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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 27 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 194 38 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.71% 6.24% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.72% 27.34% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 126 32 63
10th Percentile £31,875 £35,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,875 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 465 139 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 20.87% 22.82% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 361 125 447
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,106 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +12 145 £52,000 -16.80% 68
Durham +15 44 £59,000 -14.97% 6
Northumberland +5 5 - - 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 14 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (7.22%) Jupyter
2 9 (4.64%) Apache
2 9 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.03%) Confluence
3 2 (1.03%) SAS
3 2 (1.03%) WordPress
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 45 (23.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.12%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.58%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.03%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 113 (58.25%) Azure
2 76 (39.18%) AWS
3 48 (24.74%) Azure AI
4 45 (23.20%) Power Platform
5 22 (11.34%) GCP
6 21 (10.82%) GitHub
7 18 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (5.67%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (4.64%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (4.12%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.09%) dbt
12 6 (3.09%) SaaS
13 5 (2.58%) IaaS
13 5 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (2.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (14.95%) Firewall
2 13 (6.70%) VLAN
2 13 (6.70%) VPN
3 12 (6.19%) Internet
4 11 (5.67%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.15%) DNS
5 10 (5.15%) HTTP
6 8 (4.12%) BGP
6 8 (4.12%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (4.12%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (4.12%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (4.12%) EIGRP
6 8 (4.12%) LAN
6 8 (4.12%) Network Security
6 8 (4.12%) OSPF
6 8 (4.12%) SNMP
6 8 (4.12%) WAAS
6 8 (4.12%) WAN
6 8 (4.12%) Wireless
6 8 (4.12%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.84%) Tableau
2 44 (22.68%) Power BI
3 11 (5.67%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.64%) Data Mining
6 8 (4.12%) Big Data
7 7 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.61%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.58%) GIS
10 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.06%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.03%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (10.31%) Git
2 10 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.64%) GitLab
4 5 (2.58%) JIRA
4 5 (2.58%) LabVIEW
4 5 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (2.58%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.03%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.03%) MLflow
5 2 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.03%) Selenium
5 2 (1.03%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) Locust
General
1 68 (35.05%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.49%) Finance
4 15 (7.73%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.67%) Multimedia
6 10 (5.15%) Law
6 10 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.61%) Electronics
8 6 (3.09%) Legal
9 5 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.58%) Retail
10 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.03%) Wearables
11 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (25.77%) Analyst
2 48 (24.74%) Data Analyst
3 38 (19.59%) Junior
4 36 (18.56%) Junior Analyst
4 36 (18.56%) Junior Data Analyst
5 25 (12.89%) Trainee
6 23 (11.86%) Developer
7 20 (10.31%) Lead
8 19 (9.79%) Senior
9 17 (8.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 16 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (7.22%) Data Engineer
11 14 (7.22%) Software Developer
12 12 (6.19%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.15%) Test Engineer
14 9 (4.64%) Python Developer
14 9 (4.64%) Software Engineer
14 9 (4.64%) Trainee Analyst
14 9 (4.64%) Trainee Data Analyst
15 8 (4.12%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.79%) HTML
2 18 (9.28%) .NET
3 17 (8.76%) CSS
4 12 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (5.15%) PySpark
6 8 (4.12%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.09%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.09%) Flask
7 6 (3.09%) LangChain
7 6 (3.09%) Node.js
7 6 (3.09%) YAML
8 5 (2.58%) Ajax
8 5 (2.58%) boto
8 5 (2.58%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.58%) Jinja
8 5 (2.58%) Matplotlib
8 5 (2.58%) NumPy
8 5 (2.58%) Pandas
8 5 (2.58%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (2.58%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.22%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.19%) Hedge funds
3 11 (5.67%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.09%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.09%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.06%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.06%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.06%) Life Science
7 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.55%) PKI
9 2 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.03%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.67%) Linux
2 7 (3.61%) Windows
3 5 (2.58%) Debian
3 5 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (42.78%) AI
2 48 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (18.04%) DevOps
4 29 (14.95%) Analytics
4 29 (14.95%) CI/CD
5 26 (13.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (13.40%) Mentoring
6 25 (12.89%) Agile
6 25 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
7 24 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (11.86%) Containerisation
9 21 (10.82%) Computer Science
10 20 (10.31%) Fintech
10 20 (10.31%) Software Engineering
11 19 (9.79%) Data Engineering
12 18 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 18 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (9.28%) Test Automation
13 17 (8.76%) Coaching
13 17 (8.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 94 (48.45%) SQL
2 26 (13.40%) Bash
3 19 (9.79%) Java
4 17 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.25%) C#
6 15 (7.73%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.15%) Go
7 10 (5.15%) R
7 10 (5.15%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.09%) Bicep
9 5 (2.58%) C++
9 5 (2.58%) VB
10 2 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (33.51%) Azure Certification
2 23 (11.86%) Degree
3 18 (9.28%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 15 (7.73%) Security Cleared
6 14 (7.22%) SC Cleared
7 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.12%) CCIE
9 8 (4.12%) CCNP
10 4 (2.06%) Tableau Certification
11 3 (1.55%) HNC
12 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) CISA
13 1 (0.52%) CISSP
13 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.79%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.12%) PMO
3 7 (3.61%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (8.76%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.58%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.03%) Firmware
4 2 (1.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (15.98%) Terraform
2 15 (7.73%) Ansible
3 14 (7.22%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.70%) Grafana
5 10 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.03%) Control-M
6 2 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 85 (43.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.22%) Cisco
3 12 (6.19%) Databricks
4 8 (4.12%) Blue Coat
4 8 (4.12%) CheckPoint
4 8 (4.12%) F5
4 8 (4.12%) Infoblox
4 8 (4.12%) Motorola
4 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.12%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.55%) Arista
5 3 (1.55%) Aruba
5 3 (1.55%) NetScout
6 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.03%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.03%) VMware
7 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.52%) Google
7 1 (0.52%) Intapp
7 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint