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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 34 47
Rank change year-on-year +25 +13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Python 196 38 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.26% 5.64% 3.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.66% 27.14% 14.62%
Number of salaries quoted 132 32 72
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,938 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -0.45% -3.41%
75th Percentile £75,313 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,875 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -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 507 140 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.37% 20.77% 25.53%
Number of salaries quoted 403 123 473
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,525 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £74,987 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £79,525
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 13 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 13 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 +8 150 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Durham +19 41 £59,000 -14.97% 10
Northumberland +5 5 - - 3
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 20 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (7.65%) Jupyter
3 10 (5.10%) Apache
3 10 (5.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.02%) Confluence
4 2 (1.02%) SAS
4 2 (1.02%) WordPress
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (20.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.55%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.02%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 111 (56.63%) Azure
2 80 (40.82%) AWS
3 44 (22.45%) Azure AI
4 41 (20.92%) Power Platform
5 27 (13.78%) GCP
6 18 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (8.67%) GitHub
8 12 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (6.12%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.10%) Amazon EMR
9 10 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (4.59%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.06%) dbt
12 6 (3.06%) SaaS
12 6 (3.06%) Serverless
13 5 (2.55%) Textract
13 5 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.29%) Firewall
2 12 (6.12%) VLAN
2 12 (6.12%) VPN
3 11 (5.61%) TCP/IP
4 10 (5.10%) DNS
4 10 (5.10%) HTTP
5 8 (4.08%) Internet
6 7 (3.57%) BGP
6 7 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (3.57%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (3.57%) EIGRP
6 7 (3.57%) LAN
6 7 (3.57%) Network Security
6 7 (3.57%) OSPF
6 7 (3.57%) SNMP
6 7 (3.57%) WAAS
6 7 (3.57%) WAN
6 7 (3.57%) Wireless
6 7 (3.57%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (25.51%) Tableau
2 40 (20.41%) Power BI
3 12 (6.12%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (4.59%) Data Mining
5 9 (4.59%) DynamoDB
6 8 (4.08%) Big Data
6 8 (4.08%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.55%) GIS
10 4 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
10 4 (2.04%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.02%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (8.67%) Git
2 10 (5.10%) GitLab
2 10 (5.10%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.06%) JIRA
4 5 (2.55%) LabVIEW
4 5 (2.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.02%) MLflow
6 2 (1.02%) Selenium
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) JMeter
7 1 (0.51%) Locust
General
1 64 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Finance
3 15 (7.65%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (5.10%) Law
5 10 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.57%) Electronics
6 7 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.57%) Multimedia
7 6 (3.06%) Legal
8 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.55%) Retail
9 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.02%) Wearables
11 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (23.47%) Analyst
2 44 (22.45%) Data Analyst
3 34 (17.35%) Junior
4 32 (16.33%) Junior Analyst
4 32 (16.33%) Junior Data Analyst
5 23 (11.73%) Developer
6 21 (10.71%) Lead
6 21 (10.71%) Trainee
7 20 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 20 (10.20%) Senior
8 17 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 17 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 16 (8.16%) Python Engineer
10 12 (6.12%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.61%) Python Developer
11 11 (5.61%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.10%) Test Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Trainee Analyst
13 9 (4.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
14 7 (3.57%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.67%) .NET
2 15 (7.65%) HTML
3 13 (6.63%) CSS
3 13 (6.63%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (5.61%) PySpark
5 8 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.06%) ARM Templates
6 6 (3.06%) Flask
6 6 (3.06%) LangChain
6 6 (3.06%) Node.js
6 6 (3.06%) YAML
7 5 (2.55%) Ajax
7 5 (2.55%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (2.55%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.55%) jQuery
7 5 (2.55%) Matplotlib
7 5 (2.55%) NumPy
7 5 (2.55%) Pandas
7 5 (2.55%) SQLAlchemy
7 5 (2.55%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.63%) Hedge funds
3 10 (5.10%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.04%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.04%) Life Science
7 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.53%) PKI
9 2 (1.02%) IoT
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.12%) Linux
2 8 (4.08%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Debian
3 5 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.84%) AI
2 44 (22.45%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (18.88%) DevOps
4 31 (15.82%) CI/CD
5 30 (15.31%) Analytics
5 30 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (13.78%) Agile
7 27 (13.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (12.24%) Containerisation
9 23 (11.73%) Mentoring
10 21 (10.71%) Computer Science
10 21 (10.71%) Fintech
10 21 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 20 (10.20%) Data Engineering
11 20 (10.20%) Workflow
12 19 (9.69%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
13 18 (9.18%) Coaching
14 17 (8.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 98 (50.00%) SQL
2 26 (13.27%) Bash
3 21 (10.71%) Java
4 19 (9.69%) C#
5 16 (8.16%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.63%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.61%) Go
7 11 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.08%) R
9 6 (3.06%) Bicep
10 5 (2.55%) C++
10 5 (2.55%) VB
11 2 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (29.08%) Azure Certification
2 22 (11.22%) Degree
3 16 (8.16%) Security Cleared
4 15 (7.65%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.14%) AWS Certification
6 12 (6.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.57%) CCIE
8 7 (3.57%) CCNP
8 7 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.04%) Tableau Certification
10 3 (1.53%) HNC
11 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.51%) CCSP
12 1 (0.51%) CISA
12 1 (0.51%) CISSP
12 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.51%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.20%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.57%) PMO
2 7 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.51%) NIST
3 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (9.69%) Docker
2 7 (3.57%) ProxySG
3 5 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.53%) vSphere
5 2 (1.02%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (16.84%) Terraform
2 16 (8.16%) Ansible
3 15 (7.65%) Kubernetes
4 14 (7.14%) Grafana
5 10 (5.10%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.53%) Control-M
6 3 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 79 (40.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.67%) Databricks
3 13 (6.63%) Cisco
4 7 (3.57%) Blue Coat
4 7 (3.57%) CheckPoint
4 7 (3.57%) F5
4 7 (3.57%) Infoblox
4 7 (3.57%) Motorola
4 7 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.57%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.53%) Arista
5 3 (1.53%) Aruba
5 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.53%) NetScout
5 3 (1.53%) VMware
6 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.02%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.51%) Google
7 1 (0.51%) Proofpoint