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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 6 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 33 68 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 6.10% 12.85% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.42% 43.04% 37.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12 39 11
10th Percentile £40,193 £35,881 £24,146
25th Percentile £44,231 £42,608 £30,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £38,838
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +80.24% -13.69%
75th Percentile £71,875 £71,250 £50,625
90th Percentile £78,625 £89,000 £55,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +9.09%

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 76 158 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 14.05% 29.87% 27.33%
Number of salaries quoted 41 79 62
10th Percentile £36,750 £32,000 £30,025
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £54,038
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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
Exeter -16 12 £45,000 -33.33% 11
Paignton +4 9 - - 2
Plymouth 0 7 £83,750 - 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
3 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 6 (18.18%) Azure AI
3 6 (18.18%) GitHub
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) 5G
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
1 4 (12.12%) HTTP
1 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
1 4 (12.12%) SMTP
1 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
1 4 (12.12%) WAN
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Power BI
2 6 (18.18%) Tableau
3 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) LabVIEW
3 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (9.09%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) Gatling
5 2 (6.06%) LoadRunner
5 2 (6.06%) Locust
5 2 (6.06%) TestRail
5 2 (6.06%) Zephyr
6 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (3.03%) JUnit
6 1 (3.03%) MLflow
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (9.09%) Military
4 3 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Data Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Junior
3 6 (18.18%) Junior Analyst
3 6 (18.18%) Junior Data Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) Product Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Product Test Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Test Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Verification Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Python Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Verification Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (9.09%) Professional Services Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) pytest
2 2 (6.06%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.03%) Django
3 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.03%) Faiss
3 1 (3.03%) Flask
3 1 (3.03%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.03%) Keras
3 1 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (3.03%) LangChain
3 1 (3.03%) LangGraph
3 1 (3.03%) Metaflow
3 1 (3.03%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
3 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.03%) Spring
3 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) GNSS
1 8 (24.24%) Satnav
2 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (12.12%) Self-Driving Car
4 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.06%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (6.06%) IoT
6 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.03%) CUDA
6 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Unix
3 5 (15.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Test Automation
2 12 (36.36%) B2B
3 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (27.27%) AI
4 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
6 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.15%) DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (15.15%) Mathematics
6 5 (15.15%) Open Source
6 5 (15.15%) Validation
7 4 (12.12%) Open Source Development
8 3 (9.09%) Data Science
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 3 (9.09%) SDLC
8 3 (9.09%) Unit Testing
8 3 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) C++
3 8 (24.24%) MATLAB
4 3 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.06%) C
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
6 1 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (3.03%) Delphi
6 1 (3.03%) Julia
6 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Degree
2 6 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 5 (15.15%) HND
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) iptables
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
4 1 (3.03%) Ansible
4 1 (3.03%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) NVIDIA
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle