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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 21 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +29 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 144 32 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.13% 7.32% 3.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.04% 25.20% 14.63%
Number of salaries quoted 115 26 50
10th Percentile £33,000 £22,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £63,391
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.35% +1.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £86,250
North East median annual salary £55,000 £63,750 £62,783
% change year-on-year -13.73% +1.54% +0.45%

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 411 127 369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 23.19% 29.06% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 354 111 330
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £72,188 £70,000 £71,991
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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +7 133 £55,000 -8.33% 57
Sunderland - 9 £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 16 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (9.72%) Jupyter
3 9 (6.25%) Apache
3 9 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.39%) Confluence
4 2 (1.39%) SAS
4 2 (1.39%) WordPress
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (18.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.39%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 71 (49.31%) Azure
2 64 (44.44%) AWS
3 26 (18.06%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.97%) Azure AI
4 23 (15.97%) GCP
5 18 (12.50%) GitHub
6 12 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.47%) IaaS
11 5 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.78%) Serverless
12 4 (2.78%) Textract
13 3 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.58%) Firewall
2 10 (6.94%) DNS
2 10 (6.94%) HTTP
2 10 (6.94%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.25%) Internet
4 5 (3.47%) DMZ
4 5 (3.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (3.47%) STUN
4 5 (3.47%) VLAN
4 5 (3.47%) VoIP
4 5 (3.47%) VPN
5 3 (2.08%) NGFW
5 3 (2.08%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.08%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (24.31%) Tableau
2 25 (17.36%) Power BI
3 11 (7.64%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.25%) Data Mining
6 8 (5.56%) Big Data
7 7 (4.86%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.47%) GIS
10 4 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.78%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.39%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (11.81%) Git
2 10 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.25%) GitLab
4 5 (3.47%) JIRA
4 5 (3.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (3.47%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.39%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.39%) Selenium
5 2 (1.39%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.14%) Finance
3 26 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.94%) Law
5 10 (6.94%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.56%) Multimedia
7 7 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.17%) Legal
8 6 (4.17%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.47%) Retail
10 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (21.53%) Analyst
2 29 (20.14%) Data Analyst
3 22 (15.28%) Trainee
4 21 (14.58%) Developer
5 19 (13.19%) Junior
6 18 (12.50%) Lead
7 17 (11.81%) Data Engineer
7 17 (11.81%) Junior Analyst
7 17 (11.81%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (9.72%) Python Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Software Developer
10 11 (7.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (6.25%) Python Developer
11 9 (6.25%) Trainee Analyst
11 9 (6.25%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 8 (5.56%) Senior
12 8 (5.56%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Data Scientist
14 5 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.11%) HTML
2 14 (9.72%) CSS
3 12 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (7.64%) .NET
5 10 (6.94%) PySpark
6 8 (5.56%) .NET Core
7 6 (4.17%) Flask
8 5 (3.47%) Ajax
8 5 (3.47%) boto
8 5 (3.47%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (3.47%) Hugging Face
8 5 (3.47%) Jinja
8 5 (3.47%) jQuery
8 5 (3.47%) Matplotlib
8 5 (3.47%) NumPy
8 5 (3.47%) OpenLayers
8 5 (3.47%) Pandas
8 5 (3.47%) scikit-learn
8 5 (3.47%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.47%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.72%) Algorithms
2 12 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 9 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.78%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.78%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.78%) Life Science
6 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.08%) PKI
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.25%) Linux
2 7 (4.86%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Debian
3 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.42%) AI
2 29 (20.14%) Analytics
2 29 (20.14%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 27 (18.75%) DevOps
4 25 (17.36%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (15.97%) Mentoring
5 23 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (13.89%) Containerisation
6 20 (13.89%) Fintech
7 19 (13.19%) Data Engineering
8 18 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (11.81%) Agile
9 17 (11.81%) Coaching
10 16 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 16 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 15 (10.42%) High Availability
11 15 (10.42%) Machine Learning
12 14 (9.72%) Data Analysis
12 14 (9.72%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 77 (53.47%) SQL
2 20 (13.89%) Bash
3 15 (10.42%) Java
4 14 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.94%) C#
5 10 (6.94%) Go
5 10 (6.94%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.25%) R
7 2 (1.39%) C++
7 2 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (25.69%) Azure Certification
2 15 (10.42%) AWS Certification
3 14 (9.72%) Security Cleared
4 13 (9.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 12 (8.33%) Degree
6 8 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.78%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) CISA
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CISSP
8 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (10.42%) Docker
2 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (15.97%) Terraform
2 15 (10.42%) Ansible
3 12 (8.33%) Grafana
4 10 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.86%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.39%) Control-M
6 2 (1.39%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 57 (39.58%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.42%) Databricks
3 6 (4.17%) Cisco
4 3 (2.08%) Arista
4 3 (2.08%) Aruba
4 3 (2.08%) NetScout
5 2 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.39%) SnapLogic
5 2 (1.39%) VMware
6 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.69%) Intapp
6 1 (0.69%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.69%) Zscaler