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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -23
Permanent jobs citing Python 78 108 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.73% 11.19% 4.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.84% 27.34% 14.89%
Number of salaries quoted 58 71 26
10th Percentile - £36,250 £43,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,713 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +15.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £69,538
90th Percentile £78,790 £100,000 £72,400
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 191 395 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.93% 40.93% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 144 209 169
10th Percentile £28,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,375 £95,250 £69,840
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +3 61 £33,500 -48.46% 93
Durham -1 17 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.85%) AutoCAD
2 3 (3.85%) Siemens NX
3 2 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 50 (64.10%) Azure
2 37 (47.44%) AWS
3 24 (30.77%) GitHub
4 11 (14.10%) Power Platform
5 10 (12.82%) Azure AI
6 7 (8.97%) GCP
7 6 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.13%) dbt
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.85%) PaaS
9 3 (3.85%) Pulumi
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (2.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.56%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.56%) Sentry
11 1 (1.28%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (26.92%) Internet
2 10 (12.82%) Firewall
3 6 (7.69%) Asterisk PBX
3 6 (7.69%) PSTN
3 6 (7.69%) VoIP
4 5 (6.41%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.56%) BGP
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.56%) DNS
5 2 (2.56%) EIGRP
5 2 (2.56%) HTTP
5 2 (2.56%) LAN
5 2 (2.56%) Network Security
5 2 (2.56%) OSPF
5 2 (2.56%) SAN
5 2 (2.56%) SNMP
5 2 (2.56%) VPN
5 2 (2.56%) WAN
5 2 (2.56%) Wireless
5 2 (2.56%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.64%) Tableau
2 11 (14.10%) Power BI
3 10 (12.82%) Data Mining
4 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.85%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (3.85%) GIS
5 3 (3.85%) Metadata
5 3 (3.85%) QGIS
5 3 (3.85%) Redis
5 3 (3.85%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.28%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (29.49%) Git
2 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.56%) JIRA
3 2 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.56%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) JMeter
4 1 (1.28%) JUnit
4 1 (1.28%) Locust
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 27 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (26.92%) Multimedia
3 19 (24.36%) Finance
4 8 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.13%) Legal
5 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Law
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (38.46%) Trainee
2 23 (29.49%) Analyst
3 19 (24.36%) Data Analyst
4 15 (19.23%) Developer
4 15 (19.23%) Software Developer
5 12 (15.38%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (15.38%) Trainee Software Developer
6 11 (14.10%) Senior
7 10 (12.82%) Junior
7 10 (12.82%) Junior Analyst
7 10 (12.82%) Junior Data Analyst
8 9 (11.54%) Trainee Analyst
8 9 (11.54%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 6 (7.69%) Lead
9 6 (7.69%) Support Specialist
10 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Administrator
11 3 (3.85%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Operations Technician
11 3 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) CSS
1 21 (26.92%) HTML
2 6 (7.69%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.13%) Django
5 3 (3.85%) .NET
5 3 (3.85%) Itk
5 3 (3.85%) Spring
5 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.56%) YAML
7 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.28%) Flask
7 1 (1.28%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.28%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
1 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.28%) Derivative
3 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.28%) EPoS
3 1 (1.28%) Equities
3 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.28%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Linux
2 5 (6.41%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Unix
3 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
1 24 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 16 (20.51%) DevOps
3 15 (19.23%) Computer Science
4 14 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.38%) AI
6 12 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (14.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (12.82%) Agile
8 10 (12.82%) Analytics
8 10 (12.82%) Data Analytics
8 10 (12.82%) Project Management
9 9 (11.54%) Business Analysis
9 9 (11.54%) Data Analysis
10 7 (8.97%) Task Automation
11 6 (7.69%) Containerisation
11 6 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
11 6 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
12 5 (6.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.31%) SQL
2 23 (29.49%) JavaScript
3 11 (14.10%) Bash
4 9 (11.54%) R
5 7 (8.97%) C#
5 7 (8.97%) Java
5 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.13%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.85%) Tcl
8 2 (2.56%) Bicep
8 2 (2.56%) Go
8 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.56%) Scala
9 1 (1.28%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 31 (39.74%) Azure Certification
2 21 (26.92%) AWS Certification
2 21 (26.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 21 (26.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (21.79%) Degree
4 8 (10.26%) CCNP
4 8 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (8.97%) SC Cleared
5 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
6 6 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.85%) HNC
8 3 (3.85%) HND
9 2 (2.56%) CCIE
10 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) PMO
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.26%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.56%) ProxySG
4 2 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.10%) Terraform
2 7 (8.97%) Grafana
3 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.41%) Ansible
5 3 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (2.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 42 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.26%) Cisco
3 5 (6.41%) VMware
4 4 (5.13%) Google
5 3 (3.85%) ESRI
5 3 (3.85%) Siemens
6 2 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.56%) Blue Coat
6 2 (2.56%) CheckPoint
6 2 (2.56%) F5
6 2 (2.56%) Infoblox
6 2 (2.56%) Motorola
6 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle