Python Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 170 38 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.65% 7.68% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.24% 40.43% 27.24%
Number of salaries quoted 146 32 46
10th Percentile £47,000 £28,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £29,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -38.90% +0.71%
75th Percentile £89,375 £67,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £73,375 £101,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £67,500 £40,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +68.75% -38.46% +4.00%

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 624 94 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.07% 18.99% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 524 74 114
10th Percentile £44,613 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,823 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,700 £100,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -13.04%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Python job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Newcastle upon Tyne

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 34 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (15.29%) Apache Spark
3 22 (12.94%) Apache
4 19 (11.18%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.76%) nginx
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.18%) SAS
7 1 (0.59%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 108 (63.53%) AWS
2 64 (37.65%) Azure
3 49 (28.82%) GCP
4 29 (17.06%) Amazon S3
5 25 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (9.41%) Amazon EMR
9 15 (8.82%) Serverless
10 11 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (5.88%) Textract
12 9 (5.29%) Power Platform
13 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.53%) OpenShift
15 5 (2.94%) GitHub
15 5 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
15 5 (2.94%) SaaS
15 5 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.76%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.18%) Firewall
2 2 (1.18%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.41%) Amazon Athena
1 16 (9.41%) DynamoDB
2 12 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (5.29%) Power BI
5 8 (4.71%) Big Data
5 8 (4.71%) BigQuery
6 7 (4.12%) GIS
7 6 (3.53%) Flink
7 6 (3.53%) Metadata
7 6 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.94%) Looker
9 3 (1.76%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.76%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.76%) Tableau
10 2 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (17.06%) GitLab
2 27 (15.88%) Git
3 8 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.53%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.76%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.76%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.76%) JIRA
5 3 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.76%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 38 (22.35%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (12.35%) Finance
6 6 (3.53%) Legal
7 5 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.35%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.18%) Front Office
9 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (27.65%) Data Engineer
2 30 (17.65%) Lead
3 28 (16.47%) Developer
4 23 (13.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 20 (11.76%) Python Developer
5 20 (11.76%) Senior
6 19 (11.18%) Python Engineer
7 15 (8.82%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 15 (8.82%) Databricks Engineer
8 14 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.06%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (6.47%) Software Developer
10 11 (6.47%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.88%) Senior Developer
12 9 (5.29%) Data Scientist
12 9 (5.29%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (5.29%) Senior Python Developer
13 7 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (4.12%) Test Engineer
14 5 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (19.41%) Terraform
2 14 (8.24%) .NET
2 14 (8.24%) PySpark
3 13 (7.65%) LangChain
3 13 (7.65%) LlamaIndex
4 11 (6.47%) CSS
4 11 (6.47%) Flask
4 11 (6.47%) HTML
5 10 (5.88%) Node.js
6 9 (5.29%) .NET Core
6 9 (5.29%) Web Services
7 8 (4.71%) AWS CDK
8 7 (4.12%) Ajax
8 7 (4.12%) Jinja
8 7 (4.12%) jQuery
8 7 (4.12%) OpenLayers
8 7 (4.12%) SQLAlchemy
9 6 (3.53%) Kafka
9 6 (3.53%) React
9 6 (3.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.06%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.59%) Hedge funds
2 18 (10.59%) Onboarding
3 17 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
4 15 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (7.65%) Data Structures
6 11 (6.47%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (4.71%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.35%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.35%) Life Science
8 4 (2.35%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.76%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.18%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.18%) IoT
10 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.59%) Equities
11 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Linux
2 4 (2.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.24%) CI/CD
2 60 (35.29%) Data Engineering
3 58 (34.12%) Agile
4 53 (31.18%) DevOps
5 52 (30.59%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (27.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (26.47%) AI
7 45 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
7 45 (26.47%) Mentoring
8 44 (25.88%) Containerisation
9 34 (20.00%) Data Modelling
10 33 (19.41%) Machine Learning
11 32 (18.82%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (18.24%) Decision-Making
13 29 (17.06%) Test Automation
14 26 (15.29%) Analytics
14 26 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (14.71%) LLM
16 24 (14.12%) Fintech
16 24 (14.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 83 (48.82%) SQL
2 27 (15.88%) Java
3 17 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 15 (8.82%) Bash
5 14 (8.24%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.65%) C#
7 10 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.53%) Scala
9 5 (2.94%) C++
10 3 (1.76%) Bicep
10 3 (1.76%) R
11 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 45 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 23 (13.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 14 (8.24%) Azure Certification
5 14 (8.24%) Degree
6 7 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (19.41%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.29%) NCSC
3 7 (4.12%) QA
4 5 (2.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (1.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.29%) Ansible
2 9 (5.29%) Grafana
3 6 (3.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.76%) Control-M
4 3 (1.76%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.76%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (14.71%) Databricks
2 14 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.94%) Google
4 3 (1.76%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.76%) Splunk
4 3 (1.76%) VMware
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.59%) Sage