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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 301 410 556
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.01% 9.31% 13.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.30% 28.85% 32.16%
Number of salaries quoted 188 252 348
10th Percentile £30,041 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,603 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 766 1,421 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.30% 32.27% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 569 787 1,392
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £35,297
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,679 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -6 114 £60,000 -14.29% 105
Gloucestershire +14 80 £67,500 +3.85% 145
Devon -4 38 £45,000 -35.71% 69
Wiltshire -9 20 £36,325 -25.49% 45
Somerset -12 19 £72,500 +31.82% 49
Dorset -5 16 £101,250 +102.50% 58
Cornwall -17 6 £55,000 -8.33% 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 13 (4.32%) Apache
2 9 (2.99%) Confluence
3 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.33%) JBoss
5 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (15.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.33%) Weka
3 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 129 (42.86%) Azure
2 109 (36.21%) AWS
3 55 (18.27%) Power Platform
4 45 (14.95%) GitHub
5 35 (11.63%) Azure AI
6 22 (7.31%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.64%) Serverless
8 17 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.65%) GCP
8 17 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.32%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.00%) Datadog
14 3 (1.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.64%) Internet
2 15 (4.98%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.99%) DNS
4 11 (3.65%) Firewall
5 10 (3.32%) WAN
6 7 (2.33%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.99%) 5G
7 6 (1.99%) HTTP
7 6 (1.99%) LAN
8 5 (1.66%) DHCP
8 5 (1.66%) Network Security
8 5 (1.66%) VPN
8 5 (1.66%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.33%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.33%) SMTP
9 4 (1.33%) VSAN
9 4 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.00%) BGP
10 3 (1.00%) MPLS
10 3 (1.00%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.27%) Power BI
2 48 (15.95%) Tableau
3 14 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.32%) NoSQL
5 12 (3.99%) MongoDB
5 12 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.65%) MySQL
6 11 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (3.32%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.33%) Data Mining
8 7 (2.33%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.99%) Big Data
10 4 (1.33%) ClickHouse
10 4 (1.33%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.33%) Metadata
10 4 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.00%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 66 (21.93%) Git
2 29 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.64%) GitLab
4 13 (4.32%) JUnit
5 10 (3.32%) JIRA
6 8 (2.66%) Cypress.io
6 8 (2.66%) LabVIEW
7 7 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.99%) Selenium
9 4 (1.33%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.33%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (1.33%) Postman
9 4 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.33%) Zephyr
10 3 (1.00%) Balsamiq
10 3 (1.00%) Subversion
10 3 (1.00%) TestNG
11 2 (0.66%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 89 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (14.95%) Finance
4 22 (7.31%) Electronics
5 18 (5.98%) Multimedia
6 17 (5.65%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.32%) Aerospace
8 13 (4.32%) Marketing
9 8 (2.66%) Law
9 8 (2.66%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.33%) Retail
11 5 (1.66%) Avionics
11 5 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.33%) Military
12 4 (1.33%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.00%) Aeronautics
13 3 (1.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 61 (20.27%) Analyst
2 49 (16.28%) Data Analyst
3 38 (12.62%) Software Engineer
4 37 (12.29%) Junior
5 35 (11.63%) Junior Analyst
5 35 (11.63%) Junior Data Analyst
6 31 (10.30%) Senior
7 25 (8.31%) Developer
7 25 (8.31%) Trainee
8 20 (6.64%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.65%) Test Engineer
10 13 (4.32%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.65%) Lead
12 10 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.32%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (3.32%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.99%) Administrator
13 9 (2.99%) Product Engineer
13 9 (2.99%) Software Developer
14 8 (2.66%) Product Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.97%) React
2 23 (7.64%) HTML
3 22 (7.31%) CSS
4 13 (4.32%) AngularJS
5 12 (3.99%) PySpark
6 11 (3.65%) pytest
7 9 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
7 9 (2.99%) Spring
7 9 (2.99%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.66%) REST
9 6 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.99%) Kafka
9 6 (1.99%) MERN Stack
9 6 (1.99%) Pandas
9 6 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.66%) Hibernate
10 5 (1.66%) JSF
10 5 (1.66%) PyTorch
10 5 (1.66%) TensorFlow
11 4 (1.33%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.65%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.32%) Algorithms
2 13 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (3.65%) IoT
4 10 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.66%) GNSS
5 8 (2.66%) Satnav
6 7 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.33%) Analogue Electronics
8 4 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.33%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.33%) Self-Driving Car
9 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.00%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 63 (20.93%) Linux
2 28 (9.30%) Windows
3 15 (4.98%) Unix
4 11 (3.65%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.99%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.66%) CentOS
7 5 (1.66%) Debian
8 3 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.66%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.66%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (24.92%) AI
2 68 (22.59%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (20.93%) Software Engineering
5 59 (19.60%) Agile
6 58 (19.27%) DevOps
7 56 (18.60%) CI/CD
8 49 (16.28%) Analytics
9 37 (12.29%) Mentoring
10 34 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (10.96%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (10.63%) Machine Learning
13 31 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (10.30%) Test Automation
14 29 (9.63%) Containerisation
14 29 (9.63%) Data Science
15 27 (8.97%) Data Analysis
16 24 (7.97%) ETL
17 23 (7.64%) Data Analytics
18 22 (7.31%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (35.22%) SQL
2 63 (20.93%) Java
3 61 (20.27%) JavaScript
4 48 (15.95%) Bash
5 34 (11.30%) C++
5 34 (11.30%) PowerShell
6 33 (10.96%) C
7 26 (8.64%) R
8 22 (7.31%) TypeScript
9 19 (6.31%) C#
10 13 (4.32%) MATLAB
11 12 (3.99%) Go
12 6 (1.99%) Bicep
13 4 (1.33%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.00%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
14 3 (1.00%) Tcl
14 3 (1.00%) VBA
14 3 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 81 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 57 (18.94%) Azure Certification
3 51 (16.94%) Degree
4 47 (15.61%) DV Cleared
5 43 (14.29%) SC Cleared
6 22 (7.31%) AWS Certification
7 18 (5.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 18 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.65%) CREST Certified
9 9 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.66%) HND
10 8 (2.66%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.99%) CISSP
11 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.99%) SANS
12 5 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.00%) CCNP
13 3 (1.00%) CITP
14 2 (0.66%) CCNA
14 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.65%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.99%) QA
3 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.00%) GDPR
6 2 (0.66%) NCSC
6 2 (0.66%) NIST
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.33%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (14.29%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.99%) Firmware
3 5 (1.66%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Ceph
6 1 (0.33%) iptables
6 1 (0.33%) KVM
6 1 (0.33%) Lustre
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.96%) Terraform
3 30 (9.97%) Ansible
4 10 (3.32%) Grafana
5 8 (2.66%) Kibana
6 7 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.66%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.33%) Argo
9 3 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.00%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (1.00%) Puppet
9 3 (1.00%) Rancher
9 3 (1.00%) SCVMM
9 3 (1.00%) yum
10 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.66%) Nagios
10 2 (0.66%) Nmap
11 1 (0.33%) Control-M
11 1 (0.33%) Nessus
11 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 77 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.65%) Oracle
3 16 (5.32%) Google
4 12 (3.99%) Databricks
5 11 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.33%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.99%) Cisco
7 6 (1.99%) SAP
7 6 (1.99%) Splunk
7 6 (1.99%) VMware
8 4 (1.33%) EMC
8 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.00%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.00%) McAfee
10 2 (0.66%) Palantir
10 2 (0.66%) Talend
11 1 (0.33%) Foundry
11 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.33%) Zoho