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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 38 29
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 +14
Permanent jobs citing Python 247 38 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.35% 4.20% 5.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.75% 27.34% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 183 30 78
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,000 £31,100
25th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £63,940
Median % change year-on-year - +1.66% -1.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,435 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.75% -

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 691 139 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.37% 15.36% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 561 112 338
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,675
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,750 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +15 192 £66,000 +1.54% 113
Durham +21 46 £59,000 -14.97% 16
Northumberland - 7 £45,000 - 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 36 (14.57%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (8.50%) Apache Spark
3 18 (7.29%) Apache
3 18 (7.29%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) SAS
4 2 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (10.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.81%) SPSS
4 1 (0.40%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 118 (47.77%) Azure
2 114 (46.15%) AWS
3 43 (17.41%) Power Platform
4 42 (17.00%) GCP
5 36 (14.57%) Azure AI
6 32 (12.96%) Amazon S3
7 26 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (10.53%) Serverless
8 23 (9.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (6.07%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.64%) Textract
14 8 (3.24%) GitHub
15 7 (2.83%) SaaS
16 6 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.86%) Firewall
2 5 (2.02%) DNS
2 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.02%) VLAN
2 5 (2.02%) VPN
3 4 (1.62%) HTTP
3 4 (1.62%) Internet
4 3 (1.21%) BGP
4 3 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.21%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.21%) Cisco Wireless
4 3 (1.21%) EIGRP
4 3 (1.21%) LAN
4 3 (1.21%) Network Security
4 3 (1.21%) OSPF
4 3 (1.21%) SNMP
4 3 (1.21%) WAAS
4 3 (1.21%) WAN
4 3 (1.21%) Wireless
4 3 (1.21%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (17.41%) Power BI
2 41 (16.60%) Tableau
3 23 (9.31%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.29%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.88%) DynamoDB
6 14 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (4.05%) Big Data
9 9 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (3.24%) SQL Server
11 7 (2.83%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.83%) GIS
11 7 (2.83%) NoSQL
12 6 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.43%) Looker
12 6 (2.43%) Metadata
12 6 (2.43%) Star Schema
13 5 (2.02%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (2.02%) Flink
14 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (13.77%) Git
2 16 (6.48%) GitLab
3 7 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.43%) JIRA
5 4 (1.62%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.62%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.21%) LabVIEW
6 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.81%) MLflow
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) Locust
General
1 75 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (13.77%) Finance
4 23 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.05%) Law
7 6 (2.43%) Legal
8 5 (2.02%) Electronics
8 5 (2.02%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.62%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.62%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 2 (0.81%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.81%) Retail
10 2 (0.81%) Wearables
11 1 (0.40%) Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 47 (19.03%) Data Engineer
2 34 (13.77%) Analyst
3 32 (12.96%) Data Analyst
4 30 (12.15%) Lead
5 29 (11.74%) Developer
6 27 (10.93%) Junior
7 26 (10.53%) Python Engineer
8 24 (9.72%) Junior Analyst
8 24 (9.72%) Junior Data Analyst
8 24 (9.72%) Senior
9 23 (9.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 21 (8.50%) Python Developer
11 20 (8.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 12 (4.86%) Python Data Engineer
14 11 (4.45%) Data Scientist
15 10 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
16 9 (3.64%) Senior Python Developer
16 9 (3.64%) Software Developer
16 9 (3.64%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.93%) .NET
2 18 (7.29%) PySpark
3 15 (6.07%) HTML
4 13 (5.26%) CSS
5 12 (4.86%) Flask
6 11 (4.45%) .NET Core
6 11 (4.45%) YAML
7 9 (3.64%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.64%) LangChain
8 8 (3.24%) Node.js
8 8 (3.24%) React
9 7 (2.83%) Ajax
9 7 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (2.83%) Jinja
9 7 (2.83%) jQuery
9 7 (2.83%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (2.83%) OpenLayers
9 7 (2.83%) SQLAlchemy
10 6 (2.43%) RESTful
11 5 (2.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.31%) Hedge funds
2 21 (8.50%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (6.07%) Data Structures
4 15 (6.07%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.45%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.02%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.02%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.62%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.62%) Life Science
10 3 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.21%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.21%) Robotics
11 2 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.86%) Linux
2 6 (2.43%) Windows
3 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.81%) Debian
5 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (34.82%) AI
2 59 (23.89%) CI/CD
3 58 (23.48%) DevOps
4 54 (21.86%) Data Pipeline
5 52 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (20.65%) Agile
6 51 (20.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (19.03%) Data Engineering
8 46 (18.62%) Business Intelligence
9 44 (17.81%) Data Modelling
10 43 (17.41%) Analytics
11 36 (14.57%) Containerisation
12 35 (14.17%) Software Engineering
13 32 (12.96%) Decision-Making
13 32 (12.96%) Mentoring
14 30 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (11.74%) Fintech
15 29 (11.74%) Machine Learning
16 28 (11.34%) Workflow
17 27 (10.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 125 (50.61%) SQL
2 30 (12.15%) Bash
2 30 (12.15%) C#
2 30 (12.15%) Java
3 20 (8.10%) PowerShell
4 15 (6.07%) JavaScript
4 15 (6.07%) TypeScript
5 11 (4.45%) Bicep
6 7 (2.83%) C++
6 7 (2.83%) Go
7 5 (2.02%) R
7 5 (2.02%) Scala
8 3 (1.21%) VB
9 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (18.22%) Azure Certification
2 34 (13.77%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.93%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.31%) Degree
5 12 (4.86%) AWS Certification
5 12 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.02%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.62%) Tableau Certification
8 3 (1.21%) CCIE
8 3 (1.21%) CCNP
8 3 (1.21%) HNC
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.40%) CCSP
10 1 (0.40%) CISA
10 1 (0.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.40%) GSEC
10 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.64%) QA
3 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 3 (1.21%) NCSC
4 3 (1.21%) PMO
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) ProxySG
2 3 (1.21%) vSphere
3 2 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (18.22%) Terraform
2 25 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.24%) Ansible
3 8 (3.24%) Grafana
4 4 (1.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.21%) Control-M
5 3 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 34 (13.77%) Databricks
3 6 (2.43%) Cisco
3 6 (2.43%) Google
4 3 (1.21%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.21%) Blue Coat
4 3 (1.21%) CheckPoint
4 3 (1.21%) F5
4 3 (1.21%) Infoblox
4 3 (1.21%) Motorola
4 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
4 3 (1.21%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.21%) SolarWinds
4 3 (1.21%) VMware
5 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.40%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.40%) Zscaler