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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 26 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 -8
Permanent jobs citing Python 165 33 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.00% 6.04% 3.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.29% 26.40% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 132 26 53
10th Percentile £35,000 £20,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £45,875 £42,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £86,250
North East median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% -2.34% -1.54%

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 511 125 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.78% 22.89% 25.37%
Number of salaries quoted 438 105 323
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,245
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,250 £83,759
North East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 5 July 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 5 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 149 £65,000 +8.33% 50
Sunderland - 11 £45,000 - 7
Gateshead - 3 - - 2
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 26 (15.76%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (9.70%) Jupyter
3 12 (7.27%) Apache
3 12 (7.27%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.21%) Confluence
4 2 (1.21%) SAS
4 2 (1.21%) WordPress
5 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (13.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.21%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 80 (48.48%) AWS
1 80 (48.48%) Azure
2 30 (18.18%) GCP
3 28 (16.97%) Power Platform
4 22 (13.33%) Azure AI
5 15 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 13 (7.88%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (7.88%) Serverless
7 12 (7.27%) GitHub
8 11 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
8 11 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.45%) Amazon ECR
9 9 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.64%) Textract
12 5 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.03%) IaaS
12 5 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.12%) Firewall
2 9 (5.45%) DNS
2 9 (5.45%) HTTP
2 9 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.03%) DMZ
3 5 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (3.03%) STUN
3 5 (3.03%) VLAN
3 5 (3.03%) VoIP
3 5 (3.03%) VPN
4 4 (2.42%) Internet
5 3 (1.82%) NGFW
5 3 (1.82%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.82%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.21%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (20.61%) Tableau
2 27 (16.36%) Power BI
3 14 (8.48%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (7.88%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.45%) Big Data
7 8 (4.85%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.24%) Data Mining
8 7 (4.24%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.03%) GIS
10 5 (3.03%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.21%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.21%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (10.30%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) GitLab
3 10 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.64%) JIRA
5 5 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.82%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.21%) Selenium
General
1 48 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.79%) Finance
3 27 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.45%) Law
5 9 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.64%) Legal
8 5 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.03%) Retail
9 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.82%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (18.79%) Data Engineer
2 28 (16.97%) Analyst
3 26 (15.76%) Data Analyst
4 23 (13.94%) Developer
5 20 (12.12%) Lead
6 18 (10.91%) Junior
6 18 (10.91%) Python Engineer
7 16 (9.70%) Junior Analyst
7 16 (9.70%) Junior Data Analyst
8 15 (9.09%) Trainee
9 13 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (7.88%) Python Developer
10 12 (7.27%) Senior
11 11 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (6.67%) Software Engineer
12 10 (6.06%) Python Data Engineer
12 10 (6.06%) Software Developer
13 9 (5.45%) Data Scientist
14 7 (4.24%) Senior Developer
14 7 (4.24%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.48%) PySpark
2 12 (7.27%) .NET
2 12 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (6.67%) HTML
4 9 (5.45%) .NET Core
4 9 (5.45%) CSS
5 6 (3.64%) Flask
5 6 (3.64%) Node.js
5 6 (3.64%) Pandas
6 5 (3.03%) Ajax
6 5 (3.03%) boto
6 5 (3.03%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (3.03%) Jinja
6 5 (3.03%) jQuery
6 5 (3.03%) Matplotlib
6 5 (3.03%) NumPy
6 5 (3.03%) React
6 5 (3.03%) RESTful
6 5 (3.03%) scikit-learn
6 5 (3.03%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.52%) Hedge funds
2 14 (8.48%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.24%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (3.03%) Client/Server
7 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.42%) Life Science
8 4 (2.42%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.82%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.82%) PKI
9 3 (1.82%) Robotics
10 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.21%) IoT
10 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.06%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Windows
3 5 (3.03%) Debian
3 5 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.33%) AI
2 37 (22.42%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (20.00%) Analytics
5 31 (18.79%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (18.79%) CI/CD
5 31 (18.79%) DevOps
6 26 (15.76%) Fintech
7 25 (15.15%) Data Engineering
8 24 (14.55%) Agile
9 23 (13.94%) Containerisation
10 22 (13.33%) Data Modelling
11 21 (12.73%) Mentoring
11 21 (12.73%) Workflow
12 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (12.12%) Software Engineering
13 19 (11.52%) Coaching
14 17 (10.30%) Decision-Making
14 17 (10.30%) LLM
14 17 (10.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 99 (60.00%) SQL
2 20 (12.12%) Bash
3 18 (10.91%) Java
4 16 (9.70%) C#
5 15 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.27%) Go
7 11 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.06%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.64%) R
10 2 (1.21%) C++
10 2 (1.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (18.79%) Azure Certification
2 18 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 17 (10.30%) SC Cleared
4 14 (8.48%) Degree
5 10 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.42%) Tableau Certification
8 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) CCSP
9 1 (0.61%) CISA
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.61%) CISSP
9 1 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.64%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (11.52%) Docker
2 5 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (15.76%) Terraform
2 16 (9.70%) Ansible
3 12 (7.27%) Grafana
4 9 (5.45%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.82%) Control-M
5 3 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (32.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.15%) Databricks
3 6 (3.64%) Cisco
4 3 (1.82%) Arista
4 3 (1.82%) Aruba
4 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.82%) NetScout
4 3 (1.82%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.82%) VMware
5 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.61%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.61%) Google
6 1 (0.61%) Intapp
6 1 (0.61%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.61%) Zscaler