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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 25 44
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 134 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.31% 8.33% 3.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.85% 24.46% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 102 27 49
10th Percentile £28,350 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -6.25% +2.40%
75th Percentile £73,125 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,250 £86,250
North East median annual salary £52,250 £63,750 £60,141
% change year-on-year -18.04% +6.00% -3.77%

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 354 139 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 21.95% 34.07% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 295 121 312
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,178 £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 21 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 21 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 +8 127 £52,500 -12.50% 70
Sunderland - 5 £45,000 - 11
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 9 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (6.72%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
2 4 (2.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.49%) Confluence
3 2 (1.49%) SAS
3 2 (1.49%) WordPress
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 29 (21.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.73%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.49%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.97%) Azure
2 57 (42.54%) AWS
3 26 (19.40%) Azure AI
3 26 (19.40%) Power Platform
4 21 (15.67%) GitHub
5 20 (14.93%) GCP
6 13 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.73%) IaaS
10 5 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (2.24%) Dagster
12 3 (2.24%) OCI
12 3 (2.24%) SaaS
12 3 (2.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.67%) Firewall
2 12 (8.96%) Internet
3 10 (7.46%) DNS
3 10 (7.46%) HTTP
3 10 (7.46%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.73%) DMZ
4 5 (3.73%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (3.73%) STUN
4 5 (3.73%) VLAN
4 5 (3.73%) VoIP
4 5 (3.73%) VPN
5 3 (2.24%) NGFW
5 3 (2.24%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.12%) Tableau
2 25 (18.66%) Power BI
3 9 (6.72%) Data Mining
4 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.73%) GIS
7 4 (2.99%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.24%) Big Data
8 3 (2.24%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.24%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.49%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.75%) Looker
Development Applications
1 20 (14.93%) Git
2 11 (8.21%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.73%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (2.99%) GitLab
4 4 (2.99%) JIRA
5 2 (1.49%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.49%) Selenium
5 2 (1.49%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 41 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.90%) Finance
3 19 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.21%) Multimedia
4 11 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.46%) Law
5 10 (7.46%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.48%) Legal
7 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.73%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (24.63%) Analyst
2 31 (23.13%) Data Analyst
3 25 (18.66%) Trainee
4 22 (16.42%) Developer
4 22 (16.42%) Junior
5 20 (14.93%) Junior Analyst
5 20 (14.93%) Junior Data Analyst
6 15 (11.19%) Lead
7 14 (10.45%) Software Developer
8 12 (8.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (8.96%) Python Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (6.72%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.72%) Trainee Analyst
9 9 (6.72%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 8 (5.97%) Data Engineer
11 7 (5.22%) Senior
11 7 (5.22%) Software Engineer
12 6 (4.48%) Data Scientist
13 5 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.18%) HTML
2 17 (12.69%) CSS
3 12 (8.96%) .NET
3 12 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (5.97%) .NET Core
5 6 (4.48%) Flask
6 5 (3.73%) Ajax
6 5 (3.73%) boto
6 5 (3.73%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (3.73%) Hugging Face
6 5 (3.73%) Jinja
6 5 (3.73%) jQuery
6 5 (3.73%) Matplotlib
6 5 (3.73%) NumPy
6 5 (3.73%) OpenLayers
6 5 (3.73%) Pandas
6 5 (3.73%) scikit-learn
6 5 (3.73%) SQLAlchemy
6 5 (3.73%) Streamlit
7 4 (2.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Algorithms
2 12 (8.96%) Hedge funds
3 6 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.48%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.99%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.24%) Life Science
6 3 (2.24%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.24%) PKI
7 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.49%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.75%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.72%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Windows
3 5 (3.73%) Debian
3 5 (3.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.07%) AI
2 29 (21.64%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
3 23 (17.16%) DevOps
3 23 (17.16%) Mentoring
4 21 (15.67%) Analytics
5 20 (14.93%) Fintech
6 15 (11.19%) Containerisation
6 15 (11.19%) High Availability
6 15 (11.19%) Software Engineering
7 14 (10.45%) Coaching
7 14 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 12 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (8.96%) Data Engineering
8 12 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (8.96%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 11 (8.21%) Data Analytics
9 11 (8.21%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.51%) SQL
2 19 (14.18%) Bash
3 17 (12.69%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.70%) Java
5 10 (7.46%) C#
5 10 (7.46%) Go
5 10 (7.46%) R
5 10 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.72%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.49%) C++
7 2 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (32.09%) Azure Certification
2 18 (13.43%) AWS Certification
3 16 (11.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (9.70%) Degree
5 11 (8.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (5.97%) Security Cleared
7 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.75%) CCSP
9 1 (0.75%) CISA
9 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.75%) CISSP
9 1 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.75%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.99%) QA
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (8.21%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (14.18%) Terraform
2 16 (11.94%) Ansible
3 13 (9.70%) Grafana
4 11 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.22%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.24%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (1.49%) Control-M
Vendors
1 62 (46.27%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Databricks
3 6 (4.48%) Cisco
4 3 (2.24%) Arista
4 3 (2.24%) Aruba
4 3 (2.24%) NetScout
5 2 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.49%) VMware
6 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.75%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.75%) Intapp
6 1 (0.75%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.75%) Zscaler