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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 37 30
Rank change year-on-year +28 -7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 66 17 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 8.32% 4.44% 5.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 25.76% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 10
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +44.44% +23.29%
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £51,875
90th Percentile £63,250 - £55,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.80% +10.87% -3.40%

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 132 66 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 16.65% 17.23% 29.77%
Number of salaries quoted 67 33 155
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £30,550
25th Percentile £41,925 £44,000 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,375 £70,000 £54,573
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £60,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -4.09%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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
Exeter -1 22 £52,500 -19.23% 20
Plymouth -4 18 £49,650 - 11
Paignton +11 16 - -
Barnstaple - 5 £40,000 - 1
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 28 (42.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) Azure
2 28 (42.42%) Azure AI
2 28 (42.42%) Power Platform
3 13 (19.70%) GitHub
4 11 (16.67%) AWS
5 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.61%) Serverless
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.06%) CloudFront
8 4 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.55%) SaaS
10 2 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.12%) 5G
1 8 (12.12%) SD-WAN
1 8 (12.12%) WAN
2 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 4 (6.06%) HTTP
2 4 (6.06%) Network Security
2 4 (6.06%) SMTP
2 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) Broadband
4 1 (1.52%) 4G
4 1 (1.52%) BGP
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.52%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (42.42%) Power BI
1 28 (42.42%) Tableau
2 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (1.52%) DB2
4 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.52%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Parquet
4 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (30.30%) Git
2 12 (18.18%) LabVIEW
3 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Selenium
6 1 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.52%) Gatling
6 1 (1.52%) JUnit
6 1 (1.52%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.52%) Locust
6 1 (1.52%) TestRail
6 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Electronics
3 8 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) Analyst
2 28 (42.42%) Data Analyst
2 28 (42.42%) Junior
2 28 (42.42%) Junior Analyst
2 28 (42.42%) Junior Data Analyst
3 12 (18.18%) Product Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Product Test Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Verification Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Python Software Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.70%) pytest
2 3 (4.55%) CSS
2 3 (4.55%) Jest
2 3 (4.55%) Node.js
2 3 (4.55%) Sass
2 3 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (4.55%) Vue
3 2 (3.03%) PySpark
4 1 (1.52%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.52%) Flask
4 1 (1.52%) gRPC
4 1 (1.52%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.52%) Jinja
4 1 (1.52%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.52%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.52%) Spring
4 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.52%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (12.12%) GNSS
2 8 (12.12%) Satnav
2 8 (12.12%) Self-Driving Car
3 5 (7.58%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.55%) IoT
5 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.52%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.52%) Social Media
7 1 (1.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Windows
2 12 (18.18%) Unix
3 9 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) AI
1 29 (43.94%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (25.76%) Test Automation
4 16 (24.24%) B2B
5 13 (19.70%) DevOps
6 12 (18.18%) Kalman Filter
6 12 (18.18%) Validation
7 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
9 8 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.12%) Physics
9 8 (12.12%) System Testing
9 8 (12.12%) Test Assurance
9 8 (12.12%) Test Scripting
9 8 (12.12%) Verification and Validation
10 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
11 6 (9.09%) Agile
11 6 (9.09%) Microservices
12 5 (7.58%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) SQL
2 12 (18.18%) MATLAB
3 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.09%) PHP
5 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.06%) Bash
6 4 (6.06%) C++
7 3 (4.55%) Java
7 3 (4.55%) Scala
7 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.03%) Go
9 1 (1.52%) Bicep
9 1 (1.52%) Delphi
9 1 (1.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (42.42%) Azure Certification
2 17 (25.76%) Degree
3 12 (18.18%) HND
4 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) ISO 9001
2 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (15.15%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) iptables
3 3 (4.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Terraform
2 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.58%) Grafana
4 4 (6.06%) Ansible
4 4 (6.06%) Progress Chef
4 4 (6.06%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.06%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) Control-M
Vendors
1 28 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.52%) BMC
2 1 (1.52%) Cisco
2 1 (1.52%) IBM
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle
2 1 (1.52%) Talend
2 1 (1.52%) Typelevel