Python Job Trends in Devon

Python
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing Python 42 45 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 6.79% 10.64% 6.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.00% 42.86% 20.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 8
10th Percentile £40,193 £42,500 £26,136
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,608 £32,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.36% +47.37% +30.11%
75th Percentile £61,563 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,875 £90,000 -
South West median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,763
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.61% +2.20%

All Programming Languages
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 100 105 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 16.16% 24.82% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 53 40 122
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £58,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +30.56% +17.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £73,125 £54,000
90th Percentile £69,900 £90,000 £60,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.25% +6.38% +1.41%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Python job vacancy trend in Devon

Python
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Devon over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Devon

Python
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Devon region over the 6 months to 28 January 2026. 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
Paignton +13 16 - -
Plymouth -3 11 £66,350 - 29
Exeter -17 10 £48,750 -4.88% 12
Barnstaple - 2 £42,500 - 3
Python
South West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (19.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) Azure
2 14 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 13 (30.95%) GitHub
4 12 (28.57%) Azure AI
5 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 3 (7.14%) AWS
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) 5G
1 8 (19.05%) SD-WAN
1 8 (19.05%) WAN
2 4 (9.52%) DNS
2 4 (9.52%) HTTP
2 4 (9.52%) SMTP
2 4 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) 4G
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) Broadband
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.38%) Internet
3 1 (2.38%) IOS XR
3 1 (2.38%) MPLS
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) Power BI
2 12 (28.57%) Tableau
3 2 (4.76%) Metadata
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) DB2
4 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.38%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.38%) Parquet
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (45.24%) Git
2 12 (28.57%) LabVIEW
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
5 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.38%) Gatling
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) JUnit
5 1 (2.38%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.38%) Locust
5 1 (2.38%) TestRail
5 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Electronics
3 8 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Analyst
2 13 (30.95%) Data Analyst
3 12 (28.57%) Junior
3 12 (28.57%) Junior Analyst
3 12 (28.57%) Junior Data Analyst
3 12 (28.57%) Product Engineer
3 12 (28.57%) Product Test Engineer
3 12 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 12 (28.57%) Verification Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Senior
5 5 (11.90%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior Verification Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) pytest
2 2 (4.76%) PySpark
3 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.38%) Django
3 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.38%) Faiss
3 1 (2.38%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.38%) Jest
3 1 (2.38%) Jinja
3 1 (2.38%) LangChain
3 1 (2.38%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.38%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.38%) Ollama
3 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.38%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.38%) vLLM
3 1 (2.38%) Vue
3 1 (2.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (19.05%) GNSS
2 8 (19.05%) Satnav
2 8 (19.05%) Self-Driving Car
3 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) CUDA
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (40.48%) Windows
2 12 (28.57%) Unix
3 5 (11.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
1 17 (40.48%) Test Automation
2 16 (38.10%) B2B
3 15 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (33.33%) AI
5 12 (28.57%) Kalman Filter
5 12 (28.57%) Validation
6 8 (19.05%) Physics
6 8 (19.05%) System Testing
6 8 (19.05%) Test Assurance
6 8 (19.05%) Test Scripting
6 8 (19.05%) Verification and Validation
7 6 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (11.90%) Agile
8 5 (11.90%) Mathematics
8 5 (11.90%) Open Source
8 5 (11.90%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) CI/CD
9 4 (9.52%) Open Source Development
10 3 (7.14%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 4 (9.52%) C++
3 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) Java
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) Bicep
5 1 (2.38%) Delphi
5 1 (2.38%) Julia
5 1 (2.38%) PHP
5 1 (2.38%) R
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Degree
2 12 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 12 (28.57%) HND
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
2 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Control-M
4 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) BMC
2 1 (2.38%) Cisco
2 1 (2.38%) IBM
2 1 (2.38%) NVIDIA
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle
2 1 (2.38%) Talend