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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 23
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -11
Permanent jobs citing Python 410 341 418
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 6.43% 13.73% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.05% 39.02% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 291 140 282
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 1,050 874 1,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.47% 35.20% 32.51%
Number of salaries quoted 829 560 1,348
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -2 6 £63,750 -
Salford -18 5 £74,301 +21.18% 4
Bolton +15 3 £82,500 +73.68% 2
Stockport -3 2 £75,000 - 2
Oldham 0 1 £67,500 +92.86% 2
Wigan -3 1 £65,000 - 5
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 13 (3.17%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.71%) Confluence
5 6 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 6 (1.46%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.73%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.73%) nginx
8 2 (0.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.49%) WordPress
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.95%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 177 (43.17%) AWS
2 166 (40.49%) Azure
3 63 (15.37%) GCP
4 45 (10.98%) GitHub
5 44 (10.73%) Power Platform
6 38 (9.27%) Serverless
7 26 (6.34%) Amazon S3
8 23 (5.61%) Azure AI
9 22 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.66%) SaaS
12 13 (3.17%) dbt
13 12 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (2.68%) Snowflake
15 10 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.71%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 7 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.90%) Firewall
2 8 (1.95%) VPN
3 7 (1.71%) Internet
3 7 (1.71%) SAN
4 6 (1.46%) BGP
4 6 (1.46%) DHCP
4 6 (1.46%) DNS
4 6 (1.46%) Network Security
5 5 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.22%) WAN
6 4 (0.98%) IPsec
6 4 (0.98%) OSPF
6 4 (0.98%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.73%) LAN
7 3 (0.73%) SNMP
8 2 (0.49%) DMZ
8 2 (0.49%) MPLS
8 2 (0.49%) VRRP
8 2 (0.49%) Wireless
8 2 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.02%) Power BI
2 25 (6.10%) Tableau
3 23 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.12%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.39%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.41%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.17%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.20%) Big Data
10 9 (2.20%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.71%) Data Mining
11 7 (1.71%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.22%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (8.54%) Git
2 21 (5.12%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.41%) JIRA
4 13 (3.17%) GitLab
5 7 (1.71%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.98%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.98%) Vite
9 3 (0.73%) Maven
10 2 (0.49%) Selenium
11 1 (0.24%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.24%) MLflow
11 1 (0.24%) Postman
11 1 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.24%) Storybook
11 1 (0.24%) Subversion
General
1 117 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.56%) Finance
3 61 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (5.37%) Retail
5 21 (5.12%) Law
5 21 (5.12%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.71%) Marketing
9 6 (1.46%) Banking
9 6 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.46%) Police
10 5 (1.22%) Legal
11 4 (0.98%) Games
11 4 (0.98%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.98%) Italian Language
11 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.98%) Spanish Language
12 3 (0.73%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (30.00%) Senior
2 63 (15.37%) Data Engineer
3 56 (13.66%) Software Engineer
4 47 (11.46%) Python Engineer
5 42 (10.24%) Developer
6 41 (10.00%) Lead
7 32 (7.80%) Analyst
8 29 (7.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 28 (6.83%) Data Analyst
10 27 (6.59%) Python Software Engineer
11 23 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
13 17 (4.15%) Architect
14 16 (3.90%) Junior
14 16 (3.90%) Junior Analyst
14 16 (3.90%) Junior Data Analyst
15 15 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 15 (3.66%) Senior Developer
16 14 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (3.17%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.24%) React
2 27 (6.59%) FastAPI
2 27 (6.59%) Node.js
3 26 (6.34%) Spring
3 26 (6.34%) Spring Boot
4 25 (6.10%) .NET
5 21 (5.12%) Kafka
6 20 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 20 (4.88%) HTML
7 19 (4.63%) Vue
8 18 (4.39%) Next.js
9 17 (4.15%) CSS
10 16 (3.90%) Pandas
11 15 (3.66%) PySpark
12 14 (3.41%) React Native
12 14 (3.41%) Ruby on Rails
13 12 (2.93%) LangChain
13 12 (2.93%) NumPy
14 11 (2.68%) scikit-learn
15 10 (2.44%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 62 (15.12%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.90%) Algorithms
5 14 (3.41%) AI Agents
6 13 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 12 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.68%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.68%) Mobile App
9 9 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.95%) Marketing Technology
11 7 (1.71%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
12 6 (1.46%) Cyberattack
13 5 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.22%) Life Science
13 5 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.37%) Linux
2 10 (2.44%) Windows
3 7 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.22%) Unix
5 4 (0.98%) CentOS
6 3 (0.73%) Android
6 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.73%) Solaris
6 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.49%) Debian
8 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.24%) VMS
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (38.05%) AI
2 125 (30.49%) CI/CD
3 106 (25.85%) DevOps
4 96 (23.41%) Software Engineering
5 91 (22.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 88 (21.46%) Analytics
7 85 (20.73%) Agile
8 81 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (15.37%) Mentoring
10 57 (13.90%) Machine Learning
11 52 (12.68%) Test Automation
12 50 (12.20%) Containerisation
12 50 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
12 50 (12.20%) Observability
13 48 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (10.49%) Data Engineering
15 43 (10.49%) Decision-Making
15 43 (10.49%) Event-Driven
16 42 (10.24%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 158 (38.54%) SQL
2 85 (20.73%) Java
3 46 (11.22%) JavaScript
4 35 (8.54%) Bash
5 34 (8.29%) PowerShell
6 27 (6.59%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.66%) Go
8 14 (3.41%) C#
8 14 (3.41%) Ruby
9 13 (3.17%) Bicep
10 10 (2.44%) C++
10 10 (2.44%) Scala
11 8 (1.95%) R
12 7 (1.71%) PHP
13 6 (1.46%) C
14 5 (1.22%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 62 (15.12%) Security Cleared
2 35 (8.54%) Degree
3 32 (7.80%) Azure Certification
4 30 (7.32%) DV Cleared
5 29 (7.07%) SC Cleared
6 13 (3.17%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 13 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.46%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.73%) MBA
11 2 (0.49%) CCIE
11 2 (0.49%) CCNA
11 2 (0.49%) CCNP
12 1 (0.24%) ACCA
12 1 (0.24%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.51%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.15%) QA
3 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.49%) SLA
5 1 (0.24%) IFRS
5 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (15.61%) Docker
2 11 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) KVM
Systems Management
1 93 (22.68%) Terraform
2 56 (13.66%) Kubernetes
3 35 (8.54%) Ansible
4 20 (4.88%) Grafana
5 17 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.22%) Puppet
7 4 (0.98%) Argo
7 4 (0.98%) Istio
8 3 (0.73%) linkerd
8 3 (0.73%) Nagios
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.49%) Podman
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.49%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Copilot
10 1 (0.24%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.24%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.07%) Databricks
3 20 (4.88%) Google
4 16 (3.90%) Splunk
5 13 (3.17%) VMware
6 10 (2.44%) Adobe
7 7 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.22%) Oracle
9 4 (0.98%) Cisco
9 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.73%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (0.73%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.49%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.49%) F5
11 2 (0.49%) Mirantis
11 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.49%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.49%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.24%) Moogsoft