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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 482 239 818
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.94% 8.77% 9.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.93% 25.43% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 233 170 581
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,495 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,628 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -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 1,027 940 2,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.78% 34.48% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 659 632 2,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,850 £82,725 £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 6 April 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 6 April 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
Bristol +3 145 £55,000 -18.52% 80
Gloucestershire +15 142 £60,000 -7.69% 82
Devon +34 87 £50,000 -11.11% 36
Somerset +9 43 £45,142 -27.77% 35
Dorset 0 33 £100,000 +122.22% 16
Wiltshire -19 15 £55,000 +6.59% 27
Cornwall - 10 £47,500 - 2
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 17 (3.53%) Apache
2 11 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.83%) Confluence
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.41%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 133 (27.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.24%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
4 1 (0.21%) Weka
4 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (52.70%) Azure
2 152 (31.54%) AWS
3 146 (30.29%) Power Platform
4 144 (29.88%) Azure AI
5 52 (10.79%) GitHub
6 40 (8.30%) GCP
7 28 (5.81%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.81%) Serverless
8 24 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (2.28%) OpenShift
11 10 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.45%) Datadog
14 7 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.24%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.94%) Internet
1 19 (3.94%) WAN
2 17 (3.53%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.90%) DNS
4 13 (2.70%) Firewall
5 11 (2.28%) LAN
5 11 (2.28%) SD-WAN
6 10 (2.07%) 5G
7 9 (1.87%) VLAN
8 8 (1.66%) Broadband
8 8 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (1.66%) DHCP
8 8 (1.66%) Network Security
9 6 (1.24%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.24%) HTTP
9 6 (1.24%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.24%) WebEx
10 5 (1.04%) BGP
10 5 (1.04%) MPLS
10 5 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (30.08%) Power BI
2 136 (28.22%) Tableau
3 21 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.32%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.90%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.49%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.49%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.66%) Big Data
8 8 (1.66%) Data Mining
8 8 (1.66%) Neo4j
9 7 (1.45%) MySQL
10 6 (1.24%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.83%) CockroachDB
11 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.83%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.62%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (14.73%) Git
2 45 (9.34%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.77%) GitLab
4 11 (2.28%) Cucumber
4 11 (2.28%) JUnit
5 10 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.07%) Cypress.io
5 10 (2.07%) LabVIEW
6 7 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.45%) Selenium
7 6 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.24%) Subversion
7 6 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.04%) JIRA
9 4 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.83%) TestNG
9 4 (0.83%) TestRail
10 3 (0.62%) Balsamiq
10 3 (0.62%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.62%) Metasploit
General
1 200 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 61 (12.66%) Finance
3 56 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.94%) Aerospace
5 19 (3.94%) Electronics
5 19 (3.94%) Multimedia
5 19 (3.94%) Telecoms
6 18 (3.73%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.53%) Marketing
8 14 (2.90%) Retail
9 13 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.07%) Banking
10 10 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.87%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.24%) Military
13 5 (1.04%) Law
13 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (29.46%) Analyst
2 135 (28.01%) Data Analyst
3 125 (25.93%) Junior
4 123 (25.52%) Junior Analyst
4 123 (25.52%) Junior Data Analyst
5 54 (11.20%) Software Engineer
6 49 (10.17%) Developer
7 41 (8.51%) Senior
8 33 (6.85%) Trainee
9 28 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 22 (4.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 21 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.36%) Python Engineer
12 18 (3.73%) Data Scientist
12 18 (3.73%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.53%) Lead
13 17 (3.53%) Test Engineer
14 15 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.49%) Security Engineer
16 11 (2.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.22%) CSS
2 27 (5.60%) HTML
3 26 (5.39%) React
4 17 (3.53%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.32%) Node.js
5 16 (3.32%) pytest
6 14 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.90%) Vue
7 12 (2.49%) REST
8 11 (2.28%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.28%) Django
8 11 (2.28%) Spring
8 11 (2.28%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.07%) NumPy
9 10 (2.07%) Pandas
10 9 (1.87%) PySpark
11 8 (1.66%) Flask
11 8 (1.66%) MERN Stack
11 8 (1.66%) OAuth
11 8 (1.66%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.73%) Algorithms
2 18 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.66%) Mobile App
4 8 (1.66%) Self-Driving Car
5 7 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.45%) IoT
5 7 (1.45%) Replication
5 7 (1.45%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.24%) FlexPod
6 6 (1.24%) GNSS
6 6 (1.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.24%) Satnav
6 6 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
8 4 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.60%) Linux
2 38 (7.88%) Windows
3 14 (2.90%) Unix
4 11 (2.28%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.45%) CentOS
5 7 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.41%) Solaris
6 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.21%) Debian
7 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (42.32%) AI
2 164 (34.02%) Business Intelligence
3 84 (17.43%) CI/CD
4 82 (17.01%) DevOps
5 81 (16.80%) Software Engineering
6 79 (16.39%) Agile
7 74 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (11.20%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (11.00%) Analytics
9 53 (11.00%) Containerisation
10 50 (10.37%) Machine Learning
11 48 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (9.96%) Data Science
12 47 (9.75%) Mentoring
13 44 (9.13%) Test Automation
14 41 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
15 29 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (5.81%) Visualisation
17 27 (5.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
18 26 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 177 (36.72%) SQL
2 88 (18.26%) JavaScript
3 79 (16.39%) Bash
4 75 (15.56%) Java
5 49 (10.17%) PowerShell
6 36 (7.47%) C++
7 27 (5.60%) C
7 27 (5.60%) R
7 27 (5.60%) TypeScript
8 22 (4.56%) C#
8 22 (4.56%) Go
9 13 (2.70%) MATLAB
10 10 (2.07%) PHP
10 10 (2.07%) Scala
11 6 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.83%) Groovy
12 4 (0.83%) Rust
13 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.62%) Erlang
13 3 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (34.02%) Azure Certification
2 94 (19.50%) Security Cleared
3 64 (13.28%) DV Cleared
4 50 (10.37%) Degree
5 31 (6.43%) AWS Certification
6 28 (5.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 28 (5.81%) SC Cleared
7 19 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (2.90%) CREST Certified
9 11 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.07%) HND
11 8 (1.66%) CISSP
11 8 (1.66%) SANS
12 6 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.83%) PhD
14 3 (0.62%) CCNP
14 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.62%) CITP
15 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.11%) QA
3 9 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.62%) NIST
6 2 (0.41%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (14.94%) Docker
2 13 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.66%) Firmware
4 6 (1.24%) vSphere
5 5 (1.04%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.83%) iptables
7 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.21%) Ceph
8 1 (0.21%) Lustre
8 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (17.01%) Kubernetes
2 63 (13.07%) Terraform
3 50 (10.37%) Ansible
4 33 (6.85%) Grafana
5 14 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.87%) Kibana
7 8 (1.66%) Argo
7 8 (1.66%) Puppet
8 7 (1.45%) logstash
9 6 (1.24%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.24%) Rancher
9 6 (1.24%) yum
10 4 (0.83%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.62%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.62%) Nmap
12 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.41%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.41%) Nagios
12 2 (0.41%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 177 (36.72%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.32%) Splunk
3 15 (3.11%) Cisco
3 15 (3.11%) Oracle
4 14 (2.90%) VMware
5 10 (2.07%) Databricks
5 10 (2.07%) Fortinet
5 10 (2.07%) Palo Alto
6 8 (1.66%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.66%) Red Hat
6 8 (1.66%) SAP
7 7 (1.45%) Google
8 5 (1.04%) NetApp
9 4 (0.83%) Typelevel
10 3 (0.62%) Cognos
10 3 (0.62%) Dell
10 3 (0.62%) HP
10 3 (0.62%) Juniper
10 3 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.62%) Veeam