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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 22 10
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Python 47 8 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Belfast 9.04% 3.79% 11.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 68.12% 20.00% 34.84%
Number of salaries quoted 19 4 26
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £50,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £56,250 £75,275
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.27% +7.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,313 £83,750
90th Percentile - £63,125 £92,500
County Antrim median annual salary £75,000 £56,250 £75,275
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.27% +7.54%

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 69 40 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 13.27% 18.96% 33.84%
Number of salaries quoted 33 17 108
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.35% +25.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £100,000
County Antrim median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -8.33% +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 6 July 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 18 (38.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) Azure
2 22 (46.81%) Azure AI
3 16 (34.04%) Power Platform
4 10 (21.28%) AWS
5 6 (12.77%) dbt
5 6 (12.77%) GCP
5 6 (12.77%) PaaS
5 6 (12.77%) SaaS
6 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub
7 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.13%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.13%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) ATM
1 1 (2.13%) Internet
1 1 (2.13%) SMS
1 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (38.30%) Tableau
2 16 (34.04%) Power BI
3 2 (4.26%) Data Mining
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) Pinecone
4 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Git
1 1 (2.13%) GitLab
1 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Finance
3 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Advertising
4 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.26%) Law
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Legal
5 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Analyst
1 18 (38.30%) Data Analyst
2 16 (34.04%) Junior
2 16 (34.04%) Junior Analyst
2 16 (34.04%) Junior Data Analyst
3 11 (23.40%) Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior
5 7 (14.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Gen AI Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Lead
5 7 (14.89%) Python Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Senior Python Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Test Leader
8 3 (6.38%) Trainee
9 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Trainee Analyst
9 2 (4.26%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 1 (2.13%) Data Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) React
2 4 (8.51%) LangChain
3 3 (6.38%) CSS
3 3 (6.38%) HTML
4 2 (4.26%) Django
4 2 (4.26%) LlamaIndex
4 2 (4.26%) Next.js
4 2 (4.26%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.26%) React Native
4 2 (4.26%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.13%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.13%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) NumPy
5 1 (2.13%) pgvector
5 1 (2.13%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (2.13%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (2.13%) TanStack
5 1 (2.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
1 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) AI
2 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (21.28%) Generative AI
4 6 (12.77%) Agile
4 6 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
4 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
5 5 (10.64%) BDD
5 5 (10.64%) DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
5 5 (10.64%) Software Engineering
6 4 (8.51%) Analytics
6 4 (8.51%) LLM
6 4 (8.51%) Machine Learning
7 3 (6.38%) Front End Development
7 3 (6.38%) MLOps
7 3 (6.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 2 (4.26%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (4.26%) Geofencing
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) Java
3 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (48.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.13%) ISO 8583
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.38%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (2.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.13%) Google
2 1 (2.13%) OpenAI