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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 26 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 157 32 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.13% 6.78% 3.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.55% 26.02% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 126 26 48
10th Percentile £33,750 £22,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -8.20% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £86,250
North East median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -1.67% -4.43% -3.41%

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 468 123 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.24% 26.06% 25.05%
Number of salaries quoted 401 106 343
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% +0.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £83,507
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 20 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 20 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 +10 144 £62,500 +6.38% 34
Sunderland - 9 £45,000 - 6
Gateshead - 2 - - 1
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 22 (14.01%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (9.55%) Jupyter
3 10 (6.37%) Apache
3 10 (6.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 2 (1.27%) SAS
4 2 (1.27%) WordPress
5 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (15.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.18%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.27%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.68%) Azure
2 75 (47.77%) AWS
3 28 (17.83%) GCP
4 26 (16.56%) Power Platform
5 22 (14.01%) Azure AI
6 14 (8.92%) GitHub
7 13 (8.28%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (6.37%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (6.37%) Serverless
11 9 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.10%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (3.18%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.18%) IaaS
14 5 (3.18%) Textract
14 5 (3.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.74%) Firewall
2 9 (5.73%) DNS
2 9 (5.73%) HTTP
2 9 (5.73%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.82%) Internet
4 5 (3.18%) DMZ
4 5 (3.18%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (3.18%) STUN
4 5 (3.18%) VLAN
4 5 (3.18%) VoIP
4 5 (3.18%) VPN
5 3 (1.91%) NGFW
5 3 (1.91%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.91%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.27%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (21.02%) Tableau
2 25 (15.92%) Power BI
3 12 (7.64%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.37%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.73%) Big Data
6 8 (5.10%) Data Mining
6 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (3.18%) GIS
9 4 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.55%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.91%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.27%) Data Vault
11 2 (1.27%) Looker
Development Applications
1 16 (10.19%) Git
2 10 (6.37%) GitLab
3 9 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.82%) JIRA
5 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (3.18%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.91%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 43 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.75%) Finance
3 27 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.73%) Law
5 9 (5.73%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.46%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.82%) Legal
9 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.18%) Multimedia
9 5 (3.18%) Retail
10 3 (1.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (18.47%) Analyst
2 27 (17.20%) Data Analyst
3 25 (15.92%) Data Engineer
4 24 (15.29%) Developer
5 20 (12.74%) Lead
6 18 (11.46%) Junior
6 18 (11.46%) Trainee
7 17 (10.83%) Python Engineer
8 16 (10.19%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (10.19%) Junior Data Analyst
9 13 (8.28%) Python Developer
10 12 (7.64%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.64%) Senior
11 11 (7.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (7.01%) Software Developer
12 10 (6.37%) Software Engineer
13 9 (5.73%) Python Data Engineer
14 8 (5.10%) Data Scientist
14 8 (5.10%) Trainee Analyst
14 8 (5.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.28%) HTML
2 12 (7.64%) .NET
2 12 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (7.01%) CSS
3 11 (7.01%) PySpark
4 9 (5.73%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.82%) Flask
6 5 (3.18%) Ajax
6 5 (3.18%) boto
6 5 (3.18%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (3.18%) Jinja
6 5 (3.18%) jQuery
6 5 (3.18%) Matplotlib
6 5 (3.18%) Node.js
6 5 (3.18%) NumPy
6 5 (3.18%) OpenLayers
6 5 (3.18%) Pandas
6 5 (3.18%) React
6 5 (3.18%) RESTful
6 5 (3.18%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.19%) Hedge funds
2 14 (8.92%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.73%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.82%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.82%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.55%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.55%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.55%) Life Science
7 4 (2.55%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.91%) PKI
9 2 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.27%) IoT
9 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.27%) Robotics
9 2 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.64%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.37%) Linux
2 8 (5.10%) Windows
3 5 (3.18%) Debian
3 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (34.39%) AI
2 31 (19.75%) Analytics
2 31 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (19.11%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (18.47%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (18.47%) CI/CD
4 29 (18.47%) DevOps
5 23 (14.65%) Fintech
6 22 (14.01%) Agile
6 22 (14.01%) Data Engineering
6 22 (14.01%) Mentoring
7 21 (13.38%) Containerisation
8 19 (12.10%) Data Modelling
8 19 (12.10%) Software Engineering
9 18 (11.46%) Coaching
9 18 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (11.46%) Workflow
10 17 (10.83%) Machine Learning
11 16 (10.19%) LLM
12 15 (9.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 90 (57.32%) SQL
2 19 (12.10%) Bash
3 18 (11.46%) Java
4 15 (9.55%) C#
5 13 (8.28%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.64%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.01%) Go
8 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.46%) R
10 2 (1.27%) C++
10 2 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (21.02%) Azure Certification
2 17 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 16 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.28%) Degree
5 12 (7.64%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.55%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.64%) CCSP
9 1 (0.64%) CISA
9 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.64%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.64%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.01%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.82%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (10.83%) Docker
2 5 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (15.29%) Terraform
2 15 (9.55%) Ansible
3 12 (7.64%) Grafana
4 9 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.91%) Control-M
6 3 (1.91%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 55 (35.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (13.38%) Databricks
3 6 (3.82%) Cisco
4 3 (1.91%) Arista
4 3 (1.91%) Aruba
4 3 (1.91%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.91%) NetScout
4 3 (1.91%) VMware
5 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.27%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.64%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.64%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Intapp
6 1 (0.64%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.64%) Zscaler