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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +16
Permanent jobs citing Python 50 27 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 9.36% 14.36% 10.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 73.53% 43.55% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 19
10th Percentile £41,375 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £64,471 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,415 £85,000 £75,400
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +12.73% +25.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £101,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,500
County Antrim median annual salary £77,415 £85,000 £75,400
% change year-on-year -8.92% +12.73% +25.67%

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 68 62 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 12.73% 32.98% 40.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36 24 116
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £58,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,915 £87,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +45.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £80,938 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,750 £98,750
County Antrim median annual salary £74,830 £87,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.48% +52.17% +15.00%

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 7 April 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 21 (42.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 32 (64.00%) Azure
2 21 (42.00%) Azure AI
3 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 18 (36.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (18.00%) GCP
5 8 (16.00%) dbt
6 7 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (14.00%) PaaS
7 5 (10.00%) SaaS
8 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.00%) Azure Functions
8 4 (8.00%) Cloud Functions
8 4 (8.00%) Serverless
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (6.00%) Pulumi
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (4.00%) Sentry
11 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.00%) Internet
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) LAN
3 1 (2.00%) MPLS
3 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.00%) SNA
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
3 1 (2.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (40.00%) Tableau
2 18 (36.00%) Power BI
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.00%) Git
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) JMeter
1 1 (2.00%) Locust
General
1 29 (58.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Finance
2 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.00%) Advertising
4 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Analyst
1 20 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 18 (36.00%) Junior
2 18 (36.00%) Junior Analyst
2 18 (36.00%) Junior Data Analyst
3 10 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Test Leader
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
5 4 (8.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Trainee
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Trainee Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) React
2 10 (20.00%) Node.js
3 8 (16.00%) Django
4 5 (10.00%) Next.js
5 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.00%) Vue
6 3 (6.00%) CSS
6 3 (6.00%) HTML
7 2 (4.00%) LangChain
7 2 (4.00%) React Native
8 1 (2.00%) Flask
8 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.00%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.00%) scikit-learn
8 1 (2.00%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (2.00%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (2.00%) TanStack
8 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
8 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
1 3 (6.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) AI
2 18 (36.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (24.00%) DevOps
4 11 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (18.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (16.00%) Agile
7 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.00%) LLM
9 5 (10.00%) BDD
9 5 (10.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.00%) Observability
10 4 (8.00%) Software Delivery
10 4 (8.00%) User Experience
11 3 (6.00%) Analytics
11 3 (6.00%) Front End Development
11 3 (6.00%) Machine Learning
11 3 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) Java
2 10 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) C#
5 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.00%) CCNP
3 1 (2.00%) CCSP
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.00%) QA
1 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (42.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco
3 1 (2.00%) Fortinet