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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 25 25
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +17
Permanent jobs citing Python 193 35 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.24% 5.69% 5.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.90% 27.56% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 154 27 51
10th Percentile £37,725 £22,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +3.37% -5.09%
75th Percentile £87,375 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £100,000
North East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,831
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.45% -3.34%

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 605 127 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.83% 20.65% 31.89%
Number of salaries quoted 508 101 249
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £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 £93,750 £82,993
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 11 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 11 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 +5 172 £67,500 +3.85% 65
Sunderland - 13 £45,000 - 10
Gateshead - 4 £105,000 - 2
Prudhoe - 4 £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 34 (17.62%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (10.36%) Apache Spark
3 17 (8.81%) Apache
3 17 (8.81%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) SAS
4 2 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 107 (55.44%) AWS
2 82 (42.49%) Azure
3 40 (20.73%) GCP
4 30 (15.54%) Amazon S3
5 27 (13.99%) Power Platform
6 25 (12.95%) Serverless
7 24 (12.44%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (9.84%) Azure AI
10 18 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (7.25%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (6.22%) Amazon ECR
12 12 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.66%) GitHub
13 9 (4.66%) Textract
13 9 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.18%) Firewall
2 6 (3.11%) DNS
3 5 (2.59%) HTTP
3 5 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.55%) 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 30 (15.54%) Tableau
2 27 (13.99%) Power BI
3 20 (10.36%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (8.29%) DynamoDB
6 13 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.66%) Big Data
9 8 (4.15%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.63%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.63%) GIS
10 7 (3.63%) NoSQL
11 6 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (3.11%) Looker
11 6 (3.11%) Metadata
12 5 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (2.59%) Flink
12 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.07%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 31 (16.06%) Git
2 15 (7.77%) GitLab
3 8 (4.15%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.11%) JIRA
5 4 (2.07%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.04%) Selenium
7 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (27.46%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.58%) Finance
4 23 (11.92%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.18%) Law
7 6 (3.11%) Legal
8 5 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.07%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.55%) Retail
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Front Office
11 2 (1.04%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.52%) Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 43 (22.28%) Data Engineer
2 29 (15.03%) Developer
3 27 (13.99%) Lead
4 22 (11.40%) Analyst
5 21 (10.88%) Python Developer
6 20 (10.36%) Data Analyst
7 19 (9.84%) Python Engineer
8 17 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (7.77%) Junior
9 15 (7.77%) Senior
10 13 (6.74%) Junior Analyst
10 13 (6.74%) Junior Data Analyst
11 12 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.22%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (5.70%) Data Scientist
12 11 (5.70%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.18%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (4.66%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.66%) Senior Python Developer
14 9 (4.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.81%) PySpark
2 15 (7.77%) .NET
2 15 (7.77%) HTML
3 13 (6.74%) CSS
4 11 (5.70%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.70%) Flask
5 8 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.63%) Ajax
6 7 (3.63%) Jinja
6 7 (3.63%) jQuery
6 7 (3.63%) LangChain
6 7 (3.63%) LlamaIndex
6 7 (3.63%) OpenLayers
6 7 (3.63%) SQLAlchemy
7 6 (3.11%) Node.js
7 6 (3.11%) React
7 6 (3.11%) RESTful
8 5 (2.59%) boto
8 5 (2.59%) CSS3
8 5 (2.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.40%) Hedge funds
2 19 (9.84%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.25%) Data Structures
4 14 (7.25%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (6.74%) Algorithms
6 11 (5.70%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (3.11%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.59%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.07%) Life Science
9 4 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.55%) Robotics
11 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.04%) IoT
11 2 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.18%) Linux
2 6 (3.11%) Windows
3 3 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.04%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.02%) AI
2 52 (26.94%) CI/CD
3 47 (24.35%) Data Pipeline
3 47 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (22.80%) Data Engineering
4 44 (22.80%) DevOps
5 39 (20.21%) Agile
6 37 (19.17%) Analytics
6 37 (19.17%) Data Modelling
7 35 (18.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 34 (17.62%) Containerisation
9 30 (15.54%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (15.54%) Mentoring
10 29 (15.03%) Fintech
11 27 (13.99%) Decision-Making
12 26 (13.47%) Machine Learning
13 25 (12.95%) Software Engineering
14 24 (12.44%) Workflow
15 23 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 23 (11.92%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (56.48%) SQL
2 25 (12.95%) Java
3 18 (9.33%) Bash
3 18 (9.33%) C#
4 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
5 15 (7.77%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.15%) Go
8 6 (3.11%) R
9 4 (2.07%) Scala
10 3 (1.55%) C++
11 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.51%) Azure Certification
3 25 (12.95%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.84%) Degree
5 13 (6.74%) AWS Certification
6 12 (6.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.07%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) CISA
10 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.63%) QA
3 5 (2.59%) GDPR
4 3 (1.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (18.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) vSphere
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (15.54%) Terraform
2 13 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.66%) Ansible
4 8 (4.15%) Grafana
5 5 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.55%) Control-M
6 3 (1.55%) 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 43 (22.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.06%) Databricks
3 5 (2.59%) Google
4 3 (1.55%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.55%) Cisco
4 3 (1.55%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.55%) 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