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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 896 1,068 1,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.54% 15.89% 15.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.51% 42.13% 30.51%
Number of salaries quoted 597 555 669
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £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 £76,250 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

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 2,535 4,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.34% 37.71% 51.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,402 1,629 2,812
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% +11.70%
75th Percentile £66,040 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 20 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 20 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 -4 333 £55,000 -15.38% 54
Bristol -10 309 £65,000 - 109
Wiltshire -4 72 £50,000 - 20
Dorset +16 68 £47,500 -9.52% 16
Devon +7 65 £45,000 +17.56% 26
Somerset -19 28 £55,000 -3.08% 22
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 63 (7.03%) Apache
2 51 (5.69%) Apache Spark
3 29 (3.24%) ArcGIS
3 29 (3.24%) GeoServer
4 25 (2.79%) Jupyter
5 21 (2.34%) nginx
6 14 (1.56%) SAS
7 8 (0.89%) 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 (0.33%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.33%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 25 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
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
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.11%) iTrent
2 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 313 (34.93%) AWS
2 210 (23.44%) Azure
3 106 (11.83%) OpenShift
4 66 (7.37%) GCP
5 49 (5.47%) SaaS
6 43 (4.80%) Power Platform
7 35 (3.91%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.46%) Serverless
9 28 (3.13%) PaaS
10 24 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.46%) GitHub
11 22 (2.46%) IaaS
12 20 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.01%) MinIO
14 17 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (1.23%) Snowflake
18 9 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
19 7 (0.78%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.69%) TCP/IP
2 49 (5.47%) DNS
3 45 (5.02%) HTTP
4 41 (4.58%) DHCP
5 32 (3.57%) Firewall
6 22 (2.46%) AMQP
7 21 (2.34%) VSAN
8 18 (2.01%) Internet
9 15 (1.67%) Network Security
9 15 (1.67%) VPN
10 12 (1.34%) Wireless
11 8 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.89%) SMTP
12 6 (0.67%) IPv4
13 5 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
13 5 (0.56%) Cisco Wireless
13 5 (0.56%) OSPF
13 5 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
13 5 (0.56%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (8.15%) Big Data
2 61 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (5.25%) Hadoop
4 42 (4.69%) Power BI
4 42 (4.69%) Tableau
5 37 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 31 (3.46%) GIS
7 31 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.01%) QGIS
9 24 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.23%) Data Lake
11 18 (2.01%) Presto
12 16 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
12 16 (1.79%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.56%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.34%) NoSQL
15 11 (1.23%) Data Mining
15 11 (1.23%) SQLite
16 10 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 94 (10.49%) Git
2 69 (7.70%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.01%) JIRA
4 25 (2.79%) Visual Studio
5 21 (2.34%) LabVIEW
6 20 (2.23%) Subversion
7 18 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 15 (1.67%) Selenium
9 12 (1.34%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
11 8 (0.89%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.78%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.67%) GitLab
14 5 (0.56%) NetBeans
15 4 (0.45%) Gradle
15 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 4 (0.45%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.45%) Toad
16 3 (0.33%) Android Studio
General
1 145 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 120 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (11.61%) Finance
4 93 (10.38%) Aerospace
5 60 (6.70%) Marketing
6 46 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 46 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 42 (4.69%) Banking
8 41 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.79%) Law
10 29 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.68%) Retail
12 23 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.90%) Legal
13 17 (1.90%) Military
14 14 (1.56%) Games
15 10 (1.12%) Electronics
15 10 (1.12%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.00%) Advertising
16 9 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 248 (27.68%) Software Engineer
2 213 (23.77%) Senior
3 96 (10.71%) Developer
4 82 (9.15%) Senior Software Engineer
5 61 (6.81%) Data Engineer
6 60 (6.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 58 (6.47%) Embedded Engineer
8 58 (6.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 47 (5.25%) Lead
10 46 (5.13%) Architect
10 46 (5.13%) Data Scientist
10 46 (5.13%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 45 (5.02%) Analyst
12 37 (4.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.02%) Software Developer
14 35 (3.91%) Consultant
14 35 (3.91%) Python Engineer
15 31 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
16 30 (3.35%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (13.17%) React
2 53 (5.92%) AngularJS
3 50 (5.58%) .NET
4 49 (5.47%) Node.js
5 43 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
6 41 (4.58%) Spring
7 39 (4.35%) CSS
8 32 (3.57%) REST
9 31 (3.46%) .NET Core
10 30 (3.35%) Vue
11 29 (3.24%) Pandas
12 28 (3.13%) PostGIS
13 27 (3.01%) Leaflet
13 27 (3.01%) OpenLayers
14 26 (2.90%) Apache NiFi
14 26 (2.90%) Django
14 26 (2.90%) TensorFlow
15 25 (2.79%) HTML
15 25 (2.79%) Spring Boot
16 23 (2.57%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.36%) Algorithms
2 50 (5.58%) Cloud Native
3 47 (5.25%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
6 22 (2.46%) GNSS
7 19 (2.12%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 18 (2.01%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.45%) Verilog
11 12 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.23%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.23%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.12%) Fibre Optics
13 10 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.00%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 360 (40.18%) Linux
2 140 (15.63%) Windows
3 96 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 51 (5.69%) Embedded Linux
5 35 (3.91%) CentOS
5 35 (3.91%) Unix
6 33 (3.68%) Ubuntu
7 30 (3.35%) Debian
8 19 (2.12%) CoreOS
8 19 (2.12%) Windows Server
9 17 (1.90%) Android
10 6 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.33%) SUSE
12 3 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.33%) VMS
13 2 (0.22%) AIX
13 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.22%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (35.71%) Software Engineering
2 266 (29.69%) Agile
3 234 (26.12%) DevOps
4 195 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
5 136 (15.18%) Cybersecurity
6 128 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
7 105 (11.72%) Machine Learning
8 103 (11.50%) Containerisation
9 96 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 95 (10.60%) CI/CD
11 92 (10.27%) Business Intelligence
12 90 (10.04%) Collaborative Working
13 89 (9.93%) Configuration Management
14 85 (9.49%) Analytics
15 84 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 83 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
17 82 (9.15%) Data Science
18 78 (8.71%) Computer Science
19 67 (7.48%) Test Automation
20 65 (7.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 276 (30.80%) Java
2 253 (28.24%) Bash
3 179 (19.98%) JavaScript
4 170 (18.97%) SQL
5 149 (16.63%) C
6 104 (11.61%) C#
7 89 (9.93%) PowerShell
8 88 (9.82%) C++
9 59 (6.58%) Rust
10 57 (6.36%) Embedded C
11 53 (5.92%) MATLAB
12 36 (4.02%) TypeScript
13 34 (3.79%) Shell Script
14 33 (3.68%) Go
14 33 (3.68%) R
15 30 (3.35%) Perl
16 29 (3.24%) Scala
17 22 (2.46%) PHP
18 16 (1.79%) Ruby
18 16 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 428 (47.77%) Security Cleared
2 211 (23.55%) DV Cleared
3 165 (18.42%) Degree
4 126 (14.06%) SC Cleared
5 35 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.24%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.67%) PhD
9 14 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.56%) ISTQB
10 13 (1.45%) HNC
11 10 (1.12%) CCNP
11 10 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.12%) HND
12 7 (0.78%) CCNA
13 6 (0.67%) IIBA
13 6 (0.67%) SANS
14 5 (0.56%) CISA
14 5 (0.56%) CRISC
14 5 (0.56%) PCI QSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.24%) QA
2 20 (2.23%) PMO
3 17 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.00%) 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 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.22%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.11%) DO-178B
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 155 (17.30%) Docker
2 76 (8.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (4.69%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.23%) Active Directory
5 18 (2.01%) vSphere
6 17 (1.90%) Firmware
7 15 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.45%) KVM
10 4 (0.45%) NFS
10 4 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.33%) Ceph
11 3 (0.33%) Gluster
11 3 (0.33%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 189 (21.09%) Ansible
2 183 (20.42%) Kubernetes
3 127 (14.17%) Puppet
4 104 (11.61%) Terraform
5 31 (3.46%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.13%) Grafana
7 26 (2.90%) vCenter Server
8 18 (2.01%) HAProxy
9 16 (1.79%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.89%) Kibana
11 7 (0.78%) Nagios
12 5 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.56%) Opsview
13 4 (0.45%) Podman
13 4 (0.45%) vRealize
14 3 (0.33%) Graylog
14 3 (0.33%) Observium
14 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (11.16%) Red Hat
2 94 (10.49%) VMware
3 83 (9.26%) Microsoft
4 45 (5.02%) Google
5 41 (4.58%) Oracle
6 35 (3.91%) Cisco
7 28 (3.13%) ESRI
8 20 (2.23%) SaltStack
9 19 (2.12%) Databricks
10 17 (1.90%) Alteryx
11 12 (1.34%) Atlassian
12 11 (1.23%) SAP
13 8 (0.89%) Teradata
14 7 (0.78%) IBM
14 7 (0.78%) Pega
14 7 (0.78%) UiPath
15 6 (0.67%) Dataiku
15 6 (0.67%) PagerDuty
16 5 (0.56%) Palo Alto
17 4 (0.45%) NVIDIA