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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 27 37
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 187 34 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.52% 5.60% 4.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.16% 26.98% 16.12%
Number of salaries quoted 150 27 49
10th Percentile £35,000 £22,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +3.37% -3.26%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £89,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.53% -3.41%

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 564 126 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.68% 20.76% 28.68%
Number of salaries quoted 478 104 264
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,063 £38,975 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £88,148 £67,813 £67,968
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,625 £84,602
North East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 30 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 30 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 +9 168 £67,500 +3.85% 59
Sunderland - 13 £45,000 - 7
Gateshead - 3 - - 2
Prudhoe - 3 £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 31 (16.58%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 17 (9.09%) Jupyter
3 15 (8.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.07%) Confluence
4 2 (1.07%) SAS
4 2 (1.07%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (11.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.07%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 99 (52.94%) AWS
2 81 (43.32%) Azure
3 36 (19.25%) GCP
4 28 (14.97%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.37%) Amazon S3
6 22 (11.76%) Serverless
7 21 (11.23%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (11.23%) Azure AI
8 19 (10.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (6.95%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.88%) GitHub
12 10 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.28%) Textract
14 8 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.49%) Firewall
2 8 (4.28%) DNS
3 7 (3.74%) HTTP
3 7 (3.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.14%) DMZ
4 4 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (2.14%) STUN
4 4 (2.14%) VLAN
4 4 (2.14%) VoIP
4 4 (2.14%) VPN
5 3 (1.60%) Internet
6 2 (1.07%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.65%) Tableau
2 28 (14.97%) Power BI
3 17 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (8.56%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (8.02%) DynamoDB
6 11 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.81%) Big Data
7 9 (4.81%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
9 6 (3.21%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.21%) GIS
10 5 (2.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.67%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.14%) Looker
11 4 (2.14%) Metadata
12 3 (1.60%) DuckDB
Development Applications
1 26 (13.90%) Git
2 14 (7.49%) GitLab
3 10 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.21%) JIRA
5 4 (2.14%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.07%) Selenium
General
1 53 (28.34%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.18%) Finance
3 31 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.88%) Law
7 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.21%) Legal
8 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.14%) Retail
9 4 (2.14%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.07%) Front Office
10 2 (1.07%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (20.86%) Data Engineer
2 28 (14.97%) Developer
3 26 (13.90%) Analyst
4 24 (12.83%) Data Analyst
5 23 (12.30%) Lead
6 20 (10.70%) Python Developer
7 19 (10.16%) Python Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Junior
9 15 (8.02%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (8.02%) Junior Data Analyst
9 15 (8.02%) Senior
10 14 (7.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (6.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 12 (6.42%) Python Data Engineer
12 12 (6.42%) Trainee
13 11 (5.88%) Data Scientist
13 11 (5.88%) Software Engineer
14 10 (5.35%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (4.81%) Senior Developer
15 9 (4.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.56%) PySpark
2 14 (7.49%) .NET
2 14 (7.49%) HTML
3 12 (6.42%) CSS
4 10 (5.35%) .NET Core
4 10 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (5.35%) Flask
5 6 (3.21%) Ajax
5 6 (3.21%) Jinja
5 6 (3.21%) jQuery
5 6 (3.21%) Node.js
5 6 (3.21%) OpenLayers
5 6 (3.21%) React
5 6 (3.21%) RESTful
5 6 (3.21%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (2.67%) boto
6 5 (2.67%) LangChain
6 5 (2.67%) LlamaIndex
6 5 (2.67%) Pandas
7 4 (2.14%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Hedge funds
2 15 (8.02%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.49%) Algorithms
4 13 (6.95%) Data Structures
4 13 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
6 10 (5.35%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.67%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.67%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.14%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.14%) Life Science
9 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.60%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.60%) Robotics
10 2 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.07%) IoT
10 2 (1.07%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.07%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.42%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Windows
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.41%) AI
2 46 (24.60%) CI/CD
3 43 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (22.46%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (20.86%) DevOps
6 36 (19.25%) Analytics
7 35 (18.72%) Data Engineering
8 33 (17.65%) Agile
9 31 (16.58%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (16.58%) Containerisation
10 30 (16.04%) Data Modelling
10 30 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (15.51%) Fintech
12 25 (13.37%) Mentoring
13 24 (12.83%) Decision-Making
14 23 (12.30%) Software Engineering
14 23 (12.30%) Workflow
15 21 (11.23%) Machine Learning
16 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 20 (10.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (57.75%) SQL
2 23 (12.30%) Java
3 21 (11.23%) Bash
4 18 (9.63%) C#
5 16 (8.56%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.49%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.35%) Go
9 6 (3.21%) R
10 3 (1.60%) C++
10 3 (1.60%) Scala
11 2 (1.07%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (16.04%) Azure Certification
2 25 (13.37%) Security Cleared
3 22 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.09%) Degree
5 11 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.14%) Tableau Certification
8 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.53%) CCSP
10 1 (0.53%) CISA
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.53%) CISSP
10 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.53%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.74%) QA
3 3 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.53%) NCSC
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (16.04%) Terraform
2 12 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.88%) Ansible
4 10 (5.35%) Grafana
5 7 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.60%) Control-M
6 3 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.53%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.53%) Kibana
7 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 30 (16.04%) Databricks
3 5 (2.67%) Cisco
4 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.60%) Google
4 3 (1.60%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.60%) VMware
5 2 (1.07%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.53%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.53%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.53%) Zscaler