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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 -21
Permanent jobs citing Python 145 32 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.44% 7.92% 3.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.25% 25.60% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 115 26 50
10th Percentile £30,050 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £62,500 £63,391
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,375 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,125 £86,250
North East median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% -8.00%

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 400 125 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 23.27% 30.94% 24.86%
Number of salaries quoted 342 111 324
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% +3.18%
75th Percentile £71,214 £70,000 £72,118
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £83,759
North East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +8 134 £55,000 -12.00% 58
Sunderland - 9 £45,000 - 8
Prudhoe - 2 £45,000 -
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 14 (9.66%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (9.66%) Jupyter
2 9 (6.21%) Apache
2 9 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
3 2 (1.38%) SAS
3 2 (1.38%) WordPress
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (18.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.45%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.38%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) Azure
2 66 (45.52%) AWS
3 27 (18.62%) Power Platform
4 24 (16.55%) Azure AI
5 21 (14.48%) GCP
5 21 (14.48%) GitHub
6 12 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (7.59%) Amazon S3
8 10 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (6.21%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECR
10 7 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.45%) IaaS
11 5 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (2.76%) Serverless
12 4 (2.76%) Textract
13 3 (2.07%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.48%) Firewall
2 12 (8.28%) Internet
3 10 (6.90%) DNS
3 10 (6.90%) HTTP
3 10 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.45%) DMZ
4 5 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (3.45%) STUN
4 5 (3.45%) VLAN
4 5 (3.45%) VoIP
4 5 (3.45%) VPN
5 3 (2.07%) NGFW
5 3 (2.07%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.07%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (24.83%) Tableau
2 26 (17.93%) Power BI
3 11 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (6.21%) Data Mining
6 8 (5.52%) Big Data
7 7 (4.83%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (3.45%) GIS
10 4 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.76%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.38%) Data Vault
12 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (13.79%) Git
2 10 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.21%) GitLab
4 5 (3.45%) JIRA
4 5 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (1.38%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.38%) Selenium
5 2 (1.38%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.38%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.69%) Finance
3 26 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.59%) Multimedia
6 10 (6.90%) Law
6 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.14%) Legal
9 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.45%) Retail
10 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (22.07%) Analyst
2 30 (20.69%) Data Analyst
3 25 (17.24%) Trainee
4 23 (15.86%) Developer
5 20 (13.79%) Junior
6 18 (12.41%) Junior Analyst
6 18 (12.41%) Junior Data Analyst
7 17 (11.72%) Lead
8 14 (9.66%) Data Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Software Developer
9 12 (8.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Python Engineer
10 11 (7.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (6.21%) Python Developer
11 9 (6.21%) Trainee Analyst
11 9 (6.21%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 8 (5.52%) Senior
13 7 (4.83%) Software Engineer
14 6 (4.14%) Data Scientist
15 5 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.10%) HTML
2 17 (11.72%) CSS
3 12 (8.28%) .NET
3 12 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (6.90%) PySpark
5 8 (5.52%) .NET Core
6 6 (4.14%) Flask
7 5 (3.45%) Ajax
7 5 (3.45%) boto
7 5 (3.45%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (3.45%) Hugging Face
7 5 (3.45%) Jinja
7 5 (3.45%) jQuery
7 5 (3.45%) Matplotlib
7 5 (3.45%) NumPy
7 5 (3.45%) OpenLayers
7 5 (3.45%) Pandas
7 5 (3.45%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.45%) SQLAlchemy
7 5 (3.45%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.66%) Algorithms
2 12 (8.28%) Hedge funds
3 9 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.52%) Data Structures
5 6 (4.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.14%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.76%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.76%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.76%) Life Science
6 4 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.07%) PKI
8 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.69%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.21%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) Windows
3 5 (3.45%) Debian
3 5 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) AI
2 30 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (20.00%) Analytics
4 27 (18.62%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.62%) DevOps
5 26 (17.93%) Mentoring
6 25 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (13.79%) Containerisation
7 20 (13.79%) Fintech
7 20 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.10%) Data Engineering
9 18 (12.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (11.72%) Agile
10 17 (11.72%) Coaching
11 16 (11.03%) Data Modelling
11 16 (11.03%) Software Engineering
12 15 (10.34%) High Availability
12 15 (10.34%) Machine Learning
13 14 (9.66%) Data Analysis
13 14 (9.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.41%) SQL
2 20 (13.79%) Bash
3 17 (11.72%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.34%) Java
5 10 (6.90%) C#
5 10 (6.90%) Go
5 10 (6.90%) R
5 10 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.21%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.38%) C++
7 2 (1.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (28.28%) Azure Certification
2 18 (12.41%) AWS Certification
3 16 (11.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 14 (9.66%) Security Cleared
5 13 (8.97%) Degree
5 13 (8.97%) SC Cleared
6 11 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.76%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) CISA
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CISSP
8 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.14%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (10.34%) Docker
2 5 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (15.86%) Terraform
2 15 (10.34%) Ansible
3 12 (8.28%) Grafana
4 10 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.83%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.38%) Control-M
6 2 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 61 (42.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.28%) Databricks
3 6 (4.14%) Cisco
4 3 (2.07%) Arista
4 3 (2.07%) Aruba
4 3 (2.07%) NetScout
5 2 (1.38%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.38%) SnapLogic
5 2 (1.38%) VMware
6 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.69%) Intapp
6 1 (0.69%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.69%) Zscaler