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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 3 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +7
Permanent jobs citing Python 26 57 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 6.93% 20.80% 9.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 65.00% 54.81% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 15
10th Percentile £56,250 £66,977 £48,000
25th Percentile £60,938 £80,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,415 £85,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% +30.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,438 £100,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,500 £92,500
County Antrim median annual salary £77,415 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.92% +30.77% +8.33%

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 40 104 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 10.67% 37.96% 44.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23 40 104
10th Percentile £56,250 £54,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £73,868 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +41.67% +19.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £89,250
County Antrim median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% +41.67% +20.00%

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 26 January 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 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) AWS
3 9 (34.62%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (23.08%) Azure AI
4 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Functions
5 4 (15.38%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (15.38%) Serverless
6 3 (11.54%) dbt
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.69%) PaaS
7 2 (7.69%) Pulumi
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (3.85%) Datadog
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub
8 1 (3.85%) SaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Firewall
1 2 (7.69%) Internet
1 2 (7.69%) LAN
1 2 (7.69%) MPLS
1 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 2 (7.69%) SNA
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.69%) WAN
1 2 (7.69%) WLAN
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Power BI
1 6 (23.08%) Tableau
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) JMeter
1 1 (3.85%) Locust
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Advertising
3 1 (3.85%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Analyst
1 6 (23.08%) Data Analyst
1 6 (23.08%) Junior
1 6 (23.08%) Junior Analyst
1 6 (23.08%) Junior Data Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) React
2 10 (38.46%) Node.js
3 6 (23.08%) Django
4 5 (19.23%) Next.js
5 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 4 (15.38%) Vue
6 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.85%) Kafka
6 1 (3.85%) LangChain
6 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) AI
2 10 (38.46%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Mentoring
5 6 (23.08%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (19.23%) LLM
6 5 (19.23%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 4 (15.38%) Software Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) User Experience
8 3 (11.54%) Clean Code
8 3 (11.54%) Machine Learning
8 3 (11.54%) Observability
8 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (7.69%) Analytics
9 2 (7.69%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) Java
4 4 (15.38%) C#
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) CCNP
3 2 (7.69%) CCSP
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) QA
1 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco
2 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 2 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks