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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +29 -8 +15
Permanent jobs citing Python 231 38 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.49% 4.42% 4.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.44% 27.14% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 165 31 74
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £30,900
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £38,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,831
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +3.45% -3.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £85,875
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 634 140 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.30% 16.28% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 514 118 381
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £38,825 £38,750
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 £91,125 £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 24 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 24 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 +15 178 £62,500 -3.85% 72
Durham +19 46 £59,000 -14.97% 10
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 12
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 (13.42%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (8.23%) Jupyter
3 15 (6.49%) Apache
4 14 (6.06%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.87%) Confluence
5 2 (0.87%) SAS
5 2 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (16.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.16%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.73%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.87%) SPSS
5 1 (0.43%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 114 (49.35%) Azure
2 96 (41.56%) AWS
3 46 (19.91%) Power Platform
4 42 (18.18%) Azure AI
5 32 (13.85%) GCP
6 20 (8.66%) Amazon S3
6 20 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (7.79%) Serverless
8 17 (7.36%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (6.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (5.63%) Amazon EMR
11 12 (5.19%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (4.33%) GitHub
14 9 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.46%) Textract
16 7 (3.03%) SaaS
17 6 (2.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.79%) Firewall
2 8 (3.46%) DNS
2 8 (3.46%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.46%) VLAN
2 8 (3.46%) VPN
3 7 (3.03%) HTTP
4 4 (1.73%) BGP
4 4 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (1.73%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (1.73%) Cisco Wireless
4 4 (1.73%) DMZ
4 4 (1.73%) Internet
4 4 (1.73%) Network Security
4 4 (1.73%) OSPF
4 4 (1.73%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.73%) SNMP
4 4 (1.73%) STUN
4 4 (1.73%) WAAS
4 4 (1.73%) Wireless
4 4 (1.73%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.65%) Tableau
2 46 (19.91%) Power BI
3 18 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.49%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (3.90%) Big Data
7 9 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.03%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.60%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.16%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.16%) GIS
12 4 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.30%) Looker
Development Applications
1 22 (9.52%) Git
2 14 (6.06%) GitLab
3 9 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.60%) JIRA
5 5 (2.16%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.73%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.73%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.87%) MLflow
8 2 (0.87%) Selenium
9 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Locust
General
1 73 (31.60%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.45%) Finance
3 33 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.90%) Law
7 7 (3.03%) Electronics
7 7 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.60%) Legal
9 5 (2.16%) Retail
10 4 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.73%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.73%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.87%) Front Office
11 2 (0.87%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Wearables
12 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (18.61%) Analyst
2 41 (17.75%) Data Analyst
3 38 (16.45%) Data Engineer
4 33 (14.29%) Junior
5 30 (12.99%) Junior Analyst
5 30 (12.99%) Junior Data Analyst
6 27 (11.69%) Developer
7 25 (10.82%) Lead
8 24 (10.39%) Senior
9 22 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
9 22 (9.52%) Python Engineer
10 19 (8.23%) Python Developer
11 17 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 14 (6.06%) Trainee
13 12 (5.19%) Python Data Engineer
13 12 (5.19%) Software Engineer
14 11 (4.76%) Data Scientist
15 10 (4.33%) Lead Data Engineer
15 10 (4.33%) Test Engineer
16 9 (3.90%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.39%) .NET
2 16 (6.93%) PySpark
3 13 (5.63%) HTML
4 11 (4.76%) CSS
4 11 (4.76%) YAML
5 10 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (3.90%) .NET Core
6 9 (3.90%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.90%) Flask
7 8 (3.46%) Node.js
7 8 (3.46%) React
8 6 (2.60%) LangChain
8 6 (2.60%) Pandas
8 6 (2.60%) RESTful
9 5 (2.16%) boto
9 5 (2.16%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.16%) Jinja
9 5 (2.16%) OpenLayers
9 5 (2.16%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.16%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.52%) Hedge funds
2 15 (6.49%) Algorithms
3 13 (5.63%) Data Structures
4 12 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.90%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (3.90%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.16%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.73%) Life Science
9 3 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.30%) Robotics
10 2 (0.87%) IoT
10 2 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.87%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.63%) Linux
2 8 (3.46%) Windows
3 5 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.73%) Debian
5 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (38.10%) AI
2 49 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (19.91%) DevOps
4 42 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 42 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 42 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (17.32%) Agile
6 38 (16.45%) Analytics
7 36 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (13.42%) Containerisation
8 31 (13.42%) Data Engineering
9 30 (12.99%) Data Modelling
9 30 (12.99%) Fintech
10 28 (12.12%) Workflow
11 27 (11.69%) Decision-Making
11 27 (11.69%) Software Engineering
12 26 (11.26%) Test Automation
13 22 (9.52%) Computer Science
13 22 (9.52%) Mentoring
13 22 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 124 (53.68%) SQL
2 30 (12.99%) Bash
3 29 (12.55%) C#
4 23 (9.96%) Java
5 22 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 16 (6.93%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.76%) Bicep
9 10 (4.33%) Go
10 6 (2.60%) C++
10 6 (2.60%) R
11 5 (2.16%) VB
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (21.21%) Azure Certification
2 23 (9.96%) Degree
3 22 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 21 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.73%) CCIE
8 4 (1.73%) CCNP
8 4 (1.73%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.30%) HNC
10 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.43%) CISA
11 1 (0.43%) CISSP
11 1 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.43%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.55%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.46%) QA
3 4 (1.73%) PMO
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (12.55%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.73%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.30%) vSphere
4 2 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (16.88%) Terraform
2 22 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.76%) Ansible
3 11 (4.76%) Grafana
4 7 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.30%) Control-M
5 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.43%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (32.90%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.99%) Databricks
3 9 (3.90%) Cisco
4 4 (1.73%) Blue Coat
4 4 (1.73%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.73%) F5
4 4 (1.73%) Infoblox
4 4 (1.73%) Motorola
4 4 (1.73%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.73%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.30%) Google
5 3 (1.30%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.30%) VMware
6 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.43%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.43%) Zscaler