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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 36 19
Rank change year-on-year +19 -17 +14
Permanent jobs citing Python 243 42 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.31% 4.46% 7.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.97% 31.58% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 190 33 78
10th Percentile £43,750 £28,250 £31,941
25th Percentile £48,188 £31,750 £43,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £87,000 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £99,125
England median annual salary £71,500 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.67% -

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 737 133 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.17% 14.13% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 607 105 279
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,025 £33,700
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £68,956
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 16 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 16 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 +6 192 £67,500 +42.11% 111
Durham +20 42 £64,539 -13.95% 19
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 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (9.05%) Apache Spark
3 18 (7.41%) Apache
4 16 (6.58%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.82%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.82%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 117 (48.15%) AWS
2 109 (44.86%) Azure
3 48 (19.75%) GCP
4 35 (14.40%) Amazon S3
5 34 (13.99%) Power Platform
6 29 (11.93%) Serverless
7 28 (11.52%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (10.70%) Azure AI
9 25 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (6.17%) Amazon EMR
12 15 (6.17%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (5.76%) Amazon ECR
13 14 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (4.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.70%) Textract
16 8 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (2.88%) SaaS
18 5 (2.06%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.23%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) Internet
2 2 (0.82%) MQTT
2 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.99%) Power BI
2 28 (11.52%) Tableau
3 23 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (7.00%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (7.00%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (4.12%) Big Data
8 9 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.88%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.88%) GIS
9 7 (2.88%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.47%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.47%) Flink
10 6 (2.47%) Looker
10 6 (2.47%) Metadata
10 6 (2.47%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (13.58%) Git
2 19 (7.82%) GitLab
3 6 (2.47%) JIRA
3 6 (2.47%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.65%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.23%) LabVIEW
6 3 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) JMeter
8 1 (0.41%) Locust
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 71 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.99%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (10.29%) Finance
6 8 (3.29%) Law
7 6 (2.47%) Legal
8 5 (2.06%) Electronics
8 5 (2.06%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.65%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.82%) Front Office
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Wearables
11 1 (0.41%) Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (21.81%) Data Engineer
2 33 (13.58%) Developer
2 33 (13.58%) Lead
3 30 (12.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 30 (12.35%) Senior
4 27 (11.11%) Python Engineer
5 21 (8.64%) Analyst
5 21 (8.64%) Python Developer
6 19 (7.82%) Data Analyst
7 18 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.58%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 16 (6.58%) Databricks Engineer
9 15 (6.17%) Junior
10 14 (5.76%) Junior Analyst
10 14 (5.76%) Junior Data Analyst
11 13 (5.35%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.35%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.94%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (4.53%) Data Scientist
14 10 (4.12%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (19.34%) Terraform
2 26 (10.70%) .NET
3 19 (7.82%) PySpark
4 13 (5.35%) LangChain
5 12 (4.94%) Flask
5 12 (4.94%) HTML
6 11 (4.53%) CSS
6 11 (4.53%) LlamaIndex
6 11 (4.53%) YAML
7 9 (3.70%) .NET Core
7 9 (3.70%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.70%) Node.js
8 8 (3.29%) React
9 7 (2.88%) Ajax
9 7 (2.88%) Jinja
9 7 (2.88%) jQuery
9 7 (2.88%) OpenLayers
9 7 (2.88%) SQLAlchemy
9 7 (2.88%) Web Services
10 6 (2.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.64%) Hedge funds
3 19 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (7.00%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (5.76%) Data Structures
5 14 (5.76%) Onboarding
6 11 (4.53%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (4.12%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.06%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.65%) Life Science
10 4 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.23%) Robotics
12 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.82%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.70%) Linux
2 5 (2.06%) Windows
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.16%) AI
2 66 (27.16%) CI/CD
3 63 (25.93%) DevOps
4 62 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (24.28%) Agile
5 59 (24.28%) Data Engineering
5 59 (24.28%) Data Pipeline
5 59 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (19.34%) Data Modelling
7 46 (18.93%) Analytics
8 40 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 39 (16.05%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (16.05%) Containerisation
10 37 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (15.23%) Software Engineering
11 36 (14.81%) Decision-Making
12 34 (13.99%) Machine Learning
13 30 (12.35%) ETL
14 29 (11.93%) Validation
15 28 (11.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 116 (47.74%) SQL
2 32 (13.17%) C#
2 32 (13.17%) Java
3 28 (11.52%) Bash
4 20 (8.23%) PowerShell
5 17 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.76%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.53%) Bicep
8 6 (2.47%) C++
8 6 (2.47%) Go
8 6 (2.47%) Scala
9 3 (1.23%) R
9 3 (1.23%) VB
10 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (16.05%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.40%) Azure Certification
3 30 (12.35%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (7.82%) Degree
5 12 (4.94%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.23%) HNC
7 3 (1.23%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.41%) CCSP
8 1 (0.41%) CISA
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.41%) CISSP
8 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.41%) GSEC
8 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.11%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.70%) QA
3 7 (2.88%) NCSC
4 5 (2.06%) 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%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (18.11%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) vSphere
3 2 (0.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.47%) Ansible
3 4 (1.65%) Grafana
4 3 (1.23%) Control-M
4 3 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.23%) Puppet
5 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
5 1 (0.41%) Kibana
5 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.40%) Databricks
3 6 (2.47%) Google
4 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.23%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.23%) VMware
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle
6 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco
6 1 (0.41%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.41%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.41%) Zscaler