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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 893 1,032 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.62% 15.29% 15.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.41% 40.65% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 598 551 673
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £33,171
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,400
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.53% +8.31%

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 3,036 2,539 4,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.69% 37.63% 51.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 1,657 2,816
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £67,500
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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -5 332 £55,000 -15.38% 46
Bristol -10 315 £65,000 - 105
Wiltshire -7 71 £50,000 +9.29% 14
Dorset +23 66 £47,500 -11.63% 10
Devon +5 65 £45,000 +17.56% 27
Somerset -22 28 £53,500 -6.14% 21
Cornwall -15 6 - - 2
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 62 (6.94%) Apache
2 49 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.25%) ArcGIS
3 29 (3.25%) GeoServer
4 24 (2.69%) Jupyter
5 19 (2.13%) nginx
6 14 (1.57%) SAS
7 8 (0.90%) Confluence
8 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.34%) CloudStack
11 2 (0.22%) JBoss
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 26 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.68%) 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
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
1 313 (35.05%) AWS
2 208 (23.29%) Azure
3 103 (11.53%) OpenShift
4 65 (7.28%) GCP
5 48 (5.38%) SaaS
6 42 (4.70%) Power Platform
7 36 (4.03%) Amazon S3
8 32 (3.58%) Serverless
9 28 (3.14%) PaaS
10 25 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.46%) IaaS
12 21 (2.35%) GitHub
13 19 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (1.90%) MinIO
15 16 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (1.34%) Snowflake
18 9 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
19 8 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 48 (5.38%) DNS
3 44 (4.93%) HTTP
4 40 (4.48%) DHCP
5 32 (3.58%) Firewall
6 21 (2.35%) AMQP
6 21 (2.35%) VSAN
7 18 (2.02%) Internet
8 15 (1.68%) Network Security
8 15 (1.68%) VPN
9 12 (1.34%) Wireless
10 8 (0.90%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (0.90%) SMTP
11 6 (0.67%) IPv4
12 5 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
12 5 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
12 5 (0.56%) OSPF
12 5 (0.56%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.56%) VLAN
12 5 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.95%) Big Data
2 62 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.15%) Hadoop
4 42 (4.70%) Tableau
5 41 (4.59%) Power BI
6 38 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.58%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.47%) GIS
8 31 (3.47%) Relational Database
9 27 (3.02%) QGIS
10 25 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (2.24%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.90%) Presto
13 15 (1.68%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
14 14 (1.57%) NoSQL
15 11 (1.23%) Data Mining
15 11 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 94 (10.53%) Git
2 67 (7.50%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.02%) JIRA
4 24 (2.69%) Visual Studio
5 22 (2.46%) LabVIEW
6 19 (2.13%) Subversion
7 17 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 14 (1.57%) Selenium
9 12 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.90%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.78%) GitLab
13 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.56%) NetBeans
15 4 (0.45%) Gradle
15 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.45%) Toad
16 3 (0.34%) Android Studio
16 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (15.90%) Social Skills
2 119 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (11.65%) Finance
4 88 (9.85%) Aerospace
5 58 (6.49%) Marketing
6 48 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (5.04%) Telecoms
8 43 (4.82%) Banking
9 42 (4.70%) Public Sector
10 34 (3.81%) Law
11 30 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.69%) Retail
13 21 (2.35%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.90%) Legal
14 17 (1.90%) Military
15 14 (1.57%) Games
16 10 (1.12%) Electronics
16 10 (1.12%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.01%) Advertising
17 9 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 240 (26.88%) Software Engineer
2 207 (23.18%) Senior
3 100 (11.20%) Developer
4 79 (8.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 64 (7.17%) Data Engineer
6 59 (6.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 59 (6.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 59 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 58 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 46 (5.15%) Lead
9 45 (5.04%) Analyst
9 45 (5.04%) Architect
9 45 (5.04%) Data Scientist
10 43 (4.82%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 37 (4.14%) Software Developer
12 35 (3.92%) Python Engineer
12 35 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (3.81%) Consultant
14 31 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
15 30 (3.36%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (13.21%) React
2 54 (6.05%) AngularJS
3 51 (5.71%) .NET
4 46 (5.15%) Node.js
5 42 (4.70%) Spring
6 41 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
7 38 (4.26%) CSS
8 32 (3.58%) .NET Core
9 29 (3.25%) Pandas
9 29 (3.25%) PostGIS
9 29 (3.25%) REST
9 29 (3.25%) Vue
10 27 (3.02%) Leaflet
10 27 (3.02%) OpenLayers
11 25 (2.80%) Apache NiFi
11 25 (2.80%) Spring Boot
11 25 (2.80%) TensorFlow
12 24 (2.69%) Django
12 24 (2.69%) HTML
13 22 (2.46%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.27%) Algorithms
2 50 (5.60%) Cloud Native
3 48 (5.38%) Public Cloud
4 30 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 23 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.46%) GNSS
8 19 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.02%) Onboarding
10 17 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (1.79%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.46%) Verilog
13 12 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
14 11 (1.23%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.23%) Operational Technology
15 10 (1.12%) Fibre Optics
15 10 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (1.01%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 357 (39.98%) Linux
2 138 (15.45%) Windows
3 95 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (5.71%) Embedded Linux
5 37 (4.14%) Unix
6 35 (3.92%) CentOS
7 32 (3.58%) Ubuntu
8 28 (3.14%) Debian
9 20 (2.24%) CoreOS
9 20 (2.24%) Windows Server
10 17 (1.90%) Android
11 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.34%) SUSE
13 3 (0.34%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.34%) VMS
14 2 (0.22%) AIX
14 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.22%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.11%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (34.83%) Software Engineering
2 258 (28.89%) Agile
3 236 (26.43%) DevOps
4 195 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (15.23%) Cybersecurity
6 134 (15.01%) Actionable Insight
7 104 (11.65%) Machine Learning
8 100 (11.20%) Containerisation
9 94 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 92 (10.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 91 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
12 88 (9.85%) Analytics
13 87 (9.74%) Configuration Management
14 85 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence
15 84 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 82 (9.18%) Collaborative Working
17 80 (8.96%) Data Science
18 76 (8.51%) Computer Science
19 69 (7.73%) Test Automation
20 66 (7.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 277 (31.02%) Java
2 251 (28.11%) Bash
3 178 (19.93%) JavaScript
4 177 (19.82%) SQL
5 148 (16.57%) C
6 103 (11.53%) C#
7 89 (9.97%) PowerShell
8 88 (9.85%) C++
9 59 (6.61%) Rust
10 57 (6.38%) Embedded C
11 53 (5.94%) MATLAB
12 36 (4.03%) TypeScript
13 33 (3.70%) Go
13 33 (3.70%) R
13 33 (3.70%) Shell Script
14 30 (3.36%) Scala
15 28 (3.14%) Perl
16 22 (2.46%) PHP
17 16 (1.79%) Ruby
17 16 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 423 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 205 (22.96%) DV Cleared
3 163 (18.25%) Degree
4 123 (13.77%) SC Cleared
5 34 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.25%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.68%) PhD
9 14 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.46%) HNC
11 12 (1.34%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.23%) HND
13 10 (1.12%) CCNP
13 10 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.78%) CCNA
15 6 (0.67%) IIBA
15 6 (0.67%) SANS
16 5 (0.56%) CISSP
16 5 (0.56%) CRISC
16 5 (0.56%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.47%) QA
2 19 (2.13%) PMO
3 17 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.01%) ISO 9001
6 6 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.67%) NIST
6 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.56%) GRC
7 5 (0.56%) TickIT
8 3 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.22%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.22%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 152 (17.02%) Docker
2 75 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.46%) Active Directory
5 18 (2.02%) vSphere
6 17 (1.90%) Firmware
7 15 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.45%) KVM
10 4 (0.45%) NFS
10 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.34%) Ceph
11 3 (0.34%) Gluster
11 3 (0.34%) oVirt
11 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 186 (20.83%) Ansible
2 179 (20.04%) Kubernetes
3 125 (14.00%) Puppet
4 101 (11.31%) Terraform
5 30 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.91%) Grafana
6 26 (2.91%) vCenter Server
7 17 (1.90%) HAProxy
8 15 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.90%) Kibana
10 6 (0.67%) Nagios
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
11 5 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.56%) Opsview
12 4 (0.45%) Podman
12 4 (0.45%) vRealize
13 3 (0.34%) Graylog
13 3 (0.34%) Observium
13 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.22%) Nmap
Vendors
1 99 (11.09%) Red Hat
2 94 (10.53%) VMware
3 80 (8.96%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.04%) Google
5 43 (4.82%) Oracle
6 36 (4.03%) Cisco
7 28 (3.14%) ESRI
8 20 (2.24%) Databricks
9 19 (2.13%) SaltStack
10 17 (1.90%) Alteryx
11 11 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 11 (1.23%) SAP
12 8 (0.90%) Teradata
13 7 (0.78%) IBM
13 7 (0.78%) Pega
13 7 (0.78%) UiPath
14 6 (0.67%) Dataiku
14 6 (0.67%) PagerDuty
15 5 (0.56%) Palo Alto
16 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow