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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 15 32
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 71 121 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 7.02% 10.84% 5.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.01% 27.19% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 54 81 24
10th Percentile - £35,000 £47,875
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,738 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% - -5.45%
75th Percentile £67,188 £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £78,790 £100,000 £74,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +3.57%

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 169 445 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 16.70% 39.87% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 124 237 130
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £37,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +8.91%
75th Percentile £64,063 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,403 £95,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 0 57 £40,000 -38.46% 64
Durham -10 14 £73,801 +6.48% 7
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 (7.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.82%) SAS
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.23%) AutoCAD
2 3 (4.23%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.97%) Azure
2 33 (46.48%) AWS
3 20 (28.17%) GitHub
4 11 (15.49%) Power Platform
5 9 (12.68%) GCP
6 8 (11.27%) Azure AI
7 5 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.63%) dbt
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.23%) PaaS
9 3 (4.23%) Pulumi
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (2.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.82%) Sentry
11 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.41%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (22.54%) Internet
2 7 (9.86%) Firewall
3 6 (8.45%) Asterisk PBX
3 6 (8.45%) PSTN
3 6 (8.45%) VoIP
4 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.23%) SAN
6 2 (2.82%) PuTTY
7 1 (1.41%) DNS
7 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.35%) Tableau
2 11 (15.49%) Power BI
3 8 (11.27%) Data Mining
4 7 (9.86%) SQL Server
5 6 (8.45%) Metadata
5 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (7.04%) Spark SQL
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.23%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (4.23%) GIS
7 3 (4.23%) QGIS
7 3 (4.23%) Redis
7 3 (4.23%) Spatial Data
8 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.82%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (2.82%) MySQL
8 2 (2.82%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
2 3 (4.23%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.23%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
2 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
3 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.41%) GitLab
4 1 (1.41%) JMeter
4 1 (1.41%) JUnit
4 1 (1.41%) Locust
4 1 (1.41%) MLflow
4 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (22.54%) Multimedia
5 7 (9.86%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.63%) Legal
6 4 (5.63%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Advertising
8 1 (1.41%) Front Office
8 1 (1.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Trainee
2 20 (28.17%) Analyst
3 16 (22.54%) Data Analyst
4 13 (18.31%) Developer
4 13 (18.31%) Software Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Senior
5 10 (14.08%) Trainee Developer
5 10 (14.08%) Trainee Software Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Junior
6 8 (11.27%) Junior Analyst
6 8 (11.27%) Junior Data Analyst
7 7 (9.86%) Data Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Trainee Analyst
7 7 (9.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 6 (8.45%) Support Specialist
9 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) Lead
10 3 (4.23%) Operations Technician
10 3 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.54%) CSS
1 16 (22.54%) HTML
2 6 (8.45%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.63%) Django
5 3 (4.23%) .NET
5 3 (4.23%) Itk
5 3 (4.23%) PySpark
5 3 (4.23%) Spring
5 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.23%) YAML
6 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.82%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) Plotly
6 2 (2.82%) Regular Expression
6 2 (2.82%) Shiny
7 1 (1.41%) Flask
7 1 (1.41%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.41%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
1 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.82%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.41%) Derivative
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.41%) EPoS
3 1 (1.41%) Equities
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.41%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Unix
2 6 (8.45%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Mentoring
2 19 (26.76%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (22.54%) DevOps
4 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
4 15 (21.13%) Computer Science
4 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (18.31%) AI
6 12 (16.90%) Agile
6 12 (16.90%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis
9 8 (11.27%) Analytics
9 8 (11.27%) Data Analytics
9 8 (11.27%) Project Management
9 8 (11.27%) Visualisation
10 7 (9.86%) Business Analysis
10 7 (9.86%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.86%) Task Automation
11 6 (8.45%) Customer Requirements
11 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (49.30%) SQL
2 18 (25.35%) JavaScript
3 12 (16.90%) Bash
4 10 (14.08%) Java
5 8 (11.27%) C#
5 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
5 8 (11.27%) R
6 3 (4.23%) Tcl
7 2 (2.82%) Bicep
7 2 (2.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.82%) PROC SQL
7 2 (2.82%) Scala
7 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.41%) Delphi
8 1 (1.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 26 (36.62%) Azure Certification
2 18 (25.35%) AWS Certification
3 17 (23.94%) Degree
4 16 (22.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 16 (22.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.86%) Security Cleared
6 6 (8.45%) CCNP
6 6 (8.45%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (8.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (8.45%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.23%) HNC
7 3 (4.23%) HND
8 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.23%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.23%) vSphere
4 2 (2.82%) Apache Flume
4 2 (2.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Terraform
2 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.86%) Grafana
4 5 (7.04%) Ansible
5 4 (5.63%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (4.23%) Control-M
7 2 (2.82%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.82%) Kibana
7 2 (2.82%) logstash
7 2 (2.82%) Oozie
7 2 (2.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.41%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 35 (49.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) Cisco
2 6 (8.45%) VMware
3 5 (7.04%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Databricks
5 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.23%) ESRI
5 3 (4.23%) Siemens
6 2 (2.82%) Informatica
6 2 (2.82%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle