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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 25 8
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 +15
Permanent jobs citing Python 51 7 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 9.94% 3.10% 13.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 59.30% 17.50% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 20 4 23
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,500 £46,713
25th Percentile £65,306 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £56,250 £75,150
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.15% +3.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,313 £80,000
90th Percentile - £63,125 £90,000
County Antrim median annual salary £75,000 £56,250 £75,150
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.15% +3.66%

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 40 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 16.76% 17.70% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37 17 90
10th Percentile £38,000 £45,500 £37,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,910
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £76,075 £60,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £100,000
County Antrim median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.22% +12.50%

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 3 August 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 16 (31.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) Azure
2 20 (39.22%) Azure AI
3 14 (27.45%) Power Platform
4 12 (23.53%) SaaS
5 9 (17.65%) AWS
6 7 (13.73%) dbt
7 6 (11.76%) GCP
7 6 (11.76%) PaaS
8 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.96%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.96%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) ATM
2 1 (1.96%) Internet
2 1 (1.96%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (31.37%) Tableau
2 14 (27.45%) Power BI
3 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.96%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Git
1 1 (1.96%) GitLab
1 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.73%) Legal
3 4 (7.84%) Law
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
5 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Advertising
6 1 (1.96%) Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Senior
2 16 (31.37%) Analyst
2 16 (31.37%) Data Analyst
3 14 (27.45%) Junior
3 14 (27.45%) Junior Analyst
3 14 (27.45%) Junior Data Analyst
4 11 (21.57%) Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Gen AI Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Python Developer
5 7 (13.73%) Senior Manager
5 7 (13.73%) Testing Manager
6 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Lead
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (9.80%) Test Leader
8 4 (7.84%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Site Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) CSS
1 3 (5.88%) HTML
1 3 (5.88%) LangChain
1 3 (5.88%) React
2 2 (3.92%) Django
2 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.92%) React Native
2 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.96%) Flask
3 1 (1.96%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.96%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (1.96%) NumPy
3 1 (1.96%) Pandas
3 1 (1.96%) pgvector
3 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.96%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.96%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Linux
1 2 (3.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.98%) AI
2 14 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (23.53%) Software Engineering
3 12 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 11 (21.57%) Mentoring
5 10 (19.61%) DevOps
6 9 (17.65%) Generative AI
7 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (15.69%) Project Delivery
8 7 (13.73%) Change Advisory Board
8 7 (13.73%) Data Management
8 7 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (13.73%) Manual Testing
8 7 (13.73%) Performance Management
8 7 (13.73%) Programme Management
8 7 (13.73%) Software Testing
8 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (13.73%) Strategic Planning
8 7 (13.73%) Test Strategy
8 7 (13.73%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (39.22%) SQL
2 9 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 8 (15.69%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.73%) C#
4 7 (13.73%) Java
4 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (41.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.92%) Terraform
2 1 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 17 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Google
3 1 (1.96%) OpenAI