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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 37 21
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +11
Permanent jobs citing Python 245 40 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.21% 4.26% 7.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.93% 30.53% 23.27%
Number of salaries quoted 195 33 79
10th Percentile £43,750 £28,250 £32,112
25th Percentile £48,750 £31,750 £43,619
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 £92,000 £99,000
England median annual salary £71,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.33% -

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 744 131 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.91% 13.95% 34.19%
Number of salaries quoted 611 105 275
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,025 £34,300
25th Percentile £46,473 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £67,806
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 22 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 22 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 +6 194 £67,500 +42.11% 100
Durham +19 42 £70,079 -6.56% 18
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 37 (15.10%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (9.39%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.76%) Apache
4 17 (6.94%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.82%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.82%) SAS
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.82%) SPSS
3 1 (0.41%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 122 (49.80%) AWS
2 109 (44.49%) Azure
3 50 (20.41%) GCP
4 36 (14.69%) Amazon S3
5 32 (13.06%) Power Platform
6 29 (11.84%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (11.84%) Serverless
7 26 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (9.80%) Azure AI
9 21 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
11 16 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
12 15 (6.12%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.67%) Textract
15 8 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (2.86%) SaaS
17 5 (2.04%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) Firewall
1 2 (0.82%) MQTT
1 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.41%) DNS
2 1 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.06%) Power BI
2 26 (10.61%) Tableau
3 23 (9.39%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.35%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (6.94%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (4.08%) Big Data
8 9 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.86%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.86%) GIS
9 7 (2.86%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.45%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.45%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.45%) Flink
10 6 (2.45%) Looker
10 6 (2.45%) Metadata
10 6 (2.45%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (13.88%) Git
2 22 (8.98%) GitLab
3 6 (2.45%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.45%) JIRA
3 6 (2.45%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.63%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.22%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.22%) LabVIEW
5 3 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.82%) MLflow
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) JMeter
7 1 (0.41%) Locust
General
1 70 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.51%) Public Sector
3 36 (14.69%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (10.20%) Finance
6 8 (3.27%) Law
7 6 (2.45%) Legal
8 5 (2.04%) Electronics
8 5 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.63%) 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 54 (22.04%) Data Engineer
2 34 (13.88%) Developer
2 34 (13.88%) Lead
3 32 (13.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 32 (13.06%) Senior
4 26 (10.61%) Python Engineer
5 20 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.16%) Python Developer
6 17 (6.94%) Analyst
6 17 (6.94%) Data Analyst
7 16 (6.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 16 (6.53%) Databricks Engineer
8 14 (5.71%) Junior
8 14 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.90%) Junior Analyst
10 12 (4.90%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (4.90%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (4.49%) Data Scientist
12 10 (4.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.41%) Terraform
2 26 (10.61%) .NET
3 19 (7.76%) PySpark
4 14 (5.71%) LangChain
5 12 (4.90%) Flask
5 12 (4.90%) LlamaIndex
6 11 (4.49%) CSS
6 11 (4.49%) HTML
6 11 (4.49%) YAML
7 10 (4.08%) Node.js
8 9 (3.67%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.67%) ARM Templates
9 8 (3.27%) React
9 8 (3.27%) Web Services
10 7 (2.86%) Ajax
10 7 (2.86%) Jinja
10 7 (2.86%) jQuery
10 7 (2.86%) OpenLayers
10 7 (2.86%) SQLAlchemy
11 6 (2.45%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.57%) Hedge funds
3 19 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (6.94%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (6.53%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.71%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.49%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (4.08%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.04%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.63%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.63%) Life Science
11 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.22%) Robotics
13 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.67%) Linux
2 5 (2.04%) Windows
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (32.65%) AI
2 71 (28.98%) CI/CD
3 68 (27.76%) DevOps
4 65 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
5 64 (26.12%) Agile
6 63 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (25.31%) Data Engineering
8 60 (24.49%) Data Pipeline
9 48 (19.59%) Data Modelling
10 46 (18.78%) Analytics
11 43 (17.55%) Mentoring
12 42 (17.14%) Containerisation
13 40 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 38 (15.51%) Software Engineering
15 37 (15.10%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (15.10%) Decision-Making
16 35 (14.29%) Machine Learning
17 31 (12.65%) ETL
17 31 (12.65%) Test Automation
18 30 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 115 (46.94%) SQL
2 33 (13.47%) Java
3 32 (13.06%) C#
4 30 (12.24%) Bash
5 20 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 18 (7.35%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.90%) Bicep
9 7 (2.86%) Go
10 6 (2.45%) C++
10 6 (2.45%) Scala
11 3 (1.22%) R
11 3 (1.22%) VB
12 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.88%) Azure Certification
3 33 (13.47%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (7.35%) Degree
6 14 (5.71%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.22%) HNC
8 3 (1.22%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.96%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.67%) QA
3 8 (3.27%) NCSC
4 5 (2.04%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (18.78%) Docker
2 3 (1.22%) vSphere
3 2 (0.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.86%) Ansible
3 6 (2.45%) Grafana
4 3 (1.22%) Control-M
4 3 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.22%) Puppet
5 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 39 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.29%) Databricks
3 6 (2.45%) Google
4 3 (1.22%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.22%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.22%) VMware
5 2 (0.82%) Oracle
6 1 (0.41%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.41%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.41%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.41%) Splunk