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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 178 34 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.25% 5.64% 4.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.36% 26.15% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 144 27 53
10th Percentile £35,000 £22,000 £26,500
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 £86,250
North East median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,831
% change year-on-year -9.23% +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 550 130 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.50% 21.56% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 470 108 282
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,763 £40,850
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £67,688 £71,806
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £84,843
North East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 24 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 24 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 +11 161 £67,500 +3.85% 51
Sunderland - 13 £45,000 - 8
Gateshead - 3 - - 1
Prudhoe - 1 £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 (17.42%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (10.11%) Jupyter
3 15 (8.43%) Apache
4 14 (7.87%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) SAS
5 2 (1.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (12.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.12%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 90 (50.56%) AWS
2 76 (42.70%) Azure
3 31 (17.42%) GCP
4 28 (15.73%) Power Platform
5 21 (11.80%) Azure AI
6 20 (11.24%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.11%) Serverless
8 17 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (8.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (7.30%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (6.18%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (5.62%) GitHub
13 9 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.49%) Textract
15 7 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.87%) Firewall
2 8 (4.49%) DNS
3 7 (3.93%) HTTP
3 7 (3.93%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.25%) DMZ
4 4 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (2.25%) STUN
4 4 (2.25%) VLAN
4 4 (2.25%) VoIP
4 4 (2.25%) VPN
5 3 (1.69%) Internet
6 2 (1.12%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.10%) Tableau
2 28 (15.73%) Power BI
3 16 (8.99%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (8.43%) DynamoDB
5 10 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (5.06%) Big Data
6 9 (5.06%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.93%) Data Mining
7 7 (3.93%) NoSQL
8 6 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.81%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.81%) GIS
9 5 (2.81%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 22 (12.36%) Git
2 14 (7.87%) GitLab
3 9 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.37%) JIRA
5 5 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.25%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 50 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.66%) Finance
3 28 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.06%) Law
7 7 (3.93%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.93%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.37%) Legal
9 5 (2.81%) Retail
10 4 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.25%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.12%) Front Office
11 2 (1.12%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 36 (20.22%) Data Engineer
2 27 (15.17%) Analyst
2 27 (15.17%) Developer
3 25 (14.04%) Data Analyst
4 22 (12.36%) Lead
5 20 (11.24%) Python Engineer
6 19 (10.67%) Python Developer
7 17 (9.55%) Junior
8 15 (8.43%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (8.43%) Junior Data Analyst
8 15 (8.43%) Senior
9 14 (7.87%) Trainee
10 13 (7.30%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.74%) Python Data Engineer
12 11 (6.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (6.18%) Data Scientist
13 10 (5.62%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (5.62%) Software Engineer
14 9 (5.06%) Senior Developer
14 9 (5.06%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.99%) PySpark
2 13 (7.30%) .NET
2 13 (7.30%) HTML
3 11 (6.18%) CSS
4 10 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (5.06%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.06%) Flask
6 6 (3.37%) Node.js
6 6 (3.37%) Pandas
6 6 (3.37%) React
6 6 (3.37%) RESTful
7 5 (2.81%) Ajax
7 5 (2.81%) boto
7 5 (2.81%) Hugging Face
7 5 (2.81%) jQuery
7 5 (2.81%) Matplotlib
7 5 (2.81%) NumPy
7 5 (2.81%) OpenLayers
7 5 (2.81%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.81%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.36%) Hedge funds
2 15 (8.43%) Algorithms
3 13 (7.30%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.06%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (5.06%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.81%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.25%) Life Science
9 3 (1.69%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.69%) Robotics
10 2 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.12%) IoT
10 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
11 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.56%) Online Gambling
11 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Linux
2 8 (4.49%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.78%) AI
2 39 (21.91%) Data Pipeline
3 38 (21.35%) CI/CD
3 38 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (19.66%) Analytics
5 33 (18.54%) DevOps
6 31 (17.42%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (16.85%) Data Engineering
7 30 (16.85%) Fintech
8 29 (16.29%) Agile
9 28 (15.73%) Containerisation
10 27 (15.17%) Data Modelling
11 24 (13.48%) Workflow
12 23 (12.92%) Decision-Making
12 23 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (12.36%) Mentoring
14 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
15 20 (11.24%) Validation
16 19 (10.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 19 (10.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 107 (60.11%) SQL
2 19 (10.67%) Bash
2 19 (10.67%) Java
3 18 (10.11%) C#
4 16 (8.99%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.18%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.62%) Go
8 6 (3.37%) R
9 3 (1.69%) C++
10 2 (1.12%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (15.73%) Azure Certification
2 21 (11.80%) Security Cleared
3 20 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.99%) Degree
5 9 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.25%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CCSP
9 1 (0.56%) CISA
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.29%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (15.17%) Docker
2 4 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (14.61%) Terraform
2 11 (6.18%) Ansible
3 10 (5.62%) Grafana
3 10 (5.62%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.69%) Control-M
5 3 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.56%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.56%) Kibana
6 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.29%) Databricks
3 5 (2.81%) Cisco
4 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.69%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.69%) VMware
5 2 (1.12%) Google
5 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.56%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.56%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.56%) Zscaler