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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 6 24
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 29 69 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 5.71% 11.48% 9.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.28% 40.12% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 15
10th Percentile £40,385 £35,696 £24,836
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,456 £30,932
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £38,838
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +80.24% -13.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £52,620
90th Percentile £78,500 £89,125 £54,096
South West median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +9.09%

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 72 172 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 14.17% 28.62% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 43 90 72
10th Percentile £36,325 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £34,960
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +11.11% +4.21%
75th Percentile £58,750 £70,000 £54,050
90th Percentile £69,900 £75,000 £64,900
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -21 12 £48,750 -27.78% 11
Paignton +3 6 - - 2
Plymouth +1 5 £83,750 - 11
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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 6 (20.69%) GitHub
2 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) Azure AI
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) 5G
1 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
1 5 (17.24%) WAN
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) HTTP
2 2 (6.90%) SMTP
2 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.45%) Internet
3 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Tableau
3 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.45%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Git
2 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) LabVIEW
3 3 (10.34%) Selenium
4 2 (6.90%) CircleCI
4 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.90%) Gatling
4 2 (6.90%) LoadRunner
4 2 (6.90%) Locust
4 2 (6.90%) TestRail
4 2 (6.90%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) MLflow
5 1 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Military
3 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Law
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Analyst
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
2 5 (17.24%) Professional Services Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Software Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Product Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Product Test Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Verification Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Verification Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Junior
5 2 (6.90%) Junior Data Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) pytest
2 2 (6.90%) Flask
2 2 (6.90%) PyTorch
2 2 (6.90%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.45%) jQuery
3 1 (3.45%) Keras
3 1 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (3.45%) LangChain
3 1 (3.45%) Pandas
3 1 (3.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.45%) React
3 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) GNSS
1 6 (20.69%) Satnav
2 5 (17.24%) Onboarding
2 5 (17.24%) Self-Driving Car
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (6.90%) IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) CUDA
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Test Automation
2 11 (37.93%) B2B
3 7 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
3 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
4 6 (20.69%) DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) AI
5 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Use Case
6 4 (13.79%) Agile
6 4 (13.79%) Data Science
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
7 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 3 (10.34%) MapReduce
7 3 (10.34%) Mathematics
7 3 (10.34%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 9 (31.03%) C++
2 9 (31.03%) MATLAB
3 3 (10.34%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) C
4 2 (6.90%) Julia
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) R
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) Bicep
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Delphi
5 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) HND
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) iptables
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) Grafana
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Kubeflow
4 1 (3.45%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Databricks
2 1 (3.45%) NVIDIA
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle