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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 26 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +16
Permanent jobs citing Python 196 35 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.19% 5.61% 6.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.08% 27.34% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 156 27 56
10th Percentile £40,375 £22,000 £26,875
25th Percentile £46,875 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -0.71% -3.02%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £101,250
North East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,232
% change year-on-year - -0.36% +0.36%

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 611 128 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.54% 20.51% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 513 102 249
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 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £84,964
North East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 17 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 17 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 +5 169 £67,500 +3.85% 72
Sunderland - 15 £45,000 - 9
Gateshead - 6 £105,000 - 7
Prudhoe - 6 £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 37 (18.88%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (10.71%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.18%) Apache
4 17 (8.67%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.02%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 110 (56.12%) AWS
2 83 (42.35%) Azure
3 40 (20.41%) GCP
4 33 (16.84%) Amazon S3
5 27 (13.78%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (13.78%) Power Platform
5 27 (13.78%) Serverless
6 24 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 20 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (9.18%) Azure AI
9 15 (7.65%) Amazon EMR
10 14 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (6.63%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (5.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.59%) Textract
15 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (4.08%) GitHub
16 7 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
17 6 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.08%) Firewall
2 5 (2.55%) DNS
3 4 (2.04%) HTTP
3 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.53%) Internet
5 2 (1.02%) MQTT
6 1 (0.51%) DMZ
6 1 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.51%) STUN
6 1 (0.51%) VLAN
6 1 (0.51%) VoIP
6 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (14.80%) Tableau
2 27 (13.78%) Power BI
3 21 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (9.18%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.67%) DynamoDB
6 15 (7.65%) 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
10 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
11 6 (3.06%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.06%) Looker
11 6 (3.06%) Metadata
12 5 (2.55%) Flink
12 5 (2.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (17.35%) Git
2 16 (8.16%) GitLab
3 7 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.06%) JIRA
5 4 (2.04%) 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
7 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (15.82%) Finance
4 23 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.61%) Law
7 6 (3.06%) Legal
8 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.02%) Front Office
10 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.02%) Retail
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 47 (23.98%) Data Engineer
2 29 (14.80%) Developer
3 27 (13.78%) Lead
4 21 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 20 (10.20%) Analyst
6 19 (9.69%) Python Engineer
7 18 (9.18%) Data Analyst
8 17 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (7.65%) Senior
10 14 (7.14%) Junior
11 12 (6.12%) Junior Analyst
11 12 (6.12%) Junior Data Analyst
11 12 (6.12%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (6.12%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Data Scientist
13 10 (5.10%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (4.59%) Senior Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Senior Python Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.69%) PySpark
2 16 (8.16%) .NET
3 15 (7.65%) HTML
4 13 (6.63%) CSS
5 11 (5.61%) .NET Core
5 11 (5.61%) Flask
6 7 (3.57%) Ajax
6 7 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.57%) Jinja
6 7 (3.57%) jQuery
6 7 (3.57%) LangChain
6 7 (3.57%) LlamaIndex
6 7 (3.57%) OpenLayers
6 7 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
7 6 (3.06%) Node.js
7 6 (3.06%) React
7 6 (3.06%) RESTful
8 5 (2.55%) CSS3
8 5 (2.55%) HTML5
8 5 (2.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.73%) Hedge funds
2 21 (10.71%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (7.65%) Data Structures
4 15 (7.65%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (6.63%) Algorithms
6 11 (5.61%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.55%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.04%) Life Science
10 3 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.53%) Robotics
11 2 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.59%) Linux
2 5 (2.55%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (28.06%) CI/CD
2 54 (27.55%) AI
3 52 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
4 51 (26.02%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (24.49%) Data Engineering
6 46 (23.47%) DevOps
7 41 (20.92%) Agile
7 41 (20.92%) Analytics
7 41 (20.92%) Data Modelling
8 38 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (17.35%) Containerisation
10 31 (15.82%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (15.82%) Mentoring
11 29 (14.80%) Decision-Making
11 29 (14.80%) Fintech
12 28 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (13.78%) Validation
14 26 (13.27%) Software Engineering
15 25 (12.76%) Machine Learning
16 23 (11.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 111 (56.63%) SQL
2 28 (14.29%) Java
3 19 (9.69%) Bash
3 19 (9.69%) C#
4 16 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.16%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.57%) Go
7 5 (2.55%) R
7 5 (2.55%) Scala
8 4 (2.04%) C++
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.27%) Azure Certification
2 26 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.69%) Degree
4 12 (6.12%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (2.04%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.51%) CCSP
8 1 (0.51%) CISA
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) CISSP
8 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.08%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.53%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (19.39%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) vSphere
3 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (16.33%) Terraform
2 13 (6.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.08%) Ansible
4 7 (3.57%) Grafana
5 4 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.53%) Control-M
6 3 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.51%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.51%) Kibana
7 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.35%) Databricks
3 5 (2.55%) Google
4 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.53%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.53%) VMware
5 2 (1.02%) Cisco
5 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
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