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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 5 19
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -9
Permanent jobs citing Python 19 70 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 6.27% 18.42% 9.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 54.29% 47.30% 19.51%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 12
10th Percentile £55,375 £60,200 £45,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £77,125 £58,275
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 £80,625
90th Percentile £92,375 £102,500 £84,750
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 35 148 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 11.55% 38.95% 48.05%
Number of salaries quoted 21 72 98
10th Percentile £55,000 £38,000 £32,850
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,688 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £76,075 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% +38.32% +4.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £99,500 £83,250
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £76,075 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.87% +38.32% +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 28 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) GCP
3 4 (21.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.79%) dbt
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Azure AI
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) Pulumi
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Sentry
6 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
2 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) Redis
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.26%) Gradle
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JMeter
2 1 (5.26%) Locust
2 1 (5.26%) Maven
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Junior
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
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%) Kafka
4 2 (10.53%) Next.js
5 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.26%) Grails
5 1 (5.26%) jQuery
5 1 (5.26%) Laravel
5 1 (5.26%) Micronaut
5 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) RxJava
5 1 (5.26%) Spring
5 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.26%) Web Services
5 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) AI
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
2 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.79%) Agile
4 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
4 3 (15.79%) Observability
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) LLM
5 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
5 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.26%) Groovy
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.53%) CCNP
2 2 (10.53%) CCSP
2 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 4 (21.05%) 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
2 2 (10.53%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks