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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 38 33
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 227 37 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 8.42% 4.39% 4.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.38% 26.43% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 163 30 77
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.37% -3.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -3.33%

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 624 140 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.15% 16.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 508 118 396
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,288 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +15 176 £62,500 +4.17% 55
Durham +24 46 £59,000 -14.97% 8
Northumberland - 5 - - 5
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 29 (12.78%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (7.93%) Jupyter
3 13 (5.73%) Apache
3 13 (5.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) SAS
4 2 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 37 (16.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.20%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.88%) SPSS
5 1 (0.44%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 115 (50.66%) Azure
2 94 (41.41%) AWS
3 42 (18.50%) Azure AI
3 42 (18.50%) Power Platform
4 33 (14.54%) GCP
5 21 (9.25%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (7.93%) Amazon S3
7 16 (7.05%) Serverless
8 15 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (5.29%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (4.85%) Amazon ECR
12 10 (4.41%) GitHub
13 9 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
14 8 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (3.08%) SaaS
15 7 (3.08%) Textract
16 6 (2.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (9.25%) Firewall
2 9 (3.96%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.96%) VLAN
2 9 (3.96%) VPN
3 8 (3.52%) DNS
3 8 (3.52%) HTTP
4 5 (2.20%) DMZ
4 5 (2.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (2.20%) STUN
4 5 (2.20%) VoIP
5 4 (1.76%) BGP
5 4 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.76%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.76%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (1.76%) Internet
5 4 (1.76%) Network Security
5 4 (1.76%) OSPF
5 4 (1.76%) WAAS
5 4 (1.76%) Wireless
5 4 (1.76%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (21.59%) Tableau
2 42 (18.50%) Power BI
3 15 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
3 15 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.73%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.96%) Big Data
7 8 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.08%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.64%) Star Schema
10 5 (2.20%) GIS
11 4 (1.76%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.32%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.32%) Looker
Development Applications
1 19 (8.37%) Git
2 13 (5.73%) GitLab
3 9 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.64%) JIRA
5 5 (2.20%) LabVIEW
5 5 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.32%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.88%) MLflow
8 2 (0.88%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) Locust
General
1 70 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.30%) Finance
3 33 (14.54%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (6.61%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.41%) Law
6 8 (3.52%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.08%) Electronics
7 7 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.64%) Legal
9 5 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.20%) Retail
10 4 (1.76%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.76%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.88%) Front Office
11 2 (0.88%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 42 (18.50%) Analyst
2 40 (17.62%) Data Analyst
3 36 (15.86%) Data Engineer
4 33 (14.54%) Junior
5 30 (13.22%) Junior Analyst
5 30 (13.22%) Junior Data Analyst
6 27 (11.89%) Developer
7 25 (11.01%) Lead
8 24 (10.57%) Senior
9 22 (9.69%) Python Engineer
10 21 (9.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (8.37%) Python Developer
12 17 (7.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (6.17%) Trainee
14 12 (5.29%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (5.29%) Software Engineer
15 11 (4.85%) Data Scientist
16 10 (4.41%) Lead Data Engineer
16 10 (4.41%) Test Engineer
17 9 (3.96%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.57%) .NET
2 14 (6.17%) PySpark
3 13 (5.73%) HTML
4 11 (4.85%) CSS
4 11 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (4.85%) YAML
5 9 (3.96%) .NET Core
5 9 (3.96%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.96%) Flask
6 8 (3.52%) Node.js
6 8 (3.52%) React
7 6 (2.64%) LangChain
7 6 (2.64%) Pandas
7 6 (2.64%) RESTful
8 5 (2.20%) Ajax
8 5 (2.20%) boto
8 5 (2.20%) Hugging Face
8 5 (2.20%) OpenLayers
8 5 (2.20%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (2.20%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.69%) Hedge funds
2 15 (6.61%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.29%) Data Structures
3 12 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.96%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.96%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (3.96%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.20%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.20%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (1.76%) Life Science
7 3 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.32%) Robotics
8 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) Raspberry Pi
8 2 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.73%) Linux
2 8 (3.52%) Windows
3 5 (2.20%) Debian
3 5 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (38.77%) AI
2 45 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (19.38%) DevOps
4 42 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (17.62%) CI/CD
6 38 (16.74%) Agile
6 38 (16.74%) Data Pipeline
7 35 (15.42%) Analytics
8 34 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (13.22%) Fintech
10 29 (12.78%) Containerisation
11 28 (12.33%) Data Engineering
12 26 (11.45%) Decision-Making
12 26 (11.45%) Software Engineering
13 25 (11.01%) Data Modelling
14 24 (10.57%) Test Automation
14 24 (10.57%) Workflow
15 22 (9.69%) Computer Science
15 22 (9.69%) Mentoring
16 21 (9.25%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 121 (53.30%) SQL
2 31 (13.66%) Bash
3 29 (12.78%) C#
4 23 (10.13%) Java
5 22 (9.69%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.29%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.85%) Bicep
8 11 (4.85%) Go
9 6 (2.64%) C++
9 6 (2.64%) R
10 5 (2.20%) VB
11 2 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (22.03%) Azure Certification
2 23 (10.13%) Degree
3 21 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.81%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.96%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.76%) CCIE
8 4 (1.76%) CCNP
8 4 (1.76%) Tableau Certification
9 3 (1.32%) HNC
10 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.44%) CISA
11 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.44%) GSEC
11 1 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.45%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.08%) QA
3 4 (1.76%) PMO
4 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (11.45%) Docker
2 5 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.76%) ProxySG
4 3 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (16.74%) Terraform
2 21 (9.25%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.73%) Ansible
4 12 (5.29%) Grafana
5 8 (3.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.32%) Control-M
6 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 75 (33.04%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.78%) Databricks
3 10 (4.41%) Cisco
4 4 (1.76%) Blue Coat
4 4 (1.76%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.76%) F5
4 4 (1.76%) Infoblox
4 4 (1.76%) Motorola
4 4 (1.76%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.76%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.32%) Google
5 3 (1.32%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.32%) VMware
6 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.44%) Aruba
7 1 (0.44%) NetScout
7 1 (0.44%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat