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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 8 24
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 37 63 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 6.57% 13.10% 10.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.44% 46.67% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 10
10th Percentile £40,385 £35,696 £24,146
25th Percentile £41,925 £42,608 £28,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £70,000 £38,618
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +81.26% -6.13%
75th Percentile £58,750 £71,875 £49,762
90th Percentile £77,000 £89,125 £55,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +8.60%

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 78 135 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 13.85% 28.07% 28.85%
Number of salaries quoted 41 68 57
10th Percentile £36,750 £35,696 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,938 £38,838
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £54,050
90th Percentile £69,500 £75,000 £67,000
South West median annual salary £54,500 £56,875 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +3.41% +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 16 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 16 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 13 £45,000 -32.08% 8
Plymouth +1 11 £66,350 - 12
Paignton +4 10 - - 2
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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) Power Platform
3 10 (27.03%) Azure AI
4 7 (18.92%) GitHub
5 6 (16.22%) AWS
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.41%) Serverless
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
1 4 (10.81%) HTTP
1 4 (10.81%) SMTP
1 4 (10.81%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.11%) 5G
2 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
2 3 (8.11%) WAN
3 1 (2.70%) Internet
3 1 (2.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Power BI
2 10 (27.03%) Tableau
3 3 (8.11%) Metadata
4 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) DB2
5 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.70%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (2.70%) Parquet
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) LabVIEW
3 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.11%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.41%) Gatling
5 2 (5.41%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.41%) Locust
5 2 (5.41%) TestRail
5 2 (5.41%) Zephyr
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) JUnit
6 1 (2.70%) MLflow
General
1 14 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 1 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Analyst
2 11 (29.73%) Data Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) Junior
3 10 (27.03%) Junior Analyst
3 10 (27.03%) Junior Data Analyst
4 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Product Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Product Test Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 6 (16.22%) Test Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Verification Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Python Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Verification Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) pytest
2 3 (8.11%) PySpark
3 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.70%) Django
4 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.70%) Faiss
4 1 (2.70%) Flask
4 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.70%) Keras
4 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.70%) LangChain
4 1 (2.70%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.70%) Metaflow
4 1 (2.70%) NumPy
4 1 (2.70%) Pandas
4 1 (2.70%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) GNSS
1 8 (21.62%) Satnav
2 6 (16.22%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (8.11%) Self-Driving Car
4 2 (5.41%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.41%) IoT
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) CUDA
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Unix
3 5 (13.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Test Automation
2 13 (35.14%) AI
2 13 (35.14%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (29.73%) B2B
3 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) Software Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (16.22%) Validation
6 5 (13.51%) Agile
6 5 (13.51%) Containerisation
6 5 (13.51%) Mathematics
6 5 (13.51%) Open Source
7 4 (10.81%) Open Source Development
8 3 (8.11%) Data Science
8 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
8 3 (8.11%) Metadata Management
8 3 (8.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) C++
2 7 (18.92%) MATLAB
3 3 (8.11%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) C
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Scala
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) Delphi
5 1 (2.70%) Julia
5 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Degree
2 10 (27.03%) Azure Certification
3 6 (16.22%) HND
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) iptables
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Grafana
3 1 (2.70%) Ansible
3 1 (2.70%) Control-M
3 1 (2.70%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) BMC
2 1 (2.70%) Databricks
2 1 (2.70%) IBM
2 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Talend