Python Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Python
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 14 29 28
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +10
Permanent jobs citing Python 192 35 64
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.13% 5.59% 5.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.74% 27.34% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 153 27 54
10th Percentile £39,100 £22,000 £26,625
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% -1.19%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £101,750
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,940
% change year-on-year - +1.66% -1.63%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 605 128 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.61% 20.45% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 508 102 251
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £39,288 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -7.08%
75th Percentile £88,148 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £84,964
North East median annual salary £59,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.38% -4.55% -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Python job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Python
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Tyne and Wear

Python
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +5 169 £67,500 +3.85% 59
Sunderland - 13 £45,000 - 9
Gateshead - 5 £105,000 - 2
Prudhoe - 5 £47,000 - 2
Python
North East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (10.94%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.38%) Apache
4 17 (8.85%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 107 (55.73%) AWS
2 81 (42.19%) Azure
3 39 (20.31%) GCP
4 32 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 26 (13.54%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (13.54%) Power Platform
5 26 (13.54%) Serverless
6 23 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (9.38%) Azure AI
9 15 (7.81%) Amazon EMR
10 13 (6.77%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (4.69%) Textract
13 8 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.17%) GitHub
14 6 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.69%) Firewall
2 5 (2.60%) DNS
3 4 (2.08%) HTTP
3 4 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.56%) Internet
5 2 (1.04%) DMZ
5 2 (1.04%) MQTT
5 2 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.04%) STUN
5 2 (1.04%) VLAN
5 2 (1.04%) VoIP
5 2 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.58%) Tableau
2 26 (13.54%) Power BI
3 20 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.85%) DynamoDB
6 14 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.21%) Big Data
9 9 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.17%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.65%) BigQuery
11 7 (3.65%) GIS
11 7 (3.65%) NoSQL
12 6 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (3.13%) Looker
12 6 (3.13%) Metadata
13 5 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (2.60%) Flink
13 5 (2.60%) Star Schema
14 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 32 (16.67%) Git
2 16 (8.33%) GitLab
3 7 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.13%) JIRA
5 4 (2.08%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.04%) Selenium
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (16.15%) Finance
4 23 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.21%) Law
7 6 (3.13%) Legal
8 5 (2.60%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.08%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Front Office
10 2 (1.04%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.04%) Retail
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (22.92%) Data Engineer
2 29 (15.10%) Developer
3 27 (14.06%) Lead
4 21 (10.94%) Python Developer
5 20 (10.42%) Analyst
6 19 (9.90%) Python Engineer
7 18 (9.38%) Data Analyst
8 17 (8.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (7.29%) Junior
9 14 (7.29%) Senior
10 12 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
10 12 (6.25%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.73%) Software Engineer
12 10 (5.21%) Data Scientist
12 10 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (4.69%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.69%) Senior Python Developer
13 9 (4.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.38%) PySpark
2 16 (8.33%) .NET
3 15 (7.81%) HTML
4 13 (6.77%) CSS
5 11 (5.73%) .NET Core
5 11 (5.73%) Flask
6 7 (3.65%) Ajax
6 7 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.65%) Jinja
6 7 (3.65%) jQuery
6 7 (3.65%) LangChain
6 7 (3.65%) LlamaIndex
6 7 (3.65%) OpenLayers
6 7 (3.65%) SQLAlchemy
7 6 (3.13%) Node.js
7 6 (3.13%) React
7 6 (3.13%) RESTful
8 5 (2.60%) boto
8 5 (2.60%) CSS3
8 5 (2.60%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.98%) Hedge funds
2 21 (10.94%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (7.81%) Data Structures
4 15 (7.81%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (6.77%) Algorithms
6 11 (5.73%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.60%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.08%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.08%) Life Science
10 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.56%) Robotics
11 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.04%) IoT
11 2 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Linux
2 6 (3.13%) Windows
3 3 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (28.13%) AI
1 54 (28.13%) CI/CD
2 50 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (25.52%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (23.96%) Data Engineering
5 45 (23.44%) DevOps
6 41 (21.35%) Agile
7 39 (20.31%) Data Modelling
8 38 (19.79%) Analytics
9 37 (19.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (17.71%) Containerisation
11 31 (16.15%) Mentoring
12 29 (15.10%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (15.10%) Fintech
13 28 (14.58%) Decision-Making
14 25 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (13.02%) Machine Learning
14 25 (13.02%) Software Engineering
14 25 (13.02%) Validation
15 23 (11.98%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 109 (56.77%) SQL
2 27 (14.06%) Java
3 19 (9.90%) Bash
3 19 (9.90%) C#
4 15 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.81%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.69%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.65%) Go
7 5 (2.60%) R
7 5 (2.60%) Scala
8 4 (2.08%) C++
9 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.06%) Azure Certification
3 26 (13.54%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.90%) Degree
5 12 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 12 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.08%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.52%) CCSP
9 1 (0.52%) CISA
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (20.31%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.17%) QA
3 5 (2.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.56%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (19.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) vSphere
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (16.15%) Terraform
2 13 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.17%) Ansible
4 7 (3.65%) Grafana
5 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.56%) Control-M
6 3 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.52%) Kibana
7 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 32 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (2.60%) Google
4 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.56%) Cisco
4 3 (1.56%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.56%) VMware
5 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.52%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Zscaler