 66 (10.96%) Windows
3 18 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.66%) Unix
5 11 (1.83%) CentOS
6 7 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.66%) Debian
7 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Android
9 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (42.03%) AI
2 148 (24.58%) Software Engineering
3 145 (24.09%) CI/CD
4 144 (23.92%) Business Intelligence
5 129 (21.43%) DevOps
6 124 (20.60%) Agile
7 109 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 105 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (13.95%) Containerisation
10 74 (12.29%) Test Automation
11 73 (12.13%) Full-Stack Development
12 66 (10.96%) Analytics
13 62 (10.30%) Machine Learning
14 58 (9.63%) Data Pipeline
15 57 (9.47%) Data Science
16 55 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
18 45 (7.48%) Mentoring
18 45 (7.48%) Microservices
19 43 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 195 (32.39%) SQL
2 126 (20.93%) Java
3 122 (20.27%) JavaScript
4 77 (12.79%) C++
5 71 (11.79%) Bash
6 52 (8.64%) C#
7 42 (6.98%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.31%) Go
9 28 (4.65%) TypeScript
10 21 (3.49%) Perl
11 18 (2.99%) C
12 15 (2.49%) PHP
13 13 (2.16%) Rust
14 12 (1.99%) Scala
15 11 (1.83%) MATLAB
16 10 (1.66%) R
17 8 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (1.33%) Groovy
18 7 (1.16%) Bicep
19 5 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 161 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 147 (24.42%) Azure Certification
3 98 (16.28%) DV Cleared
4 74 (12.29%) Degree
5 62 (10.30%) SC Cleared
6 33 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.82%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (1.50%) PhD
10 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.00%) HND
11 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.66%) CCNA
12 4 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.66%) OSCP
12 4 (0.66%) RHCE
13 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 24 (3.99%) QA
3 21 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.66%) WCAG
5 8 (1.33%) NCSC
6 5 (0.83%) GDPR
6 5 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.33%) NIST
8 2 (0.33%) PMO
9 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) JTAG
System Software
1 97 (16.11%) Docker
2 23 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.49%) Firmware
4 11 (1.83%) vSphere
5 10 (1.66%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.66%) Squid
9 4 (0.66%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.33%) iptables
12 1 (0.17%) KVM
12 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 98 (16.28%) Terraform
3 89 (14.78%) Ansible
4 40 (6.64%) Grafana
5 17 (2.82%) Puppet
6 15 (2.49%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.33%) Kibana
7 14 (2.33%) logstash
8 10 (1.66%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (1.50%) Argo
9 9 (1.50%) Packer
10 8 (1.33%) Rancher
11 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.00%) vCenter Server
12 6 (1.00%) yum
13 5 (0.83%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.83%) Nagios
14 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.66%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 172 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.32%) Splunk
3 23 (3.82%) VMware
4 21 (3.49%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.16%) Cisco
5 19 (3.16%) Databricks
6 14 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.99%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.83%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.33%) Oracle
10 7 (1.16%) NetApp
11 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.83%) Cognos
12 5 (0.83%) Google
12 5 (0.83%) Intel
12 5 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.66%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.66%) Typelevel
14 3 (0.50%) New Relic
14 3 (0.50%) OneLogin