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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 28 33
Rank change year-on-year +15 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 176 33 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.26% 5.58% 4.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.41% 25.38% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 144 26 56
10th Percentile £35,000 £20,000 £26,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,440
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.42% -2.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £86,250
North East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,879
% change year-on-year -7.69% +3.37% -3.26%

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 543 130 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 25.47% 22.00% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 467 108 296
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £40,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £88,148 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £84,964
North East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +12 160 £67,500 +12.50% 42
Sunderland - 11 £45,000 - 7
Gateshead - 3 - - 2
Prudhoe - 2 £46,000 - 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 29 (16.48%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.66%) Jupyter
3 13 (7.39%) Apache
3 13 (7.39%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) SAS
4 2 (1.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.84%) Chatbot
3 2 (1.14%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 88 (50.00%) AWS
2 78 (44.32%) Azure
3 32 (18.18%) GCP
4 26 (14.77%) Power Platform
5 21 (11.93%) Azure AI
6 18 (10.23%) Amazon S3
7 16 (9.09%) Serverless
8 15 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (7.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.82%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (5.68%) Amazon ECR
11 10 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (5.68%) GitHub
12 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (3.98%) Textract
15 6 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (2.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) Firewall
2 8 (4.55%) DNS
2 8 (4.55%) HTTP
2 8 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.84%) DMZ
3 5 (2.84%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (2.84%) STUN
3 5 (2.84%) VLAN
3 5 (2.84%) VoIP
3 5 (2.84%) VPN
4 3 (1.70%) Internet
5 2 (1.14%) MQTT
6 1 (0.57%) NGFW
6 1 (0.57%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) Tableau
2 26 (14.77%) Power BI
3 15 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (7.39%) DynamoDB
6 9 (5.11%) Big Data
6 9 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.98%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.84%) GIS
10 5 (2.84%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.70%) Looker
12 3 (1.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (10.80%) Git
2 13 (7.39%) GitLab
3 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.41%) JIRA
5 5 (2.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (2.84%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.70%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.70%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.14%) Selenium
General
1 47 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.32%) Finance
3 29 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.68%) Law
7 8 (4.55%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.41%) Legal
10 5 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.84%) Retail
11 4 (2.27%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.27%) Tech for Good
12 2 (1.14%) Front Office
12 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 35 (19.89%) Data Engineer
2 27 (15.34%) Analyst
2 27 (15.34%) Developer
3 25 (14.20%) Data Analyst
4 22 (12.50%) Lead
5 20 (11.36%) Python Engineer
6 19 (10.80%) Python Developer
7 17 (9.66%) Junior
8 15 (8.52%) Junior Analyst
8 15 (8.52%) Junior Data Analyst
8 15 (8.52%) Senior
9 14 (7.95%) Trainee
10 12 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.82%) Python Data Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Data Scientist
12 10 (5.68%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (5.68%) Software Engineer
13 9 (5.11%) Senior Developer
13 9 (5.11%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.95%) PySpark
2 13 (7.39%) .NET
2 13 (7.39%) HTML
3 11 (6.25%) CSS
3 11 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (5.11%) .NET Core
4 9 (5.11%) Flask
5 6 (3.41%) Node.js
5 6 (3.41%) Pandas
5 6 (3.41%) React
5 6 (3.41%) RESTful
6 5 (2.84%) Ajax
6 5 (2.84%) boto
6 5 (2.84%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.84%) jQuery
6 5 (2.84%) Matplotlib
6 5 (2.84%) NumPy
6 5 (2.84%) OpenLayers
6 5 (2.84%) scikit-learn
6 5 (2.84%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 15 (8.52%) Algorithms
3 12 (6.82%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.11%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (5.11%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (2.84%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.27%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.27%) Life Science
7 3 (1.70%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.70%) Robotics
8 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.14%) IoT
8 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.25%) Linux
2 8 (4.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.84%) Debian
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.11%) AI
2 38 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (21.02%) Data Pipeline
4 36 (20.45%) CI/CD
5 34 (19.32%) Analytics
6 31 (17.61%) DevOps
7 30 (17.05%) Fintech
8 29 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (15.34%) Agile
9 27 (15.34%) Data Engineering
10 26 (14.77%) Containerisation
11 24 (13.64%) Data Modelling
12 22 (12.50%) Decision-Making
12 22 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 21 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (11.93%) Workflow
14 20 (11.36%) Software Engineering
15 19 (10.80%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (10.80%) Machine Learning
16 18 (10.23%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 105 (59.66%) SQL
2 20 (11.36%) Bash
3 19 (10.80%) Java
4 18 (10.23%) C#
5 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.82%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.25%) Go
7 11 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.41%) R
9 3 (1.70%) C++
10 2 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (16.48%) Azure Certification
2 20 (11.36%) Security Cleared
3 19 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.09%) Degree
5 9 (5.11%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (2.27%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CCSP
9 1 (0.57%) CISA
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.57%) CISSP
9 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.57%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.77%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.41%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (13.64%) Docker
2 5 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (14.20%) Terraform
2 13 (7.39%) Ansible
3 11 (6.25%) Grafana
4 9 (5.11%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.70%) Control-M
6 3 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 51 (28.98%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.48%) Databricks
3 6 (3.41%) Cisco
4 3 (1.70%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.70%) SnapLogic
4 3 (1.70%) VMware
5 2 (1.14%) Google
5 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.57%) Arista
6 1 (0.57%) Aruba
6 1 (0.57%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.57%) NetScout
6 1 (0.57%) Proofpoint
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.57%) Zscaler