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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 36 31
Rank change year-on-year +28 -5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Python 238 39 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.73% 4.49% 4.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.96% 27.46% 16.78%
Number of salaries quoted 170 32 70
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £30,425
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +3.53% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -

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 644 142 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.62% 16.34% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 521 120 364
10th Percentile £39,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £37,501
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 £90,375 £79,225
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 27 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 27 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 +15 185 £62,500 -3.85% 68
Durham +24 46 £59,000 -14.97% 9
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 4
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 (13.03%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (7.98%) Jupyter
3 16 (6.72%) Apache Spark
4 15 (6.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) SAS
5 2 (0.84%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (15.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.10%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.84%) SPSS
5 1 (0.42%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 118 (49.58%) Azure
2 103 (43.28%) AWS
3 46 (19.33%) Power Platform
4 42 (17.65%) Azure AI
5 36 (15.13%) GCP
6 23 (9.66%) Amazon S3
7 21 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (8.40%) Serverless
9 19 (7.98%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (5.46%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.04%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.20%) GitHub
14 8 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.36%) Textract
15 7 (2.94%) SaaS
15 7 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.56%) Firewall
2 8 (3.36%) DNS
2 8 (3.36%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.36%) VLAN
2 8 (3.36%) VPN
3 7 (2.94%) HTTP
4 4 (1.68%) BGP
4 4 (1.68%) DMZ
4 4 (1.68%) EIGRP
4 4 (1.68%) Internet
4 4 (1.68%) LAN
4 4 (1.68%) Network Security
4 4 (1.68%) OSPF
4 4 (1.68%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.68%) SNMP
4 4 (1.68%) STUN
4 4 (1.68%) VoIP
4 4 (1.68%) WAN
4 4 (1.68%) Wireless
4 4 (1.68%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.01%) Tableau
2 46 (19.33%) Power BI
3 19 (7.98%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (6.72%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.30%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.78%) Big Data
8 9 (3.78%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.94%) Data Mining
9 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.52%) GIS
10 6 (2.52%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.10%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.10%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.68%) Looker
12 4 (1.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (10.08%) Git
2 14 (5.88%) GitLab
3 9 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.52%) JIRA
5 5 (2.10%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.10%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.68%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (1.68%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.26%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.84%) MLflow
8 2 (0.84%) Selenium
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) JMeter
9 1 (0.42%) Locust
General
1 74 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.97%) Finance
3 36 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.20%) Law
7 7 (2.94%) Electronics
7 7 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.52%) Legal
9 5 (2.10%) Retail
10 4 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.68%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.68%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Wearables
12 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (18.07%) Analyst
2 41 (17.23%) Data Analyst
3 40 (16.81%) Data Engineer
4 33 (13.87%) Junior
5 30 (12.61%) Junior Analyst
5 30 (12.61%) Junior Data Analyst
6 28 (11.76%) Developer
7 26 (10.92%) Lead
8 24 (10.08%) Senior
9 22 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 21 (8.82%) Python Engineer
11 20 (8.40%) Python Developer
12 19 (7.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (5.88%) Trainee
14 12 (5.04%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (5.04%) Software Engineer
15 11 (4.62%) Data Scientist
16 10 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
16 10 (4.20%) Test Engineer
17 9 (3.78%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.50%) .NET
2 16 (6.72%) PySpark
3 14 (5.88%) HTML
4 12 (5.04%) CSS
5 11 (4.62%) YAML
6 10 (4.20%) .NET Core
6 10 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (4.20%) Flask
7 9 (3.78%) ARM Templates
8 8 (3.36%) Node.js
8 8 (3.36%) React
9 7 (2.94%) LangChain
10 6 (2.52%) Ajax
10 6 (2.52%) Jinja
10 6 (2.52%) jQuery
10 6 (2.52%) OpenLayers
10 6 (2.52%) Pandas
10 6 (2.52%) RESTful
10 6 (2.52%) SQLAlchemy
11 5 (2.10%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.24%) Hedge funds
2 15 (6.30%) Algorithms
3 14 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.46%) Data Structures
4 13 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.62%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (4.20%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.10%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.10%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.68%) Life Science
9 3 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.26%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.26%) Robotics
10 2 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.46%) Linux
2 8 (3.36%) Windows
3 5 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.68%) Debian
5 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.24%) AI
2 50 (21.01%) DevOps
3 49 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (20.17%) CI/CD
5 44 (18.49%) Agile
5 44 (18.49%) Data Pipeline
5 44 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 40 (16.81%) Analytics
8 36 (15.13%) Data Engineering
9 33 (13.87%) Containerisation
9 33 (13.87%) Data Modelling
10 29 (12.18%) Fintech
11 28 (11.76%) Decision-Making
11 28 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.76%) Workflow
12 26 (10.92%) Test Automation
13 25 (10.50%) Mentoring
14 24 (10.08%) Machine Learning
15 23 (9.66%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 126 (52.94%) SQL
2 31 (13.03%) Bash
3 29 (12.18%) C#
4 25 (10.50%) Java
5 22 (9.24%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.30%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.46%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.62%) Bicep
9 10 (4.20%) Go
10 6 (2.52%) C++
10 6 (2.52%) R
11 5 (2.10%) VB
12 3 (1.26%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 26 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 24 (10.08%) Degree
4 23 (9.66%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.04%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.68%) CCIE
9 4 (1.68%) CCNP
9 4 (1.68%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.26%) HNC
11 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.42%) CCSP
12 1 (0.42%) CISA
12 1 (0.42%) CISSP
12 1 (0.42%) GSEC
12 1 (0.42%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.03%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.36%) QA
3 4 (1.68%) PMO
4 3 (1.26%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) NCSC
5 1 (0.42%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (13.45%) Docker
2 4 (1.68%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.68%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.26%) vSphere
4 2 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (17.23%) Terraform
2 24 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.62%) Ansible
3 11 (4.62%) Grafana
4 7 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.26%) Control-M
5 3 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (0.42%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (31.93%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.03%) Databricks
3 9 (3.78%) Cisco
4 4 (1.68%) Blue Coat
4 4 (1.68%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.68%) F5
4 4 (1.68%) Google
4 4 (1.68%) Infoblox
4 4 (1.68%) Motorola
4 4 (1.68%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.68%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.26%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.26%) VMware
6 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.42%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.42%) Zscaler