Python Job Trends in Manchester

Python
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 12 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Python 435 299 282
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.69% 12.61% 7.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.12% 39.71% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 290 112 133
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £84,000
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Programming Languages
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,141 753 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 14.93% 31.75% 31.00%
Number of salaries quoted 840 461 675
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £39,775
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.08%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Python job vacancy trend in Manchester

Python
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in Manchester

Python
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Cheadle -4 6 £63,750 - 1
Stockport -4 6 £75,000 - 3
Salford -17 5 - - 11
Oldham -4 4 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Altrincham -1 1 £47,500 - 14
Wigan -1 1 £65,000 - 7
Python
North West

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 20 (4.60%) Apache
2 17 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.07%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.61%) Confluence
6 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.92%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.69%) IIS
8 3 (0.69%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.23%) SAS
9 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.23%) Odoo
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 183 (42.07%) AWS
2 148 (34.02%) Azure
3 68 (15.63%) GitHub
4 61 (14.02%) GCP
5 36 (8.28%) Serverless
6 33 (7.59%) Power Platform
7 27 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (6.21%) Snowflake
8 26 (5.98%) Amazon S3
8 26 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (5.29%) SaaS
11 21 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (4.37%) dbt
13 15 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (2.99%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.07%) Azure AI
15 9 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.29%) Firewall
2 20 (4.60%) DNS
3 12 (2.76%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.53%) VPN
5 10 (2.30%) Network Security
6 9 (2.07%) DHCP
7 7 (1.61%) WAN
8 6 (1.38%) BGP
8 6 (1.38%) SAN
9 5 (1.15%) BIG-IP
9 5 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (1.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (1.15%) LAN
10 4 (0.92%) Internet
10 4 (0.92%) IPsec
10 4 (0.92%) OSPF
10 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.69%) AMQP
11 3 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (6.44%) Power BI
3 22 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.37%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (3.68%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 14 (3.22%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.30%) Big Data
10 8 (1.84%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.61%) Tableau
12 6 (1.38%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.15%) Chroma
13 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.15%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.92%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 40 (9.20%) Git
2 30 (6.90%) GitLab
3 28 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.37%) JIRA
5 9 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.38%) Maven
7 5 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.92%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.92%) Storybook
8 4 (0.92%) Vite
9 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.23%) MLflow
11 1 (0.23%) Mocha
11 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.23%) Selenium
11 1 (0.23%) Subversion
General
1 136 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
2 63 (14.48%) Finance
3 23 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 23 (5.29%) Law
4 17 (3.91%) Legal
5 12 (2.76%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.76%) Retail
6 11 (2.53%) Marketing
7 7 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.38%) Local Government
9 5 (1.15%) Banking
9 5 (1.15%) Games
10 4 (0.92%) Advertising
10 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.92%) Publishing
11 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 150 (34.48%) Senior
2 64 (14.71%) Data Engineer
2 64 (14.71%) Software Engineer
3 57 (13.10%) Developer
4 52 (11.95%) Python Engineer
5 42 (9.66%) DevOps Engineer
6 30 (6.90%) Python Software Engineer
6 30 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (6.21%) Analyst
8 27 (6.21%) Lead
9 20 (4.60%) Senior Developer
10 17 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (3.91%) Python Developer
11 16 (3.68%) Consultant
12 15 (3.45%) Architect
12 15 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.22%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (27.82%) Terraform
2 50 (11.49%) React
3 36 (8.28%) Spring
3 36 (8.28%) Spring Boot
4 30 (6.90%) Node.js
5 27 (6.21%) FastAPI
6 25 (5.75%) AngularJS
7 19 (4.37%) HTML
7 19 (4.37%) Kafka
7 19 (4.37%) Next.js
7 19 (4.37%) PySpark
7 19 (4.37%) Vue
8 16 (3.68%) CSS
9 15 (3.45%) .NET
9 15 (3.45%) REST
10 14 (3.22%) React Native
10 14 (3.22%) Ruby on Rails
11 13 (2.99%) LangChain
12 10 (2.30%) Flask
13 7 (1.61%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 67 (15.40%) Cloud Native
2 26 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 22 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.68%) AI Agents
6 15 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.53%) Marketing Technology
7 11 (2.53%) Mobile App
8 10 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.30%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.15%) Life Science
12 5 (1.15%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.20%) Linux
2 19 (4.37%) Windows
3 10 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.61%) CentOS
6 5 (1.15%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.15%) Unix
7 3 (0.69%) CoreOS
7 3 (0.69%) Debian
7 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) Solaris
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (38.85%) AI
2 156 (35.86%) CI/CD
3 126 (28.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (28.51%) DevOps
5 122 (28.05%) Software Engineering
6 107 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (22.53%) Agile
8 82 (18.85%) Analytics
9 71 (16.32%) Mentoring
10 63 (14.48%) Containerisation
10 63 (14.48%) Observability
11 56 (12.87%) Data Pipeline
12 54 (12.41%) Machine Learning
12 54 (12.41%) Test Automation
13 52 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (11.72%) Data Engineering
14 51 (11.72%) Platform Engineering
15 48 (11.03%) Decision-Making
16 45 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 44 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (37.47%) SQL
2 100 (22.99%) Java
3 57 (13.10%) Bash
4 50 (11.49%) TypeScript
5 48 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 42 (9.66%) PowerShell
7 28 (6.44%) Go
8 15 (3.45%) C#
8 15 (3.45%) Ruby
9 12 (2.76%) Bicep
10 11 (2.53%) R
10 11 (2.53%) Scala
11 10 (2.30%) PHP
12 8 (1.84%) C++
13 6 (1.38%) Rust
14 5 (1.15%) ActionScript
14 5 (1.15%) C
15 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 83 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (11.26%) Degree
3 45 (10.34%) DV Cleared
4 38 (8.74%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.91%) Azure Certification
6 17 (3.91%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.92%) CCNA
11 4 (0.92%) MBA
12 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.46%) CCIE
13 2 (0.46%) CCNP
13 2 (0.46%) MCSE
13 2 (0.46%) Postgraduate
14 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (11.95%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.45%) QA
3 12 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.92%) SLA
4 4 (0.92%) WCAG
5 3 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS
6 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 80 (18.39%) Docker
2 12 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.46%) vSphere
7 1 (0.23%) KVM
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (18.16%) Kubernetes
2 54 (12.41%) Ansible
3 22 (5.06%) Grafana
4 19 (4.37%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.76%) Puppet
6 6 (1.38%) Argo
6 6 (1.38%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.92%) Istio
7 4 (0.92%) linkerd
8 3 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (0.69%) Nagios
8 3 (0.69%) Podman
8 3 (0.69%) SCVMM
8 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.46%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 52 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.05%) Databricks
3 25 (5.75%) Google
4 20 (4.60%) Splunk
5 14 (3.22%) Adobe
6 13 (2.99%) VMware
7 11 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.30%) Oracle
9 8 (1.84%) New Relic
10 7 (1.61%) F5
11 6 (1.38%) Mistral
11 6 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.15%) Cisco
12 5 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.92%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.92%) NEC
14 3 (0.69%) McAfee
14 3 (0.69%) SaltStack
14 3 (0.69%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.69%) Thales