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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 32 49
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 175 41 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.72% 7.08% 3.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.69% 25.79% 14.70%
Number of salaries quoted 102 35 63
10th Percentile £28,350 £35,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,625 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,222 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.27% +13.04% -9.80%
75th Percentile £71,214 £83,125 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.04%

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 383 159 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 19.09% 27.46% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 279 142 429
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,599 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,395 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £79,680
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 13 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 13 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 +12 128 £47,972 -23.24% 74
Durham +12 44 £59,000 -14.97% 12
Northumberland +5 3 - - 1
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 8 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.57%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.71%) Apache
2 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
3 2 (1.14%) WordPress
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 52 (29.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.57%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.86%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 116 (66.29%) Azure
2 64 (36.57%) AWS
3 54 (30.86%) Azure AI
4 47 (26.86%) Power Platform
5 22 (12.57%) GCP
5 22 (12.57%) GitHub
6 17 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.43%) dbt
10 5 (2.86%) IaaS
10 5 (2.86%) SaaS
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.29%) PaaS
12 3 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.71%) Dagster
12 3 (1.71%) OCI
12 3 (1.71%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 29 (16.57%) Firewall
2 13 (7.43%) VLAN
2 13 (7.43%) VPN
3 12 (6.86%) Internet
3 12 (6.86%) TCP/IP
4 11 (6.29%) DNS
4 11 (6.29%) HTTP
5 8 (4.57%) BGP
5 8 (4.57%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (4.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (4.57%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (4.57%) EIGRP
5 8 (4.57%) LAN
5 8 (4.57%) Network Security
5 8 (4.57%) OSPF
5 8 (4.57%) SNMP
5 8 (4.57%) WAAS
5 8 (4.57%) WAN
5 8 (4.57%) Wireless
5 8 (4.57%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (32.57%) Tableau
2 46 (26.29%) Power BI
3 10 (5.71%) Data Mining
4 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.71%) Big Data
8 3 (1.71%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.71%) GIS
8 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.71%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.14%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (10.29%) Git
2 12 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.86%) JIRA
3 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (1.71%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
4 3 (1.71%) GitLab
4 3 (1.71%) LabVIEW
4 3 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.14%) Selenium
6 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) JMeter
6 1 (0.57%) Locust
6 1 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 67 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.14%) Finance
3 28 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.29%) Law
4 11 (6.29%) Multimedia
4 11 (6.29%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.29%) Telecoms
5 9 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.43%) Legal
7 5 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.86%) Retail
8 4 (2.29%) Electronics
9 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 56 (32.00%) Analyst
2 54 (30.86%) Data Analyst
3 44 (25.14%) Junior
4 42 (24.00%) Junior Analyst
4 42 (24.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 26 (14.86%) Trainee
6 20 (11.43%) Developer
7 18 (10.29%) Lead
8 16 (9.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Senior
10 14 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 13 (7.43%) Software Developer
12 11 (6.29%) Python Engineer
13 10 (5.71%) Trainee Analyst
13 10 (5.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 8 (4.57%) Data Engineer
14 8 (4.57%) Network Engineer
14 8 (4.57%) Senior Network Engineer
14 8 (4.57%) Software Engineer
15 7 (4.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.71%) HTML
2 15 (8.57%) CSS
3 14 (8.00%) .NET
3 14 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.43%) .NET Core
5 5 (2.86%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.86%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.86%) Hugging Face
5 5 (2.86%) Matplotlib
5 5 (2.86%) NumPy
5 5 (2.86%) Pandas
5 5 (2.86%) scikit-learn
5 5 (2.86%) Streamlit
6 4 (2.29%) Flask
6 4 (2.29%) Node.js
6 4 (2.29%) YAML
7 3 (1.71%) Ajax
7 3 (1.71%) jQuery
7 3 (1.71%) LangChain
7 3 (1.71%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.29%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.71%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.29%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.29%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.71%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.71%) PKI
7 2 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.14%) Life Science
7 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.57%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.29%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.86%) Debian
3 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (44.57%) AI
2 50 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (16.57%) DevOps
4 25 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 21 (12.00%) Computer Science
5 21 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (12.00%) Mentoring
6 19 (10.86%) Analytics
7 18 (10.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 18 (10.29%) Containerisation
7 18 (10.29%) Fintech
8 17 (9.71%) Software Engineering
9 16 (9.14%) Agile
9 16 (9.14%) High Availability
9 16 (9.14%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (7.43%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (7.43%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (7.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (7.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.86%) SQL
2 24 (13.71%) Bash
3 18 (10.29%) Java
4 16 (9.14%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.57%) C#
6 14 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.29%) Go
8 10 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.57%) R
10 4 (2.29%) Bicep
11 3 (1.71%) C++
11 3 (1.71%) VB
12 2 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (40.57%) Azure Certification
2 23 (13.14%) Degree
3 17 (9.71%) AWS Certification
4 16 (9.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (6.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (5.14%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (4.57%) CCIE
8 8 (4.57%) CCNP
8 8 (4.57%) Security Cleared
9 7 (4.00%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.71%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.57%) CCSP
12 1 (0.57%) CISA
12 1 (0.57%) CISSP
12 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.57%) GSEC
12 1 (0.57%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) PMO
2 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (6.29%) Docker
2 8 (4.57%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.71%) vSphere
5 1 (0.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (14.86%) Terraform
2 18 (10.29%) Ansible
3 16 (9.14%) Grafana
4 12 (6.86%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.29%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.29%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.71%) Control-M
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 90 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.00%) Cisco
3 10 (5.71%) Databricks
4 8 (4.57%) Blue Coat
4 8 (4.57%) CheckPoint
4 8 (4.57%) F5
4 8 (4.57%) Infoblox
4 8 (4.57%) Motorola
4 8 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.57%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.71%) Arista
5 3 (1.71%) Aruba
5 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.71%) NetScout
5 3 (1.71%) VMware
6 1 (0.57%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.57%) Google
6 1 (0.57%) Intapp
6 1 (0.57%) Zscaler