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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 598 247 670
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.91% 7.21% 7.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.41% 29.87% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 315 144 467
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,905 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £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 1,444 827 2,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.69% 24.15% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 552 1,660
10th Percentile £32,825 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £68,750
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 30 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 30 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 0 189 £60,500 +2.98% 85
Bristol +9 162 £62,500 +2.04% 53
Devon +25 96 £57,500 +15.00% 19
Somerset +18 84 £31,500 -40.00% 27
Dorset -9 30 £40,000 -20.00% 13
Wiltshire -21 24 £55,000 +21.49% 15
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 33 (5.52%) Apache
2 18 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.51%) Confluence
4 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.17%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.67%) JBoss
5 4 (0.67%) nginx
6 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.33%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (18.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.00%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.50%) Simulink
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 264 (44.15%) Azure
2 145 (24.25%) AWS
3 144 (24.08%) Azure AI
3 144 (24.08%) Power Platform
4 50 (8.36%) GCP
5 35 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.68%) Serverless
7 24 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 22 (3.68%) GitHub
10 19 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (3.01%) OpenShift
12 16 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (2.01%) SaaS
15 10 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (1.34%) Snowflake
18 7 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.68%) Firewall
2 20 (3.34%) WAN
3 15 (2.51%) LAN
4 12 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (1.84%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (1.84%) VLAN
6 10 (1.67%) Broadband
6 10 (1.67%) Unified Communications
6 10 (1.67%) WebEx
7 9 (1.51%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.34%) SD-WAN
9 6 (1.00%) DNS
9 6 (1.00%) Network Security
10 5 (0.84%) 5G
10 5 (0.84%) DHCP
11 4 (0.67%) Internet
11 4 (0.67%) IPv4
11 4 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.67%) VPN
12 3 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (19.90%) Power BI
2 117 (19.57%) Tableau
3 25 (4.18%) MongoDB
4 21 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 21 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (3.01%) Big Data
8 15 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.67%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.51%) MySQL
11 9 (1.51%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.17%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.84%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 107 (17.89%) Git
2 48 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 42 (7.02%) GitLab
4 29 (4.85%) Subversion
5 25 (4.18%) JIRA
6 22 (3.68%) Eclipse
7 15 (2.51%) Bitbucket
7 15 (2.51%) JUnit
8 13 (2.17%) Selenium
9 10 (1.67%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
11 8 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 7 (1.17%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.00%) MSI
13 6 (1.00%) TestRail
14 5 (0.84%) LabVIEW
15 3 (0.50%) MLflow
16 2 (0.33%) Postman
17 1 (0.17%) Snyk
General
1 208 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 58 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (9.70%) Finance
3 37 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 26 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (4.01%) Aerospace
6 23 (3.85%) Retail
7 15 (2.51%) Marketing
7 15 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 11 (1.84%) Banking
9 10 (1.67%) Electronics
10 9 (1.51%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.34%) Aviation
11 8 (1.34%) Games
12 7 (1.17%) Law
12 7 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Military
15 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
15 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (21.57%) Analyst
2 124 (20.74%) Junior
3 117 (19.57%) Data Analyst
4 102 (17.06%) Junior Analyst
4 102 (17.06%) Junior Data Analyst
5 86 (14.38%) Software Engineer
6 81 (13.55%) Developer
7 77 (12.88%) Senior
8 53 (8.86%) Data Engineer
9 42 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 42 (7.02%) Python Engineer
10 34 (5.69%) Lead
11 29 (4.85%) Java Developer
12 28 (4.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.18%) Architect
14 25 (4.18%) Python Developer
15 24 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (3.34%) Junior Developer
16 20 (3.34%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.35%) React
2 37 (6.19%) RESTful
3 28 (4.68%) Spring
3 28 (4.68%) Spring Boot
4 24 (4.01%) Node.js
5 23 (3.85%) REST
6 22 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (3.51%) CSS
8 20 (3.34%) Apache NiFi
8 20 (3.34%) Jakarta EE
8 20 (3.34%) Struts
8 20 (3.34%) Web Services
9 19 (3.18%) Kafka
9 19 (3.18%) Vue
10 17 (2.84%) .NET
11 16 (2.68%) HTML
12 14 (2.34%) FastAPI
13 13 (2.17%) Django
14 12 (2.01%) pytest
15 11 (1.84%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 16 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.84%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.67%) FlexPod
8 10 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
9 9 (1.51%) Video\Live Streaming
10 8 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.17%) CUDA
11 7 (1.17%) IoT
11 7 (1.17%) Replication
12 6 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.00%) Over-the-Top Content
13 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 97 (16.22%) Linux
2 65 (10.87%) Windows
3 18 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.68%) Unix
5 11 (1.84%) CentOS
6 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.67%) Debian
7 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (43.14%) AI
2 151 (25.25%) Business Intelligence
3 142 (23.75%) Software Engineering
4 140 (23.41%) CI/CD
5 125 (20.90%) DevOps
6 121 (20.23%) Agile
7 104 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 99 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 81 (13.55%) Containerisation
10 72 (12.04%) Test Automation
11 70 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 64 (10.70%) Analytics
13 60 (10.03%) Machine Learning
14 55 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (9.20%) Data Science
15 54 (9.03%) Data Pipeline
16 47 (7.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
17 44 (7.36%) Mentoring
18 43 (7.19%) Microservices
19 41 (6.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 199 (33.28%) SQL
2 123 (20.57%) Java
3 118 (19.73%) JavaScript
4 74 (12.37%) C++
5 70 (11.71%) Bash
6 50 (8.36%) C#
7 41 (6.86%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.19%) Go
9 26 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 20 (3.34%) Perl
11 18 (3.01%) C
12 15 (2.51%) PHP
13 11 (1.84%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.84%) Rust
13 11 (1.84%) Scala
14 10 (1.67%) R
15 8 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.34%) Groovy
16 6 (1.00%) Bicep
17 5 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 154 (25.75%) Azure Certification
1 154 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 96 (16.05%) DV Cleared
3 70 (11.71%) Degree
4 58 (9.70%) SC Cleared
5 30 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (1.51%) PhD
9 8 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.00%) HND
10 6 (1.00%) RHCSA
11 4 (0.67%) CCNA
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.67%) OSCP
11 4 (0.67%) RHCE
12 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.33%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.18%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.01%) QA
3 19 (3.18%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.51%) WCAG
5 7 (1.17%) NCSC
6 5 (0.84%) GDPR
6 5 (0.84%) 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 94 (15.72%) Docker
2 22 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.51%) Firmware
4 11 (1.84%) vSphere
5 10 (1.67%) Active Directory
6 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Squid
8 4 (0.67%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.33%) iptables
Systems Management
1 102 (17.06%) Kubernetes
2 95 (15.89%) Terraform
3 87 (14.55%) Ansible
4 40 (6.69%) Grafana
5 17 (2.84%) Puppet
6 15 (2.51%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.34%) Kibana
7 14 (2.34%) logstash
8 10 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (1.51%) Argo
9 9 (1.51%) Packer
10 8 (1.34%) Rancher
11 6 (1.00%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.00%) yum
11 6 (1.00%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.84%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.84%) Nagios
13 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 177 (29.60%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.35%) Splunk
3 22 (3.68%) VMware
4 21 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 18 (3.01%) Cisco
5 18 (3.01%) Databricks
6 13 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 12 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 11 (1.84%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.34%) Oracle
10 7 (1.17%) NetApp
11 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.84%) Cognos
12 5 (0.84%) Google
12 5 (0.84%) Intel
12 5 (0.84%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.67%) Typelevel
14 3 (0.50%) New Relic
14 3 (0.50%) OneLogin
14 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds