Python Jobs in the South West

Python
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 897 1,108 1,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.93% 15.34% 14.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.04% 40.65% 29.01%
Number of salaries quoted 588 580 664
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £33,825
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +7.69%

All Programming Languages
South West

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,089 2,726 4,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 34.20% 37.74% 51.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,468 1,777 2,822
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,605 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +6.80% +8.42%
75th Percentile £66,313 £70,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024. 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 -2 354 £55,000 -15.38% 56
Bristol -10 315 £65,000 +4.00% 95
Wiltshire 0 72 £50,000 +9.29% 19
Devon -2 59 £45,000 +23.27% 25
Dorset +21 58 £47,500 -9.52% 16
Somerset -22 25 £51,000 -7.35% 15
Cornwall -8 6 - - 3
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 55 (6.13%) Apache
2 44 (4.91%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.23%) ArcGIS
3 29 (3.23%) GeoServer
4 26 (2.90%) Jupyter
5 19 (2.12%) nginx
6 13 (1.45%) SAS
7 5 (0.56%) Confluence
7 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 2 (0.22%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Luigi
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.67%) Simulink
4 11 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.67%) Trello
7 4 (0.45%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.22%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.22%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.11%) iTrent
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 321 (35.79%) AWS
2 212 (23.63%) Azure
3 108 (12.04%) OpenShift
4 66 (7.36%) GCP
5 48 (5.35%) SaaS
6 33 (3.68%) Power Platform
7 32 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.46%) Serverless
9 28 (3.12%) PaaS
10 23 (2.56%) IaaS
11 22 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.34%) GitHub
13 17 (1.90%) MinIO
14 16 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (1.11%) Amazon EMR
18 7 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 48 (5.35%) DNS
3 43 (4.79%) HTTP
4 42 (4.68%) DHCP
5 35 (3.90%) Firewall
6 21 (2.34%) VSAN
7 18 (2.01%) AMQP
7 18 (2.01%) Internet
8 16 (1.78%) VPN
9 13 (1.45%) Wireless
10 11 (1.23%) Network Security
11 10 (1.11%) WAN
12 8 (0.89%) 5G
12 8 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (0.89%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.67%) IPv4
13 6 (0.67%) SMTP
13 6 (0.67%) VLAN
14 5 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (0.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (10.03%) Big Data
2 59 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (4.79%) Hadoop
4 39 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (4.24%) Tableau
6 34 (3.79%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.68%) Relational Database
8 32 (3.57%) Power BI
9 31 (3.46%) GIS
10 27 (3.01%) QGIS
11 21 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 17 (1.90%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 17 (1.90%) Presto
14 15 (1.67%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
17 11 (1.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 89 (9.92%) Git
2 60 (6.69%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.79%) LabVIEW
4 24 (2.68%) Visual Studio
5 23 (2.56%) JIRA
6 19 (2.12%) Subversion
7 17 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 15 (1.67%) Selenium
9 11 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
10 10 (1.11%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.00%) GitLab
12 8 (0.89%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.67%) Maven
14 5 (0.56%) NetBeans
15 4 (0.45%) Burp Suite
15 4 (0.45%) Gradle
15 4 (0.45%) Metasploit
15 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.45%) Toad
General
1 132 (14.72%) Social Skills
2 122 (13.60%) Finance
3 108 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (9.59%) Aerospace
5 60 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (5.24%) Marketing
7 45 (5.02%) Banking
7 45 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 44 (4.91%) Telecoms
9 32 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (3.34%) Retail
11 26 (2.90%) Law
12 20 (2.23%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.90%) Military
14 16 (1.78%) Legal
15 12 (1.34%) Games
16 10 (1.11%) Electronics
17 9 (1.00%) Advertising
17 9 (1.00%) Automotive
18 8 (0.89%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 243 (27.09%) Software Engineer
2 197 (21.96%) Senior
3 93 (10.37%) Developer
4 80 (8.92%) Data Engineer
5 78 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 61 (6.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (6.58%) Embedded Engineer
7 59 (6.58%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 55 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (5.91%) Data Scientist
10 50 (5.57%) Lead
11 46 (5.13%) Analyst
12 42 (4.68%) Python Engineer
13 40 (4.46%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 38 (4.24%) Software Developer
15 35 (3.90%) Architect
16 34 (3.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 32 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
18 31 (3.46%) Data Analyst
19 30 (3.34%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (13.15%) React
2 51 (5.69%) AngularJS
3 47 (5.24%) .NET
3 47 (5.24%) Spring
4 45 (5.02%) HTML
5 42 (4.68%) Node.js
6 39 (4.35%) CSS
7 38 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
8 32 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 32 (3.57%) Pandas
9 29 (3.23%) PostGIS
10 27 (3.01%) Leaflet
10 27 (3.01%) OpenLayers
10 27 (3.01%) Vue
11 26 (2.90%) REST
11 26 (2.90%) Spring Boot
12 25 (2.79%) Apache NiFi
12 25 (2.79%) Django
12 25 (2.79%) PyTorch
12 25 (2.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (8.25%) Algorithms
2 46 (5.13%) Public Cloud
3 43 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
6 23 (2.56%) Cyberattack
6 23 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.45%) GNSS
8 19 (2.12%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 16 (1.78%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.45%) Verilog
12 12 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
13 11 (1.23%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
15 9 (1.00%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 354 (39.46%) Linux
2 143 (15.94%) Windows
3 94 (10.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (5.69%) Embedded Linux
5 39 (4.35%) Unix
6 32 (3.57%) CentOS
7 25 (2.79%) Debian
7 25 (2.79%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.34%) Windows Server
9 20 (2.23%) Android
10 19 (2.12%) CoreOS
11 9 (1.00%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.45%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.33%) SUSE
13 3 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.33%) VMS
14 2 (0.22%) AIX
14 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (35.56%) Software Engineering
2 256 (28.54%) DevOps
3 248 (27.65%) Agile
4 192 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
5 142 (15.83%) Actionable Insight
6 127 (14.16%) Cybersecurity
7 110 (12.26%) Machine Learning
8 98 (10.93%) Containerisation
9 95 (10.59%) Data Science
10 90 (10.03%) CI/CD
10 90 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 89 (9.92%) Analytics
12 87 (9.70%) Artificial Intelligence
13 84 (9.36%) Configuration Management
14 83 (9.25%) Business Intelligence
15 81 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 80 (8.92%) Computer Science
17 74 (8.25%) Collaborative Working
17 74 (8.25%) Test Automation
18 71 (7.92%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 288 (32.11%) Java
2 252 (28.09%) Bash
3 190 (21.18%) JavaScript
4 165 (18.39%) SQL
5 136 (15.16%) C
6 103 (11.48%) C#
7 92 (10.26%) PowerShell
8 82 (9.14%) C++
9 61 (6.80%) Rust
10 58 (6.47%) Embedded C
11 55 (6.13%) MATLAB
12 40 (4.46%) R
13 38 (4.24%) Go
14 36 (4.01%) TypeScript
15 32 (3.57%) Shell Script
16 26 (2.90%) Perl
17 23 (2.56%) Scala
18 22 (2.45%) PHP
19 17 (1.90%) Ruby
20 14 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 439 (48.94%) Security Cleared
2 221 (24.64%) DV Cleared
3 168 (18.73%) Degree
4 115 (12.82%) SC Cleared
5 37 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.79%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.56%) HND
9 13 (1.45%) HNC
10 12 (1.34%) PhD
11 11 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 10 (1.11%) CCNP
12 10 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.78%) CCNA
13 7 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
14 6 (0.67%) IIBA
15 5 (0.56%) PCI QSA
16 4 (0.45%) CHECK Team Member
16 4 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.90%) QA
2 18 (2.01%) PMO
3 16 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.89%) ISO 9001
5 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.56%) GRC
7 5 (0.56%) TickIT
8 3 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.22%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.22%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.11%) MISRA
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 164 (18.28%) Docker
2 72 (8.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (4.68%) Hyper-V
4 24 (2.68%) Active Directory
5 18 (2.01%) vSphere
6 16 (1.78%) Firmware
7 11 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.45%) KVM
11 3 (0.33%) Ceph
11 3 (0.33%) Gluster
11 3 (0.33%) oVirt
11 3 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 192 (21.40%) Kubernetes
2 182 (20.29%) Ansible
3 123 (13.71%) Puppet
4 99 (11.04%) Terraform
5 30 (3.34%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.90%) vCenter Server
7 22 (2.45%) Grafana
8 17 (1.90%) HAProxy
9 15 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.89%) Kibana
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
11 5 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.56%) Opsview
12 4 (0.45%) Nmap
12 4 (0.45%) Podman
12 4 (0.45%) vRealize
13 3 (0.33%) Graylog
13 3 (0.33%) Observium
13 3 (0.33%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 97 (10.81%) Red Hat
2 92 (10.26%) VMware
3 76 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 44 (4.91%) Oracle
5 42 (4.68%) Google
6 37 (4.12%) Cisco
7 28 (3.12%) ESRI
8 16 (1.78%) Alteryx
8 16 (1.78%) SaltStack
9 13 (1.45%) Databricks
10 11 (1.23%) SAP
11 8 (0.89%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.89%) Teradata
12 7 (0.78%) IBM
13 6 (0.67%) Dataiku
13 6 (0.67%) PagerDuty
13 6 (0.67%) Pega
13 6 (0.67%) UiPath
14 5 (0.56%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.45%) NVIDIA