Python Jobs in the South West

Python
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 14 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 266 889 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.42% 9.61% 15.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.88% 29.36% 41.20%
Number of salaries quoted 176 594 540
10th Percentile £37,537 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +4.17%

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 1,069 3,028 2,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.81% 32.72% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 788 2,400 1,622
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% -7.69% +4.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the South West.

Salary trend for Python in the South West

Python
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 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 16 May 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 -11 100 £67,500 +3.85% 155
Gloucestershire -7 83 £60,000 +9.09% 143
Wiltshire 0 24 £51,600 +3.20% 18
Devon -14 22 £46,250 +2.78% 28
Dorset +6 18 £47,500 - 8
Somerset -2 16 £57,500 +7.48% 24
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.52%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.63%) Apache
3 6 (2.26%) Confluence
3 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.50%) SAS
5 3 (1.13%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.75%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.38%) Drupal
7 1 (0.38%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.38%) Luigi
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.50%) SOLIDWORKS
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 81 (30.45%) AWS
2 71 (26.69%) Azure
3 38 (14.29%) GCP
4 21 (7.89%) GitHub
5 19 (7.14%) Serverless
6 18 (6.77%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (2.63%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.63%) Pulumi
10 7 (2.63%) SaaS
11 6 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.88%) Snowflake
13 4 (1.50%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (1.50%) Vertex AI
14 3 (1.13%) IaaS
14 3 (1.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.89%) Broadband
2 10 (3.76%) VPN
3 9 (3.38%) WAN
4 7 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 6 (2.26%) 5G
6 5 (1.88%) DNS
6 5 (1.88%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.50%) Firewall
7 4 (1.50%) IPv4
7 4 (1.50%) OSPF
8 3 (1.13%) Ethernet
8 3 (1.13%) Internet
8 3 (1.13%) LAN
8 3 (1.13%) VLAN
8 3 (1.13%) Wireless
9 2 (0.75%) BGP
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.75%) DHCP
9 2 (0.75%) Network Security
10 1 (0.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.52%) Big Data
2 17 (6.39%) Power BI
2 17 (6.39%) Relational Database
3 15 (5.64%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.38%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.38%) Tableau
6 8 (3.01%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.63%) MySQL
8 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.88%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.50%) Redis
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.13%) Qlik Sense
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.75%) SQLite
12 2 (0.75%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 40 (15.04%) Git
2 16 (6.02%) GitLab
3 12 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.51%) JIRA
4 9 (3.38%) LabVIEW
5 6 (2.26%) Eclipse
5 6 (2.26%) Eclipse RCP
5 6 (2.26%) Jaeger
5 6 (2.26%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.88%) Subversion
7 4 (1.50%) JUnit
8 3 (1.13%) Appium
8 3 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.13%) Selenium
9 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.75%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.75%) Maven
9 2 (0.75%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 74 (27.82%) Finance
2 64 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (19.17%) Social Skills
4 41 (15.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (10.90%) Banking
6 18 (6.77%) Retail
7 14 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.51%) Marketing
8 12 (4.51%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.51%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.14%) Manufacturing
10 10 (3.76%) Electronics
11 8 (3.01%) Aerospace
11 8 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.01%) Legal
12 4 (1.50%) Military
12 4 (1.50%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.75%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (30.83%) Senior
2 60 (22.56%) Software Engineer
3 34 (12.78%) Data Scientist
3 34 (12.78%) Lead
4 30 (11.28%) Developer
5 28 (10.53%) Senior Data Scientist
6 22 (8.27%) Test Engineer
7 21 (7.89%) Senior Software Engineer
8 18 (6.77%) Analyst
9 12 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 9 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (3.38%) Senior Developer
11 9 (3.38%) Software Developer
11 9 (3.38%) Team Leader
12 7 (2.63%) Junior
12 7 (2.63%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (2.63%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.65%) React
2 21 (7.89%) HTML
3 18 (6.77%) Node.js
4 15 (5.64%) CSS
5 10 (3.76%) RESTful
6 9 (3.38%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.38%) Django
6 9 (3.38%) pytest
7 8 (3.01%) Pandas
7 8 (3.01%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (2.26%) .NET
9 6 (2.26%) GraphQL
9 6 (2.26%) Hibernate
9 6 (2.26%) JSP
9 6 (2.26%) Middleware
9 6 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (1.88%) Flask
10 5 (1.88%) Spring
10 5 (1.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.90%) Algorithms
2 24 (9.02%) Cyberattack
3 17 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.14%) Reinsurance
5 9 (3.38%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.01%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.63%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.26%) Self-Driving Car
9 5 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.50%) Analogue Electronics
10 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.50%) CUDA
10 4 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.50%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.81%) Linux
2 37 (13.91%) Windows
3 14 (5.26%) Unix
4 10 (3.76%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.26%) Android
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.60%) Software Engineering
2 87 (32.71%) DevOps
3 81 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (29.32%) Mentoring
5 72 (27.07%) Agile
6 71 (26.69%) Data Science
7 62 (23.31%) CI/CD
8 61 (22.93%) Machine Learning
9 59 (22.18%) Artificial Intelligence
10 56 (21.05%) Mathematics
11 49 (18.42%) Computer Science
12 45 (16.92%) Test Automation
13 41 (15.41%) Analytics
14 36 (13.53%) Containerisation
15 35 (13.16%) Decision-Making
15 35 (13.16%) Software Testing
16 32 (12.03%) Business Intelligence
16 32 (12.03%) Statistics
16 32 (12.03%) Visualisation
17 31 (11.65%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 102 (38.35%) Java
2 80 (30.08%) JavaScript
3 63 (23.68%) SQL
4 41 (15.41%) Bash
5 28 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 27 (10.15%) C++
7 26 (9.77%) TypeScript
8 21 (7.89%) R
9 20 (7.52%) C#
10 19 (7.14%) Go
11 18 (6.77%) C
12 13 (4.89%) PHP
12 13 (4.89%) Rust
13 8 (3.01%) MATLAB
14 6 (2.26%) Embedded C
15 5 (1.88%) Julia
15 5 (1.88%) Perl
16 4 (1.50%) Bicep
16 4 (1.50%) Kotlin
17 3 (1.13%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 94 (35.34%) Degree
2 80 (30.08%) Security Cleared
3 53 (19.92%) DV Cleared
4 29 (10.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (6.39%) PhD
5 17 (6.39%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (4.89%) AWS Certification
8 12 (4.51%) Master's Degree
9 10 (3.76%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.50%) HND
12 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.75%) CHECK Team Member
12 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.75%) PMP
12 2 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.01%) QA
2 7 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.88%) GDPR
4 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.13%) SLA
6 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 72 (27.07%) Docker
2 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.88%) Firmware
4 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.50%) vSphere
5 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 32 (12.03%) Terraform
3 29 (10.90%) Ansible
4 13 (4.89%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.63%) Grafana
6 6 (2.26%) Argo
6 6 (2.26%) Kustomize
7 5 (1.88%) Puppet
8 4 (1.50%) Kibana
8 4 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.75%) Istio
9 2 (0.75%) Nmap
10 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.38%) Nagios
10 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.65%) Google
3 15 (5.64%) Databricks
4 8 (3.01%) VMware
5 7 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 7 (2.63%) Oracle
6 6 (2.26%) F5
7 5 (1.88%) SAP
8 4 (1.50%) Cisco
9 3 (1.13%) Graphcore
9 3 (1.13%) IBM
9 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.13%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.13%) Splunk
9 3 (1.13%) Veeam
10 2 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.75%) EMC
10 2 (0.75%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (0.75%) Talend
10 2 (0.75%) Zscaler