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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 27 47
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 -19
Permanent jobs citing Python 145 44 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.91% 7.76% 4.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.01% 26.19% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 88 37 65
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,438 £46,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £66,563 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,278 £96,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 302 168 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.56% 29.63% 26.84%
Number of salaries quoted 217 148 415
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,105 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,119 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,100 £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 4 April 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 4 April 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 +12 107 £45,000 -30.77% 60
Durham +8 36 £73,801 +6.37% 16
Northumberland +5 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 5 (3.45%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) WordPress
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 47 (32.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.52%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.45%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.69%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 101 (69.66%) Azure
2 61 (42.07%) AWS
3 38 (26.21%) Azure AI
3 38 (26.21%) Power Platform
4 31 (21.38%) GitHub
5 20 (13.79%) GCP
6 13 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.21%) dbt
9 6 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.14%) PaaS
10 5 (3.45%) IaaS
10 5 (3.45%) Pulumi
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.07%) Dagster
12 3 (2.07%) OCI
12 3 (2.07%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.31%) Firewall
2 20 (13.79%) Internet
3 15 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 13 (8.97%) VLAN
4 13 (8.97%) VPN
5 11 (7.59%) DNS
5 11 (7.59%) HTTP
6 8 (5.52%) BGP
6 8 (5.52%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (5.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (5.52%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (5.52%) EIGRP
6 8 (5.52%) LAN
6 8 (5.52%) Network Security
6 8 (5.52%) OSPF
6 8 (5.52%) SNMP
6 8 (5.52%) WAAS
6 8 (5.52%) WAN
6 8 (5.52%) Wireless
6 8 (5.52%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (35.86%) Tableau
2 37 (25.52%) Power BI
3 14 (9.66%) Data Mining
4 8 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.76%) Redis
8 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.07%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.38%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.69%) Big Data
10 1 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.69%) Looker
10 1 (0.69%) Metadata
10 1 (0.69%) QGIS
10 1 (0.69%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (15.86%) Git
2 13 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.07%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.07%) JIRA
4 3 (2.07%) Selenium
5 2 (1.38%) JMeter
5 2 (1.38%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.38%) Locust
6 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.69%) GitLab
6 1 (0.69%) JUnit
6 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.31%) Finance
4 19 (13.10%) Multimedia
5 11 (7.59%) Law
5 11 (7.59%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.45%) Retail
8 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Electronics
9 2 (1.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 52 (35.86%) Analyst
2 49 (33.79%) Data Analyst
3 37 (25.52%) Trainee
4 36 (24.83%) Junior
5 34 (23.45%) Junior Analyst
5 34 (23.45%) Junior Data Analyst
6 18 (12.41%) Senior
7 17 (11.72%) Developer
8 13 (8.97%) Lead
8 13 (8.97%) Trainee Analyst
8 13 (8.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 12 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Trainee Developer
10 10 (6.90%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Network Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Programmer
12 5 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.48%) HTML
2 19 (13.10%) CSS
3 13 (8.97%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.45%) Django
4 5 (3.45%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (3.45%) Hugging Face
4 5 (3.45%) Matplotlib
4 5 (3.45%) NumPy
4 5 (3.45%) Pandas
4 5 (3.45%) scikit-learn
4 5 (3.45%) Streamlit
5 4 (2.76%) .NET
6 2 (1.38%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.38%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.38%) Playwright
6 2 (1.38%) Puppeteer
6 2 (1.38%) PySpark
6 2 (1.38%) REST
6 2 (1.38%) Spring
6 2 (1.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.83%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.76%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.07%) PKI
5 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.69%) EPoS
6 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Linux
2 6 (4.14%) Windows
3 5 (3.45%) Debian
3 5 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.55%) AI
2 42 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (17.93%) DevOps
4 24 (16.55%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.17%) CI/CD
6 21 (14.48%) Analytics
7 20 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (11.72%) Containerisation
8 17 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (11.03%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.03%) High Availability
10 14 (9.66%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (9.66%) Data Analytics
10 14 (9.66%) Project Management
10 14 (9.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (8.97%) Business Analysis
11 13 (8.97%) Data Analysis
11 13 (8.97%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 70 (48.28%) SQL
2 21 (14.48%) JavaScript
3 17 (11.72%) Bash
4 11 (7.59%) Go
4 11 (7.59%) Java
4 11 (7.59%) R
5 8 (5.52%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.14%) C#
6 6 (4.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.38%) VB
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 63 (43.45%) Azure Certification
2 24 (16.55%) AWS Certification
2 24 (16.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 20 (13.79%) Degree
4 19 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.52%) CCIE
6 8 (5.52%) CCNP
7 7 (4.83%) Security Cleared
8 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.07%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.69%) CCSP
11 1 (0.69%) CISA
11 1 (0.69%) CISSP
11 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.69%) GSEC
11 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.52%) PMO
2 4 (2.76%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) WCAG
4 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) ProxySG
3 5 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (15.86%) Terraform
2 16 (11.03%) Ansible
2 16 (11.03%) Grafana
3 12 (8.28%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.07%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.69%) Control-M
Vendors
1 83 (57.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.66%) Cisco
3 8 (5.52%) Blue Coat
3 8 (5.52%) CheckPoint
3 8 (5.52%) F5
3 8 (5.52%) Infoblox
3 8 (5.52%) Motorola
3 8 (5.52%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.52%) SolarWinds
4 7 (4.83%) Databricks
5 4 (2.76%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) Arista
6 3 (2.07%) Aruba
6 3 (2.07%) NetScout
7 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.69%) Intapp
7 1 (0.69%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.69%) Zscaler