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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 19 28
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Python 46 116 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.70% 8.72% 5.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.33% 25.11% 17.42%
Number of salaries quoted 38 80 28
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,282 £45,875
25th Percentile £31,750 £44,178 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - -
75th Percentile £68,438 £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £77,887 £98,875 £73,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - +4.17%

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 134 462 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.69% 34.74% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 101 249 145
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +1.72%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,800 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,000 £71,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 -5 41 £40,000 -37.44% 77
Durham -21 5 £75,000 +8.21% 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 5 (10.87%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.52%) SAS
3 1 (2.17%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.52%) Siemens NX
3 2 (4.35%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (56.52%) Azure
2 23 (50.00%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) GitHub
4 7 (15.22%) GCP
5 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.17%) dbt
7 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.17%) PaaS
7 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.17%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) Asterisk PBX
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
1 6 (13.04%) PSTN
1 6 (13.04%) VoIP
2 5 (10.87%) Internet
3 3 (6.52%) PuTTY
3 3 (6.52%) SAN
4 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) Tableau
2 6 (13.04%) Metadata
2 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.87%) Spark SQL
4 4 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.70%) Power BI
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.52%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.52%) Big Data
5 3 (6.52%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (6.52%) Data Mining
5 3 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.52%) HBase
5 3 (6.52%) MySQL
5 3 (6.52%) Neo4j
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.52%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (6.52%) QlikView
5 3 (6.52%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
2 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
2 3 (6.52%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.17%) MLflow
General
1 15 (32.61%) Finance
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 5 (10.87%) Multimedia
6 3 (6.52%) Legal
6 3 (6.52%) Retail
7 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Advertising
8 1 (2.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Senior
2 8 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Trainee
3 7 (15.22%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Support Specialist
5 5 (10.87%) Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Software Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Administrator
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Trainee Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Trainee Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Trainee Software Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Java Scala Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Scala Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) .NET
2 6 (13.04%) FreeSWITCH
2 6 (13.04%) HTML
3 5 (10.87%) AngularJS
3 5 (10.87%) CSS
3 5 (10.87%) PySpark
4 3 (6.52%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.52%) Itk
4 3 (6.52%) Kafka
4 3 (6.52%) Plotly
4 3 (6.52%) Regular Expression
4 3 (6.52%) Shiny
4 3 (6.52%) Spring
4 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.52%) YAML
5 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.17%) Django
6 1 (2.17%) Pandas
6 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (10.87%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Derivative
4 1 (2.17%) Equities
4 1 (2.17%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 5 (10.87%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Unix
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Agile
2 15 (32.61%) DevOps
3 14 (30.43%) Computer Science
4 11 (23.91%) Mentoring
4 11 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.04%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
8 6 (13.04%) Fintech
8 6 (13.04%) Task Automation
8 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
9 5 (10.87%) AI
9 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (10.87%) Machine Learning
9 5 (10.87%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) SQL
2 15 (32.61%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) Bash
4 9 (19.57%) TypeScript
5 8 (17.39%) C#
5 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.04%) R
7 3 (6.52%) PROC SQL
7 3 (6.52%) Tcl
8 2 (4.35%) Bicep
8 2 (4.35%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.35%) Scala
9 1 (2.17%) C
9 1 (2.17%) C++
9 1 (2.17%) Dart
9 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.17%) PHP
9 1 (2.17%) Ruby
9 1 (2.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (32.61%) Degree
2 8 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 8 (17.39%) Azure Certification
3 6 (13.04%) CCNP
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (13.04%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (13.04%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.52%) HNC
6 3 (6.52%) HND
6 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.87%) Docker
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Flume
3 3 (6.52%) HDFS
3 3 (6.52%) Hyper-V
3 3 (6.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Terraform
2 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.52%) Ansible
3 3 (6.52%) Control-M
3 3 (6.52%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (6.52%) Grafana
3 3 (6.52%) Kibana
3 3 (6.52%) logstash
3 3 (6.52%) Oozie
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Cisco
2 6 (13.04%) VMware
3 5 (10.87%) Databricks
4 4 (8.70%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.52%) Informatica
5 3 (6.52%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (6.52%) SAP
5 3 (6.52%) Siemens
6 2 (4.35%) ESRI