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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 -20
Permanent jobs citing Python 75 65 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.06% 10.19% 4.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.86% 25.49% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 61 37 37
10th Percentile - £37,789 £41,675
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £48,750 £95,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £96,500 £86,250
North East median annual salary £40,000 £69,308 £57,500
% change year-on-year -42.29% +20.53% -17.86%

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 193 255 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.73% 39.97% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 153 116 230
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,269 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £44,188 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +7.62% -7.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,563 £67,851
90th Percentile £78,950 £97,500 £80,250
North East median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.52% +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 3 February 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 3 February 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 70 £35,500 -49.29% 39
Gateshead -5 3 £47,500 -9.52%
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 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.33%) IIS
1 1 (1.33%) Jupyter
Applications
1 18 (24.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (65.33%) Azure
2 37 (49.33%) AWS
3 27 (36.00%) GitHub
4 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (9.33%) Azure AI
5 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (9.33%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.00%) OCI
8 2 (2.67%) IaaS
9 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.33%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (29.33%) Internet
2 16 (21.33%) Firewall
3 8 (10.67%) VoIP
4 6 (8.00%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (8.00%) PSTN
5 5 (6.67%) DNS
5 5 (6.67%) HTTP
5 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.00%) NGFW
6 3 (4.00%) VXLAN
6 3 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (4.00%) Wireshark
7 2 (2.67%) DMZ
7 2 (2.67%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (2.67%) SAN
7 2 (2.67%) STUN
7 2 (2.67%) VLAN
7 2 (2.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.00%) Tableau
2 11 (14.67%) Data Mining
3 8 (10.67%) Power BI
4 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (30.67%) Git
2 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.33%) Multimedia
3 21 (28.00%) Finance
4 20 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (14.67%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.67%) Law
7 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Legal
9 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (44.00%) Trainee
2 18 (24.00%) Analyst
3 17 (22.67%) Data Analyst
4 14 (18.67%) Developer
5 13 (17.33%) Software Developer
5 13 (17.33%) Trainee Developer
5 13 (17.33%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (13.33%) Trainee Analyst
6 10 (13.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 7 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.33%) Junior
7 7 (9.33%) Junior Analyst
7 7 (9.33%) Junior Data Analyst
8 6 (8.00%) Lead
8 6 (8.00%) Support Specialist
9 3 (4.00%) Administrator
9 3 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (4.00%) Network Manager
9 3 (4.00%) Operations Manager
9 3 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (29.33%) CSS
1 22 (29.33%) HTML
2 8 (10.67%) FreeSWITCH
3 7 (9.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.00%) Itk
5 2 (2.67%) REST
6 1 (1.33%) .NET
6 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.33%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.33%) Matplotlib
6 1 (1.33%) NumPy
6 1 (1.33%) Pandas
6 1 (1.33%) PySpark
6 1 (1.33%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.33%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.33%) Derivative
2 1 (1.33%) EPoS
2 1 (1.33%) Equities
2 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Windows
2 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.33%) Linux
4 2 (2.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.67%) Mentoring
2 22 (29.33%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (21.33%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.67%) DevOps
5 13 (17.33%) Analytics
5 13 (17.33%) Computer Science
6 12 (16.00%) AI
7 11 (14.67%) Data Analytics
7 11 (14.67%) Project Management
8 10 (13.33%) Business Analysis
8 10 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (13.33%) Data Analysis
9 8 (10.67%) Agile
9 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
9 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (9.33%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.33%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (9.33%) High Availability
10 7 (9.33%) Task Automation
11 6 (8.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.33%) SQL
2 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
3 14 (18.67%) Bash
4 9 (12.00%) R
5 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.67%) Go
7 4 (5.33%) Java
7 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.00%) C#
8 3 (4.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 31 (41.33%) Azure Certification
2 23 (30.67%) AWS Certification
2 23 (30.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (29.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (16.00%) Degree
5 6 (8.00%) CCNP
5 6 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (4.00%) HNC
6 3 (4.00%) HND
7 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.00%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Ansible
1 11 (14.67%) Terraform
2 8 (10.67%) Grafana
3 6 (8.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.67%) Control-M
5 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.67%) Cisco
3 5 (6.67%) VMware
4 3 (4.00%) Arista
4 3 (4.00%) Aruba
4 3 (4.00%) NetScout
4 3 (4.00%) Siemens
5 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.33%) Google
6 1 (1.33%) Intapp