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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 22 5
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +12
Permanent jobs citing Python 47 7 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 8.79% 3.08% 15.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.65% 21.21% 45.52%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 28
10th Percentile £73,875 £43,800 £46,713
25th Percentile £75,000 £51,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £57,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.13% -28.13% +10.34%
75th Percentile - £60,313 -
90th Percentile £90,000 £63,125 £86,875
County Antrim median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +39.13% -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 33 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 16.07% 14.54% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 37 15 80
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,700 £37,950
25th Percentile £60,000 £48,750 £50,116
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £69,500 £93,250
County Antrim median annual salary £72,246 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.36% -15.38% +30.00%

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 14 September 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 8 (17.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) Azure AI
3 11 (23.40%) SaaS
4 8 (17.02%) Power Platform
5 7 (14.89%) AWS
6 6 (12.77%) GCP
7 4 (8.51%) dbt
8 3 (6.38%) PaaS
9 1 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) Google Gemini
9 1 (2.13%) OCI
9 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) ATM
3 1 (2.13%) Firewall
3 1 (2.13%) SMS
3 1 (2.13%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Power BI
1 8 (17.02%) Tableau
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) Big Data
3 1 (2.13%) Db2
3 1 (2.13%) Milvus
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Fiddler
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) GitLab
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) Postman
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Legal
3 4 (8.51%) Law
4 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Finance
6 1 (2.13%) Advertising
6 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (51.06%) Senior
2 10 (21.28%) Python Engineer
3 8 (17.02%) Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Data Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Developer
3 8 (17.02%) Junior
3 8 (17.02%) Junior Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Junior Data Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Senior Manager
3 8 (17.02%) Testing Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Gen AI Developer
4 7 (14.89%) Python Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Python Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Site Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) LangChain
1 2 (4.26%) PyTorch
1 2 (4.26%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.13%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (2.13%) NumPy
2 1 (2.13%) Pandas
2 1 (2.13%) pgvector
2 1 (2.13%) REST
2 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) XGBoost
2 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.13%) Clustering
2 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.13%) Replication
2 1 (2.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) AI
2 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
3 11 (23.40%) Mentoring
3 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
4 10 (21.28%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (21.28%) DevOps
5 9 (19.15%) Generative AI
5 9 (19.15%) Project Delivery
6 8 (17.02%) Budget Management
6 8 (17.02%) Change Advisory Board
6 8 (17.02%) Data Management
6 8 (17.02%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (17.02%) Manual Testing
6 8 (17.02%) Performance Management
6 8 (17.02%) Programme Management
6 8 (17.02%) Software Testing
6 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (17.02%) Strategic Planning
6 8 (17.02%) Test Strategy
6 8 (17.02%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) PowerShell
1 10 (21.28%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) C#
2 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
2 8 (17.02%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.64%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.13%) ISO 8583
2 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (2.13%) Grafana
1 1 (2.13%) Kibana
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle
2 2 (4.26%) VMware
2 2 (4.26%) Workday
3 1 (2.13%) Databricks
3 1 (2.13%) Google
3 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.13%) Thales