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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 224 38 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.34% 4.52% 4.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.13% 26.95% 17.03%
Number of salaries quoted 160 31 79
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% +3.37% -3.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 620 141 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.07% 16.79% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 504 119 417
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £32,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,900 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,750 £80,000
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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +14 175 £62,500 +4.17% 55
Durham +22 44 £59,000 -14.97% 8
Northumberland - 5 - - 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 29 (12.95%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (8.04%) Jupyter
3 13 (5.80%) Apache
3 13 (5.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.89%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) SAS
4 2 (0.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (16.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.23%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.89%) SPSS
5 1 (0.45%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 114 (50.89%) Azure
2 93 (41.52%) AWS
3 42 (18.75%) Azure AI
3 42 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 32 (14.29%) GCP
5 20 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (7.59%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (6.70%) Serverless
8 13 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (4.91%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (4.46%) GitHub
12 8 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (3.13%) SaaS
13 7 (3.13%) Textract
14 6 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.38%) Firewall
2 9 (4.02%) TCP/IP
2 9 (4.02%) VLAN
2 9 (4.02%) VPN
3 8 (3.57%) DNS
3 8 (3.57%) HTTP
4 5 (2.23%) DMZ
4 5 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (2.23%) STUN
4 5 (2.23%) VoIP
5 4 (1.79%) BGP
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (1.79%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.79%) Internet
5 4 (1.79%) Network Security
5 4 (1.79%) OSPF
5 4 (1.79%) WAAS
5 4 (1.79%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.88%) Tableau
2 42 (18.75%) Power BI
3 15 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (5.80%) DynamoDB
6 10 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.02%) Big Data
8 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.13%) Data Mining
10 6 (2.68%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.68%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.23%) GIS
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.89%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (8.48%) Git
2 13 (5.80%) GitLab
3 9 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.68%) JIRA
5 5 (2.23%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.79%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.34%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.89%) MLflow
8 2 (0.89%) Selenium
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) Locust
General
1 69 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.52%) Finance
3 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.46%) Law
7 8 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.13%) Electronics
8 7 (3.13%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.68%) Legal
10 5 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.23%) Retail
11 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.79%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.89%) Front Office
12 2 (0.89%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 42 (18.75%) Analyst
2 40 (17.86%) Data Analyst
3 36 (16.07%) Data Engineer
4 33 (14.73%) Junior
5 30 (13.39%) Junior Analyst
5 30 (13.39%) Junior Data Analyst
6 27 (12.05%) Developer
7 24 (10.71%) Lead
8 23 (10.27%) Senior
9 21 (9.38%) Python Engineer
10 20 (8.93%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (8.48%) Python Developer
12 17 (7.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (6.25%) Trainee
14 12 (5.36%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (5.36%) Software Engineer
15 11 (4.91%) Data Scientist
16 10 (4.46%) Lead Data Engineer
16 10 (4.46%) Test Engineer
17 9 (4.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.27%) .NET
2 14 (6.25%) PySpark
3 13 (5.80%) HTML
4 11 (4.91%) CSS
4 11 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (4.46%) YAML
6 9 (4.02%) .NET Core
6 9 (4.02%) Flask
7 8 (3.57%) ARM Templates
7 8 (3.57%) Node.js
7 8 (3.57%) React
8 6 (2.68%) LangChain
8 6 (2.68%) Pandas
8 6 (2.68%) RESTful
9 5 (2.23%) Ajax
9 5 (2.23%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.23%) jQuery
9 5 (2.23%) OpenLayers
9 5 (2.23%) SQLAlchemy
9 5 (2.23%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.82%) Hedge funds
2 15 (6.70%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.36%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.02%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (4.02%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.23%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.23%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.23%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.79%) Life Science
7 3 (1.34%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.34%) Robotics
8 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (0.89%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.80%) Linux
2 8 (3.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.23%) Debian
3 5 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (38.84%) AI
2 45 (20.09%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (19.20%) DevOps
4 42 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (17.86%) CI/CD
6 38 (16.96%) Data Pipeline
7 36 (16.07%) Agile
8 34 (15.18%) Analytics
9 33 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (13.39%) Fintech
11 29 (12.95%) Containerisation
12 27 (12.05%) Data Engineering
13 25 (11.16%) Decision-Making
13 25 (11.16%) Software Engineering
14 24 (10.71%) Data Modelling
14 24 (10.71%) Test Automation
14 24 (10.71%) Workflow
15 22 (9.82%) Computer Science
16 21 (9.38%) Full-Stack Development
16 21 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 120 (53.57%) SQL
2 30 (13.39%) Bash
3 28 (12.50%) C#
4 23 (10.27%) Java
5 21 (9.38%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.36%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.91%) Go
9 10 (4.46%) Bicep
10 6 (2.68%) C++
10 6 (2.68%) R
11 5 (2.23%) VB
12 2 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (22.32%) Azure Certification
2 23 (10.27%) Degree
3 20 (8.93%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.48%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.02%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.79%) CCIE
8 4 (1.79%) CCNP
8 4 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.34%) HNC
10 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) CISA
11 1 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.45%) GSEC
11 1 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.13%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (11.61%) Docker
2 5 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.79%) ProxySG
4 3 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (16.52%) Terraform
2 20 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.80%) Ansible
4 12 (5.36%) Grafana
5 8 (3.57%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.34%) Control-M
6 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (33.04%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.95%) Databricks
3 10 (4.46%) Cisco
4 4 (1.79%) Blue Coat
4 4 (1.79%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.79%) F5
4 4 (1.79%) Infoblox
4 4 (1.79%) Motorola
4 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.79%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.34%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.34%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.34%) VMware
6 2 (0.89%) Google
6 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.45%) Aruba
7 1 (0.45%) NetScout
7 1 (0.45%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat