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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 95 21 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 9.78% 5.59% 6.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.53% 37.50% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 36 11 25
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £44,575 £43,125 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% +17.56%
75th Percentile £60,625 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £81,250 - £64,494
South West median annual salary £58,497 £57,471 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.78% -0.91% -3.33%

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 188 56 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 19.36% 14.89% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 122 39 192
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,725 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £40,603
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +29.30% +11.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £61,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +9 43 £57,500 +9.52% 6
Plymouth - 25 £41,000 - 6
Barnstaple - 12 £47,500 -
Paignton +2 10 - -
Newton Abbot - 1 £50,000 -
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 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 35 (36.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (62.11%) Azure
2 44 (46.32%) Azure AI
3 43 (45.26%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.53%) AWS
4 10 (10.53%) GitHub
4 10 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (7.37%) Serverless
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.21%) CloudFront
6 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.16%) SaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.05%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.53%) 5G
1 10 (10.53%) SD-WAN
1 10 (10.53%) WAN
2 4 (4.21%) Network Security
3 2 (2.11%) Broadband
4 1 (1.05%) 4G
4 1 (1.05%) BGP
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.05%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.05%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.05%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.05%) Modbus
4 1 (1.05%) MPLS
4 1 (1.05%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.79%) Power BI
2 32 (33.68%) Tableau
3 7 (7.37%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.16%) Big Data
4 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.05%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) LabVIEW
3 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.05%) GitLab
General
1 53 (55.79%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Electronics
3 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.05%) Finance
6 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Analyst
2 32 (33.68%) Data Analyst
2 32 (33.68%) Junior
2 32 (33.68%) Junior Analyst
2 32 (33.68%) Junior Data Analyst
3 12 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 12 (12.63%) Developer
3 12 (12.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 10 (10.53%) JavaScript Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Product Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) Product Test Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) Python Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 10 (10.53%) Verification Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Architect
5 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 9 (9.47%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) pytest
2 5 (5.26%) CSS
2 5 (5.26%) Jest
2 5 (5.26%) Node.js
2 5 (5.26%) Sass
2 5 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
2 5 (5.26%) Vue
3 2 (2.11%) PySpark
4 1 (1.05%) gRPC
4 1 (1.05%) Jinja
4 1 (1.05%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.05%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (10.53%) Self-Driving Car
3 7 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.16%) IoT
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Over-the-Top Content
7 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Social Media
7 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.74%) Windows
2 10 (10.53%) Unix
3 5 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) AI
2 34 (35.79%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 12 (12.63%) Test Automation
5 11 (11.58%) Web Development
6 10 (10.53%) Agile
6 10 (10.53%) B2B
6 10 (10.53%) CRM
6 10 (10.53%) Kalman Filter
6 10 (10.53%) Test Assurance
7 9 (9.47%) Containerisation
7 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (9.47%) LLM
7 9 (9.47%) Mentoring
8 8 (8.42%) CI/CD
8 8 (8.42%) DevOps
8 8 (8.42%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.37%) Validation
10 6 (6.32%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.37%) SQL
2 22 (23.16%) JavaScript
3 13 (13.68%) C#
4 10 (10.53%) MATLAB
5 8 (8.42%) PHP
6 5 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.21%) Bash
8 3 (3.16%) Java
8 3 (3.16%) VBA
9 2 (2.11%) Go
9 2 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.05%) C
10 1 (1.05%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.05%) Ruby
10 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (46.32%) Azure Certification
2 15 (15.79%) Degree
3 10 (10.53%) HND
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.26%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (8.42%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Firmware
3 4 (4.21%) iptables
4 1 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) Ansible
2 4 (4.21%) Grafana
2 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
2 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 42 (44.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) Databricks
3 1 (1.05%) Cisco
3 1 (1.05%) Typelevel
3 1 (1.05%) Zoho