Python Jobs in the North West

Python
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 10 17
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Python 620 1,125 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.79% 15.26% 10.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.21% 39.81% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 387 400 480
10th Percentile £36,120 £40,000 £38,663
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,585 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £76,520
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +9.02%

All Programming Languages
North West

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,068 2,826 3,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 28.65% 38.34% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 1,735 2,541
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the North West.

Salary trend for Python in the North West

Python
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the North West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the North West

Python
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -15 434 £55,000 -15.38% 123
Merseyside -4 86 £80,000 +10.34% 9
Cheshire -21 58 £55,000 -4.35% 16
Lancashire -40 30 £70,000 +47.37% 15
Cumbria +2 12 £55,000 - 4
Python
England

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 71 (11.45%) ArcGIS
2 57 (9.19%) GeoServer
3 32 (5.16%) Apache
4 27 (4.35%) Apache Spark
5 19 (3.06%) Confluence
6 11 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.77%) SAS
7 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.32%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.65%) SPSS
3 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.48%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 262 (42.26%) Azure
2 219 (35.32%) AWS
3 91 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
4 88 (14.19%) GCP
5 83 (13.39%) Serverless
6 62 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 41 (6.61%) Azure API Management
7 41 (6.61%) Azure Functions
7 41 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 41 (6.61%) Azure Service Bus
7 41 (6.61%) IBM Cloud
8 33 (5.32%) SaaS
9 29 (4.68%) Amazon S3
10 28 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (4.35%) Snowflake
12 24 (3.87%) GitHub
13 18 (2.90%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.90%) dbt
14 17 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.16%) Firewall
2 11 (1.77%) AMQP
2 11 (1.77%) Internet
3 10 (1.61%) IPsec
3 10 (1.61%) MQTT
3 10 (1.61%) SNMP
3 10 (1.61%) VPN
4 9 (1.45%) WAN
5 8 (1.29%) DNS
5 8 (1.29%) LAN
5 8 (1.29%) Wireless
6 7 (1.13%) HTTP
7 6 (0.97%) Network Security
8 5 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.81%) WLAN
9 1 (0.16%) DHCP
9 1 (0.16%) DMZ
9 1 (0.16%) MPLS
9 1 (0.16%) SAN
9 1 (0.16%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (20.97%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (14.84%) SQL Server
3 73 (11.77%) NoSQL
4 72 (11.61%) GIS
5 70 (11.29%) Relational Database
6 66 (10.65%) MongoDB
7 57 (9.19%) QGIS
8 53 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
9 52 (8.39%) Power BI
10 41 (6.61%) DB2
11 37 (5.97%) MySQL
12 32 (5.16%) Big Data
13 28 (4.52%) Data Lake
13 28 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (3.87%) Tableau
15 21 (3.39%) Data Vault
16 19 (3.06%) Delta Lake
17 17 (2.74%) BigQuery
18 15 (2.42%) Hadoop
18 15 (2.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (9.35%) JIRA
2 50 (8.06%) Git
3 35 (5.65%) GitLab
4 19 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.81%) Postman
6 5 (0.81%) Selenium
7 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.65%) Subversion
8 3 (0.48%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.48%) GDB
8 3 (0.48%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.32%) NUnit
9 2 (0.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 109 (17.58%) Social Skills
2 97 (15.65%) Finance
3 60 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.87%) Law
6 24 (3.87%) Retail
7 15 (2.42%) Banking
8 11 (1.77%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.77%) Automotive
9 10 (1.61%) Legal
10 8 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.29%) Marketing
11 7 (1.13%) Games
12 6 (0.97%) Health Technology
12 6 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.65%) Military
15 3 (0.48%) Advertising
16 2 (0.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 164 (26.45%) Senior
2 161 (25.97%) Software Engineer
3 120 (19.35%) Developer
4 112 (18.06%) Data Engineer
5 55 (8.87%) Senior Software Engineer
6 49 (7.90%) Lead
7 44 (7.10%) Azure Developer
7 44 (7.10%) Full Stack Developer
8 41 (6.61%) Analyst
9 30 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (4.35%) Software Developer
11 21 (3.39%) Technical Leader
12 20 (3.23%) Data Scientist
13 19 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (3.06%) Python Engineer
14 18 (2.90%) Consultant
15 17 (2.74%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.58%) Cloud Engineer
16 16 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
17 14 (2.26%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (23.55%) React
2 128 (20.65%) .NET
3 120 (19.35%) CSS
4 105 (16.94%) Node.js
5 79 (12.74%) HTML
6 72 (11.61%) AngularJS
7 65 (10.48%) PostGIS
8 64 (10.32%) .NET Core
9 61 (9.84%) Leaflet
9 61 (9.84%) OpenLayers
10 58 (9.35%) REST
11 52 (8.39%) ASP.NET
12 50 (8.06%) Vue
13 46 (7.42%) Web Services
14 44 (7.10%) jQuery
15 41 (6.61%) ASP.NET Core
15 41 (6.61%) Backbone.js
15 41 (6.61%) Ember.js
15 41 (6.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 32 (5.16%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 81 (13.06%) Data Structures
2 51 (8.23%) Algorithms
3 48 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (6.61%) Blockchain
5 39 (6.29%) Public Cloud
6 35 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
7 31 (5.00%) Reinsurance
8 28 (4.52%) Cloud Native
9 17 (2.74%) Data Centre
10 16 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 15 (2.42%) Embedded Systems
12 14 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.94%) IoT
14 10 (1.61%) Device Driver
14 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.29%) Mainframe
15 8 (1.29%) Product Ownership
16 7 (1.13%) Mobile App
16 7 (1.13%) NHS
16 7 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 180 (29.03%) Linux
2 99 (15.97%) Windows
3 45 (7.26%) Android
4 44 (7.10%) Apple iOS
5 21 (3.39%) Ubuntu
6 17 (2.74%) Windows Server
7 16 (2.58%) Unix
8 14 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (1.94%) CentOS
10 11 (1.77%) Debian
11 10 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
12 4 (0.65%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.48%) Kali Linux
14 2 (0.32%) FreeBSD
14 2 (0.32%) FreeRTOS
14 2 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.32%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.16%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (40.32%) Agile
2 217 (35.00%) Software Engineering
3 202 (32.58%) DevOps
4 107 (17.26%) CI/CD
4 107 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
4 107 (17.26%) Web Development
5 98 (15.81%) ETL
6 89 (14.35%) Full Stack Development
7 88 (14.19%) Actionable Insight
7 88 (14.19%) Artificial Intelligence
8 87 (14.03%) Mentoring
9 80 (12.90%) Analytics
10 63 (10.16%) Data Modelling
10 63 (10.16%) Data Pipeline
10 63 (10.16%) Machine Learning
10 63 (10.16%) OO
11 62 (10.00%) Open Source
12 60 (9.68%) Data Science
12 60 (9.68%) Visualisation
13 59 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 245 (39.52%) SQL
2 201 (32.42%) JavaScript
3 185 (29.84%) Java
4 134 (21.61%) C#
5 52 (8.39%) PowerShell
6 43 (6.94%) C
7 37 (5.97%) Bash
8 32 (5.16%) Go
9 31 (5.00%) C++
10 23 (3.71%) Rust
11 22 (3.55%) R
12 18 (2.90%) Ruby
13 17 (2.74%) Perl
14 13 (2.10%) Scala
15 10 (1.61%) COBOL
15 10 (1.61%) Embedded C
15 10 (1.61%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 9 (1.45%) T-SQL
16 9 (1.45%) TypeScript
17 7 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 98 (15.81%) Security Cleared
2 88 (14.19%) Degree
3 87 (14.03%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.13%) CCNP
8 7 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.97%) ACCA
9 6 (0.97%) CISA
10 5 (0.81%) CCNA
10 5 (0.81%) CCNA CyberOps
10 5 (0.81%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.81%) PhD
11 4 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.65%) MBA
11 4 (0.65%) OSCP
12 3 (0.48%) BC Cleared
12 3 (0.48%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.06%) QA
3 9 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.13%) GDPR
5 6 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.81%) NIST
6 5 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.65%) SLA
8 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 57 (9.19%) Docker
2 18 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.10%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.77%) Firmware
5 4 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.16%) Lustre
8 1 (0.16%) Postfix
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (10.97%) Kubernetes
2 57 (9.19%) Terraform
3 47 (7.58%) Ansible
4 15 (2.42%) Puppet
5 13 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.48%) Grafana
9 3 (0.48%) Nessus
9 3 (0.48%) Nmap
9 3 (0.48%) Podman
10 2 (0.32%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.16%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.16%) Icinga
11 1 (0.16%) Packer
11 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 65 (10.48%) ESRI
1 65 (10.48%) Red Hat
2 56 (9.03%) Oracle
3 45 (7.26%) IBM
4 39 (6.29%) Databricks
5 37 (5.97%) Informatica
6 30 (4.84%) Google
7 29 (4.68%) Microsoft
8 19 (3.06%) VMware
9 13 (2.10%) F5
10 11 (1.77%) SaltStack
10 11 (1.77%) YouTube
11 10 (1.61%) CA
11 10 (1.61%) Micro Focus
11 10 (1.61%) NetApp
11 10 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 10 (1.61%) SolidFire
12 9 (1.45%) Facebook
12 9 (1.45%) SAP
13 8 (1.29%) Cisco