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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 23 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 126 33 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.57% 8.42% 4.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.31% 22.92% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 92 26 50
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £63,391
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +2.54% -2.48%
75th Percentile £70,277 £84,688 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £86,250
North East median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -26.92% +13.04% -11.54%

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 305 144 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.73% 36.73% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 246 125 312
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,599 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,123 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,759
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +9 120 £47,500 -26.92% 60
Sunderland - 4 £45,000 - 8
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 7 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (5.56%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.59%) Apache
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.59%) WordPress
3 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (25.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (61.11%) Azure
2 53 (42.06%) AWS
3 27 (21.43%) Azure AI
4 26 (20.63%) Power Platform
5 25 (19.84%) GitHub
6 19 (15.08%) GCP
7 13 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.97%) IaaS
11 3 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.38%) Dagster
11 3 (2.38%) OCI
11 3 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.59%) dbt
12 2 (1.59%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.59%) Serverless
12 2 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.67%) Firewall
2 15 (11.90%) Internet
3 11 (8.73%) DNS
3 11 (8.73%) HTTP
3 11 (8.73%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.97%) DMZ
4 5 (3.97%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (3.97%) STUN
4 5 (3.97%) VLAN
4 5 (3.97%) VoIP
4 5 (3.97%) VPN
5 3 (2.38%) NGFW
5 3 (2.38%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.38%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.37%) Tableau
2 25 (19.84%) Power BI
3 11 (8.73%) Data Mining
4 7 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.38%) Big Data
6 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.38%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.59%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.59%) GIS
7 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) Looker
Development Applications
1 21 (16.67%) Git
2 12 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.97%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (3.17%) JIRA
5 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.59%) GitLab
5 2 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.59%) Selenium
5 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.43%) Finance
3 20 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.11%) Multimedia
5 11 (8.73%) Law
5 11 (8.73%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Legal
7 5 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.97%) Retail
8 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (28.57%) Analyst
2 34 (26.98%) Data Analyst
3 30 (23.81%) Trainee
4 23 (18.25%) Junior
5 21 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
5 21 (16.67%) Junior Data Analyst
6 20 (15.87%) Developer
7 14 (11.11%) Lead
8 13 (10.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (10.32%) Software Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Trainee Analyst
9 11 (8.73%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 10 (7.94%) Python Engineer
11 8 (6.35%) Data Engineer
12 7 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (5.56%) Trainee Developer
12 7 (5.56%) Trainee Software Developer
13 6 (4.76%) Software Engineer
14 5 (3.97%) Programmer
14 5 (3.97%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.08%) HTML
2 17 (13.49%) CSS
3 13 (10.32%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (6.35%) .NET
5 5 (3.97%) .NET Core
5 5 (3.97%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (3.97%) Hugging Face
5 5 (3.97%) Matplotlib
5 5 (3.97%) NumPy
5 5 (3.97%) Pandas
5 5 (3.97%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.97%) Streamlit
6 3 (2.38%) Flask
6 3 (2.38%) Node.js
7 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.59%) boto
7 2 (1.59%) Jinja
7 2 (1.59%) React
7 2 (1.59%) REST
7 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Algorithms
2 9 (7.14%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.38%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.38%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.38%) PKI
4 3 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.79%) Life Science
6 1 (0.79%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.79%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.79%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.14%) Linux
2 7 (5.56%) Windows
3 5 (3.97%) Debian
3 5 (3.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.92%) AI
2 29 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (18.25%) Mentoring
4 21 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 21 (16.67%) DevOps
5 19 (15.08%) Analytics
6 17 (13.49%) Fintech
7 16 (12.70%) High Availability
8 15 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (10.32%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 12 (9.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 12 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (9.52%) DevSecOps
11 12 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.52%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.52%) Static Code Analysis
12 11 (8.73%) Business Analysis
12 11 (8.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (48.41%) SQL
2 19 (15.08%) Bash
2 19 (15.08%) JavaScript
3 11 (8.73%) Go
3 11 (8.73%) Java
4 10 (7.94%) TypeScript
5 9 (7.14%) C#
5 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 9 (7.14%) R
6 2 (1.59%) Scala
7 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 47 (37.30%) Azure Certification
2 20 (15.87%) AWS Certification
3 19 (15.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (8.73%) Degree
6 6 (4.76%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.38%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) CISA
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.79%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (4.76%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (14.29%) Terraform
2 17 (13.49%) Ansible
3 14 (11.11%) Grafana
4 12 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.59%) Control-M
Vendors
1 67 (53.17%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Databricks
3 6 (4.76%) Cisco
4 3 (2.38%) Arista
4 3 (2.38%) Aruba
4 3 (2.38%) NetScout
5 2 (1.59%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.79%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.79%) Intapp
6 1 (0.79%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.79%) Zscaler