Python Job Trends in Darlington

Python
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 1 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Python 4 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 12.12% 28.81% 10.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 80.00% 77.27% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 5
10th Percentile £66,907 £41,481 -
25th Percentile £68,132 £46,713 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,700 £69,800
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -

All Programming Languages
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5 22 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 15.15% 37.29% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 12
10th Percentile £66,907 £41,481 £38,325
25th Percentile £68,132 £46,713 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +30.77% +4.43%
75th Percentile £78,790 £79,700 £69,800
90th Percentile - £80,000 -
Durham median annual salary £71,940 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +30.80% +4.76% +22.24%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Darlington.

Python job vacancy trend in Darlington

Python
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Python

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Datadog
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google