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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +19
Permanent jobs citing Python 53 25 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 9.48% 13.23% 11.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 74.65% 39.68% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 22 9 20
10th Percentile £37,125 £50,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £77,000 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £75,200
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +26.33% +25.33%
75th Percentile - £102,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,000 £95,250
County Antrim median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £75,200
% change year-on-year -15.79% +26.33% +25.33%

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 71 63 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 12.70% 33.33% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 34 23 119
10th Percentile £40,000 £48,000 £42,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +41.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £82,813 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,500 £102,000 £98,000
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.82% +47.83% +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 17 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 23 (43.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (66.04%) Azure
2 25 (47.17%) Azure AI
3 20 (37.74%) Power Platform
4 16 (30.19%) AWS
5 9 (16.98%) GCP
6 8 (15.09%) dbt
7 7 (13.21%) PaaS
8 6 (11.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (11.32%) SaaS
9 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.55%) Azure Functions
9 4 (7.55%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (7.55%) Serverless
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.77%) Pulumi
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.89%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.89%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Internet
1 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.89%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) LAN
2 1 (1.89%) MPLS
2 1 (1.89%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.89%) SNA
2 1 (1.89%) WAN
2 1 (1.89%) Wireless
2 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (41.51%) Tableau
2 20 (37.74%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.77%) Data Mining
3 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.89%) Git
1 1 (1.89%) JIRA
1 1 (1.89%) JMeter
1 1 (1.89%) Locust
General
1 32 (60.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Finance
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Advertising
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Analyst
1 22 (41.51%) Data Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Junior
2 20 (37.74%) Junior Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Junior Data Analyst
3 11 (20.75%) Lead
4 6 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Test Leader
5 5 (9.43%) Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Trainee
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Trainee Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 1 (1.89%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 1 (1.89%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (1.89%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.42%) React
2 8 (15.09%) Node.js
3 6 (11.32%) Django
4 5 (9.43%) Next.js
5 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.55%) Vue
6 3 (5.66%) CSS
6 3 (5.66%) HTML
6 3 (5.66%) LangChain
7 2 (3.77%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.77%) React Native
7 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
8 1 (1.89%) Flask
8 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.89%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.89%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.89%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (1.89%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (1.89%) TanStack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
1 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) AI
2 20 (37.74%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
3 10 (18.87%) DevOps
3 10 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 9 (16.98%) Software Engineering
5 8 (15.09%) Agile
5 8 (15.09%) Mentoring
6 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (13.21%) LLM
7 6 (11.32%) BDD
7 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
8 5 (9.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 5 (9.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 4 (7.55%) Machine Learning
9 4 (7.55%) Software Delivery
9 4 (7.55%) User Experience
10 3 (5.66%) Analytics
10 3 (5.66%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (5.66%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (52.83%) SQL
2 11 (20.75%) Java
3 10 (18.87%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.55%) C#
6 3 (5.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (49.06%) Azure Certification
2 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.89%) CCNP
3 1 (1.89%) CCSP
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.89%) QA
1 1 (1.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Google
3 1 (1.89%) Cisco
3 1 (1.89%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.89%) OpenAI