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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 27 42
Rank change year-on-year +16 +15 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 99 32 50
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 8.61% 7.49% 4.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.39% 20.78% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 79 25 47
10th Percentile - £38,673 £41,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +8.33% -5.88%
75th Percentile £48,750 £82,500 £84,964
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £86,250
North East median annual salary £40,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -38.46% +13.04% -11.54%

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 223 154 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.39% 36.07% 25.66%
Number of salaries quoted 179 122 277
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,468 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
North East median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +16 92 £40,000 -38.46% 55
Gateshead - 3 £47,500 -
Sunderland -2 2 £37,500 -42.31% 14
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 5 (5.05%) Jupyter
2 2 (2.02%) WordPress
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (28.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.05%) Chatbot
3 3 (3.03%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 66 (66.67%) Azure
2 48 (48.48%) AWS
3 32 (32.32%) GitHub
4 16 (16.16%) Power Platform
5 14 (14.14%) Azure AI
6 13 (13.13%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (13.13%) GCP
7 11 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (5.05%) IaaS
9 3 (3.03%) OCI
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.01%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (21.21%) Firewall
1 21 (21.21%) Internet
2 11 (11.11%) DNS
2 11 (11.11%) HTTP
2 11 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.07%) VoIP
4 5 (5.05%) DMZ
4 5 (5.05%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (5.05%) STUN
4 5 (5.05%) VLAN
4 5 (5.05%) VPN
5 3 (3.03%) NGFW
5 3 (3.03%) VXLAN
5 3 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.03%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.02%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (2.02%) PSTN
6 2 (2.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.29%) Tableau
2 15 (15.15%) Data Mining
2 15 (15.15%) Power BI
3 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.02%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (24.24%) Git
2 12 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (5.05%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.02%) JIRA
4 2 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.02%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 30 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.28%) Finance
3 21 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (21.21%) Multimedia
4 13 (13.13%) Telecoms
5 11 (11.11%) Law
6 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.05%) Retail
7 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.01%) Legal
8 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (40.40%) Trainee
2 28 (28.28%) Analyst
2 28 (28.28%) Data Analyst
3 16 (16.16%) Junior
4 14 (14.14%) Junior Analyst
4 14 (14.14%) Junior Data Analyst
4 14 (14.14%) Trainee Analyst
4 14 (14.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 13 (13.13%) Developer
5 13 (13.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (11.11%) Software Developer
6 11 (11.11%) Trainee Developer
6 11 (11.11%) Trainee Software Developer
7 7 (7.07%) Lead
8 5 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 5 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (5.05%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) VoIP Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) HTML
2 21 (21.21%) CSS
3 13 (13.13%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (7.07%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (5.05%) Hugging Face
5 5 (5.05%) Matplotlib
5 5 (5.05%) NumPy
5 5 (5.05%) Pandas
5 5 (5.05%) scikit-learn
5 5 (5.05%) Streamlit
6 3 (3.03%) .NET
6 3 (3.03%) Itk
7 2 (2.02%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.02%) REST
8 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.01%) Node.js
8 1 (1.01%) Puppeteer
8 1 (1.01%) PySpark
8 1 (1.01%) RESTful
8 1 (1.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.03%) PKI
3 2 (2.02%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.01%) EPoS
4 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Windows
2 9 (9.09%) Linux
3 8 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.05%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (24.24%) AI
1 24 (24.24%) Mentoring
2 21 (21.21%) DevOps
3 19 (19.19%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (18.18%) Analytics
4 18 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 16 (16.16%) High Availability
6 15 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.15%) Data Analytics
6 15 (15.15%) Project Management
7 14 (14.14%) Business Analysis
7 14 (14.14%) Containerisation
7 14 (14.14%) Data Analysis
7 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (12.12%) DevSecOps
9 12 (12.12%) Static Code Analysis
9 12 (12.12%) Vulnerability Scanning
10 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.46%) SQL
2 23 (23.23%) JavaScript
3 19 (19.19%) Bash
4 11 (11.11%) Go
4 11 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.11%) R
5 6 (6.06%) Java
5 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.05%) C#
7 3 (3.03%) Tcl
8 1 (1.01%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (40.40%) Azure Certification
2 26 (26.26%) AWS Certification
2 26 (26.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (21.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (8.08%) Degree
5 3 (3.03%) HNC
5 3 (3.03%) HND
6 2 (2.02%) CCNP
6 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.03%) Docker
3 3 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.02%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (17.17%) Ansible
1 17 (17.17%) Terraform
2 14 (14.14%) Grafana
3 12 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.03%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (2.02%) Control-M
5 2 (2.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 65 (65.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Cisco
3 5 (5.05%) VMware
4 3 (3.03%) Arista
4 3 (3.03%) Aruba
4 3 (3.03%) NetScout
4 3 (3.03%) Siemens
5 2 (2.02%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.01%) Google
6 1 (1.01%) Intapp