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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 21 39
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 -5
Permanent jobs citing Python 40 110 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.28% 7.78% 5.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.50% 23.11% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 31 78 32
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,236 £45,375
25th Percentile £31,750 £44,738 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,232 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +0.36% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 127 476 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 13.60% 33.69% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 99 280 182
10th Percentile £27,875 £33,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,125 £69,850 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.56%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Python 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -2 38 £47,500 -27.44% 44
Durham -16 2 £75,000 +3.84% 6
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) SAS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (45.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) GitHub
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
1 4 (10.00%) PSTN
1 4 (10.00%) VoIP
2 3 (7.50%) PuTTY
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
3 2 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.50%) Spark SQL
2 5 (12.50%) Tableau
3 4 (10.00%) Metadata
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) Power BI
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (7.50%) Apache Hive
4 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.50%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
4 3 (7.50%) HBase
4 3 (7.50%) Impala
4 3 (7.50%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (7.50%) QlikView
4 3 (7.50%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (5.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.50%) MLflow
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.50%) Retail
6 2 (5.00%) Advertising
6 2 (5.00%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.50%) Front Office
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Senior
2 9 (22.50%) Software Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Software Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Support Specialist
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.50%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) .NET
2 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.50%) PySpark
4 4 (10.00%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.50%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (7.50%) HTML
5 3 (7.50%) Kafka
5 3 (7.50%) Plotly
5 3 (7.50%) Regular Expression
5 3 (7.50%) Shiny
5 3 (7.50%) Spring
5 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.50%) YAML
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.50%) Keras
7 1 (2.50%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (17.50%) Renewable Energy
3 5 (12.50%) Hedge funds
4 4 (10.00%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.50%) Algorithms
5 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
5 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (5.00%) Derivative
6 2 (5.00%) Equities
7 1 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.50%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Unix
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 13 (32.50%) DevOps
4 12 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (27.50%) Computer Science
5 11 (27.50%) Fintech
6 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (17.50%) User Experience
8 6 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 5 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 5 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (12.50%) OOP
10 4 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Java
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 13 (32.50%) C#
4 11 (27.50%) TypeScript
5 9 (22.50%) Bash
6 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (12.50%) R
7 3 (7.50%) C++
7 3 (7.50%) PROC SQL
8 2 (5.00%) Bicep
8 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 2 (5.00%) Scala
9 1 (2.50%) C
9 1 (2.50%) Dart
9 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.50%) PHP
9 1 (2.50%) Ruby
9 1 (2.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.00%) CCNP
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 4 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Apache Flume
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
1 3 (7.50%) HDFS
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (15.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kibana
2 3 (7.50%) logstash
2 3 (7.50%) Oozie
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Control-M
3 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Databricks
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (7.50%) Informatica
4 3 (7.50%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (7.50%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.00%) Google
5 2 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.50%) Capita