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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 28 37
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 53 26 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 7.53% 6.65% 4.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.17% 27.96% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 12 5
10th Percentile £38,500 £39,125 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +22.50% +54.19%
75th Percentile £58,375 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,250 - -
South West median annual salary £58,497 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -10.01% +9.20% +0.57%

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 120 93 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 17.05% 23.79% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 65 36 134
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +21.62%
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,125 £54,786
90th Percentile £68,670 £75,000 £61,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -3.83%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +16 16 - -
Plymouth -2 15 £55,200 - 14
Exeter -10 15 £52,500 -8.70% 7
Barnstaple - 3 £40,000 - 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 20 (37.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) Azure
2 20 (37.74%) Azure AI
2 20 (37.74%) Power Platform
3 13 (24.53%) GitHub
4 7 (13.21%) AWS
5 5 (9.43%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (5.66%) CloudFront
7 3 (5.66%) Serverless
7 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) 5G
1 8 (15.09%) SD-WAN
1 8 (15.09%) WAN
2 4 (7.55%) DNS
2 4 (7.55%) HTTP
2 4 (7.55%) SMTP
2 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.66%) Network Security
4 2 (3.77%) Broadband
5 1 (1.89%) 4G
5 1 (1.89%) BGP
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.89%) Internet
5 1 (1.89%) IOS XR
5 1 (1.89%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) Power BI
1 20 (37.74%) Tableau
2 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.77%) Metadata
4 1 (1.89%) DB2
4 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.89%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (1.89%) Parquet
4 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.89%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (37.74%) Git
2 12 (22.64%) LabVIEW
3 5 (9.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.66%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.77%) GitLab
5 2 (3.77%) Selenium
6 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.89%) Gatling
6 1 (1.89%) JUnit
6 1 (1.89%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.89%) Locust
6 1 (1.89%) TestRail
6 1 (1.89%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Electronics
3 8 (15.09%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Data Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Junior
2 20 (37.74%) Junior Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Junior Data Analyst
3 12 (22.64%) Product Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Product Test Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Test Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Verification Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Senior
5 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Python Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Senior Verification Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) pytest
2 2 (3.77%) CSS
2 2 (3.77%) Jest
2 2 (3.77%) Node.js
2 2 (3.77%) PySpark
2 2 (3.77%) Sass
2 2 (3.77%) Tailwind CSS
2 2 (3.77%) Vue
3 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.89%) Django
3 1 (1.89%) Faiss
3 1 (1.89%) Flask
3 1 (1.89%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.89%) Jinja
3 1 (1.89%) LangChain
3 1 (1.89%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.89%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (15.09%) GNSS
2 8 (15.09%) Satnav
2 8 (15.09%) Self-Driving Car
3 3 (5.66%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) CUDA
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Social Media
5 1 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.85%) Windows
2 12 (22.64%) Unix
3 8 (15.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) AI
2 21 (39.62%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
5 16 (30.19%) B2B
6 12 (22.64%) Kalman Filter
6 12 (22.64%) Validation
7 9 (16.98%) DevOps
8 8 (15.09%) Physics
8 8 (15.09%) System Testing
8 8 (15.09%) Test Assurance
8 8 (15.09%) Test Scripting
8 8 (15.09%) Verification and Validation
9 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
9 7 (13.21%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.32%) Agile
10 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
11 5 (9.43%) Open Source
12 4 (7.55%) Mathematics
12 4 (7.55%) Open Source Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (39.62%) SQL
2 12 (22.64%) MATLAB
3 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.55%) C++
4 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.66%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) Java
5 3 (5.66%) Scala
6 2 (3.77%) Go
6 2 (3.77%) PHP
6 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.89%) Bicep
7 1 (1.89%) Delphi
7 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) Azure Certification
2 17 (32.08%) Degree
3 12 (22.64%) HND
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) NCSC
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.32%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) iptables
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Terraform
2 4 (7.55%) Grafana
2 4 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.66%) Ansible
3 3 (5.66%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.66%) Puppet
4 1 (1.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.89%) BMC
2 1 (1.89%) Cisco
2 1 (1.89%) IBM
2 1 (1.89%) NVIDIA
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle
2 1 (1.89%) Talend
2 1 (1.89%) Typelevel