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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 35 35
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 237 39 77
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.69% 4.51% 4.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.97% 27.66% 16.49%
Number of salaries quoted 169 32 71
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +3.37% -3.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -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 641 141 467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.51% 16.32% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 519 119 378
10th Percentile £39,800 £25,000 £33,350
25th Percentile £45,375 £38,900 £37,626
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £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 25 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 25 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 +16 184 £62,500 -3.85% 69
Durham +20 46 £59,000 -14.97% 9
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 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 31 (13.08%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (8.02%) Jupyter
3 16 (6.75%) Apache Spark
4 15 (6.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) SAS
5 2 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (15.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.11%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.84%) SPSS
5 1 (0.42%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 117 (49.37%) Azure
2 102 (43.04%) AWS
3 46 (19.41%) Power Platform
4 42 (17.72%) Azure AI
5 36 (15.19%) GCP
6 22 (9.28%) Amazon S3
7 20 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (8.44%) Serverless
8 18 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.49%) Amazon EMR
10 13 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
12 10 (4.22%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.22%) GitHub
13 8 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
13 8 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.38%) Textract
14 7 (2.95%) SaaS
14 7 (2.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.59%) Firewall
2 8 (3.38%) DNS
2 8 (3.38%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.38%) VLAN
2 8 (3.38%) VPN
3 7 (2.95%) HTTP
4 4 (1.69%) BGP
4 4 (1.69%) DMZ
4 4 (1.69%) EIGRP
4 4 (1.69%) Internet
4 4 (1.69%) LAN
4 4 (1.69%) Network Security
4 4 (1.69%) OSPF
4 4 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.69%) SNMP
4 4 (1.69%) STUN
4 4 (1.69%) VoIP
4 4 (1.69%) WAN
4 4 (1.69%) Wireless
4 4 (1.69%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.10%) Tableau
2 46 (19.41%) Power BI
3 19 (8.02%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.33%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.80%) Big Data
7 9 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.95%) Data Mining
8 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.53%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.11%) GIS
11 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.69%) Looker
11 4 (1.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (9.70%) Git
2 14 (5.91%) GitLab
3 9 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.53%) JIRA
5 5 (2.11%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.84%) MLflow
8 2 (0.84%) Selenium
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) JMeter
9 1 (0.42%) Locust
General
1 74 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.03%) Finance
3 35 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.22%) Law
7 7 (2.95%) Electronics
7 7 (2.95%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.95%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.53%) Legal
9 5 (2.11%) Retail
10 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.69%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Wearables
12 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (18.14%) Analyst
2 41 (17.30%) Data Analyst
3 40 (16.88%) Data Engineer
4 33 (13.92%) Junior
5 30 (12.66%) Junior Analyst
5 30 (12.66%) Junior Data Analyst
6 27 (11.39%) Developer
7 26 (10.97%) Lead
8 24 (10.13%) Senior
9 22 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (8.86%) Python Engineer
11 19 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 19 (8.02%) Python Developer
12 14 (5.91%) Trainee
13 12 (5.06%) Python Data Engineer
13 12 (5.06%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.64%) Data Scientist
15 10 (4.22%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (4.22%) Test Engineer
16 9 (3.80%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.13%) .NET
2 16 (6.75%) PySpark
3 13 (5.49%) HTML
4 11 (4.64%) CSS
4 11 (4.64%) YAML
5 10 (4.22%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.80%) .NET Core
6 9 (3.80%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.80%) Flask
7 8 (3.38%) Node.js
7 8 (3.38%) React
8 7 (2.95%) LangChain
9 6 (2.53%) Pandas
9 6 (2.53%) RESTful
10 5 (2.11%) boto
10 5 (2.11%) Jinja
10 5 (2.11%) NumPy
10 5 (2.11%) OpenLayers
10 5 (2.11%) scikit-learn
10 5 (2.11%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.28%) Hedge funds
2 15 (6.33%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 13 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.64%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (3.80%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.11%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.69%) Life Science
8 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.27%) Robotics
9 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.49%) Linux
2 8 (3.38%) Windows
3 5 (2.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.69%) Debian
5 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.40%) AI
2 49 (20.68%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (20.68%) DevOps
3 47 (19.83%) CI/CD
4 44 (18.57%) Agile
4 44 (18.57%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (16.88%) Analytics
7 36 (15.19%) Data Engineering
8 33 (13.92%) Containerisation
8 33 (13.92%) Data Modelling
9 29 (12.24%) Fintech
10 28 (11.81%) Decision-Making
10 28 (11.81%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.81%) Workflow
11 26 (10.97%) Test Automation
12 25 (10.55%) Mentoring
13 24 (10.13%) Machine Learning
14 22 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 126 (53.16%) SQL
2 31 (13.08%) Bash
3 29 (12.24%) C#
4 25 (10.55%) Java
5 22 (9.28%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.06%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.64%) Bicep
9 10 (4.22%) Go
10 6 (2.53%) C++
10 6 (2.53%) R
11 5 (2.11%) VB
12 3 (1.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.52%) Azure Certification
2 26 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) Degree
3 23 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.69%) CCIE
8 4 (1.69%) CCNP
8 4 (1.69%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.27%) HNC
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.42%) CCSP
11 1 (0.42%) CISA
11 1 (0.42%) CISSP
11 1 (0.42%) GSEC
11 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.08%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.38%) QA
3 4 (1.69%) PMO
4 3 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (13.08%) Docker
2 4 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.69%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.27%) vSphere
4 2 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (17.30%) Terraform
2 23 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.64%) Ansible
3 11 (4.64%) Grafana
4 7 (2.95%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.27%) Control-M
5 3 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.42%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (32.07%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.08%) Databricks
3 9 (3.80%) Cisco
4 4 (1.69%) Blue Coat
4 4 (1.69%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.69%) F5
4 4 (1.69%) Google
4 4 (1.69%) Infoblox
4 4 (1.69%) Motorola
4 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.69%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.27%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.27%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.27%) VMware
6 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.42%) Zscaler