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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 38 28
Rank change year-on-year +27 -10 +17
Permanent jobs citing Python 248 38 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.45% 4.25% 5.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.99% 27.14% 18.96%
Number of salaries quoted 183 30 74
10th Percentile £38,750 £28,000 £30,900
25th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,831
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.45% -3.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -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 689 140 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.47% 15.66% 29.40%
Number of salaries quoted 559 113 335
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,000 £79,450
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +10 193 £66,000 +1.54% 117
Durham +24 46 £59,000 -14.97% 15
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 2
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 34 (13.71%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (8.06%) Apache Spark
3 18 (7.26%) Jupyter
4 17 (6.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) Confluence
5 2 (0.81%) SAS
5 2 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (11.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) SPSS
4 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 119 (47.98%) Azure
2 115 (46.37%) AWS
3 44 (17.74%) GCP
4 43 (17.34%) Power Platform
5 36 (14.52%) Azure AI
6 30 (12.10%) Amazon S3
7 25 (10.08%) Serverless
8 24 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (5.65%) Amazon EMR
13 13 (5.24%) Amazon ECR
13 13 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (3.63%) GitHub
15 9 (3.63%) Textract
15 9 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (2.82%) dbt
16 7 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.24%) Firewall
2 7 (2.82%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.42%) DNS
4 5 (2.02%) HTTP
4 5 (2.02%) VLAN
4 5 (2.02%) VPN
5 4 (1.61%) Internet
6 3 (1.21%) BGP
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (1.21%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.21%) LAN
6 3 (1.21%) Network Security
6 3 (1.21%) OSPF
6 3 (1.21%) SNMP
6 3 (1.21%) WAAS
6 3 (1.21%) WAN
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.34%) Power BI
2 42 (16.94%) Tableau
3 23 (9.27%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (6.45%) DynamoDB
6 14 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (3.63%) Big Data
9 8 (3.23%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.82%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.82%) GIS
10 7 (2.82%) NoSQL
11 6 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.42%) Looker
11 6 (2.42%) Metadata
11 6 (2.42%) Star Schema
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.02%) Flink
13 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (13.31%) Git
2 15 (6.05%) GitLab
3 8 (3.23%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.42%) JIRA
5 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.21%) LabVIEW
6 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.81%) MLflow
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) Locust
General
1 73 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (14.52%) Finance
4 23 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.03%) Law
7 6 (2.42%) Legal
8 5 (2.02%) Electronics
8 5 (2.02%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.61%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.21%) Retail
11 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Front Office
11 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.81%) Wearables
12 1 (0.40%) Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 46 (18.55%) Data Engineer
2 35 (14.11%) Analyst
3 33 (13.31%) Data Analyst
4 29 (11.69%) Developer
4 29 (11.69%) Lead
5 27 (10.89%) Junior
6 25 (10.08%) Python Engineer
6 25 (10.08%) Senior
7 24 (9.68%) Junior Analyst
7 24 (9.68%) Junior Data Analyst
8 23 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 21 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (8.47%) Python Developer
10 13 (5.24%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.84%) Data Scientist
11 12 (4.84%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (4.03%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (3.63%) Senior Python Developer
13 9 (3.63%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.63%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.89%) .NET
2 17 (6.85%) PySpark
3 15 (6.05%) HTML
4 13 (5.24%) CSS
5 12 (4.84%) Flask
6 11 (4.44%) .NET Core
6 11 (4.44%) YAML
7 9 (3.63%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.63%) LangChain
8 8 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (3.23%) Node.js
8 8 (3.23%) React
9 7 (2.82%) Ajax
9 7 (2.82%) Jinja
9 7 (2.82%) jQuery
9 7 (2.82%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (2.82%) OpenLayers
9 7 (2.82%) SQLAlchemy
10 6 (2.42%) RESTful
11 5 (2.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.27%) Hedge funds
2 20 (8.06%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.05%) Data Structures
4 15 (6.05%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (5.65%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.44%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.02%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.61%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.61%) Life Science
10 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.21%) Robotics
11 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.24%) Linux
2 6 (2.42%) Windows
3 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.81%) Debian
4 2 (0.81%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (35.08%) AI
2 59 (23.79%) CI/CD
3 58 (23.39%) DevOps
4 52 (20.97%) Data Pipeline
5 51 (20.56%) Agile
5 51 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (18.55%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (18.55%) Data Engineering
8 43 (17.34%) Analytics
8 43 (17.34%) Data Modelling
9 37 (14.92%) Containerisation
10 34 (13.71%) Software Engineering
11 32 (12.90%) Mentoring
12 31 (12.50%) Decision-Making
13 30 (12.10%) Machine Learning
14 29 (11.69%) Fintech
14 29 (11.69%) Workflow
15 28 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (10.48%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (50.40%) SQL
2 30 (12.10%) C#
2 30 (12.10%) Java
3 29 (11.69%) Bash
4 20 (8.06%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.05%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.05%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.44%) Bicep
7 8 (3.23%) Go
8 7 (2.82%) C++
9 6 (2.42%) R
10 5 (2.02%) Scala
11 3 (1.21%) VB
12 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (18.15%) Azure Certification
2 34 (13.71%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 24 (9.68%) Degree
5 13 (5.24%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.61%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.21%) CCIE
9 3 (1.21%) CCNP
9 3 (1.21%) HNC
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCSP
11 1 (0.40%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) GSEC
11 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (15.32%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.23%) QA
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) PMO
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (15.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) ProxySG
2 3 (1.21%) vSphere
3 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (18.15%) Terraform
2 25 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.63%) Ansible
3 9 (3.63%) Grafana
4 5 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.21%) Control-M
5 3 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (26.21%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.31%) Databricks
3 7 (2.82%) Google
4 6 (2.42%) Cisco
5 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.21%) Blue Coat
5 3 (1.21%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.21%) F5
5 3 (1.21%) Infoblox
5 3 (1.21%) Motorola
5 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.21%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.21%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.21%) VMware
6 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.40%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.40%) Zscaler