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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 92 92 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.97% 10.33% 5.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.60% 28.22% 17.54%
Number of salaries quoted 66 55 52
10th Percentile - £37,789 £38,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £43,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £69,308 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.29% +20.53% -17.86%
75th Percentile £56,625 £85,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,270 £97,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% -3.45%

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 211 326 325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.28% 36.59% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 159 165 293
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £66,137
90th Percentile £78,832 £95,000 £75,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +3 72 £40,000 -38.46% 77
Durham +7 20 £73,801 +2.00% 3
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 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.09%) IIS
1 1 (1.09%) Jupyter
Applications
1 23 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.26%) AutoCAD
3 3 (3.26%) Siemens NX
4 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 61 (66.30%) Azure
2 46 (50.00%) AWS
3 27 (29.35%) GitHub
4 14 (15.22%) Power Platform
5 12 (13.04%) Azure AI
6 9 (9.78%) GCP
7 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.35%) dbt
8 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.26%) OCI
9 3 (3.26%) PaaS
9 3 (3.26%) Pulumi
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.17%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.17%) Sentry
11 1 (1.09%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.91%) Internet
2 18 (19.57%) Firewall
3 7 (7.61%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.61%) VoIP
4 6 (6.52%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (6.52%) PSTN
5 5 (5.43%) VLAN
5 5 (5.43%) VPN
6 4 (4.35%) BGP
6 4 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (4.35%) DNS
6 4 (4.35%) EIGRP
6 4 (4.35%) HTTP
6 4 (4.35%) LAN
6 4 (4.35%) OSPF
6 4 (4.35%) SNMP
6 4 (4.35%) WAAS
6 4 (4.35%) WAN
6 4 (4.35%) Wireless
6 4 (4.35%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.00%) Tableau
2 13 (14.13%) Power BI
3 11 (11.96%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.26%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (3.26%) GIS
6 3 (3.26%) Metadata
6 3 (3.26%) QGIS
6 3 (3.26%) Redis
6 3 (3.26%) Spatial Data
7 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (26.09%) Git
2 6 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) JMeter
4 1 (1.09%) JUnit
4 1 (1.09%) Locust
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.35%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (23.91%) Multimedia
4 21 (22.83%) Finance
5 10 (10.87%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.43%) Legal
7 4 (4.35%) Law
7 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Trainee
2 26 (28.26%) Analyst
3 22 (23.91%) Data Analyst
4 15 (16.30%) Developer
5 14 (15.22%) Software Developer
6 13 (14.13%) Trainee Developer
6 13 (14.13%) Trainee Software Developer
7 12 (13.04%) Junior
7 12 (13.04%) Junior Analyst
7 12 (13.04%) Junior Data Analyst
8 10 (10.87%) Senior
8 10 (10.87%) Trainee Analyst
8 10 (10.87%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 9 (9.78%) Lead
10 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Support Specialist
11 4 (4.35%) Network Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) Network Manager
12 3 (3.26%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) CSS
1 22 (23.91%) HTML
2 7 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (7.61%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (4.35%) Django
4 3 (3.26%) .NET
4 3 (3.26%) Itk
5 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.17%) REST
5 2 (2.17%) YAML
6 1 (1.09%) Flask
6 1 (1.09%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.09%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.09%) NumPy
6 1 (1.09%) Pandas
6 1 (1.09%) PySpark
6 1 (1.09%) pytest
6 1 (1.09%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.09%) Spring
6 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.26%) PKI
2 3 (3.26%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.09%) Derivative
4 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.09%) EPoS
4 1 (1.09%) Equities
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.09%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
2 6 (6.52%) Windows
3 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.26%) Unix
5 1 (1.09%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.52%) Mentoring
2 25 (27.17%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (21.74%) DevOps
4 19 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.48%) AI
5 17 (18.48%) Computer Science
6 15 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.13%) Analytics
8 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (11.96%) Data Analytics
9 11 (11.96%) Project Management
10 10 (10.87%) Business Analysis
10 10 (10.87%) Data Analysis
11 9 (9.78%) Agile
12 8 (8.70%) Containerisation
13 7 (7.61%) DevSecOps
13 7 (7.61%) Load Balancing
13 7 (7.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 7 (7.61%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) SQL
2 23 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (15.22%) Bash
4 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
4 9 (9.78%) R
5 6 (6.52%) Java
6 5 (5.43%) C#
7 4 (4.35%) Go
7 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.26%) Tcl
9 2 (2.17%) Bicep
10 1 (1.09%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 35 (38.04%) Azure Certification
2 23 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 23 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (23.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (20.65%) Degree
5 10 (10.87%) CCNP
5 10 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.52%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.43%) Security Cleared
8 4 (4.35%) CCIE
9 3 (3.26%) HNC
9 3 (3.26%) HND
10 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) ProxySG
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) Terraform
2 10 (10.87%) Ansible
3 9 (9.78%) Grafana
4 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 49 (53.26%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Cisco
3 5 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.35%) Blue Coat
4 4 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 4 (4.35%) F5
4 4 (4.35%) Google
4 4 (4.35%) Infoblox
4 4 (4.35%) Motorola
4 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.35%) SolarWinds
5 3 (3.26%) Arista
5 3 (3.26%) Aruba
5 3 (3.26%) ESRI
5 3 (3.26%) NetScout
5 3 (3.26%) Siemens
6 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) Databricks
7 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle