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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	19	36	18
Rank change year-on-year	+17	-18	+13
Permanent jobs citing Python	237	46	116
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East	6.54%	4.70%	8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category	30.90%	34.07%	25.05%
Number of salaries quoted	202	38	80
10^th Percentile	£46,000	£28,250	£32,282
25^th Percentile	£50,069	£31,750	£44,178
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	£45,000	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	+50.00%	-30.77%	-
75^th Percentile	£87,000	£68,438	£80,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£77,887	£98,875
England median annual salary	£72,500	£72,500	£75,000
% change year-on-year	-	-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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills	767	135	463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East	21.15%	13.79%	34.66%
Number of salaries quoted	644	102	249
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£28,250	£34,950
25^th Percentile	£47,000	£35,000	£36,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£62,500	£50,000	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+25.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£87,000	£65,000	£69,800
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£78,661	£81,000
England median annual salary	£65,000	£62,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+4.00%	-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 Salary Trend in the North East

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 16 October 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 16 October 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	+7	196	£67,500	+68.75%	115
Durham	+16	32	£71,991	-4.01%	5
Northumberland	-	7	£45,000	-	2
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Python Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, job vacancies citing Python also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region with a requirement for Python.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	54.4%	129
2	SQL	44.3%	105
3	Azure	37.1%	88
4	CI/CD	32.9%	78
5	DevOps	30.4%	72
6	Problem-Solving	29.1%	69
7	Agile	28.7%	68
7	Infrastructure as Code	28.7%	68
9	Data Engineering	28.3%	67
10	AI	26.6%	63
10	Data Pipeline	26.6%	63
12	Terraform	23.2%	55
13	GCP	21.9%	52
14	Docker	21.1%	50
15	Security Cleared	20.3%	48
16	Mentoring	19.8%	47
17	Containerisation	19.4%	46
17	Data Modelling	19.4%	46
17	Data Quality	19.4%	46
20	Analytics	19.0%	45
21	Continuous Improvement	18.1%	43
22	SC Cleared	16.9%	40
22	Software Engineering	16.9%	40
24	Amazon S3	16.5%	39
24	Decision-Making	16.5%	39
26	Machine Learning	16.0%	38
27	Apache Airflow	15.6%	37
28	Git	15.2%	36
29	Bash	13.9%	33
29	Databricks	13.9%	33

Python Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	44.3%	105
2	Bash	13.9%	33
2	Java	13.9%	33
4	C#	13.5%	32
5	PowerShell	9.3%	22
6	TypeScript	8.0%	19
7	Bicep	5.5%	13
7	JavaScript	5.5%	13
9	Go	4.2%	10
10	C++	3.8%	9
11	Scala	2.5%	6
12	R	1.3%	3
12	VB	1.3%	3
14	Shell Script	0.8%	2
15	MATLAB	0.4%	1
15	Rust	0.4%	1