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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 27 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 190 37 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 7.11% 5.75% 7.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.28% 31.09% 19.79%
Number of salaries quoted 153 28 54
10th Percentile £43,950 £22,775 £27,600
25th Percentile £48,000 £31,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -27.44% -1.19%
75th Percentile £87,500 £69,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,250 £101,750
North East median annual salary £67,153 £53,750 £65,232
% change year-on-year +24.93% -17.60% +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 649 119 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 24.29% 18.51% 36.94%
Number of salaries quoted 544 92 220
10th Percentile £42,150 £25,325 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,500 £85,000
North East median annual salary £60,000 £50,500 £54,125
% change year-on-year +18.81% -6.70% -1.59%

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 13 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 13 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 +3 163 £70,000 +47.37% 50
Sunderland - 14 £46,500 - 7
Prudhoe - 7 £47,000 - 1
Gateshead - 6 £105,000 - 4
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 (18.95%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.58%) Apache Spark
3 18 (9.47%) Apache
4 15 (7.89%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.05%) Confluence
5 2 (1.05%) SAS
6 1 (0.53%) CMS
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 111 (58.42%) AWS
2 80 (42.11%) Azure
3 45 (23.68%) GCP
4 34 (17.89%) Amazon S3
5 29 (15.26%) Serverless
6 28 (14.74%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (13.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (12.11%) Power Platform
9 21 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (7.37%) Azure AI
12 13 (6.84%) Amazon ECR
12 13 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (4.74%) Textract
15 8 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
16 5 (2.63%) Google Analytics
16 5 (2.63%) Google Tag Manager
17 4 (2.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.58%) Firewall
2 2 (1.05%) MQTT
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.11%) Power BI
2 22 (11.58%) Tableau
3 21 (11.05%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (8.95%) DynamoDB
6 16 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.26%) Big Data
9 9 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (3.68%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.68%) GIS
11 6 (3.16%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (3.16%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.16%) Flink
11 6 (3.16%) Looker
11 6 (3.16%) Metadata
11 6 (3.16%) NoSQL
11 6 (3.16%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (16.32%) Git
2 18 (9.47%) GitLab
3 6 (3.16%) JIRA
3 6 (3.16%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.11%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.58%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.58%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 54 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 33 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (16.84%) Public Sector
4 26 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (12.11%) Finance
6 8 (4.21%) Law
7 6 (3.16%) Legal
8 5 (2.63%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.11%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.05%) Front Office
10 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 48 (25.26%) Data Engineer
2 31 (16.32%) Lead
3 30 (15.79%) Developer
4 24 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 21 (11.05%) Python Developer
6 18 (9.47%) Python Engineer
7 16 (8.42%) Databricks Data Engineer
7 16 (8.42%) Databricks Engineer
7 16 (8.42%) Senior
8 13 (6.84%) Analyst
9 12 (6.32%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (5.79%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.79%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Data Scientist
11 10 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.74%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.74%) Senior Python Developer
12 9 (4.74%) Software Developer
13 8 (4.21%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.32%) Terraform
2 19 (10.00%) PySpark
3 14 (7.37%) .NET
4 12 (6.32%) HTML
5 11 (5.79%) CSS
5 11 (5.79%) Flask
5 11 (5.79%) LangChain
5 11 (5.79%) LlamaIndex
6 9 (4.74%) .NET Core
7 7 (3.68%) Ajax
7 7 (3.68%) Jinja
7 7 (3.68%) jQuery
7 7 (3.68%) Node.js
7 7 (3.68%) OpenLayers
7 7 (3.68%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (3.68%) Web Services
8 6 (3.16%) Kafka
9 5 (2.63%) CSS3
9 5 (2.63%) HTML5
9 5 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.05%) Hedge funds
3 17 (8.95%) Distributed Computing
3 17 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (7.37%) Data Structures
5 13 (6.84%) Onboarding
6 11 (5.79%) Renewable Energy
7 10 (5.26%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.11%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (2.11%) Life Science
9 4 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.58%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.58%) Robotics
11 2 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.05%) IoT
11 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.16%) Linux
2 4 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (31.05%) CI/CD
2 58 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (29.47%) Data Engineering
4 54 (28.42%) AI
5 52 (27.37%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (25.79%) DevOps
7 47 (24.74%) Agile
8 43 (22.63%) Data Modelling
8 43 (22.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (20.53%) Analytics
10 37 (19.47%) Mentoring
11 36 (18.95%) Containerisation
12 31 (16.32%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (15.79%) Machine Learning
14 29 (15.26%) Decision-Making
15 28 (14.74%) Business Intelligence
16 27 (14.21%) Fintech
16 27 (14.21%) Validation
17 26 (13.68%) LLM
18 25 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 105 (55.26%) SQL
2 27 (14.21%) Java
3 17 (8.95%) Bash
3 17 (8.95%) C#
3 17 (8.95%) TypeScript
4 13 (6.84%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.74%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.16%) Scala
7 3 (1.58%) C++
7 3 (1.58%) Go
7 3 (1.58%) R
8 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.21%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.11%) Azure Certification
4 19 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 18 (9.47%) Degree
6 12 (6.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.11%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CCSP
9 1 (0.53%) CISA
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CISSP
9 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (22.63%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.21%) QA
3 7 (3.68%) NCSC
4 5 (2.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.53%) NIST
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (21.58%) Docker
2 3 (1.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.16%) Ansible
3 3 (1.58%) Control-M
3 3 (1.58%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.58%) Grafana
3 3 (1.58%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.58%) Puppet
4 1 (0.53%) Fluentd
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (17.89%) Databricks
2 25 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.63%) Google
4 3 (1.58%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.58%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.58%) VMware
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco
6 1 (0.53%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle
6 1 (0.53%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.53%) Zscaler