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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 522 230 821
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.75% 8.76% 9.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.39% 28.89% 28.12%
Number of salaries quoted 235 147 597
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,443 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +1.67% -5.83%
75th Percentile £73,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 1,150 796 2,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.88% 30.32% 32.17%
Number of salaries quoted 726 549 2,396
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,847
90th Percentile £79,000 £83,750 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +2 150 £60,000 - 57
Bristol +1 147 £60,000 -11.11% 99
Devon +29 102 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Somerset +17 61 £42,784 -25.59% 21
Dorset +2 36 £50,000 +17.65% 14
Cornwall - 11 £52,246 - 1
Wiltshire -26 10 £75,000 +45.35% 30
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 19 (3.64%) Apache
2 14 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.53%) Confluence
5 7 (1.34%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.38%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.38%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 146 (27.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 280 (53.64%) Azure
2 179 (34.29%) Azure AI
3 173 (33.14%) Power Platform
4 138 (26.44%) AWS
5 45 (8.62%) GCP
6 39 (7.47%) GitHub
7 30 (5.75%) Amazon S3
8 28 (5.36%) Serverless
9 26 (4.98%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (2.30%) OpenShift
14 10 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (1.72%) Snowflake
16 8 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (1.53%) dbt
17 7 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (1.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.02%) WAN
2 17 (3.26%) Firewall
3 12 (2.30%) Broadband
3 12 (2.30%) Internet
3 12 (2.30%) LAN
4 10 (1.92%) 5G
4 10 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
4 10 (1.92%) DNS
4 10 (1.92%) SD-WAN
4 10 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (1.72%) Unified Communications
5 9 (1.72%) VLAN
5 9 (1.72%) WebEx
6 8 (1.53%) DHCP
7 6 (1.15%) Network Security
8 3 (0.57%) IPv4
8 3 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.38%) BGP
9 2 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (31.42%) Power BI
2 150 (28.74%) Tableau
3 19 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (2.87%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.49%) Big Data
7 13 (2.49%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.30%) SQL Server
9 11 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.34%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.34%) MySQL
12 7 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.15%) Data Vault
14 5 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.96%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.77%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 69 (13.22%) Git
2 48 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.56%) GitLab
4 14 (2.68%) Bitbucket
5 13 (2.49%) JIRA
6 10 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.92%) JUnit
7 9 (1.72%) LabVIEW
7 9 (1.72%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.53%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.53%) Subversion
8 8 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (1.34%) Selenium
10 6 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.77%) TestNG
11 4 (0.77%) TestRail
12 2 (0.38%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.38%) Gradle
12 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 233 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.81%) Finance
4 31 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 24 (4.60%) Aerospace
6 17 (3.26%) Electronics
6 17 (3.26%) Marketing
6 17 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.07%) Retail
8 13 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.30%) Banking
9 12 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.30%) Multimedia
10 11 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.72%) Tech for Good
12 4 (0.77%) Aviation
12 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 158 (30.27%) Analyst
2 147 (28.16%) Data Analyst
3 138 (26.44%) Junior
4 137 (26.25%) Junior Analyst
4 137 (26.25%) Junior Data Analyst
5 53 (10.15%) Developer
6 50 (9.58%) Software Engineer
7 42 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 40 (7.66%) Senior
9 37 (7.09%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (4.60%) Python Developer
11 23 (4.41%) Trainee
12 20 (3.83%) Data Scientist
13 19 (3.64%) Lead
14 17 (3.26%) Python Engineer
15 16 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.07%) Test Engineer
16 12 (2.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
16 12 (2.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.02%) CSS
2 20 (3.83%) Node.js
3 19 (3.64%) React
4 18 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (3.26%) HTML
5 17 (3.26%) Vue
6 15 (2.87%) pytest
7 14 (2.68%) REST
8 13 (2.49%) AngularJS
9 11 (2.11%) Apache NiFi
9 11 (2.11%) Pandas
10 10 (1.92%) Django
10 10 (1.92%) FastAPI
10 10 (1.92%) NumPy
11 9 (1.72%) Spring
11 9 (1.72%) Spring Boot
11 9 (1.72%) XMPP
12 8 (1.53%) OAuth
12 8 (1.53%) PySpark
13 7 (1.34%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.98%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.64%) Algorithms
3 14 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.72%) FlexPod
6 9 (1.72%) Self-Driving Car
6 9 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
7 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
8 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.34%) Replication
9 6 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.15%) Over-the-Top Content
10 5 (0.96%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.77%) CUDA
11 4 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.57%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.52%) Linux
2 44 (8.43%) Windows
3 16 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.87%) Unix
5 8 (1.53%) CentOS
6 7 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.38%) Debian
7 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.38%) VMS
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (47.70%) AI
2 191 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
3 95 (18.20%) CI/CD
4 89 (17.05%) DevOps
5 82 (15.71%) Software Engineering
6 81 (15.52%) Agile
7 69 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 55 (10.54%) Analytics
10 54 (10.34%) Containerisation
11 51 (9.77%) Test Automation
12 50 (9.58%) Data Science
13 48 (9.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
14 44 (8.43%) Machine Learning
15 42 (8.05%) Mentoring
16 41 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 32 (6.13%) Data Engineering
19 31 (5.94%) Visualisation
20 30 (5.75%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 206 (39.46%) SQL
2 79 (15.13%) JavaScript
3 77 (14.75%) Bash
4 76 (14.56%) Java
5 46 (8.81%) PowerShell
6 36 (6.90%) C++
7 27 (5.17%) C#
8 26 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 25 (4.79%) Go
10 24 (4.60%) R
11 15 (2.87%) C
12 13 (2.49%) PHP
13 10 (1.92%) MATLAB
13 10 (1.92%) Scala
14 7 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (1.34%) Rust
15 4 (0.77%) Groovy
16 3 (0.57%) Elixir
16 3 (0.57%) Erlang
16 3 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 191 (36.59%) Azure Certification
2 93 (17.82%) Security Cleared
3 60 (11.49%) DV Cleared
4 40 (7.66%) Degree
5 28 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 26 (4.98%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.72%) HND
10 6 (1.15%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.77%) CISSP
11 4 (0.77%) PhD
11 4 (0.77%) SANS
12 3 (0.57%) CCNA
12 3 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.57%) OSCP
12 3 (0.57%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.26%) QA
3 7 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.57%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (13.41%) Docker
2 19 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.72%) Firmware
3 9 (1.72%) vSphere
4 8 (1.53%) Active Directory
5 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.77%) iptables
8 3 (0.57%) Squid
8 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 76 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 70 (13.41%) Terraform
3 62 (11.88%) Ansible
4 42 (8.05%) Grafana
5 18 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.49%) Puppet
7 11 (2.11%) Kibana
8 10 (1.92%) logstash
9 9 (1.72%) Argo
9 9 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (1.53%) Rancher
11 7 (1.34%) yum
12 6 (1.15%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.77%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.77%) Packer
13 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.77%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.57%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.57%) SCCM
14 3 (0.57%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 202 (38.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.41%) Splunk
3 20 (3.83%) VMware
4 17 (3.26%) Databricks
5 16 (3.07%) Cisco
6 14 (2.68%) Oracle
6 14 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.92%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.53%) Google
9 7 (1.34%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.15%) Cognos
10 6 (1.15%) MicroStrategy
10 6 (1.15%) NetApp
11 4 (0.77%) SAP
11 4 (0.77%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.57%) Dell
12 3 (0.57%) HP
12 3 (0.57%) Juniper
12 3 (0.57%) Veeam