Python Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Python
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 -10 +12
Permanent jobs citing Python 49 11 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 5.12% 4.62% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 67.12% 25.00% 24.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 4 24
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,630 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,189 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £75,275
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -33.58% +7.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,813 £86,250
90th Percentile - £58,375 £93,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -3.45%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 73 44 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 7.63% 18.49% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 36 18 160
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,127 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Python job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Python
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Northern Ireland

Python
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 17 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
County Antrim +9 49 £75,000 +36.36% 167
Python
UK

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 19 (38.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (63.27%) Azure
2 22 (44.90%) Azure AI
3 16 (32.65%) Power Platform
4 13 (26.53%) AWS
5 7 (14.29%) GCP
6 6 (12.24%) dbt
6 6 (12.24%) PaaS
7 5 (10.20%) SaaS
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.04%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.04%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.04%) Pulumi
9 1 (2.04%) Sentry
9 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Internet
2 1 (2.04%) ATM
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) MPLS
2 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.04%) SMS
2 1 (2.04%) SNA
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) WAN
2 1 (2.04%) Wireless
2 1 (2.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Tableau
2 16 (32.65%) Power BI
3 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.04%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Git
1 1 (2.04%) GitLab
1 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Advertising
4 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Law
5 1 (2.04%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Analyst
1 18 (36.73%) Data Analyst
2 16 (32.65%) Junior
2 16 (32.65%) Junior Analyst
2 16 (32.65%) Junior Data Analyst
3 11 (22.45%) Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Senior
5 7 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
5 7 (14.29%) Lead
5 7 (14.29%) Python Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Test Leader
8 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Trainee
9 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Trainee Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) React
2 4 (8.16%) LangChain
3 3 (6.12%) CSS
3 3 (6.12%) HTML
4 2 (4.08%) Django
4 2 (4.08%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (4.08%) Next.js
4 2 (4.08%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.08%) React Native
4 2 (4.08%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.04%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.04%) Node.js
5 1 (2.04%) NumPy
5 1 (2.04%) pgvector
5 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.04%) TanStack
5 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
1 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) AI
2 16 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (20.41%) Generative AI
4 8 (16.33%) Agile
5 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.24%) DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.20%) BDD
7 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.16%) Analytics
8 4 (8.16%) LLM
8 4 (8.16%) Machine Learning
9 3 (6.12%) Front End Development
9 3 (6.12%) MLOps
9 3 (6.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 3 (6.12%) Scrum
9 3 (6.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) SQL
2 8 (16.33%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.12%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.04%) CCNP
2 1 (2.04%) CCSP
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.04%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (38.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) Cisco
2 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) OpenAI