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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 34 18
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 +19
Permanent jobs citing Python 247 43 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.35% 4.53% 7.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.24% 31.62% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 195 34 79
10th Percentile £43,750 £28,250 £32,112
25th Percentile £48,500 £31,750 £43,619
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.64% -26.92% -
75th Percentile £87,000 £72,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,250 £99,000
England median annual salary £70,500 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.37% -0.67% -

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 743 136 481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.10% 14.33% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 610 107 281
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,100 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,000 £68,125 £68,113
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.81% +0.19% -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +5 196 £67,500 +42.11% 102
Durham +19 42 £64,539 -13.95% 18
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 -
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 (14.98%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (9.31%) Apache Spark
3 19 (7.69%) Apache
4 17 (6.88%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.81%) Confluence
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.81%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) SPSS
3 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 122 (49.39%) AWS
2 111 (44.94%) Azure
3 50 (20.24%) GCP
4 36 (14.57%) Amazon S3
5 34 (13.77%) Power Platform
6 29 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (11.74%) Serverless
7 26 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (10.53%) Azure AI
8 21 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (6.88%) Amazon ECS
10 16 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (6.07%) Amazon ECR
11 15 (6.07%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (4.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.64%) Textract
14 8 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (2.83%) SaaS
16 5 (2.02%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.81%) Firewall
1 2 (0.81%) MQTT
1 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.40%) DNS
2 1 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.77%) Power BI
2 28 (11.34%) Tableau
3 23 (9.31%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (6.88%) DynamoDB
6 13 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (4.05%) Big Data
8 9 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.83%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.83%) GIS
9 7 (2.83%) SQL Server
10 6 (2.43%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.43%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.43%) Flink
10 6 (2.43%) Looker
10 6 (2.43%) Metadata
10 6 (2.43%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (13.77%) Git
2 22 (8.91%) GitLab
3 6 (2.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.43%) JIRA
3 6 (2.43%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.62%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.21%) LabVIEW
5 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.81%) MLflow
7 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.40%) JMeter
7 1 (0.40%) Locust
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 72 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.98%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (14.98%) Public Sector
3 29 (11.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (10.12%) Finance
5 8 (3.24%) Law
6 6 (2.43%) Legal
7 5 (2.02%) Electronics
7 5 (2.02%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.62%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.81%) Front Office
9 2 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.81%) Wearables
10 1 (0.40%) Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Games
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (21.86%) Data Engineer
2 34 (13.77%) Lead
3 33 (13.36%) Developer
4 32 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 30 (12.15%) Senior
6 27 (10.93%) Python Engineer
7 20 (8.10%) Analyst
7 20 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 20 (8.10%) Python Developer
8 19 (7.69%) Data Analyst
9 16 (6.48%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 16 (6.48%) Databricks Engineer
9 16 (6.48%) Junior
10 14 (5.67%) Junior Analyst
10 14 (5.67%) Junior Data Analyst
11 13 (5.26%) Senior Developer
11 13 (5.26%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.86%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (4.45%) Data Scientist
14 10 (4.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (20.24%) Terraform
2 26 (10.53%) .NET
3 19 (7.69%) PySpark
4 14 (5.67%) LangChain
5 12 (4.86%) Flask
5 12 (4.86%) HTML
5 12 (4.86%) LlamaIndex
6 11 (4.45%) CSS
6 11 (4.45%) YAML
7 10 (4.05%) Node.js
8 9 (3.64%) .NET Core
8 9 (3.64%) ARM Templates
9 8 (3.24%) React
9 8 (3.24%) Web Services
10 7 (2.83%) Ajax
10 7 (2.83%) Jinja
10 7 (2.83%) jQuery
10 7 (2.83%) OpenLayers
10 7 (2.83%) SQLAlchemy
11 6 (2.43%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.74%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.50%) Hedge funds
3 19 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (6.88%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (6.48%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.67%) Data Structures
7 11 (4.45%) Renewable Energy
8 10 (4.05%) Algorithms
9 7 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.62%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (1.62%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.62%) Life Science
11 4 (1.62%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.21%) Robotics
13 2 (0.81%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.81%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.64%) Linux
2 5 (2.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (34.01%) AI
2 70 (28.34%) CI/CD
3 67 (27.13%) DevOps
4 65 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (25.51%) Agile
5 63 (25.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (25.10%) Data Engineering
7 60 (24.29%) Data Pipeline
8 48 (19.43%) Data Modelling
9 46 (18.62%) Analytics
10 42 (17.00%) Containerisation
10 42 (17.00%) Mentoring
11 39 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
11 39 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 37 (14.98%) Decision-Making
12 37 (14.98%) Software Engineering
13 36 (14.57%) Machine Learning
14 31 (12.55%) ETL
15 30 (12.15%) Test Automation
16 29 (11.74%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 117 (47.37%) SQL
2 32 (12.96%) C#
2 32 (12.96%) Java
3 30 (12.15%) Bash
4 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.29%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.67%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.86%) Bicep
8 6 (2.43%) C++
8 6 (2.43%) Go
8 6 (2.43%) Scala
9 3 (1.21%) R
9 3 (1.21%) VB
10 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (14.57%) Azure Certification
3 33 (13.36%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (7.29%) Degree
6 14 (5.67%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.21%) HNC
8 3 (1.21%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.64%) QA
3 8 (3.24%) NCSC
4 5 (2.02%) GDPR
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (18.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) vSphere
3 2 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.83%) Ansible
3 6 (2.43%) Grafana
4 3 (1.21%) Control-M
4 3 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.21%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.21%) Puppet
5 2 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) logstash
Vendors
1 41 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 35 (14.17%) Databricks
3 6 (2.43%) Google
4 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.21%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.21%) VMware
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle
6 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.40%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.40%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.40%) Splunk