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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 32 49
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 181 40 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.61% 6.51% 3.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.15% 25.64% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 110 33 62
10th Percentile £29,150 £35,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,141
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +3.92% -3.77%
75th Percentile £73,987 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £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 410 156 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 19.51% 25.41% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 306 138 435
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,894 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,760
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 20 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 20 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 +11 133 £50,000 -16.67% 107
Durham +15 44 £59,000 -14.97% 10
Northumberland +6 4 - - 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 9 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (4.97%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.21%) Apache
2 4 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.10%) Confluence
3 2 (1.10%) SAS
3 2 (1.10%) WordPress
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 49 (27.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.42%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.76%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.10%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 114 (62.98%) Azure
2 66 (36.46%) AWS
3 52 (28.73%) Azure AI
4 46 (25.41%) Power Platform
5 21 (11.60%) GCP
5 21 (11.60%) GitHub
6 17 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.87%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.31%) dbt
9 6 (3.31%) SaaS
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.76%) IaaS
11 4 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (2.21%) PaaS
11 4 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.47%) Firewall
2 13 (7.18%) VLAN
2 13 (7.18%) VPN
3 12 (6.63%) Internet
4 11 (6.08%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.52%) DNS
5 10 (5.52%) HTTP
6 8 (4.42%) BGP
6 8 (4.42%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (4.42%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (4.42%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (4.42%) EIGRP
6 8 (4.42%) LAN
6 8 (4.42%) Network Security
6 8 (4.42%) OSPF
6 8 (4.42%) SNMP
6 8 (4.42%) WAAS
6 8 (4.42%) WAN
6 8 (4.42%) Wireless
6 8 (4.42%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.39%) Tableau
2 45 (24.86%) Power BI
3 9 (4.97%) Data Mining
4 7 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.21%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.21%) GIS
8 3 (1.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.66%) Big Data
8 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.66%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.10%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (10.50%) Git
2 11 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (2.21%) GitLab
4 4 (2.21%) JIRA
4 4 (2.21%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.10%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.10%) Selenium
5 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.55%) JMeter
6 1 (0.55%) Locust
6 1 (0.55%) MLflow
General
1 66 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.57%) Finance
3 27 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.08%) Multimedia
4 11 (6.08%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.52%) Law
5 10 (5.52%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.31%) Legal
7 5 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.76%) Electronics
7 5 (2.76%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.76%) Retail
8 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.55%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 53 (29.28%) Analyst
2 51 (28.18%) Data Analyst
3 42 (23.20%) Junior
4 40 (22.10%) Junior Analyst
4 40 (22.10%) Junior Data Analyst
5 25 (13.81%) Trainee
6 21 (11.60%) Developer
7 18 (9.94%) Lead
8 17 (9.39%) Senior
9 15 (8.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.73%) Software Developer
11 12 (6.63%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.97%) Trainee Analyst
12 9 (4.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 8 (4.42%) Data Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Network Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Python Developer
13 8 (4.42%) Senior Network Engineer
13 8 (4.42%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.94%) HTML
2 16 (8.84%) .NET
2 16 (8.84%) CSS
3 12 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (3.87%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.31%) ARM Templates
6 5 (2.76%) Flask
6 5 (2.76%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.76%) Hugging Face
6 5 (2.76%) Matplotlib
6 5 (2.76%) NumPy
6 5 (2.76%) Pandas
6 5 (2.76%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.76%) Streamlit
6 5 (2.76%) YAML
7 4 (2.21%) Ajax
7 4 (2.21%) Jinja
7 4 (2.21%) jQuery
7 4 (2.21%) Node.js
7 4 (2.21%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.18%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.63%) Hedge funds
3 11 (6.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.76%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.21%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.66%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.66%) Life Science
7 3 (1.66%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.66%) PKI
8 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.55%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.52%) Linux
2 7 (3.87%) Windows
3 5 (2.76%) Debian
3 5 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.65%) AI
2 49 (27.07%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (16.02%) DevOps
4 24 (13.26%) CI/CD
5 22 (12.15%) Mentoring
6 21 (11.60%) Analytics
6 21 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (11.05%) Computer Science
7 20 (11.05%) Fintech
8 18 (9.94%) Agile
8 18 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 18 (9.94%) Software Engineering
9 17 (9.39%) Containerisation
10 16 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (8.29%) High Availability
11 15 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (7.73%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (7.18%) Coaching
13 13 (7.18%) Test Automation
14 12 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 85 (46.96%) SQL
2 24 (13.26%) Bash
3 17 (9.39%) Java
4 16 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.29%) C#
6 14 (7.73%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.52%) Go
7 10 (5.52%) R
7 10 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.76%) Bicep
9 4 (2.21%) C++
9 4 (2.21%) VB
10 2 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (38.12%) Azure Certification
2 22 (12.15%) Degree
3 17 (9.39%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.97%) Security Cleared
7 8 (4.42%) CCIE
7 8 (4.42%) CCNP
7 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.66%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.10%) HNC
10 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) CCSP
10 1 (0.55%) CISA
10 1 (0.55%) CISSP
10 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.55%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.97%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.42%) PMO
3 5 (2.76%) QA
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) NIST
4 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (6.63%) Docker
2 8 (4.42%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.10%) vSphere
5 1 (0.55%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (14.36%) Terraform
2 16 (8.84%) Ansible
3 14 (7.73%) Grafana
4 12 (6.63%) Kubernetes
5 11 (6.08%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.66%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.10%) Control-M
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 87 (48.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.73%) Cisco
3 10 (5.52%) Databricks
4 8 (4.42%) Blue Coat
4 8 (4.42%) CheckPoint
4 8 (4.42%) F5
4 8 (4.42%) Infoblox
4 8 (4.42%) Motorola
4 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.42%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.66%) Arista
5 3 (1.66%) Aruba
5 3 (1.66%) NetScout
6 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.10%) VMware
7 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.55%) Google
7 1 (0.55%) Intapp
7 1 (0.55%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.55%) Zscaler