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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 25 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 192 40 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.16% 6.13% 7.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.31% 32.52% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 156 31 52
10th Percentile £45,375 £28,250 £26,700
25th Percentile £48,000 £31,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £64,172
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -25.98% -1.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
North East median annual salary £67,500 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +42.11% -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 655 123 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.41% 18.84% 36.87%
Number of salaries quoted 550 96 210
10th Percentile £42,450 £28,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,299 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% +3.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £85,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 0 165 £70,000 +47.37% 94
Sunderland - 13 £48,000 - 11
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 - 1
Gateshead - 6 £105,000 - 7
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 36 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.46%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.38%) Apache
4 15 (7.81%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.04%) SAS
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 112 (58.33%) AWS
2 79 (41.15%) Azure
3 45 (23.44%) GCP
4 35 (18.23%) Amazon S3
5 29 (15.10%) Serverless
6 28 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (13.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (11.46%) Power Platform
9 21 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.81%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (7.81%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (6.77%) Amazon ECR
11 13 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.77%) Azure AI
12 12 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.69%) Textract
14 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.60%) Google Analytics
15 5 (2.60%) Google Tag Manager
15 5 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.56%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) MQTT
3 1 (0.52%) DNS
3 1 (0.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.46%) Power BI
2 20 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (10.42%) Tableau
3 18 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (8.85%) DynamoDB
5 16 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (5.21%) Big Data
8 9 (4.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.65%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.65%) GIS
9 7 (3.65%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.13%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (3.13%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.13%) Flink
10 6 (3.13%) Looker
10 6 (3.13%) Metadata
10 6 (3.13%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (16.15%) Git
2 19 (9.90%) GitLab
3 6 (3.13%) JIRA
3 6 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (17.19%) Public Sector
3 26 (13.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (11.46%) Finance
5 8 (4.17%) Law
6 6 (3.13%) Legal
7 5 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.08%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.04%) Front Office
9 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Banking
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (26.04%) Data Engineer
2 31 (16.15%) Lead
3 30 (15.63%) Developer
4 24 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 21 (10.94%) Python Developer
6 18 (9.38%) Python Engineer
6 18 (9.38%) Senior
7 16 (8.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 16 (8.33%) Databricks Engineer
8 12 (6.25%) Analyst
8 12 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
9 11 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Data Analyst
10 10 (5.21%) Data Scientist
10 10 (5.21%) Lead Data Engineer
10 10 (5.21%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.69%) Senior Python Developer
11 9 (4.69%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.67%) Terraform
2 19 (9.90%) PySpark
3 15 (7.81%) .NET
4 12 (6.25%) HTML
5 11 (5.73%) CSS
5 11 (5.73%) Flask
5 11 (5.73%) LangChain
5 11 (5.73%) LlamaIndex
6 9 (4.69%) .NET Core
7 7 (3.65%) Ajax
7 7 (3.65%) Jinja
7 7 (3.65%) jQuery
7 7 (3.65%) Node.js
7 7 (3.65%) OpenLayers
7 7 (3.65%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (3.65%) Web Services
8 6 (3.13%) Kafka
8 6 (3.13%) React
9 5 (2.60%) boto
9 5 (2.60%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.94%) Hedge funds
3 17 (8.85%) Distributed Computing
3 17 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.29%) Data Structures
4 14 (7.29%) Onboarding
5 11 (5.73%) Renewable Energy
6 10 (5.21%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.08%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.08%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.08%) Life Science
8 4 (2.08%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Robotics
10 2 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.04%) IoT
10 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.13%) Linux
2 5 (2.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 60 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (30.21%) Data Engineering
3 56 (29.17%) AI
4 54 (28.13%) Data Pipeline
5 50 (26.04%) DevOps
6 48 (25.00%) Agile
7 44 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (21.88%) Data Modelling
9 41 (21.35%) Analytics
10 38 (19.79%) Mentoring
11 36 (18.75%) Containerisation
12 32 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (16.67%) Decision-Making
13 30 (15.63%) Machine Learning
14 27 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (14.06%) Fintech
14 27 (14.06%) Validation
15 26 (13.54%) LLM
15 26 (13.54%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 105 (54.69%) SQL
2 27 (14.06%) Java
3 18 (9.38%) C#
4 17 (8.85%) Bash
4 17 (8.85%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.29%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.69%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.13%) Scala
8 3 (1.56%) C++
8 3 (1.56%) Go
8 3 (1.56%) R
9 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.46%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (9.38%) Degree
6 12 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.56%) Tableau 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 44 (22.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.17%) QA
3 7 (3.65%) NCSC
4 5 (2.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (21.35%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.13%) Ansible
3 3 (1.56%) Control-M
3 3 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.56%) Grafana
3 3 (1.56%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.56%) Puppet
4 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (17.19%) Databricks
2 24 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.60%) Google
4 3 (1.56%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.56%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.56%) VMware
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.52%) Cisco
6 1 (0.52%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Zscaler