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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 -27
Permanent jobs citing Python 113 74 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.95% 9.07% 4.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.09% 27.11% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 78 42 52
10th Percentile - £36,404 £31,888
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,563 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +15.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £51,986 £81,875 £69,013
90th Percentile £80,278 £95,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 235 273 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.62% 33.46% 28.51%
Number of salaries quoted 175 139 339
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,100 £31,450
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,144 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £95,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 15 February 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 15 February 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 +6 86 £40,000 -33.33% 46
Durham +10 25 £73,801 +1.95% 3
Northumberland +6 2 - - 1
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 3 (2.65%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (27.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.42%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.65%) AutoCAD
3 3 (2.65%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.65%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 74 (65.49%) Azure
2 53 (46.90%) AWS
3 30 (26.55%) GitHub
4 19 (16.81%) Power Platform
5 18 (15.93%) Azure AI
6 13 (11.50%) GCP
7 11 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.42%) dbt
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.54%) PaaS
10 4 (3.54%) Pulumi
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (2.65%) IaaS
11 3 (2.65%) OCI
11 3 (2.65%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 24 (21.24%) Firewall
2 22 (19.47%) Internet
3 11 (9.73%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.96%) VoIP
5 8 (7.08%) VLAN
5 8 (7.08%) VPN
6 7 (6.19%) DNS
6 7 (6.19%) HTTP
7 6 (5.31%) Asterisk PBX
7 6 (5.31%) PSTN
8 5 (4.42%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (4.42%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (4.42%) EIGRP
8 5 (4.42%) LAN
8 5 (4.42%) Network Security
8 5 (4.42%) OSPF
8 5 (4.42%) SNMP
8 5 (4.42%) WAAS
8 5 (4.42%) WAN
8 5 (4.42%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.32%) Tableau
2 18 (15.93%) Power BI
3 14 (12.39%) Data Mining
4 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.54%) Redis
7 3 (2.65%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (2.65%) GIS
7 3 (2.65%) Metadata
7 3 (2.65%) QGIS
7 3 (2.65%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (21.24%) Git
2 9 (7.96%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.65%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (1.77%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.77%) JIRA
4 2 (1.77%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.77%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.77%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.88%) GitLab
5 1 (0.88%) JMeter
5 1 (0.88%) JUnit
5 1 (0.88%) Locust
5 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 40 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 32 (28.32%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (24.78%) Finance
4 22 (19.47%) Multimedia
5 13 (11.50%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.19%) Law
7 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.42%) Legal
9 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.65%) Retail
11 2 (1.77%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 38 (33.63%) Trainee
2 34 (30.09%) Analyst
3 31 (27.43%) Data Analyst
4 18 (15.93%) Junior
4 18 (15.93%) Junior Analyst
4 18 (15.93%) Junior Data Analyst
5 15 (13.27%) Developer
5 15 (13.27%) Senior
6 14 (12.39%) Software Developer
7 13 (11.50%) Trainee Analyst
7 13 (11.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (11.50%) Trainee Developer
7 13 (11.50%) Trainee Software Developer
8 10 (8.85%) Lead
9 9 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Support Specialist
11 5 (4.42%) Network Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Senior Network Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.47%) CSS
1 22 (19.47%) HTML
2 10 (8.85%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (7.96%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (4.42%) Django
5 3 (2.65%) .NET
5 3 (2.65%) Hugging Face
5 3 (2.65%) Itk
5 3 (2.65%) Matplotlib
5 3 (2.65%) NumPy
5 3 (2.65%) Pandas
5 3 (2.65%) scikit-learn
5 3 (2.65%) Streamlit
6 2 (1.77%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.77%) REST
6 2 (1.77%) YAML
7 1 (0.88%) Flask
7 1 (0.88%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.88%) pytest
7 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (2.65%) PKI
2 3 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.88%) Derivative
4 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.88%) EPoS
4 1 (0.88%) Equities
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.88%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.85%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Windows
3 6 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.54%) Unix
5 3 (2.65%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.55%) Mentoring
2 25 (22.12%) AI
2 25 (22.12%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (21.24%) DevOps
4 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (17.70%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (17.70%) Computer Science
6 18 (15.93%) CI/CD
7 17 (15.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (14.16%) Analytics
9 14 (12.39%) Data Analytics
9 14 (12.39%) Project Management
10 13 (11.50%) Business Analysis
10 13 (11.50%) Data Analysis
11 12 (10.62%) Containerisation
12 10 (8.85%) Agile
12 10 (8.85%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (8.85%) DevSecOps
12 10 (8.85%) High Availability
12 10 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (43.36%) SQL
2 23 (20.35%) JavaScript
3 19 (16.81%) Bash
4 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.85%) R
6 7 (6.19%) Go
6 7 (6.19%) Java
7 5 (4.42%) C#
7 5 (4.42%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.65%) Tcl
9 2 (1.77%) Bicep
9 2 (1.77%) VB
10 1 (0.88%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 43 (38.05%) Azure Certification
2 25 (22.12%) AWS Certification
2 25 (22.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (19.47%) Degree
3 22 (19.47%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (9.73%) CCNP
4 11 (9.73%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.31%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (5.31%) Network+ Certification
6 6 (5.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.42%) CCIE
8 3 (2.65%) HNC
8 3 (2.65%) HND
9 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) PMO
1 5 (4.42%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.96%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) ProxySG
3 4 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (17.70%) Terraform
2 13 (11.50%) Ansible
3 12 (10.62%) Grafana
4 8 (7.08%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.31%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.65%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (2.65%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.77%) Control-M
Vendors
1 62 (54.87%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.39%) Cisco
3 5 (4.42%) Blue Coat
3 5 (4.42%) CheckPoint
3 5 (4.42%) F5
3 5 (4.42%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) Infoblox
3 5 (4.42%) Motorola
3 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.42%) SolarWinds
3 5 (4.42%) VMware
4 3 (2.65%) Arista
4 3 (2.65%) Aruba
4 3 (2.65%) ESRI
4 3 (2.65%) NetScout
4 3 (2.65%) Siemens
5 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) Databricks
6 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle