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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 5 25
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Python 13 68 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 4.59% 17.13% 8.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.00% 46.26% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10 32 14
10th Percentile £53,400 £48,061 £47,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £69,424 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +10.34% +31.82%
75th Percentile £79,697 £91,563 £79,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £84,250
County Antrim median annual salary £71,901 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.12% +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 25 147 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 8.83% 37.03% 50.71%
Number of salaries quoted 14 74 116
10th Percentile £43,400 £38,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £55,313 £52,813 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,901 £68,404 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% +30.29% -
75th Percentile £79,697 £88,750 £71,188
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,500 £78,125
County Antrim median annual salary £70,000 £68,404 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.33% +36.81% -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 7 November 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 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) GCP
4 3 (23.08%) dbt
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Pulumi
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (7.69%) Datadog
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Sentry
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) MPLS
1 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
1 2 (15.38%) SNA
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
1 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (15.38%) WLAN
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) Gradle
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) Locust
2 1 (7.69%) Maven
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.69%) PHP Laravel Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Django
2 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) React
4 2 (15.38%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
5 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
5 1 (7.69%) Grails
5 1 (7.69%) jQuery
5 1 (7.69%) Laravel
5 1 (7.69%) Micronaut
5 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) RxJava
5 1 (7.69%) Spring
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (7.69%) Vue
5 1 (7.69%) Web Services
5 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Clean Code
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Observability
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Change Control
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Groovy
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
2 1 (7.69%) Ruby
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCNP
2 2 (15.38%) CCSP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
1 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks