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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Python 196 37 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.60% 5.75% 6.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.29% 29.60% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 157 28 58
10th Percentile £42,500 £22,775 £29,400
25th Percentile £47,000 £34,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £55,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -15.98% -3.02%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,250 £100,750
North East median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.35% +0.71%

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 647 125 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.08% 19.41% 35.35%
Number of salaries quoted 541 97 237
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,250 £84,964
North East median annual salary £60,000 £51,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.36% -7.05% -

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +2 168 £67,500 +22.73% 78
Sunderland - 15 £45,000 - 8
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 - 2
Gateshead - 6 £105,000 - 4
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 37 (18.88%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.22%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.18%) Apache
4 15 (7.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) WordPress
6 1 (0.51%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 114 (58.16%) AWS
2 83 (42.35%) Azure
3 44 (22.45%) GCP
4 34 (17.35%) Amazon S3
5 30 (15.31%) Serverless
6 28 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (12.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (12.76%) Power Platform
8 21 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (7.65%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (7.65%) Amazon EMR
9 15 (7.65%) Azure AI
10 13 (6.63%) Amazon ECR
10 13 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (4.59%) Textract
13 8 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (3.06%) GitHub
15 5 (2.55%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.55%) Firewall
2 3 (1.53%) DNS
2 3 (1.53%) Internet
3 2 (1.02%) HTTP
3 2 (1.02%) MQTT
3 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.76%) Power BI
2 24 (12.24%) Tableau
3 21 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (9.18%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.67%) DynamoDB
6 16 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.10%) Big Data
9 9 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (3.57%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.57%) GIS
10 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
11 6 (3.06%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.06%) Flink
11 6 (3.06%) Looker
11 6 (3.06%) Metadata
11 6 (3.06%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (17.86%) Git
2 18 (9.18%) GitLab
3 7 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.06%) JIRA
4 6 (3.06%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 56 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.78%) Finance
5 23 (11.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.10%) Law
7 6 (3.06%) Legal
8 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.04%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.02%) Front Office
10 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Data Engineer
2 30 (15.31%) Developer
3 29 (14.80%) Lead
4 21 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 21 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 19 (9.69%) Python Engineer
6 16 (8.16%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 16 (8.16%) Databricks Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Analyst
7 15 (7.65%) Senior
8 13 (6.63%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.12%) Python Data Engineer
9 12 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Data Scientist
11 10 (5.10%) Junior
11 10 (5.10%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.59%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.84%) Terraform
2 19 (9.69%) PySpark
3 16 (8.16%) .NET
4 15 (7.65%) HTML
5 13 (6.63%) CSS
6 11 (5.61%) .NET Core
6 11 (5.61%) Flask
7 9 (4.59%) LangChain
7 9 (4.59%) LlamaIndex
8 8 (4.08%) Node.js
9 7 (3.57%) Ajax
9 7 (3.57%) Jinja
9 7 (3.57%) jQuery
9 7 (3.57%) OpenLayers
9 7 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
10 6 (3.06%) Kafka
10 6 (3.06%) React
10 6 (3.06%) RESTful
11 5 (2.55%) CSS3
11 5 (2.55%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.73%) Hedge funds
3 17 (8.67%) Distributed Computing
3 17 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (7.65%) Data Structures
5 11 (5.61%) Algorithms
5 11 (5.61%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (5.10%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.55%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.04%) Life Science
10 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.53%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.53%) Robotics
11 2 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.57%) Linux
2 4 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.61%) CI/CD
2 57 (29.08%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (27.04%) AI
3 53 (27.04%) Data Engineering
4 52 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
5 50 (25.51%) DevOps
6 46 (23.47%) Agile
7 43 (21.94%) Data Modelling
7 43 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (19.90%) Analytics
9 37 (18.88%) Containerisation
10 34 (17.35%) Mentoring
11 32 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (14.80%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (14.80%) Decision-Making
12 29 (14.80%) Fintech
13 27 (13.78%) Machine Learning
13 27 (13.78%) Software Engineering
13 27 (13.78%) Validation
14 23 (11.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 107 (54.59%) SQL
2 29 (14.80%) Java
3 19 (9.69%) Bash
3 19 (9.69%) C#
4 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.59%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.06%) Scala
8 5 (2.55%) Go
8 5 (2.55%) R
9 4 (2.04%) C++
10 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.24%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.69%) Degree
5 16 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.04%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CISA
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.08%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) GDPR
3 5 (2.55%) NCSC
4 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.51%) NIST
4 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (20.92%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.08%) Ansible
3 5 (2.55%) Grafana
4 3 (1.53%) Control-M
4 3 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.53%) Puppet
5 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.51%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (17.35%) Databricks
2 32 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.55%) Google
4 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.53%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.53%) VMware
5 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco
6 1 (0.51%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.51%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.51%) Zscaler