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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 27 49
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -25
Permanent jobs citing Python 142 43 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 9.07% 7.61% 4.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.80% 25.90% 15.37%
Number of salaries quoted 88 35 64
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,688 £46,875 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +15.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £65,313 £82,500 £78,025
90th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £66,720 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.04% +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 291 166 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.58% 29.38% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 209 144 407
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £31,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,905 £41,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,173 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 28 March 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 28 March 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 +15 105 £40,000 -38.46% 60
Durham +9 35 £73,801 +6.37% 16
Northumberland +7 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 5 (3.52%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (1.41%) WordPress
4 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 46 (32.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.63%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.52%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.41%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.70%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (69.01%) Azure
2 62 (43.66%) AWS
3 36 (25.35%) Power Platform
4 34 (23.94%) Azure AI
5 33 (23.24%) GitHub
6 18 (12.68%) GCP
7 13 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.34%) dbt
10 6 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (4.23%) PaaS
11 5 (3.52%) IaaS
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.82%) Pulumi
13 3 (2.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 3 (2.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 3 (2.11%) OCI
13 3 (2.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 28 (19.72%) Firewall
2 22 (15.49%) Internet
3 15 (10.56%) TCP/IP
4 13 (9.15%) VLAN
4 13 (9.15%) VPN
5 11 (7.75%) DNS
5 11 (7.75%) HTTP
6 8 (5.63%) BGP
6 8 (5.63%) Cisco ASA
6 8 (5.63%) Cisco Nexus
6 8 (5.63%) Cisco Wireless
6 8 (5.63%) EIGRP
6 8 (5.63%) LAN
6 8 (5.63%) Network Security
6 8 (5.63%) OSPF
6 8 (5.63%) SNMP
6 8 (5.63%) WAAS
6 8 (5.63%) WAN
6 8 (5.63%) Wireless
6 8 (5.63%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (35.21%) Tableau
2 35 (24.65%) Power BI
3 15 (10.56%) Data Mining
4 8 (5.63%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.82%) Redis
7 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.41%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.41%) GIS
8 2 (1.41%) Metadata
8 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.41%) QGIS
8 2 (1.41%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.41%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 25 (17.61%) Git
2 13 (9.15%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.11%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.11%) JIRA
4 3 (2.11%) Selenium
5 2 (1.41%) JMeter
5 2 (1.41%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.41%) Locust
6 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.70%) GitLab
6 1 (0.70%) JUnit
6 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 32 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.72%) Finance
4 21 (14.79%) Multimedia
5 11 (7.75%) Law
5 11 (7.75%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.52%) Retail
7 4 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.11%) Legal
9 2 (1.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (36.62%) Analyst
2 48 (33.80%) Data Analyst
3 40 (28.17%) Trainee
4 34 (23.94%) Junior
5 32 (22.54%) Junior Analyst
5 32 (22.54%) Junior Data Analyst
6 17 (11.97%) Senior
7 16 (11.27%) Developer
8 14 (9.86%) Trainee Analyst
8 14 (9.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 12 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) Lead
9 12 (8.45%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.75%) Trainee Developer
10 11 (7.75%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (5.63%) Network Engineer
11 8 (5.63%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.52%) Programmer
12 5 (3.52%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.20%) HTML
2 21 (14.79%) CSS
3 13 (9.15%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.52%) Django
4 5 (3.52%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (3.52%) Hugging Face
4 5 (3.52%) Matplotlib
4 5 (3.52%) NumPy
4 5 (3.52%) Pandas
4 5 (3.52%) scikit-learn
4 5 (3.52%) Streamlit
5 3 (2.11%) .NET
6 2 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.41%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.41%) Playwright
6 2 (1.41%) Puppeteer
6 2 (1.41%) REST
6 2 (1.41%) Spring
6 2 (1.41%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.11%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (2.11%) PKI
4 2 (1.41%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.70%) EPoS
5 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.45%) Linux
2 7 (4.93%) Windows
3 6 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.52%) Debian
5 4 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (34.51%) AI
2 39 (27.46%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (19.01%) DevOps
4 25 (17.61%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.49%) CI/CD
5 22 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (14.79%) Analytics
7 19 (13.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (11.97%) Containerisation
9 16 (11.27%) Computer Science
9 16 (11.27%) High Availability
9 16 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (10.56%) Data Analytics
10 15 (10.56%) Project Management
11 14 (9.86%) Business Analysis
11 14 (9.86%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (9.86%) Data Analysis
11 14 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (9.15%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 68 (47.89%) SQL
2 23 (16.20%) JavaScript
3 17 (11.97%) Bash
4 11 (7.75%) Go
4 11 (7.75%) R
5 10 (7.04%) Java
6 9 (6.34%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.52%) C#
9 2 (1.41%) VB
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) Delphi
10 1 (0.70%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 61 (42.96%) Azure Certification
2 26 (18.31%) AWS Certification
2 26 (18.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (14.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (13.38%) Degree
5 9 (6.34%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.63%) CCIE
6 8 (5.63%) CCNP
7 7 (4.93%) Security Cleared
8 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.41%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.70%) HNC
10 1 (0.70%) HND
10 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) PMO
2 5 (3.52%) QA
3 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) WCAG
4 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.34%) Docker
2 8 (5.63%) ProxySG
3 5 (3.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (15.49%) Terraform
2 16 (11.27%) Ansible
2 16 (11.27%) Grafana
3 12 (8.45%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.11%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 83 (58.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.86%) Cisco
3 8 (5.63%) Blue Coat
3 8 (5.63%) CheckPoint
3 8 (5.63%) F5
3 8 (5.63%) Infoblox
3 8 (5.63%) Motorola
3 8 (5.63%) ServiceNow
3 8 (5.63%) SolarWinds
4 6 (4.23%) Databricks
5 4 (2.82%) Google
6 3 (2.11%) Arista
6 3 (2.11%) Aruba
6 3 (2.11%) NetScout
7 2 (1.41%) ESRI
7 2 (1.41%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle
8 1 (0.70%) Siemens