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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +17
Permanent jobs citing Python 196 35 67
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.12% 5.50% 6.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.72% 27.56% 18.82%
Number of salaries quoted 155 27 56
10th Percentile £42,500 £22,000 £26,875
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £65,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -0.71% -3.02%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,000 £101,250
North East median annual salary £65,500 £65,000 £65,232
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.36% +0.36%

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 618 127 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.61% 19.97% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 518 101 249
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £89,537 £68,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £84,964
North East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -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 20 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 20 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 +8 169 £67,500 +3.85% 80
Sunderland - 15 £45,000 - 8
Gateshead - 6 £105,000 - 4
Prudhoe - 6 £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 37 (18.88%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.22%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.18%) Apache
4 15 (7.65%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.02%) Confluence
5 2 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 113 (57.65%) AWS
2 85 (43.37%) Azure
3 44 (22.45%) GCP
4 33 (16.84%) Amazon S3
5 29 (14.80%) Serverless
6 27 (13.78%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (13.27%) Power Platform
8 24 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (8.67%) Azure AI
11 15 (7.65%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (6.63%) Amazon ECR
14 12 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (5.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (4.59%) Textract
17 8 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (4.08%) GitHub
18 7 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
19 6 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Firewall
2 5 (2.55%) DNS
3 4 (2.04%) HTTP
3 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.53%) Internet
5 2 (1.02%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.27%) Power BI
1 26 (13.27%) Tableau
2 21 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (9.18%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (8.67%) DynamoDB
5 15 (7.65%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (5.10%) Big Data
8 9 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.57%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.57%) GIS
9 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
10 6 (3.06%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (3.06%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.06%) Flink
10 6 (3.06%) Looker
10 6 (3.06%) Metadata
10 6 (3.06%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (17.86%) Git
2 18 (9.18%) GitLab
3 9 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.06%) JIRA
4 6 (3.06%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 57 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (13.78%) Finance
4 25 (12.76%) Public Sector
5 21 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (5.61%) Law
7 6 (3.06%) Legal
8 5 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.04%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.02%) Front Office
10 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Games
Job Titles
1 48 (24.49%) Data Engineer
2 29 (14.80%) Developer
3 28 (14.29%) Lead
4 21 (10.71%) Python Developer
5 19 (9.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 19 (9.69%) Python Engineer
6 17 (8.67%) Analyst
7 15 (7.65%) Data Analyst
7 15 (7.65%) Senior
8 13 (6.63%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (6.63%) Junior
9 12 (6.12%) Python Data Engineer
9 12 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 11 (5.61%) Junior Analyst
10 11 (5.61%) Junior Data Analyst
11 10 (5.10%) Data Scientist
11 10 (5.10%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.59%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.35%) Terraform
2 19 (9.69%) PySpark
3 16 (8.16%) .NET
4 15 (7.65%) HTML
5 13 (6.63%) CSS
6 11 (5.61%) .NET Core
6 11 (5.61%) Flask
7 8 (4.08%) LangChain
7 8 (4.08%) LlamaIndex
7 8 (4.08%) Node.js
8 7 (3.57%) Ajax
8 7 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.57%) Jinja
8 7 (3.57%) jQuery
8 7 (3.57%) OpenLayers
8 7 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
9 6 (3.06%) Kafka
9 6 (3.06%) React
9 6 (3.06%) RESTful
10 5 (2.55%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.73%) Cloud Native
1 23 (11.73%) Hedge funds
2 17 (8.67%) Distributed Computing
2 17 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.65%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.61%) Algorithms
4 11 (5.61%) Renewable Energy
5 8 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.55%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.04%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.04%) Life Science
9 3 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.53%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.53%) Robotics
10 2 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.02%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.08%) Linux
2 4 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.61%) CI/CD
2 55 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (27.04%) AI
4 52 (26.53%) Data Pipeline
5 51 (26.02%) Data Engineering
6 50 (25.51%) DevOps
7 45 (22.96%) Agile
8 43 (21.94%) Data Modelling
8 43 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (19.90%) Analytics
10 38 (19.39%) Containerisation
11 32 (16.33%) Mentoring
12 30 (15.31%) Business Intelligence
12 30 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (14.80%) Decision-Making
13 29 (14.80%) Fintech
14 27 (13.78%) Software Engineering
14 27 (13.78%) Validation
15 25 (12.76%) Machine Learning
16 23 (11.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 108 (55.10%) SQL
2 29 (14.80%) Java
3 20 (10.20%) Bash
4 19 (9.69%) C#
5 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.59%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.57%) Go
9 6 (3.06%) Scala
10 5 (2.55%) R
11 4 (2.04%) C++
12 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.76%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.69%) Degree
5 14 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (5.61%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.04%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CCSP
10 1 (0.51%) CISA
10 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.51%) CISSP
10 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.51%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (21.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.08%) QA
3 5 (2.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.04%) NCSC
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
5 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (20.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.65%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.10%) Ansible
3 7 (3.57%) Grafana
4 4 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.53%) Control-M
5 3 (1.53%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.53%) Puppet
6 1 (0.51%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (17.35%) Databricks
1 34 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.55%) Google
3 3 (1.53%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.53%) SnapLogic
3 3 (1.53%) VMware
4 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.51%) Cisco
5 1 (0.51%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.51%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.51%) Proofpoint
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.51%) Zscaler