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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 27 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 +8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Python 193 35 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.49% 5.73% 5.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.77% 27.78% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 154 27 49
10th Percentile £35,750 £22,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,313 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,879
Median % change year-on-year - +3.37% -3.26%
75th Percentile £87,000 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £100,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.53% -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 589 126 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.90% 20.62% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 498 102 253
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,063 £38,825 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £88,148 £68,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £82,000
North East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -1.87% -2.73%

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 August 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 August 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 +5 173 £67,500 +3.85% 63
Sunderland - 13 £45,000 - 11
Gateshead - 4 £105,000 - 2
Prudhoe - 3 £47,000 - 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 34 (17.62%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (9.84%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.33%) Jupyter
4 17 (8.81%) Apache
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.07%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 104 (53.89%) AWS
2 83 (43.01%) Azure
3 38 (19.69%) GCP
4 28 (14.51%) Amazon S3
4 28 (14.51%) Power Platform
5 23 (11.92%) Amazon EC2
5 23 (11.92%) Serverless
6 20 (10.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 20 (10.36%) Azure AI
7 16 (8.29%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (7.25%) Amazon EMR
9 12 (6.22%) Amazon ECR
10 11 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.18%) GitHub
12 9 (4.66%) Textract
13 8 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (4.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (3.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.22%) Firewall
2 7 (3.63%) DNS
3 6 (3.11%) HTTP
3 6 (3.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.55%) DMZ
4 3 (1.55%) Internet
4 3 (1.55%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.55%) STUN
4 3 (1.55%) VLAN
4 3 (1.55%) VoIP
4 3 (1.55%) VPN
5 2 (1.04%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.58%) Tableau
2 28 (14.51%) Power BI
3 19 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (8.81%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (8.29%) DynamoDB
6 12 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.66%) Big Data
7 9 (4.66%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.63%) GIS
9 7 (3.63%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (3.11%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (2.59%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.59%) Looker
11 5 (2.59%) Metadata
11 5 (2.59%) Star Schema
12 4 (2.07%) Flink
Development Applications
1 30 (15.54%) Git
2 15 (7.77%) GitLab
3 9 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.11%) JIRA
5 4 (2.07%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.55%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.04%) Selenium
General
1 54 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.62%) Finance
3 33 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.18%) Law
7 6 (3.11%) Legal
7 6 (3.11%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.11%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.07%) Retail
8 4 (2.07%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Front Office
10 2 (1.04%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.52%) Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (21.76%) Data Engineer
2 29 (15.03%) Developer
3 25 (12.95%) Lead
4 24 (12.44%) Analyst
5 22 (11.40%) Data Analyst
6 21 (10.88%) Python Developer
7 19 (9.84%) Python Engineer
8 16 (8.29%) Junior
9 15 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 15 (7.77%) Senior
10 14 (7.25%) Junior Analyst
10 14 (7.25%) Junior Data Analyst
11 13 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.22%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (5.70%) Data Scientist
13 11 (5.70%) Software Engineer
13 11 (5.70%) Trainee
14 10 (5.18%) Lead Data Engineer
15 9 (4.66%) Senior Developer
15 9 (4.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.81%) PySpark
2 15 (7.77%) .NET
2 15 (7.77%) HTML
3 13 (6.74%) CSS
4 11 (5.70%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.70%) Flask
5 9 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (3.63%) Ajax
6 7 (3.63%) Jinja
6 7 (3.63%) jQuery
6 7 (3.63%) OpenLayers
6 7 (3.63%) SQLAlchemy
7 6 (3.11%) LangChain
7 6 (3.11%) LlamaIndex
7 6 (3.11%) Node.js
7 6 (3.11%) React
7 6 (3.11%) RESTful
8 5 (2.59%) boto
8 5 (2.59%) CSS3
8 5 (2.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.40%) Hedge funds
2 18 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.25%) Algorithms
3 14 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.74%) Distributed Computing
5 11 (5.70%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (2.59%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.07%) Life Science
7 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.55%) Robotics
9 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.04%) IoT
9 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.70%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) Windows
3 4 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.55%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (29.02%) AI
2 50 (25.91%) CI/CD
3 46 (23.83%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (21.76%) DevOps
6 41 (21.24%) Data Engineering
7 37 (19.17%) Agile
7 37 (19.17%) Analytics
8 35 (18.13%) Data Modelling
9 33 (17.10%) Containerisation
9 33 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (15.03%) Fintech
12 28 (14.51%) Mentoring
13 26 (13.47%) Decision-Making
14 25 (12.95%) Workflow
15 24 (12.44%) Machine Learning
15 24 (12.44%) Software Engineering
16 23 (11.92%) Validation
17 21 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 111 (57.51%) SQL
2 24 (12.44%) Java
3 19 (9.84%) Bash
4 18 (9.33%) C#
5 16 (8.29%) TypeScript
6 15 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 10 (5.18%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.66%) Go
9 6 (3.11%) R
10 4 (2.07%) Scala
11 3 (1.55%) C++
12 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) Azure Certification
1 29 (15.03%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.84%) Degree
4 13 (6.74%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.07%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.52%) CCSP
9 1 (0.52%) CISA
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.65%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.63%) QA
3 4 (2.07%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) NCSC
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (17.62%) Docker
2 3 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (15.54%) Terraform
2 13 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.18%) Ansible
4 9 (4.66%) Grafana
5 6 (3.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.55%) Control-M
6 3 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
7 1 (0.52%) Kibana
7 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.06%) Databricks
3 4 (2.07%) Cisco
3 4 (2.07%) Google
4 3 (1.55%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.55%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.55%) VMware
5 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.52%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Zscaler