Python Job Trends in Belfast

Python
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 23 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -18 +13
Permanent jobs citing Python 49 6 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 9.68% 2.68% 15.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 56.98% 16.67% 47.45%
Number of salaries quoted 19 3 26
10th Percentile £35,000 £55,250 £46,713
25th Percentile £73,125 £55,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -28.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,875 -
90th Percentile - £63,750 -
County Antrim median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -28.13% +10.34%

All Programming Languages
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 86 36 137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 17.00% 16.07% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 38 15 81
10th Percentile £38,500 £46,300 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,125 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £79,688 £62,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £100,000
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +17.07%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Python job vacancy trend in Belfast

Python
Salary Trend in Belfast

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Belfast

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Belfast over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Belfast

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.94%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) Azure AI
3 12 (24.49%) SaaS
4 10 (20.41%) Power Platform
5 7 (14.29%) AWS
6 5 (10.20%) dbt
6 5 (10.20%) GCP
7 4 (8.16%) PaaS
8 1 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) Google Gemini
8 1 (2.04%) OCI
8 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) ATM
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) Internet
2 1 (2.04%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Tableau
2 10 (20.41%) Power BI
3 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Milvus
4 1 (2.04%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) GitLab
1 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Legal
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
3 4 (8.16%) Law
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Advertising
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Senior
2 12 (24.49%) Analyst
2 12 (24.49%) Data Analyst
3 10 (20.41%) Junior
3 10 (20.41%) Junior Analyst
3 10 (20.41%) Junior Data Analyst
4 9 (18.37%) Developer
5 8 (16.33%) Senior Manager
5 8 (16.33%) Testing Manager
6 7 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Python Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Python Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
7 6 (12.24%) Senior Python Developer
7 6 (12.24%) Site Engineer
7 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (10.20%) Lead
9 4 (8.16%) Test Leader
10 3 (6.12%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.08%) LangChain
1 2 (4.08%) PyTorch
1 2 (4.08%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.04%) CSS
2 1 (2.04%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.04%) HTML
2 1 (2.04%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (2.04%) NumPy
2 1 (2.04%) Pandas
2 1 (2.04%) pgvector
2 1 (2.04%) React
2 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.04%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.86%) AI
2 15 (30.61%) Software Engineering
3 12 (24.49%) Test Automation
4 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
5 10 (20.41%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (20.41%) DevOps
6 9 (18.37%) Generative AI
6 9 (18.37%) Project Delivery
7 8 (16.33%) Budget Management
7 8 (16.33%) Change Advisory Board
7 8 (16.33%) Data Management
7 8 (16.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (16.33%) Manual Testing
7 8 (16.33%) Programme Management
7 8 (16.33%) Software Testing
7 8 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (16.33%) Strategic Planning
7 8 (16.33%) Test Strategy
7 8 (16.33%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
2 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.33%) C#
3 8 (16.33%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.24%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.04%) Grafana
1 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.08%) Workday
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks
3 1 (2.04%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) VMware