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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 38 21
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 +16
Permanent jobs citing Python 242 39 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.30% 4.18% 7.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.06% 30.00% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 186 30 80
10th Percentile £43,125 £26,425 £34,745
25th Percentile £48,000 £31,750 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £53,750 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +24.93% -17.60% +0.36%
75th Percentile £87,000 £72,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £71,991 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% - -

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 732 130 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.07% 13.93% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 600 102 292
10th Percentile £41,250 £26,863 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -6.70% -1.59%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +8 190 £67,500 +42.11% 60
Durham +20 43 £59,000 -21.33% 17
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 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 36 (14.88%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 18 (7.44%) Apache
4 16 (6.61%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.83%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 16 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) LaTeX
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 116 (47.93%) AWS
2 111 (45.87%) Azure
3 48 (19.83%) GCP
4 36 (14.88%) Power Platform
5 34 (14.05%) Amazon S3
6 29 (11.98%) Serverless
7 28 (11.57%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (11.57%) Azure AI
8 25 (10.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (6.20%) Amazon EMR
10 15 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.37%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.72%) Textract
15 8 (3.31%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (2.48%) SaaS
17 5 (2.07%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) Internet
2 2 (0.83%) MQTT
3 1 (0.41%) BGP
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.41%) LAN
3 1 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) OSPF
3 1 (0.41%) SNMP
3 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) VLAN
3 1 (0.41%) VPN
3 1 (0.41%) WAAS
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.88%) Power BI
2 31 (12.81%) Tableau
3 24 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.44%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (7.02%) DynamoDB
6 16 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.13%) Big Data
9 9 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.89%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.89%) GIS
11 6 (2.48%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.48%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.48%) Flink
11 6 (2.48%) Looker
11 6 (2.48%) Metadata
11 6 (2.48%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.48%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.48%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (13.64%) Git
2 18 (7.44%) GitLab
3 6 (2.48%) JIRA
3 6 (2.48%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.65%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.24%) LabVIEW
6 3 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.83%) MLflow
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) Locust
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 71 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (10.74%) Finance
6 8 (3.31%) Law
7 6 (2.48%) Legal
8 5 (2.07%) Electronics
8 5 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.65%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Wearables
11 1 (0.41%) Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 51 (21.07%) Data Engineer
2 33 (13.64%) Lead
3 32 (13.22%) Developer
4 30 (12.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 28 (11.57%) Senior
6 27 (11.16%) Python Engineer
7 23 (9.50%) Analyst
8 21 (8.68%) Data Analyst
8 21 (8.68%) Python Developer
9 18 (7.44%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (7.02%) Junior
11 16 (6.61%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 16 (6.61%) Databricks Engineer
11 16 (6.61%) Junior Analyst
11 16 (6.61%) Junior Data Analyst
12 13 (5.37%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.96%) Python Data Engineer
14 11 (4.55%) Data Scientist
14 11 (4.55%) Senior Developer
15 10 (4.13%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (18.60%) Terraform
2 25 (10.33%) .NET
3 19 (7.85%) PySpark
4 13 (5.37%) LangChain
5 12 (4.96%) Flask
5 12 (4.96%) HTML
6 11 (4.55%) CSS
6 11 (4.55%) LlamaIndex
6 11 (4.55%) YAML
7 9 (3.72%) .NET Core
7 9 (3.72%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.72%) Node.js
8 7 (2.89%) Ajax
8 7 (2.89%) Jinja
8 7 (2.89%) jQuery
8 7 (2.89%) OpenLayers
8 7 (2.89%) React
8 7 (2.89%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (2.89%) Web Services
9 6 (2.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.68%) Hedge funds
3 18 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.02%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (5.79%) Data Structures
6 13 (5.37%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (4.13%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.89%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.07%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.65%) Life Science
11 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.24%) Robotics
13 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.31%) Linux
2 4 (1.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.41%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (33.88%) AI
2 64 (26.45%) CI/CD
3 62 (25.62%) DevOps
4 60 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (23.55%) Agile
5 57 (23.55%) Data Engineering
5 57 (23.55%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (19.83%) Data Modelling
7 44 (18.18%) Analytics
8 41 (16.94%) Business Intelligence
9 38 (15.70%) Containerisation
9 38 (15.70%) Mentoring
10 37 (15.29%) Software Engineering
11 36 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (14.05%) Machine Learning
13 33 (13.64%) Decision-Making
14 29 (11.98%) Validation
15 28 (11.57%) ETL
16 27 (11.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 117 (48.35%) SQL
2 31 (12.81%) Java
3 30 (12.40%) C#
4 28 (11.57%) Bash
5 20 (8.26%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.02%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.37%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.55%) Bicep
9 6 (2.48%) C++
9 6 (2.48%) Scala
10 5 (2.07%) Go
11 3 (1.24%) R
11 3 (1.24%) VB
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (15.29%) Azure Certification
1 37 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.57%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.26%) Degree
4 19 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.65%) Tableau Certification
8 3 (1.24%) HNC
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) CCIE
10 1 (0.41%) CCNP
10 1 (0.41%) CCSP
10 1 (0.41%) CISA
10 1 (0.41%) CISSP
10 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.41%) GSEC
10 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.72%) QA
3 7 (2.89%) NCSC
4 5 (2.07%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) PMO
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (17.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.24%) vSphere
3 2 (0.83%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 27 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.48%) Ansible
3 4 (1.65%) Grafana
4 3 (1.24%) Control-M
4 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.24%) Puppet
5 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 44 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.88%) Databricks
3 6 (2.48%) Google
4 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.24%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.24%) VMware
5 2 (0.83%) Cisco
5 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.41%) Blue Coat
6 1 (0.41%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.41%) F5
6 1 (0.41%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.41%) Motorola
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle
6 1 (0.41%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds