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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 37 40
Rank change year-on-year +26 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing Python 216 37 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.23% 4.74% 4.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.42% 26.81% 16.45%
Number of salaries quoted 149 30 78
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,313 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £62,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -2.34% -1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -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 593 138 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.59% 17.69% 25.74%
Number of salaries quoted 477 118 452
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,825 £41,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £80,000
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 6 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 6 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 +12 167 £60,000 - 62
Durham +19 44 £59,000 -14.97% 11
Northumberland - 5 - - 1
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 26 (12.04%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (7.41%) Jupyter
3 12 (5.56%) Apache
3 12 (5.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.93%) SAS
4 2 (0.93%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 39 (18.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.31%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.93%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 118 (54.63%) Azure
2 89 (41.20%) AWS
3 45 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 44 (20.37%) Azure AI
5 31 (14.35%) GCP
6 20 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (6.94%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.02%) Serverless
9 12 (5.56%) GitHub
10 11 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (5.09%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (4.63%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.78%) dbt
14 6 (2.78%) SaaS
14 6 (2.78%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.04%) Firewall
2 11 (5.09%) VLAN
2 11 (5.09%) VPN
3 10 (4.63%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.17%) DNS
4 9 (4.17%) HTTP
5 6 (2.78%) BGP
5 6 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (2.78%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (2.78%) EIGRP
5 6 (2.78%) LAN
5 6 (2.78%) Network Security
5 6 (2.78%) OSPF
5 6 (2.78%) SNMP
5 6 (2.78%) WAAS
5 6 (2.78%) WAN
5 6 (2.78%) Wireless
5 6 (2.78%) Wireless Security
6 5 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.61%) Tableau
2 44 (20.37%) Power BI
3 14 (6.48%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.09%) DynamoDB
5 9 (4.17%) Big Data
6 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.24%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.24%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.78%) Star Schema
9 5 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.31%) GIS
10 4 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.93%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (8.33%) Git
2 12 (5.56%) GitLab
3 10 (4.63%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.78%) JIRA
5 5 (2.31%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) MLflow
8 2 (0.93%) Selenium
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) JMeter
9 1 (0.46%) Locust
General
1 71 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (15.74%) Finance
3 16 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.17%) Law
5 9 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.24%) Electronics
6 7 (3.24%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.78%) Legal
8 5 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.31%) Retail
9 3 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.39%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.93%) Wearables
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 44 (20.37%) Analyst
2 42 (19.44%) Data Analyst
3 34 (15.74%) Junior
4 32 (14.81%) Data Engineer
4 32 (14.81%) Junior Analyst
4 32 (14.81%) Junior Data Analyst
5 24 (11.11%) Developer
6 23 (10.65%) Lead
7 21 (9.72%) Senior
8 20 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (8.33%) Python Engineer
10 17 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 15 (6.94%) Trainee
12 14 (6.48%) Python Developer
13 13 (6.02%) Software Engineer
14 10 (4.63%) Python Data Engineer
14 10 (4.63%) Software Developer
14 10 (4.63%) Test Engineer
15 9 (4.17%) Data Scientist
16 7 (3.24%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.72%) .NET
2 14 (6.48%) PySpark
3 12 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (5.56%) HTML
4 10 (4.63%) CSS
5 9 (4.17%) .NET Core
5 9 (4.17%) YAML
6 8 (3.70%) Node.js
7 7 (3.24%) ARM Templates
7 7 (3.24%) Flask
7 7 (3.24%) React
8 6 (2.78%) LangChain
8 6 (2.78%) Pandas
9 5 (2.31%) boto
9 5 (2.31%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.31%) Jinja
9 5 (2.31%) Matplotlib
9 5 (2.31%) OpenLayers
9 5 (2.31%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.31%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.80%) Hedge funds
2 14 (6.48%) Algorithms
3 10 (4.63%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.24%) Distributed Computing
5 7 (3.24%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.31%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (1.85%) Life Science
7 4 (1.85%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.39%) PKI
8 3 (1.39%) Robotics
9 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.56%) Linux
2 8 (3.70%) Windows
3 5 (2.31%) Debian
3 5 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (41.20%) AI
2 48 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (19.44%) DevOps
4 40 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (17.59%) Data Pipeline
6 37 (17.13%) CI/CD
7 35 (16.20%) Analytics
8 33 (15.28%) Agile
9 31 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 27 (12.50%) Fintech
11 26 (12.04%) Data Engineering
12 24 (11.11%) Software Engineering
12 24 (11.11%) Workflow
13 23 (10.65%) Computer Science
13 23 (10.65%) Data Modelling
13 23 (10.65%) Decision-Making
14 22 (10.19%) Mentoring
14 22 (10.19%) Test Automation
15 20 (9.26%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 117 (54.17%) SQL
2 29 (13.43%) Bash
3 25 (11.57%) C#
4 22 (10.19%) Java
5 20 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.56%) Go
8 11 (5.09%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.17%) Bicep
10 6 (2.78%) R
11 5 (2.31%) C++
11 5 (2.31%) VB
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (24.54%) Azure Certification
2 23 (10.65%) Degree
3 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.63%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.78%) CCIE
8 6 (2.78%) CCNP
9 4 (1.85%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.39%) HNC
10 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.46%) CCSP
11 1 (0.46%) CISA
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.46%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.57%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.24%) QA
3 6 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
4 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (10.19%) Docker
2 6 (2.78%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.39%) vSphere
5 2 (0.93%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (17.13%) Terraform
2 19 (8.80%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.41%) Ansible
4 13 (6.02%) Grafana
5 9 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.39%) Control-M
6 3 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.46%) Puppet
Vendors
1 77 (35.65%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.57%) Databricks
3 12 (5.56%) Cisco
4 6 (2.78%) Blue Coat
4 6 (2.78%) CheckPoint
4 6 (2.78%) F5
4 6 (2.78%) Infoblox
4 6 (2.78%) Motorola
4 6 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.78%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.39%) Arista
5 3 (1.39%) Aruba
5 3 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.39%) NetScout
5 3 (1.39%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.39%) VMware
6 2 (0.93%) Google
6 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.46%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.46%) Proofpoint