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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 37 22
Rank change year-on-year +20 -15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 240 42 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 6.82% 4.33% 8.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.66% 33.33% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 197 34 78
10th Percentile £45,600 £28,250 £31,941
25th Percentile £49,676 £31,750 £43,059
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £87,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £99,125
England median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.70% -3.33% -

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 758 126 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.55% 13.00% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 626 98 264
10th Percentile £42,000 £28,138 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,572 £38,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,404
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.73% -6.54%
75th Percentile £87,000 £66,875 £68,113
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +5 193 £67,500 +50.00% 152
Durham +16 38 £71,991 -4.01% 52
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 26
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 37 (15.42%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (10.42%) Apache Spark
3 21 (8.75%) Apache
4 19 (7.92%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.25%) nginx
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.83%) SAS
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) SPSS
3 1 (0.42%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 127 (52.92%) AWS
2 100 (41.67%) Azure
3 51 (21.25%) GCP
4 38 (15.83%) Amazon S3
5 31 (12.92%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (12.08%) Serverless
7 27 (11.25%) Power Platform
8 26 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (7.08%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.67%) Azure AI
13 16 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
15 12 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.75%) Textract
17 8 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
18 6 (2.50%) SaaS
19 5 (2.08%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.83%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) MQTT
2 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.25%) Power BI
2 19 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (7.50%) Tableau
4 17 (7.08%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (7.08%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.75%) Big Data
7 8 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.92%) GIS
8 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.92%) SQL Server
9 6 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
9 6 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.50%) Flink
9 6 (2.50%) Metadata
10 5 (2.08%) Looker
11 4 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (15.00%) Git
2 26 (10.83%) GitLab
3 6 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.67%) JIRA
4 4 (1.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.25%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.25%) LabVIEW
5 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 63 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 39 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (9.58%) Finance
6 8 (3.33%) Law
7 6 (2.50%) Legal
8 5 (2.08%) Electronics
8 5 (2.08%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.67%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.83%) Wearables
11 1 (0.42%) Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (22.92%) Data Engineer
2 34 (14.17%) Developer
2 34 (14.17%) Senior
3 32 (13.33%) Lead
4 30 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 26 (10.83%) Python Engineer
6 22 (9.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (8.33%) Python Developer
8 15 (6.25%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 15 (6.25%) Databricks Engineer
8 15 (6.25%) Senior Developer
9 14 (5.83%) Software Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) Analyst
10 12 (5.00%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Data Analyst
11 11 (4.58%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.17%) Data Scientist
12 10 (4.17%) Junior
12 10 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (22.08%) Terraform
2 25 (10.42%) .NET
3 18 (7.50%) PySpark
4 15 (6.25%) LangChain
5 13 (5.42%) LlamaIndex
6 12 (5.00%) Flask
7 11 (4.58%) CSS
7 11 (4.58%) HTML
7 11 (4.58%) YAML
8 10 (4.17%) Node.js
9 9 (3.75%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.75%) ARM Templates
9 9 (3.75%) Web Services
10 8 (3.33%) React
11 7 (2.92%) Ajax
11 7 (2.92%) Jinja
11 7 (2.92%) jQuery
11 7 (2.92%) OpenLayers
11 7 (2.92%) SQLAlchemy
12 6 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.92%) Hedge funds
3 18 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 17 (7.08%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (5.42%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.58%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (3.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.08%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
10 4 (1.67%) Life Science
10 4 (1.67%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.25%) Robotics
12 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.83%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Linux
2 5 (2.08%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 73 (30.42%) AI
3 70 (29.17%) DevOps
4 68 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (27.92%) Agile
5 67 (27.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (27.08%) Data Engineering
7 61 (25.42%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (19.58%) Mentoring
9 45 (18.75%) Data Modelling
10 44 (18.33%) Containerisation
11 43 (17.92%) Analytics
12 41 (17.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (15.83%) Software Engineering
14 37 (15.42%) Decision-Making
14 37 (15.42%) Machine Learning
15 35 (14.58%) Test Automation
16 31 (12.92%) ETL
17 30 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
17 30 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.00%) SQL
2 33 (13.75%) Java
3 32 (13.33%) Bash
3 32 (13.33%) C#
4 20 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.00%) Bicep
8 8 (3.33%) Go
9 6 (2.50%) C++
9 6 (2.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.25%) R
10 3 (1.25%) VB
11 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 38 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.83%) Azure Certification
4 23 (9.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (7.08%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.25%) Degree
7 6 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.25%) HNC
9 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) PhD
9 1 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.75%) NCSC
3 8 (3.33%) QA
4 5 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (19.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.25%) vSphere
3 2 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.75%) Ansible
3 7 (2.92%) Grafana
4 4 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.25%) Control-M
5 3 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.25%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.42%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
6 1 (0.42%) logstash
Vendors
1 34 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.92%) Databricks
3 6 (2.50%) Google
4 3 (1.25%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.25%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.25%) VMware
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.42%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.42%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.42%) Splunk