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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 41 25
Rank change year-on-year +34 -16 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 81 15 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 9.54% 3.92% 7.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.36% 27.78% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24 10 15
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,125 -
25th Percentile £39,375 £43,438 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,375 £56,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +25.00% +23.27%
75th Percentile £53,750 £75,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £58,750 - £59,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +13.04% -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 149 54 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 17.55% 14.10% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 76 29 167
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,925 £44,000 £36,307
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +33.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £60,918
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

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 4 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 4 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 +1 29 £52,500 -6.67% 20
Plymouth -1 24 £44,100 - 12
Paignton +15 14 - -
Barnstaple - 8 £40,000 - 1
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 34 (41.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (51.85%) Azure
2 38 (46.91%) Azure AI
3 36 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 12 (14.81%) AWS
5 11 (13.58%) GitHub
6 9 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (8.64%) Serverless
8 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.94%) CloudFront
9 4 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.70%) SaaS
11 2 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) 5G
1 8 (9.88%) SD-WAN
1 8 (9.88%) WAN
2 4 (4.94%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) HTTP
2 4 (4.94%) Network Security
2 4 (4.94%) SMTP
2 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.47%) Broadband
4 1 (1.23%) 4G
4 1 (1.23%) BGP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.23%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.23%) IOS XR
4 1 (1.23%) Modbus
4 1 (1.23%) MPLS
4 1 (1.23%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (44.44%) Power BI
2 34 (41.98%) Tableau
3 7 (8.64%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.47%) Metadata
4 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.23%) DB2
5 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.23%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (1.23%) Parquet
5 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (12.35%) LabVIEW
3 6 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.47%) GitLab
5 2 (2.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.23%) Gatling
6 1 (1.23%) JUnit
6 1 (1.23%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.23%) Locust
6 1 (1.23%) TestRail
6 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (54.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.11%) Electronics
4 8 (9.88%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Finance
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.23%) Social Housing
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (44.44%) Analyst
2 34 (41.98%) Data Analyst
2 34 (41.98%) Junior
2 34 (41.98%) Junior Analyst
2 34 (41.98%) Junior Data Analyst
3 10 (12.35%) Product Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Product Test Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Test Engineer
3 10 (12.35%) Verification Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Developer
4 8 (9.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 7 (8.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) JavaScript Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.58%) pytest
2 5 (6.17%) CSS
2 5 (6.17%) Jest
2 5 (6.17%) Node.js
2 5 (6.17%) Sass
2 5 (6.17%) Tailwind CSS
2 5 (6.17%) Vue
3 2 (2.47%) PySpark
4 1 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) Flask
4 1 (1.23%) gRPC
4 1 (1.23%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.23%) Jinja
4 1 (1.23%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.23%) Spring
4 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.23%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (9.88%) Self-Driving Car
3 6 (7.41%) GNSS
3 6 (7.41%) Satnav
4 5 (6.17%) Mobile App
5 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.70%) IoT
7 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.23%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.23%) Social Media
8 1 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.22%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Unix
3 9 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) AI
2 37 (45.68%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (20.99%) Test Automation
5 14 (17.28%) B2B
6 13 (16.05%) DevOps
6 13 (16.05%) Validation
7 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
7 11 (13.58%) Software Engineering
8 10 (12.35%) Kalman Filter
9 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.88%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.88%) Physics
10 8 (9.88%) System Testing
10 8 (9.88%) Test Assurance
10 8 (9.88%) Test Scripting
10 8 (9.88%) Verification and Validation
11 7 (8.64%) Agile
11 7 (8.64%) Web Development
12 6 (7.41%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (44.44%) SQL
2 11 (13.58%) JavaScript
3 10 (12.35%) MATLAB
4 8 (9.88%) PHP
5 6 (7.41%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.17%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.94%) Bash
7 4 (4.94%) C++
7 4 (4.94%) Java
8 3 (3.70%) Scala
9 2 (2.47%) C#
9 2 (2.47%) Go
9 2 (2.47%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.23%) Bicep
10 1 (1.23%) C
10 1 (1.23%) Delphi
10 1 (1.23%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 38 (46.91%) Azure Certification
2 18 (22.22%) Degree
3 10 (12.35%) HND
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Firmware
2 4 (4.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Terraform
2 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.17%) Grafana
4 4 (4.94%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.94%) Puppet
5 1 (1.23%) Control-M
Vendors
1 34 (41.98%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.23%) BMC
2 1 (1.23%) Cisco
2 1 (1.23%) Databricks
2 1 (1.23%) IBM
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle
2 1 (1.23%) Talend
2 1 (1.23%) Typelevel
2 1 (1.23%) Zoho