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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 37 24
Rank change year-on-year +26 -13 +18
Permanent jobs citing Python 252 37 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.40% 4.09% 6.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.00% 27.01% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 190 29 82
10th Percentile £40,000 £26,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,625 £46,250 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year - -0.36% +0.36%
75th Percentile £81,875 £82,500 £83,723
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,500 £99,875
England median annual salary £70,150 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.84% -0.67% -

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 700 137 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.33% 15.15% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 571 110 338
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,825 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +13 198 £66,000 +1.54% 63
Durham +24 45 £59,000 -18.27% 10
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 2
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 37 (14.68%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 18 (7.14%) Apache
3 18 (7.14%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.79%) SAS
4 2 (0.79%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.79%) SPSS
3 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 120 (47.62%) Azure
2 119 (47.22%) AWS
3 46 (18.25%) GCP
4 42 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 34 (13.49%) Azure AI
6 33 (13.10%) Amazon S3
7 28 (11.11%) Serverless
8 27 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (5.95%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (5.16%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (3.57%) Textract
18 8 (3.17%) GitHub
19 7 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
19 7 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.97%) Firewall
2 5 (1.98%) DNS
2 5 (1.98%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) HTTP
3 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 3 (1.19%) VLAN
4 3 (1.19%) VPN
5 2 (0.79%) BGP
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.79%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.79%) LAN
5 2 (0.79%) MQTT
5 2 (0.79%) Network Security
5 2 (0.79%) OSPF
5 2 (0.79%) SNMP
5 2 (0.79%) WAAS
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Wireless
5 2 (0.79%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.67%) Power BI
2 40 (15.87%) Tableau
3 24 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.75%) DynamoDB
6 15 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.97%) Big Data
9 9 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.78%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.78%) GIS
10 7 (2.78%) NoSQL
10 7 (2.78%) SQL Server
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (2.38%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.38%) Looker
11 6 (2.38%) Metadata
11 6 (2.38%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.98%) Flink
Development Applications
1 36 (14.29%) Git
2 17 (6.75%) GitLab
3 8 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.38%) JIRA
5 5 (1.98%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.59%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.19%) LabVIEW
7 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.79%) MLflow
8 2 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.40%) JMeter
9 1 (0.40%) Locust
9 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 77 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.49%) Finance
4 25 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.37%) Law
7 6 (2.38%) Legal
8 5 (1.98%) Electronics
8 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.59%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.79%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Wearables
11 1 (0.40%) Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (19.84%) Data Engineer
2 32 (12.70%) Analyst
3 31 (12.30%) Lead
4 30 (11.90%) Data Analyst
5 29 (11.51%) Developer
6 27 (10.71%) Python Engineer
7 25 (9.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 25 (9.92%) Junior
7 25 (9.92%) Senior
8 22 (8.73%) Junior Analyst
8 22 (8.73%) Junior Data Analyst
9 21 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 21 (8.33%) Python Developer
10 14 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.76%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (4.37%) Data Scientist
13 10 (3.97%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (3.57%) Senior Python Developer
14 9 (3.57%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.71%) .NET
2 19 (7.54%) PySpark
3 15 (5.95%) HTML
4 13 (5.16%) CSS
5 12 (4.76%) Flask
6 11 (4.37%) .NET Core
6 11 (4.37%) YAML
7 10 (3.97%) LangChain
8 9 (3.57%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.57%) Node.js
9 8 (3.17%) LlamaIndex
9 8 (3.17%) React
10 7 (2.78%) Ajax
10 7 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.78%) Jinja
10 7 (2.78%) jQuery
10 7 (2.78%) OpenLayers
10 7 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
11 6 (2.38%) RESTful
12 5 (1.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.13%) Hedge funds
2 22 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.95%) Data Structures
4 15 (5.95%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (5.16%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.37%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.98%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.59%) Life Science
11 3 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.19%) Robotics
12 2 (0.79%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.37%) Linux
2 5 (1.98%) Windows
3 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Debian
4 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (34.13%) AI
2 62 (24.60%) CI/CD
3 61 (24.21%) DevOps
4 56 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
4 56 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (21.03%) Agile
7 50 (19.84%) Data Engineering
8 46 (18.25%) Analytics
8 46 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
8 46 (18.25%) Data Modelling
9 38 (15.08%) Containerisation
10 37 (14.68%) Software Engineering
11 34 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (13.10%) Decision-Making
12 33 (13.10%) Mentoring
13 31 (12.30%) Machine Learning
14 29 (11.51%) Fintech
14 29 (11.51%) Validation
15 28 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 125 (49.60%) SQL
2 31 (12.30%) Bash
2 31 (12.30%) Java
3 30 (11.90%) C#
4 20 (7.94%) PowerShell
5 17 (6.75%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.37%) Bicep
8 7 (2.78%) C++
8 7 (2.78%) Go
9 5 (1.98%) R
9 5 (1.98%) Scala
10 3 (1.19%) VB
11 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (17.06%) Azure Certification
2 34 (13.49%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.73%) Degree
5 14 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (5.16%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.59%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.19%) HNC
10 2 (0.79%) CCIE
10 2 (0.79%) CCNP
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CCSP
11 1 (0.40%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) GSEC
11 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.57%) QA
3 5 (1.98%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) NCSC
5 2 (0.79%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (16.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) vSphere
3 2 (0.79%) Firmware
3 2 (0.79%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (18.65%) Terraform
2 26 (10.32%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.57%) Ansible
4 8 (3.17%) Grafana
5 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.19%) Control-M
6 3 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.79%) Puppet
8 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.29%) Databricks
3 6 (2.38%) Google
4 4 (1.59%) Cisco
5 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.19%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.19%) VMware
6 2 (0.79%) Blue Coat
6 2 (0.79%) CheckPoint
6 2 (0.79%) F5
6 2 (0.79%) Infoblox
6 2 (0.79%) Motorola
6 2 (0.79%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.40%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.40%) Zscaler