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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 28 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 169 33 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.01% 5.62% 4.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.89% 25.58% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 137 26 56
10th Percentile £35,000 £20,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.25% -1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £86,250
North East median annual salary £59,000 £62,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% -2.34% -1.54%

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 530 129 388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.13% 21.98% 27.69%
Number of salaries quoted 454 107 317
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,525 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £84,241
North East median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -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 17 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 17 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 +9 154 £66,720 +11.20% 39
Sunderland - 11 £45,000 - 8
Gateshead - 3 - - 2
Prudhoe - 1 £45,000 - 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 27 (15.98%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (10.06%) Jupyter
3 13 (7.69%) Apache
3 13 (7.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.18%) Confluence
4 2 (1.18%) SAS
4 2 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (13.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.96%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.18%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 82 (48.52%) AWS
2 75 (44.38%) Azure
3 29 (17.16%) GCP
4 26 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 21 (12.43%) Azure AI
6 16 (9.47%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.28%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (7.69%) Serverless
9 12 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.10%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (5.92%) Amazon ECR
10 10 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (5.92%) GitHub
11 8 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (4.14%) Textract
13 6 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.96%) IaaS
14 5 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.06%) Firewall
2 8 (4.73%) DNS
2 8 (4.73%) HTTP
2 8 (4.73%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.96%) DMZ
3 5 (2.96%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (2.96%) STUN
3 5 (2.96%) VLAN
3 5 (2.96%) VoIP
3 5 (2.96%) VPN
4 3 (1.78%) Internet
5 2 (1.18%) MQTT
6 1 (0.59%) NGFW
6 1 (0.59%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.53%) Tableau
2 26 (15.38%) Power BI
3 15 (8.88%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (7.10%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.33%) Big Data
7 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.73%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.14%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.55%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (2.96%) GIS
10 5 (2.96%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.37%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
13 2 (1.18%) Looker
Development Applications
1 18 (10.65%) Git
2 13 (7.69%) GitLab
3 9 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.55%) JIRA
5 5 (2.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.96%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.37%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.78%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.78%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.78%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.18%) Selenium
General
1 46 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.53%) Finance
3 27 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (5.33%) Law
7 8 (4.73%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.14%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.55%) Legal
10 5 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.96%) Retail
11 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.78%) Tech for Good
13 2 (1.18%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (18.93%) Data Engineer
2 27 (15.98%) Analyst
3 25 (14.79%) Data Analyst
3 25 (14.79%) Developer
4 20 (11.83%) Lead
5 18 (10.65%) Python Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) Junior
6 17 (10.06%) Python Developer
7 15 (8.88%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (8.88%) Junior Data Analyst
8 14 (8.28%) Senior
8 14 (8.28%) Trainee
9 12 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Data Scientist
11 10 (5.92%) Python Data Engineer
11 10 (5.92%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (5.33%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.73%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.28%) PySpark
2 13 (7.69%) .NET
3 12 (7.10%) HTML
4 11 (6.51%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (5.92%) CSS
6 9 (5.33%) .NET Core
7 8 (4.73%) Flask
8 6 (3.55%) Node.js
8 6 (3.55%) Pandas
9 5 (2.96%) Ajax
9 5 (2.96%) boto
9 5 (2.96%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (2.96%) Jinja
9 5 (2.96%) jQuery
9 5 (2.96%) Matplotlib
9 5 (2.96%) NumPy
9 5 (2.96%) OpenLayers
9 5 (2.96%) RESTful
9 5 (2.96%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.96%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.02%) Hedge funds
2 15 (8.88%) Algorithms
3 12 (7.10%) Data Structures
4 11 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.73%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (2.96%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.37%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.37%) Life Science
10 3 (1.78%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.78%) Robotics
11 2 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.18%) IoT
11 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.51%) Linux
2 8 (4.73%) Windows
3 5 (2.96%) Debian
3 5 (2.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (31.36%) AI
2 37 (21.89%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (20.12%) CI/CD
5 33 (19.53%) Analytics
6 30 (17.75%) DevOps
7 29 (17.16%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (17.16%) Fintech
8 25 (14.79%) Agile
8 25 (14.79%) Containerisation
8 25 (14.79%) Data Engineering
9 23 (13.61%) Data Modelling
10 21 (12.43%) Mentoring
10 21 (12.43%) Workflow
11 20 (11.83%) Decision-Making
11 20 (11.83%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (11.83%) Software Engineering
12 18 (10.65%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (10.65%) LLM
12 18 (10.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 101 (59.76%) SQL
2 19 (11.24%) Bash
2 19 (11.24%) Java
3 18 (10.65%) C#
4 15 (8.88%) TypeScript
5 11 (6.51%) Go
5 11 (6.51%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.51%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.55%) R
7 3 (1.78%) C++
8 2 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (17.16%) Azure Certification
2 19 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.47%) Degree
5 9 (5.33%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.37%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.59%) CCSP
9 1 (0.59%) CISA
9 1 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.59%) CISSP
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.59%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.79%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.55%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.59%) NIST
3 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (13.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (14.20%) Terraform
2 13 (7.69%) Ansible
3 11 (6.51%) Grafana
4 9 (5.33%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.73%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.78%) Control-M
6 3 (1.78%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (30.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (15.38%) Databricks
3 6 (3.55%) Cisco
4 3 (1.78%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.78%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.78%) VMware
5 2 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.59%) Arista
6 1 (0.59%) Aruba
6 1 (0.59%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.59%) Google
6 1 (0.59%) NetScout
6 1 (0.59%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.59%) Zscaler