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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 29 49
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 193 39 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.81% 6.54% 3.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.79% 28.68% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 123 32 62
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £65,000 £60,141
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.08% -3.77%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,875 £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 451 136 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 20.58% 22.82% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 347 121 442
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £41,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,106 £72,777 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +9 143 £51,000 -21.54% 67
Durham +18 45 £59,000 -14.97% 6
Northumberland +5 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 11 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (5.70%) Jupyter
2 6 (3.11%) Apache
2 6 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.04%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) SAS
3 2 (1.04%) WordPress
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 47 (24.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.15%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.59%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 115 (59.59%) Azure
2 73 (37.82%) AWS
3 50 (25.91%) Azure AI
4 47 (24.35%) Power Platform
5 22 (11.40%) GCP
6 21 (10.88%) GitHub
7 18 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (5.18%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 8 (4.15%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (3.11%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (3.11%) dbt
10 6 (3.11%) SaaS
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (2.59%) IaaS
11 5 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (15.03%) Firewall
2 13 (6.74%) VLAN
2 13 (6.74%) VPN
3 12 (6.22%) Internet
4 11 (5.70%) TCP/IP
5 10 (5.18%) DNS
5 10 (5.18%) HTTP
6 8 (4.15%) BGP
6 8 (4.15%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (4.15%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (4.15%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (4.15%) EIGRP
6 8 (4.15%) LAN
6 8 (4.15%) Network Security
6 8 (4.15%) OSPF
6 8 (4.15%) SNMP
6 8 (4.15%) WAAS
6 8 (4.15%) WAN
6 8 (4.15%) Wireless
6 8 (4.15%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (29.02%) Tableau
2 46 (23.83%) Power BI
3 10 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.66%) Data Mining
5 8 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.63%) Big Data
6 7 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (2.59%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.59%) GIS
9 4 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.07%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.04%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 20 (10.36%) Git
2 10 (5.18%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.11%) GitLab
4 5 (2.59%) JIRA
4 5 (2.59%) LabVIEW
4 5 (2.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.04%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.04%) MLflow
5 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.04%) Selenium
5 2 (1.04%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) Locust
General
1 69 (35.75%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (16.58%) Finance
3 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.70%) Multimedia
5 10 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.18%) Law
5 10 (5.18%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.63%) Electronics
7 6 (3.11%) Legal
8 5 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.59%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Wearables
10 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 52 (26.94%) Analyst
2 50 (25.91%) Data Analyst
3 40 (20.73%) Junior
4 38 (19.69%) Junior Analyst
4 38 (19.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 25 (12.95%) Trainee
6 23 (11.92%) Developer
7 19 (9.84%) Lead
7 19 (9.84%) Senior
8 17 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 16 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.25%) Software Developer
11 13 (6.74%) Data Engineer
12 12 (6.22%) Python Engineer
13 9 (4.66%) Python Developer
13 9 (4.66%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.66%) Test Engineer
13 9 (4.66%) Trainee Analyst
13 9 (4.66%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 8 (4.15%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.84%) HTML
2 18 (9.33%) .NET
3 17 (8.81%) CSS
4 12 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (4.15%) .NET Core
6 7 (3.63%) PySpark
7 6 (3.11%) ARM Templates
7 6 (3.11%) Flask
7 6 (3.11%) LangChain
7 6 (3.11%) Node.js
7 6 (3.11%) YAML
8 5 (2.59%) Ajax
8 5 (2.59%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (2.59%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.59%) jQuery
8 5 (2.59%) Matplotlib
8 5 (2.59%) NumPy
8 5 (2.59%) Pandas
8 5 (2.59%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (2.59%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.25%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.22%) Hedge funds
3 11 (5.70%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.11%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.07%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.07%) Life Science
6 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.55%) PKI
8 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.52%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.70%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) Windows
3 5 (2.59%) Debian
3 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (43.52%) AI
2 50 (25.91%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (16.58%) DevOps
4 28 (14.51%) Analytics
5 26 (13.47%) CI/CD
6 24 (12.44%) Mentoring
7 23 (11.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (11.40%) Agile
8 22 (11.40%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (10.88%) Computer Science
10 20 (10.36%) Containerisation
10 20 (10.36%) Fintech
10 20 (10.36%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 18 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (8.29%) Data Engineering
12 16 (8.29%) Machine Learning
12 16 (8.29%) Test Automation
13 15 (7.77%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 93 (48.19%) SQL
2 25 (12.95%) Bash
3 18 (9.33%) Java
4 17 (8.81%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.29%) C#
6 15 (7.77%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.18%) Go
7 10 (5.18%) R
7 10 (5.18%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.11%) Bicep
9 5 (2.59%) C++
9 5 (2.59%) VB
10 2 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (34.72%) Azure Certification
2 23 (11.92%) Degree
3 18 (9.33%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 12 (6.22%) Security Cleared
6 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.70%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.66%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.15%) CCIE
8 8 (4.15%) CCNP
9 4 (2.07%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (1.55%) HNC
11 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.52%) CCSP
12 1 (0.52%) CISA
12 1 (0.52%) CISSP
12 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.81%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.15%) PMO
3 6 (3.11%) QA
4 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (7.25%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.04%) Firmware
4 2 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (14.51%) Terraform
2 15 (7.77%) Ansible
3 14 (7.25%) Kubernetes
4 13 (6.74%) Grafana
5 10 (5.18%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.04%) Control-M
6 2 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 87 (45.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.25%) Cisco
3 12 (6.22%) Databricks
4 8 (4.15%) Blue Coat
4 8 (4.15%) CheckPoint
4 8 (4.15%) F5
4 8 (4.15%) Infoblox
4 8 (4.15%) Motorola
4 8 (4.15%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.15%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.55%) Arista
5 3 (1.55%) Aruba
5 3 (1.55%) NetScout
6 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.04%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.04%) VMware
7 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.52%) Google
7 1 (0.52%) Intapp
7 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint