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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 26 35
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 193 34 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.57% 5.56% 4.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.22% 26.98% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 155 27 48
10th Percentile £35,000 £22,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £89,500
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 581 126 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.81% 20.59% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 492 104 254
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,975 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £88,148 £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,625 £81,750
North East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -0.94% -3.64%

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 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 2 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 +9 173 £67,500 +3.85% 54
Sunderland - 13 £45,000 - 9
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 20 (10.36%) 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 33 (17.10%) 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
10 6 (3.11%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.59%) Amazon QuickSight
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 35 (18.13%) Finance
3 34 (17.62%) 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%) Analyst
3 25 (12.95%) Lead
4 23 (11.92%) Data Analyst
5 21 (10.88%) Python Developer
6 19 (9.84%) Python Engineer
7 16 (8.29%) Junior
8 15 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (7.77%) Senior
9 14 (7.25%) Junior Analyst
9 14 (7.25%) Junior Data Analyst
10 13 (6.74%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.22%) Python Data Engineer
11 12 (6.22%) Trainee
12 11 (5.70%) Data Scientist
12 11 (5.70%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.18%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (4.66%) Senior Developer
14 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%) HTML5
8 5 (2.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.40%) Hedge funds
2 17 (8.81%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.25%) Algorithms
3 14 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (6.22%) 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%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.04%) IoT
9 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.04%) Web Conferencing
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 49 (25.39%) CI/CD
3 46 (23.83%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (23.32%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (21.76%) DevOps
6 40 (20.73%) Data Engineering
7 38 (19.69%) Analytics
8 36 (18.65%) Agile
9 34 (17.62%) Data Modelling
10 33 (17.10%) Containerisation
11 32 (16.58%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (15.03%) Fintech
14 28 (14.51%) Mentoring
15 26 (13.47%) Decision-Making
16 25 (12.95%) Workflow
17 24 (12.44%) Machine Learning
17 24 (12.44%) Software Engineering
18 23 (11.92%) Validation
19 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 3 (1.55%) C++
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) Azure Certification
2 28 (14.51%) Security Cleared
3 24 (12.44%) SC Cleared
4 19 (9.84%) Degree
5 13 (6.74%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.07%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.07%) Tableau Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) CCSP
10 1 (0.52%) CISA
10 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.52%) CISSP
10 1 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 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 48 (24.87%) 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