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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 312 391 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.21% 9.34% 12.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.32% 28.21% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 197 234 363
10th Percentile £28,850 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £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 £76,250 £77,188 £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 755 1,386 1,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.02% 33.10% 39.32%
Number of salaries quoted 556 755 1,517
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,395 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -2 120 £60,000 -14.29% 80
Gloucestershire +15 84 £66,250 +1.92% 78
Devon -2 39 £50,000 -28.57% 43
Wiltshire -14 19 £36,000 -10.00% 38
Somerset -10 18 £73,750 +34.09% 44
Dorset -5 17 £101,250 +113.16% 43
Cornwall -13 7 £55,000 -8.33% 3
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 (4.17%) Apache
2 10 (3.21%) Confluence
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.32%) JBoss
4 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.32%) Weka
3 1 (0.32%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 140 (44.87%) Azure
2 117 (37.50%) AWS
3 57 (18.27%) Power Platform
4 53 (16.99%) GitHub
5 35 (11.22%) Azure AI
6 21 (6.73%) Amazon S3
7 20 (6.41%) Serverless
8 19 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (5.77%) GCP
10 16 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.17%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.28%) SaaS
16 3 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (0.96%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.37%) Internet
2 15 (4.81%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.85%) DNS
3 12 (3.85%) WAN
4 10 (3.21%) Firewall
5 9 (2.88%) SD-WAN
6 8 (2.56%) 5G
7 6 (1.92%) HTTP
7 6 (1.92%) LAN
8 5 (1.60%) BGP
8 5 (1.60%) DHCP
8 5 (1.60%) MPLS
8 5 (1.60%) Network Security
8 5 (1.60%) VPN
8 5 (1.60%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.28%) 4G
9 4 (1.28%) Ethernet
9 4 (1.28%) SMTP
9 4 (1.28%) VSAN
9 4 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.27%) Power BI
2 47 (15.06%) Tableau
3 14 (4.49%) MongoDB
4 13 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.21%) MySQL
7 8 (2.56%) Data Mining
8 7 (2.24%) Neo4j
9 6 (1.92%) Big Data
10 4 (1.28%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.28%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.96%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.96%) Metadata
11 3 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (23.72%) Git
2 34 (10.90%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.41%) GitLab
4 14 (4.49%) JUnit
5 11 (3.53%) JIRA
6 10 (3.21%) LabVIEW
7 9 (2.88%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.24%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.24%) Selenium
9 4 (1.28%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.28%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (1.28%) Postman
9 4 (1.28%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.28%) TestNG
9 4 (1.28%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.96%) Balsamiq
10 3 (0.96%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.96%) Subversion
11 2 (0.64%) Maven
General
1 89 (28.53%) Social Skills
2 51 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (14.74%) Finance
4 24 (7.69%) Electronics
5 21 (6.73%) Multimedia
6 17 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.81%) Marketing
8 12 (3.85%) Aerospace
8 12 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.24%) Law
11 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.60%) Avionics
12 5 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.28%) Military
13 4 (1.28%) Retail
14 3 (0.96%) Aviation
14 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (18.91%) Analyst
2 49 (15.71%) Data Analyst
3 38 (12.18%) Software Engineer
4 37 (11.86%) Junior
5 35 (11.22%) Junior Analyst
5 35 (11.22%) Junior Data Analyst
6 29 (9.29%) Trainee
7 28 (8.97%) Developer
8 27 (8.65%) Senior
9 18 (5.77%) Data Engineer
10 16 (5.13%) Test Engineer
11 13 (4.17%) Lead
11 13 (4.17%) Python Engineer
12 12 (3.85%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.53%) Product Engineer
14 10 (3.21%) Data Scientist
14 10 (3.21%) Product Test Engineer
14 10 (3.21%) Python Software Engineer
14 10 (3.21%) Security Engineer
14 10 (3.21%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.29%) React
2 28 (8.97%) HTML
3 27 (8.65%) CSS
4 14 (4.49%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.17%) pytest
6 11 (3.53%) PySpark
7 10 (3.21%) Spring
7 10 (3.21%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (2.88%) REST
9 7 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.92%) MERN Stack
11 5 (1.60%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.60%) JSF
11 5 (1.60%) Kafka
11 5 (1.60%) Pandas
11 5 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.28%) PrimeFaces
12 4 (1.28%) RESTful
12 4 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.49%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 12 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (2.88%) IoT
6 8 (2.56%) GNSS
6 8 (2.56%) Satnav
7 7 (2.24%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
8 6 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.92%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.92%) Self-Driving Car
9 4 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.28%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.96%) Analogue Electronics
10 3 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 63 (20.19%) Linux
2 30 (9.62%) Windows
3 15 (4.81%) Unix
4 11 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.92%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.60%) CentOS
7 5 (1.60%) Debian
8 3 (0.96%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.64%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.64%) Solaris
10 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (24.68%) AI
2 70 (22.44%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (20.83%) DevOps
5 63 (20.19%) Agile
5 63 (20.19%) CI/CD
5 63 (20.19%) Software Engineering
6 50 (16.03%) Analytics
7 42 (13.46%) Mentoring
8 35 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
8 35 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (10.90%) Test Automation
10 33 (10.58%) Containerisation
10 33 (10.58%) Machine Learning
11 30 (9.62%) Data Science
12 27 (8.65%) Data Analysis
13 24 (7.69%) Data Analytics
13 24 (7.69%) Project Management
13 24 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 101 (32.37%) SQL
2 68 (21.79%) JavaScript
3 67 (21.47%) Java
4 53 (16.99%) Bash
5 35 (11.22%) PowerShell
6 33 (10.58%) C++
7 31 (9.94%) C
8 28 (8.97%) R
9 23 (7.37%) TypeScript
10 20 (6.41%) C#
11 15 (4.81%) MATLAB
12 12 (3.85%) Go
13 6 (1.92%) Bicep
14 5 (1.60%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.96%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.96%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.96%) Tcl
15 3 (0.96%) VBA
15 3 (0.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 85 (27.24%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.91%) Azure Certification
3 52 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 50 (16.03%) Degree
5 45 (14.42%) SC Cleared
6 25 (8.01%) AWS Certification
7 21 (6.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 21 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.53%) CREST Certified
9 10 (3.21%) HND
10 9 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (2.24%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.92%) CISSP
12 6 (1.92%) SANS
13 5 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.96%) CCNP
14 3 (0.96%) CITP
15 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.53%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.88%) QA
3 7 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.64%) NCSC
5 2 (0.64%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.32%) GDPR
6 1 (0.32%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (15.06%) Docker
2 6 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.60%) Firmware
3 5 (1.60%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.64%) vSphere
6 1 (0.32%) Ceph
6 1 (0.32%) iptables
6 1 (0.32%) KVM
6 1 (0.32%) Lustre
6 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 38 (12.18%) Terraform
3 32 (10.26%) Ansible
4 13 (4.17%) Grafana
5 10 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.24%) Kibana
7 5 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.28%) Argo
9 3 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.96%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.96%) Puppet
9 3 (0.96%) Rancher
9 3 (0.96%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.96%) yum
10 2 (0.64%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.64%) Nagios
10 2 (0.64%) Nmap
11 1 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 1 (0.32%) logstash
11 1 (0.32%) QRadar
Vendors
1 80 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.77%) Oracle
3 15 (4.81%) Google
4 11 (3.53%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.21%) Databricks
6 8 (2.56%) Cisco
6 8 (2.56%) SAP
7 7 (2.24%) Atlassian
7 7 (2.24%) Splunk
8 6 (1.92%) VMware
9 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.96%) EMC
10 3 (0.96%) McAfee
11 2 (0.64%) Palantir
11 2 (0.64%) Talend
12 1 (0.32%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.32%) Foundry
12 1 (0.32%) HubSpot
12 1 (0.32%) Veeam