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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 208 35 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.18% 4.94% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.49% 27.13% 14.88%
Number of salaries quoted 142 28 73
10th Percentile £35,000 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,063 £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -4.43% -3.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,375 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,935 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.32% +5.62% -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 570 129 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.41% 18.19% 26.06%
Number of salaries quoted 457 111 471
10th Percentile £38,400 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £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 28 June 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 June 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 +10 160 £60,000 +2.13% 45
Durham +14 43 £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 25 (12.02%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (7.69%) Jupyter
3 12 (5.77%) Apache
3 12 (5.77%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
4 2 (0.96%) SAS
4 2 (0.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.48%) IIS
Applications
1 39 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.40%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.96%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 118 (56.73%) Azure
2 86 (41.35%) AWS
3 44 (21.15%) Azure AI
4 42 (20.19%) Power Platform
5 30 (14.42%) GCP
6 20 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.73%) Amazon S3
8 13 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (6.25%) GitHub
9 11 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (5.29%) Amazon EMR
9 11 (5.29%) Serverless
10 10 (4.81%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (2.88%) dbt
13 6 (2.88%) SaaS
13 6 (2.88%) Textract
14 5 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.50%) Firewall
2 11 (5.29%) VLAN
2 11 (5.29%) VPN
3 10 (4.81%) TCP/IP
4 9 (4.33%) DNS
4 9 (4.33%) HTTP
5 6 (2.88%) BGP
5 6 (2.88%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.88%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (2.88%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (2.88%) EIGRP
5 6 (2.88%) LAN
5 6 (2.88%) Network Security
5 6 (2.88%) OSPF
5 6 (2.88%) SNMP
5 6 (2.88%) WAAS
5 6 (2.88%) WAN
5 6 (2.88%) Wireless
5 6 (2.88%) Wireless Security
6 5 (2.40%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.08%) Tableau
2 41 (19.71%) Power BI
3 13 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.29%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.33%) Big Data
7 8 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.37%) Data Mining
8 7 (3.37%) NoSQL
8 7 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.40%) GIS
11 4 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.92%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.44%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.96%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 16 (7.69%) Git
2 11 (5.29%) GitLab
3 9 (4.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.88%) JIRA
5 5 (2.40%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.40%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.44%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.44%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.44%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.44%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.96%) MLflow
7 2 (0.96%) Selenium
8 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) JMeter
8 1 (0.48%) Locust
General
1 67 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (15.87%) Finance
3 16 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.33%) Law
5 9 (4.33%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.37%) Electronics
6 7 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.88%) Legal
8 5 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.40%) Retail
9 4 (1.92%) Multimedia
10 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.96%) Wearables
12 1 (0.48%) Front Office
12 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (21.15%) Analyst
2 42 (20.19%) Data Analyst
3 34 (16.35%) Junior
4 32 (15.38%) Junior Analyst
4 32 (15.38%) Junior Data Analyst
5 28 (13.46%) Data Engineer
6 23 (11.06%) Developer
6 23 (11.06%) Lead
7 21 (10.10%) Senior
8 19 (9.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 18 (8.65%) Python Engineer
10 17 (8.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 16 (7.69%) Trainee
12 13 (6.25%) Python Developer
12 13 (6.25%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.81%) Python Data Engineer
13 10 (4.81%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.81%) Test Engineer
14 8 (3.85%) Data Scientist
15 7 (3.37%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.10%) .NET
2 13 (6.25%) PySpark
3 12 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (5.77%) HTML
4 10 (4.81%) CSS
5 9 (4.33%) .NET Core
5 9 (4.33%) YAML
6 7 (3.37%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.37%) Node.js
6 7 (3.37%) React
7 6 (2.88%) Flask
7 6 (2.88%) LangChain
7 6 (2.88%) Pandas
8 5 (2.40%) boto
8 5 (2.40%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.40%) Jinja
8 5 (2.40%) Matplotlib
8 5 (2.40%) OpenLayers
8 5 (2.40%) scikit-learn
8 5 (2.40%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.65%) Hedge funds
2 14 (6.73%) Algorithms
3 10 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.88%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.40%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.92%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.92%) Life Science
8 4 (1.92%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.44%) PKI
9 3 (1.44%) Robotics
10 2 (0.96%) IoT
10 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.96%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.96%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.77%) Linux
2 8 (3.85%) Windows
3 5 (2.40%) Debian
3 5 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (42.31%) AI
2 45 (21.63%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (19.71%) DevOps
4 37 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (16.35%) CI/CD
5 34 (16.35%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (15.38%) Agile
7 30 (14.42%) Analytics
7 30 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (12.02%) Containerisation
8 25 (12.02%) Fintech
9 24 (11.54%) Data Engineering
9 24 (11.54%) Software Engineering
9 24 (11.54%) Workflow
10 22 (10.58%) Computer Science
10 22 (10.58%) Mentoring
11 21 (10.10%) Data Modelling
11 21 (10.10%) Test Automation
12 19 (9.13%) Coaching
12 19 (9.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 110 (52.88%) SQL
2 28 (13.46%) Bash
3 25 (12.02%) C#
4 22 (10.58%) Java
5 19 (9.13%) PowerShell
6 14 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.77%) Go
8 11 (5.29%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.33%) Bicep
10 7 (3.37%) R
11 5 (2.40%) C++
11 5 (2.40%) VB
12 2 (0.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (25.96%) Azure Certification
2 22 (10.58%) Degree
3 19 (9.13%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.65%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.88%) CCIE
8 6 (2.88%) CCNP
9 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.92%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.44%) HNC
11 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.48%) CISA
11 1 (0.48%) CISSP
11 1 (0.48%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.48%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.06%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.37%) QA
3 6 (2.88%) PMO
4 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) GDPR
4 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.48%) NIST
4 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (9.62%) Docker
2 6 (2.88%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.44%) vSphere
5 2 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (17.31%) Terraform
2 18 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.21%) Ansible
4 13 (6.25%) Grafana
5 9 (4.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.44%) Control-M
6 3 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 77 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.06%) Databricks
3 12 (5.77%) Cisco
4 6 (2.88%) Blue Coat
4 6 (2.88%) CheckPoint
4 6 (2.88%) F5
4 6 (2.88%) Infoblox
4 6 (2.88%) Motorola
4 6 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.88%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.44%) Arista
5 3 (1.44%) Aruba
5 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.44%) NetScout
5 3 (1.44%) VMware
6 2 (0.96%) Google
6 2 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.96%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.48%) Intapp