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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 518 243 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.79% 9.11% 9.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.68% 29.07% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 225 166 598
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,938
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% -6.04%

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 1,134 836 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.87% 31.33% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 704 598 2,393
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 13 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 13 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 0 150 £60,000 - 49
Bristol +4 143 £60,000 -11.11% 72
Devon +30 103 £50,000 +8.11% 24
Somerset +13 60 £47,500 -17.39% 23
Dorset +5 38 £50,000 +8.11% 12
Wiltshire -22 9 £75,000 +45.35% 28
Cornwall - 9 £52,246 - 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 (3.28%) Apache
2 14 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.97%) Confluence
6 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 152 (29.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.16%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 284 (54.83%) Azure
2 186 (35.91%) Azure AI
3 174 (33.59%) Power Platform
4 136 (26.25%) AWS
5 43 (8.30%) GCP
6 40 (7.72%) GitHub
7 28 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.21%) Serverless
9 25 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (2.12%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.54%) dbt
14 8 (1.54%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.35%) Datadog
15 7 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.86%) WAN
2 17 (3.28%) Firewall
3 12 (2.32%) Internet
3 12 (2.32%) LAN
4 11 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
4 11 (2.12%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.93%) Broadband
5 10 (1.93%) DNS
5 10 (1.93%) SD-WAN
5 10 (1.93%) VLAN
6 9 (1.74%) 5G
6 9 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (1.74%) Unified Communications
6 9 (1.74%) WebEx
7 7 (1.35%) DHCP
7 7 (1.35%) Network Security
8 3 (0.58%) HTTP
8 3 (0.58%) MPLS
8 3 (0.58%) SMTP
8 3 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (32.63%) Power BI
2 154 (29.73%) Tableau
3 21 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.51%) Big Data
7 13 (2.51%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.32%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.93%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.74%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.35%) MySQL
12 6 (1.16%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.16%) Neo4j
12 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.97%) Data Vault
13 5 (0.97%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 66 (12.74%) Git
2 49 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.21%) GitLab
4 12 (2.32%) Bitbucket
5 11 (2.12%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.93%) JIRA
7 9 (1.74%) JUnit
7 9 (1.74%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.54%) LabVIEW
8 8 (1.54%) Selenium
8 8 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
9 7 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.35%) Subversion
10 5 (0.97%) TestRail
11 4 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.77%) TestNG
12 2 (0.39%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.39%) Mockito
12 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 236 (45.56%) Social Skills
2 50 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (9.27%) Finance
4 30 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.25%) Aerospace
6 18 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 17 (3.28%) Electronics
7 17 (3.28%) Marketing
8 15 (2.90%) Retail
9 13 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.32%) Banking
10 12 (2.32%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.32%) Multimedia
11 11 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.74%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.77%) Aviation
13 4 (0.77%) Avionics
13 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Law
14 3 (0.58%) Games
Job Titles
1 161 (31.08%) Analyst
2 152 (29.34%) Data Analyst
3 144 (27.80%) Junior
3 144 (27.80%) Junior Analyst
3 144 (27.80%) Junior Data Analyst
4 55 (10.62%) Software Engineer
5 52 (10.04%) Developer
6 42 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 36 (6.95%) Senior
8 35 (6.76%) Data Engineer
9 24 (4.63%) Python Developer
10 23 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (4.44%) Trainee
11 19 (3.67%) Data Scientist
12 18 (3.47%) Lead
12 18 (3.47%) Python Engineer
13 16 (3.09%) Test Engineer
14 15 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
15 12 (2.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 11 (2.12%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.05%) CSS
2 20 (3.86%) React
3 18 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (3.47%) Node.js
4 17 (3.28%) HTML
4 17 (3.28%) Vue
5 15 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 14 (2.70%) pytest
7 13 (2.51%) REST
8 11 (2.12%) Apache NiFi
9 10 (1.93%) Django
9 10 (1.93%) NumPy
9 10 (1.93%) Pandas
9 10 (1.93%) Spring
9 10 (1.93%) Spring Boot
10 9 (1.74%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.74%) XMPP
11 8 (1.54%) OAuth
11 8 (1.54%) PySpark
12 7 (1.35%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.44%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.47%) Algorithms
3 15 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.74%) FlexPod
7 9 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.54%) Self-Driving Car
9 7 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.35%) Replication
10 6 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.16%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
11 5 (0.97%) Over-the-Top Content
12 4 (0.77%) CUDA
13 3 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.25%) Linux
2 41 (7.92%) Windows
3 14 (2.70%) Unix
4 13 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.35%) CentOS
6 6 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Debian
7 2 (0.39%) Solaris
7 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.19%) ThreadX
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (48.07%) AI
2 195 (37.64%) Business Intelligence
3 92 (17.76%) CI/CD
4 88 (16.99%) DevOps
5 86 (16.60%) Software Engineering
6 78 (15.06%) Agile
7 62 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (10.23%) Analytics
10 52 (10.04%) Containerisation
10 52 (10.04%) Test Automation
11 48 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 45 (8.69%) Data Science
13 42 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (8.11%) Machine Learning
14 40 (7.72%) Mentoring
15 34 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 32 (6.18%) Cybersecurity
17 29 (5.60%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (5.60%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 204 (39.38%) SQL
2 79 (15.25%) JavaScript
3 77 (14.86%) Java
4 76 (14.67%) Bash
5 45 (8.69%) PowerShell
6 38 (7.34%) C++
7 28 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 25 (4.83%) Go
9 24 (4.63%) C#
10 23 (4.44%) R
11 19 (3.67%) C
12 12 (2.32%) PHP
13 10 (1.93%) Scala
14 9 (1.74%) MATLAB
15 7 (1.35%) Rust
16 5 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.77%) Groovy
18 3 (0.58%) Elixir
18 3 (0.58%) Erlang
18 3 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 198 (38.22%) Azure Certification
2 93 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 62 (11.97%) DV Cleared
4 39 (7.53%) Degree
5 28 (5.41%) SC Cleared
6 24 (4.63%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 13 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (1.54%) HND
11 7 (1.35%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.97%) CISSP
12 5 (0.97%) SANS
13 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.77%) PhD
14 2 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
15 1 (0.19%) CCNA
15 1 (0.19%) CCNP
15 1 (0.19%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.47%) QA
3 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.97%) GDPR
6 3 (0.58%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.58%) NIST
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 69 (13.32%) Docker
2 16 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.12%) Firmware
4 7 (1.35%) vSphere
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.77%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.77%) iptables
8 2 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.19%) Squid
9 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 67 (12.93%) Terraform
3 59 (11.39%) Ansible
4 41 (7.92%) Grafana
5 17 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 13 (2.51%) Puppet
7 11 (2.12%) Kibana
8 10 (1.93%) logstash
9 9 (1.74%) Argo
9 9 (1.74%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (1.54%) Rancher
11 7 (1.35%) yum
12 6 (1.16%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.58%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.58%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.58%) SCCM
14 3 (0.58%) SCOM
14 3 (0.58%) SCOrch
15 2 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 199 (38.42%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.05%) Splunk
3 17 (3.28%) Cisco
3 17 (3.28%) VMware
4 15 (2.90%) Databricks
5 12 (2.32%) Oracle
6 11 (2.12%) Fortinet
6 11 (2.12%) Palo Alto
6 11 (2.12%) Red Hat
7 8 (1.54%) Google
8 7 (1.35%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.16%) NetApp
10 5 (0.97%) Cognos
10 5 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (0.97%) SAP
11 4 (0.77%) Typelevel
12 3 (0.58%) Dell
12 3 (0.58%) HP
12 3 (0.58%) Juniper
12 3 (0.58%) Veeam