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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 42 23
Rank change year-on-year +35 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 97 14 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 10.42% 3.58% 7.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.74% 26.42% 23.89%
Number of salaries quoted 30 10 16
10th Percentile £37,250 £38,125 -
25th Percentile £40,481 £43,438 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +30.56% +23.27%
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,750 - £59,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 168 53 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 18.05% 13.55% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 86 29 175
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £36,307
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,375 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% +33.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £56,875 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £60,918
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +6 36 £52,500 -10.64% 18
Plymouth - 31 £43,425 - 13
Paignton +9 12 - -
Barnstaple - 12 £47,500 -
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:

Applications
1 40 (41.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (55.67%) Azure
2 50 (51.55%) Azure AI
3 42 (43.30%) Power Platform
4 12 (12.37%) AWS
5 9 (9.28%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.28%) GitHub
6 7 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.22%) Serverless
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.12%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.12%) CloudFront
8 4 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
10 2 (2.06%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.06%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.03%) ChatGPT
11 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.25%) 5G
1 8 (8.25%) SD-WAN
1 8 (8.25%) WAN
2 4 (4.12%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) HTTP
2 4 (4.12%) Network Security
2 4 (4.12%) SMTP
2 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.06%) Broadband
4 1 (1.03%) 4G
4 1 (1.03%) BGP
4 1 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.03%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.03%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.03%) Modbus
4 1 (1.03%) MPLS
4 1 (1.03%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (43.30%) Power BI
2 40 (41.24%) Tableau
3 7 (7.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.06%) Metadata
4 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.03%) DB2
5 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.03%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.03%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (1.03%) Parquet
5 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Git
2 8 (8.25%) LabVIEW
3 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.06%) GitLab
5 2 (2.06%) Selenium
6 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.03%) Gatling
6 1 (1.03%) JUnit
6 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.03%) Locust
6 1 (1.03%) TestRail
6 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (57.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Electronics
4 8 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Finance
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (44.33%) Analyst
2 40 (41.24%) Data Analyst
2 40 (41.24%) Junior
2 40 (41.24%) Junior Analyst
2 40 (41.24%) Junior Data Analyst
3 12 (12.37%) Developer
3 12 (12.37%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 10 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 10 (10.31%) JavaScript Developer
4 10 (10.31%) Python Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Product Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Product Test Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Verification Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.28%) pytest
2 5 (5.15%) CSS
2 5 (5.15%) Jest
2 5 (5.15%) Node.js
2 5 (5.15%) Sass
2 5 (5.15%) Tailwind CSS
2 5 (5.15%) Vue
3 2 (2.06%) PySpark
4 1 (1.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.03%) Flask
4 1 (1.03%) gRPC
4 1 (1.03%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.03%) Jinja
4 1 (1.03%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.03%) Spring
4 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.03%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (12.37%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (8.25%) Self-Driving Car
4 5 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.12%) GNSS
5 4 (4.12%) Satnav
6 3 (3.09%) IoT
7 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.03%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.03%) Social Media
8 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.49%) Windows
2 9 (9.28%) Linux
3 8 (8.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (53.61%) AI
2 43 (44.33%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.46%) Test Automation
5 13 (13.40%) DevOps
5 13 (13.40%) Software Engineering
5 13 (13.40%) Validation
6 12 (12.37%) B2B
7 11 (11.34%) Containerisation
7 11 (11.34%) Web Development
8 10 (10.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
9 9 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (9.28%) Mentoring
10 8 (8.25%) Kalman Filter
10 8 (8.25%) Physics
10 8 (8.25%) System Testing
10 8 (8.25%) Test Assurance
10 8 (8.25%) Test Scripting
10 8 (8.25%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) SQL
2 15 (15.46%) JavaScript
3 8 (8.25%) MATLAB
3 8 (8.25%) PHP
4 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.15%) Java
5 5 (5.15%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.12%) Bash
6 4 (4.12%) C#
6 4 (4.12%) C++
7 3 (3.09%) Scala
8 2 (2.06%) Go
8 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.03%) Bicep
9 1 (1.03%) C
9 1 (1.03%) Delphi
9 1 (1.03%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (51.55%) Azure Certification
2 17 (17.53%) Degree
3 8 (8.25%) HND
4 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Docker
2 5 (5.15%) Firmware
3 4 (4.12%) iptables
4 1 (1.03%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Terraform
2 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.15%) Grafana
4 4 (4.12%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.12%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 40 (41.24%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.03%) BMC
2 1 (1.03%) Cisco
2 1 (1.03%) Databricks
2 1 (1.03%) IBM
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle
2 1 (1.03%) Talend
2 1 (1.03%) Typelevel
2 1 (1.03%) Zoho