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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 14
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 565 249 823
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.92% 7.81% 8.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.51% 29.23% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 292 148 592
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,650 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 1,361 852 2,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.67% 26.73% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 941 574 2,249
10th Percentile £34,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,675 £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 8 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 8 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 +2 175 £60,000 - 93
Bristol +6 149 £62,500 -7.41% 59
Devon +22 97 £52,500 +5.00% 18
Somerset +17 78 £32,500 -40.91% 30
Dorset -8 29 £40,000 -17.95% 15
Wiltshire -15 22 £60,000 +32.53% 23
Cornwall +11 11 £52,246 -16.41% 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 24 (4.25%) Apache
2 17 (3.01%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.77%) Confluence
4 8 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (21.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.24%) Chatbot
3 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.35%) Simulink
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 267 (47.26%) Azure
2 151 (26.73%) Azure AI
3 149 (26.37%) AWS
4 146 (25.84%) Power Platform
5 59 (10.44%) GCP
6 33 (5.84%) Serverless
7 29 (5.13%) GitHub
8 28 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (4.78%) Amazon S3
10 26 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (2.83%) OpenShift
13 14 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (1.59%) SaaS
16 9 (1.59%) Snowflake
17 8 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
18 7 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.72%) Firewall
2 19 (3.36%) WAN
3 13 (2.30%) LAN
4 12 (2.12%) Broadband
5 11 (1.95%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.59%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.59%) Unified Communications
7 9 (1.59%) VLAN
7 9 (1.59%) WebEx
8 8 (1.42%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.24%) 5G
9 7 (1.24%) Network Security
10 6 (1.06%) DHCP
10 6 (1.06%) DNS
11 4 (0.71%) Internet
11 4 (0.71%) IPv4
11 4 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.53%) AMQP
12 3 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (22.83%) Power BI
2 124 (21.95%) Tableau
3 23 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (4.07%) MongoDB
4 19 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (2.83%) Big Data
7 15 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.77%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.59%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.24%) MySQL
12 7 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.06%) Data Vault
13 6 (1.06%) InfluxDB
13 6 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 86 (15.22%) Git
2 52 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 40 (7.08%) GitLab
4 22 (3.89%) Subversion
5 17 (3.01%) JIRA
6 16 (2.83%) Eclipse
7 15 (2.65%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.77%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.59%) JUnit
10 8 (1.42%) Selenium
11 7 (1.24%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.24%) LabVIEW
12 6 (1.06%) Robot Framework
12 6 (1.06%) TestRail
13 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
13 4 (0.71%) MSI
14 3 (0.53%) MLflow
15 2 (0.35%) DBeaver
General
1 207 (36.64%) Social Skills
2 51 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (8.32%) Finance
4 35 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.25%) Aerospace
6 23 (4.07%) Retail
7 21 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.30%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.12%) Banking
9 12 (2.12%) Electronics
9 12 (2.12%) Marketing
10 9 (1.59%) Tech for Good
11 8 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.24%) Games
13 5 (0.88%) Aviation
13 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.71%) Law
14 4 (0.71%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (23.54%) Analyst
2 124 (21.95%) Junior
3 123 (21.77%) Data Analyst
4 109 (19.29%) Junior Analyst
4 109 (19.29%) Junior Data Analyst
5 75 (13.27%) Developer
6 74 (13.10%) Software Engineer
7 64 (11.33%) Senior
8 45 (7.96%) Data Engineer
9 42 (7.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 32 (5.66%) Python Engineer
11 29 (5.13%) Lead
12 27 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.42%) Python Developer
15 24 (4.25%) Java Developer
16 17 (3.01%) Architect
16 17 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.01%) Test Engineer
17 16 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (6.19%) React
2 29 (5.13%) Node.js
2 29 (5.13%) RESTful
3 23 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (4.07%) Vue
4 22 (3.89%) Spring
4 22 (3.89%) Spring Boot
5 20 (3.54%) REST
6 17 (3.01%) CSS
7 16 (2.83%) Apache NiFi
8 15 (2.65%) J2EE
8 15 (2.65%) Struts
8 15 (2.65%) Web Services
9 14 (2.48%) .NET
10 13 (2.30%) AngularJS
10 13 (2.30%) FastAPI
10 13 (2.30%) pytest
11 12 (2.12%) HTML
11 12 (2.12%) Kafka
12 11 (1.95%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.36%) Algorithms
3 16 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.77%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.59%) FlexPod
8 9 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
8 9 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
9 8 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.24%) CUDA
10 7 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
11 6 (1.06%) Replication
11 6 (1.06%) Self-Driving Car
12 5 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 97 (17.17%) Linux
2 56 (9.91%) Windows
3 19 (3.36%) Unix
4 17 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.95%) CentOS
6 6 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.88%) Debian
7 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.53%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.18%) Rocky
10 1 (0.18%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (43.19%) AI
2 158 (27.96%) Business Intelligence
3 126 (22.30%) CI/CD
4 122 (21.59%) Software Engineering
5 116 (20.53%) DevOps
6 106 (18.76%) Agile
7 91 (16.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 85 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (12.74%) Containerisation
10 61 (10.80%) Test Automation
11 60 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
12 56 (9.91%) Analytics
13 51 (9.03%) Data Science
14 49 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
15 48 (8.50%) Machine Learning
16 44 (7.79%) Data Pipeline
17 42 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 41 (7.26%) Mentoring
19 38 (6.73%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 190 (33.63%) SQL
2 108 (19.12%) Java
3 101 (17.88%) JavaScript
4 80 (14.16%) Bash
5 59 (10.44%) C++
6 48 (8.50%) PowerShell
7 36 (6.37%) C#
8 32 (5.66%) Go
9 30 (5.31%) TypeScript
10 19 (3.36%) C
11 16 (2.83%) PHP
12 15 (2.65%) Perl
13 12 (2.12%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.95%) R
15 10 (1.77%) Rust
16 9 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (1.42%) Scala
18 6 (1.06%) Groovy
19 5 (0.88%) VBA
20 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (27.96%) Azure Certification
2 134 (23.72%) Security Cleared
3 81 (14.34%) DV Cleared
4 54 (9.56%) Degree
5 47 (8.32%) SC Cleared
6 21 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 16 (2.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.42%) HND
9 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.24%) PhD
11 6 (1.06%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.88%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.71%) CISSP
13 4 (0.71%) OSCP
13 4 (0.71%) RHCE
13 4 (0.71%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.01%) QA
3 13 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.24%) WCAG
5 5 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.71%) NCSC
7 3 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) JTAG
8 1 (0.18%) NIST
System Software
1 88 (15.58%) Docker
2 21 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.30%) Firmware
4 10 (1.77%) vSphere
5 9 (1.59%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.71%) iptables
8 4 (0.71%) Squid
8 4 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 102 (18.05%) Kubernetes
2 90 (15.93%) Terraform
3 82 (14.51%) Ansible
4 44 (7.79%) Grafana
5 18 (3.19%) Puppet
6 16 (2.83%) Prometheus
7 15 (2.65%) Kibana
7 15 (2.65%) logstash
8 9 (1.59%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (1.59%) Rancher
9 8 (1.42%) Argo
9 8 (1.42%) Packer
10 7 (1.24%) yum
11 6 (1.06%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.06%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.88%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.88%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.53%) SCCM
13 3 (0.53%) SCOM
13 3 (0.53%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 177 (31.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.89%) Splunk
3 21 (3.72%) VMware
4 18 (3.19%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.01%) Cisco
5 17 (3.01%) Databricks
6 11 (1.95%) Fortinet
6 11 (1.95%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.42%) Oracle
8 6 (1.06%) Cognos
8 6 (1.06%) Google
8 6 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
8 6 (1.06%) NetApp
9 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.71%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.53%) Intel
11 3 (0.53%) OneLogin
11 3 (0.53%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.35%) Veeam