Python Job Trends in Lancashire

Python
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 -18
Permanent jobs citing Python 18 52 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 1.60% 6.35% 1.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.08% 28.26% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 3
10th Percentile - £39,200 £52,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £48,862 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +11.63%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,991 -
90th Percentile £63,250 £87,800 -
North West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 78 184 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.93% 22.47% 25.38%
Number of salaries quoted 57 119 77
10th Percentile £24,800 £37,574 £35,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £42,415 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +0.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,240 £66,000
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Python job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Python
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Lancashire

Python
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Blackburn +9 5 - -
Preston +6 5 - - 6
Burnley - 5 £60,000 - 2
Blackpool -11 2 £30,000 -53.25% 5
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (94.44%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) Azure AI
2 10 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Power BI
1 10 (55.56%) Tableau
2 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Multimedia
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
1 10 (55.56%) Data Analyst
1 10 (55.56%) Junior
1 10 (55.56%) Junior Analyst
1 10 (55.56%) Junior Data Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Trainee
2 3 (16.67%) Trainee Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Web Administrator
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Pyramid
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) AI
1 10 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (16.67%) Web Development
4 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.56%) Business Case
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps
5 1 (5.56%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Open Source
5 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Software Architecture
5 1 (5.56%) Static Code Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (16.67%) R
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Azure Certification
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft