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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 4 19
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Python 19 69 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 6.09% 18.80% 9.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.29% 47.59% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 14 33 11
10th Percentile £55,375 £60,200 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £77,500 £56,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,316 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +10.34% +31.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,375 £102,500 £85,000
County Antrim median annual salary £74,316 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.11% +10.34% +31.82%

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 35 145 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 11.22% 39.51% 46.75%
Number of salaries quoted 21 70 89
10th Percentile £55,000 £38,000 £32,900
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,063 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% +38.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,500 £85,000
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £76,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.97% +38.18% +4.76%

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 1 December 2025.

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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) AWS
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.79%) Azure AI
5 3 (15.79%) dbt
5 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (10.53%) PaaS
6 2 (10.53%) Pulumi
6 2 (10.53%) Serverless
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (5.26%) Datadog
7 1 (5.26%) SaaS
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) MPLS
1 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
1 2 (10.53%) SNA
1 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
1 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (10.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
1 3 (15.79%) Tableau
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JMeter
1 1 (5.26%) Locust
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Junior
3 3 (15.79%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Node.js
2 6 (31.58%) Django
2 6 (31.58%) React
3 3 (15.79%) Vue
4 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.53%) Next.js
5 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) Laravel
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) AI
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
4 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
5 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.79%) Observability
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.53%) LLM
6 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 2 (10.53%) Service-Level Objective
6 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) CCSP
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) QA
1 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks