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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 303 401 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 6.05% 9.25% 12.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.92% 28.62% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 190 241 354
10th Percentile £29,150 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £46,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £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 759 1,401 1,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 15.15% 32.30% 40.46%
Number of salaries quoted 563 767 1,425
10th Percentile £30,282 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,875 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 -8 115 £57,500 -17.86% 69
Gloucestershire +13 81 £67,500 +3.85% 58
Devon -5 38 £45,000 -35.71% 13
Wiltshire -9 19 £36,000 -15.29% 18
Somerset -11 19 £72,500 +31.82% 14
Dorset -5 17 £101,250 +102.50% 14
Cornwall -12 6 £55,000 -8.33% 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 13 (4.29%) Apache
2 10 (3.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.33%) JBoss
4 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (15.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.33%) Weka
3 1 (0.33%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 133 (43.89%) Azure
2 111 (36.63%) AWS
3 56 (18.48%) Power Platform
4 49 (16.17%) GitHub
5 35 (11.55%) Azure AI
6 21 (6.93%) Amazon S3
7 19 (6.27%) Serverless
8 17 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (5.28%) GCP
10 14 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (4.29%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
15 3 (0.99%) Google Workspace
15 3 (0.99%) SaaS
15 3 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.26%) Internet
2 15 (4.95%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.96%) DNS
4 11 (3.63%) WAN
5 10 (3.30%) Firewall
6 8 (2.64%) SD-WAN
7 7 (2.31%) 5G
8 6 (1.98%) HTTP
8 6 (1.98%) LAN
9 5 (1.65%) DHCP
9 5 (1.65%) Network Security
9 5 (1.65%) VPN
9 5 (1.65%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.32%) Ethernet
10 4 (1.32%) SMTP
10 4 (1.32%) VSAN
10 4 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.99%) BGP
11 3 (0.99%) MPLS
11 3 (0.99%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.48%) Power BI
2 47 (15.51%) Tableau
3 13 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (4.29%) MongoDB
4 12 (3.96%) NoSQL
4 12 (3.96%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.30%) MySQL
7 7 (2.31%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.31%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.98%) Big Data
9 4 (1.32%) CockroachDB
9 4 (1.32%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.99%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.99%) Metadata
10 3 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (23.10%) Git
2 31 (10.23%) Jenkins
3 20 (6.60%) GitLab
4 14 (4.62%) JUnit
5 11 (3.63%) JIRA
6 9 (2.97%) Cypress.io
6 9 (2.97%) LabVIEW
7 7 (2.31%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.31%) Selenium
8 4 (1.32%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.32%) IDA Disassembler
8 4 (1.32%) Postman
8 4 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.32%) TestNG
8 4 (1.32%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.99%) Balsamiq
9 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.99%) Subversion
10 2 (0.66%) Maven
General
1 87 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (14.52%) Finance
4 23 (7.59%) Electronics
5 20 (6.60%) Multimedia
6 17 (5.61%) Manufacturing
7 16 (5.28%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.62%) Marketing
9 12 (3.96%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.64%) Law
11 8 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.98%) Retail
13 5 (1.65%) Avionics
13 5 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.32%) Military
15 3 (0.99%) Aeronautics
15 3 (0.99%) Aviation
15 3 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (19.80%) Analyst
2 49 (16.17%) Data Analyst
3 38 (12.54%) Software Engineer
4 37 (12.21%) Junior
5 35 (11.55%) Junior Analyst
5 35 (11.55%) Junior Data Analyst
6 30 (9.90%) Senior
7 27 (8.91%) Developer
7 27 (8.91%) Trainee
8 19 (6.27%) Data Engineer
9 15 (4.95%) Test Engineer
10 13 (4.29%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.63%) Lead
11 11 (3.63%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.30%) Product Engineer
12 10 (3.30%) Python Software Engineer
12 10 (3.30%) Security Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) Product Test Engineer
13 9 (2.97%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.91%) React
2 26 (8.58%) HTML
3 25 (8.25%) CSS
4 13 (4.29%) AngularJS
5 12 (3.96%) pytest
6 11 (3.63%) PySpark
7 10 (3.30%) Spring
7 10 (3.30%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.97%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (2.97%) REST
9 7 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.98%) MERN Stack
11 5 (1.65%) Hibernate
11 5 (1.65%) JSF
11 5 (1.65%) Kafka
11 5 (1.65%) Pandas
11 5 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (1.32%) PrimeFaces
12 4 (1.32%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (3.96%) Algorithms
2 12 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.30%) IoT
5 8 (2.64%) GNSS
5 8 (2.64%) Satnav
6 7 (2.31%) Embedded Systems
6 7 (2.31%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.65%) Self-Driving Car
9 4 (1.32%) Analogue Electronics
9 4 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.32%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 62 (20.46%) Linux
2 29 (9.57%) Windows
3 15 (4.95%) Unix
4 11 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.98%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.65%) CentOS
7 5 (1.65%) Debian
8 3 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.66%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.66%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (24.42%) AI
2 69 (22.77%) Business Intelligence
3 65 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (20.46%) Software Engineering
5 60 (19.80%) DevOps
6 59 (19.47%) Agile
7 58 (19.14%) CI/CD
8 48 (15.84%) Analytics
9 39 (12.87%) Mentoring
10 34 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (11.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (10.89%) Test Automation
12 31 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (10.23%) Machine Learning
13 30 (9.90%) Containerisation
14 28 (9.24%) Data Science
15 27 (8.91%) Data Analysis
16 23 (7.59%) ETL
16 23 (7.59%) Project Management
16 23 (7.59%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 102 (33.66%) SQL
2 64 (21.12%) Java
2 64 (21.12%) JavaScript
3 50 (16.50%) Bash
4 34 (11.22%) PowerShell
5 33 (10.89%) C
5 33 (10.89%) C++
6 27 (8.91%) R
7 21 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 19 (6.27%) C#
9 14 (4.62%) MATLAB
10 12 (3.96%) Go
11 6 (1.98%) Bicep
12 4 (1.32%) Embedded C
12 4 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.99%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.99%) Tcl
13 3 (0.99%) VBA
13 3 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 81 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 58 (19.14%) Azure Certification
3 51 (16.83%) Degree
4 48 (15.84%) DV Cleared
5 44 (14.52%) SC Cleared
6 24 (7.92%) AWS Certification
7 20 (6.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 20 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.63%) CREST Certified
9 9 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.97%) HND
10 8 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.98%) CISSP
11 6 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.98%) SANS
12 5 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.99%) CCNP
13 3 (0.99%) CITP
14 2 (0.66%) CCNA
14 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.97%) QA
3 7 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.33%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (14.52%) Docker
2 6 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.98%) Firmware
3 5 (1.65%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Ceph
6 1 (0.33%) iptables
6 1 (0.33%) KVM
6 1 (0.33%) Lustre
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (17.49%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.88%) Terraform
3 31 (10.23%) Ansible
4 12 (3.96%) Grafana
5 9 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.31%) Kibana
7 5 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.32%) Argo
9 3 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.99%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.99%) Puppet
9 3 (0.99%) Rancher
9 3 (0.99%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.99%) yum
10 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.66%) Nagios
10 2 (0.66%) Nmap
11 1 (0.33%) Control-M
11 1 (0.33%) Nessus
11 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 78 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.94%) Oracle
3 16 (5.28%) Google
4 11 (3.63%) Red Hat
5 10 (3.30%) Databricks
6 7 (2.31%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.31%) SAP
6 7 (2.31%) Splunk
7 6 (1.98%) Cisco
7 6 (1.98%) VMware
8 4 (1.32%) EMC
8 4 (1.32%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.99%) McAfee
10 2 (0.66%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.66%) Palantir
10 2 (0.66%) Talend
11 1 (0.33%) Foundry
11 1 (0.33%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.33%) Zoho