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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 487 240 825
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.92% 8.80% 9.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.69% 25.50% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 237 172 586
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,985 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +6.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,650 £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 1,043 941 2,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.81% 34.52% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 669 633 2,479
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 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,850 £82,700 £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 9 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 9 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 +3 148 £55,000 -18.52% 80
Gloucestershire +16 145 £60,000 -7.69% 82
Devon +34 87 £50,000 -11.11% 36
Somerset +6 43 £45,142 -24.76% 35
Dorset +5 33 £100,000 +122.22% 16
Wiltshire -23 15 £55,000 +6.59% 27
Cornwall - 9 £40,000 - 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 (3.49%) Apache
2 11 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.23%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.82%) 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 (27.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.23%) 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 (52.16%) Azure
2 153 (31.42%) AWS
3 146 (29.98%) Power Platform
4 144 (29.57%) Azure AI
5 53 (10.88%) GitHub
6 41 (8.42%) GCP
7 28 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 28 (5.75%) Serverless
8 24 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.26%) OpenShift
12 10 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.44%) Datadog
15 7 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.90%) Internet
1 19 (3.90%) WAN
2 17 (3.49%) TCP/IP
3 14 (2.87%) DNS
4 13 (2.67%) Firewall
5 11 (2.26%) LAN
5 11 (2.26%) SD-WAN
6 10 (2.05%) 5G
7 9 (1.85%) VLAN
8 8 (1.64%) Broadband
8 8 (1.64%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (1.64%) DHCP
8 8 (1.64%) Network Security
9 6 (1.23%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.23%) HTTP
9 6 (1.23%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.23%) WebEx
10 5 (1.03%) BGP
10 5 (1.03%) MPLS
10 5 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (29.77%) Power BI
2 136 (27.93%) Tableau
3 21 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.29%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (2.87%) MongoDB
7 12 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.64%) Big Data
8 8 (1.64%) Data Mining
8 8 (1.64%) Neo4j
9 7 (1.44%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.44%) MySQL
10 5 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.82%) CockroachDB
11 4 (0.82%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (15.20%) Git
2 46 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.72%) GitLab
4 11 (2.26%) Cucumber
4 11 (2.26%) JUnit
5 10 (2.05%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.05%) Cypress.io
5 10 (2.05%) LabVIEW
6 8 (1.64%) JIRA
7 7 (1.44%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.44%) Selenium
8 6 (1.23%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.23%) Subversion
8 6 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.82%) IDA Disassembler
9 4 (0.82%) TestNG
9 4 (0.82%) TestRail
10 3 (0.62%) Balsamiq
10 3 (0.62%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.62%) Robot Framework
General
1 200 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 62 (12.73%) Finance
3 56 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.31%) Aerospace
6 19 (3.90%) Electronics
6 19 (3.90%) Multimedia
6 19 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.49%) Marketing
8 14 (2.87%) Retail
9 13 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.05%) Banking
10 10 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.85%) Tech for Good
12 6 (1.23%) Military
13 5 (1.03%) Law
13 5 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (29.16%) Analyst
2 135 (27.72%) Data Analyst
3 125 (25.67%) Junior
4 123 (25.26%) Junior Analyst
4 123 (25.26%) Junior Data Analyst
5 56 (11.50%) Software Engineer
6 51 (10.47%) Developer
7 42 (8.62%) Senior
8 33 (6.78%) Trainee
9 30 (6.16%) Data Engineer
10 22 (4.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 21 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 21 (4.31%) Python Engineer
12 19 (3.90%) Lead
12 19 (3.90%) Python Developer
13 18 (3.70%) Data Scientist
14 17 (3.49%) Test Engineer
15 15 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
16 12 (2.46%) Security Engineer
17 11 (2.26%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.16%) CSS
2 27 (5.54%) HTML
3 26 (5.34%) React
4 17 (3.49%) AngularJS
5 16 (3.29%) Node.js
5 16 (3.29%) pytest
6 14 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.87%) Vue
7 12 (2.46%) REST
8 11 (2.26%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.26%) Django
8 11 (2.26%) Spring
8 11 (2.26%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.05%) NumPy
9 10 (2.05%) Pandas
10 9 (1.85%) PySpark
11 8 (1.64%) Flask
11 8 (1.64%) MERN Stack
11 8 (1.64%) OAuth
11 8 (1.64%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 10 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 8 (1.64%) Self-Driving Car
7 7 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.44%) Replication
7 7 (1.44%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.23%) FlexPod
8 6 (1.23%) GNSS
8 6 (1.23%) IoT
8 6 (1.23%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.23%) Satnav
8 6 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
10 4 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 83 (17.04%) Linux
2 41 (8.42%) Windows
3 14 (2.87%) Unix
4 13 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.44%) CentOS
7 2 (0.41%) Solaris
7 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.21%) Debian
8 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (41.89%) AI
2 164 (33.68%) Business Intelligence
3 88 (18.07%) CI/CD
4 85 (17.45%) Software Engineering
5 84 (17.25%) DevOps
6 79 (16.22%) Agile
7 73 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 54 (11.09%) Analytics
10 53 (10.88%) Containerisation
11 50 (10.27%) Machine Learning
12 49 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (9.86%) Mentoring
14 47 (9.65%) Data Science
15 46 (9.45%) Test Automation
16 41 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 28 (5.75%) Visualisation
19 27 (5.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
20 26 (5.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 178 (36.55%) SQL
2 88 (18.07%) JavaScript
3 80 (16.43%) Bash
4 75 (15.40%) Java
5 52 (10.68%) PowerShell
6 36 (7.39%) C++
7 27 (5.54%) C
7 27 (5.54%) R
7 27 (5.54%) TypeScript
8 22 (4.52%) C#
8 22 (4.52%) Go
9 13 (2.67%) MATLAB
10 10 (2.05%) PHP
10 10 (2.05%) Scala
11 6 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.82%) Groovy
12 4 (0.82%) Rust
13 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.62%) Erlang
13 3 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 164 (33.68%) Azure Certification
2 97 (19.92%) Security Cleared
3 67 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 50 (10.27%) Degree
5 31 (6.37%) AWS Certification
6 29 (5.95%) SC Cleared
7 28 (5.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 19 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (2.87%) CREST Certified
10 11 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (2.05%) HND
12 8 (1.64%) CISSP
12 8 (1.64%) SANS
13 6 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.82%) PhD
15 3 (0.62%) CCNP
15 3 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.62%) CITP
16 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.08%) QA
3 9 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.62%) GDPR
5 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.62%) NIST
6 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (14.78%) Docker
2 13 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.64%) Firmware
4 6 (1.23%) vSphere
5 5 (1.03%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.82%) iptables
6 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
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 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 65 (13.35%) Terraform
3 52 (10.68%) Ansible
4 33 (6.78%) Grafana
5 14 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.85%) Kibana
7 8 (1.64%) Argo
7 8 (1.64%) Puppet
8 7 (1.44%) logstash
9 6 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.23%) Rancher
9 6 (1.23%) yum
10 4 (0.82%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.62%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.62%) Nmap
12 2 (0.41%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.41%) Nagios
12 2 (0.41%) SCCM
12 2 (0.41%) SCOM
Vendors
1 179 (36.76%) Microsoft
2 17 (3.49%) Splunk
3 15 (3.08%) Cisco
3 15 (3.08%) Oracle
4 14 (2.87%) VMware
5 12 (2.46%) Databricks
6 10 (2.05%) Fortinet
6 10 (2.05%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.64%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.64%) Google
8 8 (1.64%) SAP
9 5 (1.03%) NetApp
10 4 (0.82%) Typelevel
11 3 (0.62%) Cognos
11 3 (0.62%) Dell
11 3 (0.62%) HP
11 3 (0.62%) Juniper
11 3 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.62%) Veeam