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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +25 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 79 60 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.20% 9.71% 4.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.72% 25.10% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 65 35 36
10th Percentile - £37,789 £41,625
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,875 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £48,750 £95,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £76,750 - £86,250
North East median annual salary £40,000 £69,308 £56,250
% change year-on-year -42.29% +23.21% -18.18%

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 194 239 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.15% 38.67% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 157 115 237
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,789 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,625 £67,968
90th Percentile £78,850 £97,000 £80,000
North East median annual salary £51,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% -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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +10 74 £38,750 -44.64% 36
Gateshead -8 3 £47,500 -9.52%
Prudhoe - 2 £45,000 -
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 2 (2.53%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.80%) Siemens NX
3 2 (2.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.82%) Azure
2 39 (49.37%) AWS
3 28 (35.44%) GitHub
4 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
5 8 (10.13%) Azure AI
5 8 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.13%) GCP
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.80%) IaaS
7 3 (3.80%) OCI
8 2 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.85%) Internet
2 18 (22.78%) Firewall
3 9 (11.39%) VoIP
4 6 (7.59%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (7.59%) DNS
4 6 (7.59%) HTTP
4 6 (7.59%) PSTN
4 6 (7.59%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.80%) DMZ
5 3 (3.80%) NGFW
5 3 (3.80%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (3.80%) STUN
5 3 (3.80%) VLAN
5 3 (3.80%) VPN
5 3 (3.80%) VXLAN
5 3 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.80%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.32%) Tableau
2 12 (15.19%) Data Mining
3 8 (10.13%) Power BI
4 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) Git
2 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.53%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.53%) JIRA
4 2 (2.53%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (29.11%) Finance
3 22 (27.85%) Multimedia
4 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (15.19%) Telecoms
6 6 (7.59%) Law
7 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Legal
8 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (44.30%) Trainee
2 19 (24.05%) Analyst
2 19 (24.05%) Data Analyst
3 14 (17.72%) Developer
4 13 (16.46%) Software Developer
4 13 (16.46%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (16.46%) Trainee Software Developer
5 11 (13.92%) Trainee Analyst
5 11 (13.92%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.13%) Junior
6 8 (10.13%) Junior Analyst
6 8 (10.13%) Junior Data Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Lead
7 6 (7.59%) Support Specialist
8 3 (3.80%) Administrator
8 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.85%) CSS
1 22 (27.85%) HTML
2 9 (11.39%) FreeSWITCH
3 8 (10.13%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.80%) Itk
5 2 (2.53%) Hugging Face
5 2 (2.53%) Matplotlib
5 2 (2.53%) NumPy
5 2 (2.53%) Pandas
5 2 (2.53%) REST
5 2 (2.53%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.53%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.27%) .NET
6 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
1 3 (3.80%) PKI
2 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.27%) Derivative
3 1 (1.27%) EPoS
3 1 (1.27%) Equities
3 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.27%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.13%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
3 5 (6.33%) Linux
4 3 (3.80%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Mentoring
2 22 (27.85%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (18.99%) DevOps
5 14 (17.72%) AI
5 14 (17.72%) Analytics
6 13 (16.46%) Computer Science
7 12 (15.19%) Data Analytics
7 12 (15.19%) Project Management
8 11 (13.92%) Business Analysis
8 11 (13.92%) Data Analysis
9 10 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (11.39%) CI/CD
10 9 (11.39%) High Availability
10 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (10.13%) Agile
11 8 (10.13%) Containerisation
11 8 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (8.86%) DevSecOps
12 7 (8.86%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (41.77%) SQL
2 23 (29.11%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.25%) Bash
4 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.39%) R
5 6 (7.59%) Go
6 4 (5.06%) Java
6 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.80%) C#
7 3 (3.80%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 33 (41.77%) Azure Certification
2 24 (30.38%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (27.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (13.92%) Degree
5 6 (7.59%) CCNP
5 6 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (7.59%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (7.59%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (3.80%) HNC
6 3 (3.80%) HND
7 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) Ansible
1 12 (15.19%) Terraform
2 9 (11.39%) Grafana
3 7 (8.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.80%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.53%) Control-M
5 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (62.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.39%) Cisco
3 5 (6.33%) VMware
4 3 (3.80%) Arista
4 3 (3.80%) Aruba
4 3 (3.80%) NetScout
4 3 (3.80%) Siemens
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.27%) Databricks
6 1 (1.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) Intapp