Python Job Trends in the North East

Python
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 34 48
Rank change year-on-year +26 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Python 204 37 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.30% 5.40% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.92% 27.01% 14.21%
Number of salaries quoted 139 31 72
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,625 £44,875 £40,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -4.43% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -6.67%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 538 137 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.88% 20.00% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 429 120 485
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,763 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £79,450
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Python job vacancy trend in the North East

Python
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North East over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the North East

Python
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
Tyne and Wear +14 157 £57,500 -2.13% 45
Durham +20 42 £59,000 -14.97% 12
Northumberland +5 5 - - 4
Python
England

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 22 (10.78%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (7.35%) Jupyter
3 10 (4.90%) Apache
3 10 (4.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.98%) Confluence
4 2 (0.98%) SAS
4 2 (0.98%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (19.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.45%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.98%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 115 (56.37%) Azure
2 83 (40.69%) AWS
3 44 (21.57%) Azure AI
4 42 (20.59%) Power Platform
5 29 (14.22%) GCP
6 19 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.86%) GitHub
8 13 (6.37%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (4.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (4.90%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (4.90%) Serverless
11 9 (4.41%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.92%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.94%) dbt
13 6 (2.94%) SaaS
14 5 (2.45%) Textract
14 5 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.75%) Firewall
2 11 (5.39%) VLAN
2 11 (5.39%) VPN
3 10 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.41%) DNS
4 9 (4.41%) HTTP
5 6 (2.94%) BGP
5 6 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (2.94%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (2.94%) EIGRP
5 6 (2.94%) Internet
5 6 (2.94%) LAN
5 6 (2.94%) Network Security
5 6 (2.94%) OSPF
5 6 (2.94%) SNMP
5 6 (2.94%) WAAS
5 6 (2.94%) WAN
5 6 (2.94%) Wireless
5 6 (2.94%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (24.02%) Tableau
2 41 (20.10%) Power BI
3 12 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.90%) DynamoDB
5 9 (4.41%) Big Data
6 8 (3.92%) Data Mining
6 8 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.45%) GIS
10 4 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.96%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (7.84%) Git
2 10 (4.90%) GitLab
3 9 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.94%) JIRA
5 5 (2.45%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.47%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.47%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.98%) MLflow
7 2 (0.98%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.49%) JMeter
8 1 (0.49%) Locust
General
1 65 (31.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (16.18%) Finance
3 16 (7.84%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.41%) Law
5 9 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.43%) Electronics
6 7 (3.43%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.94%) Legal
8 5 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.45%) Multimedia
8 5 (2.45%) Retail
9 3 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.98%) Wearables
11 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (22.06%) Analyst
2 43 (21.08%) Data Analyst
3 34 (16.67%) Junior
4 32 (15.69%) Junior Analyst
4 32 (15.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 25 (12.25%) Data Engineer
6 24 (11.76%) Developer
7 23 (11.27%) Lead
8 21 (10.29%) Senior
9 18 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (8.82%) Trainee
10 17 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 17 (8.33%) Python Engineer
11 13 (6.37%) Python Developer
12 12 (5.88%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.39%) Software Developer
14 10 (4.90%) Test Engineer
15 9 (4.41%) Python Data Engineer
16 8 (3.92%) Trainee Analyst
16 8 (3.92%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.80%) .NET
2 13 (6.37%) HTML
3 12 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.39%) CSS
4 11 (5.39%) PySpark
5 9 (4.41%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.92%) YAML
7 7 (3.43%) ARM Templates
7 7 (3.43%) Node.js
7 7 (3.43%) React
8 6 (2.94%) Flask
8 6 (2.94%) LangChain
9 5 (2.45%) boto
9 5 (2.45%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.45%) Jinja
9 5 (2.45%) Matplotlib
9 5 (2.45%) OpenLayers
9 5 (2.45%) Pandas
9 5 (2.45%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.45%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.84%) Hedge funds
2 14 (6.86%) Algorithms
3 9 (4.41%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.41%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.96%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.96%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.96%) Life Science
7 4 (1.96%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.47%) PKI
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.98%) Robotics
9 2 (0.98%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.88%) Linux
2 8 (3.92%) Windows
3 5 (2.45%) Debian
3 5 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.49%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (42.16%) AI
2 45 (22.06%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (19.12%) DevOps
4 35 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (15.69%) CI/CD
6 31 (15.20%) Agile
6 31 (15.20%) Analytics
7 30 (14.71%) Data Pipeline
8 28 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 23 (11.27%) Fintech
10 23 (11.27%) Software Engineering
11 22 (10.78%) Data Engineering
11 22 (10.78%) Mentoring
12 21 (10.29%) Workflow
13 20 (9.80%) Computer Science
13 20 (9.80%) Test Automation
14 19 (9.31%) Data Modelling
14 19 (9.31%) Machine Learning
15 18 (8.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 106 (51.96%) SQL
2 27 (13.24%) Bash
3 23 (11.27%) C#
4 22 (10.78%) Java
5 18 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.37%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 11 (5.39%) Go
9 8 (3.92%) Bicep
10 7 (3.43%) R
11 5 (2.45%) C++
11 5 (2.45%) VB
12 2 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (26.96%) Azure Certification
2 21 (10.29%) Degree
3 18 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 17 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.94%) CCIE
8 6 (2.94%) CCNP
9 5 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.96%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.47%) HNC
12 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.49%) CCSP
12 1 (0.49%) CISA
12 1 (0.49%) CISSP
12 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.49%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.78%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.43%) QA
3 6 (2.94%) PMO
4 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) NIST
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (9.31%) Docker
2 6 (2.94%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.47%) vSphere
5 2 (0.98%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (16.67%) Terraform
2 17 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.35%) Ansible
4 13 (6.37%) Grafana
5 9 (4.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.47%) Control-M
6 3 (1.47%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 78 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.29%) Databricks
3 12 (5.88%) Cisco
4 6 (2.94%) Blue Coat
4 6 (2.94%) CheckPoint
4 6 (2.94%) F5
4 6 (2.94%) Infoblox
4 6 (2.94%) Motorola
4 6 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.47%) Arista
5 3 (1.47%) Aruba
5 3 (1.47%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.47%) NetScout
5 3 (1.47%) VMware
6 2 (0.98%) Google
6 2 (0.98%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.98%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.49%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.49%) Proofpoint