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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 24 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +12
Permanent jobs citing Python 193 40 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 6.82% 5.87% 7.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.59% 33.61% 20.56%
Number of salaries quoted 163 33 53
10th Percentile £46,000 £28,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £51,875 £31,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,750 £100,000
North East median annual salary £67,153 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +41.37% -26.92% -

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 675 119 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 23.84% 17.45% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 564 93 203
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,250 £33,550
25th Percentile £46,947 £39,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £90,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £85,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -3 167 £67,788 +59.50% 113
Sunderland - 11 £48,000 - 9
Gateshead -2 7 £105,000 +121.05% 4
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 -
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 37 (19.17%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (12.95%) Apache Spark
3 21 (10.88%) Apache
4 18 (9.33%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.55%) nginx
6 2 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.04%) SAS
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 123 (63.73%) AWS
2 76 (39.38%) Azure
3 48 (24.87%) GCP
4 38 (19.69%) Amazon S3
5 31 (16.06%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (15.03%) Serverless
7 26 (13.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (8.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (8.81%) Power Platform
11 16 (8.29%) Amazon ECR
12 15 (7.77%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (6.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.66%) Textract
15 8 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.15%) Azure AI
16 5 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (2.59%) Google Tag Manager
16 5 (2.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.04%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) MQTT
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.33%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (8.81%) DynamoDB
2 17 (8.81%) Power BI
3 16 (8.29%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (6.74%) Tableau
5 9 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (4.66%) Big Data
6 7 (3.63%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.63%) GIS
6 7 (3.63%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.11%) Amazon QuickSight
7 6 (3.11%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.11%) Flink
7 6 (3.11%) Metadata
8 5 (2.59%) Looker
9 4 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (17.62%) Git
2 26 (13.47%) GitLab
3 6 (3.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.11%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.07%) JIRA
4 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 51 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 44 (22.80%) Public Sector
3 36 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (10.36%) Finance
6 8 (4.15%) Law
7 6 (3.11%) Legal
8 5 (2.59%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.07%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.04%) Front Office
10 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 51 (26.42%) Data Engineer
2 31 (16.06%) Lead
3 30 (15.54%) Developer
4 26 (13.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 20 (10.36%) Python Developer
6 19 (9.84%) Senior
7 17 (8.81%) Python Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) Databricks Engineer
9 13 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Python Data Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Software Developer
10 12 (6.22%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Data Scientist
11 10 (5.18%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Senior Python Developer
13 7 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.21%) Terraform
2 19 (9.84%) PySpark
3 15 (7.77%) .NET
4 13 (6.74%) LangChain
4 13 (6.74%) LlamaIndex
5 11 (5.70%) CSS
5 11 (5.70%) Flask
5 11 (5.70%) HTML
6 9 (4.66%) .NET Core
6 9 (4.66%) Web Services
7 8 (4.15%) Node.js
8 7 (3.63%) Ajax
8 7 (3.63%) Jinja
8 7 (3.63%) jQuery
8 7 (3.63%) OpenLayers
8 7 (3.63%) SQLAlchemy
9 6 (3.11%) AWS CDK
9 6 (3.11%) Kafka
9 6 (3.11%) React
9 6 (3.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.36%) Hedge funds
3 18 (9.33%) Onboarding
4 17 (8.81%) Distributed Computing
4 17 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (7.25%) Data Structures
6 11 (5.70%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (5.18%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.07%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.07%) Life Science
9 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.55%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.55%) Robotics
11 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.04%) IoT
11 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.11%) Linux
2 5 (2.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.27%) CI/CD
2 67 (34.72%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (32.64%) Data Engineering
4 58 (30.05%) DevOps
5 57 (29.53%) Agile
5 57 (29.53%) Data Pipeline
6 53 (27.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (26.42%) AI
8 45 (23.32%) Mentoring
9 42 (21.76%) Containerisation
10 39 (20.21%) Data Modelling
11 37 (19.17%) Analytics
11 37 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (17.10%) Machine Learning
13 32 (16.58%) Decision-Making
14 30 (15.54%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (15.54%) Test Automation
15 29 (15.03%) LLM
16 27 (13.99%) ETL
16 27 (13.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (51.81%) SQL
2 28 (14.51%) Java
3 21 (10.88%) Bash
4 18 (9.33%) TypeScript
5 17 (8.81%) C#
6 14 (7.25%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.11%) Scala
9 3 (1.55%) C++
9 3 (1.55%) Go
9 3 (1.55%) R
10 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 45 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (9.33%) Azure Certification
5 17 (8.81%) AWS Certification
6 16 (8.29%) Degree
7 6 (3.11%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.66%) NCSC
3 8 (4.15%) QA
4 5 (2.59%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (23.32%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (8.81%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.66%) Ansible
3 7 (3.63%) Grafana
4 4 (2.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.55%) Control-M
5 3 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.55%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.55%) Puppet
6 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 29 (15.03%) Databricks
2 20 (10.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.59%) Google
4 3 (1.55%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.55%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.55%) VMware
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Splunk