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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 35 33
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 221 37 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.32% 4.47% 4.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.47% 26.24% 17.16%
Number of salaries quoted 155 30 83
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,313 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -2.34% -1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,870 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +6.96% -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 606 141 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.81% 17.03% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 490 119 449
10th Percentile £38,998 £25,000 £31,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,900 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,375 £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 12 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 12 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 +16 173 £60,000 - 72
Durham +15 43 £57,750 -16.77% 12
Northumberland - 5 - - 9
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 27 (12.22%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (7.69%) Jupyter
3 13 (5.88%) Apache
3 13 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) SAS
4 2 (0.90%) WordPress
Applications
1 39 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.26%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.90%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 117 (52.94%) Azure
2 91 (41.18%) AWS
3 44 (19.91%) Azure AI
3 44 (19.91%) Power Platform
4 31 (14.03%) GCP
5 21 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.24%) Amazon S3
7 14 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (5.88%) Serverless
9 12 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (5.43%) Amazon EMR
9 12 (5.43%) GitHub
10 11 (4.98%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (3.17%) SaaS
13 7 (3.17%) Textract
14 6 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.71%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.86%) Firewall
2 10 (4.52%) TCP/IP
3 9 (4.07%) DNS
3 9 (4.07%) HTTP
3 9 (4.07%) VLAN
3 9 (4.07%) VPN
4 5 (2.26%) DMZ
4 5 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (2.26%) STUN
4 5 (2.26%) VoIP
5 4 (1.81%) BGP
5 4 (1.81%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.81%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.81%) Internet
5 4 (1.81%) LAN
5 4 (1.81%) OSPF
5 4 (1.81%) SNMP
5 4 (1.81%) WAN
5 4 (1.81%) Wireless
5 4 (1.81%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.08%) Tableau
2 44 (19.91%) Power BI
3 15 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.43%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.07%) Big Data
6 9 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.17%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.71%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.71%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.26%) GIS
11 4 (1.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.36%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.90%) Data Vault
13 2 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (8.60%) Git
2 13 (5.88%) GitLab
3 10 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.71%) JIRA
5 5 (2.26%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.81%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.36%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.90%) MLflow
8 2 (0.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) Locust
General
1 70 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.84%) Finance
3 33 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.52%) Law
7 9 (4.07%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.17%) Electronics
8 7 (3.17%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.71%) Legal
10 5 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.26%) Retail
11 4 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.36%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.36%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Wearables
14 1 (0.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 44 (19.91%) Analyst
2 42 (19.00%) Data Analyst
3 34 (15.38%) Junior
4 33 (14.93%) Data Engineer
5 32 (14.48%) Junior Analyst
5 32 (14.48%) Junior Data Analyst
6 25 (11.31%) Developer
7 23 (10.41%) Lead
8 21 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (9.05%) Senior
10 18 (8.14%) Python Engineer
11 17 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 16 (7.24%) Python Developer
13 15 (6.79%) Trainee
14 13 (5.88%) Software Engineer
15 10 (4.52%) Data Scientist
15 10 (4.52%) Python Data Engineer
15 10 (4.52%) Software Developer
15 10 (4.52%) Test Engineer
16 8 (3.62%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.41%) .NET
2 15 (6.79%) PySpark
3 13 (5.88%) HTML
4 12 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (4.98%) CSS
6 10 (4.52%) YAML
7 9 (4.07%) .NET Core
8 8 (3.62%) ARM Templates
8 8 (3.62%) Flask
8 8 (3.62%) Node.js
9 7 (3.17%) React
10 6 (2.71%) LangChain
10 6 (2.71%) Pandas
11 5 (2.26%) boto
11 5 (2.26%) Hugging Face
11 5 (2.26%) Jinja
11 5 (2.26%) Matplotlib
11 5 (2.26%) OpenLayers
11 5 (2.26%) scikit-learn
11 5 (2.26%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.50%) Hedge funds
2 15 (6.79%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.43%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.62%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.26%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.81%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.81%) Life Science
10 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.36%) PKI
10 3 (1.36%) Robotics
11 2 (0.90%) IoT
11 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.88%) Linux
2 8 (3.62%) Windows
3 5 (2.26%) Debian
3 5 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (40.27%) AI
2 48 (21.72%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (19.46%) DevOps
4 41 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 39 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
6 35 (15.84%) Agile
6 35 (15.84%) Analytics
7 33 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (13.12%) Containerisation
8 29 (13.12%) Fintech
9 27 (12.22%) Data Engineering
10 25 (11.31%) Software Engineering
11 24 (10.86%) Data Modelling
11 24 (10.86%) Decision-Making
11 24 (10.86%) Mentoring
11 24 (10.86%) Test Automation
11 24 (10.86%) Workflow
12 22 (9.95%) Computer Science
13 20 (9.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 118 (53.39%) SQL
2 30 (13.57%) Bash
3 28 (12.67%) C#
4 23 (10.41%) Java
5 21 (9.50%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.24%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.43%) Go
7 12 (5.43%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.52%) Bicep
9 6 (2.71%) C++
9 6 (2.71%) R
10 5 (2.26%) VB
11 2 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (23.98%) Azure Certification
2 22 (9.95%) Degree
3 20 (9.05%) Security Cleared
4 19 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.81%) CCIE
8 4 (1.81%) CCNP
8 4 (1.81%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.36%) HNC
9 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) CISA
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.17%) QA
3 4 (1.81%) 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 24 (10.86%) Docker
2 5 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.81%) ProxySG
4 3 (1.36%) vSphere
5 2 (0.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (17.65%) Terraform
2 20 (9.05%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.24%) Ansible
4 13 (5.88%) Grafana
5 9 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.36%) Control-M
6 3 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (34.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.76%) Databricks
3 10 (4.52%) Cisco
4 4 (1.81%) Blue Coat
4 4 (1.81%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.81%) F5
4 4 (1.81%) Infoblox
4 4 (1.81%) Motorola
4 4 (1.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.81%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.36%) Arista
5 3 (1.36%) Aruba
5 3 (1.36%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.36%) NetScout
5 3 (1.36%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.36%) VMware
6 2 (0.90%) Google
6 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.45%) Red Hat